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deronsizemore · #16 (**permalink**) July 12th, 2006, 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Acebgd12

It can also be caused from bringing the club away tp the inside. I had a bout with the laterals a little last year.

Seems I have about a month long bout with them every single year.

It's weird. I'll be swinging the best I ever have shooting some really good scores and then BAM! el hosel. Then from there it just gets worse and finally after almost quiting golf a thousand times I slowing get my swing back.

threefeathers · #17 (**permalink**) July 12th, 2006, 03:01 PM

My God, I am so Paranoid that even READING this makes me nervous...Anyone else have that reaction?

mr_bogey · #18 (**permalink**) July 12th, 2006, 05:47 PM

Doesn't make me nervous at all, and I was there watching Pistol's struggle with it. For whatever reason I only shank about 1 or 2 a year, and then it will always be on a partial wedge shot. When it happens, I never think about it on subsequent swings - I have never shanked 2 in a row. Last year I shanked twice and have yet to hit one this year. I was surprised when Pistol told me he thinks about it - but I am hopeful that this post-shank practice session gave him a simple fix to apply from now on. After he worked on keeping the toe down at address, his shots were really pure, one after another.

As for the part about walking in with Pistol - no problem! You can fight your way around with the blocks or the duckhooks, but there is no dealing with the shanks - you simply can't play on with them. I had a buddy once tell me about the time he had'em so bad he was even shanking on chips - he said once he was at the fringe , and 4 chip shots later he had made a shanky circuit of the green and was back where he started!

JungleJ · #19 (**permalink**) July 13th, 2006, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Pistol

Mr Bogey and I met to play our normal after work 9 yesterday. We decided on which side we were going to play and waited for the fairway to clear. I hit first and rope one down the middle to the 150 marker. Mr Bogey hits his a little right but it's ok. We move down the fairway and Mr Bogey hits, then I decide to hit a cut 6 iron to the front of the green. I take my swing and clank, hit a hossle rocket. NUTS.... Put the next one on the green and shake it off. Next hole once again a driver down the middle, PW to the green and clack....hossle rockets, double NUTS!!!! It's about 92 degrees out here and I'm beginning to not have much fun. The next hole, stripe a driver down the middle and make a small adjustment with my iron and put it by the pin. OK, I've got this thing worked out. Next hole, driver right down the middle, take a 5 iron and clack, hossle rocket, Triple NUTS! I'm really not having much fun now. I drop another ball and pull hook it, drop another, pull hook, drop another hossle rocket. I look over a Mr Bogey and tell him I'm done. I can't remember the last time I walked off the course but I was not having much fun. Fortunately for me Mr. Bogey agreed and even though we were about as far away from the clubhouse as we can get he walked in with me. We decided to go over to Mr Bogeys office because he has a field we hit balls at and try to work out my little problem. After about 15 minutes I discovered my problem (I had the toe of the club too high) and started hitting the ball again. So I guess the moral of the story is the laterals can happen to anyone at anytime. I can't wait to see what the golf gods have in store for me the next time I play.

I've only walked off the course once, and that was when, around the 11th or 12th I picked up a bad case of the s****s. It got so bad that by the 15th (a 170 yard par 3) I reached the green in 5 s****s. After a nasty pull on the 16th tee I walked in. I went to the range to try and work it off, to no avail.

The next week I went back to the course and my ball striking was back to normal.

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