The Plan Continues

It was another cool, windless morning at the Las Positas golf course.  The sun was buried behind amorphous clouds that would take a number of holes to burn off.

The seniors had made the turn from their backed up shotgun start.  Our usual group of intrepid golfers were off on their Monday round.  Sadly, a number of our regulars were absent.  Rich II, a usual stalwart member, was off on another course with his third golf group -- he does play around. 

Dick, aka Rich 0, wanted to play the forward tees as the Wednesday contest would be played from there. 

So off we went onto a strangely dry course.  Normally the dew and left over watering makes for some heavy grass laden with juice.  It finds its way into all shoes and, rumor has it, capable of dissolving glue on some usually good shoes.

Playing from the reds was fine with me.  I could work on my iron game and not worry about trying to hit long drives.  And so it went.  I've made changes to keep the ball to the left of my head through out the swing and it's still doing a wonderful job.

My length with the clubs has gotten longer and as I'm trusting what I'm doing, the distance continues and it's become nearly effortless.

One of my other swing thoughts, there has to be at least two, is to allow the club to swing and slap the ball as it comes into impact.  No longer trying to drive the hands past the ball, just let the club come around and the momentum from all of that to bring me out and up from the hitting position.

I was hitting everything with the utmost confidence and thoroughly enjoying every hit.

How did you score?  I hear you ask.  Not badly, a smooth 76, which pretty common these days.  I had a three putt and did hit one tee shot into a bunker, which cost a stroke.  But two birdies and 15 greens in regulation.  There were a couple of lip outs.  It all could have been better and I can't see that it could have been worse.

All fun, all good.  But, yes the driver needs to be hit the same as the other clubs.  I'm looking forward to that day.  And I suspect that it might be fairly soon.