Golf Thread

JustBen said:
So i've got a fitting booked in a week and my play has completely gone to ****. Hit the driving range to try and fix and that didn't help.
Managed to get an hour lesson this morning, love lessons but it does make me wonder how i was hitting irons well previously and not so now... Things i'm not doing well;
  • Stand too far away from the ball
  • Stance too wide
  • Don't turn my body so backs to target
  • Club goes behind me on back swing
  • Flicking wrists at impact
  • Not hinging wrists on back swing
  • Right arm comes to far away from body on back swing
  • Body not rotating at impact
  • Throttling the club with my grip
  • Inside out swing
So yeh not much haha
So in the hour we mostly worked with a wedge just making sure the stationary setup was good then working on short chips (30-50 yards) concentrating on back swing to 1/4 swing and then small swing ensuring my body turned and not just arms.
Moved onto 9 iron and fuller swings.
Really helpful session so shall go back in a month or so for a follow up.
Then went onto the range with my lad and hit some duff shots but some great chips and a handful of awesome 7 iron shots. My normal 7 iron carry is around 125>130 yards but managed to hit a few around 145carry .
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That's a lot of swing thoughts right there!!! One of the things I really like about my current coach is he just gives me one thing to work on and nothing else, if I had that list my brain would melt :p
 
SKILL said:
That's a lot of swing thoughts right there!!! One of the things I really like about my current coach is he just gives me one thing to work on and nothing else, if I had that list my brain would melt :p
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Pretty much same thing for me, and if I do go to the range, it's to work on one thing only. At the end of the day when you go on the course you should be leaving all that behind you and just swing your swing. It's even more important when you get fitted. Defo don't go into that fitting bay trying to swing different to what your natural is or the last one thing you worked on, results will be completely skewed and a waste of time!

Golf is hard enough without a million thought rushing through your head at address to make it hard, give yourself a break haha
 
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JamesH85 said:
Pretty much same thing for me, and if I do go to the range, it's to work on one thing only. At the end of the day when you go on the course you should be leaving all that behind you and just swing your swing. It's even more important when you get fitted. Defo don't go into that fitting bay trying to swing different to what your natural is or the last one thing you worked on, results will be completely skewed and a waste of time!

Golf is hard enough without a million thought rushing through your head at address to make it hard, give yourself a break haha
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Yeh aim is to work on bits of it at a time and go back in 6 weeks or so and see if they're happy i've taken one or two of those elements and crossed them off the list. I went out this morning t'ing off at 6:25ish for 9 holes, got a few holes in before the water proofs came out.
Using what i learnt and concentrating on take away and loosening the grip loads, tends to be drop a few balls and i'll hit one of them really well, the others a bit crap but thats ok.

Good advise on fitting, will just swing without thinking about it. Unsure what i'll do with the fitting info, likely see what part of the bag i can make the most gains with and then consider shopping around for the best deal on them. Alternatively maybe if i get fit for something like the ping g440 irons maybe save some cash and get the g425s with similar make up and put some money towards a putter, wedges etc. trying to limit overall spend to 1k
 
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