Sometimes trying to improve my golf feels like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Today was one of those days.
I started off by filming my latest training drill (swinging a weighted club with my backside touching a lawn chair on the backswing and downswing to ensure proper spine angle retention.) All positions looked good – check. I then headed out to the driving range to film some live contact. The bad news is that every shot was a push cut. The good news is that the same miss indicates consistency and the repeatability should be easy to fix, right? Wrong. The film review showed the mistake was the same loss of spine angle I’ve been working all winter to fix. How frustrating. Throw in a throbbing right elbow (tendonitis) and you begin to see the ugliness of this picture.
Next, I moved to the short game area for some work on chipping and pitching technique. Oddly enough, the pain in the elbow was actually worse on these short shots as I tried to keep my hands soft and feel the weight of the club head on the back swing. It even hurt to putt. 😦
So, I’m not giving up by any stretch, but am starting to question what is reasonable with regard to improvement. How much can a guy with a bad elbow and only enough time to hit balls and play on the weekend expect to improve? Any thoughts on this or remedies for golfer’s elbow (I haven’t tried drinking baking soda dissolved in water yet but am close to trying anything), please send them along. Thanks!
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