So how are things one week into the challenge?

I went to the driving range today after playing a round on the simulator with a friend.  The changes are good and they are sticking.  My irons feel crisp.  They are going for the most part to the target as imagined.  I feel like I can hit draws and fades pretty much at will and hit the ball solid.  I also don’t feel bogged down by mechanics.  I don’t have any swing thoughts.  Or at least it feels that way.  My only swing thought, if you can call it that, is visualizing the shot and feeling what my hands need to feel to create that shot.  Then it is a matter of executing.

I did a test to see how consistent I could be.  I picked the club that has historically given me the most trouble, the driver.  And I picked one shot to execute 20 times.  I decided on hitting a high draw.  Out of those 20 times, I had one shot, where I came over the top and the ball went left, although it faded back right and would have ended up in the left rough or left side of the fairway, and I had one shot that didn’t fade and would have ended up in the right rough, or or first cut.  The rest were beautiful high draws that would have landed on the right center of the fairway.

I had never done that.

It was very exciting to see those shots.  It really is still amazing to me, how feeling what your hands do can simplify the game.

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