I Can Swing the Clubs

After practicing range ball swings almost every day for more than six weeks, and five rounds of 18-hole real golf (two at Chase Oaks http://www.chaseoaks.com, two at Ridgeview Ranch, and one at Pecan Hollow), today I felt for the first time I could swing both the irons and woods at ease. Actually, I felt that I could swing the woods already two weeks ago. With the help of Heath on the 3-wood today, the repeatability of the good swings increased significantly. Just about 10 minutes before finishing today’s driving range practice, I suddenly felt I could swing the irons as well. I started with the 5-iron, went down to 6-iron, 7-iron, and so on. I could do it right about 8 times in 10-tries.

That was a good feeling. I felt I could finally swing the clubs at ease and I could feel the weight of the iron in my hands during the swings. The golf balls went right along the intended line. The balls could reach as far as 200 yards for the woods and about 150 yards with the irons.

So far I have finished at-par at two holes among all the five games I had played: one at Black Jack Golf Course and one at the Pecan Hollow. I am confident I could do better than at in my next game.

For the last six weeks, I first went to Chase Oaks with Zhen several times to start practicing swings (about five times). Then I joined the Ridgeview Ranch Golf club together with Guangyan November 1, 2006. Since I joined the club, the weather has been very good. I practiced at least 25 times during the month of November. The golf professional Heath is a good teacher. He teaches about five students for one hour at noon every Saturday. I have learned a lot from him. Zhen is my first teacher. Pete told me a lot of his golf experience. Guangyan told me how to hold the club. The two-plane theory DVD was an excellent help for my understandings of different style of swings.

Today I saw Zhen, Guangyan, Binjin, Laozai and his daughter among the golfers at the driving range.