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Follow up on your progress

Looks like learning golf is one of those never ending journeys we have in our life. I have learned about my self that I need continues feedback of progress to be motivated on something like this.

Like loosing weight - I have to weigh my self every morning to stick to my goal. Otherwise I will start gaining weight. During the past year I have lost 25 kg, this works for me.

For golf I need a similar kind of feedback of progress. I don't think that following the drop of my handicap is the right qualifier. At the moment a simple solution would be to check that I have done my practice swings. 100 swings a day until the summer range opens.

One pro suggested a drill: try to hit 10 balls as close as possible to each other. Count the difference in meters and follow up on your progress during the summer. This might be a good thing to do one a week? Shooting with short irons about 100 meters. It would be nice to get all balls in a 10 meter circle?

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10 000 swings before spring

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Have some cake - it's my birthday!

Today is my 48. birthday. For my birthday I just finished 11 email lessons of golf with Lawrie Montague at Golf Academy. http://www.golf-school-australia.com Get the lessons! I'll add a quotation from Lawrie's email: "Thankyou for your comments on my lesson series and you're right the lessons are simple and for good reason, golf instruction tends to be ambiguous and complicated, and really it's not that difficult to learn how to hit better, more consistent golf shots and ultimately lower your scores. Hannu as long as you truly develop an understanding about what you are trying to do and then follow-up with consistent thoughtful action golf becomes less of a mystery. Good luck to you and your adventures in golf and please let me know how you're travelling down the track." Consider this a "slice" of my birthday cake to you:-) Hannu - learning and living (Modified from McLuhan's "learning a living)
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