Notes for November 16 16

I was going to call this post "Shower Thoughts" as I had some inspiration this morning as I was cleansing the old bod and getting some hot water on the back before today's round.

I seem to have forgotten the exact thoughts I had, so in order to preserve my spotless accuracy scoring, I renamed the post.

But like a few other posts, the issue is the driver and why it's so different to hit than the "club of high confidence" which are all the clubs less in length than an 8 iron or so.

I think the shower thought was about how to keep my head behind the ball.  It was the one goal for the day.

I was actually able to do this.  My backswing was much more of a turn and had no lean or slide going back -- head stationary, weight shift as the shoulders turned.  Then I was able to get my lower body in front to brace (ah, that was the shower thought, keep the left leg firm and muscles tense!) the left leg and allow me to present the club as I came through.

I was pretty happy with this.  I hooked a couple, but nothing bad.  Better yet, I was able to do this swing with all the clubs. 

This seemed to cure my push of the irons.  I did pull a couple however, but nothing like a bit of variety!

I'm still not quite in the right position to really wack the ball on the occasional drive, but it went well and I was quite confident in my expectation of where the ball was going to go.

It was a coolish day with Justin, Ted and Jerry at Las Positas.  The greens were a bit uneven in pace, which thought might be due to the weather.  As mentioned above, I was not particularly interested in the short game and I missed a lot of short putts. 

We played the blue tees and there are holes I can't get too without a good drive.  That turned a lot of it into a pitch and putt contest.

Tomorrow Geno comes out of retirement and we'll see how the changes work for a second round.  Remembering how to do this stuff and even to do it, is the real struggle.  With the swing changes being used with all the clubs should help me make it stick in the old brain box.