News Flash --- There's a club face you have to square up to the ball.

[Outfoxed]

This just in. Today's range session revealed a mystery that has evaded me. Turns out your hands are directly related to the angle of the club face.

A simple exercise of working the ball right to left over 4 or 5 shots showed me how my hands were getting stuck in the "open" position. Well I'll be, it's that simple? All these years of accepting that a "fade" was my natural swing.

The really fun part was hitting every one of my new Nike irons and work each of them the same amount of right or left with lots of distances.

To top it off, I had time to squeeze in 9 holes. And in this round, I had several shots where I tried to work the ball laterally. The best was after my approach hit a sprinkler and kicked right under a couple large pines leaving me 40 yards short of the green. Before today I would have turned towards the fairway for my shot and probably accepted a "short" result. Instead, I played a strong draw on a punch shot that ran the ball around the outside of the trees and right towards the pin, nearly hitting it. It was fun to both hit and watch.

For 9, today, I shot a 41.

[sean_miller]

A quick nine right after an epiphany - how cool is that, eh?