A buddy called me up yesterday and asked if I wanted to come out and
fill in a slot in his foursome at a charity scramble tournament. Even better, the guy who had to bow out said he was fine paying for the
tourney, even if he wasn't playing. Like beer, the best kind of golf is
free golf (I'll have to see if I can offer Patrick something in recompense)!
And as coincidence would have it, a few days earlier, I'd stumbled
across a series of YouTube videos produce by Golf Digest with Tiger
Woods called "My Game". In 12 videos, Tiger breaks down aspects of his
game from practice to the mental game, and I've seen about 10 of them now.
The tagline at the beginning of each video is "a golf lesson you've
never had", but I don't think they're really lessons per se.
What they are, is very inspiring. To see an athlete of that calibre
working on his game, showing how me thinks about and executes shots just can't help but give you some thoughts you can use to improve your own game.
So with an 8am shotgun start only about 14 hours away, I headed down the range with a couple of those thoughts to see if I couldn't play a little better than the last time I'd been out.
I worked on taking it back lower and slower, getting fully loaded on the right side and then just aggressively rotating the body through the
shot; basically focusing on the body's movements and trusting my hands
to do the right thing.
And what do you know! I probably found one club more distance and some seriously good contact. When I got to Mayfair Lakes at 7:15, I took a
few balls out the range to try and solidify (or at least remember) what
I'd been doing the evening before, and after a couple of shanks to
start, I found the groove again.
As a team, we were only -4, and that's just not good enough to win a scramble (suspiciously, the title sponsor's foursome won with -14, which seems a little low). We had 4 or 5 decent chances to make birdie on our first 6 or 7 holes, but we managed to just miss. But I was the go to guy
in the group for bombing one out there after someone else had got us in
the fairway, my iron play was pretty sharp, and it felt good to be back
in the role of team workhorse.
And I did manage to roll in 2 of the 5 birdies we made later on in the round.
The decision to play starting at 8am seemed curious, but with the heat
that we're now getting in the early afternoon, it was great to be
driving off the course at 12:30 for lunch in the air conditioned clubhouse.
If you haven't seen the videos, I do recommend them. I think anyone who
is halfway serious about his (or her) game will take something useful
away from them.
<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw_ncqmg1TdH3GIaxCqiiyT1CddeqVT7w>
A buddy called me up yesterday and asked if I wanted to come out and
fill in a slot in his foursome at a charity scramble tournament. Even
better, the guy who had to bow out said he was fine paying for the
tourney, even if he wasn't playing. Like beer, the best kind of golf is
free golf (I'll have to see if I can offer Patrick something in recompense)!
And as coincidence would have it, a few days earlier, I'd stumbled
across a series of YouTube videos produce by Golf Digest with Tiger
Woods called "My Game". In 12 videos, Tiger breaks down aspects of his
game from practice to the mental game, and I've seen about 10 of them now.
The tagline at the beginning of each video is "a golf lesson you've
never had", but I don't think they're really lessons per se.
What they are, is very inspiring. To see an athlete of that calibre
working on his game, showing how me thinks about and executes shots just can't help but give you some thoughts you can use to improve your own game.
So with an 8am shotgun start only about 14 hours away, I headed down the range with a couple of those thoughts to see if I couldn't play a little better than the last time I'd been out.
I worked on taking it back lower and slower, getting fully loaded on the right side and then just aggressively rotating the body through the
shot; basically focusing on the body's movements and trusting my hands
to do the right thing.
And what do you know! I probably found one club more distance and some seriously good contact. When I got to Mayfair Lakes at 7:15, I took a
few balls out the range to try and solidify (or at least remember) what
I'd been doing the evening before, and after a couple of shanks to
start, I found the groove again.
As a team, we were only -4, and that's just not good enough to win a
scramble (suspiciously, the title sponsor's foursome won with -14, which seems a little low). We had 4 or 5 decent chances to make birdie on our
first 6 or 7 holes, but we managed to just miss. But I was the go to guy
in the group for bombing one out there after someone else had got us in
the fairway, my iron play was pretty sharp, and it felt good to be back
in the role of team workhorse.
And I did manage to roll in 2 of the 5 birdies we made later on in the
round.
