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Have any single-digit players here ever just woken up in the morning, gotten ready for a round, and topped several balls in a row in the range, only to find that you can't shake it and top pretty much everything the whole day?  What do you do when this happens?  Have you ever gone several months without mis-hitting a ball, then suddenly you can't make contact?

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I have done this before but not quite as extreme. I make solid contact on most every shot but some days, maybe if I haven't played in a while, I will do something like that to 5 or 10 in a row on the range. I usually find that I was just rushing through my balls, and generally taking a few half and then 3/4 swings and finally back up to a full swing cures it.

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Its easy to get out of your swing and even top balls but if you practice enought and begin to understand the golf swing you will eliminate these bad shots from your game.

One simple visual drill that might help you is to draw a round circle on a piece of paper, then draw a horizontal line that is touching the bottom of the swing, now draw a golf ball when you think it should be in relations with the round circle or your golf swing.

Where do you think the ball is when you top the ball, so if you can visually see what is the proper ball position in relation with your golf swing you can now visualize what your back swing should be at to make solid contact.  Watch all the pros and their backswing from the ball and they are all the same.

Practice chipping and pitching focusing on your backswing and your take away and move up to the full swing.

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  bunkerputt said:
Originally Posted by bunkerputt

Have any single-digit players here ever just woken up in the morning, gotten ready for a round, and topped several balls in a row in the range, only to find that you can't shake it and top pretty much everything the whole day?  What do you do when this happens?  Have you ever gone several months without mis-hitting a ball, then suddenly you can't make contact?

Not really, no... I haven't been in the high single digits for awhile now, though, but when my ballstriking is off a little I simply begin shortening my motion until I can make good contact, then working back towards a fuller swing from there.

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Are you guys talking about the kind of topping someone does when they flip at it and catch the top of the ball on the upswing?  I'm talking about the kind where your weight is too much into your left side at impact and your low point is about a foot in front of the ball, so you either whiff it or the ball hits the trailing edge of the bottom of the club.  It just crams the ball into the ground and then it bounces straight up in the air.  If you try to stay back, it hits the ball as thin as you can get and the divot is really far in front of the ball.  I think I'm sliding too much here....

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I had a beauty yesterday with my 3 wood, left a nice gouge in the grass in front of the tee. Ball plopped in a swamp 15 yards in front of me. Next shot was a snipe that stayed about a foot off the ground for the first 30 yards then took off. Very weird.

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  jshots said:
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I have done this before but not quite as extreme. I make solid contact on most every shot but some days, maybe if I haven't played in a while, I will do something like that to 5 or 10 in a row on the range. I usually find that I was just rushing through my balls, and generally taking a few half and then 3/4 swings and finally back up to a full swing cures it.



That's the thing, I've been practicing a ton.  Everything was coming up golden.  Shots pure as silk.  I've been scoring a lot in the 70s, so my handicap was going down a ton.  Then on Sunday, it's like everything just fell apart.  I couldn't find the ball with the golf club to save my life.  I stopped trying because I didn't want to ruin my clubs.  The consistency was there, just extremely off.  Today at the range, same thing.  I tried chipping, but pretty much everything is jacked up.  I decided not to try putting so I wouldn't demoralize myself further.  It's like I've lost the sense for what my body is doing.  I feel like a silent observer to someone else swinging the club...  Time for a layoff?

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  bunkerputt said:
Originally Posted by bunkerputt

Are you guys talking about the kind of topping someone does when they flip at it and catch the top of the ball on the upswing?  I'm talking about the kind where your weight is too much into your left side at impact and your low point is about a foot in front of the ball, so you either whiff it or the ball hits the trailing edge of the bottom of the club.  It just crams the ball into the ground and then it bounces straight up in the air.  If you try to stay back, it hits the ball as thin as you can get and the divot is really far in front of the ball.  I think I'm sliding too much here....

This is the problem I have, my divots are starting too far in front of the ball, so my misses are "tops", or what I would really call a "thin" shot.  It's not flippy top on the upswing, but rather the bottom of the swing being too far out in front.  Be interested to see what people would respond to help fix and issue like this.

In mym ind, my hips and shoulders are out in front of the may hands/arms on the downswing, like my arms and hands are left behind and can't catch up in time, is this correct?

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Originally Posted by SpacklersEdge

This is the problem I have, my divots are starting too far in front of the ball, so my misses are "tops", or what I would really call a "thin" shot.  It's not flippy top on the upswing, but rather the bottom of the swing being too far out in front.  Be interested to see what people would respond to help fix and issue like this.

In mym ind, my hips and shoulders are out in front of the may hands/arms on the downswing, like my arms and hands are left behind and can't catch up in time, is this correct?


Push/slice it much?

You could try work with ball placement too

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