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Lesson
How to make swing changes stick
Jan 12th
Recent experience has taught me that you need two things to make swing changes stick. Practice and time. Now while these may seem self evident there is more going on behind the scenes in the subconscious mind than meets the eye.
We’ve all heard the phrases “Practice makes perfect” and “Perfect practice makes perfect”. We all know that tour players have practiced all their lives to get the level they are at. The thing is that they are not always practicing the same things in the same way. They have built up enough skill level, that as they dial one thing in, they can work and address another part of the game.
What am I getting at?
As amateur golfers we don’t have the luxury to practice to practice like a tour player. In fact, for most of us, we rarely get to practice. I’ve tried to combat this by investing in some things that bring the practice home, and while that does address much of the problem, there is another part of practicing that has to be thought through as well.
A half-day with my coach Eben Dennis
Jun 1st
On Friday, May 21st I spent a half day with my coach Eben Dennis at The Links at Hiawatha Landing.
We started out at the driving range working wedges down to the driver. During that part of the session we reviewed some of the principles of Power Feel Golf on which my game is currently based. The main concepts we went over were how control and vision create dynamic balance.
Control is partly achieved by how you hold the club. We found that I was actually holding the club with the face a bit closed to compensate for shots left out to the right. Holding the club with the face square to the target felt a little bit strange but I understood that it was the right move to make, as I have been working on simplifying my swing and eliminating compensations.
Today’s round with stats
Nov 9th
What a beautiful day today. It’s early November and I got to play a round with with a temperature in the mid 60s.
Still working on the stuff from my lesson and my ball striking was definitely off today. It is difficult not to be mechanical when trying to apply what I’ve been working on since the lesson last week.
I hit a few really good shots, and I had an ok score, but it was difficult trusting my swing. I’m sure that things will get better, and I have the whole winter to get my swing improved so having a mediocre round is not a big deal. It was nice to be out there though.
Stats for the round:
Lesson 11-5
Nov 5th
Lesson 11/5/2009
I’ve decided that over the winter I’m going to get some lessons and refine my swing. My goal is more consistency and accuracy. I think I’m already long enough that I don’t need to worry about distance as much as accuracy.
We worked on a few different things today:
Backswing
On the backswing I need to get my swing a little flatter. The swing thought is to get my hands over my right heel. This puts me on a better plane. At first it felt strange. It felt really flat, but what it did was it gave me a more compact backswing. Read the rest of this entry »
