Steady as she goes

In my most recent post, I cited two areas of my game in which I intended to simplify my approach, that is, to do away with almost all of the technical thinking about the golf swing and game.

The first of these was about the full or almost full golf swing. My intention was and is to think only about starting the downswing simultaneously with the upper and lower body, as per Adam Scott's advice in an article I read quite some time ago. The sequencing that is so important to generating decent swing speeds in the golf swing will usually happen automatically. This basically means forgetting about the backswing, the positions, the transition, etc. and just concentrating on that one synchronised move. It works, not all the time, but enough for me to know it is my best plan.

The second idea relates to putting and in particular to my putting woes. I am working on smoothness, of the kind that is evident in the putting stroke of Jason Day. I'm trying to forget about all the technical issues that can come into putting theory. I am a reasonably good green reader and I have a fairly good imagination, so I don't leave all my putts on the low (so called amateur) side, though I do have distance control issues and short putt issues and this has plagued me somewhat in recent years. However, if I can channel some of Jason's putting prowess, and accept that 'you can't make 'em all, I'll be quite happy.

That's it, for me it's steady as she goes. The KISS principle in action. I'm liking it.