Controlling Your Rotation

Trying to square the club face also slows down the hit at impact..."swinging through the ball, rather than to the ball ," is my mantra!

Charlie

Credit also to your feeling of swinging smooth at what feels like about 3/4 of full speed. I'm playing tomorrow with a friend so I'll be trying to put the two together and just let it happen. Hope you're doing well and I'll let you know.

Lynn42

Charlie

Good stuff. I'm with you there, start easy and then increase the tempo. This whole learning topic brings up another question in my beady little brain (opens up a whole new can of worms). I'm sure there is a reason I prefer a traditional tree lined course as opposed to a links style course. My guess is I like a visually clearly defined path. Any thoughts?

Lynn42

CharlieY,

You wrote, "Being in the middle is ok as long as the person is able to chose the right side for each activity. It becomes a problem when you should chose field indepence but chose field dependence instead." I think you have identified part of my problem. Many times, when I am faced with a choice between the safe shot and the miracle shot, I choose the miracle shot, even when I know the safe one is right, just because I think I can pull it off. I make the shot so few times, it is a miracle when I do.

Thanks for the insight. Like SG said, it gives me something to ponder (as if I didn't have enough on my feeble brain already) LOL

Kevin

Kevin

In other news, another one of our own is clearly more famous than he lets on. Flipping through the Golfsmith catalog, I noticed that the personalized tees they sell say "Steve Smith." Hmmmmmm.

Jack

I can think of one big downside to being a "switch hitter." In some parts of this country, especially out in California, the term "switch hitter" can mean a person who "goes both ways."

I ain't like that,
Dick

How about,
IMPACT HAPPENS - GET YOUR MIND OUT OF THE WAY
I guess you'd have to have a lumberjack's back to fit all that on a T shirt though

One can spot niceness because they have it in them to do so
You're nice-o-meter tells me more about you than you meant to say
And you thought you were only exposing T's fine qualities

You remind me of my darling wife who has just clocked up 39 years of endurance with me
Boy is she a keeper

Always great lessons Surge. I HAVE A SITUATIONAL SHOT TYPE QUESTION. Sorry for the capatilization, I was just trying to grab your attention. My question is thus: My least favourite type of shot is when I am standing on a slope and the ball is well below the feet. You would think a person would hit thin but for some resaon I hit fat taking large divots. I feel out of balance and uncomfortable and can't find any rhythm for this type of shot. It doesn't matter if I'm hitting 7 iron, hybrid or wood, it is a struggle. Would you be so kind to suggest some correct stance and alignment solutions, possibly a video? Thank you very much in advance.
Greg C/Event organizer for www.bcgolfpages.com

Boogm

Great to hear from you pal.

We do have some fun on here. Can't wait till you are back with us on a regular basis.

Semper Fi,
Dick

Phil, The Masters web site is really improving every year. I think it's very cool how if you pull up the leader board you can scan until you find one of your favorite players and then they have key holes highlighted so you can simply click on it and watch that players every stroke on that hole. What I enjoy is being able to view each shot with only the crowd noise and no commentator. They show the tee shot and then each succesive shot until the final putt for that hole. Then it takes you back to the leader board to select what you want to see next. I have'nt tried the 3 D thing yet. Given the choice I'd much rather watch golf on line where there is generally less BS and more golf.
Was sad to see Tiger back up today with a 74. Yes inspite of everything I am still a Woods fan and would like to see him get it together again soon. Cool to see Freedy Couples play well. He and Woods are both -5. Unless he folds up it looks like Rory's got it. Should be a good show Sunday anyhow. Maybe the young Ausie will pull it out:)

Lynn42--there is a whole field of research on whether a person prefers A to B or B to A, so there could be several hypotheses about this preference for tree lined fairways. The first that comes to mind deals with how people differ in how they relate to energy fields that surround them. Steve Smith and I had a few exchanges about this. You can read up on the Internet by searching for "field dependent field independent". If you prefer tree lined fairways (prefer = desire instead of need), it may be due to being field dependent, and the trees make you comfortable, like guiding you down the fairway beteen walls; the links type course may raise your anxiety because of the vastness. However, if "prefer" = "need", where you learned that you need the trees to keep you from being distracted from the openness and freedom that you see in the wide opoen fairways, then it could be because you are field independent, know it, and have found tools to overcome it on the golf course.

I'm field dependent; I can walk a tightrope. I think that the energy in the field of the rope helps me focus my attention on it. If I see a physical line on a putt, like track marks leading to the hole right on my line, or if I'm on a putting green that has chalk lines to the cup, my percentages of making putts goes way up.

Try this if the situation works out for you--if you are on a green in early moring or late afternoon when the sun is low and projects a long shadow from the flag, leave the flag in, put your ball on the shadow line, and see how easy it is for you to move your putter on that line. Again, not proof of either FD or FI, but you can see if you are consistent==like the trees and like the shadow line. Oh, field independent people are very good at finding Waldo in "Where's Waldo. Field dependent people are too distracted by the other objects that they have trouble finding Waldo.

Kevin--I don't know how far you want to pursue this, but in your daily life, if you reflect on everyday occurances, do you tend to go for a little more risk or a little more safety? Do you find that you pass cars when perhaps you shouldn't? If there is someone you want to meet but don't know if you should go up and introduce yourself, do you (a) wait too long and miss the opportunity, or (b) go too early and find out that they weren't ready to meet people? If you review your actions in these kinds of situations and find that you tend to chose the risker side, then you are consistent if you go for the miracle shot. If you tend to make choices on the safe side, yet go for the miracle shot, then things become interesting.

Lynn

I am playing in the morning too. We will have to trade war stories when we get back on the blog.

Dick

"Something is probably what makes it go wrong" reminds me of a saying that I have tattoed in my brain when I'm making changes
The golf swing is like a suitcase that has too many things packed in it

Steve Smith:

Awesome Round! A feat I have never accomplished in nearly 45 years of trying. I have shot even par on both sides of a Long tough course many years ago -- but never on the same day. It was something like 36 + 44 = 80 and later, 48 + 36 = 84.

On the best day of my life 170 with a 7I ? No WAY! Way back when, that would have been an 3I - today a 3W.

Keep hitting them STRAIGHT and LONG

Amos

Agreed.

This Elite Group of Surgites keeps me coming back for more. Always willing to help with a Bloggers swing issue.

Phillip

Steve thats awsome!
Well done!

oh and Ball Striker Rons swing on your latest YT video, looks sweet.

Dick Lee:

Sad but true -- specially aobut California.

"I ain't like that either"!!!

Keep hittign them STRAIGHT and LONG

Amos