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So this spring I started playing after a few years off. All was going well. I actually started playing almost every day. Then about 1.5 months ago things started to slowly but surely go south quickly. I was had no idea what was going on. I would hit every shot off the heel and slice everything. Then shanks started to occur. It was really miserable as nothing felt good. Basically I was 100% miserable. At one point I figured a stronger grip was the solution. Wrong..... Standing too far from the ball. Wrong......

The correct solution:

For whatever reason I must of started the season correctly using my left hand as the dominate hand during the swing(I'm right handed). But as the season went on I apparently started attempting to muscle things with my right hand/arm. As I've read it explains everything because I was coming outside in and would see the results I was experiecing.

The last 3 days at the range everything has fallen into place. It's not perfect as I'm still re-learning but it's very very obvious what was going on now.

So I can't stress enough that the forward hand(left in my case being righty) really should be dominant in the backswing and downswing. As soon as I did this i started hitting the ball in the sweet spot again which is a beautiful sight. I couldn't hit 180 yards with the driver and I'm almost instantly back up to 225 and feel that I'll gain even more over time.

so the drills with only using your left hand/arm. Those in my opinion are very valuable and done for a reason. Hope this helps someone as I was becoming very frustrated.

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