Congrats RikB!

Don't think a complete overhaul is required to fix a mistake. One small swing flaw can create disasterous results. It's best to approach a change in your swing in very small pieces. The reason for this is you can teach your body much quicker when you aren't changing everything that you are used to.

When I became addicted to golf I was playing to about a 22 handicap. I was lucky enough to be working at a golf course and I ended up playing with the pro and assistant pros. I never got a lesson from them, but just by watching and talking with them I picked up on a lot of things. I then decided that I wanted to seriously be able to compete with them, so I started to apply these techniques. Well, my swing was SO bad that it was like learning all over again. I ended up going back to my old horrible swing and changing a few things piece by piece. It took 4 years, changing 1 aspect per year, but I finally got under a 10 handicap. The thing that helped the most was that I engrained the right techniques in for a whole year so that the good processes where automatic in my swing. Trying to remember 4 or 5 changes is too difficult for 99% of the people out there. I am sitting at an 8 handicap now and have added close to 25 yards per club. I still touch up a few pieces of my swing now and then (my backswing flattened out too much and now I am working to get it more vertical again) but I will never have to go through the overhaul as long as I keep on top of fundamentals.

Congratulations again on your success and keep practicing!

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Gord

Quote of the month:
"It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification." ~Bruce McCall