Joey's Golf Bag

This morning, on a sunny, breezy, cool day, I had my second lesson with Jeff Kennedy at Coyote Ridge Golf Club. I warmed up on the range, this time on the grass instead of the mats. While I warmed up, Jeff came over and had me work on my mid-length pitches. He noticed that I was still tending to decelerate when I took the club back too far on the pitch. We worked on that for several minutes and also on my trajectory. I got better the more shots I hit.

Next, I got out my 7-iron and we worked on fundamentals such as moving the ball a little forward from center and making sure I didn’t straighten my right leg on the backswing. We also worked a lot on keeping from sliding during the downswing. I was striking the ball pretty respectably, so we moved on to the 5-iron. We continued to work on the same fundamentals, and also worked on getting my trajectory down some. After some good shots with the 5-iron, we got out the 3-wood (Thriver) and hit some balls off the deck. I was tending to fade the ball but getting good trajectory and occasionally, good distance. He then had me work on my posture, getting some of the roundness out of my back. We then finished up with the driver, and I was pleased to see the ball go straight where I was aiming. Unfortunately, I was misaligned, but we soon had that straightened out as well.

I was very pleased with my lesson.

After a short break for lunch, John and I hit the course, playing from the blue tees with some older gentlemen who were playing from the whites. For whatever reason, the blue tees were, for the most part, on the same tee as the black tees, and the course was playing much longer than I’d ever played it before. Between the longer length, the wind, and too, too many swing thoughts from the lesson, my round was a mess, shooting 105.

I still beat John, though.