My Swing (billchao)

[billchao]

Little bit of practice today. Nothing major, just a bit of work on the clubhead at A4. Feel is the backswing is all shoulder turn while keeping the club in front of me.

 

Not working on anything in particular beyond that. Club was across the line pretty hard when I first started. Haven't kept up with the stuff I was doing earlier in the year. I honestly think I liked the swing from March better. Not going to worry about it now, since I'll have new stuff to work on soon.

I actually meant to map out shot zones with my Mevo+ today because I feel like I've lost some of my distance control on the course but I forgot to charge it so it didn't happen. I worked on short game stuff, instead.

Standard release 2 pitch to no particular distance. I apparently have no concept of how far the club goes back because I swore that was parallel, but it's clearly not. It's not even to parallel in the practice swing.

A throwback to an old challenge:

Messing around for fun:

 

[JetFan1983]

Good stuff. Could be the camera angle but from DTL your shoulders appear to be a bit too open at address, unless that's by design and you're trying to play fades or something. Otherwise tho, maybe a bad habit is creeping in there and you should square those up some?

Again, I could be wrong about this camera angle, but maybe consider squaring up the shoulders and softening the right arm a bit here as well? 

[iacas]

It’s almost entirely camera. Look at the grout line.

[JetFan1983]

10 minutes ago, iacas said:

It’s almost entirely camera. Look at the grout line.

True, good point. 

[billchao]

2 hours ago, JetFan1983 said:

Good stuff. Could be the camera angle but from DTL your shoulders appear to be a bit too open at address, unless that's by design and you're trying to play fades or something.

Yea, it’s not perfect. It’s kind of hard for me to set up the camera because it’s right up against the fence so it is what it is.

I do play a fade though, except when I draw it 😉

[billchao]

Had a bunch of different things come up one after another that really limited my time and ability to practice, but got some in today:

 

I'm striking the ball pretty solidly, minus the occasional toe shank. As far as my priority piece goes, I'm doing the shift, back and up part pretty well, but the forward thing escapes me. I'm going to have to keep working at it slowly and in parts. It may have to be a timing thing for now. The downswing part works for me because it's just swing my arms down really fast because my lower body outraces my upper body.

I'm not going to sit here and pick it apart piece by piece. There are things I'm doing well and things I'm not. Overall I'm pretty happy with how it looks currently considering I've basically been doing only mirror work and playing for the past three weeks.

I also did some stuff on the Mevo+ just to get an idea of how I'm hitting the ball and needless to say, it's kind of all over the place:

I don't know what the heck is going on with that 9 iron. PW was solid, 8 iron was solid, 9 iron was all over the place. I started with 7 iron and then worked my way up the bag from short to long and that might have been a mistake. I was pretty tired by the time I was hitting the 6 iron.

[iacas]

Those look good.

[Coach Whitty]

What is your current most common shot shape?

[woodzie264]

I’ve always loved your swing - looks awesome. You need to update your HCP…no way with your swing and your Mevo distribution that you’re a 17-18!

            -swing envy 

[billchao]

2 hours ago, Coach Whitty said:

What is your current most common shot shape?

High draw.

56 minutes ago, woodzie264 said:

I’ve always loved your swing - looks awesome. You need to update your HCP…no way with your swing and your Mevo distribution that you’re a 17-18!

            -swing envy 

Oh yea I haven’t updated it in a while. Let’s see…

I fixed it, you happy now? 😜

[klineka]

Still is so shocking to me that a swing that looks like that results in a 16.9hcp.

If I had to guess based on the swing I'd easily guess 10 strokes lower than that.

[billchao]

18 minutes ago, klineka said:

Still is so shocking to me that a swing that looks like that results in a 16.9hcp.

If I had to guess based on the swing I'd easily guess 10 strokes lower than that.

Yea I hear that a lot. The macro stuff in my swing is pretty good, and has been for a while. The micro stuff is what causes me significant problems. I’m the exact opposite of someone who scores well despite having an ugly swing. That, and I have pretty good swing speed, so my misses are just bigger than most. Bigger misses and more often isn’t a recipe for good golf.

And I can’t hole putts from three to ten feet. Or get out of bunkers. The list goes on.

[billchao]

 

It's been a while since I practiced. Injuries compounded last year and I could play but I didn't want to make anything worse with repetitive stress so I shut down practicing basically in early summer. Just kind of getting back into things now and I'm not surprised to see I've regressed a bit. Hitting the ball well enough to get 8 GIR yesterday but the misses can be really bad - tops and toe shanks. Just settled right back into the constant problem areas in my swing, mainly the wrists/club position at A4 and not recentering properly. Going to focus on getting solid contact consistently back before anything else.

[ChetlovesMer]

9 hours ago, billchao said:

It's been a while since I practiced. Injuries compounded last year and I could play but I didn't want to make anything worse with repetitive stress so I shut down practicing basically in early summer. 

Good to hear you are back out there. 8 GIR's doesn't suck. To my untrained eye your swing looks pretty much how I remember it. So, I'd be surprised if you loose too much ground. 

BTW - You probably got injured because you were too jacked. .... 

Edited Tuesday at 10:29 AM by ChetlovesMer
type-o

[billchao]

4 hours ago, ChetlovesMer said:

Good to hear you are back out there. 8 GIR's doesn't suck. To my untrained eye your swing looks pretty much how I remember it. So, I'd be surprised if you loose too much ground. 

Yea it doesn’t suck. I didn’t score well but most of it came down to short game and putting. I had 3 holes I can directly blame bad long game shots on.

4 hours ago, ChetlovesMer said:

BTW - You probably got injured because you were too jacked. .... 

I’m just trying to hedge my bets. If I don’t make it as a professional golfer, I could be a fitness model as a backup plan.