The decision to play starting at 8am seemed curious, but with the heat
that we're now getting in the early afternoon, it was great to be
driving off the course at 12:30 for lunch in the air conditioned clubhouse.
If you haven't seen the videos, I do recommend them. I think anyone who
is halfway serious about his (or her) game will take something useful
away from them.
<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw_ncqmg1TdH3GIaxCqiiyT1CddeqVT7w>
If you haven't seen the videos, I do recommend them. I think anyone who
is halfway serious about his (or her) game will take something useful
away from them.
<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw_ncqmg1TdH3GIaxCqiiyT1CddeqVT7w>
On 2022-08-19 17:11, Alan wrote:
If you haven't seen the videos, I do recommend them. I think anyone who
is halfway serious about his (or her) game will take something useful
away from them.
<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw_ncqmg1TdH3GIaxCqiiyT1CddeqVT7w>A bit of a follow up.
First, if you enjoy the first "season" of the "My Game" videos by Tiger, there is a second "season" as well. It's just that for some reason, Golf Digest has failed to create a playlist to which I can point you.
Fortunately, you can search the channel and find them all anyway:
<https://www.youtube.com/c/golfdigest/search?query=shotmaking%20secrets>
Second, I've definitely got some renewed interest out of this, and I
took three thoughts down to the range tonight to try and make permanent
the things I was working on last week:
Width
Connection
Rotation
Width: make a wide turn back to keep any slack from creeping into the system.
Connection: this leads to a feeling that the motion of the body will instantly be transmitted down the chain.
Rotation: so you can focus solely on rotating the body aggressively
through the ball with absolutely no conscious though of the release of
the club at the bottom.
With all of that, I was hitting the centre of the face more often and probably about a club longer than I would have been expecting just a
couple of weeks ago.
I also discovered my range card still has about $100 worth of range
balls on it, so I think I'll be making the range an at least twice
weekly event.
On Tuesday, August 23, 2022 at 11:25:27 PM UTC-4, Alan wrote:A bit of a follow up.
On 2022-08-19 17:11, Alan wrote:
If you haven't seen the videos, I do recommend them. I think
anyone who is halfway serious about his (or her) game will take
something useful away from them.
<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw_ncqmg1TdH3GIaxCqiiyT1CddeqVT7w> >>
Second, I've definitely got some renewed interest out of this, and I
First, if you enjoy the first "season" of the "My Game" videos by
Tiger, there is a second "season" as well. It's just that for some
reason, Golf Digest has failed to create a playlist to which I can
point you.
Fortunately, you can search the channel and find them all anyway:
<https://www.youtube.com/c/golfdigest/search?query=shotmaking%20secrets>
took three thoughts down to the range tonight to try and make
permanent the things I was working on last week:
Width
Connection
Rotation
Width: make a wide turn back to keep any slack from creeping into
the system.
Connection: this leads to a feeling that the motion of the body
will instantly be transmitted down the chain.
Rotation: so you can focus solely on rotating the body
aggressively through the ball with absolutely no conscious though
of the release of the club at the bottom.
With all of that, I was hitting the centre of the face more often
and probably about a club longer than I would have been expecting
just a couple of weeks ago.
I also discovered my range card still has about $100 worth of
range balls on it, so I think I'll be making the range an at least
twice weekly event.
Take it slow out there Grandpa. Trying new golf moves can be a
strain on the body. If you are at the practice range, take rests
and drink plenty of fluids. An old guy like you, we want you around
a long time. We need a million more posts, and that means a million
more laughs!
A buddy called me up yesterday and asked if I wanted to come out and
fill in a slot in his foursome at a charity scramble tournament. Even better, the guy who had to bow out said he was fine paying for the
tourney, even if he wasn't playing. Like beer, the best kind of golf is
free golf (I'll have to see if I can offer Patrick something in recompense)!
And as coincidence would have it, a few days earlier, I'd stumbled
across a series of YouTube videos produce by Golf Digest with Tiger
Woods called "My Game". In 12 videos, Tiger breaks down aspects of his
game from practice to the mental game, and I've seen about 10 of them now.
The tagline at the beginning of each video is "a golf lesson you've
never had", but I don't think they're really lessons per se.
What they are, is very inspiring. To see an athlete of that calibre
working on his game, showing how me thinks about and executes shots just can't help but give you some thoughts you can use to improve your own game.
