My lessons

[MattF]

The time has arrived for my lessons with probably the top instructor in the NE Ohio area, Randy Dietz.

I got to Windmill Training Center in Macedonia about 20 minutes early for my lesson, checked in and they gave me a small bucket to warm up.

I got my clubs and shoes and headed off where I proceeded to get the shanks. Yes, I said it, the shanks.I have no idea where that marvelous piece of golf came from and I was not real happy, but I was there and it was time.

Randy took me to the end of the bays where he gives his lesson and asked me to hit a few while he took some video. I told him I literally got the shanks on the range and then ripped off shot after shot of great 6 irons. He said "what's there to fix?". Actually, there was a couple of things. I was a bit steep in my back swing and I was folding my left arm in in the follow through...think T-rex arms.

He had me get on his brand new plane station and work on that for a bit to get the feeling of a more rounded swing. I was asking a lot of why questions as I warned him I'm analytical and need to know the why things work. He also gave me a drill to do where you swing but instead of gripping with the right hand, you lay it flat against the shaft when you swing to make the left arm flat on the follow through and not fold in. He said it wasn't an easy thing to do but I did it on the first swing with a ball and heard "amazing" behind me. I did it again and heard "wow". On the third time he just laughed and said he'd never seen anyone get it down straight away. We ended the lesson with some half shots with the 9 iron them about 8 or so drivers. I was just hitting both so well with the driver carrying about 240 and not one that wouldn't have been in the fairway.

I'm very happy with Randy and hope that we'll see big strides in my game.

[DiscipleofPenick]

Awesome man!!!! So we'll play the gold tees next time I'm at Windmill.

I'm getting lessons this year too. Time to smooth out those last rough edges.

The time has arrived for my lessons with probably the top instructor in the NE Ohio area, Randy Dietz.

I got to Windmill Training Center in Macedonia about 20 minutes early for my lesson, checked in and they gave me a small bucket to warm up.

I got my clubs and shoes and headed off where I proceeded to get the shanks. Yes, I said it, the shanks.I have no idea where that marvelous piece of golf came from and I was not real happy, but I was there and it was time.

Randy took me to the end of the bays where he gives his lesson and asked me to hit a few while he took some video. I told him I literally got the shanks on the range and then ripped off shot after shot of great 6 irons. He said "what's there to fix?". Actually, there was a couple of things. I was a bit steep in my back swing and I was folding my left arm in in the follow through...think T-rex arms.

He had me get on his brand new plane station and work on that for a bit to get the feeling of a more rounded swing. I was asking a lot of why questions as I warned him I'm analytical and need to know the why things work. He also gave me a drill to do where you swing but instead of gripping with the right hand, you lay it flat against the shaft when you swing to make the left arm flat on the follow through and not fold in. He said it wasn't an easy thing to do but I did it on the first swing with a ball and heard "amazing" behind me. I did it again and heard "wow". On the third time he just laughed and said he'd never seen anyone get it down straight away. We ended the lesson with some half shots with the 9 iron them about 8 or so drivers. I was just hitting both so well with the driver carrying about 240 and not one that wouldn't have been in the fairway.

I'm very happy with Randy and hope that we'll see big strides in my game.

Take Dead Aim

[MattF]

42 minutes ago, DiscipleofPenick said:

So we'll play the gold tees next time I'm at Windmill.

Ah, no.

[tony@CIC]

1 hour ago, MattF said:

The time has arrived for my lessons with probably the top instructor in the NE Ohio area, Randy Dietz.

I got to Windmill Training Center in Macedonia about 20 minutes early for my lesson, checked in and they gave me a small bucket to warm up.

I got my clubs and shoes and headed off where I proceeded to get the shanks. Yes, I said it, the shanks.I have no idea where that marvelous piece of golf came from and I was not real happy, but I was there and it was time.

Randy took me to the end of the bays where he gives his lesson and asked me to hit a few while he took some video. I told him I literally got the shanks on the range and then ripped off shot after shot of great 6 irons. He said "what's there to fix?". Actually, there was a couple of things. I was a bit steep in my back swing and I was folding my left arm in in the follow through...think T-rex arms.

He had me get on his brand new plane station and work on that for a bit to get the feeling of a more rounded swing. I was asking a lot of why questions as I warned him I'm analytical and need to know the why things work. He also gave me a drill to do where you swing but instead of gripping with the right hand, you lay it flat against the shaft when you swing to make the left arm flat on the follow through and not fold in. He said it wasn't an easy thing to do but I did it on the first swing with a ball and heard "amazing" behind me. I did it again and heard "wow". On the third time he just laughed and said he'd never seen anyone get it down straight away. We ended the lesson with some half shots with the 9 iron them about 8 or so drivers. I was just hitting both so well with the driver carrying about 240 and not one that wouldn't have been in the fairway.

I'm very happy with Randy and hope that we'll see big strides in my game.

Sounds like he's a big help for you/your game.

Based on your recommendation when we played here in Florida, I've been communicating with Randy about a series of lessons for my wife in May. I'm going to coordinate that with her putter fitting from Trent. It's nice when a spouse is as enthusiastic about golf.  

[MattF]

Update time. I saw Randy again today and we worked on more lag (for want of a better term), more square to the target and flattening out my swing. It sounds like a lot, but it all works together and wasn't information overload.

[tony@CIC]

2 minutes ago, MattF said:

Update time. I saw Randy again today and we worked on more lag (for want of a better term), more square to the target and flattening out my swing. It sounds like a lot, but it all works together and wasn't information overload.

I really like his teaching style. Looking forward to our next lesson in a few weeks. 

[cnosil]

12 minutes ago, MattF said:

Update time. I saw Randy again today and we worked on more lag (for want of a better term), more square to the target and flattening out my swing. It sounds like a lot, but it all works together and wasn't information overload.

Hope the changes help.   Had my lesson today; made quite a few tweaks and hoping that I can incorporate them.