Joey's Golf Bag

This morning, I went to the Hank Haney Golf Ranch in Lewisville to hit some balls. The day was sunny and warm, with a left to right breeze.

I started out hitting full 6-iron shots to warm up, without Tour Tempo, and hit the ball pretty respectably. I then turned on my iPod to 27/9 pre-shot voice and proceeded to run the “Y” drill. At first, my shots tended to be slightly pulled, but I soon improved my path and hit the ball more or less straight, though tending, much of the day, to have the club face a little open at impact. Next up, I hit about 20 balls using the “L” drill; again, similar results, tended to have a mostly straight path and slightly open club face. I then hit a few balls with a 3/4 swing.

Next, I went down through the clubs, starting with the pitching wedge. I hit the short irons pretty well, good path, with square or slightly open club face. Mid-irons had good path as well, but tended to have a slightly closed clubface. I hit only one nasty hook today, that was with the 4-iron. Most of my misses were right with a fade.

When I got to the hybrids, I didn’t strike them particularly well today, tending to rush the downswing and either hooking the ball or topping it. The driver I never hit well today at all. I seemed to be late setting the club and then firing to impact too quickly. I eventually decided to put on 33/11 tempo, just to get my backswing into shape, and hit a couple of decent drives, draws. I wasn’t thrilled with the distance, though, seemed shorter than usual.

I had a pretty good practice today, better than my last one. I’m seeing my ball-striking improving, so I’m pretty happy.