After an unimpressive practise session on Tues night, I was dreading the match, yesterday. It didn't start too well as my long game was quite bad. Fortunately, my playing partner, a 9 handicapper was on top of his game.

After a few holes, he told me that I was getting ahead of the ball at impact, because I was rushing to hit the ball. He told me to relax my grip a bit and swing slower. I took his advice and off the next tee, I sent my drive straight down the middle. After that my game improved a lot. I hit most fairways from then on in. There was still the occasional pull shot with mid-long irons but, I played well enough and made a good contribution to our 4 & 3 win.

I was looking for all the swing technique reasons of what was going wrong, when it was something so simple. Crazy game!!!