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Normally I'm able to come back every season and find my swing by banging balls on the range. It usually takes 6-7 range session for me to find my groove and then I feel comfortable that I won't go out on the course and embarrass myself. From there its just fine tuning things and working to get the feel back in the short game. Coming back after rotator cuff surgery this year I just was not able to find anything that was playable, so I took some lessons. 

 

A club near us was offering a package of small group lessons with a different focus each week. We started with the full swing, driver, short irons, chipping & pitching and then putting. While each of the pros were very good teachers, each week there was a different pro teaching the class. And, each pro changed my grip from the grip the previous pro recommended. So now my hands are so screwed up, I'm struggling even more than before the lessons. 

 

So would you recommend picking one of the grips provided by the pros and just working through the normal uncomfortable time it takes to get used to a new grip or go back to what I have always done and see if I can find my own way again?

Driver: :cobra-small: Speed Zone 9* HZRDUS Smoke Yellow Shaft

3 Wood: :cobra-small: King Speedzone 13.5* HZRDUS Smoke Black Shaft

2 & 3 Hybrids: :cobra-small: Speedzone Recoil 480 ESX Shaft

Irons: :cobra-small: Speedzone 5-GW Recoil 460 ESX Shafts

Wedges::callaway-logo-1: PM Grind 54* & 58*

Putter: :odyssey-small: Dual Force Rossi II

Ball: Whatever I find in the woods

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I can attest to coming back from injuries and surgeries. I had a Weaver/Dunn procedure on my left shoulder in 2004. It was probably 5 months before I could hit the ball again.

 

I had a hamstring pull two years ago that took a couple of months to fully heal. I actually swung better and hit longer while I played with that injury...lol. Sometimes I wish I could pull the hammy again...not!

 

I had cataract surgery in 2016. I couldn't hit the ball to save my life for almost two months. I topped everything!

 

Like RP58 said...don't be in a hurry, it will come back.

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Ok as most of the old timers on here know I am not a swing guru or student of the swing

On the grip part I will tell you to pick a club up and grip it naturally. That provides a comfortable tension free grip. Do not think about the grip that creates tension. Go on U-tube and look at the different grips of different players. LOL according to the "golf gurus" of the time Paul Azinger had a terrible grip but IMHO he did pretty darn good with it. 

 

Too much conflicting golf instruction will overload your mind trust me. My MD got a case of that. With his great mind he absorbs information like a sponge and stores it up. That in itself creates confusion and thus tension. He had gotten the golf bug so bad he had read everything he could and watched the GC instruction all the time plus he ordered every instructional tape he could. He came to me> Now I told him as I did you in the beginning I am not an instructor or student of the swing. I was on the range with him and he had stored so much information that he absolutely could not hit the ball period. I showed him what the hitting zone was and the position of the club head. I remember he brought up about the position of the club in the back swing. I got frustrated and told him I could care less if he pronated or supernated on the backswing or if he chicken winged it or not or if he had the clubface open or shut at the top. I further told him I could care less if he hit either cheek of his a** on the way up or down. Just deliver the club in the hitting zone where I showed him and to finish what he started on the follow through. Ended up putting the range ball on the stripe and putting a X on the face of his club where to hit it. He concentrated on that and forgot the rest and went to hitting it. I also used what had became my famous line. "Don't sweat it just hit the frigging ball". Look on U-tube at all the great players over the years from any era all of them have different swings and grips but the delivery point is in the same place. I know sounds like Bobby Clampett but guess what he is right.

 

RP gave you some sound advice in statement #2 of his post. If you feel you need an instructor stick with one you are comfortable with and have confidence in. Then practice and I mean practice what he/she tells you to do. Instruction by a good instructor is no good at all if you do not practice what they instruct you to do. Do not listen to any other instructor or watch those guys on The Golf Channel

 

I will tell you one last thing and it goes with what I have told you and anyone else and it is strictly my opinion--- "There is not one etched in stone absolute proper way to swing or play this game"

Hope I helped you some 

Driver ---- Callaway Big Bertha Alpha  Speeder 565 R flex- 5W TM V-Steel Fubuki 60r--- 7W TM V-Steel UST Pro Force Gold 65R----- 9 W TM V Steel TM MAS stiff---- Irons 2015 TM TP CB Steel Fiber 95 R--- GW Callaway Mack Daddy 2 52* shaft unknown junk pile refugee. SW Callaway PM Grind 56*  Modified sole grind--- KBS Tour Wedge-- LW Vokey 58* SM5 L grind--- Putter Ping B90I Broom Stick 

 

 

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After a major life altering surgery.I would recommend just listening to yourself for a while.Most golf teachers don't have a medical background.Go with natural for a while and just focus on tempo and contact.Once you gain some confidence again.Seek a teacher that specializes working with post recovery swing teachings.They are out there.

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