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  1. That's fair, I guess I have my expectations set from other sports and games where a small number of big things done right takes you to a competitive level very quickly, and I guess these are the things I'm looking for with golf. Sprinting, rowing, and powerlifting all have a basic premise of "push instead of pull, don't leak energy, and eat/sleep like a baby". With golf I really want to find the same sort of thing - a few intuitive principles that I can fine tune later. Right now I'm very confident in my backswing, and I know that keeping loose and "whippy" is critical, but I have effectively 0 intuition for my downswing that I can lean into when I lose my groove. I *think* the engagement pattern is similar to what would happen if you tried to toss a sandbag, and I can certainly generate a ton of power using that, but it's not optimal. Is there some kind of smarter guiding principle I should be using there?
  2. I *know* before I begin my backswing if it's going to be a good hit or not, and when I'm feeling good it doesn't matter how I'm standing or where the ball is or what club I use, I'll always make great contact and it will go where it should. The problem is sometimes I'll walk up to the ball and not have that *feel*, and when I lose it, I generally play like garbage until I have a couple good hits and settle back in. How should I try to recover that feel when I'm playing? I could easily see this being largely driven by tension building in my back/shoulders/arms when I start having trouble but I don't have a good cue for fixing this. As an example of how volatile it gets, here's my scorecard when I last reran 9 at Crandon, I had 5 pars and 5 double pars. Hole | PAR | SCORE 1 | SCORE 2 -----|-----|---------|--------- 10 | 5 | 8 | 8 11 | 4 | 8 | 6 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 13 | 4 | 6 | 5 14 | 5 | 10 | 10 15 | 4 | 4 | 5 16 | 4 | 4 | 5 17 | 3 | 3 | 3 18 | 5 | 7 | 10
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