| Yup, that's me. Have grown quite tired of it actually. Just going back to swinging the club with as few swing thoughts in my head as possible.
Some great advice that I recently received...and it was not a "swing tip" of any kind (Thank God!!) is to try to hit a paticluar "shot" every time. I.E. a 3/4 swing knock-down, a fade, a draw, low shot, high shot.
Try it sometime, no matter what handicap you are. Especially with your irons when approaching greens. For irons, you basically step up to the shot with one thought in mind...."how do I get this shot on the green in the easy way possible."
If you are like me, you would typically step up to an iron shot, of course thinking about whatever "tour swing" that you have adapted for that week and saying to yourself "okay, perfect swing with a perfect strike on the ball creating the most beautiful penetrating ball flight and a perfect dollar bill size divot." Come on, if we could do that every shot and expected that every shot, we would be on tour right now, not typing on an internet message board.
Example, in my league the other night I surprised myself with a shot. I took this advice and it worked, and actually worked for the rest of my round as well (unfortunately the damage had been done to my score earlier in the round). My ball sat in the fairway on the 4th hole, right at the 150 marker. Pin was towards the front of the green so I had a little less than 150, but a pretty stiff headwind was blowing at me. Took a 7i, choked up a bit and had one thought...."keep this shot low." Hit a solid iron shot pin high about 15 feet right of the pin and 2-putted for par. It stayed low like I wanted, and was nice crisp contact. Felt great.
What did I do to hit that shot? No clue, and I don't really care, but I'm pretty sure I could do it again. I think I took a shorter swing and held off the finish. Had the wind been at my back, I would of probably took an 8i and swung to a high finish.
These are my swing thoughts for now on. I don't care what I look like, what my swing looks like, how pretty it is etc. Just results baby, just results!!  |