85: The hole 17 click
Feel cues clicked on hole 17. Finished par-par. Too late for the scorecard but the feel is confirmed.
85
- Course
- Delicias Country Club
- Tees
- Blue
- Rating / slope
- 73.1 / 123
- Index after
- 10.9
85 on the card. But this round belongs to hole 17.
All day the irons were fighting me. I had the cues (less hands, more wrist, stand closer, left arm extended, be slow) but they weren’t connecting. Then on 17’s tee box something settled. I stopped trying to make it happen and just swung. The feel was there.
Finished 17 and 18 with back-to-back pars. Can’t change the front of the scorecard, but I know what the swing feels like now. That’s what the diary is for.
Active cues this round:
- Less hands
- More wrist
- Stand closer to the ball
- Feel left arm fully extended
- Be slow
- Force and speed combined. Speed alone is not enough
Putting:
- Straight arms both hands
- Trust the read and the feel
- Don’t overthink it
Takeaway: The cues work. Next round, hole 1 gets the hole-17 version.