Sometimes you just need to take a lesson
Okay, in my last post I spoke about the distance and accuracy in which I was striking the ball. I won’t be writing about that anymore! As soon as I finished the post it all went away!?! I don’t know why it went away, it just did. Here’s the thing - it went away so badly I was concerned that my new Cobra Driver was busted!
I had played in the morning with Gorty and couldn’t hit a lick out of the tee box. I didn’t handle my irons too badly and I putted well but the driver presented such a problem I was getting concerned that the club was broken. I check it for a flat spot, I examined the face of the club for a dent, seriously - it went away that badly. And because I have this bulldog nature about me it bothered me all day, so I went to the range to see if I couldn’t work it out.
I grabbed a large bucket with about 100 balls in it and walked up to the range. Out of 100 I maybe hit two balls well - TWO!!! I was topping everything or snapping it all left, extremely frustrating. Well, that obviously didn’t work and now I’ve got it in my head that I can’t hit the ball anymore, so what to do… Sometimes you just need to take a lesson!
I stopped in at the Club the next day and spoke with Eric Sandstrum (our clubs pro), and told him my story and scheduled an appointment. Of course by the time the lesson came around I had begun striking the ball well again but because I didn’t know why it went away or even why it came back I wanted Eric to take a look. You know when your car has been making that funny noise and you being it to the mechanic and it stops, same thing happened with my golf swing.
We couldn’t figure out why the swing went away, but he helped by changing a few things like slowing down, widening my stance and finishing in balance - things that I had gotten away from. By the end of the lesson I was striking ball effortlessly with distance and accuracy. The moral of the story kids - Golf is like a fickle woman - sometimes you just need to buy it something to make it happy.
September 16th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
[…] Sometimes you just need to take a lesson Okay, in my last post I spoke about the distance and accuracy in which I was striking the ball. I won’t be writing about that anymore! As soon as I finished the post it all went away!?! I don’t know why it went away, it just did. Here’s the thing - it went away so badly I was concerned that my new Cobra Driver was busted! […]