Things you can't understand unless you look at them from the outside

There are many things in this world that you cannot understand unless you look at them from the outside (as a third party). Today, I would like to talk about something that I have experienced. Many of you know that I like to play golf, but from March 2020 to May 2021 (when the vaccine was not available), I didn't play much golf because of the coronavirus. When I resumed playing in May, the first thing I felt was that I couldn't fly. I lost almost 50 yards of distance just looking at my driver. I didn't like that, so I exerted myself and it became even harder to fly.

I thought that was just the way it was, but I wasn't enjoying golf anymore. So I started practicing at a practice facility where I used to take lessons and where they have a Trackman (golf measuring device). There, I only hit with a 6-iron, but I found that the carry of the 6-iron was now 160 yards. Whereas a few years ago, when I was in good shape, the carry (air-to-air distance) was over 190 yards. The distance was shockingly low.

What I learned from the Trackman data was that my swing speed was slow and that I was not hitting the ball in the center of the club. There were many other problems, but after watching a video of my swing, I realized that I was hitting with my hands and my hips were not rotating. Anyway, I found out that I was hitting with my arms and hands only.

So I changed it so that I rotated my shoulders in the backswing and rotated my hips in the downswing. I found that I was hitting the ball even worse, but as I continued to do this, my distance started to come back, albeit a little more than before. I need to keep practicing, but it was still a good experience to look at this situation from the outside and see problems that I didn't notice. I'd like to get back to my old flying distance.

Kenichi Uchikura
President / CEO
Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.
ken.uchikura＠pspinc.com

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