Got to get back to my teacher!!!

[TN94z]

Here is the story, I started going to a teacher last year to help me get as close to scratch from a -4 as I could. I was well on my way, incorporating his swing changes rather quickly, practicing every day at the range, swinging in front of the mirror at home, playing every weekend,etc.....and I proceeded to get a little burnt out. So I have been taking some time off. Not I am starting to fire it back up and want to get back to my goals and really improve by next year so I can get back into the tournaments.

Well, the few times I have played this year there seems to be something wrong. I can't hit my driver (with the exception of 1 round) in the fairway at all! I used a friend's Iphone yesterday to video my swing. He has an editing software on there that was good enough to show me what I was doing. It was not pretty!!! I have fallen back into my original swing problems. At the top, I am way past parallel and way too flat. This in turn causes me to be in a bind at impact which results in my scooping and coming up on my toes. It was good that I found out what I was doing, but really frustrated me because I spent so much time getting rid of these changes. I really, really, really need to get back to my teacher and get this fixed. I can't play like this. My driver is really costing me some strokes right now. I can use my 3w off the tee, but as you can imagine, the swing is the same and ends with the same result, just not so exaggerated.

[RIduffer]

Thanks for the update.

[TN94z]

It is more of a vent for now. I started this thread so I can update once I get these things sorted out. I wanted to post up what drills/changes I do along the way to getting my swing back to where it was.

[TN94z]

I had another meeting with my teacher yesterday. It's getting back on track now. I am not swaying at all which I had the tendency to do and that caused major issues. I shortened my back swing a bit...well, it feels short to me but is actually right where it should be now. My key thought right now is to drop the right elbow on the downswing. This is a pretty common knowledge thing, but I had gotten out of doing it for whatever reason and it was also causing major issues. He says I am really close to having my swing where it needs to be. Once I get these things consistent, my handicap should start showing improvement. Then he wants to focus on my short game.

On a side note, I got my swing speed and what not measured yesterday (I thought I would throw this in with all of the distance talk going around). My driver swing speed averaged around 106.xx. My carry averaged around 245-247. My carry was actually longer than I thought. And that was with a smooth swing where I felt like I was backing off a bit. That just showed me that swinging hard throws me out of whack and I lose distance. Tempo is a big thing!!