My Swing (saevel25)

[iacas]

3 hours ago, saevel25 said:

Worked on some distance wedge work today. Spent most of the time just trying to hit the same launch angle. It is all over the place. Either I overdo it and flight things down to like sub 25 degrees (for a 60 degree wedge), I hit my 30 to 35 degree window, or I just let out all the wrist angle and hit 45 degrees. Let's just say it is very annoying. The random shank decides to show up, yay!

28° or so is good for a LW. Ideally not 30-35°. What balls were you using?

[saevel25]

2 hours ago, iacas said:

28° or so is good for a LW. Ideally not 30-35°. What balls were you using?

Brand new Bridgestone Tour B XS. 

 

[iacas]

10 hours ago, saevel25 said:

Brand new Bridgestone Tour B XS. 

Okay, then yeah, they should be launching at a consistent height. I figured you knew better than to judge it based one even decent range balls.

[saevel25]

This is feeling like the club is at P2. To get lower launch angles I have to feel like I’m dragging my hands through impact just delofting the crap out of the club. 

This is trying to stop at P2.5. The consistency in launch angle gets worse. Contact gets worse.

 

trying to go P3, things get more volatile. The more I increase my swing length the more I can’t lower the dynamic loft. 

Edit: these are with my 56 degree. 

Edited June 1 by saevel25

[GolfLug]

Is that your new toy? The LM..

[iacas]

1 hour ago, GolfLug said:

Is that your new toy? The LM..

He's borrowing my Garmin R50.

[saevel25]

Good range session.

Key points

1. Controlling my left knee better.
2. shorter backswing
3. wrist flex

I still need to get better at turning while doing wrist flex stuff and the lead leg straightening.

Trying to do two things at once is tricky.

[saevel25]

Threw my last 9 holes into the Shot Pattern App (negative bad)
Driving: -3.2, Approach: -0.6, Short: -4.5, Putting: -0.1

1. Good it matches my post round assessment. My intuition was pretty spot on.
2. I need to get a few range sessions in on the tee shots. Too long, too much right-side bend. 
3. I need to pivot better on my short game shots. Lots of flipping. 

 

[saevel25]

Went up to Erie to clean up some stuff with the distance wedges, short game, and driver.

 

Distance Wedges

1. Ball forward in stance. Less handle high at set up. Weight more in balls of feet (feels like more in the toes). 
2. Clubhead travels more up than around. Less arm and more pivot turn. Weight/pressure stays on lead foot. 
3. Pivot around left leg. Center of chest goes forward and up. Not back and down.
4. Hands move down not out, so clubhead can move from the inside out (gets neural path). Don’t pull hands down which causes out to in path and hosel out at ball.
5. A bit of wrist flexion. Though better path and pivot will help this. 

Short Game

1. Similar to this wedges, ball is forward, except hands are higher at setup.
2. Pivot with torso, keeping weight forward.
3. Gravity brings the club back down to the ball. Body just pivot so the center goes forward and up, not back and down.
4. Be patient on the transition and downswing. Let gravity take over. 

Driver

1. Feel like hands are slowing down at A2. Fast early and put on the brakes. Stay wide with right elbow. 
2. Arms travel down chest, wrist flexion. Send the 10-deg text on the driver at the ground at 45 degree angle to target line. 
3. Wrist flexion should feel like it continues through impact with hands and club exiting out right. Don’t drag hands across body and exit left. 

 

 

[saevel25]

God I hate when golf can’t give me n+1 day of success. Drives me up the wall when my body is, FU!

Im like, ok let’s check the vid. Yep too much turn, arms getting behind me. Ok, I work on that. Get the feel back for a shorter swing. Confirm with video. Then going back to arms down stuff. 

Arms down, nope it’s hands out towards the ball. Oh, you get arms down better. Guess what, you don’t get to rotate and you hit 6 inches behind the ball. Yay! 

Maybe I should have walked off the range and not wasted my time. I wish there was a body alert system when it’s going to a SOB for the day. 😭

OK rant over, I’ll be back at this tomorrow. 

 

[saevel25]

On 6/9/2026 at 6:25 PM, saevel25 said:

OK rant over, I’ll be back at this tomorrow. 

Ok, I'm trying to find a feel to hit a consistent ball flight (irons). 

My current predicament. 

1. I try to do the arms down stuff better, with the club feeling like it is way behind me more. It's just a cluster of results. Most of the time, I can't get any speed on the swing. If I get my arms down faster, I just throw them out. 

2. I focus all my attention on turning better. Pushing off with my left leg and getting my right side through better. On the DTL view, this doesn't produce anywhere close where the hands and club should be. The result is usually ball first contact, lower ball flight, more centered contact. 

At this point, I am going with option 2. Stop thinking about what the hands do. Just make a shorter backswing, keep it wide, turn through. Somehow, the club head finds the ball. My focus is so much on just making sure I turn, it's like, "Oh, that contact was better.... Oh, that bell flight looks playable." If not, I will just be practicing my entire summer. 

 

 

 

[iacas]

I mean… play pull cuts all summer, and work on it over the winter, yeah.

[saevel25]

9 hours ago, iacas said:

I mean… play pull cuts all summer, and work on it over the winter, yeah.

Yea, it's just mostly figuring out how to do that consistently. I haven't spent much time just working on a course swing. 

Like I mentioned in another thread, I have to stop using playing just going through practice routines. Yesterday was just, ok how do I stop having all these mishits. Some days its fine, some days its bad. Most days it's something I can't do at full swing 70%+ swing speed. 

Just owning what I have now. 

[saevel25]

Driver might be out of the bag indefinitely. All I got for success on camera and ball flight is like 50% swing speed. Anything more and it’s all over the place and strike is all over the clubface. 

I got no athleticism/flow right now with what I want to do. It’s too dangerous for me because the swing will just get too long and unstable at P4. It’s very robotic feeling right now. 

Edited 21 hours ago by saevel25

[saevel25]

So, something I noticed yesterday at the range. My eyes and visualization of what the ball needs to do is way off. I put up an alignment stick about 10 yards down range. My initial thought was, "Oh crap". Even while wearing prescription sunglasses, and I know I am hitting it towards the sun, I couldn't pick up where the ball was at all. 

[iacas]

3 hours ago, saevel25 said:

So, something I noticed yesterday at the range. My eyes and visualization of what the ball needs to do is way off. I put up an alignment stick about 10 yards down range. My initial thought was, "Oh crap". Even while wearing prescription sunglasses, and I know I am hitting it towards the sun, I couldn't pick up where the ball was at all. 

What's the rest of that story? Where was the ball going?

[saevel25]

38 minutes ago, iacas said:

What's the rest of that story? Where was the ball going?

Mostly pull cuts to slices. Some random pull draw/hooks pending of I hit the toe.