Up and Down, but not for Par....

This game of golf we play can take you from the heights to the depths of despair and back up again in no time.

Yesterday I visited the Pitch n Putt, they had cut the grass and the greens are showing some sign of regrowth, so I started out practicing chips and pitches. But soon the shanks had me in despair, I just could not stop hitting them. Both chips and pitches, total nightmare.

After that I went to a driving range to practice half swings trying to work out how to swing in to out correctly. But all I got was shanks and fats. In desperation I took a lesson from the pro at the range, he wanted me to swing on a different plane, taking the club straight back and straight through and boy did it feel wired, it also gave me a slice and did not stop me shanking.

Because I'm unlikely ever to have another lesson with this dude just due to it not being my normal range, I'm going to ignore what he wanted me to do. Waste of £15.

I was low, I could have just quit and sold the clubs, it's so hard when your shanking and you have swing changes, everything is wrong and nothing feels solid.

I was also so tempted to cancel my match play that was just recently arranged for that evening.

When I got home I posted in desperation on Golf Magic forum for help with my shank problems. I included some video and got some good feed back which I will be using to try and help.

If your interested the thread is here http://www.golfmagic.com/forum/forummessages/mps/dt/1/UTN/36213/V/8/SP/

Then my wife wanted me out from under foot so I had to go play the match play. With low, low expectations I surprised myself by hitting the ball solid and having no shanks!!!

It's a stupid game..

Anyway, I'm easily pleased and because I played well, despite losing badly, I'm back in upbeat mood and ready to do battle with the shanks and beat them.

Also for a bonus, I'm still off 25 and not 26, for some reason I did not get 0.1 back on Sunday like I feared. :D