Break through on my lessons today, finally

[Bullitt5339]

After struggling with my irons for the past few months, today during my weekly lessons, it finally clicked somehow. I don't know what I was doing wrong, but all of a sudden, I'm hitting the ball much better. Not perfect, but a lot better than before. My instructor had me bring 2 irons, my 9 iron and my 6 iron. The 9 iron I've always been able to hit fairly decently, but have struggled with my 4-6. The only real change we made to my swing in the past couple lessons is making more of a shoulder turn on the backswing, and narrowing my stance quite a bit. For some reason, everything came together today on the range. My 9 iron, which has always been my 130 yard club turned into 140-145 yards, and I felt like I was swinging much easier than normal. The instructor said I wasn't swinging any easier, it was just that my tempo was getting so much better that the swing is starting to feel effortless to me. I have to agree.

The best thing I've done for my game was switch instructors last month. Since I switched instructors, I'm 50% in the high 80's, worst round has been a 94 when it seemed nothing was working, but went out the next day and shot a 87. It just seems this guy knows the right thing to say to make me understand what I'm doing wrong and how to fix it. He notices things that were never even mentioned to me before now, and they're relatively easy fixes, like my stance being too wide, and I needed to be a bit more upright. Those were easy fixes that made immediate improvement to my swing, but in the 8 months with my other instructor, he never once mentioned it.

I'm going to go practice tomorrow during lunch, and play on Thursday and see if I'm successful at taking these changes out on the course.