I lay the sod over it on around 1 pitch shot a year and wanted to make it 0 for this year. I think it is because of quitting though. Thanks for the great posts Mike.

I meant "your" in the third person, btw.

My full stroke improve ten fold over the winter because I improved my chipping. How? Basic and Aquired Motion. I hit plastic balls, crab grass, pine cones, bottle caps- just about anything on the ground- all the while downloading the book into my hands.

Some say Basic and Aquired are boring (not while downloading into the hands it ain't) but the weeks doing that over-shadow all the years of banging the driver at a driving range. You really discover your Flying Wedges.