It's been about six months of basic training. Gotten into reasonable baseline golf shape, understand now the swing fundamentals, and survived the commitment to daily practice regime. Thanks to Trackman, managed to put it all together to achieve the minimum carry distances needed to have a chance on the modern courses at full length. Recent session with Trevor put me on track to begin work on the next revision of the swing, grounded in a stronger connection to ground, better tuned pivot, and improved arm-body connection and control. It's also time to dive into kinematic sequencing.
Not being a spring chicken, need to consistently fly it 280+ while I can, get dialed in from inside 150, and start to build foundation for the game around the greens. The latter will age nicely while supporting gunning for the pin as long as that defies age. I think it's the right combo for now.
In the fall, I'll switch to irons that force me to tune a more precise strike, but plan for the summer is to get out on the course more, work on distance and consistency off the tee, and learn the fundamentals of the scramble around the greens.
The downside of all of this is that the hands, especially the thumb and pinkie of the left, has reached it's physical limit to deal with the daily pounding and recover overnight. It's a bummer, but every dynamic system has its weak link. So, I need to downshift quite a bit to let the hands catch up, the aches to subside, and work on strength conditioning before resuming the normal practice schedule. Short game practice coupled with just playing a half round or so a day hopefully does the trick while I work on rebuilding hand strength.
Starting first by balancing strength of hand and arm extensors. Bucket of rice should do the trick while reading up on the black art of putting.