Catching up 2/11/17

Hello reader,

Here are a couple of items I've been testing.  One must keep in mind that the things are right or not and also whether I can produce it correctly.

I'm trying to get a lot of my body out of my swing.  I'm progressing towards an arms start with the body to help as needed.  ABC is the memory help: Arms, then Body, then Club.

Also as part of this is to post  a bit on the left leg.   Use the body after the club has started down. 

Monte Scheinblum talks about starting smoothly and slowly to make the run with the hands and arms - get them off the chest.  You'll also hear this from Bobby Lopez and Tony Luczak too.  See all of them on youtube.

Tony also mentioned the karate chop hand position on the way down. 

I was at the range today and hit about 130 balls.  I found starting the arms to be fairly easy to do if I started slowly.  I lost no distance with this approach and my ball flight was a lot higher. 

It's tough to start slowly particularly with the longer clubs.  This was probably mentioned in chapter 3 of the Scottish Book of Golf Instruction in 1647, second edition. 

I also found it difficult to post to the left leg.  I like to slide a bit and thus we have a mental conflict.  But when I could do it, it worked well and my directional accuracy went up.  When I can't I push to the right.

When chipping, I'm working on the takeaway.  Too much inside and I push and too much outside and it goes left.  There is a sweet spot there!  I'm using my right hand in these as well, which is new to me.  It seems to add some speed.

I'm pretty happy with the items.  I am able to take a good whack at the driver and 3 wood with good results and avoid the huge slide. 

I played 3 days last week.  We are in the tail end a drought and the mud is thick.  I played the par 3 course a few times, the last round in even par.  I hit 8 of the 9 greens.  The distances range from about 80 yards to 190.  So there was a variety of irons in play.  The greens are large with a lot of tiers and such.  They are easy to hit, but the putts can be challenging.