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[ScrappyCoCo]

Been working hard at home on driving…trying to shorten backswing by keeping left arm straighter. Have a feeling I’ve been letting it fold and losing control of length. White line fever takes over…always has…on course leading to inconsistency and is my biggest weakness. Working well in net. But not sure I will repeat those feelings on course…it’s like the yips for me with that club. Hitting middle of club instead of a more random pattern atm. First effort tonight. I should quit as the brain malfunction on course is so frustrating! I can take a controlled practice swing with tempo...but it is different when I stand over the ball on the tee.



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[ScrappyCoCo]

Hit 5. 3 in the middle, 1 high towards toe and one slightly low heel but pretty good.

 

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Been working hard at home on driving…trying to shorten backswing by keeping left arm straighter. Have a feeling I’ve been letting it fold and losing control of length. White line fever takes over…always has…on course leading to inconsistency and is my biggest weakness. Working well in net. But not sure I will repeat those feelings on course…it’s like the yips for me with that club. Hitting middle of club instead of a more random pattern atm. First effort tonight. I should quit as the brain malfunction on course is so frustrating! I can take a controlled practice swing with tempo...but it is different when I stand over the ball on the tee.



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You ever - or recently- had a driver lesson? I’d go for one - if possible, using your game ball on a launch monitor.

There might be an easy fix.

Of course, another option is that you have caught the Dark Shark Driver Yips.


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[ScrappyCoCo]

You ever - or recently- had a driver lesson? I’d go for one - if possible, using your game ball on a launch monitor.

There might be an easy fix.

Of course, another option is that you have caught the Dark Shark Driver Yips.


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I have...(5 odd years ago) and he said the difference between the good ones and bad ones is I wasn't exiting correctly and was able to to compare one of my good ones and a poor one.

It happens more at the start of a round (I am approaching 60) and it is a pull hook. Warming up properly would help a bit.

Personally I think it is a sequence timing issue...where I don't stay on the back foot long enough and get a bit stuck and have to muscle the club to catch up...if that makes sense.

Anyway I know I am hitting well at home (club sound is great when I middle them). Just need to be able to do it when that red mist settles in on the tee box lol.

I was even tinkering with carefully taking the club to a good 3/4 good position...check it...and then finish backswing from there and go. I couldn't quite get consistent centre club head strikes though doing it. Interesting to see Hovland doing something very similar atm.

I have a MGA gift card sitting there...might use it to get proper advice.

 

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I have...(5 odd years ago) and he said the difference between the good ones and bad ones is I wasn't exiting correctly and was able to to compare one of my good ones and a poor one.

It happens more at the start of a round (I am approaching 60) and it is a pull hook. Warming up properly would help a bit.

Personally I think it is a sequence timing issue...where I don't stay on the back foot long enough and get a bit stuck and have to muscle the club to catch up...if that makes sense.

Anyway I know I am hitting well at home (club sound is great when I middle them). Just need to be able to do it when that red mist settles in on the tee box lol.

I was even tinkering with carefully taking the club to a good 3/4 good position...check it...and then finish backswing from there and go. I couldn't quite get consistent centre club head strikes though doing it. Interesting to see Hovland doing something very similar atm.

I have a MGA gift card sitting there...might use it to get proper advice.

Viktor is in all sorts atm!

MGA is a great facility. Go to Vaughan Somers. He’ll give to ya straight! If anyone ever wants an hour or so of golfing gold, go try this! Available as a podcast too




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[ITCHY EYEBALLS]

Had a 2nd shot lesson tonight….mid irons.
Tweaked my grip and weight distribution, said my swing in general was pretty good.
Stop me hitting them fat which was my main complaint, now just spraying them a bit….will persevere as it was made clear how much minor grip changes affect your entire swing.

 

[Bicco]

Had a 2nd shot lesson tonight….mid irons.
Tweaked my grip and weight distribution, said my swing in general was pretty good.
Stop me hitting them fat which was my main complaint, now just spraying them a bit….will persevere as it was made clear how much minor grip changes affect your entire swing.

How much time will you invest in practice?

 

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How much time will you invest in practice?

O'Hern and Allen discussed this question in their podcast a few weeks back on amateurs getting the most out of lessons. Essentially, if you don't have sufficient time to practice, not much benefit in recommending big changes as they won't stick.

 

[ITCHY EYEBALLS]

How much time will you invest in practice?

Single figures is the goal, so i need to dedicate a fair bit more than i currently do.

 

[ITCHY EYEBALLS]

O'Hern and Allen discussed this question in their podcast a few weeks back on amateurs getting the most out of lessons. Essentially, if you don't have sufficient time to practice, not much benefit in recommending big changes as they won't stick.

i agree

 

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i agree

I go for the age-old technique of mindlessly smashing balls into a net seeing how high(that probably isn't the correct descriptor) I can get my ball speed.

 

[Bicco]

O'Hern and Allen discussed this question in their podcast a few weeks back on amateurs getting the most out of lessons. Essentially, if you don't have sufficient time to practice, not much benefit in recommending big changes as they won't stick.

The real question is, what is sufficient? If I lose my swing or when coming out of winter hibernation, I'll look at hitting a bag (100ish) of <8i, 30 mins on chipping around the green and 30 mins of putting hopefully x3 times a week. Putting may be at home on the mat and chipping may be in the backyard into the little net thingy. So somewhere between 4-6 hours a week for 3-4 weeks and that gets me back to playing well. I think I'm lucky in that I love practising. And we have great facilities at Royal H. We have a 140m practice hole which I love. My biggest issue with practice and golf in general is that I get over confident and start trying to draw 8i into a back left pin, or hit a high 7i cut to the right. Once I start hitting it we'll, I've learnt just to leave. If I hit 10/15 good shots in a row, it's off to chipping and putting. There's only one way my swing can go from there.

