Been working on a backup club for long tee shots, when driver isn’t cooperating or if the fairway is narrow. (With driver I just need to remember to swing from the inside, feeling my right elbow against my right side for the downswing. When I remember to do this, all is well….) First I tried [...]
Just a follow-up to the previous post on swinging with easy tempo. Took this same feeling back to the range today, and was hitting driver and 4 Hybrid well. However, my irons were off! Even my normally solid 56 degree wedge and 8 iron seemed to be hitting poorly. Later, I realized that even with [...]
Been working on getting chips to do one hop and stop. This is useful if the flag is close to the edge of the green, or if the green slopes severely away from where you’re chipping. What works is to allow the clubhead to pass the hands at impact, moving left of the target. This [...]
Have been struggling with my long irons lately, both on the range and the course. When I did make solid contact, the ball would be long and high and straight. However, more often than not, I began missing straight right or even slicing the 6 iron. The 4 Hybrid, which used to be a strength, [...]
Today practiced my short game. Tossed a single ball off the practice green (1 -10 yds), chipped on then putted out. Up and down in 2 strokes is par (count 0), in 3 strokes is bogey (count 1), etc. Played 18 “holes” of this game from various positions and various holes, and shot 15 over [...]
Practiced bunker shots today. Practiced getting over a 2 foot lip to a flag 4-6 feet from the bunker edge. This worked to get high soft shots landing near the pin with little roll-out: 1) Grip near end of club. Don’t choke down, this reduces ability to slip the club through the sand beneath the [...]
Worked on the tempo for my full swing today. Used both driver and 3-wood. I found that easy tempo (as I’m doing now with the irons) works great. Free-flowing wrists on the backswing creates lag between my arms and the clubshaft; releasing this at impact gets me the needed distance. Without this lag, I tended [...]
Just a note that I was chipping really well on the practice green today. Holed three (3!) long chips in the space of half and hour, including one without about a foot of break. What I’m learning is that my chipping is more accurate, both in line and speed, if I get the ball rolling [...]
Shot 54 on the local front nine today. Got 3 bogeys and 2 doubles. My new iron swing (easy tempo) worked really well. Hit my 6 iron solid, long, high and on-target 5/5 times, including a couple times from the fairway. Putting and chipping were decent. However, driver let me down. Only had decent contact [...]
