We've all had those stretches where everything just feels bad. What drills/thoughts/training aids do you guys go to when you haven't hit a GIR in 3 weeks?

aharrelson358 I just start hitting a lot of punch shots to make me feel like I am compressing the ball more. It also helps me stay on top of it instead of hanging back

aharrelson358 it’s mostly always alignment for me. I am a fairly fast player and sometimes I get fast and lazy which leads to disaster. Alignment sticks are my friend.

aharrelson358 Every time my swing goes to sh*t, I break everything down, start over and create a new swing 🤣 I initially typed this in jest but I am quickly realizing this is the truth..... But during the season, when the swing goes bad, I grab my gap wedge, goto the range and start from 50 yards and slowly build back my confidence to full swings. Most of the times if I’m doing something wrong, whether it’s excessive use of hands arms, or poor rotation, it is super clear on a small pitch shot, but more importantly fixable at that speed. Slowly re ingrain whatever feel I need to hit the ball solid, build up to full swings with the gap wedge, then start using longer clubs. This coincidentally is my express warm up too.

What do you do when your swing goes to sh*t?

conorgolf22

dphatt agreed. I try to hit as many 3/4 shots as possible

PureStickGolf

aharrelson358 hit a couple shots on the range left handed then a couple drivers off the deck.

BlackBart

I call Don dphatt

DaHOF

If you keep your swing looking like sh#* it never goes to sh#*...

dphatt

DaHOF

Giphy - Steve Martin Idk GIF

BHenn

Just go waist to waist and swing smooth/slow... probably will shank one anyways.

Cdnrockies

I went thru this last season. Started out having fun after not having played for almost a year...and then as the season progressed got worse and worse...lol.

Finally put the clubs down for about 10 days (which is an eternity during our short 5 month season) and then took a couple lessons with my pro. Made some significant changes that helped almost immediately. Season ended too soon but looking forward to getting back at it in a couple months.

djaveragejoe

Grab another can of monkish and light up another cigar...

Giphy - sunglasses deal with it GIF

dphatt

djaveragejoe damn. You must be drunk by the 5th hole then 😆

aharrelson358

djaveragejoe haha! Monkish is a brewery I've heard great things about but never tried anything from there. My usual golf day go-to:
On the way to the course "I'm just gonna go play today. Work on a couple things and no beer. I have work to do after the round"
Hole 4 "Where's the damn beverage cart?"

djaveragejoe

dphatt usually earlier than that, those 10%’ers ain’t no joke! 😅

But I always have a good time! 😉

djaveragejoe

aharrelson358

Unfortunately/fortunately for me I'm about a mile away from it..

But seriously, usually just focus on making better contack and maybe a half swing or punch shots to get the feel like Eddie says.. if that don't work then I just chalk it up to a bad day. If I have to many of those then I usually hit my instructor buddy up for a "refresher" on what the club is suppose to be doing 🤣

Putterho

djaveragejoe Who is this "refresher" you speak of?