The Artful Golfer: Your Artful Grip

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Your Artful Grip

Grip it and Rip it by jimbeauphoto

Changing Your Grip - One particular day, Marci Diehl's youngest son found her in tears. After learning what was the matter, he told her "You need to change your grip." This inspired Marci, a writer and former PGA Tour wife, to not only make some changes in herself, but to explore other golf experiences, tidbits, analogies, slang, axioms and terms actually apply to life lessons for the rest of us. You'll find from Marci's blog that she learned a lot from life on the PGA Tour, except perhaps how to play.

Labels: Golf Blogs, Marci Diehl

4 Comments:

Jon Pappas said...

Recording golf data - What do you use to record data on your rounds? Do you have your own special Excel spreadsheet? Do you use some kind of notebook during the round to record data?

Inspired by Ed Feeney at http://www.applygolflessons.com, I'm looking for efficient methods to records lots of data, not just your typical data, e.g., # of putts, GIR.

The Artful Golfer said...

I simply record my score, index, #birdies, green fee, and who I played with in a spreadsheet. I don't track #putts, #GIR or #fairways hit (I used to, but got lazy). I gradually found that focusing on the shot at hand in the present moment helped me more than trying to figure out what to focus on in the future by evaluating past results.

Marci Diehl said...

Thank you for posting this. Connecting with people as they read my blog is so gratifying, not to mention motivational! For a long time after the end of my marriage and subsequently, the end of my relationships in golf, I thought my opinions, observations and lessons related to the 28 years I spent "in" golf didn't matter. I was wrong! It's great to reconnect to the golf community -- they are as welcoming, funny, insightful, and intelligent as ever. It's good to be "home".

Jon Pappas said...

Thanks. I agree with you. Being present has also helped me more tracking data. Though I did find it fascinating to keep a "freedom" scorecard like Shoemaker suggested, scoring the amount of freedom and/or enjoying the motion. That is more meaningful data than # of putts.