'A 30 something Beginners golf journey'

Wednesday, 13 May 2009

2009!

March 2009 finds me picking up the golf sticks again for the first time in months and I went to the range and hit it sweet as a nut. I was fully infused again with the game and looking forward to a great year when I broke 90 and started playing comps.

A week and some more range sessions later I was at Pete's door begging for a lesson. My slice was back with a vengeance.

The lesson consisted of trying to get me to hit from the inside, putting down two balls, one to hit and one well behind and inside the other which I was to route the club over on the way down. As per normal this worked like a charm when Pete was watching, but vanished after wards. This lesson was to have serious consequences for my swing and eventually lead to my nearly quitting golf but instead going to a new pro who saved me.

Shortly after the lesson I was introduced to a new member and we began knocking around together playing holes after work once or twice a week. Steven played off 9 and it's a surprise to me that he even entertained playing with a hacker like me. Watching me slice one into the cabbage after he hit the fairway mile away with a nice draw must have taken some patience.

This is when my game snapped. Obsessed with swinging from out to in I got ever more behind in my take away, leading to the inevitable over the top out to in swing. This got so steep and so destructive I could not even hit a PW without pulling the hell out of it. and making a vast hole in the earth.

I was on the verge of quitting.

Once again I turned to the internet..

But this time I struck gold.

I found a golf academy that did video lessons an hours drive away. I decided I needed to see what I was doing wrong so instead of going back to Pete, I booked a lesson with another pro at the golf academy.

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