Monday, July 23, 2018

When a Plan Comes Together

My newest swing vision is drop my hands about knee high then move them horizontally past the ball.  The club comes along when it does; I make no attempt to square it.

Of course my hands don't get that low and there is a vertical component as I come through the ball.  But the important thing in all of this is that I remain behind the ball and move the club past the ball without trying to help it.

I didn't miss a tee shot today.  "You seem to have fixed your duck hook," said Rich II at lunch.

14 straight drives might be statistically significant.  It is much better than 2 good ones and 12 bad ones. 

Being me (or is it being I?), I applied this new swing thought to my iron game too.  That worked just fine, though I did find myself over a couple of greens.  Solid contact and more speed can create some interesting effects.

The new issue that showed up was when I hit pitches and chips around the green, the ball is coming out a lot softer.  It left me short of where I wanted to be a number of times.  I'll recalibrate that and swing a bit longer with them and it should work out quite well.

What was also different is that the holes I normally have trouble with, I easily parred today.  And some of the usual easier holes were silly bogeys. 

All in all it was a pretty simple round of golf.  Rarely in the rough, always well off the tee.  Layups on par 5s were with middle irons -- I frequently found myself about 20, 30, 40 yards closer to the hole that I was used to.  It's a lot easier to lay up from 260 yards than 300.

Great news on the lunch front, Costco has fixed their frozen yogurt machine!  This was broken along with one of the soda machines and also all of the machines that create some frozen fruit thing that only Anti-GMO Organic types order.  It's the nice touch after the round and it was missed.

I'll probably get out tomorrow.  Wednesday is an early round.  More news when I get it!


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