Not much to report. The weather has become a problem. It's been cold and wet. I've had a few days away from the range and have not played since last week some time.
I continue to watch the Bobby Lopez videos and they start to make more and more sense.
Which leads to the next question about learning. Why is it that one cannot draw it all in at once?
Perhaps the aperceptive mass needs to need to provide a foundation for the new knowledge. No foundation, then you can't build the next portion of the building.
I've thought that when I continue writing the golf book, one thing I will state is that everything your old pros has told you was true. But some of it you were not ready for.
I also learn towards the wag who suggested that no one can teach you better than you can teach yourself. There is a story in one of the Harvey Penick books about this. Tom Kite and Ben Crenshaw came to Harvey and wanted to learn how to hit a high lob shot. Harvey gave them a bag of balls and pointed them towards a tree on the course. "Get 20 yards away from the tree and hit balls until you can hit them over the tree." The story went that they figured it out. (Quote is probably not accurate, but the gist, the gist, rings true.)
So the next item to play with is to spin the shoulders and get the left shoulder behind my head when I swing at the ball. Not lurch it towards the target; but to pull it backwards.
It seems to generate a lot of speed and I can maintain the wrist angle -- or so it seems when I try it in the garage. Can I hit the ball that way too? Tomorrow may tell. My weather person has just informed me of a break in the rain!
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