I’ve gotten away from that as of late, and I’m glad I read this because I want to get back to it. As we all know, confidence (or a lack of it) can make a huge difference in how we play, and getting a positive feeling before your next tee shot can certainly help produce better results than stewing over the shank/penalty/fat shot/missed putt or whatever else on the last hole.

If you do not already have a game booked when i Gothenburg, I would gladly play. Please go ahead and contact me. Although I should say that there is a risk that the weather might be pretty cold in the end of October/beginning November.

BR Claes

Developing the capability to use the woods without using gloves can provide more feel to control the woods. If the hands are too soft, start with chipping and short shots to toughen up the hands a little before full swings without using gloves. If the grip pressure is too strong, or there is “wrenching” of the club handle with the hands, gloves will be needed, as blisters, cuts, and calluses can developed in the hands, when there are questionable swing techniques. Naturally tacky grips allows full control of the club handle without needing much grip pressure. Normal to slightly above normal grip size tends to provide more control of the wood club. Grip size should be fitted by a golf club professional, as improper grip size may cause injury to the hands over time.

In the early nineteen-seventies and before, a named-brand club manufacturer used to make wood clubs with “reminder” grips. The upper-front quarter of the club handle is made into a flat bevel, so that it fits right under the heel pad of the leading hand. This flat bevel of the wood club handle provides a “reminder” of the angle of rotation of the club handle, and club shaft. It enables the heel pad of the leading hand to provide more control on the club. There may be still some old samples of woods with reminder-grips stashed away in some storage areas.

The area of the heel pad of the leading hand is where the last one to three fingers of the leading hand are. The top of the leading hand heel pad, and the last finger (pinky) of the leading hand tend to form like a fulcrum or a pivot point for a pendulum-like swinging of the club during the final release phase of the downswing. In many slow motion video of swings that results in great shots, this pendulum-like swing action of the club during the final release just before impact can be seen.

http://youtu.be/CAkBiMZUekA

But “losing” to me is losing to myself, not someone else. Unless it’s match play.