Recent content by Erik_K

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In my quest to improve my iron play, I decided, this season, to pick a ball flight and then base my thoughts, swing rehearsal, grip, drills, practice, etc around that flight. In general I tend to overcook the draw. My biggest miss is a pull that ends up turning into a giant hook. In...

Little golf story... We are well into the golf season and I rarely even get a chance to putt for birdie (maybe I hit 1-2 GIR per round). Anyway on the par 5 (about 500 yards long) I hit a thin 3W that goes left. But it clips the cart path at a rather shallow angle and continues to roll...and...

I am someone who has, more or less, a classic OTT looking type move down into the ball. My shoulders are perhaps too active too early and the hands sort of move out to the ball, I am wondering if a better feeling, for me, is to resist the shoulders opening on the DS. When I had a lesson with...

For the last few outings I tend to just skim the sand shots resulting in a thin or skulled shot. I am striking the sand a few inches behind the ball, but I am not taking enough sand it seems. It's almost as if the wedge just bounces over the sand if you follow me. Any tips? Do I need to...

Hola everyone! At last week's league outing, the fairways were rather firm. I simply couldn't hit a stock pitch shot (more of a sweepy or "Tour" pitch if you will). But if the ground is hard, do you need to "go down" after it and perhaps employ a leading edge divot? Erik

Wife's Diary Tonight, I thought my husband was acting weird. We had made plans to meet at a nice restaurant for dinner. I was shopping with my friends all day long,so I thought he was upset at the fact that I was a bit late, but he made no comment on it. Conversation wasn't flowing, so I...

I played my first round yesterday and while just about every facet of my game needs attention, the pitching was severely bad. Here's what happens... Blade goes under the ball and the result is a shot that goes almost straight up, not much carry. This might be of some use when the pin is very...

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What are your favorite putting drills? I am desperate to make some solid leaps in my game (lower handicap substantially) and I think the best way, for me, is to really focus on the short game and give the full swing stuff a rest. Over the years I've gained much insight (thanks to Damon Lucas...

All - I carry a 54 deg wedge with 8 degrees of bounce. At the moment I have 13 clubs in my bag, so I can add a club. I have a pitching wedge and the 54 degree wedge and I am thinking a 58 degree wedge would be nice to have - essentially this would be the SW. Regarding bounce - is there a...

So I wanted to try visualize the target line, clubhead path and clubface alignment positions. What I did was tape a pen to the face (poor man's lie angle tool). I know that to hit a draw, say, the face is open to the target line, but closed relative to the path. It's easy to see the path and...

Great school! We had Brian Manzella, Phil Rosenbaum, Damon Lucas, and Tom Losinger teaching us. Two Trackman machines were set up to record data and on top of that we had access to the MATT system for 3D imaging and even more data (usually biomechanic information) recording and analysis...