lamebums
300 yards into the woods.
- Joined
- Jul 4, 2007
- Messages
- 646
- Reaction score
- 4
- Points
- 168
Read an old tip in Golf Magazine from last June titled "thumb your way to extra yards". So, I'd tried it - or something like it, sort of. My old grip had my left thumb pulled in, with the right one extended down the grip. So I reversed them - extended the left one and wrapped the right one around the grip. I really felt like I was about to lose the club, but man, did that ball fly a mile. I began immediately putting drives in the woods at the far end of the range (about 290 yards), and wedges went 135-140, easily.
Two problems, though - with a lot of my irons, I've lost any semblance of consistency. I began hitting a lot of thins and pulls, more so at first, fewer as I went through the buckets of balls, and the reverse problem I'd been struggling with all year - I'd always hit the ball way the hell off the toe, and suddenly I'm hitting it towards the heel, which brought the hosel into play. Not a problem until I pull out the sand wedge, though. $hank, $hank, $hank. :real angry:
Two problems, though - with a lot of my irons, I've lost any semblance of consistency. I began hitting a lot of thins and pulls, more so at first, fewer as I went through the buckets of balls, and the reverse problem I'd been struggling with all year - I'd always hit the ball way the hell off the toe, and suddenly I'm hitting it towards the heel, which brought the hosel into play. Not a problem until I pull out the sand wedge, though. $hank, $hank, $hank. :real angry: