I had an interesting outing today. I've been working on incorporating a more upright swing as taught by Don Trahan. I used the swing throughout today's round with mixed results. I drove the ball fairly well, and hit some good irons and fairway woods. The couple times I did hit bad irons shots happened to occur on holes with water and I drowned two balls. The second one came after I hit a shot through the fairway and had to chip out from behind a tree (and then I hit it in the water). But I did hit three greens in reg (my total is normally zero), and ended up with four pars and a birdie. The two bad holes were both double pars so I ended up with a 43 on the front. I played the back fairly well until #14 where my swing really left me. I hit three fat shots in a row trying to get on the green from around 180. Again, don't know what I was doing different, but it was frustrating. Ended up with a 47 on the back for a 90. So at this point I can hit some very good shots with Trahan's swing, but I can hit crappy one's as well. That's what you could say about my full swing last week before I watched him on Academy Live! :-) However, my back feels a whole lot better than it normally does after a round so I'm still ahead. I'm going to stick with it. One thing I'm going to do is hit plastic balls in the back yard and just monitor my divots. I might take my camera to the range and see if I can see anything different when I make a short, shallow divot (what Trahan says should happen) or one of my earth-moving shovel chunk divots. There are lots of possiblities--hopefully I can find the culprit. If not, then I'll be content to know I'm saving my back and resume concentrating on the short game.