Golf Lesson 10.05.2006

Since the drive was the one thing that kind of let me down at Friday's tornament in Erlen I asked Brian to spend some time on this part of the game.

I can tell you right now that it wasn't pretty; the driver is the most difficult club to hit, and swinging it revealed many of my weaknesses.

First off, I still have the tendency to open up my hands and open the club way up. I'm also keeping to a very flat plain, which is no good, I'll have to work on getting more height on the back swing. For now I'll be working on a two-part take-away, first turn and around to club parallell to the ground (keep the hands straight, no turning away and out) -should have room at this stage, and then up (reach for the sky). Then just whack it - I've also been trying to control the club coming through, which resulted in far too slow an attack. So - just whack it may just be the right thought.

I told you it wasn't pretty... And there is more. Too much lateral movement. Stay behind the ball. Head tilted right, if anything, definitely not left. Avoid pushing. No milking the club; related to my tendency to open up the club on the backswing; keep left thumb almost straight down on the grip, hold on to the club with the pinky and ring finger of the left hand. Relax the right elbow upon address, and keep relaxed through backswing. Should point downwards on top of the backswing.

10'000 to 20'000 balls should do it...