2PuttShakur

I am naturally left handed (write lefty, throw lefty, etc.) but started playing golf righty when I was young for some reason and that's always how it's been. I don't know if it's because I was just given righty clubs or I wanted to play righty back then because I felt "left out". I forced myself to play tennis righty when I was 5 because I felt like I was the odd man out, but a few years ago I went back to playing lefty permanently and it definitely feels more natural. Anyway, my putting, especially as of late, has been pretty inconsistent. My backstroke is sometimes wobbly which leads to the putts going off line, and sometimes I even catch ground and the putt goes short. I don't have a lefty putter but I've been trying some lefty practice strokes and some cross-handed stuff. I definitely would need some practice, but they feel good and I think the comfortable left arm keeps the putter firm a little better. Should I try switching to either of these, just to see how it goes? I'm willing to buy a left-handed putter to practice with. I'm right-eye dominant by the way.

Thanks for the help, I am aware of a lot of this stuff, I am wondering how I can get my clubface more open at impact with this in to out swing path.

It tends to be a little more of a pull hook than anything, sometimes straight but regardless it hooks

My game has been at both ends of the spectrum within the last year. I have had slicing problems (coming out to in), and a couple of months ago I had a hook (coming too much in to out) that I fixed my making my grip weaker and changing my swing plane. However, after taking a 7 week break from golf I was hitting it right with the weak grip, so I came back to my old grip (which is neutral to weak). I just went to golf camp for a week for a great experience and because I need to get better for school (I am around a 20 handicap). I was hitting bit of a fade usually and they told me to make my grip stronger and to keep my left arm close to my body. Now I have come back and without even making my grip stronger I am hooking it (so I am definitely not going to make my grip stronger as that would make things worse in this situation). I definitely don't start my swing with my hips usually, which is what I was trying to do today on the course instead of making my grip weaker like I did a couple months ago. Many balls hooked, but there were a fair amount that went straight and had a nice draw when I started with my hips and lagged. I was getting much better distance today too, better than usual. Nevertheless, I need to fix this hook for good while maintaining this draw. Any recommendations on what I should do? Should I keep working on my lag or do something else? If so with the lag, any good drills? Thanks.

A hole in one at the Peter Hay par three course in pebble beach! My first one ever. It was a short hole and I hit sand wedge, but with distance control to think about and a tree right before the green to the right, it was no cakewalk. It had a nice draw and rolled right in.

My game has been at both ends of the spectrum within the last year. I have had slicing problems (coming out to in), and a couple of months ago I had a hook (coming too much in to out) that I fixed my making my grip weaker and changing my swing plane. However, after taking a 7 week break from golf I was hitting it right with the weak grip, so I came back to my old grip (which is neutral to weak). I just went to golf camp for a week for a great experience and because I need to get better for school (I am around a 20 handicap). I was hitting bit of a fade usually and they told me to make my grip stronger and to keep my left arm close to my body. Now I have come back and without even making my grip stronger I am hooking it (so I am definitely not going to make my grip stronger as that would make things worse in this situation). I definitely don't start my swing with my hips usually, which is what I was trying to do today on the course instead of making my grip weaker like I did a couple months ago. Many balls hooked, but there were a fair amount that went straight and had a nice draw when I started with my hips and lagged. I was getting much better distance today too, better than usual. Nevertheless, I need to fix this hook for good while maintaining this draw. Any recommendations on what I should do? Should I keep working on my lag or do something else? If so with the lag, any good drills? Thanks.

Yesterday in a 9-hole tournament I came up to a 200 yard par 3 right next to the street. I pulled my 5 wood out and ended up hitting one of the worst shots I have hit in a while right off the toe and into the street (keep reading :P). It rolled all the way down the street and ended up being across the street pin high. I hit my sand wedge badly and that landed in the feskew right before the trap. I then hit my sand wedge again to about two feet away from the pin, making bogey. Not bad considering I was across the street and then in the feskew.

What is your most embarrassing golf moment? Or just one you remember? Today, though it wasn't on the course, my chemistry teacher had a chipping contest going on on the football field, from just in front of the endzone and we were trying to get it closest to the center at the 50 yard line. I am not an amazing golfer, usually a high forties shooter on nine holes, but I love to play and he knows I play for the school. There were some other students and science teachers there, and I was really nervous and I don't do great under pressure (I need to get better at that). I went up ther eand didn't even think about what I should try and do because I was nervous, and I hit it straight but really thin with too much wrist action and it flew way past the 50 yard line. I don't usually hit pitch shots like that, obviously, it was a terrible shot. I had played pretty well the day before too at our last practice.

I had my last practice for my high school golf team for the season. I am not an amazing golfer (usually a high forties shooter for nine, haven't been playing great this season though, trying to fix my swing), but I love to play and it's my favorite sport. Since it was the last day, we played a scramble (pick the best shot out of the two) and my teammate was a senior, who's usually a low forties shooter. Anyway, on the third hole, I smoked a drive right down the middle and left it 115 from the pin. We took my drive, I hit my pitching wedge onto the green and left it within 3 or 4 feet of the pin. Definitely my best approach shot of the season. He took the first putt and we made birdie. At the end of the round, we were two over and four out of the five drives we took were mine and we also had quite a few of my other shots, when at the beginning of the round I didn't think we would take that many of my shots at all. A good last practice.

Fairway bunkers seem to be my greatest weakness on the colf course lately. Whenever I go to hit out of them and I make decent contact, most of the time I can't get it up high at all and it hits the lip, which means my ball either comes right back down in to the trap or gets out of the bunker but doesn't go far at all (and it's more challenging challenging when there is another fairway bunker right in front of me). I have heard that no lower body movement is the key, but that doesn't always work. I also sometimes get way too much sand.

I play on my high school golf team and usually shoot in the high 40s (I am not great but I love the game and it's a great opportunity to get out and play). However, I have been playing pretty badly the past few weeks, having rounds where I have several good holes but some blow-up holes as well which just tank my scores. I have been having problems over the past year or so with and outside-to-inside swing path, which I have worked over the winter to try and fix and it's gotten better, but it's still not perfect. Anyway, I have developed a draw-hook kind of thing this past week, and I have been pulling it along with the hook, especially with my driver, 5 wood, and hybrids. There is too much hand action in my swing, and I am closing the face way too much. I am having a lesson in a couple of days so I can try and fix it, but I have been aiming way right to compensate for this unfortunate mishap in my swing, and it has been working alright. Yesterday I shot 49, which is alright for me considering I have had this hook (and I definitely should have and could have shot 45-ish). Today, however, I had some good holes and some blow-up holes as well and shot 57, which is terrible (my drives with my driver and 5 wood were for the most part really bad). I really want to shoot consistently in the 40s, and even that's been hard for me in the past few weeks because of this. Hopefully my lesson will fix this, but does anyone have any tips on not hooking it?