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I just got back into golf a little over a year ago and I've made significant improvement thanks to the internet, a Wally Armstrong dvd, the golf channel, etc. All of a sudden, something's gone terribly wrong. The last two times I've been to the driving range, I can't hit my irons. I hit mostly grounders to second base or pitch-outs way right. I can't seem to get the ball up in the air for some reason. I can hit my woods and pitch and chip, but full swing irons just skip across the ground. Admittedly, I noticed there was some tightness in my lower back when I went both times which could very well be the root of the problem, but I was wondering if anybody out there has gone through this problem before and how they fixed it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Brian G.

i just went through that and i went on vacation and came back and shot 76 lol..........


if your case...your probably trying to hit the ball in the air? just swing...forget about the ball :) (yea i know...easier said then done)

I think this is what that makes golf one of the toughest thing to master!! I believe most golfers have gone through this, playing very well, and suddenly play very badly again.....
We are humans not robots. Our mental and physical will be different al times. So, we can never get the exact same swing every time.

Hey Brian:

It’s funny that you should ask about losing your swing. Well, maybe its not funny …just coincidental. I’ve just gone through the same thing over the past three weeks and have “recovered” ---just tonight. I suspect that the loss of swing is something that happens now and again to beginning golfers (maybe it evens happens to more experienced golfers from time to time but I suspect that “muscle memory” is more apt to help them more so than us beginners.)

I, myself, have only been playing about seven months. I practice a lot and over the past couple of months, I was “on the way” to developing a reasonable swing, I guess. All of a sudden, one night on the practice range, my swing “just left”. I mean it “just left town” and suddenly I had NO clue as to what I was trying to do in hitting golf balls, especially with the irons. For the next couple of sessions at the practice range, I was so bad that it was laughable. It seemed that nothing helped.

Then, late this week, I took a few days off from practice ---figuring that maybe I just needed a little change of scenery or change of focus. I don’t know if I was right about the change of scenery thing or not, but this evening, I figured out what was wrong. At least I figured out what was wrong in my case. Turns out that I was taking the placement of the ball against the clubface for granted. In my pre-shot routine, I was lining the ball more toward the middle of the clubface than the toe. When I made the adjustment to line the ball up a little more toward the toe, my shanks, hosel hits, and thin shots went away and my swing returned. I had the best practice range session that I have ever had, hit the ball pretty consistently and even had a few of what I call “Ruthian clouts” (as in “Babe Ruth”- ian.)

Anyway, I hope that this helps. If not, try taking a few days off. I’ll betcha that the swing comes back as quickly as it went.

This happened to me as well, unfortunately it happened during my highschool team tryouts. I hit drives well, and woods for the most part, and chipped well. The irons, not so much, I did exactly as you described. I did that all throughout tryouts, but after tryouts on the last day, I decided to play another round to start practice for next year (needed all the practice i could get as I was in the 50's for 9, not sure how I managed it, because every single iron shot was a worm burner, I can't think of a single iron shot I hit well for those days). On this practice round, suddenly for no rhyme or reason, I was playing as well as I had ever played. I dont know how, I didn't change anything that I was aware of, my swing just found its way home I guess.
So, I am sure you will have your swing back soon enough.

many times I find that when this happens it is because of tempo.. when that gets off its hard to realize and you end up changing many other things trying to "fix" whats wrong just causing more issues.

Next time your out focus on creating and maintaining a smooth normal tempo and then work from there.

When mine goes wrong it either tempo or im out of sync (hips going first or arms going to quick). I stand with my feet close and hit the ball with half swings.

Its gets my swing back, gets my tempo back and i can see if im off balance too

Now that you mention that, I remember someone telling me that I was unbelievably slow on the back swing, I don't remember if I changed it or not to play well, but now I have good tempo and I am playing better.

Thanks to all of you for your help. I'll try these things out. If nothing works, I'll pay for an hour lesson at the local range to see if the pro there can figure it out. Take care! Brian

Been there at least 10-15 times during the last 24 years of golf.
Take a day off, make sure your body is rested up, no hurting on any parts.
Go back to exam your basics of grip, alignment........when you go back to the practice again, starting to hit some half swing first and gradually go to a full swing.
Most often, something had caused this, if not one of the fundamentals would be the golfing fatigue factor.

Why did you dig up a year and a half old thread?