When you can't hit the ground

[rogerdodger]

What do you check first? I played twice this holiday weekend and both days I hit the ball well off the tee, but was hopeless on the fairway. Whether it was a fairway wood, hybrid or iron, results were the same, thin pushes. I am swinging too far right, which works ok when the ball is teed. When you are on the course and this happens, what bandaid works to help you limp in? The long term cure is to swing on plane, not under. But when you hit your second shot on seven twenty yards short and right, what works for you to fix it? As so many underplaners visit here, I am curious what helps some of you?

 

[dsmith2296]

make sure your tail bone is closer to the target than your neck bone at impact

 

[Kevin Shields]

Get your arms up and squirt the blood out of your fingers

 

[Jim Kobylinski]

honestly? Aim right and play an INTENTIONAL pull, that's the best band-aid when on the course because you don't have to think much about it.

 

[Richie3Jack]

Try to think about driving the ball further into the ground instead of driving it into the air.




3JACK

 

[mb6606]

Could be throw away - running out of right arm.

 

[Chip Putterman]

Perhaps you don't have enough forward shaft lean. Make contact with the ball with the 3rd or 4th line on the clubface.

 

[cmartingolf]

Put a soft headcover about five-eight inches in front of the ball on the target line. Use a short (lofted) iron and hit shots. You ought to be able to miss the headcover to the inside.

When you can, you'll have steepened your action and produced a swing shape capable of hitting the ground AFTER impact.

 

[rogerdodger]

Get your arms up and squirt the blood out of your fingers

You got me with squeezing the blood out of the fingers. Huh?

 

[ggsjpc]

coff

 

[latiger12]

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LOL, I also played twice over the weekend at LaTour (new course in Lafourche parish, which is quite nice by the way). I hit my irons great but drove the ball bad, my good ole slice was with me off the tee.

 

[Kevin Shields]

Lets hop dont hit the ground with the driver