Joey's Golf Bag

This morning, I ventured over to the Hank Haney Golf Ranch in Lewisville to practice and play nine. The weather was very cloudy and windy, threatening rain. The weather must have scared off my playing partners.

I started off hitting 10-irons into a 2-club wind toward the target green just beyond the water hazard. All were short, but I was shooting darts straight at the flag. Next up was the 9-iron, again short of the green, but right at the flag. Next up, 8-iron, perfect distance, hitting most of the shots right around the flag. In fact, for the first third of the bucket of balls, I was hitting the ball about the best I ever have.

I changed targets and started firing the 7-iron at the flag on the left side of the range next to the net and tree. Again, the first few shots were darts right at the flag, some fading, some drawing, some straight. However, when I got the 6-iron out, the balls were mostly fades, with an occasional slice thrown in. 5-iron was similar, only a few good straight shots. With the hybrids, I never got the draw working at all.

I changed targets to the farthest flag and got out the 3-metal. My shots were basically straight, slice, straight, slice over and over, until I finally got the draw working after about 4 cycles of straight/slice. The next few shots were straight or draws. I hit a couple of balls with the driver, all of which were straight but two were hit fat and popped high into the air.

Except for the hybrids, I had a pretty good practice today, and I decided to play nine holes. See next article for a review of the course and my day playing.