Transportation Issues

The title is a bit of a joke.  I was talking to Stan, a wizened teaching pro at the local range, and he mentioned a client who suggested he had a transportation issue, which was taking his swing from the range to the course.


I was off to Wente today and was hoping I could hit it like I did on Friday (Monday was a bit ragged, though not bad.).  For a large number of holes, by God, I managed.  What a feeling that the fairway was available and distances beyond 180 yards.

Actually most of my game is getting pretty sharp.  Oh, there were a couple of 3 putts and I stubbed a chip, but for the most part I could move it around the course pretty well.

The problem at this point is to make the proper swing most of the time.  It's so easy to slide back to old habits.  But that is an age old problem and not worthy of discussion at this point.  Though, solve that mystery and the one in re transportation and my fortune is made one more time.


I fear this blog is running into a brag fest, which I don't want to write about and I'm sure my many readers are not excited about reading.  To that end, what's next?


I've never found putting to be of much interest.  Actually the driver was not high on my list until it started to warp my psyche.   But as other parts of the game are getting solid, I must turn to the weak areas.

So, putting will probably be on point coming up.  I've started to try and give the ball a nice aggressive wack, much like one does when tapping in from a foot or so.  For the most part I think this will work.  I used it at Wente and didn't putt badly.  As mentioned the greens are difficult and there are putts where being very defensive is good policy.   It should eliminate the "left short" putt, but probably will increase the massively long putts.  The whole idea being to have all one's misses 1 foot beyond the hole.

I thought of a training game that would encourage getting to the hole.  Have all the players toss a quarter into the pot for each short putt and then divide the pot evenly at the end of the round.  One must adjust the amount tossed into the pot to be easily divisible by the number of players.  The guys I play with don't gamble, which is fine with me, but it looked like a means of sharpening the putting for a modest cost.


I think I have one of the Dave Pelz books upstairs, but it's on the short game, which I'm not really worried about at this time.  I've been getting up and down a lot and don't feel there are massive areas that I have to fix.  But maybe when the putting is better...



So some putting detail to come.