I first experience a leap in my iron making ability after I played pitch and putt. I focused on the key points
- Grip - V's in both hands pointing to the right should. I used to put the right hand on top of the left, but I've been playing with them separated so far. This goes against my instructors teaching, but applying my tennis background where I had good success with many coaches I found that each coach has specific technical elements that they wanted to stress. Some adjustments I've tried and adopted. Some I didn't listen because it didn't work. So applying the same philosophy I've experiment with what worked and tried to incorporate a best practice whenever I can
- Swing for irons and hybrids - For irons I try to keep the wrist firm and bring the club back and maintain an awareness of where the club and an awareness of a pendulum of a circle when swinging. When I make contact I like to hit through the ball to maintain solid contact and for the irons I try to brush the ground and aim for the sweet spot. Follow through in the direction that I want before wrapping the follow through around my shoulder
- Driver - The swing with the driver has felt wieder and different than the irons probably because of the huge driver club head. My problem when hitting a solid shot until today was getting over 125-130 yards. Today I experimented with taking a larger slower back swing and cocking the wrist a a bit and cranking the shot, but maintain intense focus on hitting the ball on the sweet spot and hitting through the ball. Success him some around 175 yards today consistently and straight and for a bonus with a cute girl that could swing well beside me.
Shoulder - I try to take a deep should turn to generate power
Head - I try to keep it down until contact to focus on where I'm hitting
The success I got reminded me when I used to experiment with different ways of hitting the serve, the forehand, and the backhand. Sometimes through just playing you would discover a technique that just worked for you and you end up adopting.
What I can generalize is that there are many ways to hit the ball with much success.
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