It’s important to have some sort of goal or long term improvement to be aiming for in golf. All problems with your golf game can be fixed but only with the right instruction, practice and dedication.

Cheers

I’m very sorry about the delay in replying to you. I have been away on business and I’m just catching up to the emails and questions from my websites.
In your comments you mention ‘choking’ and my first question is ‘how do you know you choke?’
Greg I know you’re probably thinking that you know why you choke but what I want you to really think about is how you know you choke?
In other words I’m asking you to understand the experience of choking as you experience it.
When I choke I feel…?
When I choke I see…?
When I choke I hear…?
I know I’m choking when…?
Choking (whatever that word means to you) is your strategy for sabotaging your score.
It looks like the choke trigger has something to do with your score at a certain place in your round.
When you’re scoring well you are more than likely less aware of your score and just playing and enjoying shots.
However when you recognise that you’re playing well you trigger a strategy for trying to keep the score going.
In your competition model you need to just get back to focusing on hitting each shot to a highly defined target area.
You should discipline yourself to do this by constantly reminding yourself that you job is to hit each shot to the best of your ability.
Also you need to accept that most of these shots will not come off the way you want. (not even close at times)
But you will just keeping hitting each shot as it comes to you.
Go through the process of hitting a shot over and over and over.
Greg this will seem simple and possibly you are looking for more than this.
As I work nearly everyday with elite golfers with similar challenges quite often the easy is overlooked in favour of the more complex.
Keep your competition model simple and repeatable.
Create a routine that allows the suggestions above to happen and practice it until it becomes your new habit.
Let me know how you go.

Regards,

Lawrie

Thanks so much for your kind words. Luke Donald’s shaft angle in the mid-backswing position is very slightly inside inside the plane line (steeper).

One thing I have noticed about his game is that he practices his swing plane continually which has no doubt helped his accuracy with his short and mid irons.

Practicing your swing plane with the device you describe is excellent for developing an on-plane backswing and downswing.

Lionel thank you for taking the time to contact me, and the very best of luck with your golf.

I PRACTICE MY SWING PLANE INSIDE THE GARAGE AGAINST THE WALL WITH A LASER POINTER INSERTED IN THE BACK OF THE GRIP OF THE CLUB .THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN
Lionel (South Africa)

DG