alex noren, golfer on the move

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In-Room Drills
2010-03-26
Got a good question that I thought I should answer:

Hi Alex, would be nice to see what kind of drills you do in room, because i can't image how a in room drill session could look like. All the best for your round and i hope you will hit the ball like you want to hit it!

So, here are a few pics from my in-room drills. These are the main drills I do. Since 2007, I've done these drills and many more in my room to improve faster and get the right sequence and technique. It has helped me a lot I believe and it's fun as well when you come out on grass and feel ready. I usually spend anywhere from 10 minutes to over an hour every day on in-room drills.

Basic putting drill where you keep your focus on the coin even after the ball is gone.

I usually use a putter since the putter grip gives me a better feeling of how I should move the hands. The flat part of the grip can be used in many ways to feel where the club head is during the swing. I try to align the putter head with the left arm.

I do this swing drill on one leg at a time. Really feel the full swing on each leg and get a feeling for how each leg moves in the swing. It also improves your balance.

I love working on my bunker swing since I think it helps my ful swing. I have the club open here, just as in the bunker.

Sleep time. 9.15 Tee time. Let's get some scoring going!!!

alex

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2010-03-26 3 hours of short game after the round felt nice. What's also nice is that this is the view from the hotel room.

Niclas Fasth finishing up his round yesterday.

Morning glory. Nice to wake up to. Would love to have a place this close to a green.

Borderline for me on making the cut. Shit short game and very average long game. More short game training.

Now: Agassi book, food, gym, sleep.

Is the snow melting in Sweden yet? Golf abstinens?

alex

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Downswing sweetness
2010-03-25 -1 today. I like! Not because it was a great score but because I have gotten better since last week and I achieved my goal whcich was to have a good attitude the whole round. Started to hit 8 of the first 9 greens and didn't score better than 2 over on those. Not great. But, as my coach in college would have said. "Either you moan about it and waste some more shots or you get on with it and start playing good". I kept my focus and it paid off. 3 under on the back and I felt calm inside when walking off the course. Haven't felt that feeling in a while.

I found a sweet video of my idol Ben Hogan on youtube.com.
This is the best downswing I've ever seen. The club is thrown straight down to the ball and with tons of loft on the clubhead. This is the downswing I'm looking for. When I watch this, it reminds me of hitting a bunker shot with a 60 degree wedge. The left hand is a little cupped which creates loft on the club and you feel that it's cupped the whole way down to the ball. In the bunker shot you can keep it cupped through the ball and all the way to the finish. This is not possible in the full swing when you create more speed. The cupped left wrist will straighten out very close to impact. Very close is a key factor. If the cupped left wrist gets straight earlier you will loose the loft and the natural release of the club and the shots get manipulated and that is exactly what I do.
I keep it cupped all the way from adress to the top of the backswing. Then I start too aggressive with my body and therefore I'm not able to hold the wrist cupped and I loose all the synchronization in the downswing. My goal is to maintain the left wrist cupped and being able to strike it as pure as Hogan does in this picture. It looks like it's all happening without effort in this video. BAAM! Straight down to the ball. No bullshit re-routing of the club. Nothing. Just BAAM!

Since I can maintain the correct wrist position on a bunkershot, I'll train a lot in the bunker to get used to the correct movement.

"The secret is in the dirt", Hogan said. Maybe my secret is in the sand? What do you guys think?

Time to sleep and get ready for round 2. Happy happy!

alex

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Today is the day
2010-03-25 13.20 Tee Time

09.00 wake Up
09.00-10.00 small swing drills in room
10.00-breakfast
10.30- slow bike ride and stretch+golf movements in physio bus
11.20- lunch
12.10 warm-up starts with putting, shortgame and range last.

One goal: good attitude.

alex

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Practice round 1
2010-03-23 Just came back after a good meeting about this year's Nordea Scandinaviam Masters. We players met the big bosses and tried to come up with some good ideas for the tournament. We all like the event and we want to make it good and fun for everybody! Would be awesome if we could get over 100.000 people to come watch and enjoy the golf tournament at Bro Hof Slott GC, one of the best courses in the world I think.

9 holes practice and a lot of range and shortgame time. My hands are really sore now. Just grabbed a club in the room and my callusses feel like rocks in my hands. That's the way it should be. When my hands are smooth, I know I haven't practiced enough.

Looks weird when the ball is still there. I promise I didn't miss it:)

Edfors is back in Europe after his Asian winter schedule. He said he hasn't made a birdie in Europe yet this year.

alex

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