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Originally Posted by ezra76  I'd also like to add that I too am 100% done with range mats also. I've said it before but did it last night. Today I hit about 30% of my shots extremely thin and topped a friggen 8iron!! I literally have not topped a shot since about March 2005. Thin is bad enough, I never hit shots thin like that. It took me about 15 holes before my ballstriking came back and I stuck a 9iron to 6 feet with a nice big divot. Mats don't give up divots and I end up shallowing out my path to hit off them. |
I am finally getting over some fairly bad tendonitis in my left elbow. I'm convinced that it was caused by hitting a lot of balls off range mats this past winter and early spring. I have never had tendonitis before and the only thing I could think of that would cause it was the stress of impact hitting off mats.
It also messed up my swing bad. I hit down fairly hard on the range mats just like my regular swing. Of course once I started playing this spring I was hitting everything fat. Then I over compensated and started hitting everthing thin, not to mention my elbow was messed up and hurting.
For the last couple weeks my swing has finally been getting back to normal and I'm hitting a nice high baby fade and taking a small divot. No more elbow pain either since I started only hitting off grass a couple months ago.