Comments on: Transitional golf moments

By: Constantine

Constantine — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 17:33:33 +0000

It’s so sad the further and further I go into re-reading the blog after all these years. April 2010 to like fall 2012 is such a fun, happy adventure, but by September 2013, this blog reads like golf’s version of Apocalypse Now or something. You needed to spend like a good year straight on the range developing the new swing. Playing golf is absolutely ruining your development and it’s sad you simply cannot dedicate yourself to practice or see why rounds of golf are wrecking your progress.

Rounds of golf are such a terrible use of your time and energy and you’re forced to make full swings and play for score every time. Given I already know how discombobulated your swing was by the end (early 2015), you had lost sight of your original goal and how to get there.

I love you, Dan, and I have always loved this blog and journey, but re-reading it this summer I did not realize how depressing the last couple years were, how dark things got when as a reader I already know the ending, which wasn’t just total failure but a serious back injury too.

Thank you so much for doing this project, but it’s a shame there are no do-overs in life. It just goes to show you how key it is to start not just young but with a legitimate mentor. Imagine if you could mentor yourself and start over at age five? That’s nearly what every successful golfer got in their life, from their dad or something like that. That’s the unfortunate reality of this game. There’s simply too much to know and the more you can know without learning the hard way, the better.

But the range is by far the more efficient learning method than playing rounds. I read somewhere you swing a club for only nine minutes over the course of a four hour round? That’s terrible! Especially when you’re on the wrong side of thirty and trying to prove 10,000 hours. You can do that on the range in less than a half an hour! Plus what good are rounds of golf with a bad swing? Imagine just striping it straighter and farther, how much the strategy of golf changes?

Anyway, please don’t take my criticism the wrong way. You know I’m a massive fan of this blog despite whatever dumb stuff I’ve said in the comments over the years. It’s such an important learning tool for me, this blog, as I have learned so much from your journey, and I will forever be grateful for that.

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 02:47:00 +0000

Hey Dan! My name is Colin O’Gorman and we are learning about you in one of our classes at the University of Windsor! It will be super interesting to see if you can make it to the PGA, and I admire the effort you’ve put into this to test the 10,000 hour theory! Keep up the great work, and you do have some vocal supporters behind ya !!

By: Clay Ballard

Clay Ballard — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 15:32:00 +0000

I was curious how you like to break down your practice between improving technique, practice and play? What is your strategy on most days?

By: thedanplan

thedanplan — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 04:00:00 +0000

There is definitely pressure, and I see it as a good thing. It’s perhaps the one and only advantage I have: the fact that this project has been in the limelight since day one and when the big stage comes it will seem like every tourney from day one. We shall see. For example, the first tourney I ever played in (last April at Pumpkin Ridge) two local tv crews filmed, an AP reporter was there and ABC’s Nightline came out for the occasion. It put a bit of extra pressure on those ole’ nerves.

By: thedanplan

thedanplan — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 03:56:00 +0000

Thanks Sima!

By: thedanplan

thedanplan — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 03:55:00 +0000

I didn’t, but did catch a bit of it while stopping in the pro shop on a break as well as saw the final scores. I also talked with a few guys from CECC who all shared thoughts about the setup and conditions of the course. I find it interesting what the LPGA does for their players and makes me wonder what the PGA’s philosophy is on setup. At the end of the day, those ladies killed it and you have to get the ball in the hole. 20 under is very impressive regardless of any conditions or setup. Solid tee shots, amazing irons and rolling the ball like a champ, that’s what it takes.

By: Brian Kuehn

Brian Kuehn — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 20:32:00 +0000

When you play in a tournament do you ever feel a bit of pressure knowing your results, good or bad, will be seen by all the people visiting this website? Most of us, when we play a round of golf, can just toss the card away at the end of the day, the only witnesses possibly being the people in our group (if we even shared with them our scores).

I give you a thumbs up for sharing your failures and successes. It is difficult to try to perform athletically and then have the general public able to review the performance. It is never easy to know that a failure will disappoint your supporters and give ammo to your detractors. Of course your entire experiment is pretty public so you may be used to the scrutiny.