Unless you’re Bubba Watson, you really need to think about your practice and how you’re implementing changes. Your swing was an absolute mess at this point in the journey, held together by insane amounts of volume and not much else. I see how unsustainable this all was now, and it’s just so sad the injury happened, but it seems like an inevitable ending more than anything else now. It’s so difficult reading your blog in this final chapter, seeing you bogged down with gear talk, never truly delving into how to practice golf properly when one hits their plateau.

This is about 10K hours of deliberate practice and human potential and your deliberate practice didn’t evolve enough. You were never able to really change how you swung the club over the last 2-3 years of the journey. I think never fixing your takeaway issue shows that you did not understand how to make changes. That should’ve only taken one summer or so to at least sort of implement, but it’s nonexistent in your swings to this point, and that’s after a couple years or so of knowing about the problem. Come on, man.

One of the lessons I take away from TheDanPlan is I have to really think about how I practice. Do I understand what I’m trying to change, why I’m trying to change it, and how I’m going to change it? Because if I don’t, I could end up eternally frustrated, quitting the game entirely or worse, injuring myself badly like Dan did.