 

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The real question is, what is sufficient? If I lose my swing or when coming out of winter hibernation, I'll look at hitting a bag (100ish) of <8i, 30 mins on chipping around the green and 30 mins of putting hopefully x3 times a week. Putting may be at home on the mat and chipping may be in the backyard into the little net thingy. So somewhere between 4-6 hours a week for 3-4 weeks and that gets me back to playing well. I think I'm lucky in that I love practising. And we have great facilities at Royal H. We have a 140m practice hole which I love. My biggest issue with practice and golf in general is that I get over confident and start trying to draw 8i into a back left pin, or hit a high 7i cut to the right. Once I start hitting it we'll, I've learnt just to leave. If I hit 10/15 good shots in a row, it's off to chipping and putting. There's only one way my swing can go from there.

Unanswerable - to me, what you are describing is practice/maintenance to get to your "normal".

The question was more around how much practice time you have available will determine how big of a change a pro might recommend. Here it is.

 

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The thinking was if you try to make swing changes whilst only practising an hour a week or hitting balls twice a week, you are more likely to ruin your golf game. "If you do have a lot of time, every second day hitting 100 shots... Now that's the bare minimum if you're trying to change your golf swing."

 

[juss]

Have found some recent success with the focus of a smooth tempo, consistent speed through the swing and trying to have less tension or hard pull in the arms, and slowing down the transition rather than the impulse to try and smash the ball after the backswing. Probably lost a few km/h in the swing speed but the strikes are more consistent and less dispersion. It's such a big change though and requires conscious thought on every swing, as I've had such an impulse to rush from the top to try and hit it hard for so long.

 

[ScrappyCoCo]

It is funny because I used to try and hit the shit out of golf balls...but rebuilt my swing which slowed that down and used the body to hit it a lot more.

However my swing speed has dropped off the planet due to aging and adopting that swing. I have been watching a channel that aims to help over 50s that are starting to struggle a bit. He promotes using the arms, wrists a lot more to gain extra speed and to make the game easier (still using the body). But much more active hands around impact (old fashioned rolling the hands over through that area). I can really feel extra speed doing it compared to passive hand and using the body to calmly square the club face up.

Also moving the back foot behind a bit and opening it to give room for a better attack into the ball and allow for better turn.

 

[ScrappyCoCo]

Have found some recent success with the focus of a smooth tempo, consistent speed through the swing and trying to have less tension or hard pull in the arms, and slowing down the transition rather than the impulse to try and smash the ball after the backswing. Probably lost a few km/h in the swing speed but the strikes are more consistent and less dispersion. It's such a big change though and requires conscious thought on every swing, as I've had such an impulse to rush from the top to try and hit it hard for so long.

Jimmy Tropicana channel is great for that. Would just love a swing like Elvis! Great for an amateur.

 

[ScrappyCoCo]

Lesson done to try and get back on track. Set up was kaput.

 

[juss]

Lesson done to try and get back on track. Set up was kaput.

Me too. Swing is all over the shop atm, probably because I'm only hitting a ball every 3 or so weeks now.

Gonna give someone at MGA a crack just to get all the fundamentals in tune like grip, stance, tempo.

 

[Pres]

Lesson done to try and get back on track. Set up was kaput.

Grip, posture, alignment all rooted?

 

[ScrappyCoCo]

Grip, posture, alignment all rooted?

Posture. Sitting back too much with not enough weight on the balls of my feet. Feet too close together, so widen stance. More weight on my lead foot/leg...head too far back not allowing me to get onto lead leg through transition. So kaput! Scores and inconsistent strikes were telling me something major was going wrong.

 

[ScrappyCoCo]

Grip, posture, alignment all rooted?

Also I had developed over time, a squeeze through my lead arm and chest, but not my right one, at address resulting with my trail arm slightly closer to the ball than the lead arm...if that makes sense so there was a minor alignment problem there (I discovered this a week or so ago myself). Looking at me on video down the target line you could not see my lead arm...where you should a bit.

 

[Pres]

Also I had developed over time, a squeeze through my lead arm and chest, but not my right one, at address resulting with my trail arm slightly closer to the ball than the lead arm...if that makes sense so there was a minor alignment problem there (I discovered this a week or so ago myself). Looking at me on video down the target line you could not see my lead arm...where you should a bit.

Great stuff.

This all just takes me back to the basics. I suspect the pros are checking this stuff and continually calibrating everything on a near daily basis.

Heaps of guys at the range seem to video their swings but few I suspect cast a detailed eye over every aspect of their setups.

 

[ScrappyCoCo]

Great stuff.

This all just takes me back to the basics. I suspect the pros are checking this stuff and continually calibrating everything on a near daily basis.

Heaps of guys at the range seem to video their swings but few I suspect cast a detailed eye over every aspect of their setups.

Yes. It has been a frustrating time. Should have just gone and had a lesson earlier. He filmed a few shots after for comparison. The one he used I actually topped...but it was a very good swing. Onplane and much better positions.

It would be awesome having a professional watching over you more often.

 

[ITCHY EYEBALLS]

Normally on the range I hit my 7W 160-170.
Since my recent lesson I’ve been creaming my 6i a similar distance but to scared to put it in practice on the course.
Today the opp arose, 175 out, downwind, lie wasn’t suitable for the 7W so I pulled the 6i out, and hit it through the green.
Felt compression on the ball, it was like pr0n.
Lessons and subsequent practice are good,; now if I could just get my 50 mt wedges working.