shanks

i am a 10 handicap and i had been playing the best golf of my life untill one day i woke up and all of the sudden i had the shanks. how can i get rid of them completely? please help me.

Hi Billy b,

Only sugestion that works is "stop thinking about it"


Ian.

Im 11 handicap ( shanks affect all handicaps!) and suffered recently from the "Shanks".
I found laughing at them helped.
Not thinking about them..or if you do... have a little chuckle.
Taking a week off or two can help a lot too.
I only suffered on the practice ground and had only 1 or 2 real close calls on the course...it really is a strange disease.
I also became very good and little pitch and run type shots...
Brian.

Hello...New member


Ref the sh****S.

I had the dreaded illness for a month up till last Tuesday. I was on a corporate invite to Turnberry (Scotland) on the wednesday. I worried all the previous week.

I had two wonderful pints of bitter before teeing off with a 270 yd 3 wood down the first finishing with 33 points stableford off 3/4 handicap.

Not one shank all the way round.

Back at my club practice groud this evening ....Bragging.....Ten shots ....all shanks.

Ive another corporate / charity day tomorrow....Bring on the guiness.
GrahamW

I had the dreaded sh****** for about six months when I was younger. In the end I had a lesson from Sam King (ex Ryder Cup player) who cured me. (well - you never get cured completely!)

He reckoned that there are two types of sh***** The first is the most common and happens on short irons eg pitching wedge to the green. The problem is not turning and bringing the club down outside the line.

The second he termed the "professional sh****" and this can happen on all your shots. The sh**** is caused purely by swinging the club through too far awy from you, so that the heel of the club makes contact rather than the centre. Sam said that many pros address the ball with the toe of the iron to avoid this problem. The "cure" was to try to swing the club through on the inside of the ball. Sounds simple but it worked for me.

The most common cause of the sh***S is that you are standing too close to the ball and are swinging with an out-to-in swing path. To cure this, step back a little from the ball and really turn your shoulers through the swing. Do not be a lazy swinger!!! To make sure that your swing path is correct check your divots. If they go from right to left of your target you may well be a risk of shankng the ball because you you will hit it with of socket of our club, or may also end up slicing your shots.

OK guys & gals, players and playeuses etc.
I've had a bad case of shankinitis for the past 4/5 weeks, with no let up.
Yesterday I downloaded 12 websites related to the s....ks and printed 7 pages of bull... until I came across this small quote from Mark Hamon.
www.usgtf.com/articles/shanks.html re. addressing the psychological reasons for the disease.
I went back to the practice range and ... lost the s....ks.
Played in the Tuesday comp today and never hit one of the dreaded...

Mark Harmon has some very sound advice; especially read the penultimate paragraph.

Good luck
begnat

Good article hope this is the last I have seen of them! http://usgtf.com/articles/shanks.html

I hit my first shank in 2 or 3 years this past weekend. Since I understand why/how this shots shows up in my game, I immeadiately dropped another ball and made the correct swing, and ball contact. My point is to learn what causes bad shots, so that you can become your own swing coach when on the course.

Everyone will shank a ball from time to time. It is just another bad shot, and should be treated as such. The post above that reads "stop thinking about it" is pretty good advice.

I finished out that hole for bogey playing the shanked ball, and luckily that problem did not show up the rest of the round. GJS

http://www.ritson-sole.com/golf-tips/...hanks/#more-13

Very true sir,

I have discovered for me only, I tend to cast one now and then and in a vain attempt to get back inside the s****k is inevitable.

As you say forget it and move on........!!

Ian.