As mentioned on the ‘I had a lesson today’ thread, I’m committed to practicing more over the winter to implement some changes I’ll be going through during lessons. Intention is to go to the range at least once a week, twice of if I can. First lesson yesterday and I’m trying to remove an over the top swing, so it’s totally different.

I play actual golf every weekend with a bunch of lads, always in some sort of comp and they’re always qualifiers unless the course gets really bad. It’s a social thing as well as playing golf. I’d like to carry on doing that, but naturally I’m a bit concerned that my handicap will take a big hit if my range swing takes longer to transfer to the on course swing! We have a lot of OOB and trees!

What’s everyone else’s experience of this kind of scenario? Did you stop playing competitive golf whilst going through changes? Did you find that you went back to your old swing on the course and kept your range swing separate until you were ready to take it out on the course?

In my (higher handicap) opinion, you cannot have 2 swings on the go at the same time. You need to try and do the new swing at all times or it will never become your 'usual' swing. If you just revert to type on the course, you will just waste a lot of the lessons and the range time. Your handicap won't go up that much, despite what a lot of people on here like to think - a shot or 2 at most.

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