Lindfield Golf Club

Lindfield Golf Club - 21/6/09
Score - 75 (+7)
G.I.R - 10/18
F'ways - 4/12
Putts - 33
U & D - 0/8 !!!
Penalties - 1

Yesterday I played a practise round at Lindfield Golf Club with my brother. It was a fairly short course (a par 68) and I shot 75. This was a bit of a disappointing score, but considering I hit 10 greens and didn't get up and down once from any of these missed greens, this was certainly the highest score it could have been. I started the round really nicely with a cracking drive and wedge to 12 feet for a birdie on the 1st and then a nice 6 iron into the par 3 second. There were good and bad shots from then on but on the whole I was fairly pleased.

To summarise my tee to green play, my mid to short irons and wedges were pretty solid really! It was a lot better than it has been. My steeper shoulder angle at the top of my backswing definitely has yielded an improvement. But my wood shots weren't as I would have liked them.
I think I need to work on ensuring I am get my arms in the right position alongside my steeper shoulder turn ie 'closing the a' as JH writes about. A problem I seemed to have, especially with my longer clubs was 'coming over the top'. I believe this was that my steeper shoulder turn was getting my arms too much in front of me. Thus, I am off to the range tonight to work on this. I think I am getting the hang of the correct downswing moves. I need to put more work into my 2 move and try to ingrain this as I do not like it as a swing thought on the golf course!!

With regards to my short game, well I really am struggling big time. I am stubbing an awful lot of chip shots and feel extremely uncomfortable over the ball. I think I will have a look again at my Stan Utley short game book to try and rediscover my touch. I feel I have the knowledge and feel to be good around the greens, I just don't seem to be executing very well at the moment.

Lots of work to be done really. I am hitting the range tonight and then heading to Chartham Park for a game tomorrow. Hopefully I can hit some decent shots again. I look forward to working on it tonight.

I am away for the Glastonbury Festival from Wednesday, but I have a tournament in 2 weeks time at Pyrford so next week I will really try and put some good work into my short game ahead of this. It would be nice to get it up to scratch definitely...