It Happened

My driving finnally cost me the .1 so I'm now 13.5. Playing off 14.

It is just getting worse and worse. I've managed to book a lesson with my coach tomorrow to try to sort this out.

I spent quite a bit of time last week working on this and thought I'd got a drive that was at least usable. But no. Played Sat and shot 94, then a 93 in the comp on Sun. All basically down to the fact I sliced pretty much everything.

The trouble is it's now starting to leak into my irons as well. It just feels like the swing I have on the course isn't the same as on the range.

I couldn't even make a good practice swing with my driver. It just felt I was going to slice it, and so i did.

Going up the range again tonight to work on it again.

Need to get something working before the end of the week as I'm heading off to Vegas and Scottsdale and want to get a few rounds in whilst I'm out there. Not sure I want to based on my current form.

I guess I should post an updated handicap graph. But I don't reall want to.

Driving - Bad to Worse

Just got back from another horrendous round. I won't go into too many details but shot 99, at least I kept it under 100 I suppose.

Driving still awful, but better than yesterday, hit a couple more fairways. Trouble is now it's starting to leak into the rest of my game. My usually solid irons and wedges deserted me at times, but my putter is still ok. I had quadruple, quintuple and sextuple boogies.

And to make things even more ridiculous I birdied one of the hardest holes on the course. The Par 3 17th. 180y into a 2 club wind. Nailed a 3h to 3ft of the pin.

I sorted out my driving a little. I think I'be been standing too close to the ball which has got me swinging out to in. So stood a little further back and that seemed to help a bit. Even hit a couple of draws. But that doesn't explain why I hit em straight in the range and not on the course.

I'm going to try to seem my coach in the week and see what he says because this is insane. Shoot 77 only 2 weeks ago and now back shooting in the 90's.

Just Been Googling

Looking for some mental exercise to help with my driving problems and found this singlemindedgolf.

Tried it out for a few mins just sitting here and the feeling part works ok. It look like it's based on NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) which I've studied a bit.

You can use it to change they way you feel about situations. I don't know why I hadn't though of trying NLP before. I used this in the past to get over a continues problem I had on our 3rd hole where I constantly sliced it into the water.

I used a similar visualisation trigger technique to get rid of my 'fear' of slicing it into the water.

I might see if I can get 18 in tomorrow, if the other half will let me, and try it out.

Here's hoping.

More Driving Woes

I played 18 last night by myself and another 18 this morning with my usual 3-ball and too be quite frank my driving is shocking.

Putting - OK
Chipping and pitching - OK
Irons - Good
Hybrid and 3 Wood - Good
Driver - Shockingly Bad

Basically everything turn right at the tee. Either a push slice or a straight slice.

Yesterday was quite bad, today was absolutely unreal. Slice after slice, after slice. I think I managed to hit 1, maybe 2 fairways.

I'm just not squaring up the club face and holding it open. I know I'm doing it I can feel it in my swing. I'm just not getting the club head through the ball. And I just couldn't get myself to commit to the shot.

So, after today's round, grabbed 25 balls on the range. Wind right in the face. Guess what, 22 went right down the middle with just a hint of fade. Sliced 1 and pulled 2.

This is driving me freaking nuts (no pun intended). It's obviously not my swing, it's in my head. For some reason when I'm on the course I just can't get myself to commit to the swing.

And that's a major issue. if it was my swing, I can work on it on the range. Because it's in my head, I'm going to have to find some mental drill to use on the course.

Or I'm just going to have to play through it until I get my confidence back.