So with an 8am shotgun start only about 14 hours away, I headed down the range with a couple of those thoughts to see if I couldn't play a little better than the last time I'd been out.
I worked on taking it back lower and slower, getting fully loaded on the right side and then just aggressively rotating the body through the
shot; basically focusing on the body's movements and trusting my hands
to do the right thing.
And what do you know! I probably found one club more distance and some seriously good contact. When I got to Mayfair Lakes at 7:15, I took a
few balls out the range to try and solidify (or at least remember) what
I'd been doing the evening before, and after a couple of shanks to
start, I found the groove again.
As a team, we were only -4, and that's just not good enough to win a scramble (suspiciously, the title sponsor's foursome won with -14, which seems a little low). We had 4 or 5 decent chances to make birdie on our first 6 or 7 holes, but we managed to just miss. But I was the go to guy
in the group for bombing one out there after someone else had got us in
the fairway, my iron play was pretty sharp, and it felt good to be back
in the role of team workhorse.
And I did manage to roll in 2 of the 5 birdies we made later on in the round.
The decision to play starting at 8am seemed curious, but with the heat
that we're now getting in the early afternoon, it was great to be
driving off the course at 12:30 for lunch in the air conditioned clubhouse.
If you haven't seen the videos, I do recommend them. I think anyone who
is halfway serious about his (or her) game will take something useful
away from them.
<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw_ncqmg1TdH3GIaxCqiiyT1CddeqVT7w>
On 2022-08-27 07:38, Irving S wrote:
On Tuesday, August 23, 2022 at 11:25:27 PM UTC-4, Alan wrote:A bit of a follow up.
On 2022-08-19 17:11, Alan wrote:
If you haven't seen the videos, I do recommend them. I think
anyone who is halfway serious about his (or her) game will take
something useful away from them.
<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw_ncqmg1TdH3GIaxCqiiyT1CddeqVT7w>
Second, I've definitely got some renewed interest out of this, and I
First, if you enjoy the first "season" of the "My Game" videos by
Tiger, there is a second "season" as well. It's just that for some
reason, Golf Digest has failed to create a playlist to which I can
point you.
Fortunately, you can search the channel and find them all anyway:
<https://www.youtube.com/c/golfdigest/search?query=shotmaking%20secrets> >>
took three thoughts down to the range tonight to try and make
permanent the things I was working on last week:
Width
Connection
Rotation
Width: make a wide turn back to keep any slack from creeping into
the system.
Connection: this leads to a feeling that the motion of the body
will instantly be transmitted down the chain.
Rotation: so you can focus solely on rotating the body
aggressively through the ball with absolutely no conscious though
of the release of the club at the bottom.
With all of that, I was hitting the centre of the face more often
and probably about a club longer than I would have been expecting
just a couple of weeks ago.
I also discovered my range card still has about $100 worth of
range balls on it, so I think I'll be making the range an at least
twice weekly event.
Take it slow out there Grandpa. Trying new golf moves can be aShow up at my course any time you want.
strain on the body. If you are at the practice range, take rests
and drink plenty of fluids. An old guy like you, we want you around
a long time. We need a million more posts, and that means a million
more laughs!
Better yet, show up on the ice for a men's league hockey game.
Of course, you'll have to have a real name, won't you?
On 2022-08-27 07:38, Irving S wrote:
On Tuesday, August 23, 2022 at 11:25:27 PM UTC-4, Alan wrote:A bit of a follow up.
On 2022-08-19 17:11, Alan wrote:
If you haven't seen the videos, I do recommend them. I think
anyone who is halfway serious about his (or her) game will take
something useful away from them.
<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw_ncqmg1TdH3GIaxCqiiyT1CddeqVT7w>
Second, I've definitely got some renewed interest out of this, and I
First, if you enjoy the first "season" of the "My Game" videos by
Tiger, there is a second "season" as well. It's just that for some
reason, Golf Digest has failed to create a playlist to which I can
point you.
Fortunately, you can search the channel and find them all anyway:
<https://www.youtube.com/c/golfdigest/search?query=shotmaking%20secrets> >>
took three thoughts down to the range tonight to try and make
permanent the things I was working on last week:
Width
Connection
Rotation
Width: make a wide turn back to keep any slack from creeping into
the system.
