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1 more mph...

Today's stack session was the second in the foundation program and I knew, having gained 8mph in the first session from the baseline, this one was going to be a bitter pill to swallow. Turns out it wasn't, with the reason being that I expected to be in a holding pattern and maybe struggle to beat my previous session. 

However, at each of the 3 weights I was tasked with in this session, I hit PB's, with a 90mph on the 205g, 90mph on the 195g and 95mph on the 140g. 

You'll note the average for each set was pretty closely matched to those numbers too, 87mph, 89mph and 93mph so I'm definitely moving more quickly. My notes also reveal I had a slight twinge in my lower back too, so I was having to work for it, whilst I was doing the stack session in the middle of a range session too (110 balls hit, mainly focused on the longer clubs in the bag, including the Cobra Radspeed XB driver which I've finally got a shaft for (a blue Fujikura Ventus 6S - 45.5" length).

Just as I was about to leave the range a buddy messaged me and asked if I'd like to catch a few holes before the sun set too. I obliged but had to get from one side of the Island to the other and grab lunch in between. Unfortunately when I got there we realised they'd laid the course out on temporary greens (not often done at our course but probably a good idea to rest the greens given the ground frost we've had over the last week or so).

Anyway, that just means practice round mentality for me, as I'm not hitting GPS numbers and feeling everything in instead. Given the 8 holes we stitched together (given the bottom half of the course was closed entirely) I'll let you be the judge of whether I should abandon the GPS 😂.

It was a fun round in what turned out to be a lovely afternoon of sun, with a birdie from what I can only describe as a pure 7 iron from about 160 yards out to leave a 4ft putt... and, given we didn't do gimmies and the grass hadn't been cut back for the temporaries I'm astonished at my scoring.

All-in-all I'm very pleased with where I'm at, at the moment, as I most certainly feel like I'm cruising at a higher ceiling off the tee, albeit with it helping today that I also had driver back in play, rather than the mini.

Let's keep this up and getting sub 80's should become a regular feature of my game...

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