I met with my teaching pro Tom today for our first session. I've decided to stop trying to correct things on my own and have a professional tell my where I suck instead. They're quite good at that.

So the problems are:

1. I tried to fix this on my own and managed to screw it up....not so worse than it was, just in new and different ways. Brilliant.

2. Too much lower body action, in particular my left knee & foot decided to go all crazy on me and move about. What the heck is that....ahh but see #3 for why.

3. My thought from the blog entry a couple days ago where I talked about that full shoulder turn....yea that was stupid (see #1). I was already there, but couldn't tell since of course I can't really see what I am doing. The result was in order to really pull that off, yep, you guessed it. The left knee moved because the left foot was off the ground a TON more than it ever should be. A little bit is ok, many pros have done that over the years, but yeowsers.

4. Cascading down here, the next issue was my takeaway itself, somehow I'd decided a new & fun way to do that which amazingly I am able to get the thing relatively back on plane coming down...but it's way too much inside on the takeaway. So we're fixing that. In fact I think I was doing it better some time ago when I decided to change it for some dumb reason. Go figure.

So there are a few other minor things to work on, but overall I know my fundamentals don't totally stink (no Charles Barkley here), it's all the tweaky stuff that we do to try and "fix" something which really hoses things up. Thus the professional consultation. : )

So we'll see how it goes. I am, right now, happy with what we've talked about. It makes sense and I have some path to work on.

I plan on entering more information here as the sessions happen. Oh and did I mention I am scheduled to play on Saturday and Monday? LOL yea that could be interesting. Just have to keep the swing thoughts to a minimum.