Hi Golfbald,

Thanks for your reply.

I will study your recommendations and, have a practice with them in the near future.

As I'm a leftie, then I will describe what I was doing (if I can remember correctly)!! Right handed players will need to transpose my description.

I was practising off, what we, in the UK, call a bare lie. I believe that you, in the USA, call this hardpan.

Here goes; I set up with an open, narrow stance and had the ball position slightly back of middle. I opened the clubface and aimed at my target, then turned my body to adjust. On the backswing, I kept my right arm fairly straight but, allowed the left arm to fold. I turned my hips towards the target to initiate the downswing. I was making something like a half swing.

As I said previously, when I addressed the ball off the club, I hit the dreaded s***k, repeatedly; shot after shot. However, once I addressed the ball, outside the toe of the clubhead, the s***k disappeared. My out to in swingpath just seemed to collect the ball, perfectly, every time. I need to work at this a lot more in order to get consistent distance but, by and large, the objective of the shot was achieved. Normally, I dread to take a LW off a bare lie, as I end up blading it through the green. Today, this was the exception rather than the rule.

Hope this makes sense.

AlanN