Interrupted Practice

Date: Saturday 17 March 2012
Venue: Beckenham Place Park
Activity: Practice

I had an hour free in the late afternoon so decided to head to the grass practice area to practice getting a good strike on the ball with the lowest part of the swing after the ball. The emphasis is on good weight transfer – essential to a good golf shot.

I only took my 8 iron (and my ball collector) since it’s an easy club to use and the emphasis wasn’t on distance. That turned out to be a mistake as the practice area was in use for a group lesson so I could only use the practice green for some chipping…which the 8 iron is essentially useless for.

I managed to get back to the practice area when I saw the teacher come back with his group though. I hit some pretty poor shots until I tried to emphasise hitting DOWN in the ball at which point I immediately hit about four good shots consecutively. Nice!

Then the golf teacher returned with another group so I had to clear off. I just went home with no conclusively positive feelings.

A Bit Of Wrist Action

Date: Wednesday 31 August 2011
Venue: The Studio with he-who-we-call-Jon

Tonight we re-visited my full swing. Would you believe it, my club was getting up high again!

So the work was on getting my club further behind me in order to make it easier, nay, POSSIBLE, to get the club head square to the ball on impact and also to generate more power. It seems I was also being a bit too conservative with my aim of control and gripping too far down the club.

The feel I need to remember is a tightening, or stretching, in my right wrist as it cocks (such an unfortunate phrase!) backwards. It’s not so much the, *ahem*, cocking, that brings the club in to position so much as the club forcing the wrist to cock(!)

Anyway, enough implied filth and double entendres. As a result of these swing changes, I really drove my balls hard towards the hole tonight…NO! WAIT…!