A Pan At Sea, Eh? Or something like that?

I took my triggers to the course on Friday.

Now what you have to know about golf and shooting as it turns out, is that if it's tough out there for you, it might be the general conditions and it's tough for everyone.  I have stories to tell about that, but basically don't give up hope!

To remind my dear reader(s), the triggers were to try to have the heel of the club come into the hitting area and when putting, try to exaggerate the follow through.  What the triggers were designed to do was to keep me behind the ball and not trying to help/flip the club to square it up, and with the second trigger, make sure I started the putter on line.

Well, as the title hints, it was no panacea.  But as the second paragraph suggests, it might have been a tough day.   Golf courses change with the weather and the maintenance crew's labors.  No one could make a putt for instance on Friday.  On Wednesday everything was dropping.  I think the pins were in places where the breaks were subtle.

My tee to green game was better than average.  There were some highlights as the 240 yard drive on hole 5 would attest.   Normally a difficult hole for me to get too, but Friday it was driver and nine iron.  Not driver, chip out then 6 iron.  Being long and in the fairway are very useful things...

In re the use of triggers: I think this is quite useful.  It seems to work as memory aid and allows me to keep the swing thought active the whole round.

I went to the driving range on Saturday and was swinging very well.  The new trigger for that was to make sure to rotate the arms around and not fling the club head.  It feels like a slower swing, but the contact was very good, trajectories were very high and the distances were good too.

Should one seek perfection?  It's, in my humble opinion, a relative measurement.  Perfect for me might be an 80% rate of very good club - ball contact.  My distances will never be pro like, but hitting them as squarely seems to be possible.

So I'm going to run with this trigger idea for a while.  I think the triggers from last week led to the new one for this week, which suggests progress was made.


Sonny, who has been mentioned in the blogs a couple of times, tried out for the Senior Open -- I'm not sure what event it was, but I asked him if he would like to do a guest blog post.  He has agreed.  So look forward to that!