I am currently struggling to wipe off all of the winter frost from my game. As I do that, I am taking a concentrated look at my stats to focus my practice time where necessary. I am decent off the tee, but really struggle to hit greens in regulation. My other glaring problem is that when I miss greens I rarely get up and down. So I have the choice where to focus my practice time. Do I focus on my short game or on dialing in my irons?
The smartest thing to do would be to work on my short game as much as possible, but living in a big city makes that difficult. The range near me doesn’t have a chipping green where I can really dial in my short chips. Therefore, I have decided to take option 2. I am going to make a concentrated effort to hit more greens in regulation. Of course I will not entirely neglect my short game since it is inevitable that I will miss greens and need to have confidence in myself to chip it relatively close.
As I think back on all of my recent rounds I find that my miss is left. I am a right handed player so that means I pull the ball. I hit a natural draw so the miss left is fine with me, but recently it has been more drastic than usual. After taking some time to think about why this is happening I finally came to the realization that I am hitting full shots into greens and sometimes trying to force a shorter club to distances I could easily take one more club and choke down. This is going to be my commitment to myself as I work to hit more greens this summer.
I think my tendency is to try to muscle the ball to the green and I tend to over cook it to the left as I over swing. If I can get myself to trust that I have enough club and produce as smoother swing, I think I will drastically improve my GIR stats. As I improve my greens hit let’s hope I can two putt consistently. Here is to hoping!
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