July 1st Lesson Recap

Swing Mechanics — Backswing & Downswing

Shoulder turn: Left shoulder should point at the ball on the backswing, and mirror that on the follow-through. This keeps me from swaying and helps me move forward on the downswing. Cover the ball with the right shoulder
“Throw the club out” (carryover from last lesson): Still working on this — didn’t quite get it dialed in from the last range session, but the couple times I did pull it off, I got noticeably more distance.
Head position: Keep head down — helped to actually see it on screen a few times.
Weight/body movement: Keep my butt back and move toward the target, not toward the ball. (Was “humping the ball” — moving forward/down into the ball instead of shifting laterally toward the target.)
Wrist hinge: Not fully doing inflection with my wrists — need to get a full wrist inflection and i get better contact with in turn means more distance.
Elbow position on downswing: This is a big one. Sometimes my elbow gets behind me, which pulls me behind the ball and makes me lean backward — that’s what’s been causing me to hit it thin/”junky.” Now I know the cause. Need to focus on keeping the elbow in front of me.
- Drill idea: left arm across the chest, more on the backswing, then work on getting the elbow in front on the way down.
- Note to self: check whether the arm comes down away from the body, or still cuts across — related to working on forward shaft lean.

Hit mostly 8-iron the whole session.
Mixed results — some good, some bad. But overall promising and I feel good after all my lesson sessions
Stats showed a good angle of attack coming down into the ball — that’s a positive.
An hour of balls wears me out.

Grips: Messured my hands and it looks like midsize with 2 wraps is what I need. Already use midsize to good there. I should add a couple of the wraps which I do not think I did at my iron fitting.
Shaft: Got a new regular-flex shaft for the driver, but I currently game an A-flex and have been hitting it well. Pro agreed with Lucas and Jake — stick with what’s working. Sign of too-flippy a shaft is hooking it, and I’m not hooking it, so no need to switch. Might just find a head for the regular shaft and resell it since I got a good deal on it.

Taking off the lessons scheduled in two weeks.
Goal: work through everything above (shoulder turn, throw-out move, weight shift, wrist inflection, elbow position) so it’s more dialed in by the next lesson.