Things to Test...

I've been in the south of California this past week and while I talked a bit of golf, didn't manage to play any.

We drove back today and I went out to the range for a bit of time.  Alas it was cold and windy and all I did to chip and putt a bit.

I'm trying to incorporate all the stuff I used the other day to reach new levels of solidity with the irons.  I find that it all applies to the chipping as well as the rest of the game.

The method of keeping the angle of the hands and letting the club find its own way to the ball works quite well with the chipping too.  I realized that following through with short chips is a real good idea.  Seems if you stop, the hands do too much too early and result in fat shots.

Then I found that if I stroked all the way through the shot and still letting hands do their thing, seemed to work quite well too.  Something along the lines of the classical instruction to just stroke through the ball and not stop to hit it.

I have a lot of expectations for the morning.  I'm off to Wente, a course that requires a certain straightness and a bit of length.  It would be nice to be in control of the tee shot.

We shall see.


Monday night, 12/5

I wrote this about a week ago.  As I recall the drives were actually in control.  Nothing monstrously long but in play.  One out of bounds that led to the first snowman in a long time.

I also played today and lipped out a putt for 79.  There were a few three putts in there and the driver did get me in trouble a couple of times.  Irons were solid.  What can't I hit the driver like an iron?

That's the most perplexing problem.  I theorize that I take the wood around and the irons more up.  I hit one and not the other. 

I'm off to Wente tomorrow and they have a range, so I may test this before I play.  It would be nice to have the same level of trust.