overwhelmed and other good things
I met CS (Christopher Smith) out at Pumpkin today and was feeling good about the day, but then we got into the lesson and it was one of those eye-opening lessons where everything we go over I realize that I need to work on and adjust things to get to where I want to be. I’m not surprised by this, but it was a bit overwhelming because I felt like I was making some good progress, but now it’s more or less back to the drawing board.
My putting is going okay, but my hands had migrated away from my body and a bit too far forward, as well as my backswing was pushing out instead of making a nice arc around my body. Those are the three things that I need to work on this week, as well as use a putter ball that CS let me borrow (it’s a putter with a ball instead of a traditional club on the bottom to make it that much harder to make solid contact with the ball, it should be fun.) I really just need to solidify my technique and work on my lag putts, which are still varying by a few more feet than I would like.
On to chipping.. Everything was off here, I need to stand with the ball more towards my back foot, have my hands a bit more over the ball, they had migrated far forward and causing me to dig into the ground. I’m also going to work on my tempo and making sure that my backswing goes up further than my follow through as well as the pace of my backswing and follow through, making those a bit more similar. I was also initiating the movement of my swing with my hips, but instead I need to keep my hips and legs quiet and initiate movement with my shoulders. So, a LOT to work on.
My car was dead when I went to leave Pumpkin as well, so I had to call out AAA for a jump. I guess I somehow left the lights on, but definitely don’t remember any beeping or anything when I got out of the car (it’s a new-to-me auto so there might be a couple little quarks that I don’t know yet). Regardless, I was feeling a bit overwhelmed by everything today and decided to head to Heron to get a feel of a few things before heading home, but once I got there I realized that I was hitting frustratedly and that is NOT a good thing for learning so broke it off and called it a day around 4:00. It will be much better for me to digest everything that CS and I went over and then head out with a fresh mind tomorrow morning. It’s nearly impossible (for me at least) to learn while in a frustrated mood. From what I hear, too, frustration builds cortisol in the brain, causing blockages to the good synapsis a positive training session aims to create..