I had my audition for ‘Amazing Changes’ his week when I had the pleasure of having a lesson with YodasLuke.
I was in from Dallas and had been tracking the weather for the day of the lesson. The forecast had slowly deteriorated from 10 days out and even the day before it was supposed to be in the high 40’s and cloudy. It turned out to barely eek out and 40* and actually started snowing halfway through the lesson. Fortunately we were in the indoor hitting area facing out to the range, so it wasn’t too bad.
Through the harsh reality of video, Ted was able to show me some pretty serious wobbles in my swing.
The worst of which was a looping swing that was well outside the swing path on takeaway, then came way inside on the downswing. As you could imagine, it took quite a few compensations to make decent contact. When my timing is good, I can play decent golf, but is difficult to sustain over a period of time.
I’d had other instructors in Texas to slap band-aids on my outside takeaway problem, but Ted was the first person to help me understand it was the lifting of my forearms in takeaway with no rotation that got me in such a bad position. Once that clicked, I completely understood what caused the problem.
Coming down was the opposite - I dropped my shoulder straight down and had a severe inside-out swing. (Ironically my position at the top was actually OK – but everywhere in between needed some help.)
Long story short, he did a fantastic job of getting me back onto plane. Amazingly when he had me swinging back inside as far as I could and what felt like OTT as much as I could – I was actually getting back to the plane line both ways.
From there he made other adjustments to get the clubface more square and also some help on getting much more efficient with my tempo/energy.
Best of all, he prepared a video CD of what we discussed about which I’ve absorbed like it was the Zapruder film.
I got out to the range today despite temps in the low 40’s. It’s still getting ingrained, but I was already beginning to see a LOT more consistency than I had in my old swing. And the best part is that now that I picked up Atlanta as one of my territories for work, I’ll be able to get back on a regular basis and make even more progress.
Thanks a ton Ted for exorcising a long standing demon in my swing and starting me on the path (no pun intended) to a better game!
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