2004-07-09

Turning into an Animal

Decided it was too hot to play golf today so I went to the driving range and beat balls in the sun for an hour and a half wearing a black shirt. I wanted to work on my driver swing. Normally at the range I only hit irons and even then mostly short irons.

To warm up, I hit about 10 sand wedges at various targets then hit 3 perfect nine irons, grabbed my 7 iron and hit two perfect. I can't hit any better than that I am thinking and went to my 5 iron. That is when I turn into some sort of animal and start swinging way to hard, lunging at the ball from the top, no tempo, or timing.. I hit about twenty 5 irons until I got it back under control then stood in the shade next to a drinking fountain for a few minutes to cool off while wondering why I have to swing so damn hard at the ball when I know that has nothing to do with how far you hit it.

So I take out my driver and finish off the bucket swinging as hard as humanly possible - WTF. I figure the amount of animal that comes out is directly proportional to how long the club is. I lose all smoothness at the 7 iron. Driver through 6 iron I don't know what comes over me.

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