My Swing (yupintherough)

Thanks for taking a peek, everyone. Just started out on my golf journey, and I'm looking to get better! As I said in my "Member Intro" post - I'm better than I'd feared, and worse than I'd hoped! I'm also looking to change all of that with some concentrated practice and hope to find a good instructor in the Boston area to help out every week or two for the first few months - if anyone has a suggestion for someone, fire away! I'm in the city, but do keep a car - so traveling about is always an option, although closer is easier. Anyhow, the meat of this post now that I've screwed up the courage to figure out some filming basics (not the best yet, I can do better - bear with me!). Boy, y'all are right, feel ain't real!

Thanks & cheers

I've been Playing Golf for: About 1 month!

My current handicap index or average score is: 30.4 (local club provides GHIN #)

My typical ball flight is: Random! Usually not terrible but not reliable

The shot I hate or the "miss" I'm trying to reduce/eliminate is: Slice and/or topped shot

Videos:

Ha! That's a bit of OCD on my part, making sure that I can distract you from the slightly-off camera angles and overly-blurry DTL footage... I swear I'll get better at that! Good point about the stance width; I've noticed my habit is now getting to be "too narrow" perhaps: one of the first drills I had success with was the "feet together" drill to minimize my awful sway (I could feel it, so it must have looked like I was an extra from "The Perfect Storm" or something: gale winds and a heaving deck!). I've probably ingrained that too much. Thanks for the pointer!

Ok, so it's been about a month of being too busy to spend as much time as I'd want on this game... but have been playing/practicing and really enjoying it. I haven't updated this thread obviously, so when I remembered that at the range, I had just enough juice to grab one video. I know it doesn't follow any of the best-practices, but posting is mostly a way to make sure that I keep plugging along and trying to make improvements!

Thanks for encouragement! Feels like I'm making some progress, that swing at least is getting the ball up in the air and down the range/fairway a lot farther and more reliably than my first swings ever were (shocking, I know). And I think you're right about the next priority - I'm not moving all over anymore, but man, could I look MORE like the example in the 5SK video of the guy who "fakes it" with weight forward? I should model for that!

Appreciate you pointing that out. It's like so many things you get a blind spot on: it feels like I'm doing it, so I must be, right? NO. Nonononononono. Not even close. I'll be heading to the range in a bit, and that's absolutely the piece I'll try to work on next to see how it feels going slow & steady.

Thanks again!

Ok, doesn't look much better (and I apologize for the slightly off angle; hard to steal a proper spot for the camera without interfering with a grass bay!), but was feeling some improvement. Still not moving my weight enough, but again, it's a good thought, and I think I had more of it today even though I didn't capture that. Certainly has a better result of more distance + higher trajectory when I can do it. I didn't have a ball to step on, but I was using a stick jammed into the grass a few inches from my left hip as a "target": that was a useful swing thought. Also been trying to start the downswing with the weight transfer; when I get lazy, it's clearly all arms. Grrrr. Can't wait for real lessons to begin soon!

Looks like you are making good progress.