In my last few practice rounds, I’ve been very inconsistent with my iron shots. Shanks off the tee with 8- and 6-irons, fat and thin shots from the fairway, etc have been creating havoc on the course. This is especially galling since my putting / chipping / pitching have been begun to show [...]
Lately, my putting, chipping and pitching have been strengths during golf rounds, and my driver has been OK. My weakness has been iron shots, these being very inconsistent. Sometimes I slice, shank, hit thin or fat. This makes it very difficult hitting my approach shot into the green. I generally hit zero (0) greens-in-regulation during [...]
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 rigid, good [...]
One side effect of hitting lots of balls with my new driver, was that my iron shots suddenly became really poor. I wasn’t even hitting solid shots with sand wedge. I have two ideas about why this happened:
1) With the driver, I focussed on hitting the ball on the upswing off the tee. This clearly [...]
