My self correcting miracle blister

[jshots]

If you haven't gathered from my multiple other posts today I want to tell you that I shot my lowest ever round today 77 and I didn't use my driver. The difference for me today was keeping my tee shots in play and hitting straight long iron shots. I hit 12 greens in regulation (too bad I didn't make more putts).

The reason I was able to keep my long shots straight today was because of my self correcting miracle blister that taught me how to keep my wrist solid and flat in my backswing. I've been so infuriated by my lack of ability to shoot in the 70s  that i've been pounding balls at the range non stop for the past week and developed a nasty nasty blister on my left thumb. I am almost 100% sure that I got the blister because I didn't have solid wrists at the top of my back swing with my long irons and I would bend them so much that I was pinching my left thumb between the club and my right palm way too much. (put your hands in to your golf grip and bend your wrists a ton and you will see what I mean)

Today the blister was bad, and when I got to that point where I was bending my wrists too much, It would hurt like hell, hence the self correcting miracle blister. It forced me to keep my wrists solid at the top of my back swing so that it wouldn't hurt.

Thought I would share my awesome story.

[Grumpter]

Congrats on your lowest score. Hope you really did find your miracle cure but in my experience the little adjustment I make one day may not be repeatable in my next rounds. Just today I shot 10 over on my first 11 hole and then on the 12th I adjusted to an "old man" tee swing and shot 2 over on the last 7 holes. Hopefully I can keep repeating the "old man" tee shot in subsequent rounds.