With the season in full swing, Summer is here and I really wasn’t playing that well. My swing was inconsistent and unpredictable to say the least. I’ve been shooting 84 and then 98 in the span of just a few weeks. Normally, this can be fixed by going to a coach and getting things straightened out. However, I haven’t had a coach for a few years because I moved to a rural area and I don’t know of a good one around here. So what to do? It just so happens that the last lessons I took in San Diego were videotaped, so I dusted them off and took a look. Yet again, my video lessons proved to be money well spent.
There were a couple things that I saw on those videos. First, one of the first things my old coach had be work on was my reverse tilt. Instead of my torso tilting toward the hole, my coach wanted my torso to tilt away from the hole. This would promote a better plane and make it easier to launch the ball, especially with my long irons and fairway metals. So that was the first thing I changed. I took these mental images to the driving range and immediately saw results. My plane has improved and my ball striking is much more consistent. The two rounds I played since viewing those lessons were both 82’s. Yeehaw! Can’t argue with success.
Man those video lessons continue to payoff even years later! Even before this happened, I was a believer in the benefits of video lessons. However, learning from them years after the lesson was one benefit I hadn’t thought of. Now all I can say is that I’m gonna keep those videos forever!