Lately I’ve been doing a lot of chess puzzles before bed. I was really into them a year or two ago, and watching the Queen’s Gambit re-energized me to add them back into my day. One thing that chess puzzles teach you is to assess the board you’re playing and think a few moves ahead …
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Coronavirus
It’s been a long time since I checked in here. A big chunk of that delay is because I got Coronavirus (ugh 2020). The good news is that I think the 10+ days of isolation in Connecticut might have helped my golf game. A few weeks before I got Covid, I took a great lesson …
Raising The Floor
I was listening to “Get a Grip” today, Max Homa and Shane Bacon’s podcast, and Homa had an excellent phrase for my top golf goal: Raising the floor. The ceiling of my golf game, at the moment, is pretty decent. On a good day (month?) I drive it nicely, hit smooth irons, and have lots …
Should I take my long irons out of the bag?
Problem: I can’t hit any iron above a 9-iron reliably, and the contact for those long irons as I practice/attempt to fix them is painful and potentially damaging. I am driving it well. Question: Fewer clubs would make it easier to focus on practice, and not hitting long irons would save me some pain. Can …
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