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Dec 7th
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What does golf mean to you?
Dec 5th
This great game of golf means something diffrent to all of us.
Because this game is so challenging, it constantly inspires me to do better. I love the fact that although I can always get better, I’ll never master the game. Because it is an unmasterable game, similar to life. Lessons learned in golf, often apply to my real life.
Even when I don’t play well, there is always a reason to come back and play again. Whether it was an amazing drive, a great approach shot, or a missed opportunity, the game of golf never stops challenging you. That is awesome.
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Keys to eliminating over the top move
Sep 29th
As I’m working on the practice/swing actual swing issue I keep learning and experiencing keys to the swing. As I wrote, it was a shock to see for the first time the difference between my practice swings and my actual swings. I am more convinced than ever getting these to match (getting my actual swing to look like my practice swing) will be a game changer.
A few key swing thoughts are making a big difference.
1. Quiet upper body
If you look at a typical over the top move, what you will see is that a lot of things start to get funky in the upper body as the swing unwinds. Extra movements creep in.
How to build more clubhead speed with less effort
Sep 24th
I think that many of us, because we want to hit the ball far, end up with an over the top move. We are trying to use our muscles to speed the club head. So we start down quick. There are two problems with this:
Problem #1
We can’t sustain it.
If we start down quickly, we need to sustain it otherwise we end up slowing down before we get to the ball. This leads to an actual decrease of clubhead speed. If we were able to sustain the acceleration with our core turning quickly out of the way we would be ok. However most of us don’t have that kind of core strength or flexibility. Since we lack that flexibility and strenght, we then must allow our body to to catch up to the swing. However the way that we do this is we allow the swing to slow down to match up with the core. If we did not slow the swing down we would probably pull hook it. Read the rest of this entry »
Making progress on the practice swing/actual swing issue
Sep 23rd
Had a very good practice session. In the past couple of days some things have begun to click regarding this problem. I wish I had video’d todays practice session because I hit so many good shots, with what felt like a short simple swing (without any loss of distance). It is too early to call this issue resolved, and it probably will not be until I’ve fully internalized and ingrained the new feeling, or whatever this new feeling evolves into. I’m guessing it will take at least a few solid weeks of work to see the real fruits of this but I had a great ball striking day today. I will get into the solution as I become more confident that it is the right way to go but I will give a hint at it now. Gravity. That’s the hint, chew on that for a bit.
Short Game Practice – use focus to your advantage
Sep 21st
Although I do love full swing practice, I’m making it a priority to practice short game, especially if I can’t fit in a 2 hour full swing practice. I think even practicing short game for 20-30 minutes can make a huge difference.
Today although I didn’t get to use the driving range, I did get to use a really nice short game practice area. I worked on chips from about 15-20 yards, and my focus was to get them within the magic 3 foot circle. Because I knew that I wasn’t going to get the full swing practice I really focused on the chips. And I think that focus made all the difference. I made short little practice swings that felt right, then did my best to execute the practice swing. The practice green was really fast (much faster than I’m used to), I was chipping on a downslope, and the fairway around it was tight. I’d say that I got about 60% of my chips into the 3 foot circle, another 20% within 6 feet, and the last 20% between 6 and 10.
My 60 degree swiss army club
I was practicing with Tim yesterday and he was a little surprised that I do everything around the green with my 60 degree wedge. My initial reasons for using the 60 degree wedge exclusively was that I wanted to master one club before I added the others. I wanted to know that I could take one club to hit low running chips, low checking chips, high lobs, little cut lobs etc.
