When your swing goes to pot, what do you do to get back in the groove?

Recently i had been playing well, then over the last three rounds my swing as gone to pot Yesterday for example my tempo was all wrong and i had the rhythm of a one legged donkey tap dancing.

Any advise will be much apprieciated.

Paul.

Dunno Paul, I'd like to know the answer to that as well.

Paul

Take you time and focus. Ive seen you play and you have all the potential to become a much lower hadicap player. I ain't gonna tell you how to suck eggs just go back to basics. i.e set up/address and play the percentage shot.  (unlike me!!!)

 All good advice above Paul. My way of getting back on track is to ensure I'm square (I'm guilty of either letting my left foot creep forward or move backwars over time) and shorten my swing to get back confidence.

Regroup and go back to basics:

Grips

Allignment

Posture

Stance

Remember your GAPS............

I just look at how you're playing and realise I'm not in that bad shape after all.  That helps me to relax and the natural rhythm takes over again. 

 Good acronym Robbie though you wouldn't like to see my grip

I have the same problem of getting into a good rhythym for a few rounds and then trying to lower scores by hitting the ball harder and destroying it.  Oddly it has happened twice recently when I've gone out to play on lovely still sunny days when I was sure a new low score was possible. 

Conversely I got my rhythym back on Thursday when I went out it a nasty gusting wind.  I hit my first drive off an elevated tee and watched it veer away on the wind ito the trees.  I then reigned my swing in and hit the ball well for the rest of the round. Maybe the answer is to play in adverse conditions.

The main thing is to get the basics right.

Make certain that you are set up correctly, don't grip the club to tightly and most importantly 'Swing Smoothly'.

If things are going wrong for you then don't make things worse by trying to hit your 'Best' shot every time.

This happens to me quite often, I play for a couple of months and everything looks good, then just when I think I've got is sussed, 'WHAM!!!' I have a bad round.

My bad rounds only last at worse about two weeks.

Russ