Golf Chick
Golf Fashionista
- Joined
- Dec 3, 2009
- Messages
- 8,224
- Reaction score
- 22
- Location
- Southern California
- Handicap
- Decreasing
I thought I'd start a thread about my progress and its good to get feedback from you all as well!!
So, as some of you know, I just switched golf instructors and WOW what a difference. Had my first lesson last night. He video taped my swing and showed me what I was doing wrong and showed me some of his students swings, and its significantly different. Last night, we worked on my swing and just getting my arms connected to my body, no more of this chicken wing stuff :nono:
First, he had me work on my grip. Apparently, I had too strong of a grip and because of that, whenever I started my backswing, I had a closed clubface. So now with a weaker grip (and also different hand positioning) my backswing has an open clubface. We just worked on the 3/4 swing. I hit a few balls, nothing too exciting as I wasn't trying to kill it, just nice easy 3/4 swings through the ball and I stopped right in front of me, so I didn't have a follow through. Just by doing this, I was able to get 50 yards without even trying haa haa (don't laugh, this is a good start for me!). And apparently, we have a lot of work to do
He even showed me a few tricks to do to make sure that I'm setup in the correct position and the right distance away from the ball, right bend in the knees, etc. Pretty neat stuff.
I really like my new instructor. He's been with a few of the LPGA players and a few that are on the future's tour.
Until next week :clapp:
So, as some of you know, I just switched golf instructors and WOW what a difference. Had my first lesson last night. He video taped my swing and showed me what I was doing wrong and showed me some of his students swings, and its significantly different. Last night, we worked on my swing and just getting my arms connected to my body, no more of this chicken wing stuff :nono:
First, he had me work on my grip. Apparently, I had too strong of a grip and because of that, whenever I started my backswing, I had a closed clubface. So now with a weaker grip (and also different hand positioning) my backswing has an open clubface. We just worked on the 3/4 swing. I hit a few balls, nothing too exciting as I wasn't trying to kill it, just nice easy 3/4 swings through the ball and I stopped right in front of me, so I didn't have a follow through. Just by doing this, I was able to get 50 yards without even trying haa haa (don't laugh, this is a good start for me!). And apparently, we have a lot of work to do
He even showed me a few tricks to do to make sure that I'm setup in the correct position and the right distance away from the ball, right bend in the knees, etc. Pretty neat stuff.
I really like my new instructor. He's been with a few of the LPGA players and a few that are on the future's tour.
Until next week :clapp: