I get bruises on my thigh from my irons. You know, when you take a full iron shot and on the follow through the club comes around over your shoulder and back? It frequently bangs into the outside of my right thigh. It doesn’t really hurt at the time but I always end up with bruises there. The shots are good, but I must be doing something wrong. We can’t be meant to hurt ourselves like that, right? Am I the only one?
March 3, 2009 at 5:08 am
Yes
March 3, 2009 at 5:11 am
Okay, smart aleck – then what do you suppose I’m doing wrong? Other than hitting myself with my golf club?
Any suggestions how to correct it?
March 3, 2009 at 11:02 pm
You could go all Arnold Palmer and lash the club up in the air in a helicopter move. Or, you could practice shortening your follow through, much the many people shorten their back swing for more control. Just the way you keep your left arm relatively straight on the back swing, if you keep your right arm relatively straight on the follow through, you can’t hit yourself. If you’re a lefty, reverse all that.
March 7, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Ohhhh, is that what that mysterious bruising is from? This whole time I thought it was something else entirely.
perhaps you should wrap your leg, if not your whole body in Charmin…remember those commercials?
March 11, 2009 at 12:50 am
I laughed at first, but realized you were serious. Maybe try some biking short with padding. I would not mess my good shoots with a swing change.
March 14, 2009 at 3:42 pm
Your wrists are way too loose, and you are probably arching your back too much at the end also – that’s the only way the club could make it that far back around. A follow-through is one thing, an uncontrolled one is another. Just my 1.5 cents …
March 25, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Probably not the ONLY one…but pretty darn close.
Try watching the pros in their finish position. Most finish with their left arm bent in pretty much a 90 degree angle with the shaft close to parallel to the ground. (I’m swinging a club and I can’t get close to my right thigh with an iron)
Oh – and WELCOME BACK !!!!!!!