Connection: this leads to a feeling that the motion of the body
will instantly be transmitted down the chain.
Rotation: so you can focus solely on rotating the body
aggressively through the ball with absolutely no conscious though
of the release of the club at the bottom.
With all of that, I was hitting the centre of the face more often
and probably about a club longer than I would have been expecting
just a couple of weeks ago.
I also discovered my range card still has about $100 worth of
range balls on it, so I think I'll be making the range an at least
twice weekly event.
Take it slow out there Grandpa. Trying new golf moves can be aShow up at my course any time you want.
strain on the body. If you are at the practice range, take rests
and drink plenty of fluids. An old guy like you, we want you around
a long time. We need a million more posts, and that means a million
more laughs!
Better yet, show up on the ice for a men's league hockey game.
Of course, you'll have to have a real name, won't you?
On Sunday, August 28, 2022 at 1:26:47 AM UTC-4, Alan wrote:A bit of a follow up.
On 2022-08-27 07:38, Irving S wrote:
On Tuesday, August 23, 2022 at 11:25:27 PM UTC-4, Alan wrote:
On 2022-08-19 17:11, Alan wrote:
If you haven't seen the videos, I do recommend them. I think
anyone who is halfway serious about his (or her) game will
take something useful away from them.
<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw_ncqmg1TdH3GIaxCqiiyT1CddeqVT7w>
Second, I've definitely got some renewed interest out of this, and I
First, if you enjoy the first "season" of the "My Game" videos
by Tiger, there is a second "season" as well. It's just that
for some reason, Golf Digest has failed to create a playlist to
which I can point you.
Fortunately, you can search the channel and find them all
anyway:
<https://www.youtube.com/c/golfdigest/search?query=shotmaking%20secrets> >>>>
Show up at my course any time you want.took three thoughts down to the range tonight to try and make
permanent the things I was working on last week:
Width
Connection
Rotation
Width: make a wide turn back to keep any slack from creeping
into the system.
Connection: this leads to a feeling that the motion of the
body will instantly be transmitted down the chain.
Rotation: so you can focus solely on rotating the body
aggressively through the ball with absolutely no conscious
though of the release of the club at the bottom.
With all of that, I was hitting the centre of the face more
often and probably about a club longer than I would have been
expecting just a couple of weeks ago.
I also discovered my range card still has about $100 worth of
range balls on it, so I think I'll be making the range an at
least twice weekly event.
Take it slow out there Grandpa. Trying new golf moves can be a
strain on the body. If you are at the practice range, take rests
and drink plenty of fluids. An old guy like you, we want you
around a long time. We need a million more posts, and that means
a million more laughs!
Better yet, show up on the ice for a men's league hockey game.
Of course, you'll have to have a real name, won't you?
LOL! What a clown!
What does my name have to do with playing hockey or a round of golf? LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My first name IS Irving. If you doubt that, lets make a bet. I will
copy a drivers license and my passport with all other information
covered. I will paypal $500 to TomS, you do the same. I will then
scan everything to Tom. He gets $50 for his trouble and paypals the
residual to me, as I will win the bet. Think otherwise Grandpa, that
you have a chance? Well, make the bet and lets see.
On Friday, August 19, 2022 at 8:11:57 PM UTC-4, Alan wrote:
A buddy called me up yesterday and asked if I wanted to come out
and fill in a slot in his foursome at a charity scramble
tournament. Even better, the guy who had to bow out said he was
fine paying for the tourney, even if he wasn't playing. Like beer,
the best kind of golf is free golf (I'll have to see if I can offer
Patrick something in recompense)!
And as coincidence would have it, a few days earlier, I'd stumbled
across a series of YouTube videos produce by Golf Digest with
Tiger Woods called "My Game". In 12 videos, Tiger breaks down
aspects of his game from practice to the mental game, and I've seen
about 10 of them now.
The tagline at the beginning of each video is "a golf lesson
you've never had", but I don't think they're really lessons per
se.
What they are, is very inspiring. To see an athlete of that
calibre working on his game, showing how me thinks about and
executes shots just can't help but give you some thoughts you can
use to improve your own game.
So with an 8am shotgun start only about 14 hours away, I headed
down the range with a couple of those thoughts to see if I couldn't
play a little better than the last time I'd been out.
