Mosquito Madness
This afternoon after work, I practiced at the Hank Haney Golf Ranch in Lewisville on a warm, but cloudy, evening. Mosquitos swarmed around me for much of the practice, causing the occasional bad shot (that’s my story and I’m sticking to it).
I started off warming up with the 7-iron, hitting the ball pretty poorly at first, so I spent much of the practice working on the slot drill. That drill much improved my ball-striking over my last practice. My distances were shorter than usual, due in part to hitting the ball very high. I may need to move the ball back in my stance a bit to lower the ball flight, but for now, I’m focusing on other things. My other work was on improving my lag, and I can’t report much improvement in that area, other than a few shots here and there.
I worked on the slot drill for about 1/3 of the balls, alternating the sand wedge, 9-, 7- and 5-irons. While working on the slot drill, I hit the ball very straight, but shorter than usual, even 2 clubs shorter. Again, I’m hitting the ball extremely high, even the 5-iron.
After the slot drill, added the 3i HALO and the driver and added them to the mix. The hybrid I hit high and short as well. The driver was mixed; when I properly loaded the shaft and got good lag, I hit the ball straight and long, but I wasn’t able to do that consistently. I hit a couple of high fades or push fades, and a duck hook or two, so no consistency.
Next up, I traded out all the clubs and got out the pitching wedge, 8-, 6-, and 4-irons, the 2i hybrid and kept the driver. I tended to pull the pitching wedge, but hit it solidly. I tended to push the 8-iron, but distance was more normal than most of the clubs. The 6-iron I hit mostly straight, with reasonable distance. The 4-iron I didn’t hit very well, tending either to hit it a bit thin, or very high and short. Weird… At that point I was nearly out of balls, so I hit a few drives, pulling them left pretty badly.
A pretty good practice today. Unfortunately, I ran out of time and had to run to go vote before the polls closed (libertarian!).