A Good Day

I was watching a video by Bobby Lopez on Youtube yesterday.  It was a rebroadcast in re the shoulder turn of Tom Watson.

The discussion led quickly back to Bobby's main point is that the golf swing is a shoulder rotation from behind the ball. 

He has a lot of videos on this and I will not dwell on the details.  Take a look if you are curious.

But I am here to report on how well it works.

I attempted to slide or lean backwards and then rotate hard from there.  To do this, the idea of "use the shoulders to rotate the arms back, then use the arms to come back down."  Bobby's words.

I was able to do this.  It was the best ball striking day of my remembered golf life.  Oh, I pulled a couple and hooked a couple of shots, but hit only one bad drive (old habits return at the damnedest times), but I was taking a rip at the ball and hitting it quite well.

The golf course has the greens punched and we played the front 9 twice.  A nine where I probably average 40 or so and smoothly shot 38 and 39 without any birdies.  The holes I usually feared, were trivial in their problems.

I wanted to play more and was not tired at all.  My lower back was happy and all was well. 

This is Tuesday; on Monday I played the back 9 twice, where my average score is a number of shots less and scored about 4 strokes worse than today.  And the greens were unpunched.

It is a different game when you know that you're going to be able to smack the ball.

I look forward to the future!