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Golfissa puhutaan harkkakierroksista. Siis kierroksella harjoitellaan. Kun harjoitellaan, varsinainen tulos ei ole ydinasia vaan se mitä harjoitellaan - tietysti. Tänään harjoittelin lyöntirutiinia eli ensin haetaan tuntuma lyönnistä ja sitten mennään toteuttamaan. Oikeastaan toteuttamisen lopputuloksella ei olisi pitänyt olla merkitystä vaan sillä, että oliko harkkasvingi samanlainen kuin varsinainen lyönti. Ei tietysti ole eli tänään erityisesti rautalyönneissä tuli ylimääräistä jännitystä, jonka seurauksena sateli kylkkäreitä. Mitä tästä opimme? Ei luultavasti mitään, mutta sunnuntaina olisi hyvä yrittää pelata rento kierros. Tänään ehkä sain tehtyä tahallaan muutaman kainaloon vedon draivissa ja muutaman onnistuneen lyönnin ilman kainaloon vetoa. Päivän yhteenveto on, ettei harjoittelua tarvitse vielä lopettaa.

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Two weeks and I'll play in Spain

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10 000 swings before spring

Just realized that if I do 100 swings a day, I can make 10 000 swings before the greens will open in Jyvaskyla, Finland. I can do the 10 000 swings, but probably I can hit only about 1000 golf balls. I visit the range only once a week. But if I use my shots carefully concentrate on each ball, I think that is enough to learn a solid, basic swing. I am sure that I know most of the basics. Now I just need to get the right touch and feel to the swing. Just a feeling about golf as a social game - it might be so that people are together, but still just concentrating on them self? We all have our own goals and play an individual game. So golf might resemble our society a lot more than I first realized. This must be why the game appeals to middle aged males like me. Also someone said that one should talk too much during a round - so that's easy/natural for Finns, too.
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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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