Went to get a lesson today, decided to keep working on my long game and try and gain more confidence in the things I’m doing. Lesson went well, overall my teacher thinks that I’m improving and I can feel that as well. I’m still struggling with shifting my hips forward instead of around and it’s causing me to get too steep and open. In those positions my timing has to be perfect to make it work, so it breeds inconsistency. Was also setting up a little open with my shoulders and hips, so we worked on that for a bit getting the feeling down of what it feels like to be set up square. After the lesson I finished off my basket of range balls and by the end I was really started to get it. Hit about my last 8 drivers, pretty straight and with solid distance. Hit a few 6irons and wedges also to make sure that it translated over to those clubs also and it did. I really needed to get my confidence back after my terrible range session on Friday when I felt like I lost it, so today was a good day for that.
I’m playing on Monday this week after work and then hopefully again on Wednesday, so at least 2 rounds this next week, I look to keep improving my ball striking and lowering my scores. I’m at the point right now that I should not be shooting anything in the 80’s, it should be all 70’s from here on out or I will be extremely disappointed. As long as my short game keeps improving, I don’t think this should be a problem. My goals for tomorrows round are to keep the ball in play off the tee, have an up and down percentage of no worse than 50% and make 2 or more birdies. If I do those things, the score will take care of itself. Will be my 3rd round over at the Vineyard course since starting this blog….have scores of 74 (+4) and 76 (+6) on the books, 75 or lower would be ideal.
Here is a video recap of my lesson today, the audio is a little tough because of the wind and his video froze near the end, but he basically was just showing me using my left hand in the downswing more than my right.
My Journey 2 Scratch 