Frustrated
Just had to vent out some frustration with my swing this morning over IM with Chris. He listened politely which was nice. I’ve had this same chat with Andrea, too. I’ve been constantly tweaking and changing my swing. I’ve known since the beginning that constant tweaking isn’t constructive. But I found some videos from last year (Oct and Nov) where I had a really nice swing. From a technical perspective, I was putting myself in good positions. I was making a good turn and I was makign a good shift. I was even dropping the club down where it needs to be on the downswing.
I was practicing a lot, but I wasn’t playing. And so I’d go out and play, not have a consistent round, and believe it was because of a fundamental issue with my swing. Now my swing wasn’t perfect, but I shouldn’t have abandoned good work just because I played one time that month and didn’t play well. I should’ve played more, continued to work on the swing, but stayed on the right path.
I played a good couple of days in a row in FLorida after making a big change to my swing. It was great. But I went home and didn’t play, so I thought I needed to change. I thought my head moved off the ball too much on the backswing and so I tweaked my shoulder turn. I thought I needed to drop the club into the slot so to speak, so I worked on elbow abduction. I thought my backswing was too flat and inside, but it was just my hands, not the shoulder turn. I shouldn’t have abandoned one thing just because I thought it was another. Thats all fine. But you know what, Kane….. go back to what you were doing before, ingrain that and stop changing.
Shoulder turn with the felling of getting over my right foot – which creates a nice brace against the right leg. Bump the left hip left and pump the hands down toward the ball. This will keep the right hip from firing up and the right foot coming up off the ground. The pump will keep me connected and driving inside out. And go back to the grip you had, seriously, you changed your grip! Why?
UPDATE: After getting back to the shoulder turn and swing of last November, I’m going to try to go a month without a fundamental change to my swing.
