Joey's Golf Bag

During lunch today, I practiced at the Golden Bear Golf Center. The day was very warm, with a breeze from the north.

I worked first on wedges, starting with the pitching wedge and working my way up through the lofts. At first, I was striking the ball slightly fat, but got it worked out as I went through the wedges. Next up, I got out the long clubs and began alternating through them. It was clear that I wasn’t striking the ball on the sweet spot with the longer clubs, so I attached impact tape to the driver, 2i and 3i hybrids, 6- and 9-irons. Surprisingly, I was hitting the ball near the heel of each club. I reset my setup toward the middle of the clubface and began hitting the ball near the center of the clubface on each club.

That was the end of the good practice. Next came the bad.

Happy that I had been able with my new swing to get the impact point and my setup point to now line up, I went back to the wedges to work on making better contact with the ball. That’s when things got ugly. I hit everything fat. I changed ball position back, hit it fat; farther back, hit it fat; all the way back, solid contact, but now the ball was all the way to my right foot!

Normally, when I hit the ball fat, that means that I’m rushing the downswing. No matter what I did with the wedges today, fat, fat, fat! I finally gave up, completely frustrated.

I’ll try again tomorrow.