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I went to the range today, to work on hitting the ball on the center of the clubface. That’s not something you just do. You do a lot of things right and then you get that result.<\/p>\n
So the two right things I made sure I did were to have my hands ahead of the clubface at impact, and swing with the right rhythm and tempo for me.<\/p>\n
I bought a bucket of 33 balls. I had brought a 52-degree wedge and a 6-iron.<\/p>\n
I started off with the wedge, hitting with a half swing. I made about four or five practice strokes before I hit a ball. After hitting three balls, I sat down to take a break. I figure that if you keep hitting ball after ball you fall into a groove and stop concentrating. Learning stops.<\/p>\n
After having hit about fifteen balls, I picked up the 6-iron and went through the same thing\u2014lots of practice swings, hands, rhythm and tempo. The first shot was fabulous, the second shot was awful because I got ahead of myself, so I reined in my mind and hit two more beauties. <\/p>\n
That was enough so I gave the rest of the bucket to someone else. When you’ve accomplished was you set out to do, there is no point in going on.<\/p>\n
Over to the practice green, where I was all alone as I usually am there. I hit four chips with the 52 to a target 9 yards away, which is the calibrated chipping distance<\/a> for that club. Then I went out with my putter and putted them out. <\/p>\n Putting practice: one three-footer (dead center), one 30-footer using TAP<\/a> (the ball stopped one foot past the hole), and it was time to call it a day.<\/p>\n It had been 117 degrees in Salem the day before, and even though it cooled down to 91 today, that’s till too hot for me. <\/p>\n —–<\/p>\n I’ve been coming up with some new things I have never seen before that are working out well, so I’ll be making videos to share them with you. <\/p>\n NOTE: A Basic Golf Swing<\/a> is now available that develops the comments below in full, and more, in both words and video.<\/p>\n <\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (…or thereabouts) I went to the range today, to work on hitting the ball on the center of the clubface. That’s not something you just do. You do a lot of things right and then you get that result. So the two right things I made sure I did were to have my hands ahead … Continue reading A Half Hour at the Range<\/span>