Lag, Tempo, and Transition

The last few weeks have been practice time. No playing. Just work on tempo. And as I did that, I remembered transition and started paying attention to that, too. And as I worked on both, I started to feel how to maintain lag. Video was crucial in making progress. Otherwise, I judged myself by ball flight, which misled me. I thought I was hitting the ball well, but, really, I was hitting, rather than swinging and losing distance and consistency as a result. It took me a few weeks to get the feel of a slower tempo and transition, but once I did, progress was steady. Today gave the best results, as you'll see in the video. For the first time, I could see that my core was moving more slowly and that the club was actually swing around me. That was a very exciting video clip. Then I took my backyard swing to the range. Immediately, my tempo and transition disappeared. Hitting real golf balls, I forgot all about swinging and went back, instinctively, to hitting. Fortunately, I had the camcorder, which showed me the regression. I was able to make some adjustments, but the swing was never as good as it was in my backyard. In the clip, you'll see the differences between the backyard and range swings.