Underdog Golf Blog

Tonight I’m staring at my computer screen, the cursor blinking on a blank page almost taunting me. I’ve got so many things going through my head on what I need to work on, but none of them translating to words. It’s almost hard to describe the learning curve I’m on right now.

As I start to understand more and more about my swing, my game and the proper way to do things around the course, I realize they are things I will need to practice much more before they register. During a putting lesson last week, we realized that I was standing too far forward over the ball and that my through swing was too long causing me too decelerate my putter head through the stroke.

Well obviously I need to learn to do it right, but man did this cause a shake up during my round this weekend. We played Lake San Marcos Country Club. The course wasn’t in the best of shape because apparently they put all their time and money into greens up keep. These greens were fast, fast, fast and my new putter stroke did not help. But so is the game of golf and if you’re going to learn how to do something, learn how to do it right.
 

 
I haven’t been able to get my photo captions to work, but I told Jason he’d make the Blog.

We’ve also been working on getting my swing to go more inside-out to hit a draw. While I felt comfortable on the range with this new swing addition, this was not the case on the course, not yet at least. I started off shaky but pulled it together on the last 5 holes of the front nine. Then on the back nine I started second guessing myself and part of the non-draw swing came out and made babies with the draw swing and half were going short and left and the other half were slicing as I tried to over compensate. We’ll just add that to the “Needs Work” list. The list is getting pretty long but that’s to be expected.

All this said though I was able to keep my cool throughout the entire round which is something I continue to work hard at. There were a couple instances where stuff I won’t repeat was muttered under my breath but then I let it go and stay in the past immediately. I’ve come to a point where I realize no good can come from me getting upset at a bad shot, a bad hole or even a bad round. The only thing it can do is affect my future progress.

This week I’ll continue to focus heavily on putting, my short game (70 yards in) and embedding the key points of my golf swing to develop more consistency.

I’d love to hear what others are currently working on. Always makes it easier to know others are continuing to improve just like I am.