Its been a month since my last post and for good reason. Its been sweltering here in Atlanta. I think that I read somewhere, that there were fifty something days in a row with 90 + temperatures. I'd hate to be a golf course superintendent at a time like this. In actual fact, ours has seemingly done a very good job making sure our greens survived the heat. I played Sunday and was pleasantly surprised at how well they rolled. Many other courses round here have not been as lucky.
But I digress - so I came back from Ireland and for better or worse, decided that because of the quality of my driving I wanted to rebuild the swing again whatever it took. I told Tim this and he gave me some caveats - it may take a LONG time and I may have to swallow my pride along the way as I am likely to get much worse before I get better. So far he has not been wrong :)
I have a couple of major swing flaws (probably mentioned this a few times before) that need to be resolved before I will reach the level of ball striking to which I aspire. First, is the fact that I get the club too much to the inside on the backswing and second is the lateral sway during the swing. For that reason, I have to work on 3 major things - keeping the right elbow closer to the side and not sliding back behind me, getting the left arm along my toe line in the backswing (and not inside/behind me) and finally preventing the right hip from sliding away from the target in the backswing.
The net result so far is the I am really struggling. It may take quite some time and effectively I can't play any competitive golf at the moment - even little club events. Every second shot seems to be either very good or terrible. All I can do is continue to hit as many balls as possible and hope that the changes become ingrained to the point that I can execute correctly repeatedly.
Maybe I am crazy for taking this on? I'm going to have to stick with it either way as I can't seem to get back to where I was 2 months ago anyhow.
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