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I had a back operation few years ago and my left leg in not fully recovered. I am training my core and things are getting better. For golf core muscles are important, but it's often difficult to evaluate the fitness of your core. One very good way is to check your balance. Core muscles and hip keeps you in balance. For accuracy in golf balance is also very important. Next tip is provided by Mike Pedersen, Founder of www.golf-trainer.com "Here's an exercise you can do to improve this. While standing pick up one foot and bend that knee. Look straight ahead, but close your eyes and see how long you can hold it. If it's for 10 seconds or less - not good. Need to work on it. If you can hold for 30 seconds or longer than start making small golf swings on one leg. This will definitely be a challenge but will greatly improve your balance during your swing. In no-time you'll be swinging under control and hitting the kind of shots you're capable of." Best thing is y...

Handicap shows the development of skills in golf. For next summer to drop my handicap I have made some goals. I cannot get playing before end of May: May hcp 41 June hcp 18,5 July hcp 12,5 August hcp 9,5 September hcp 8 I think this is the way it might go:-)

I feel like a pro! Just tested the first time my PEI and it's impressive 13%. Shooting 10 balls from 70 meters the average distance to the hole was under 9 meters. Every ball would have stayed on the green! Well this was under practice - and shooting ten balls from the same place and from a range. Not from grass. I think that the PEI should be more like 7 % in situations like this. I am sure that after practicing a month I will get my Pitching wedges PEI under 10% and other iron clubs too.

Just read about Dave Pelz PEI (Percentage error index). It's much like the exercise I was thinking to do this summer - hit 10 balls and see how close to the target I can get them. PEI is the same thing, but you just calculate the error % from the length of the shot. Looks like pro's have a PEI from 7 to 9 % and with a wedge from 15 to 20 %. (That's in a competition. I'm measuring just practice situations.) From Pelz stats you can read that wedge is one of the most impartant tools you need to master to score well! It's wedge - not putter or driver!!! Hannu

This is my backward. I should be practicing chipping! Looks like it will take a while until our golf course opens.

I played three round in different courses in Spain. Last round was 95 and would drop my handicap down to 29 - if it was accepted in Finland. I learned a lot in Spain and most important lesson was to practice more. I cannot hit a ball to a target line - as I was hoping. An other thing to watch is that I get very nervous in the beginning of the round. Well, It's about one month and then driving range will open here in Jyvaskyla and about 6 weeks, I get to play. I looks like my goal to drop my handicap from 47 to 7 is very demanding! - But I am not giving it up. We will see in September - October how did I manage.