My swings a work in progress admits Els, ahead of PGA event at Wentworth

0 Comments | AFP, May, 2008

WENTWORTH, England (AFP) — Ernie Els admits his swing is no better than average as he tries to fine-tune his game with new coach Butch Harmon.

Els, who plays in the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth this week, turned to Harmon after opting to replace previous coach David Leadbetter but the South African is still not completely happy with his revamped swing.

"Technically I got out of whack. When I started working with Butch I was probably a three out of 10," he said.

"I'm slowly getting up to maybe five or six now and hopefully by the second major (next month's US Open) I'll be up to seven and going forward.

"David is a great friend and we'd worked together for 18 years. It was tough to tell him I wanted to listen to somebody else for a while, but I'm...