I worked on taking it back lower and slower, getting fully loaded
on the right side and then just aggressively rotating the body
through the shot; basically focusing on the body's movements and
trusting my hands to do the right thing.
And what do you know! I probably found one club more distance and
some seriously good contact. When I got to Mayfair Lakes at 7:15, I
took a few balls out the range to try and solidify (or at least
remember) what I'd been doing the evening before, and after a
couple of shanks to start, I found the groove again.
As a team, we were only -4, and that's just not good enough to win
a scramble (suspiciously, the title sponsor's foursome won with
-14, which seems a little low). We had 4 or 5 decent chances to
make birdie on our first 6 or 7 holes, but we managed to just miss.
But I was the go to guy in the group for bombing one out there
after someone else had got us in the fairway, my iron play was
pretty sharp, and it felt good to be back in the role of team
workhorse.
And I did manage to roll in 2 of the 5 birdies we made later on in
the round.
The decision to play starting at 8am seemed curious, but with the
heat that we're now getting in the early afternoon, it was great to
be driving off the course at 12:30 for lunch in the air conditioned
clubhouse.
If you haven't seen the videos, I do recommend them. I think anyone
who is halfway serious about his (or her) game will take something
useful away from them.
<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw_ncqmg1TdH3GIaxCqiiyT1CddeqVT7w>
Alan at his best. Losing but still finding something to brag about.
I spent yesterday showing 5 young people the wonders of flying an
airplane. Three of the five were first time at the controls. One
15-year old first-timer almost bailed at the last minute. 10 minutes
at the controls she said, and I quote, "This is the most amazing
thing I have ever done!" The smile on her face alone was worth the
entire 11 hours of my time it took to make the day happen. That's the
kind of win-win experience that makes me happy too. :)
On 2022-08-28 13:07, Irving S wrote:
On Sunday, August 28, 2022 at 1:26:47 AM UTC-4, Alan wrote:A bit of a follow up.
On 2022-08-27 07:38, Irving S wrote:
On Tuesday, August 23, 2022 at 11:25:27 PM UTC-4, Alan wrote:
On 2022-08-19 17:11, Alan wrote:
If you haven't seen the videos, I do recommend them. I think
anyone who is halfway serious about his (or her) game will
take something useful away from them.
<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw_ncqmg1TdH3GIaxCqiiyT1CddeqVT7w>
Second, I've definitely got some renewed interest out of this, and I
First, if you enjoy the first "season" of the "My Game" videos
by Tiger, there is a second "season" as well. It's just that
for some reason, Golf Digest has failed to create a playlist to
which I can point you.
Fortunately, you can search the channel and find them all
anyway:
<https://www.youtube.com/c/golfdigest/search?query=shotmaking%20secrets>
Show up at my course any time you want.took three thoughts down to the range tonight to try and make
permanent the things I was working on last week:
Width
Connection
Rotation
Width: make a wide turn back to keep any slack from creeping
into the system.
Connection: this leads to a feeling that the motion of the
body will instantly be transmitted down the chain.
Rotation: so you can focus solely on rotating the body
aggressively through the ball with absolutely no conscious
though of the release of the club at the bottom.
With all of that, I was hitting the centre of the face more
often and probably about a club longer than I would have been
expecting just a couple of weeks ago.
I also discovered my range card still has about $100 worth of
range balls on it, so I think I'll be making the range an at
least twice weekly event.
Take it slow out there Grandpa. Trying new golf moves can be a
strain on the body. If you are at the practice range, take rests
and drink plenty of fluids. An old guy like you, we want you
around a long time. We need a million more posts, and that means
a million more laughs!
Better yet, show up on the ice for a men's league hockey game.
Of course, you'll have to have a real name, won't you?
LOL! What a clown!
What does my name have to do with playing hockey or a round of golf? LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Sign up for hockey and you have to sign a release of liability.
Book a round of golf, and you normally provide your name.
My first name IS Irving. If you doubt that, lets make a bet. I willWhich will prove, what: your Photoshop skills?
copy a drivers license and my passport with all other information
covered. I will paypal $500 to TomS, you do the same. I will then
scan everything to Tom. He gets $50 for his trouble and paypals the residual to me, as I will win the bet. Think otherwise Grandpa, that
you have a chance? Well, make the bet and lets see.
