What Are You Working On For Your Game

Typhoon · 2024-06-26T03:17:34+00:00

I think this might be a fun and helpful thread. People can say what they are working on and what they are trying to fix. Discuss things you did to fix prob...

KCee

potbunker I had a Del Mar briefly; 1 great round and then 1 round so horrible I sold it lol.

I have a Never Compromise blade I break out when things get bad. It seems to help me focus.

I also have Nike Method blade putter that I've had some really good rounds with. Sometimes I think changing putters helps me focus more? If I would just hit the ball closer to the hole the putting would probably be a lot easier.

Sneakylong

I like to take the putter straight back and thru. One thing that has helped me is allowing for much more ulnar deviation in the wrists (bent down) at set up.

I even get the heel of the putter off the ground a bit (Steve Sticker). This makes it easier for a straight back and thru stroke. Face balance putters work best for this.

Sneakylong

In a nutshell this is the golf swing. Watch how the bat stays in line with his right forearm before impact. That's the most important part in a golf swing. Everything else is just noise. Many ways to get there with different backswings, but you have to get there to hit the ball solid. This is all I try to do in my swing now. Get the shaft in line with the forearm.

Typhoon

A cheap alternative to the Eyeliner putting mirror is an old CD. Flip it over, mirror side up, put the ball in the hole of the CD. You’ll be able to see where your eyes are

Walterjn

Typhoon good thing everyone here is old. We all know what a cd, or cassette tape is. Most know LP's . In some cases I'm sure there may be a few who know what a phonautograph is.

Bravopilot

Walterjn My under-grad degree is Compter Science. I programmed with IBM card decks. Many programs in excess of 1,000 cards. Ask me how to meet women in college.🤣 Upgrade to floppy disc was pretty cool then.

potbunker

Walterjn on good thing everyone here is old. We all know what a cd, or cassette tape is

8 Tracks rule!

KCee

I putted really well this weekend. Just tried to focus on making a shorter backstroke and following through. Kind of impressed with myself because our greens are pretty fast right now and they keep putting the pins near and even on some steep slopes.

garyt1957

Everything .
Edit to add , I think I'm going to try an arm lock putter. Kind of fooled around with it yesterday and it went pretty well.

Sneakylong

Just got the latest issue of Golf Magazine. Max Homa’s swing is featured. Again, this has been my epiphany for the last several months. The description below the picture says ‘look at his club shaft - it’s perfectly bisecting his right forearm.’

My swing thought is to just swing under. Ball striking has never been more solid. This is not an easy position to get to. Homa and many Pros get into different positions at the top and drop it down in the slot.

However you get there doesn’t matter. But for solid ball striking it’s essential imo. I have not been a solid ball striker my whole golf life. This changed it for me.

BTW most golfers have the shaft more vertical / steep dissecting the forearms.

Downswing

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rsvman2

Sneakylong I think (emphasis on the word think) I get into a similar position with a much easier swing thought, which is simply to turn back and then swing through 'to one o'clock.'

It is impossible to swing out to one o'clock if you start the downswing even remotely with an 'over the top' move.

sdandrea1

Sneakylong I have not been a solid ball striker my whole golf life.......

Neither have I, nor am I. Once I get this move complete, I gotta go try and learn to hit the ball off the ground.

Par4QC

I'm no Max Homa, nor a Sneakylong, but my ball striking has never been better either. Not sure why or how, but I do know I'm not going to be questioning it, nor delving into. And most assuredly, will never give it any thoughts when standing over the ball.
Maybe I'm just mad. In both defs of the word. 🤣

Sneakylong

Par4QC

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.👍. Some of us are more analytical and want to know the why. The how is much more difficult for all of us. The goal is to get the how automatically engrained in our swing. Easier said than done.

But most of us work on what amounts to style that has no benefit in the long run.

Sneakylong

rsvman2

Yeah, again each of us has our own feels. I want my back swing to be below my shoulder. Then I just swing under. That swing thought works for me.

