Never, ever do this

You should never, ever do what I am about to do. I’m about to give you a stick to beat me with. A very, very big stick indeed.

So here goes…(but please be gentle).

“I feel a lot better at golf than a month ago. Despite the fact I haven’t played since then.”

I know. Laughable. But I suddenly feel, swinging away in my kitchen, that my left arm is behaving (coming back down on the 45 degree angle), my hips are behaving (turning tighter rather than slide-turning), my release is okay. I’m taking good divots out of the carpet. It suddenly feels like it is easier – admittedly in my kitchen – to swing well than to swing badly.

Did I really just say that? That it is easier to swing well than to swing badly?

Risible. I can already hear waves of laughter coming up the street, about to engulf my whole house.

But I’m back to my central thesis. I think I am getting much better at golf not because I’m playing, not because I’m practising but because I’ve been asked to help write an instruction book (Knightsbridge Golf School). Because I’m spending hours of time talking to Dave and Steve, asking questions and beginning to understand things I never understood before.

Laughable? Risible? Or perhaps I’ll have the last laugh?

Gawd, that's a big stick you've got there...