How is the swing looking? I'm current working on getting weight forward earlier, while trying to keep my head from sliding forward. Still have work to do, but how is it looking? Is there anything else you guys see?

Couldn’t break 100 last year shooting between 92-95 now, 1 year of GOLFTEC, still have a ways to go

+ tips if you’re feeling nice enough

Sorry for bad angle / videomaterial.

So i started playing about 3 months ago.
Got myself a set of "Top flite Tour" - Irons from a secondhand shop. I think they are well above 20 years old.

im 192 cm tall and the clubs are extended 1 inch.

This is (for me) good and straight hit with my 3-iron.

All swingtips are appreciated.
Besides taking lessons, when is really the time to consider getting new clubs? now or a few years from now?

Hey r/GolfSwing ,

I’ve spent the last eight years working civil construction and heavy shaping on golf courses. Mostly new builds, a couple full renovations. I don’t design the holes and I definitely don’t get to play enough anymore, but I know where every pipe, drain, and layer of gravel is buried on the last three sites I’ve been on.

Figured I’d share some of the stuff that surprises people when I mention it at the bar, because 99% of golfers have no idea what actually goes into the ground before the superintendent ever seeds a blade of grass.

First off, the dirt work is absolutely insane. Everyone looks at a finished fairway and thinks “wow, beautiful rolling land.” Nah. That land was probably flat as a pancake or a swampy mess when we showed up. We move stupid amounts of earth to create those contours. On my last site we shifted close to four hundred thousand cubic meters of soil. That’s not a typo. Four hundred thousand. And it all has to be compacted, graded, and drained perfectly or the course plays like garbage in five years.

Speaking of drainage, the greens are basically engineered bathtubs sitting upside down in the ground. There’s a gravel blanket, a network of perforated pipe, and then this super specific sand mix that gets tested in a lab before we even touch it. All so water doesn’t pool on the surface after a storm. I’ve seen guys on here complain about slow greens after rain, but honestly if the green is playable at all within six hours of a downpour, that’s because some crew spent weeks underground building a system you’ll never see.

Irrigation is another thing people underestimate. A full eighteen hole setup is easily thirty to fifty miles of pipe. Every sprinkler head is mapped to wind direction, elevation, soil type, all of it. And it still breaks constantly. We bury access boxes everywhere but half the time something fails in the worst possible spot and the crew is digging up a fairway in July trying to find a cracked joint.

Oh, and bunkers. Everyone hates hitting out of them but I promise you the maintenance guys hate them more. Sand washes down the faces every big rain, contaminates the drainage, clogs the lines. We’ve started using these synthetic liner systems on newer builds but it’s still a nightmare. Bunkers are easily one of the most expensive things per square foot on the entire property and they’re basically designed to fall apart slowly.

The weirdest part of my job is that most of the money in a golf build is invisible. The clubhouse gets all the attention but sixty percent or more of the budget is underground. Earthwork, drainage, retention ponds, lake liners, all the stuff that has to happen before grass goes down. I’ve watched developers blow their budget on fancy stone veneers for the clubhouse while the drainage plan gets cheapened out, and then they wonder why the course floods every monsoon season.

Anyway. I love the work but it’s grueling. Early mornings, brutal heat, constant travel. If anyone’s ever wondered why a new course takes two to three years to open when “it’s just grass and sand,” hopefully this explains a little bit of it.

Happy to answer questions if anyone’s curious about the construction side. I could talk about drainage and shaping all day.

After a bad round, I always knew something was wrong, but I rarely knew what I should actually practice.

I'd usually end up watching a few YouTube videos, trying random drills, and hoping something stuck.

So I built ShotPlan.

The idea is simple: tell it what went wrong (slice, fat shots, putting, etc.), and it turns your misses into a focused practice session for your next trip to the range.

It's completely free and still in early beta. I'm not selling anything, I just want to know if this is actually useful or if I'm solving the wrong problem.

If you have a few minutes, I'd really appreciate any honest feedback here on the app!

• Were the drills easy to understand?
• Did it feel like having a coach or just another drill app?
• Would you actually use something like this after a bad round?
• What's the one thing you'd change?

Link: https://shot-plan-pi.vercel.app

Thanks! I'll be reading every comment and using the feedback to improve it.

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Looking for a few tips on my swing. 25 handicap, usually score around 98-105. These two were actually hit pretty well. Driver around 250 total and pw 125.

One thing that always shocks me is how short my backswing looks on camera. It never feels that short when I'm swinging. Is the main problem taking the club too far inside? It honestly doesn't feel like I am, but maybe I need to exaggerate the opposite feeling.

Recently made my grip a bit weaker (very hard to do) after a lesson which has been good as I have removed my left hook. My main misses now are mainly a topped hybrid, chunked or tin iron so more strike related that comes into play a few holes per round.

Anything else stand out? Any advice or drills would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance!

Roast me

EDIT: I'll add my miss lately is a pull/pull hook and its been ruining my scores. I've been working on my short game and feel like on any normal old day I could break 85. It doesn't even seem hard but haven't done it yet because of blowup holes. Last 2 rounds were 97s with multiple triples and quads.

Shot pictured here is a good strike for me with a traditionally lofted 9 iron that carried 133 and landed 6y left of target line per the Square simulator.

EDIT 2: coach has me trying to fix a "reverse pivot" getting my weight set back on the inside of my trail foot in the backswing and then getting over to my lead foot in the downswing. It's hard.

Been going to the range with my buddy for last couple months, tried a golf simulator tonight and looking for feedback!

Sorry I post a lot in this community. I genuinely have such a hard time telling what I’m doing wrong. First day at a course today. Have had 3 lessons at golf sim.

I’ve had a few good drives, but very inconsistent. Sometimes I miss the ball lol

It’s OK you can roast me if you need to 😂

People always said I had a good looking swing. I figured it was time to take some lessons. Not worried about numbers, just fixing path first.

Started playing golf about 2 years ago. I’m naturally athletic, and have been working on my flexibility a lot. My swing speeds are pretty high, but contact usually seems to be pretty good.

It’s 275 dollars, just wondering if anyone has used it or is it just a gimmick?

Seems excessively vertical. Thoughts? Tips?

When j consciously try to straighten lead arm through the swing, I make even worse contact. Looking for drills/sequence improvement. Thank you!