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It's the first time in two years, so yesterday I went to the driving range.
Now, what you need to know about me is that I'm a terrible golfer. I shoot about 120 on 18 holes. The worst problem I have is an enormous slice. I'm talking about a ball that often ends up going 90 degrees to the original direction of travel.
So yesterday I decided that I was just going to change things about my swing until it started working better. I changed my distance from the ball, how far forward on the ball I was, how flexed my knees were, etc.
All had some small impact on distance and direction. The big change happened when I straightened up my left arm (I shoot right handed) almost completely. The first shot I hit went perfectly straight. It was like a miracle to me. The next 10 balls I hit all went perfectly straight too. And I was plugging them 210-225 in the air. They might have run farther, but this driving range only went out to 225, so I was hitting the backstop, sometimes before hitting the ground.
I proceeded to hit another 2 buckets, and every club I hit with (driver, 3 wood, 3 iron, 7 iron) was the same thing. Whether the ball was teed up or on the "grass" I was ****ing killing them in a perfectly straight line down the range. I ****ed up maybe 5% of the shots.
I swear that if I can hit like this on the course I'm going to drop 20 strokes off my game and play under 100 for the first time in my life.
Now, what you need to know about me is that I'm a terrible golfer. I shoot about 120 on 18 holes. The worst problem I have is an enormous slice. I'm talking about a ball that often ends up going 90 degrees to the original direction of travel.
So yesterday I decided that I was just going to change things about my swing until it started working better. I changed my distance from the ball, how far forward on the ball I was, how flexed my knees were, etc.
All had some small impact on distance and direction. The big change happened when I straightened up my left arm (I shoot right handed) almost completely. The first shot I hit went perfectly straight. It was like a miracle to me. The next 10 balls I hit all went perfectly straight too. And I was plugging them 210-225 in the air. They might have run farther, but this driving range only went out to 225, so I was hitting the backstop, sometimes before hitting the ground.
I proceeded to hit another 2 buckets, and every club I hit with (driver, 3 wood, 3 iron, 7 iron) was the same thing. Whether the ball was teed up or on the "grass" I was ****ing killing them in a perfectly straight line down the range. I ****ed up maybe 5% of the shots.
I swear that if I can hit like this on the course I'm going to drop 20 strokes off my game and play under 100 for the first time in my life.
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