5/11/17 and 5/13/17 Updated!

I've been having trouble being in the proper position to let myself swing freely.

I've been thinking that I've been sliding forward and then having to do frantic things with the hands to hit the ball at all.

I was at the range today, because it was my day off from playing, and I found that indeed I was not maintaining my spline angle when hitting the driver.  Once I managed to stay there, then it freed a lot of things up.  I could swing at any speed I liked and still hit the ball without any manipulation of hands or anything else.

I tried this with the other clubs and was happy with my striking across all of the them.

I play tomorrow and we shall see how it goes.

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5/13

The play on Friday went well; though I didn't score particularly well.  I was very happy with a lot of shots, as much in how well they were struck than where they ended up.

I counted 16 good shots on the front -- I didn't count chips or putts in that, with only a few nasty shots. 

It was a strange round in that I took 2 triple bogies, which are quite rare in my normal play.  They included penalty shots.  I still managed a reasonable 81.

But my attempts to  "stay onside," or behind the ball worked pretty well.  Not perfectly, but I was happy with a number of utility shots.

I expanded on that during my practice session today, the 13th.  Friday's round was the 12th. 

I'm happy that I can do it and could do it for the most part on the course.  More repetitions to drill some of it in, should bring about better play and long game.

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There are some interesting things that occur at the bottom of the swing.  As the hands transition from a downward motion to an upward one, there is a moment where the left hand is going up and the right hand is still going down.  This is described as the moment where there is a snap effect in that the club should rotate around its center of mass and smash into the ball.

I think this is  the only place where the hands are doing different things.  Obviously this is a process that should not be "helped" or interfered with.  But perhaps, even encouraged and cherished.

Does it make the club head go faster?  Well, you are making a small move with the hands, but it is creating a large movement in the club head.  So I'm thinking it affects the club head in a large way.  Have I been blocking or interfering with this?  Hard to say.

My big question in re the golf swing is still is the different in club head speed between the pros and us duffers one of nature or technique?  Can I add half of the missing speed that the pros generate so effortlessly?