Tried to catch up on some sleep and succeded for the first night in a while…first I was too nervous to sleep before the last round, then I was too happy to sleep after the tournament…but now I´m back to preparing for this week so trying to postpone the feelings from last week until next week when I am off and have time to celebrate.

Had a good practice day. Short but with quality as my caddie would say. I have a tendency to practice quantity more than quality and Colin is trying to change that. I listen to him and try really hard but it will take a while to always do it during practice. I love hitting a lot of balls and chips and puts without much thought. It feels like meditation for me…clears my head from everything else. But, it is not the most productive training. But, I can do it at home when he isn´t watching:) 

Started with an hour on the putting green with a few exercises. One is trying to hole as many 13 footers you can out of 20 putts from about the same place. You start by estimating how many you will hole and then you see if you make as many or more. Hopefully you will estimate higher and make more putts as you train more and more. I did that exercise 6 times today from 6 different angels from the hole. The second exercise is to putt 20 3-footers in a row in a circle around the hole and see how many you make. This exercise helpes me realise I can hole out almost all of them all the time and it makes me hit longer putts more agressively. The last exercise is to just hit long putts to different holes to get the pace of the green and to instinctively get the lines without much reading. Last, a few long putts from the fringe to get the feeling from there as well.

Then me and my swing coach Pete Cowen had a session in the bunker, around the chipping green and on the range. More of a check-up than a lesson. I usually go 2-3 days a few times a year over to England to see him at his range to do most of the technique training. At tournaments, we mostly check if everything is ok and then practice the different shots required for the course that week. Still working on getting the club head more shut at adress which makes it stronger and a fraction shorter in the backswing which makes it easier to control in the downswing. I´m more aware of where the club face is. 

A little gym session to finish off the day was nice. Now it´s Sweden-Malta on TV and then in the middle of the night Söderling plays Federer in the US Open. This summer I have been glued to all Söderling´s matches and been so hooked on tennis. Never met the guy but I´m so nervous when I watch him on TV it feels like it´s my brother playing. I love watching tennis but I suck at playing. It is such a nice TV sport. I think Söderling has a good chance to beat Federer tonight…we´ll see what happens. 

See you later!