I have some thoughts about my form that have come up as I've started throwing myself into rebuilding myself for Masters in 2025 this year... So I've found two big pieces that have made me super inconsistent the last few years. Wild how playing even just a little more helps open up the box over time.
1. I have truly struggled with making sure that I'm sitting on my back foot putting. It's got so easy to just randomly go from properly setting myself on my back foot to winding up over my front foot and just wrecking my putts.
2. I have struggled a lot with maintaining my hyzer angle and seemingly related (well it turns out absolutely related) late releases. And I tried really hard to focus on keeping my head down and again... I lose it just weirdly.
I was really getting frustrated and confused by the fact that I just could NOT seem to keep my head down on drives and sit on my back foot on putts. Like how could this become so unnatural to me? What the fuck? Have I let myself become so ADD that I can't remember to execute the simplest easy to remember things for 18 holes?
But... Solutions! Both problems, as it turns out, seem to have solutions in the pre-shot.
1. With the putts I was placing my front foot first. I never used to do that. I always set my back foot first at the appropriate distance back from the front foot to get the amount of weight shift I needed for the putt. And then I'd carefully place the front foot on line to the basket. And then I would just naturally sit down into the stance. By setting the front foot first I was often not adjusting the back foot and I had too narrow of a stance and really needed to make an effort to settle back on the back foot.
2. The drives I thought I solved last year by focusing on keeping my head down and thought the problem with inconsistency was just me rebuilding the habit. And it was actually on its own important to redevelop. But what I have realized is that the head needs to follow core orientation not the other way around. It can't lead your posture. If the torso is too upright keeping the head down still fails. So pre-shot I need to get to my hyzer angle by setting up how far forward on my toes I am. The more of my toes I am instead of my heel, the more my hyzer lines and thus angle of release are maintained.
I think I got away from that because sometimes I push the limits and go too far and my weight being too far forward leads to my foot coming out on full commit and scraping my knees up. But I think just gotta know my limits and live with the fact that I might not learn them. I mean, hell, whenever I scraped up my knee the slip happened after release and often the shot is great (I swear I can't remember scraping my knee on a tee and not being satisfied with the outcome of the shot, oddly enough.... probably bias).
I don't know if any of this will help anyone else. I don't know if any of it, especially with the drives, seems wrong-headed. If someone has critique of the way I'm self-analyzing please let me know, I fully acknowledge that being a knuckle dragger and doing copious reps has contributed more to my throw than knowing the technical elements of a throw has.
1. I have truly struggled with making sure that I'm sitting on my back foot putting. It's got so easy to just randomly go from properly setting myself on my back foot to winding up over my front foot and just wrecking my putts.
2. I have struggled a lot with maintaining my hyzer angle and seemingly related (well it turns out absolutely related) late releases. And I tried really hard to focus on keeping my head down and again... I lose it just weirdly.
I was really getting frustrated and confused by the fact that I just could NOT seem to keep my head down on drives and sit on my back foot on putts. Like how could this become so unnatural to me? What the fuck? Have I let myself become so ADD that I can't remember to execute the simplest easy to remember things for 18 holes?
But... Solutions! Both problems, as it turns out, seem to have solutions in the pre-shot.
1. With the putts I was placing my front foot first. I never used to do that. I always set my back foot first at the appropriate distance back from the front foot to get the amount of weight shift I needed for the putt. And then I'd carefully place the front foot on line to the basket. And then I would just naturally sit down into the stance. By setting the front foot first I was often not adjusting the back foot and I had too narrow of a stance and really needed to make an effort to settle back on the back foot.
2. The drives I thought I solved last year by focusing on keeping my head down and thought the problem with inconsistency was just me rebuilding the habit. And it was actually on its own important to redevelop. But what I have realized is that the head needs to follow core orientation not the other way around. It can't lead your posture. If the torso is too upright keeping the head down still fails. So pre-shot I need to get to my hyzer angle by setting up how far forward on my toes I am. The more of my toes I am instead of my heel, the more my hyzer lines and thus angle of release are maintained.
I think I got away from that because sometimes I push the limits and go too far and my weight being too far forward leads to my foot coming out on full commit and scraping my knees up. But I think just gotta know my limits and live with the fact that I might not learn them. I mean, hell, whenever I scraped up my knee the slip happened after release and often the shot is great (I swear I can't remember scraping my knee on a tee and not being satisfied with the outcome of the shot, oddly enough.... probably bias).
I don't know if any of this will help anyone else. I don't know if any of it, especially with the drives, seems wrong-headed. If someone has critique of the way I'm self-analyzing please let me know, I fully acknowledge that being a knuckle dragger and doing copious reps has contributed more to my throw than knowing the technical elements of a throw has.
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