I've been lurking a while now soaking up the info but have a conundrum...
Background - my first golf lesson was 22 years ago when I was 18 and it was a TGM lesson from the pro at the club my parents had a membership(they were tennis players). Dear old mom bought me a set of lessons the summer after my senior year of highschool after I took up the sport. I was smitten and ended up working part-time in the cartbarn and bagroom while in college as much to be around golf as for the crappy pay.
I bought a yellow book and studied quite a bit and improved rapidly, generally scoring in the low 80's, high 70's. After college, when I actually had to pay to play, I drifted away from golf and quit the game for good when I moved to Asia for a few years. Fast forward to last summer when I hadn't touched a club for 10 years. Once again dear old mom was the catalyst - tennis was now bothering her joints so she took up golf and wanted me to give her some 'tips'. I went to the range with her and whacked a couple with her Pings. I caught the third one pure and thought "Man, that felt pretty good..." Within a week, I had a new set of forged blades and I've have been playing since.
My first handicap posted was 20ish, got down to 16 by the end of last season. I've gotten back into TGM this season and the HC should drop to 13-14 the next revision. My goal is single digits by the end of next season.
The problem - I hit it fairly long off the tee: 280-300ish with the driver so end up with a less-than-full lob wedge into greens quite often. I'm usually thinking 'birdiebirdiebirdie' and then I SHANK the wedge...!
I don't shank any of my other clubs and tend to miss toward the toe if anything. I usually hit a straight-to-draw. If I miss badly, it's a humongous hook. Without seeing my swing (I'm a swinger), any idea why I would shank half wedges and nothing else?
TIA,
Thomas
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