More Notes as I try to Remember the Good Times

This moving off of the ball and then staying there has changed the game Mr. Hume is familiar with.

There has been 9 holes under par -- a lifetime rarity - and others at even and one over.  I played the back 9 in one over in a 25 mile an hour breeze today.  I won't tell you how many close birdie putts I had, but I missed them all.

The driver is becoming a very favorite club and I'm turning my attention to my putting as the source of my current woes.

So the points I need/want to remember:

• A lateral move to the right during the backswing, using the shoulders to move the arms into position.
• Feel like I am coming down with the arms and leaving the shoulders turned away from the target.  It probably isn't like this, but that's what it feels like.
• If I do the above correctly, the arms feel like they run a long path to the ball contact.  If I shift my weight forward and slide, the swing feels faster, the result is worse, of course.

I was goofing off and remember a comment by Ken Venturi about letting the arms just fall and drop the club on top of the ball.  This is a strange feeling for me.  But you feel this long path effect as mentioned in the 3rd item above if you do this.  Worth the effort for the experience!

I tried to apply this falling arms to full shots and it works.  No real loss of distance and more control.

(Another fun thing is to putt while looking at the hole.  There are mental gymnastics going on when this happens.  Another interesting sensation for the wary.)

I brought out my 35th anniversary Ping n Ping putter onto the course for trials today.  It does make a lot of noise.  I putted ok.  It doesn't seem to have as much power as my Musty.  I left a few short, but the greens have been recently punched and it was blowing 25 or so, so I will draw no conclusions from this round.

The new Pings and other clubs have variable face patterns, which provide more efficiency to off center hits.  Look at the videos for Envroll putters on youtube - quite interesting.  I like the Evnrolls, but they are close to $500.  I'm still frugal.


Sadly, I must report the retirement of my Mizuno golf bag.  It was one of the limited edition bags from Japan that I found on Ebay.  I looked, but could not find any others.  I ordered a Sun Mountain 3.5 bag, which arrived today.  I like the pocket setup on the Mizuno better than the SM, but I gain a water bottle pouch!

The pockets are smaller for the most part, so I may have to lighten my load a bit.

That's all the news that's fit to print!