Barrie and I continued working on accuracy this week. Again it’s coming down to practice, and the fact that I need to be doing more of it.
Although, he has mentioned a couple of times that he’s impressed with my progress. I’m obviously not a pro golfer, but in the last two months I’ve gone from never having touched a golf club to getting the golf swing more or less right.
There are just a few kinks to work out in regards to my accuracy, which ranges from decent to abysmal.
In the last lesson, we discussed how opening or closing the face of the golf club will direct your shots either left or right. If you know what you’re doing, you can control the speed your hands are moving at during the swing in order to direct the ball.
If you’re still trying to get a handle on what you’re doing (like me), you can surprise yourself by inadvertently sending the ball in the wrong direction completely.
What seems to be my biggest challenge in accuracy is in the very first part of the golf swing, where you go from the top of your backswing through to hitting the ball.
The right way is when you get the club to the top of the backswing, the wrist of your bottom arm (my right) should be fully flexed with the thumb at about 90 degrees. The elbow on the same arm will also be at about 90 degrees, but not fully flexed.
Then (this is the part I have trouble with) you uncoil your spine, keeping your wrists and elbows flexed until they naturally let go and swing into the ball.
Finding that right moment in the swing to let go is where practising comes in. It’s there somewhere, you just need to get a feel for it so that it happens without thinking. My best shots are always the ones where my mind is just starting to wander away.
