[larryrsf]

"Losing the feeling" simply verifies that we don't have it ingrained deeply enough. But you were wise to immediately go back to wedge and get it back-- at all costs avoid accidently ingraining a mistake with a long iron or driver, etc.

I think it is likely that the older we are--the more difficult it is to ingrain something new--especially if we have been playing for years, been making the same old mistake for years. THAT would require the sort of dedication and persistence that would be necessary to teach ourselves a foreign language or to play a musical instrument (after teaching ourselves to read music!). Not many old farts have that much energy or concentration. There is a really good reason Chess Champions are not far over 40 years old.

And it is just ridiculous to watch kids learn something in an hour-- go from snowplow on skis to jumping stuff in the afternoon of the same day! I know guys who learned to golf on the High School team--ingrained a good swing--and never shot over 80 in their lives. Now these thirty somethings can take a year off and go out and hit all the fairways without warmup. Angry when they shoot 3 over! Makes me sick, ha.

Larry