Swing changes hurt!

As concerns the book, we’ve now covered the impact zone, the takeaway, the backswing. While not forgetting about the impact zone, I’m trying to force my arms further inside on the backswing – without rolling my wrists, of course. It feels much tighter and more compact than usual.

Swing changes hurt. I feel like I did as a boy, when I tore ligaments in my elbow. They mended, but with my arm unable to extend fully. At the hospital, the physios kept stretching my arm out on a table to try and stretch the ligaments back to their original length. I feel a bit like that now. Grit teeth. Grin - if it is possible to grin with gritted teeth (it probably isn't) - and bear it.

I got out in the next round of the club handicap singles and struggle. I’m eight over after nine. Kevin is one of those unnerving opponents who hits it further than me, yet still gets a couple of shots.

I hang in, though, and suddenly things improve. With a bit of help – Kevin, misses a 4-footer on the 15^th – and with a glorious 4 iron to 8 feet on the next, I win 3&2. By the end I am 11 over.

Afterwards, I decide to write down a list of things I can do to improve.

I get writer’s cramp and have to stop.