Today was my third golf lesson. A tough week for practicing things from lesson 2 because a bunch of coworkers were in town for the weekend and I didn’t get any time on the course. Here’s a video of my swing at the start of the lesson.

Next is a video of my swing at the end of the lesson.

This video has a bit of commentary from my instructor.

In the lesson we worked on my swing plane from the top of the swing down to the impact position. Some of the other changes (rotating hips open more at impact) we’ve been working on have caused my swing plane to get too steep. Part of correcting the swing plane includes dropping my right shoulder when coming down from the top to get a better shoulder tilt at impact.

Check out lesson 4 to see what we worked on next.

If this info was helpful to you and you end up working with GolfTEC, give them my name and I’ll receive a free lesson.

I had me second lesson on Tuesday. Since I was out-of-town for work most of the previous week I didn’t get much time to work on the swing changes from lesson 1 but was able to do them pretty well. Here’s a video of my swing at the start of the lesson.

Next is a video of my swing at the end of the lesson.

This video has a bit of commentary from my instructor.

In the lesson we worked on starting my down swing with the hips and turning them more through impact. Also worked a bit on keeping my right heel down until after impact because it’s been lifting and causing a loss of power.

If this info was helpful to you and you end up working with GolfTEC, give them my name and I’ll receive a free lesson.

Check out lesson 3.

Today was my first lesson at GolfTEC. It was a 30 minute lesson followed by 30 minutes of practice time. To see where I started, look back at the Swing Evaluation. Here is a video of my swing at the beginning of the lesson.

My coach was very happy with how much I’ve been able to limit my hip and shoulder rotation on the backswing, making a shorter swing. In this lesson we worked on:

• Pinching the right knee in slightly at address to keep my weight on the inside of the foot.
• Keeping my lower body stable instead of shifting to right side and lean to the right with the upper body. A drill for this is to put a chair next to the right leg and lean over it with the upper body while keeping the lower body from touching the chair.
• Shorter arm swing on the backswing in order to keep the elbows closer together. For a drill, we put a medium size ball (smaller than a volleyball) between my forearms.

This video shows my swing at the end of the lesson.

Here is some of the instruction.

I really like where this is going. I’m heading out-of-town for most of the week so we’ll see how much time I can put into making these changes more natural.

Check out lesson 2.

If this info was helpful to you and you end up working with GolfTEC, give them my name and I’ll receive a free lesson.