Everyone has their own feels. But if you look at all good ball strikers this is where they get in the downswing. The shaft is more in line with their trail forearm.

braveheart

Braveheart here. I wanted to get a draw back and have less of a right side miss using a driver. First, it was an equipment change (thanks Typhoon)as the driver I formally used (SIM) made it extremely difficult. Secondly, I tend to be too quick back and forth with an all arms swing. So what I am doing now is to take it back a little slower and let my left heel rise. I plant that heel as my trigger while keeping my head behind the ball at impact. Before I’d sway forward too much and not turn, especially when going too fast. I have had more consistency in fairways hit and have seen more of the elusive draw I wanted back.
Some of you mentioned, pulling putts left. That has been my miss on shorter distances that I hope to fix. I use left hand low, doing well on lag putts and used to be automatic on the short ones. So some of the fixes or thoughts here may help me.

scotts33

JMO but if you don't understand YOUR golf swing and know how to dissect it a bit you'll never be able to self fix when it goes off the rails and it will at some points or points. ☺ By that I mean general set up/structure which is 9 times out of 10 the culprit. We get so lazy thinking we use the same set up but it can get off so fast. It's why Nicklaus could self fix at a tourney site he'd call up Jack Grout they'd talk a bit and he'd self fix. Nicklaus didn't have a team nor do we. 😀

The best thing to come about in the last 20 years is the cell phone camera so easy to shoot down the line and side.

Sneakylong

My takeaway that I work on is similar to what Marcus Emblad advocates. I feel I pull the club back with my right (trail) hand / wrist / arm and then push down and under in the downswing. No pulling down. It’s basically a hockey shot move. Pull then push.

Btw, nice to see Marcus back. He was gone for several months fighting cancer. Like his simple approach to the golf swing.

rsvman2

Sneakylong That is actually a terrible start to the backswing.,imo. He says you want the club 'on the side of your body,' but you really don't; the club is always in front of your body. It seems like it is on the side because your body has turned.

Sneakylong

rsvman2

Yeah, he does an inside takeaway. I don’t think I get anywhere inside as he does. Nor do I get as high in the backswing.

But actually it’s a good move if you can swing down from the inside. And not come over the top. You have a better chance of hitting a draw.

The main point I was making is pulling the club back with your trail hand and pushing back down. Pulling down is a death move for me. His hockey slap shot is a perfect analogy.

My natural swing has me taking the club back slightly outside. So just taking it back slightly inside feels way inside to me.

Once again, no need to take the whole bottle of medicine. lol. With most golfers being too steep and outside / in, this can help with that.

I also feel my right hand lift the club up with a combination of radial deviation and extension in the right wrist. That’s the pull feel going back. Then that right wrist pushes down and under to smack the ball. 🏌️

sdandrea1

rsvman2

What's interesting is all the conflicting swing methods being demonstrated/taught on-line and in person. Instructors have all these moves that contradict other instructors' moves and yet yeild solid shots FOR THEM. There is no correct or incorrect swing method. There's apparently many ways to return the club to the ball in order to hit it solid and on the intended line/flight. I'm still looking for mine. I'm pretty happy off the tee and with chipping and putting, but man do I suck with full shots off the turf. I can score well enough but I'd sure like to strike it better.

garyt1957

rsvman2 He says you want the club 'on the side of your body,' but you really don't; the club is always in front of your body.

This actually set off a light bulb for me when I heard it. I'll have to watch it again but I don't think he said "you want the club off the side of your body" I think he said "you want to swing off the side of your body". Might be semantics but when I saw him demonstrate a light bulb went off in my head. Now, I've had so many golf swing light bulbs go off in my head I could light half the country so it may be nothing. But when I took a club in the yard and swinging half-3/4 speed and trying to "swing off the side of my body" I had a very nice in to out swing and the club was still in front of me. I'll be very interested to try this move on the course.

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