On 2022-08-28 13:07, Irving S wrote:
On Sunday, August 28, 2022 at 1:26:47 AM UTC-4, Alan wrote:A bit of a follow up.
On 2022-08-27 07:38, Irving S wrote:
On Tuesday, August 23, 2022 at 11:25:27 PM UTC-4, Alan wrote:
On 2022-08-19 17:11, Alan wrote:
If you haven't seen the videos, I do recommend them. I think
anyone who is halfway serious about his (or her) game will
take something useful away from them.
<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw_ncqmg1TdH3GIaxCqiiyT1CddeqVT7w>
Second, I've definitely got some renewed interest out of this, and I
First, if you enjoy the first "season" of the "My Game" videos
by Tiger, there is a second "season" as well. It's just that
for some reason, Golf Digest has failed to create a playlist to
which I can point you.
Fortunately, you can search the channel and find them all
anyway:
<https://www.youtube.com/c/golfdigest/search?query=shotmaking%20secrets> >>>>
Show up at my course any time you want.took three thoughts down to the range tonight to try and make
permanent the things I was working on last week:
Width
Connection
Rotation
Width: make a wide turn back to keep any slack from creeping
into the system.
Connection: this leads to a feeling that the motion of the
body will instantly be transmitted down the chain.
Rotation: so you can focus solely on rotating the body
aggressively through the ball with absolutely no conscious
though of the release of the club at the bottom.
With all of that, I was hitting the centre of the face more
often and probably about a club longer than I would have been
expecting just a couple of weeks ago.
I also discovered my range card still has about $100 worth of
range balls on it, so I think I'll be making the range an at
least twice weekly event.
Take it slow out there Grandpa. Trying new golf moves can be a
strain on the body. If you are at the practice range, take rests
and drink plenty of fluids. An old guy like you, we want you
around a long time. We need a million more posts, and that means
a million more laughs!
Better yet, show up on the ice for a men's league hockey game.
Of course, you'll have to have a real name, won't you?
LOL! What a clown!
What does my name have to do with playing hockey or a round of golf? LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Sign up for hockey and you have to sign a release of liability.
Book a round of golf, and you normally provide your name.
My first name IS Irving. If you doubt that, lets make a bet. I willWhich will prove, what: your Photoshop skills?
copy a drivers license and my passport with all other information
covered. I will paypal $500 to TomS, you do the same. I will then
scan everything to Tom. He gets $50 for his trouble and paypals the residual to me, as I will win the bet. Think otherwise Grandpa, that
you have a chance? Well, make the bet and lets see.
On Monday, August 29, 2022 at 1:59:36 PM UTC-4, Alan wrote:A bit of a follow up.
On 2022-08-28 13:07, Irving S wrote:
On Sunday, August 28, 2022 at 1:26:47 AM UTC-4, Alan wrote:
On 2022-08-27 07:38, Irving S wrote:
On Tuesday, August 23, 2022 at 11:25:27 PM UTC-4, Alan
wrote:
On 2022-08-19 17:11, Alan wrote:
If you haven't seen the videos, I do recommend them. I
think anyone who is halfway serious about his (or her)
game will take something useful away from them.
<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw_ncqmg1TdH3GIaxCqiiyT1CddeqVT7w>
Second, I've definitely got some renewed interest out of this, and I
First, if you enjoy the first "season" of the "My Game"
videos by Tiger, there is a second "season" as well. It's
just that for some reason, Golf Digest has failed to create
a playlist to which I can point you.
Fortunately, you can search the channel and find them all
anyway:
<https://www.youtube.com/c/golfdigest/search?query=shotmaking%20secrets> >>>>>>
Sign up for hockey and you have to sign a release of liability.Show up at my course any time you want.took three thoughts down to the range tonight to try and
make permanent the things I was working on last week:
Width
Connection
Rotation
Width: make a wide turn back to keep any slack from
creeping into the system.
Connection: this leads to a feeling that the motion of the
body will instantly be transmitted down the chain.
Rotation: so you can focus solely on rotating the body
aggressively through the ball with absolutely no conscious
though of the release of the club at the bottom.
With all of that, I was hitting the centre of the face
more often and probably about a club longer than I would
have been expecting just a couple of weeks ago.
