Posted on 13 October 2008
I do now!!!
Well I don’t know where to start…I guess I can say that it is a good thing that I listened to Ray and changed the name of this blog from 12 months to greatness to journey to greatness because it only took 4 days
Quick background…I have been playing horribly all year. After getting down to an 8 last year I had extremely high expectations coming into this year and as you have seen from my ramblings on this page I had become a mental midget and in my eyes a horrible golfer with no end in sight. Last year I was shooting consistantly in the 70′s and this year I have been in the high 80′s to lower 90′s (see all my scores from this year below).
Well I finally got to see Chuck Quinton for a little 1 on 1 with the great one this past Saturday. I went there humbled with the expectation that I would be starting from scratch and that I would definitely probably be on a LONG road to improvement. I had booked 1.5 hour lesson with Chuck and I have to tell you it was the best investment I have made in my game in years.
I was a little nervous at first, after all I was going to see THE Chuck Quinton, and he has read all of my psycho ramblings on his site and answered all of my panic personal messages so this guy could easily think that I am a clown. But that feeling was squashed as soon as I got there because Chuck greets you with a huge smile and shakes your hand and makes you feel as if you are a friend that he hasn’t seen in years.
By the time I was finished with my lesson I felt as if I was just out there on the range working on my swing with a friend. I was extremely relaxed which I believed enabled me to better absorb the instruction that Chuck was providing and here is the kicker…I was all of a sudden hitting the ball the best I had all year long. It was incredible. I thought I was going to go there and have to start from scratch and an hour later I am compressing my irons and hitting them as straight as an arrow instead of slicing or pulling it off the planet.
So after mine and my dad’s (I took him to see Chuck…he is another thread all together) lesson was over we had to hang around for the wives to come and pick us up and we went in to grab a bite to eat. Well, Chuck came in and ate with us and hung out and then he went out to work on his swing a bit and invited us to hit balls with him until our ride got there…Think Leadbetter or Harmon would do that? I doubt it! Thanks Chuck for the experience it was incredible and you definitely have a student for life!
Ok now for the best part we were driving to my parents house after the lesson, they live in the Villages in Florida which is a golf haven, and Dad asks “Do you want to get a round in before you leave tomorrow” I said sure, but I cannot lie I was extremely nervous about what would happen…would I be able to carry Chucks lesson over to the course so early…after all if I go out and hack it up who knows what that would do to me mentally.
The course we played on was the Nancy Lopez Legacy and the yardage was 6550 with slope rating of 71.4/137….I shot 75 with two3 putt bogies!!! I hit 6 fairways (most others were first cut), 10 GIR, had 30
putts (2-3 jacks), and got up and down all six times using Chucks short game tips from the clinic.
My swing was a little tight b/c as Chuck said a lot of it is just a trust issue but man I was compressing the hell out of the ball and the ball was hissin’ like a mother off of my club, I can’t wait until I have 100% trust…sky is the limit! Talk about being fun again…Now I know it was just the first round and I have to maintain it but there is no doubt in my mind that it was not a fluke and I am in for an awesome ride!!!
If you haven’t had a lesson in person with Chuck what are you waiting for? Before you spend a ton on the next cool training aid or new club because you think it will produce the result you want I can’t stress enough that a lesson with Chuck would with out a doubt be the best investment you could ever put into your golf game!
