[Richie3Jack]

All that from one (1) lesson? You must be itching to back to the Swamp for another one.

Unfortunately, I think I was given quite a bit of bad information before. I had instructor after instructor say 'well, your grip is a little strong, but that's okay and your clubface is a little closed at the top, but that's not bad' and then work on something else...usually to make my swing 'look' prettier.

Ted compared my swing to Ernie Els because we are of similar size and build (I'm 6'4" tall, 190 pounds) and he actually liked my backswing better than Ernie's, he just hated my closed clubface. So we changed my grip (which wasn't really difficult to change) and got me opening the clubface more on the backswing so it wasn't so shut at the top (then I could use the swivel release). When I got the tempo and sequence down in the lesson, I was hitting some powerful shots despite barely even swinging the club.

I do not like braggers and don't like bragging myself...but I always thought I had a lot of untapped potential. When I was playing college golf, I was very good at doing what the instructor would teach me and picking it up quickly. I was also wildly inconsistent. Last I checked, I hold the course record at Caledonia Golf & Fish Club in Myrtle Beach (actually Pawleys Island, SC) with a 64. The day before that I shot an 88.

So again, not trying to boast of my ability, but it has always been incredibly frustrating for me that I could be the most inconsistent golfer I've ever come across. I feel that now I'm on the right path towards reaching that potential and all I want to be is the best student I can possibly be and everything should work out okay.

I Love your handle, 3Jack. Especially given your good short game. There is a nut job on this site that named himself after "out of bounds" or something. He tries to tell everyone its really his middle initials and all, but you gotta wonder sometimes.

My putting isn't what it once was since I came back to the game. But strangely now I rarely 3 jack it.

'Kind of like calling a bald man 'curly'.


3JACK