Joey's Golf Bag

This morning at the crack of dawn, I went to The Practice Tee in Plano to hit a few balls before work. The weather was cloudy and the wind was howling in from the south at about 30 mph, but the temperature was in the mid-70s. As I had limited time, I got only a small bucket of balls and started out hitting full swings with the 7-iron. I started out striking the ball pretty well — good, straight path down the target line — slight fades that the wind kindly brought back to target.

I then got out the 5-iron and hit a few pretty well, though low, and then my swing went south and I got a little frustrated. I finally figured out the problem: too much lateral movement on the backswing (an old familiar fault). I worked that out and even hit a very nice, penetrating drive that was unaffected by the strong wind. Still couldn’t hit that damn 3-wood or hybrid, though. For some reason, when I get the 3-wood or hybrid in my hands, my tempo gets too fast and I hit the ball thin or worse, top it. Maybe I need a sports pshrink.

Since I’ve put the Wishon Golf 770CFE irons in my bag, my shot dispersion has improved dramatically with the irons. I can’t credit the irons alone, as I’ve been using Tour Tempo on my iPod throughout my last few practices (and most of that practice was with the graphite-shafted practice 6-iron that is set up like my new iron set). Still… I’m very happy with these irons.