Working on my tempo

Played terrible In Jakarta…The game was just off. One week your “on” the next everything is off. That means that it is as easy to be “On” again this week in Korea. On Saturday I just worked on my tempo and it feels like that could be the key…

Like?

Regards

Rikard

The easy mistakes…

After a good finish the last round I look back on Malaysian open with the thought, “I´m Close”. The only thing that makes the difference is does silly mistakes. The really short putts you just can’t miss, or that missed shot that led to an surprising D. Bogey.

Tied for 16th made me jump to 15th on the OOM and 259 on the World ranking. My goal is to get inside top 100 this year. If those “W´s” will come it´s not far from .

Now i´m in Jakarta, Indonesia for the Indonesian Masters which is played at an awesome track called Royale Jakarta. Great layout, thick rough and fast greens. The player who wins this week is hitting the ball solid.

9th green on the left 18th to the right.

Hole nr 3.

11.45 tee off tomorrow with Thongchai Jaidee and Gaganjeet Bhullar.

Let the games begin.

Regards

Rikard

Pillow menu

Had some good practice after Handa classic last week and I hope it will save me some shots out there. Need to get ride of those simple mistakes.

If the sun is up I will try to play with new sunglasses tomorrow, will see how that goes… Feels necessary  to save me eyes a bit. Had terrible headache yesterday after squeezing my eyes together.

Nice hotel this week. Cant choose my pillow though:

Never had this luxury before.

13.0o tee off time tomorrow with Manassero and Digivijay. Good fun.

Take care!

R

Singapore equals 54-hole tournaments.

After 10 hours of weather delays, the tournament was shortened down to just 54 holes. Unfortunate when I was starting so good the 3rd round. However, the 2nd round was more the problem cause I was not playing as I had to do for giving me a chance to win. To many defensive swings and bad putts.

The feeling I go out with the 3rd round is the feeling I always want. “Just chase the leading pack down, nothing else matters”.

That is the plan for this week in Malaysia. “Nothing else matters then having a good time on the course!”

Time for sleep.

XOXO

R

Update from Singapore.

If you wanna hire Nils for Christmas please email me

The course is in good shape hopefully my game will be as well..

Cause if it is, I have worked on my now celebration move:

“The Gorilla”

Thank you…

Will stay committed to the things I have been working on lately. Last week I got in between new and old stuff. That never works out!

Teetime: 8.00 With Jbe Kruger and Jeev Milkha Singha.

Nice group…

See you!

Rick

Signs of a bad week at Delhi GC…

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Dirty hat..

…And scratch marks on the arms from those damn buses I visited to many times.

Nothing really worked. Tee shots, short game, putting all was a bit of. I just have the feeling that I could not trust the things i´ve been working on cause of the course is so tight. Even good shots can get a bad bounce and jump in to a bush. Tough for the mental side of the game…

It´s a new week tomorrow in Singapore and I´m already here. Were playing at Orchid Country club which I played 2 years ago. Nothing spectacular, nothing bad, just a solid good golf course. Looking forward to put the driver in to the bag. Playing with R11s currently. Good stuff.

Will try to give you better updates this week.

Stay tuned.

Rick

Indian Mediamarkt

After a great week of practice at home it is with a tear in my eye I leave Black mountain. Unfortunately I will not comeback until September. Everything has been so awesome, great practice, good food and a lot of things to do outside of the course. For an example:

It´s still there so it is something to look forward too.

Right now I´m back in Delhi for the Panasonic Indian open. And yes, it is at my favorite course Delhi GC. I´m hungry as hell to win again. Can´t get to horny though, so I stand in my own way to win it. Just have to be mentally patient and only focus on the things who will make me better in the future. If the game is on then, it will probably end well. My swing and everything is getting better and better at practice so I´m looking forward to see how it´s gonna pay off at this 5 week streak of tournaments.

Flew in today with Jesper Kennegård. We saw a few Guys checking in some TV´s in Bangkok but we didn´t think it was that many. For a moment you thought that Mediamarkt was opening up store in Delhi:

Tomorrow It is Pro am time and some practice to get all set.

See you later

Rick.

Crossfit-workouts.

Jesper Kennergård who got thru the Asian tour -qschool is staying with me this week. Jesper who have great knowledge about physics is in charge of the workouts this week.

Monday,

500 m rowing

Squats 20 x 50 kg

Deadlift 20 x 50 kg

3 rounds of this with no rest in between. Its just about getting it done as quick as possible.

Tuesday,

10 squat jumps

7 push-ups

6 Trx-low row

5 dips

3 pull-ups

10 rounds of this with no rest.

Wednesday,

rest

Thursday,

25 Trx- Crunches

40 side raises

90 sec the plank

3 rounds as fast as possible, no rest.

It was a long time ago I had this severe muscle ache, they are freaking soar.

Will fix the lie on my new clubs now.

R

Christmas day.

Got some new stuff today:

The bag was pretty full with 12 more clubs in the bag.

The new Cleveland 588 irons.

Awesome headcover…

For a classic look driver. Tried it today. It felt pretty good though. Will try it tomorrow in the trackman and see how it goes.

Goes from Puma shoes to the Classic Icons. Love it!

Bedtime.

R

Angkor wat

I´m back home at Black mountain for one week to pre per for the 5 week stretch who´s coming up. India-Singapore-Malaysia-Indonesia-Korea.

Finished with a 72-even par last week for tied 27th. I was pumped for the last round cause I wanted a real low score so bad and  it messed me up instead of letting me go for it.

Some pics from Angkor wat:

Jesper is enjoying the art of Angkor wat.

See you later.

R