More Progress

I have not been keeping my many, many readers up to date in re my on going theory of the golf swing.

Lots of things have been going on.  The main points are that I am trying to turn and keep the body fairly stable over the ball.  Ok, not over the ball, but a touch behind it.  Thus no slide back and no need to slide forward.

Once I started that, I found that I had no need to manipulate the club with my hands.  They were, in the immortal words of Ben Hogan, "freewheeling through the swing."

Of course, and I include this only for completeness, that you can't be lunging forward in the downswing.  Maintaining the body location is required.

Can we do this or is more of an "easier said than done?" 

I can state with no reservation that this is all quite doable.

Today the pieces dropped into place.  I turned, I stayed, I cocked the wrists, I came down in the proper area, my plane was good, the club squared up, I kept the swing in front of me...  And the ball was very happy to go where I wanted it to go.

Distance, good, direction was the envy of my playing partners.

Even the driver, when I chose to pull it out, was operating properly.

Of course, there is always a fly in the ointment and the putter was a bit balky.  I had less than 10 foot birdie putts all over the course.  Never made a one. 

I was applying some of full swing items to the putter swing.  I was killing the ball!  It was zooming off and rolling nicely and it had the proper over spin.  All good, but the tendency was to hit it too well, too long, and I was not making all of the return putts.  On the front nine I shot 3 over with 3 three putts.   The back was equally solid. 

Add all of this to the fine weather and a good group of players.  It was a very fine day to play.  The swing items worked far better than expected.  I am very excited about those.  Maybe all that practice and thought has finally gelled.  It is all good.  I won't be playing tomorrow, but I'll get to the range and try to cement in some of the above items.