I also discovered my range card still has about $100 worth
of range balls on it, so I think I'll be making the range
an at least twice weekly event.
Take it slow out there Grandpa. Trying new golf moves can be
a strain on the body. If you are at the practice range, take
rests and drink plenty of fluids. An old guy like you, we
want you around a long time. We need a million more posts,
and that means a million more laughs!
Better yet, show up on the ice for a men's league hockey game.
Of course, you'll have to have a real name, won't you?
LOL! What a clown!
What does my name have to do with playing hockey or a round of
golf? LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Book a round of golf, and you normally provide your name.
Which will prove, what: your Photoshop skills?
My first name IS Irving. If you doubt that, lets make a bet. I
will copy a drivers license and my passport with all other
information covered. I will paypal $500 to TomS, you do the same.
I will then scan everything to Tom. He gets $50 for his trouble
and paypals the residual to me, as I will win the bet. Think
otherwise Grandpa, that you have a chance? Well, make the bet and
lets see.
I have ZERO Photoshop skills. Stop the spin Grandpa, either we make
the bet or not. I hve no idea how to Photoshop, never done it
I will tell you what. Since you are so worried about a forgery, I
will also send a copy of my paystub with SS# and the dollar amount
and my address blacked out. But looking at my last stub, it clearly
shows my name and my job classification as Sr. Mold Design Engineer.
If TomS thinks these documents have been altered in any way, bets are
off, and the money gets returned. What more can I do? If you don't
want to make the wager, just say it.
On 2022-08-29 11:45, Irving S wrote:
On Monday, August 29, 2022 at 1:59:36 PM UTC-4, Alan wrote:A bit of a follow up.
On 2022-08-28 13:07, Irving S wrote:
On Sunday, August 28, 2022 at 1:26:47 AM UTC-4, Alan wrote:
On 2022-08-27 07:38, Irving S wrote:
On Tuesday, August 23, 2022 at 11:25:27 PM UTC-4, Alan
wrote:
On 2022-08-19 17:11, Alan wrote:
If you haven't seen the videos, I do recommend them. I
think anyone who is halfway serious about his (or her)
game will take something useful away from them.
<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw_ncqmg1TdH3GIaxCqiiyT1CddeqVT7w>
Second, I've definitely got some renewed interest out of this, and I
First, if you enjoy the first "season" of the "My Game"
videos by Tiger, there is a second "season" as well. It's
just that for some reason, Golf Digest has failed to create
a playlist to which I can point you.
Fortunately, you can search the channel and find them all
anyway:
<https://www.youtube.com/c/golfdigest/search?query=shotmaking%20secrets>
Sign up for hockey and you have to sign a release of liability.Show up at my course any time you want.took three thoughts down to the range tonight to try and
make permanent the things I was working on last week:
Width
Connection
Rotation
Width: make a wide turn back to keep any slack from
creeping into the system.
Connection: this leads to a feeling that the motion of the
body will instantly be transmitted down the chain.
Rotation: so you can focus solely on rotating the body
aggressively through the ball with absolutely no conscious
though of the release of the club at the bottom.
With all of that, I was hitting the centre of the face
more often and probably about a club longer than I would
have been expecting just a couple of weeks ago.
I also discovered my range card still has about $100 worth
of range balls on it, so I think I'll be making the range
an at least twice weekly event.
Take it slow out there Grandpa. Trying new golf moves can be
a strain on the body. If you are at the practice range, take
rests and drink plenty of fluids. An old guy like you, we
want you around a long time. We need a million more posts,
and that means a million more laughs!
Better yet, show up on the ice for a men's league hockey game.
Of course, you'll have to have a real name, won't you?
LOL! What a clown!
What does my name have to do with playing hockey or a round of
golf? LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Book a round of golf, and you normally provide your name.
Which will prove, what: your Photoshop skills?
My first name IS Irving. If you doubt that, lets make a bet. I
will copy a drivers license and my passport with all other
information covered. I will paypal $500 to TomS, you do the same.
I will then scan everything to Tom. He gets $50 for his trouble
and paypals the residual to me, as I will win the bet. Think
otherwise Grandpa, that you have a chance? Well, make the bet and
lets see.
