Second Best Round Ever!

There were inklings out there...  On Monday I shot one under for the back nine at Las Positas.  That was rare.  There were some miracle pars in there to make it happen.  Hate to rely on that sort of thing.

Today I was applying some technique that I saw on Instagram.  The video was shot from behind a player and on his downswing he dropped his hands right back where they started and continued to rotate his body to finish the shot.  So no attempt to fling the arms or flip the wrists or much of anything else.

Hmm, I can do that and I don't think that is what I do for the most part.  I'm used to slowing the body to allow the arms to swing out and hit the ball.  However it looks from the clip that the arms are going to get to the ball without any help!  And in practice it works and works well.

I shot a one over front nine with one birdie and a three putt.  I was hitting the ball close and 15 feet was a long putt.  Only missed a couple of greens and couldn't get it up and down once.  I exploded out of a bunker and the ball leaped to land.

On the back nine I continued to hit the ball very solidly and rack up easy pars.  There were some miracle ones too.  Let me discuss 13, a 550 yard par 5.  I hook the drive under a tree.  Bang it out from there almost on the driving range.  I punch out with a 7 iron and almost hit a tree and bounce through a sand trap.  Then off a down hill lie I hit a pitching wedge to 15 feet and make a fast left to right slider, which if it hadn't gone in would have been 6 feet past the hole.  Ted looked up and said with a touch of irony, "Nice Par!"

I couldn't get it up and down from a fairway bunker on 14, but then chipped in for birdie on 15, made a 5 footer for birdie on 16 and putted from the fringe, it dropped, for birdie on 17.  On 18 I had a 20 footer for the fourth birdie in a row.  Hit a great putt, but left it on the low side.  It remained as a tap in for a one under 71.  Second time under par for 18.  All of 10 putts for the back nine -- Ted is my statistician and putts from off the green are not putts in his world view.

The swing is simpler with what I am trying to do.  The distances are good and possibly a bit better.  The sound of the club on the ball is different and inspirational. 

Off to Wente tomorrow, hope it lasts!