Well it was quite the experience at the driving range today. It was the first time in over 5 weeks that I had an opportunity to swinging a golf club. Today was the first day that the Murrieta Driving Range has been open since the Shelter-In-Place order was issued (3-17-20). For those of you that are just chomping at the bite to get back on the course and tee it up, well …., let just say I hope your first shots are nothing like mine were today. I suppose you could say I was a little rusty.
Just way too many bad shots. It is why this game is so hard and at the same time so fun.
I always start my practice sessions on the chipping green. I practice at varying distances and different targets. All in all, the chipping drills went better than expected. After I shagged the balls for the final time on the practice greens I took to the driving part today’s session. Yeah, now it was time to let it out.
I went for the 56 pitching wedge and about a ¾ swing for a good warmup. Setup felt good so here we go …
Ka-link – thud – bang … what a shank!
It went so far to the Right I think I hit a Fox News anchor. The next one wasn’t much better, but the third shot felt good and I hit it straight. But hey, it’s golf. It wasn’t long before I lost my stroke and then shanked another and another. Talk about having no feel for anything. I progressed up the set of clubs hitting about 5 balls with each club. Just to actually be fair and balanced I duck-hooked my 5 wood way Left and hit the CNN fake news staff. Yep, things certainly could have gone better today but I guess it was as good as I should have expected after a 5 week layoff.
As we all know, golfers always carry a valid excuse for missing shots. Because the layoff, I have been going to a Chiropractor for the past few weeks. Not exercising the golf swing muscle group really caused me to stiffen up in the neck. See now that sounds as valid as you can get! Well we must see how it goes on the next practice.
Can’t wait for the next range session or better yet, get a text from the guys asking “Tee times this Friday, who’s in?”
You’re killing me Smalls! 🙂