Golf Swing Trouble Shooting Or How I Found My Golf Swing

I was transferred from Ohio to Connecticut in June of 2004.

My office was 500 feet from a driving range on Sullivan Ave. and a nice golf course was about a mile down the road. I literally had nothing else to do most of the time so I hit balls and golfed just about every day.

By the middle of August I was killing the ball. Drives long and straight, irons unbelievable and the short game was better than ever. The only thing keeping me from playing scratch golf was putting.

I was so comfortable with my swing and golf game that in November I decided to give myself a set of fitted clubs for Christmas.

After the long winter layoff, I never felt comfortable while I was being fitted. I was worried about my swing but excited about the new clubs.

I picked up my new fitted clubs at the end of February 05 and started swinging at a heated driving range.

My swing from 2004 was gone. I could barely hit a ball.

Every wood shot was driven into the ground a couple of inches in front of the tee. Every iron shot was hit fat or thin or shanked or pulled. And I couldn’t chip.

I literally felt like I forgot how to swing a club. The winter layoff then hitting hundreds of balls during the fitting process really screwed me up.

The first time I played in 2005 was ugly and it didn’t get better after that. I suffered for 3 years. Bad shot after bad shot. I can’t begin to tell you how bad it was.

And I couldn’t fix it. I went to 3 different pros for lessons and couldn’t get it fixed.

The pros tried to fix the swing they saw which wasn’t my normal swing.

I hated golf and I hated all golfers but I kept playing. What else was I going to do?

Let’s fast forward to May of 2008.

I still can’t hit a good shot. I know that the bad habits I picked up over the past 3 years made me stay back on my right side. I couldn’t transfer my weight back to the left side which had me raising my left shoulder and while hitting down and across the ball. I could see it on film but I couldn’t fix it. Man was I screwed up.

Then one day I get this email from a guy who advertises to take his golf swing test and find out about your swing faults.

His test was actually something I use to practice and kind of forgot about it so I gave it a try.

To make a long story short, a bell rang in my head and I knew exactly what I was doing wrong.

During my club fitting after the long lay off, I can’t tell you why I did it but I really flattened my swing and got way out of plane.

That just caused me all kinds of trouble and I really suffered for 3 long years.

In a couple of minutes, the golf swing test showed me how out of plane my swing was and I corrected it in a couple of swings. It really clicked for me and saved the day.