Joey's Golf Bag

This evening, in the muggy Texas dusk, I had a lesson with Alan at Golden Bear Golf Center. Before the lesson, I worked on putting, running speed drills. Tonight, I didn’t miss any putts less than 9 ft, so I was pretty pleased with that practice. I then went to the range and hit some sand wedge shots to get warmed up and then switched to the 7-iron.

Alan arrived and I hit a few shots, pretty poorly, with the 7-iron. He then had me switch to the 5-iron and hit fades into the green with the yellow flag. He worked with me on alignment. It took a few shots, but I finally started fading the ball into the flag. My main faults tonight were too much lower body movement (again!), too much hip turn (again!), and a little too far from the ball. I also tended to align too much to the right. We then moved back to the 7-iron and had me hit draws into the green with the blue flag. I tended to pull the ball at first, instead of hitting draws, but eventually got that worked out.

Next up, I got out the driver. The first one was a sky ball, though still with good distance, though a bit pushed. The next three were things of beauty: long and straight down the middle. No changes necessary there! 😎

For my final lesson, we went to the bunker and I hit some sand shots using Dave Pelz’ technique, and then some shots using the Jim Flick technique. Jim was definitely working better than Dave tonight…

I was very, very pleased with my lesson tonight.