Spent a few hours on the golf range today. I played diablo 3 for a few days so I needed to go out in the sun after the last few days of rain here.
I talked to a couple there, they tried to get better also.
I chimed in, nicely, told the lady to be aware of her tempo, and she started to hit better shots, the guy handicap 27, became open also to this idea, and his swing became so good he was smiling all with his body as nothing beats a really good golf shot.
I got my swing down, I am competing the 26 of may in a local tournament a one shot deal 18 holes, some food and hopefully a good caddy that drives my bag.
I find teaching easy, but how to get across some of the concepts I work with isn’t that easy. I say, focus on the assignment, shoot low, keep your experience and keep on doing that. Simple enough?
Golf is a game of not making mistakes, a bogey means you need to compensate with two birdies, and so on, being patient, sticking to your game-plan, make the putts, and keep on doing the same shot, isn’t that all fun, but the key is to master the game, not the swing or what one believes is the game. I got my swing into a functional unit now, I am happy with it, I start to groove it and are able to make my shots, time to get precision down now.
Came home and was totally exhausted, tired so slept a few, hot and no energy, felt basically horrible, living with CFS is like to be always tired, then to think about doing a task knowing it will get the best of me after, isn’t that fun. I could lay down and roll over ask someone to shoot me, at days that would be a better ending. Now I spend, most of my time in downtime mode, I run enough to stay focused during the day but even writing a post here is tolling.
But the doctor said I looked healthy so obviously I cant be sick, thank you doc!
Some ask me how do I learn a skill? I spent 5 months now, hitting balls in the range, reading, watching video and built awareness how my body moves in space, did a lot of variation measured I was worse at the start of practice and ending it being better and waited the change out, and I taught this to a pro who changed his swing in 3 weeks.
Feedback, quality of it and how fast and with enough variation are always key.
Play poker same thing, a lot of info on poker is out there, you need to learn the odds by fact, know how to bluff and make sure your tell is masked.
Now, you could hope for the best but it wont work.
You need a good plan.
I am now able to hit the ball better than ever, the goal I set 2 years ago is likely to happen this summer. I say likely due to if I was healthy, I wouldn’t give it a second thought at all, but now my stamina and health is always a variable I have to calculate in. In the last 12 years, I haven’t had the energy or stamina I had once
I spent time to ask questions about the golf swing, I found out that few understand what golf is about, what makes a good swing and how the game is played. I could educate myself with PGA maybe become a teaching professional in golf and I be damned good doing it.
I cant pursue what I want to do, simply don’t have the stamina for it, I run out of energy before I am able to do things, which makes things difficult.
I have a habit to make things at my best ability, once I commit and do it, its all good and dandy, but not being able to carry out the ability to any extent I would consider useful makes it though.
Anyhow, my aim stands, to make a 3 or better index before season ends, enter the qualification to Nordea tour going Pro, and making that would likely make me the oldest rookie there ever. I would assume they had older guys there but who knows, old to be sure. I look forward to play the upcoming week once the course finally opens up now. 5 months of work is to be tested.
I rank atm this, Putting will be better than ever if my floor putting is an indicate. My short game will be better. My approach shots will now be a lot better making a lot more greens in regulation. During the summer I will continue to work things, but currently I feel comfortable to play with what I have now and find out what I can do out there playing with this.
I be more consistent even when tired, I tested how what I do holds up and what the signs are, and it get worse once I am tired, but now I am able to make the swing and not needing to compensate a lot to timing things. Its all in the air atm, next week its up to test on course. Since I compete the 26, I be making my game ready for competition the upcoming week.
/Robert Johansson