My warmup starts and ends with some chips. I use this as a means to remember what I was doing last time out. Memory being what it is these days, a short refresher is a useful tool. Yes, I know that writing it down might be a good idea too. But I find I usually don't remember to do that either. And then I'd have to remember to read it!
My chipping is usually pretty good. It's the short chips that are more of a bother than the long ones. Hard to be delicate and all that. I think a lot of that is that golfers worry about hitting the ball too far and end up hitting it with a weak tentative stroke, usually with some hand flip, a fat contact, and a ugly results. Best to be manly and wack it hard, IMHO. (A long slow swing is a fun and useful tool for this shot.)
I notice that I may be flipping a bit too. I steadied my wrists and started getting a good divot on the pro side of the ball. Is this an issue for my long irons and woods? Sadly I can't say. I chip before and after each round and found this in the after portion. I would have like to have tested that theory. Well, I'll be playing tomorrow and we shall see.
Otherwise the long game was fine. I worked on twisting the hips on all the shots. Contact was pretty good. All of the drives were up in the air. If I hit it on the screws, it was going quite high. My driver is setup to 9 and a half degrees. I may dial this down a bit if I can keep the contact good.
One of the other things I wanted to try was to spin into the shot without making any attempt to hit the ball. Just let the club come through and do the job in its own sweet time. This seemed to work and I will try to monitor this as I play.
Have you, dear readers, read the "Inner Game of Golf"? The mechanism used in the book is too monitor a condition that you want to change. The act of monitoring will change your mind's evil ways and produce the result you want.
For example, let's say I want to make sure my divot is on the target side of the ball. If I monitor that and assign a result number, one to 5 is what is used in the book, the mind will figure out how to do it.
Try it, it's free!
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