Practice Tonight
After allowing my sore left elbow to recover for a week, I went to practice tonight. I started with some half 7-iron swings, a little ragged at first. After that, I hit some short irons, mostly straight and on-target. Next, I got out the driver and hit some balls. The first shots were slices, but I adjusted my backswing and got them going straight again. Distance was pretty pitiful, about a 180-200 yd carry on the better swings.
Proceeding to the 3-metal, after some backswing adjustments, started hitting the ball straighter than usual and some a soft fade. Only one or two slices. I then proceeded to the hybrids, starting with the 19 degree and working my way downward. There were a few slices, but with adjustments, the ball was flying straight or a soft fade. Distances were 155 with the 27-degree, 160-165 with the 23-degree and 170 with the 19-degree hybrid. The hybrids continue to work well for me, but I think the swing weight is a little low. I’m considering reshafting the clubs with a slightly heavier shaft (probably a TT Dynamic Gold Lite) and making them each about 1/2″ longer.
I then hit some 4-, 5- and 6-irons, and was duck hooking or drawing, no fades or slices. Weird! The 5-iron was travelling about 150 yds tonight, not bad for me.
A few balls were left, so I hit a few full wedge shots, mostly slightly pushed right.
Putting practice wasn’t as good as usual; I was leaving putts over 10 ft short and short putts were long (when they didn’t go in the hole). I had to practice short 3 to 4 ft putts some tonight, as I missed a few. I got it fixed at the end by holing a several 4 footers without any misses.
I was pretty pleased with the practice session tonight, as I saw little effect of a week’s layoff.