Driving range tips from the week.

honestly these tips probably will only help me, and my problem. But i like recording them here.

I figured out on the range yesterday that i definately need to keep my left foot solidly planted, to make for a good base.

Next, I'm young, i've got good range of motion, i need to take my backswing back full and open. Use my full range of motion.
--About the above comment: All of the sudden when i did this, I was hitting the straightest longest drives i have hit in a long time. In a verrrry long time.

Lastly, The grip. I need to have a good grip, and grip with my fingers. This is probably the single most useful change i've made in my game all year. I finally started gripping the club right. Because of it, i've gained a whole lot better feel, along with amazingly more consistant and straight hits.

Anyways thats all for my wisdom, mostly targeted at being reminders to myself.

lata

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The Home Stretch

Some days you deliver when you need to and other days you just dissolve. Over the summer I've had my share of both. Though this past weekend, i delivered. I didn't exactly post the most stellar score, though it was good enough to beat my playing partners by about 9 strokes. I was pretty much only 1 stroke ahead at the turn.

There was something that all of the sudden clicked in my swing as we made the turn. I don't know what it was. Maybe its that I remembered I shouldn't be letting my lower body move as much, or that i should pay attention to my left foot staying on the ground in my backswing. Thats a possibility. I don't know but all of the sudden things just worked.

What I think was the standout part of my game, was my use of the fairway woods. Every fairway wood i hit all day pretty much went straight where i wanted to. My driver also was amazingly cooperative when I pulled it out. This isn't to say i didn't hit some bad drives off in the woods. Mainly my biggest problem was unlucky hits on narrow fairways, as well as not picking the right club, and just plane spacing out on some shots, when i should have been choosing my shot a little better.

That'll kill you. If you don't come to address with a clear idea of what you need to do to the ball with the club you have, then how can you even hope to hit it good. You can't. I need to take shots a little more seriously sometimes. Most of my problem on the front nine, was my irons were all hitting a little before the ball pulling up dirt and just flubbing the ball. I don't know why i was doing it, but i just couldn't shake it for those first nine holes. I also missed some key short game hits.

Anyways.. thats all for now, just reflecting.

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Tiger dominiating

As most people may know, Tiger has won 5 in a row right now. He could come out in his next tournament and bomb, but who knows maybe we're on the cusp of something really special to unfold in golf. Could Tiger recreate his tiger-slam, along with not losing a tournament he enters in between? Thats be freakin amazing.

But anyways. Thats just a thought though.

For me, I'm golfing this weekend. I haven't played since the second week of august. I scored my best round of the summer that time though, and I'm hoping I'll be able to bring that same game tommorrow. Maybe I'll play even better. One of the things I always look forward to in a round of golf is having those shots where I feel totally comfortable. I'm walking up to the ball and I know what I want to do, then I just do it. No questions asked. I just take dead aim, and hit the ball where i want it. I've been having more of those moments throughout the summer. Though I've had an equal amount more of shots that just go horribly arye though as well. That sort of thing I need to cut down on. I also need to putt better. My putting this year has been horrid.

Personally I'm not all that great yet. My goals now are to be a bogey golfer. That seems like a high hope, considering my best round of the summer was 106. I think its reachable though. Maybe it won't happen this summer, but who knows maybe I could break a hundred, and honestly I'd be just fine with that.

But anyways I've totally diverged from my post heading. so this Post is fini.

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