Stop missing left

[Espo99]

I have played for about seven years. I got down to 11 in the first years. Back then I had real solid iron shots with long distance and straight all the time. My treewood worked perfect.My misses was slice with driver, but not that often. Golf felt like an easy game and I was aiming for 5. Over the last five years much have happend, but not with my score. I started to hit heal shots, change my cobra blades to Cobra S3 to get more stable. However the last five year my irons have nerver been stable for more than a month at times. 

I hav also been fighting with my driver. The slices are long gone instead it have been about solving hooking problem. Snaphooks, duck hooks and super high pull hooks. This year my driver have worked very well. Aiming a bit right and some weight on the inside of right heel and have the head behind the ball at the stilen giving my 300 straight yards. My misses are 250y slight hook, but only happens when there is tight out of bounds right.

My irons is a complete different story. I can hit some great straight shots and also power draw shots. But i also overdraw, snaphook, hook, pull and sometimes shank it. I nerver fade or slice. I have played 1000s of shots at the range to try find a solution, but dont succed. I also hook my fairwaywoods now days.

I sure I play my swing inside out and with a pretty strong grip. I have not changed this because the driver woorks so good and because I still hit the irons very nice  evey now and then, but maybe I will have to make changes hear?      

[saevel25]

1 hour ago, Espo99 said:

I sure I play my swing inside out and with a pretty strong grip. I have not changed this because the driver woorks so good and because I still hit the irons very nice  evey now and then, but maybe I will have to make changes hear?      

First, welcome to thesandtrap!

It is hard to say what exactly is going wrong. It could be something simple, or it could be something that might take you time to figure out.

I recommend starting a My Swing thread here,

https://thesandtrap.com/forums/forum/13-member-swings/

Here is a good article on guidelines on video taping your swing,

https://thesandtrap.com/b/playing_tips/filming_your_swing

 

[Valleygolfer]

"Treewoods" are always tough to hit.... 

Welcome here. I was just researching this today since I have been having a similar situation.  Here's a link that could help.

https://thesandtrap.com/forums/topic/26306-too-much-draw/

[Espo99]

I guess i could try learn playing with neutral grip, but I would not like take a risk messing up my driver when i works better then ever. I wonder if its realistic to belive in playing different grip with driver vs the rest of the clubs, men continue playing my strong grip with driver and change to a more neutral grip on the rest of the clubs.

[Shindig]

37 minutes ago, Espo99 said:

I guess i could try learn playing with neutral grip, but I would not like take a risk messing up my driver when i works better then ever. I wonder if its realistic to belive in playing different grip with driver vs the rest of the clubs, men continue playing my strong grip with driver and change to a more neutral grip on the rest of the clubs.

It could also be an issue with stance or setup for the driver versus the other clubs.  I was hitting my driver solidly and then suddenly pop ups.  One of the great-player regulars here fixed me right away (it was a setup issue:  ball was too far back and I had the grip too low from DTL).

[Espo99]

Some follow ups on my own topic.

I play my irons straight again. The quick fix her was to play my feets with a slightly open stance and also accelerating throught impact.

Regarding my fairway woods, the solution seemd to be put my hands forward at takeway. I guees I was hitting up on the ball and this correction made me hit slightly down on the ball instead. For now most things seems in place. Now I just have to finish the season with good putting to reach under 80.

Edited August 26, 2017 by Espo99