So, working on SPS with my driver again this afternoon. Trying again to figure out why things had gone to hades. And this time, this time maybe I got it.
Long story short: I couldn't make it work with SPS as Todd Graves instructs/demonstrates it to save my soul. Works well for me for irons, though my distance is not good, but simply could not execute with the driver. Then I thought back to the way I was swinging as I described in this post, back on Oct. 23, and tried replicating that.
Lo and behold: I started hitting them again. Not half-badly, either, considering. By the time I hit my last drive it was getting dark-ish, so I could not see the ball flight, but it felt and sounded good, I think I caught it flashing off the tee--and don't think I sliced it, and it didn't make a sound down-range, which suggests it cleared the tops of the trees for a good, long ways.
Going back and reviewing Kirk Junge's Single Plane Driver Swing video, I think what's working for me is closer to what he does than what Todd Graves does.
The weather's turning here, now. Probably until spring, this time, so my only chance to try again will be at the local golf store's heated driving range, and that does not tend to lend itself well to studied experimentation for me as well as the back yard on the mat. But I'm going to have to give it a go.
I'm going to have to re-review Junge's SPS with irons, too. If his SPS is similarly different from Graves' with irons, too, maybe I should make that adjustment, as well. May get some distance back.
Long story short: I couldn't make it work with SPS as Todd Graves instructs/demonstrates it to save my soul. Works well for me for irons, though my distance is not good, but simply could not execute with the driver. Then I thought back to the way I was swinging as I described in this post, back on Oct. 23, and tried replicating that.
Lo and behold: I started hitting them again. Not half-badly, either, considering. By the time I hit my last drive it was getting dark-ish, so I could not see the ball flight, but it felt and sounded good, I think I caught it flashing off the tee--and don't think I sliced it, and it didn't make a sound down-range, which suggests it cleared the tops of the trees for a good, long ways.
Going back and reviewing Kirk Junge's Single Plane Driver Swing video, I think what's working for me is closer to what he does than what Todd Graves does.
The weather's turning here, now. Probably until spring, this time, so my only chance to try again will be at the local golf store's heated driving range, and that does not tend to lend itself well to studied experimentation for me as well as the back yard on the mat. But I'm going to have to give it a go.
I'm going to have to re-review Junge's SPS with irons, too. If his SPS is similarly different from Graves' with irons, too, maybe I should make that adjustment, as well. May get some distance back.