The Practice Manual

If you have been playing as long as I have, you have seen a lot of thing change in the golf industry. In the past 50+ years, technology has evolved in an effort to improved the game that would have seen unimaginable in the early 1970s. However, one thing has remained constant, the golfer still has to swing the club. And, paraphrasing a Simply Red song, “time changes everything”; that includes your golf swing.

What performed so well when you were in your thirties or forties, does not at seventy plus! So, at some point, if still serious about beating “old man Par”, the journey begins to find a new swing; something that works within the physical limitation of being a super senior while still being able to “move through the ball”. With that being said, my journey to find a new swing for an old body has begun.

Hence, given the years of building “muscle memory” for executing the swing, the first stop on the journey, is to retool the mental imagery of how to practice and understanding the new keys for developing what works for me at 73. In an effort to accomplish this, I have just started reading The Practice Manual by Adam Young. It’s definitely becoming my “go to” for redefining how I will approach the search for a new swing.