Making Progress

If you test something, you must, if you want to find the limits, go beyond sanity to the breaking point.

I'm recovering from a migraine, so this post might be a bit dark.  The sky is full of fire smoke, then there was the spackle sanding and finally the paint fumes that may have something to do with my sinuses being unhappy.

Ah, yes, back to testing...  Per a previous post the intention was maintain a better wrist cock during the swing.  But how much angle can you hang onto and how late until the swing?  Can you hold it too long? 

What I found today provided no answers to these questions.

But I did find that by holding the angle I could hit the ball a long way.  A very long way.

Let's talk about the 14th.  This is about 350 from the tees I was playing today.  Normally I find myself at about the 140 to 150 yard range for my second shot.  This is a tee shot of about 200 yards.  I'm getting old it seemed -- last week!  Ha.  Today with a bit of angle I am down to the 85 yard line.  I'm about 50+ yards further along the hole.

On the 13th hole, a par 5, I get to the green in two without using a driver.  I won't talk about the putting as children might read this, but I got there and the 4 wood off the tee went an extra 60 yards.

And so it went.  I was having problems because I was getting too close to the greens. 

Did I mention the irons were going longer too?  Well, they were.  Take the 17th, a short par 4.  I normally would hit a 5 iron to leave 120 or so into the green.  Today, getting a feel for things, I hit a 6 iron.  It doesn't end up 120 or even 100 out, it goes so far that it goes past the 100 yard stick and bounds into the pond.  The pond that was supposed to be out of reach!  (It was not all bad -- I found 3 balls in the pond fringe before I found mine.) 

The 7th hole is a short iron to start with.  It's a par 4.  Maybe a 6 iron from today's tees.  But I try a 7 and I'm 30 yards passed where I normally am.  Yikes!

So my score was not great, but the potential is lighting my imagination.   If these changes turn the long holes into medium ones, I may have to branch out and play other courses.