I have ZERO Photoshop skills. Stop the spin Grandpa, either we makeRiiiiiiight.
the bet or not. I hve no idea how to Photoshop, never done it
I will tell you what. Since you are so worried about a forgery, ISo you want me to sacrifice my privacy while you keep yours?
will also send a copy of my paystub with SS# and the dollar amount
and my address blacked out. But looking at my last stub, it clearly
shows my name and my job classification as Sr. Mold Design Engineer.
If TomS thinks these documents have been altered in any way, bets are
off, and the money gets returned. What more can I do? If you don't
want to make the wager, just say it.
Why would I do that when we know you've used multiple aliases?
On 2022-08-28 12:20, Tom Elam wrote:
On Friday, August 19, 2022 at 8:11:57 PM UTC-4, Alan wrote:
A buddy called me up yesterday and asked if I wanted to come outAlan at his best. Losing but still finding something to brag about.
and fill in a slot in his foursome at a charity scramble
tournament. Even better, the guy who had to bow out said he was
fine paying for the tourney, even if he wasn't playing. Like beer,
the best kind of golf is free golf (I'll have to see if I can offer
Patrick something in recompense)!
And as coincidence would have it, a few days earlier, I'd stumbled
across a series of YouTube videos produce by Golf Digest with
Tiger Woods called "My Game". In 12 videos, Tiger breaks down
aspects of his game from practice to the mental game, and I've seen
about 10 of them now.
The tagline at the beginning of each video is "a golf lesson
you've never had", but I don't think they're really lessons per
se.
What they are, is very inspiring. To see an athlete of that
calibre working on his game, showing how me thinks about and
executes shots just can't help but give you some thoughts you can
use to improve your own game.
So with an 8am shotgun start only about 14 hours away, I headed
down the range with a couple of those thoughts to see if I couldn't
play a little better than the last time I'd been out.
I worked on taking it back lower and slower, getting fully loaded
on the right side and then just aggressively rotating the body
through the shot; basically focusing on the body's movements and
trusting my hands to do the right thing.
And what do you know! I probably found one club more distance and
some seriously good contact. When I got to Mayfair Lakes at 7:15, I
took a few balls out the range to try and solidify (or at least
remember) what I'd been doing the evening before, and after a
couple of shanks to start, I found the groove again.
As a team, we were only -4, and that's just not good enough to win
a scramble (suspiciously, the title sponsor's foursome won with
-14, which seems a little low). We had 4 or 5 decent chances to
make birdie on our first 6 or 7 holes, but we managed to just miss.
But I was the go to guy in the group for bombing one out there
after someone else had got us in the fairway, my iron play was
pretty sharp, and it felt good to be back in the role of team
workhorse.
And I did manage to roll in 2 of the 5 birdies we made later on in
the round.
The decision to play starting at 8am seemed curious, but with the
heat that we're now getting in the early afternoon, it was great to
be driving off the course at 12:30 for lunch in the air conditioned
clubhouse.
If you haven't seen the videos, I do recommend them. I think anyone
who is halfway serious about his (or her) game will take something
useful away from them.
<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw_ncqmg1TdH3GIaxCqiiyT1CddeqVT7w> >>>
Far from my best, Liarboy.
I'm pretty happy with how I played, but I never said I was at my best.
Amazing how you absolutely have to lie about me EVERY SINGLE TIME, isn't
it?
:-)
I spent yesterday showing 5 young people the wonders of flying an
airplane. Three of the five were first time at the controls. One
15-year old first-timer almost bailed at the last minute. 10 minutes
at the controls she said, and I quote, "This is the most amazing
thing I have ever done!" The smile on her face alone was worth the
entire 11 hours of my time it took to make the day happen. That's the
kind of win-win experience that makes me happy too. :)
Tell us:
Who paid the bills?
I'm betting it wasn't you. But you got to record all hours as PIC, right?
Don't get me wrong, I'm happy for the kids, and I volunteer my time
twice a year to teach drivers how to road race for very similar reasons. That's 4 hours of classroom time, plus two full days (7am to 4-5pm) at
the track.
So that's something like 44 hours a year. Before counting the ongoing mentoring we do for those who move on to the novice racing program. At
our paddock spots, RDC members hang a sign saying "I'm with the RDC. Ask
me", and the novices do.
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