- Joined
- Aug 4, 2010
- Messages
- 19,618
- Reaction score
- 4,086
- Location
- Liberty Lake, Washington
- Handicap
- GHIN 7.1
I have been struggling a little for a couple of weeks with my driver and long irons and was starting to bleed over into my short irons.
It was really bugging me. Saturday, as I walked off the 9th tee after hitting another weak, high right drive, I was muttering to myself, "Come on Bill, what are you doing"?
Mrs. Drumdog hears me and says, "that swing looked like you were trying to scoop the ball higher". Aha ! My old nemesis had crept back into my swing. I was hitting the ball with too much right hand. Not rolling my wrists, but hinging like hitting a hammer, underhanded in almost a scooping fashion.
I ended the front nine shooting 45. With the tip from my lovely wife, my main swing thought for the rest of the round was, "hit the ball with your left hand". Boom...37 !
We played again on Sunday and I kept that same swing thought, and I shot 76.
Boy do I love my wife !!
It was really bugging me. Saturday, as I walked off the 9th tee after hitting another weak, high right drive, I was muttering to myself, "Come on Bill, what are you doing"?
Mrs. Drumdog hears me and says, "that swing looked like you were trying to scoop the ball higher". Aha ! My old nemesis had crept back into my swing. I was hitting the ball with too much right hand. Not rolling my wrists, but hinging like hitting a hammer, underhanded in almost a scooping fashion.
I ended the front nine shooting 45. With the tip from my lovely wife, my main swing thought for the rest of the round was, "hit the ball with your left hand". Boom...37 !
We played again on Sunday and I kept that same swing thought, and I shot 76.
Boy do I love my wife !!