Quickie Practice
This morning, as the sun was rising, I had a quick practice at The Practice Tee in Plano. The morning was warm and sunny, with a trace of a breeze.
As I had limited time to practice this morning, I warmed up with the 6-iron and then proceeded to test my new 6-iron prototypes while I worked on making a slow, smooth swing. For the most part, my ball-striking was pretty good today, as I had only a few poorly struck balls. My dominate fault was a push or push-fade. Only when I got out the longer clubs did a hook appear, mainly with the 4-iron, when I tried to hit the ball hard.
My testing with the 6-irons were inconclusive, so I got out the driver to hit a few balls. At first, I was hitting long, high, slices, then long, high hooks that became snap hooks, then I worked it back to draws. Not a great practice, but at least I was able to do a little shot shaping with the driver, and recover from mishits.
That’s all I had time for this morning, as time available to practice was very limited. My “hosel rocket” swing stayed away today, thank the golf gods…. As I’m planning to play at Bear Creek this weekend, I’ll need one more full practice session before then. Hopefully, weather will be good tomorrow or Friday.