Tips for my swing!

Tony_Montana

Right i started playing golf about 10 years ago when i was 13! I played a bit and when i was 18 i was playing off 8 and well able to play off it! Usually shooting a couple over for d 18holes. I never got a lesson or even thought about my swing it just came naturally. I went to college for 3 years and only played d odd day in the year. Now im trying to get back into the game and i am now gone to shooting 18 over if i play well. It's so fustrating playing so bad compared to my normal standard. I am trying to sort out my swing so i can improve. Would really appreciate tips thanx

slumped

Tony_Montana wrote: »

Right i started playing golf about 10 years ago when i was 13! I played a bit and when i was 18 i was playing off 8 and well able to play off it! Usually shooting a couple over for d 18holes. I never got a lesson or even thought about my swing it just came naturally. I went to college for 3 years and only played d odd day in the year. Now im trying to get back into the game and i am now gone to shooting 18 over if i play well. It's so fustrating playing so bad compared to my normal standard. I am trying to sort out my swing so i can improve. Would really appreciate tips thanx

Have you a full length mirror you can practice in front of?

Check your swing in the mirror slowly and try to correct it your self.

S

Tony_Montana

Good idea . I got a tip that at the top of my backswing my right elbow should be pointing vertically to the floor! From the top of my backswing i seem to go wrong as i keep cutting right across the ball and pushing everything to the right. I just can't seem to get it right

Gegerty

...naked except for a pair of leopard skin Y-fronts Sorry couldn't resist Have you considered getting a lesson? A pro can take one look at your swing and tell you what you are doing wrong and what you need to do to correct it. Would only take one lesson then the rest is up to practice.

Tony_Montana

Hehe scary thoughts ! Ya i will defo have to go for a lesson, its gone so fustrating for me at the moment! Teeing off now at 4.50 in a fourball. Will see how it goes. I'm trying different swings, grips etc. nothings working at d mo

Kimbot

Is it only your driver your hitting to the right??

If so I found the following useful.

http://www.golfswinginfo.com/

seamy_orr

jonny24ie wrote: »

Is it only your driver your hitting to the right??

If so I found the following useful.

http://www.golfswinginfo.com/

Can you include a specific link to the material that you found useful on this site.
Thanks,
Heamish

Tony_Montana

Yeah mostly only driver thank will look into it

stockdam

I had a similar experience. I played off a low handicap when I was 16 or so then when I went to Uni I never had the time to get my game back.

Maybe it's about practice and maybe it's about technique. How often do you play. If it's less than once a week then you will struggle. I can only play about once per two or three weeks and have to accept that my game isn't what it was.

I didn't understand what you meant about coming across the ball and pushing it to the right. I guess you mean you slice/fade the ball. That's quite an easy thing to fix and a couple of lessons should sort it out.

Is your swing fast and loose? If so then you'd be better trying to slow way down and keeping it shorter.

To get down to 8 then you'll have to practice your short game more.

Tony_Montana

Ya i only get to play once a week, but for the summer i want to get back into it n play regularly. My chipping and 9iron upward shots are still good but everything else has gone drastically downhill! For my drives i sometimes drastically slice the ball, sometimes boomeranging the ball out of bounds. My rhytme has gone awfully wrong! Will have to practice, practice, practice

jampotjim

I am in the same boat..

I played of 2 until I was 21 and stopped playing, Am finally back playing and got afew lessons and am hitting the ball really well, putting is getting there but my pitching is a disgrace..

all my old bad habits have decided to infect my pitching which is leading to 20 yd pitches scurrying through greens etc.

Spent about 5 hours working on it at the w/end and still wasn't happy with it at all.. Got a lesson and going to spend the long w/end up in the Academy just working on my short game as I want to get back to playing off around 5 before the end of the summer.

Practise and lessons are a must when coming back IMO. If you didn't get lessons before your timing prob got you away with stuff as you prob played allot and got use to your swing faults where now you are coming back and not getting to play as much they are all starting to catch up.