Monday 10/24/16

My how the month has gone by.  At this rate retirement will seem to be over before it's well begun.


So the swing thoughts for today were to take the club back inside and not worry about it.  Also I have a request for GIR numbers and 3 putts.  I found myself paying a lot of attention to those numbers as I was playing and have come to the conclusion that I play better if I don't think about that sort of thing while playing.


It also seemed that those numbers may not be particularly useful depending on what I am trying to learn as I'm going along.

I don't record scores, nor do I have an index.  It is more a journey in discovery and learning.

I was also trying to pop my putts a bit - the back swing being 1/3 of the follow through to get an accelerating action through the ball.

Some numbers:
GIRs   13  Maybe being pin high would be useful to track?
3 Putts - 2 - playing around with a new putting stroke was an issue, also the greens were a bit slow
Pars - 11
Birdies - 2
Bogeys - 5 or 6 (one was a penalty stroke as the water jumped in front of a wonderfully hit utility club on the tricky 3rd hole!)

Score looks like it was in the high 70's, though it didn't seem that good at the time (I'm taking some liberty with some gimmes).

I lost strokes due to bad drives once, which is a very good event.  It's been times where instead of two bad drives, it's been 2 good ones.  I'm still sliding a bit instead of getting the lower body going first. 

I found that I was hitting the ball further - irons were recalibrated to 10 yards longer.  My carry distances were very good.

My direction was excellent with maybe 2 balls off line far enough to hurt.  One topped shot.

Tomorrow on a longer course with more terror if the fairway is missed.  Updates then!

As I played along, I got to thinking about trying to accelerate through all the shots, rather than to hit the ball.  The times I tried to do this, it seemed to work.  I want to think about it some more and do some testing.