I played 18 again yesterday (forgot to take pictures after the 1st hole though...) and played pretty badly...again.
Long story short - started playing 3 years ago and played a lot of short courses that year (with a couple of lessons), didn't get to play much the second year (only one lesson), and played a fair amount last year (with a few more lessons that prior years).
I started out shooting in the 100s - 110s like most new golfers, last year started breaking 100 regularly and by October'ish got it down to the low 90s (even shot a 90). Since September (when I went back to school and no more work), I've been focusing on improving my game with a good amount of time on the range, playing, and at the indoor training centre with video (particularly since December).
The problem is that in my last four or five rounds, my lowest round is probably about 98 and my highest is probably 105. This isn't cool.
It seems the more I work on my game, the worse it gets.
To illustrate, yesterday, I lost a lot of strokes having to pitch out to the fairway from the right trees. This was not a factor of club selection because I was slicing it out with driver, 3 wood, and hybrid 4. It was the difference of pitching out from 180, 210'ish, or 240'ish (lost distance from the slice). On the other hand, my short game was pretty decent (for the most part) yesterday, particularly the 60 yard pitch that lipped out to 2 inches for a bogey on the first hole, the 9 iron over the right trees from 130 yards to 20 feet on the second and a similar shot on the 4th. I did start to lose focus and lost the short game to some degree, but by that point I wasn't playing well and so didn't care as much anyhow.
I'm not looking for a cure to the slice, I'm going to a lesson for that. I know my swing path is *usually* inside out, but that might have changed, and I might be leaving it open (perhaps from too stiff of a shaft? just switched to a Grafalloy Blue Stiff), or I may even be doing both.
Have you been in a position of making concentrated efforts to get better and been severely lacking in achieving that goal? It's getting fairly frustrating because I'm spending a lot of time on my game and not really seeing results.
Long story short - started playing 3 years ago and played a lot of short courses that year (with a couple of lessons), didn't get to play much the second year (only one lesson), and played a fair amount last year (with a few more lessons that prior years).
I started out shooting in the 100s - 110s like most new golfers, last year started breaking 100 regularly and by October'ish got it down to the low 90s (even shot a 90). Since September (when I went back to school and no more work), I've been focusing on improving my game with a good amount of time on the range, playing, and at the indoor training centre with video (particularly since December).
The problem is that in my last four or five rounds, my lowest round is probably about 98 and my highest is probably 105. This isn't cool.
It seems the more I work on my game, the worse it gets.
To illustrate, yesterday, I lost a lot of strokes having to pitch out to the fairway from the right trees. This was not a factor of club selection because I was slicing it out with driver, 3 wood, and hybrid 4. It was the difference of pitching out from 180, 210'ish, or 240'ish (lost distance from the slice). On the other hand, my short game was pretty decent (for the most part) yesterday, particularly the 60 yard pitch that lipped out to 2 inches for a bogey on the first hole, the 9 iron over the right trees from 130 yards to 20 feet on the second and a similar shot on the 4th. I did start to lose focus and lost the short game to some degree, but by that point I wasn't playing well and so didn't care as much anyhow.
I'm not looking for a cure to the slice, I'm going to a lesson for that. I know my swing path is *usually* inside out, but that might have changed, and I might be leaving it open (perhaps from too stiff of a shaft? just switched to a Grafalloy Blue Stiff), or I may even be doing both.
Have you been in a position of making concentrated efforts to get better and been severely lacking in achieving that goal? It's getting fairly frustrating because I'm spending a lot of time on my game and not really seeing results.