![]() A nice little baby draw, or push draw as they call it. Immediately, and I mean immediately I was hitting the ball better with my 6 iron. I read through it in a couple days and went out with a 6 iron and tried some things it suggested. I decided to go for it and ordered the “Stack and Tilt” book in late February. Mostly because of a driver or 3 wood going out of bounds or in a hazard. I usually had at least one bad hole a round, double bogey or worse. My putter would save me more often than not. I hardly ever birdied par 4’s and getting a par on a par 3 was good. ![]() Most of my birdies were coming on par 5’s that I was either chipping in two or on the green. I just didn’t hit enough greens and fairways. I took a long look at my game and knew it was my ball striking that was keeping me from getting any better. Some thought it was a fad and would pass, and some people swore by it. I scoured the Internet for more information. Once I started reading about it, I remembered the Golf Digest articles that had talked about it. Over the winter I started to get back into golf mode and stumbled on a swing on one of the Internet boards called “Stack and Tilt”. That is how I ended last year going into winter. My primary miss was now a thin or toe shot at this point, from raising my head on the down swing I think. I felt like things were better, but still shot an 81-74 in the club championship. I still went back and forth between both swings, but kept my weight on the left side or at least tried. My irons started to actually compress the ball! I also gained some more yardage. It was the second big break through for me. I knew I had to keep my head still, so I started keeping more weight on my left side and not moving weight back to the right on the back swing. They had some professor showing how your head had to be still for you to bring the club back to the same place it was at set up. After watching the Haney Project last year with Barkley I discovered something that helped me with my fat shots. Eventually I would start making bad contact with the conventional swing, and go back to the two-plane swing. When I started hooking the ball too much with the two-plane swing, I would go back to the conventional swing. The good days were mostly because of my short game. I was shooting 74-75 on good days, and 84-85 on other days. Last year I was back and forth with the two-plane swing (reverse loop), and conventional swing. I have shot 70 a few more times since, but still have not broken into the 60’s. I have shot several 33’s for nine, with 32 being my low nine. So it couldn’t have happened at a better time. That 70 was my low round ever, and still is. I improved so much over the next few years that I even won our club championship two years ago, shooting 76-70, and beating my brother. I saw big improvements in contact and distance when I started swinging from the inside out. It kept me from coming over the top on a more consistent basis. Kind of like Haney was having Ray Romano do on the Haney Project this year. I started using that reverse loop swing similar to Furyk. My major swing break through came about five years ago. I figured out how to correct my weak slice and eventually learned how to hit a draw. I have always been a good putter, and could read greens well.Īnyway, as the years past, I got a little better by reading golf magazines and playing for quarters with my friends and brother who were better than me. The one area that I think my athletic ability helped was the short game, more specific, putting. Maybe that is why I struggled so much initially. The one thing they had over me was that they all played baseball and softball, I didn’t. Having athletic ability had made it easier for my friends to learn it. Being a good athlete, I couldn’t understand what was so hard about this game. A weak fade or slice was my stock shot, when I made good contact with the ball. I struggled like everyone does in the beginning. He was a pretty good golfer as you could imagine. When I would go home on leave, to spend time with my brother, I played golf with him. I was so busy with football, basketball, and etc. I was a pretty good athlete in high school and even had some college offers. My older brother worked at a range when he was young and had played from a young age. ![]() I started playing golf about 20 years in my early twenties. ![]() I know there is another thread.just thought this might help somebody out.sorry for the long read!īackground Information first.
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