Well, it started with the putting yips, then the chip yips, last year I added the driver yips. Couldn't even hit balls on the range for fear of killing either one of my members, a neighbor, or some poor soul having the bad luck of traveling down the highway adjacent to our second hole while I was letting it fly.
I quit golf last year.
Now I am back hitting balls, even with my members close enough to watch, playing, having fun again! All thanks to Mr. Kelley and the Golfing Machine, along with Yoda and folks here like you guys who have helped me learn...
Kevin
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I could be wrong. I have been before, and will be again.
Ted and I worked on this in my last lesson. At first I was not doing it correctly. I was actually moving the right elbow straight back while I was tracing the right forearm. After look at some pics on this site, I realized my right elbow needs to stay in a fixed position (or close to it) while the right forearm fans. This puts me in very good positions in the takeaway.
I then realized that I'm best off when my right elbow is nearby my rib cages. Here's some before and after pics of my swing at the top in just a 2 day span.
The top pic is with a 6-iron and the bottom pic is with an 8-iron. I hit the ball entirely better with the bottom pic type of backswing. Just fan the right forearm and keep the right elbow nearby the right rib cage.
Before I had to *think* to some level of what direction I wanted to take the club back. Now, I just let the right forearm fan and I'm off to a good start. It also makes me more keenly aware of the right elbow.
The big problem I also had with the top pic type of swing is that I would lose the sense of my right forearm flying wedge. For whatever reason, the bottom pic with the flatter swing plane I'm more aware of my right forearm flying wedge.
Here's a pic of my latest impact position.
It's not exactly great, but much better than it has been in a long time. And I actually have video of even better impact alignments, but I can't get the video to stop at the right time. And I still have a lot of work to do in other parts of the swing.
But the magic of the right forearm for me is that it is [Isimple[/i]. I don't have to think so much. Just fan the forearm and you're off to a good start. Combine that with making me more aware of my right side, I like where this is going.
It's getting there, slowly but surely. Ted and I have only had 4 lessons so far and the improvements have been mind blowing. We've only used the video camera in 2 of the lessons, but that's fine because it's easy to understand his instruction. However, I really value the camcorder after the lesson and I tape about every other practice range session, just to make sure that I'm doing what we went over or I'm pointed in the right direction and I'm not forming any new bad habits. Really speeds up the learning process.
After I stopped recording today, I was hitting the ball even better and really feeling that 'push' with the right hand, compressing the ball and hitting a more boring trajectory and not missing the sweetspot. What JOY! Wish I would've taped that last half hour of shots. Hopefully I can get out and play tomorrow and bring it to the course.
Well, it started with the putting yips, then the chip yips, last year I added the driver yips. Couldn't even hit balls on the range for fear of killing either one of my members, a neighbor, or some poor soul having the bad luck of traveling down the highway adjacent to our second hole while I was letting it fly.
I quit golf last year.
Now I am back hitting balls, even with my members close enough to watch, playing, having fun again! All thanks to Mr. Kelley and the Golfing Machine, along with Yoda and folks here like you guys who have helped me learn...
Kevin
Hey, that's good news. I think I'm going to give it a shot.
Remember, it's a 'hands controlled pivot' action. So essentially my conscious thought is to just fan the right forearm (or 'trace' the right forearm) and the pivot will more or less get started in the correct position.
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