February 2010 Entries
This weekends golf was a story of two days. I played at Theale on both Saturday and Sunday.
Saturday I played great, shot 77, great banter, really enjoyed myself. Here are the stats:
Fairways : 62%
Greens in Reg : 33%
Putts : 27
Scambles : 57%
Score : 77
Sunday I didn't seem to enjoy it, it was slightly colder, everything took longer as we were a fourball, the group wasn't as chatty
Fairways : 54%
Greens in Reg : 17%
Putts : 30
Scrambles : 40%
Score : 85
On Saturday I put one ball in the water - so in theory the score could have been a couple better. On...
You'll probably have noticed that I have not been blogging each day this week. Since reading The Game Before The Game I have realised that quality is much more important than quantity. I knew this before, but the book really drilled it home. Keeping count of how many balls I hit at the range and hours spent in the gym for a year would have been fun but it didn't really have any purpose. I suppose I had it in my head at the start of the year that I'd have to hit thousands of range balls and spend hours...
I've got a lot to write about from the practice drills that I have been doing recently from The Game Before The Game. I thought I'd start with two that have made the biggest difference so far. After playing the game for 2 years I'm still finding myself returning back to the basics time and time again - I guess people are playing for their whole lives and need to keep returning to their grip, posture and tempo.
Tempo
Up until now I've not thought about the tempo of my swing. When I've seen it on video I have always thought I...