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When I am playing well I have a sense of my good swing, but during a round I have a few instances where my bad swing creeps in. My bad swing is always the same, it is as if the bad swing is as much a part of my muscle memory as my good swing. I tend to try to swing too hard, taking the club too outside with too much arm tension, resulting in a hook, or a pull. I feel like my setup is the same, the disaster comes as I take the club back.

My question is; is your bad swing always the same or do you have several variations that result in bad shots?

my good is is always the same, I call it my practice swing.
my bad swing is always the same, that is the one I use to hit the ball with.

Yeah...same with me. My good swing is really fluid and has a sweet feel when it connects. My bad swing always results in a slice.

I have seen lots of people take really nice practice swings then have a completely different and much worse swing when they hit the ball. It's obvsiously a mental thing!

I'm transitioning from a hitter's swing (lunge) to a swinger's swing (rotate). So, my bad swings are when I still lunge which results in a block.

I can SO relate! It always seems that the ball gets in the way of my good swings. Forged is always telling me to pretend the ball isn't there.

Same here, when I'm practicing putting, I usually watch some people tee off #10.... some of their 'real' swings are quite entertaining


A bad swing and a good swing?.... I just have one swing... when a ball is there and also when a ball isn't there.. they both look the same

Yeah, I know what you are on about there.

Though if you know you are going to hook, or likely to hook a shot, why not aim a couple of degrees to the right (assuming you are right handed) & just relax into the swing. If you hook you are on the pin, or down the fairway, if you relax enough you are still on the fairway, if a bit right, or on the right of the green

My problems actually now arise when I don't follow my own advice & instead tense up, by over thinking & have started thinning the ball, which can result in embarrassing tee or second shots, or chips that end up over the other side of the green ,

Lets just say hitting a 13 on a 303 yard par 4, that days earlier I'd had an almost acceptable 6 two days previous, which is blooming embarrassing & resulted in me having a round of 107 that should have been sub 100.

Well at least it wasn't me, but my mate that took 4 shots to get out of a bunker for a 7, instead of the birdie that he had been looking like getting . Though he still well & truly beat me with a scorcher of an 80.

But getting back to the original theme, just relax, aim a gnats whisker right....

...And relax.. up, drop point, relax;... rhythm

My good swing is fluid, straight back, (very) slightly inside into the ball, ball flight = straight or small draw w/ mid-low trajectory & lots of backspin.

My bad swing, on the downswing i drop the club quite a bit more inside, resulting in a hook w/ very low trajectory & almost no backspin.

Typically my good swing occurs when i just take it easy, bad swing when i try to go after it too much.

it's always the same. i get quick & start swinging out of sync, with my lower body far outracing my upper. usually results in weak slices. then i get **** , & start swinging harder. then i'm really ***** .
i found a way out though. choked down 3wd. it ain't pretty, but it's far & straight.

My good swing is.... who am I kidding I don't have a good swing. I have a bad swing and a not so bad swing and a awful one that tends to appear when you really don't want it to

[quote=Cernunnos]Though if you know you are going to hook, or likely to hook a shot, why not aim a couple of degrees to the right (assuming you are right handed) & just relax into the swing. If you hook you are on the pin, or down the fairway, if you relax enough you are still on the fairway, if a bit right, or on the right of the green

Grneyedblack's scenario:



Ball: Look, he just aimed me to the right.

Tee: Yeah, wonder what's over there on the left that he don't want you to see? Maybe a lake? See any water? You know how much you like to take a dip on a day like this.

Ball: Hmm, well it could be a decoy...maybe there's something on the right and he's trying to fake me out.

Tee: You're right...look at his setup, he's looking over there too. Maybe it's a one of them window thingees....Go for it! Go straight! Straight..straight...!

Ball: Yeah. That's how my sister escaped from this abusive fool who kept hitting her. Maybe I can hide under those trees or over that fence

I feel as though i only have one swing, Its just sometimes i don't get the swinig all the way to the bottom of the ball at times....and that would be the 130 yard lob wedge shot....not a bad swing, just a ducking ball......