Put in 10 days of practice since my last lesson. My setup improvements were correct but I still needed to get the club handle a littler lower by introducing more right arm bend at address. Aimed at or below the belt buckle was the desired goal. That was the first lesson that suggested actual swing changes, and what he was looking to accomplish was to steepen the shoulder turn so that my head stops lurching out over my left shoulder. My shoulder plane was too shallow causing compensations to maintain a steady head. I've been working diligently on doing the club across the shoulders and pivot drill. I've also done the drill to the top of the backswing and held it there while I move the club back to my hands and get into a full backswing position. Ball flight is a lot straighter still with the fat and thin mishits. No more hooks but I tend to slice on the driver, 3w, and 3h. I'm confident we'll get more and more consistent in the good way as the lessons progress.
Went out and played Shepherds Hollow, a really nice public course here in Michigan. Shot in the hundreds but had nobody behind us so my buddy and I got in some good short game practice. I learned to play out of the bunkers out of necessity! So. Many. Bunkers. It became a running joke on the blind shots to suggest that our ball was probably in a bunker.
I hadn't made any comments on LSW yet, but I received the book a couple days ahead of schedule and read it before the weekend! Lots of good stuff in the book. I particularly liked game planning and separation value. I found a lot of the info could be gleaned by lurking this website for a while but there were still plenty of new ideas to keep the information fresh. It definitely helps you prioritize the weaknesses of your game whereas 5sk helps you prioritize the weaknesses of your swing.
Received Stan Utley's "The Art of the Short Game" a couple days ago as well. I've owned Pelz's "Short Game Bible" for a few years now but prefer Utley's techniques and Pelz's data. A little bit of both worlds and I'm having awesome success already with the Utley chipping method.
Anyways, here's my swing as of today: