I took a pitching wedge and 20 balls and set up for a hundred yard pitch shot into one of the greens. I was working on my swing as I have done over the winter, keeping the flex in my right leg, setting the club on plane at the top keeping the connection of my arms/body, then getting my weight through the ball and releasing the club so I take a divot after the ball.
I was doing it very well and had the satisfaction of seeing almost all my divots starting where the ball had been and extending forward. I only hit maybe two slightly fat.
Actually I was so intent on this, that I wasn't really paying attention to where the balls were going only briefly remarking that I was seeing a lot of fade for a pitching wedge and that they were going high and not that far. Eventually I got more interested in the ball flight and to my dismay found that they were all short high fades. I then finally had that eureka moment when I looked at my divots again.
Now this is the first time in months I have been able to hit off grass and take a divot. While they were all showing ball first contact, they were also all heading badly left. I tried hitting deliberately in to out, but nope, divots still pointing left! In fact no matter what I tried I could not move my swing path L.
I have to face the fact that somehow in changing my swing over the winter I have ingrained a very significant out to in move that I never noticed while hitting on mats. Without seeing any video it’s almost a dead cert that I'm coming over the top badly. By thinking back over my range sessions I'm seeing a fade with most of my clubs now, so I have to assume that my swing is OTT and out to in with all my irons.
Time for another lesson to sort out my swing path!
I think I’m going to go back to the expensive video pro based at the local academy, he coaches a European tour player so he must know his business. There is a wait to get to see him but he has done good things to my swing in the past and I need to see what I’m doing wrong on screen.
Until I have had my lesson I’m not going to worry about it and just keep doing what I have been doing. I mean it’s not all bad, I am hitting the ball more solid than ever, hopefully the last piece of my swing puzzle will be fixing the OTT move and getting my path back on line.
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