[greyguy]

This is my second dose of tournament golf the past week and it wasn't pretty. I thought that the hitter motion would hold up better than the swingers in pressure situations. Apparantly not.

I seemed to do ok off the tee. Where I really sucked is my approach shots. Most were not solid and they tended to go left with hook spin.

But I found out some stuff as the round went on. I need to use extensor action to keep slack from developing in my backswing. I also had more success by shortening my backswing. It feels like I take the club 1/2 way back but but I'm sure goes back farther. This seems to makes it easier to compress the ball (eliminating lag loss and keeping the right wrist bend). It also goes straighter.

Does this make sense for someone who is new to hitting and still struggling to actually play successfully under some pressure?