Saturday I decided to take the day off, I really felt myself getting frustrated after my dissapointing range session on Friday and I wanted to just take a day and regain focus and confidence. “Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.”- Bo Bennett
Sunday I went over to see my coach again to get another lesson. I asked him for reassurance that I was applying my grip correctly. I want to have a solid understanding for what is exactly right, so in upcoming range session I don’t go trying to tinker with it again like I did on Friday. Overall he thought that my set up, grip and takeaway were starting to improve nicely, but he wanted to work on my balance. I tend to get my weight more on my toes at address and that causes me to bring my left leg up and in at impact, rather than straight and toward my right knee. It changes my spine angle and causes inconsistent strikes. (You must remember by the way that I’m a lefty, so for many of you picturing the right and left knee in your mind might be thinking that previous sentence didn’t make much sense) By the end of the lesson my balance was a lot better and after hitting the rest of my golf balls after the lesson, I started to get more consistent strikes. Just focused on my long irons Sunday, no woods and tonight I’ll be heading to the range again like usual on Monday night and test my whole bag with the new balance point. Really need to get my driver and woods back to where they were before the changes if I’m going to continue to break 80. I’m playing golf on Wednesday this week, not sure where at the moment, but am locked in with a friend to play on Wednesday, so this will be my first round since starting the blog and we will see how my new swing transfers to the course. I’ll be posting a picture of my scorecard, where I keep track of varies stats. Fairways and greens hit, up and downs, sand saves, putts and penalty strokes. My goals right now are to continue to break 80 with an improving short game saves %.
My lesson video wouldn’t process on here last night so I had to wait till today to post this after uploading the video to YouTube. My range session last night was really good, started to implement the changes in my balance you’ll see in this upcoming video and it really seemed to work. Kept my focus the entire session, visualizing playing golf holes and playing at flags. Swing is still a work in progress, but feeling more confident with my swing going into my round on Wednesday than I was last week. Here is the video recap of my lesson on Sunday, you can see how my balance has changed and looks to be in a much better position for more consistency strikes.
My Journey 2 Scratch 