Joey's Golf Bag

This afternoon, after work, I hit some balls at the Hank Haney Golf Ranch in Lewisville. The weather, when I arrived, was mid-50’s, cloudy, with a strong wind behind me on the range.

My plan for today was to work, as usual, on tempo, timing and lag. I started off with the 6- and 4-irons to warm up. I wasn’t striking the ball well at first, hitting weak fades. After I warmed up, though, I striking the ball pretty good. I got out the 8-iron and added it to the mix, hitting balls toward the back flag.

Next up, I got out the wedges and hit half and full wedge shots, pretty cleanly for the most part, except for a fat shot or two with the lob wedge. I then got out the 2i hybrid and the driver, and alternated shots with those clubs and the 8-iron. Strangely, I hit the longer clubs better than the 8-iron. My first drive was a bit of a fade, but I hit mostly slight pushes or pulls today. The hybrid didn’t behave as well, but I hit it better than I’ve been doing lately.

I then ran my pin-hunting drill, hitting a mere 6 of 20 shots with a score of 4 or 5. I really had only one poorly struck ball, but the rest of the shots tended to be pulled or pushed. My two best shots were drives at the flag on the right end of the range. I pounded two near perfect drives, both of which ended up next to the flag, one just to the right of it and one just to the left.

As I ran out of balls, I got out the 7-iron, teed up some balls and proceeded to whale on the balls, hitting high draws up into the wind, causing the balls to carry as far as I normally hit a 4-iron. Encouraged, I teed up a ball and hit a 4-iron. Unfortunately, hit it a bit thin, so got no benefit from the wind. The last ball, I overswung and hit a stinker.

Still, a pretty good practice. I didn’t have any sun left for the short game, unfortunately. The sun did manage to show itself just as it disappeared below the horizon.