Joey's Golf Bag

During lunch today, I practiced at the Golden Bear Golf Center. The weather was warm and sunny, with a one-club breeze in my face.

I started out in the short game area hitting short wedge shots using the lob wedge. I had pretty good feel for distance today, though my directionality was a bit ragged. I also hit a number of shots with my 64° wedge as well, probably better than I’ve ever hit this club. Next up, I went to the bunker and hit a number of shots out of the bunker from a level lie. I got all of the balls out of the bunker, though most were a bit long.

Next, I went to the range and worked on hitting 3/4 wedge shots with the pitching and sand wedges. I had no trouble hitting the ball fat today, so at least that improved.

The rest of my day was pretty poor. I never had any consistency at all today, apart from warm-up with the short irons. I spent a lot of time trying to get my “new, improved” swing to work, and it is just a miserable mess of a swing. I spent the first part of practice doing the slot drill, and I was hitting long, high hooks with the 5-iron that at best turned into high draws. I then got out the longer clubs and hit high push slices with the driver and all sorts of terrible topped balls with the hybrids. The best shots I had today were all pulls.

My last drill was the pin-hunting drill. I started out pretty well, hitting the best 4-iron shot I’ve hit in months and a couple of short iron and wedge shots very close to the pins. The rest of the drill was just terrible. The hybrids were all topped, all the long irons were pulls or hooks, the short irons were pushes or slices.

My swing has completely cratered since my last lesson. I know, when making a swing change, that you will get worse before you get better, but this is ridiculous.