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Ok, so I got out for the second time this year yesterday. Normally, I like to go to the course by myself the first couple of times out and practice, just to see how my swing feels and how I'm striking the ball. Some of my friends aren't like this. I told my buddy last week I'd be going out on a day he couldn't make it. He suggests I call some long lost guy from our old team that belongs to the club whom I don't even like. Then I realize again some people do not golf alone. Hello, I like it.

Last week was pathetic. First two balls in the water. Then some scuffs, followed by comprehensive pull-slices.

It's a good time to experiment, so this week I do that.

I remember reading countless magazine/book articles about picking a spot a few feet in front of your ball to help with aiming, kinda like a mark or arrow on the lane in bowling. I typically skipped over those articles, leafing through to the page that would actually reveal the true secret to the golf swing.

But this really helped. I found myself squaring up to that little line between the mark I'd picked out and the ball, and my swing felt freerer and longer. I think I was more square to the intended ball path. It seemed as if I was I was setting up open, but the ball went straight and long when I hit it correctly. Winter/early spring golf is misleading, but I hit it to places closer to the green on par 4's I'd never been before.

I think before I had been trying to square up to a target hundreds of yards away, and was really triangulating to it, causing a pull or slice.

So anyway, I'm hopeful.

Just like every new year.