This golf game can be crazy and frustrating, yet enjoyable. A couple months I started developing a bad swing, cutting across the ball on the driver or fairway woods and causing it to slice and lose a lot of distance. At the same time my irons were hitting too fat. I figured there had to be a correlation there.
Needless to say my scores started creeping back up to the high 90's. The only thing that saved me from going over 100 was my chipping and putting which I spent a lot of time with lately. I tried and tried to stop cutting across the ball to no avail.
I watch videos on it and nothing seems to sink in. Until one guy said one thing. He said try holding your upper body back on the downswing which will make the club move ahead of the body. You can't really swing without turning your body back, but when you try to hold it during the downswing it changed everything for me. All of sudden I'm not cutting across the ball. I did push a few right, but it wasn't cutting across which meant distance was coming back. And the irons were no longer hitting fat.
I went out yesterday and shot a 91. Best score in a long time. Three putts kept me from breaking 90. So now I'm encouraged again and I want to go back out there. For a while I didn't even want to go with my friends, but they kept bugging me to go.
Golf is a funny game. Now I feel better about it. But I have a feeling something else will creep in and screw up my swing at some point. It seems like what works one week doesn't work the next. We'll see if this swinging ahead of my body turn continues to help. All I want to do is play bogie golf. But it ain't easy for a guy like me.