Ever lose your swing?

[kleraudio]

Has this ever happened to anyone?

I shot the best golf of my life last weekend, a 41 on the front 9 of a long and hard course Ive never played.

I go to the range today just to hit some balls, and I hit like 2 solid shots out of 40 balls....

Hit em fat, chunked em, etc...

Has this ever happened to you? Im really worried I just lost my game.

Jim

[EGS]

This happens to everyone. What separates decent golfers from the excellent ones is the ability to adjust and fix your swing when this type of problem occurs.

When this happens to me once, I laugh it off, and try and relax and slow down on the next shot. If it happens twice, then I begin to get concerned. My best advice is step away from the ball for a minute or so and watch some other swings and try to evaluate why you missed, no matter how obvious it was. Step back up, take a good practice swing and have at it. The worst thing you can do is start hitting rapid fire until you hit a good shot. Take your time and try and evaluate and then correct the problem.

[zeg]

For me a better question is, "Did you ever find your swing?"

But, the other day on the course, I lost my driver swing (or what I ever had of it, anyway) completely. Through the 7th, my drives were good by my standards. Then on the 8th I literally couldn't get the ball off the teeing ground. I guess I had it teed up to high and was swinging down too much (at least, that was the verdict in the thread I started about it), but there wasn't a conscious change from the previous 7 holes. Suddenly I was just unable to put the club head where my mind was aiming it. Strange, strange thing. Open question whether the swing comes back-- I haven't been back out (was only a 9 hole round, and I bailed on the 9th when I ran into the same problem again... couldn't take frustration after carding something like a 16 on a hole, with only 3 or 4 strokes outside the teeing ground).

[CG031]

Yes. It started this past Saturday. I still shot an 83 but I think I hit about 5 balls solid all day. My short game was very good, though.

I still haven't gotten it back. Each day I go to the range I can't figure it out. Whenever I do hit it solid, it's a push fade. I seem to have developed a slight Over the top move, not sure how, but it has happened.

Time to go to work. :(

[Sir Ryan]

Yessir... I just got mine back. I still had my short game, and I think it's easier to keep your short game since it's a field of feel. Then again if you have poor feel, it could be easy to lose your short game...

[c4m]

yea.. take a few days off and see if that helps usually does for me.
except about 3 weeks ago I completely lost my driver swing. was hitting nothing but 180 yard duck hooks. just tried to simplify my swing by thinking of just turning away, turning through.. worked like a charm and ive finally got my swing back

[bpdulog]

The golf swing is a strange creature. Even though everything may feel the same and you think you are swinging the same way, it is quite the opposite. It happens to all of us.

[tm22721]

Due to the swing's complexity when you lose one small element the entire sequence is lost much akin to a burnt out bulb on a Xmas tree the entire string is out.

That's why I have changed from a swinger to a hitter and reduced my backswing to 4:30 inside approach at club parallel. Short and sweet but same distance. Maximum ball compression because of maximizing PP4 with an angled hinge body release. Pronated left forearm clubhead is wide open starting down. Tight shot dispersion, in fact it takes a lot of effort to shape a shot now. Upper arms glued to body throughout. Swing from the elbows, not the shoulders. Minimize swing travel and number of moving parts. High consistency - out of a bucket of 30 balls only two not compressed due to tempo speeding up in hot weather.

[soloredd]

Well, I don't know all the technical jargon like the above poster but... :)

Last weekend, I made a post on here about something similar. I shot a 40 on the front 9, best start of my life. Tee shot on 10th was nice and far, had about 145 to green. Lost it. I shanked my 8 iron, went about 10 yards to the right. From that point on it was down hill, 60 on the back.

I've lost my swing on the range, too, but I usually get through that by just hitting more balls until it fixes. Much different than losing it during a round.

[enduro]

Its good to have a handful of drills you can go back to so you can key it again. This happens to everyone. Try and find some drills to put you back on path.

Also, make note of what the problem was. There's a chance it will happen again. It seems so obvious when you figure it out, but for some reason it isn't easy to figure out.

[sean_miller]

  tm22721 said:

Due to the swing's complexity when you lose one small element the entire sequence is lost much akin to a burnt out bulb on a Xmas tree the entire string is out.

That all seems fairly straightforward. Of course if I visualize this swing, the player is wearing flippers, a snorkel, and swinging a novelty inflable driver.

[tm22721]

  sean_miller said:

That all seems fairly straightforward. Of course if I visualize this swing, the player is wearing flippers, a snorkel, and swinging a novelty inflable driver.

It sounds complex but it's much simpler than swinging for me. Most of it is straight from TGM and from 9:00 to 3:00 very close to Hogan, Snead and Player.

[kleraudio]

  tm22721 said:

out of a bucket of 30 balls only two not compressed due to tempo speeding up in hot weather.

What do you mean by tempo speeding up in hot weather?? I had a strong feeling that my tempo was way too fast, which is why I was chunking shots, it was a solid 105 with the heat index yesterday...

Please elaborate on that... To everyone, thanks for the tips, happy im not the only one and my swing WILL come back! Jim

[Dr_Fu_Manchu]

Lost it today. My irons were the strongest part of my game, but today I couldn't hit an approach to save my life. Ended up shooting an embarrassing 103 (72.6/135). While my playing partners all shot in the 80's....ouch! How embarrassing.

Here's hoping that is shows back up tomorrow.

[c4m]

yea after shooting a 4 over front 9 the other day, played the same 9 holes, didnt get better than a bogey all day, hit 1 pure shot the whole day.. just when you think youve got it figured out, this game slaps you in the face

[Yukari]

A friend of mine once said that golf is like a woman. If you pay too much attention, she'll leave you. If you don't pay enough attention, she'll also leave you. Bottom line: she'll leave you no matter what you do.

[GaijinGolfer]

It happens to me every now and then. It happened to me last Tuesday actually. I just chalk it up as a bad ballstriking day and move on.
You are going to have your good days and your not so good days (IMO, there is no such thing as a "bad day" when you are out on a golf course).
The key is to put it out of your mind, trust your swing and keep a positive attitude.
The worst thing you can do is try to analyze your swing after every bad shot. That will fill your head full of so many swing thoughts that it will make things even worse.

[Dub]

  kleraudio said:

Has this ever happened to anyone?

I'll bet that tough course had your full and undivided attention. You were probably really thinking about the targets and less about swing mechanics.