After my last round with disastrous iron play, hit the range to get back to solid ball striking. I realized that I was just getting very tense over the ball and trying to hit hard. This messed up my timing completely. On the range, just relaxed and swung easily. Easy backswing, not too slow and [...]
Shot a disappointing 54 on the front nine today. Driver was decent: used on 6/9 holes, hit 3 fairways and 2 were close. One driver shot was low and hit the water, otherwise straight. Putting was good too, 6/9 greens were 1- or 2-putts. The main issue was irons. Two poor tee shots on shorter [...]
I’ve seen people chip the ball onto the green and have it stop really suddenly. This “one hop and stop” shot is done by placing a lot of backspin on the ball. While I’ve read the description on how to do this, things never clicked. Searched for video, but have not been able to find one [...]
In my last round, my drives were really off, nothing straight and long. Hooks, fades and a slice out of bounds. This was surprising, since I was starting to consider driving a strength. I realized that I was trying to kill the ball, which was reducing my chances of solid contact. So at the range [...]
Experimented with a new type of pitch shot today. I’m trying to add more spin to the shot, when necessary to stop the ball quickly. Instead of placing the ball in the middle of the stance, with weight evenly distributed, tried this: ball off the left instep, and weight mostly forward. This results in a [...]
Shot a disappointing 53 today. Carded a 10 on 1 hole; this was frustrating since (a) pitched over the green with my new pitch shot, which otherwise worked perfectly (mis-judged the distance), and (b) had to chip multiple times (3!) just to get on the green (and I’ve really been working on the chips). Also [...]
Worked on pitch shots at the range today. A full 56 degree wedge swing for me is 65 yards. When confronted with shorter pitch shots, I’ve tended to move the ball back in my stance, and do an exaggerted chip shot. I generally chunk one or two of these every nine holes, so this was [...]
