Today was a crazy day. Started off ok the first three holes, then hit a terrible shot on the 4th, but managed to make a par. After that, I didn’t hit many more good shots on the front nine and turned at 3 over par. Then saved a great par on 10. After that, I told my caddie Colin that our goal was to get back to even par when we are finished. He quickly replied, ” how are we going to do that?”. He had seen all the bad shots but I knew somewhere I could turn this around. I’ve done it before and I knew there were some good chances on the back nine. I hit a good drive down 11 and a wedge to 10 feet and holed out for birdie. All of a sudden, I felt like a different person and i made four more birdies and finished 2 under total. So, as I said before, never ever give up:) I think it helped me to write that in the blog. If I write it, I have to stick to it otherwise it wouldn’t mean anything. Talk is cheap like my college coach would have said. 

It feels a little unreal walking past Tiger, Phil and all the others when trying to find a spot on the range. It feels really big when all the best players are gathered and we don’t see them very often in other tournaments. The scoring shows as well that most of the best players are here. It’s not an easy course and some people are just eating it alive… 

The Chinese people are amongst the most helpful there are. They always wants to carry your bags and help you with all kinds of things. Just now when I was writing this, two of the hotel staff came in with fresh roses and a nice fruit plate and explained that when they cleaned my room yesterday, they accidently made a little crack in my foot file when dropping it onto the floor. The foot file costs, 3 Euros maximum and I’ve never experienced anything like this before. They are service minded to the max!!!

Some of you have requested that I should write more about how I train golf and what exercises i do in the gym, so I’m gonna write a little about how I do on a week like this: 

My main goals for every tournaments are to win and to learn a lot so I can get better for the next week. To have a chance to win I need to be playing well and stay fresh. I can’t train too much golf or be in the gym too much because I won’t have enough energy to compete on sunday afternoon. So, if I feel that my game is good enough to win that week I don’t practice a lot after the rounds. If I feel my game is off, I will work but not like I would during an off week when I don’t have to stay fresh the next day. Same goes for workouts. I work pretty hard but not crazy. It all depends on how I feel there as well. Let’s explain my work this week.

– Monday- 2 hours on the range, working solely on technique. 30 minutes heavy workout in the gym. 1 hour massage. 

– Tuesday- 30 min warm-up on the range. 18 hole practice round. 2 hours on the range, solely technique. 1 hour putting. 30 minutes short game. 1 hour heavy workout in the gym. 1 hour massage. 

– Wednesday- 2,5 hours on the range, working on different shots and technique. 1 hour putting. 45 minutes short game. 15 minutes gym only corework. 

– Thursday- 1,5 hours warm-up on range, short game and putting combined. 18 holes play. 1 hour range after solely technique. 20 minutes no resistance exercise bike.  

This is the most time I’ve spent on a range this year. I usually do my technique work in my room but I found that ”Swingyde” tool and use it a lot and hit balls with it so I spend more time on the range. Tomorrow I will go pretty ahrd in the gym and maybe on saturday as well depending on how my body feels. I will explain more specific about my gym work later on when I have some pictures to show as well. It’s easier to explain the exercises then.

I heard a cool thing about Tiger. When he was injured, he spent 7 hours a day doing rehab for his knee including 5 hours a day on a bike with no resistance. That’s dedication right there!!!

This week I have tried a new thing. I want to improve my swing by getting more loft on the club on both the back swing and the down swing and nobody have done that better than Ben Hogan. So I’ve been watching a certain swing (search for Ben Hogan fairway wood) of his on youtube for at least 100 times a day to get a clear picture of how it should look like. It feels like it helps to get rid of all the doubts in my mind if I’m working on the right thing or not. Since, Hogan was such a great striker, I know I’m watching the right kind of swing. 

Off to the exercise bike to feel a little fresher for tomorrow. All the range sessions are making me a little more tired than usual. 

See you later!

PS. Today is the last day to send in the videos in the Trick Shot Competition. We got a lot of potential winners but 2nd and 3rd prizes are also ok:)  

Bye bye!!!:)