Stray Thoughts and Catching Up

Dear Readers,

I've been playing and in spite of the "answer" found in the previous post, have not solved it all.

However, the golf has actually been pretty good.  My driver is slowly moving from a problem to an asset and my length seems to be getting better.  When playing on Tuesday, I was getting to distances I have not seen before.  The area is still recovering from last week's rain and there is not a lot of run out.

I find that my main problem is that I don't remember what I was trying to do.  Probably due to too many ideas and I would be better if I worked on just one and thoroughly incorporated it.

For example, I realized today, that my left arm was not getting under my chin during full shots.  This might be due to a lack of shoulder rotation or just leaving the arms too low or slung around my back.

Of course all the "go left hard" stuff from the last post is forgotten as I try to do this.


The weather has been lovely as the rains left last weekend.  The sun is out and the courses have the sprinklers turned off.  The shoes are picking up less mud and the mowers are getting to almost all of the course.  The course are quite empty too.  So we go and play and never see anyone else!  Wonderful.  If I ever win a very large lottery, I'll have my own course with all the tee times in my name! 

But the nice weather seems to be bringing allergies too.  I had a migraine one day and my eyes and sinuses have been unhappy too.  But sunny warm days make it all worthwhile.

I have a day off tomorrow.  My old job wants some of my time; but I should be able to manage some range time.

One of the main things I'm trying (pardon my bouncing around) is to stay a bit stiller over the ball both in backswing and down swing.  This makes my swing more efficient and also - added bonus here - is keeping my back from hurting too much.  Ah, yes, there is the old pain on the lower right, which is ok, it's the lower left problems that really hurt.

One of my playing buddies has not read any of the Wodehouse golf stories, so I passed on volume.  He's finding them amusing.

I think that's the news.  If I think of anything else, I'll drop a line.