I am so happy with my improvements

My name is Bruce and i am in Australia. I only picked up golf clubs for the first time at the end of May this year.

I played a round of golf on a par 70 coarse (Redbank Plains for those who know it) my score was 137. I then had a lesson learnt how the grip the club and how to stand at the ball. straight away my scores drop to about 125. I then had a second lesson on how to get out of sand, chip and do flop shoots over bunkers. my scores dropped another 10 strokes.

I went back about a month ago and asked the coach how to generate more power, he told me that I had to transfer my weight instead of just using my shoulders. For the last month I have been trying to do that without much success. here was some of my distances.

7iron was hitting it about 110yards. my 3 iron about 150 yards. my driver 190 yards. early last week I learnt how to do it properly aswell as hit the ball square. I now hit my 7 iron 150 yards, my 3 iron 190 yards, and my driver about 220 yards. My last 3 rounds have been 97, 95, and 92. Which included my fisrt three birdies and an eagle.

Congrats Bruce !!!!

You have made remarkable progress in a short time. Grooving a swing into the 90's requires all the fundementals, sounds like you have that down well.

GolfBald

Thanks for the encouragement.

I will try to get my swing on video, over the next few weeks

Hey Bruce,

Put your swing on video and upload it to our gallery, and get it analysed here.

Hey There again guys, I have been consistly hitting low 90's and a couple times I have broken 90 just yesterday I shot 88 and 87 has been my best. I have increased my lenght by about 10 yards an iron, and I am hitting a draw now and I am driving 250 yards with a new driver. I don't know the brand name but it's a callaway copy. I now can hit a pretty consistant shot with my full swing.

And I am now starting to practice chipping and putting. I am losing so many strokes from missing short putts, and only 50 % of my chip shots are getting within a one putt postion. Just yesterday I landed the green from the tee off on all the 4 par three's and scorced a 4 on every one of them because of 3 putts. One of them I was 4 feet from the pin and missed the hole, and for par it was a 1 foot putt which Imissed. Also on a par 5 495 yards I was about 1 yard short of the green for my second shot and I missed aimed my bump and run about 20 feet and 2 putted from 6 Feet.

so from now on because I am very happy with my full swing I will spend 60% of my practice time on putting and 30% on chipping.

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