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I got one tonight. $60 for one hour. Well worth the money, in fact I scheduled another one for 2 weeks from today.

I went with the main pro and golf course owner, Steve Heckel, this time. I'd always went to an assistant before. Steve's a great golfer, or used to be. Spent some time on the Senior Open leaderboard more than one year, but never finished it up. He told me he was 60, it kind of shocked me. I guess the life of a golf pro is a lot easier than that of a construction worker as we appear to be the same age.

It was amazing how long and loose my swing had got. He asked me to hit a few 6 irons. I did and I caught them sweet. Blew right over the flag he told me to aim at and had a small draw. Then he took me to his laptop computer and showed me my swing on video. He was impressed that I could even hit the damn ball, much less as well as I did.

Widened my stance. Moved the ball up in my stance. Shortened my swing. More shoulders and less arms. I now take a swing where it feels like I'm chipping, but on video I'm still getting almost parallel. Hard to believe until you see yourself on camera.

He said "I bet you take some hellacious divots." He was right about that. I had a tilt going, moving my head behind the ball too much and then letting loose with my arms. My left elbow was bending and wasn't getting extension.


Now all I have to do is be smart enough to practice the same shit he taught me.