- 1. Schedule at least some practice of pitching between 50 to 100 yards every time – especially half and 3/4 swings with wedges;
- 2. For wedge swing, play with “dead-hands” and focus on turning the body through;
- 3. For irons, think swing through and turn the right-side of body through, practice on rythm;
- 4. For driver, increase the speed of right arm, feel arms stretch in order to catch up with the body – it goes longer too;
Archive for June, 2006
Practice Thoughts
Friday, June 23rd, 2006Windows runs faster than OS X
Thursday, June 15th, 2006“Maximum PC” did a test on a Intel-based Mac with Bootcamp. It shows that on a set of performance benchmarks, Windows XP consistently outperform Mac’s native OS X. It is supposedly to be very shocking.
First of all, I found these tests meaningless for 99.9% of us. Most of our time spent in front of the computer is not waiting for the CPU to finish its number crunching, but rather reading/watching/thinking/creating stuffs, or in the Windows case, fixing it. People buy an iPod not because it is screamingly fast playing music – it is adequate in terms of speed – but rather because of its design beauty and functional elegance. Same goes with the Mac.
But competition is always beneficial to the consumers. Apple will seriously look into their software performance. To their defense, some of those benchmarks are based on softwares that haven’t been optimized for the new Intel platform. We should expect performance go up a lot when they are.
Unified swing thoughts
Thursday, June 15th, 2006Played in Coronado last Sunday. Got a similiar score than Torrey Pines. But this time both the woods and the putters have saved me from horrible irons, especially short irons.
On the driving range after, I start to wonder why this would happen: first of all the shorter clubs (irons) should be easier to hit straight than woods; second, have two very different swing thoughts really doubles the amount of work – it is destined that on any given day either set of swings would be off.
So I stared down at my 5i and pretend it is a shorter version of 5w, and the funny thing is that I immediately hit 2 very pure, very straight shots with it – and they are quite long as well.
So I guess the pro is right, I should simplify things and keep one unified swing thoughts throughout the bag. I’m going to give that a try for the next a few practice sessions.