Natural Swing

Check this out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ_k68ZXoF8
Its my 4 year old son Ryan hitting balls. To me it just proves that the golf swing is a natural motion just f***ed up adults like myself who over analyse it. Whilst he doesn't lways get a perfect strike he never misses the ball and pretty much all of his shots go where is aiming and he manages to belt his little driver about 70-80 yards on average.

Stupid Game

Maybe its my fault for trying to tinker with my swing rather than just hit the ball but my game is going backwards. Plus the greens at RCC have just been tined and sanded which cost me a few shots which is understandable.
Played terribly on Friday but somehow managed to hang onto an 81 which at least knocked an 84 off my last 20 scores for handicapping. My miserable form continued on Saturday and i shot a more game resembling 85! Finally on Sunday I started to hit the ball pretty good again but this time I had the opposite problem to Friday and couldn't turn that into a decent score, ending up with an 82!
Trying to not get too down hearted as I think I found something on the Sunday round and I should of scored in the 70's if it wasn't for the fact I putted so poorly.I'm sure if I had a psych coach they would tell me to blame the greens (see above) so that's what I'm doing.
Looking forward to when the greens come round as the course is looking in great shape and I need some more sub 80 rounds to keep handicap going in the right direction!

No golf last week ........

but it was worth it. No golf at all for 7 days but all because the Duramed Futures tour was at RCC and what a great week it was. The club staff and volunteers did a great job and the golf that the ladies played was a treat to watch. I even did a couple of stints as unofficial scorer and cart driver with a couple of groups. Hope I didn't screw up too much !!! Kristen and I went to the Casino night put on as part of the tour festivities and we managed to win a sightseeing flight round Richmond with the daughter of one of the members of RCC. That was neat as a couple of weeks prior had promised my daughter exactly that experience and had been disappointed that I couldn't find any opportunities for it on the web.
And the best news is that my handicap adjustment came through today giving me a handicap index of 7.1, playing 8 off the whites at Richmond. Yay.
Now time for a lesson or two and see if I can't get that down to 5 before the end of the year (some hope I think but I'll give it a bash).

Pain and Ecstasy

After another horrible round yesterday (86!) played again today and shot a 75. If it hadn't been for three putting 3 greens would have been a 72. What a frustrating game golf is. It seems so easy when scoring well but hard work when not. I guess thats what keeps us coming back for more. Not sure why the difference today but I think mainly I have given up trying for extra yardage. It works on the range but can't transport it to the course. Also putting and chipping much better today which takes the pressure of of other shots. Anyway thoroughly enjoyed the round today. Great weather, good golf and good company with Barry, Steve and Joking Joe.

Good News .... Bad News

Yay .... handicap index adjusted to 7.8 which means I'm playing off 9 on the whites at RCC. Of course under pressure of trying to play to single figure my game went to pot today and I shot 85. Started out 10 over for the first seven holes!!!! At least something started to click again and I managed to limit the damage to 4 over for the last eleven holes which included two doubles.
Time for a lesson I think. My target for this year was to get to a single figure handicap at RCC so now I'm going to see if I can't get to 5 or 6 before the end of the year.