Excuse the rambling, but here is my 5 week in update.
Despite feeling a bit sore, I decided to play through it. I am sore now, but more of a dull ache than a strain or pull. Today's round felt the best of any of left handed rounds. My best round with right hand is +3 or a 71. In singles match on Wednesday I shot a 99. That was hard to take. I shot a 90 today, and I felt like real progress was taking place. My short approach game with left hand felt pretty good. Reasonably accurate. I enjoyed throwing the truth, and lucid suspect. I hope they feel this good when I get my right hand back. My lucid escape also felt good. My drive on 11, a left handed hyzer shot that dog-legs about 75° to the right, came out of my hand with a lot of snap and felt like it would make it around corner. Of course it just barely ticked the tree in the center of the fairway flying into the fringe on the right.
One of biggest things I was happy about was playing inside myself. For the most part. I made sure to drive all holes from a standstill. I had one hole where I zig zagged up fairway, not really making progress and racking up strokes in the process.
Putting was pretty good. I made all putts inside 20 feet. I feel like the pure in test material, can't be a winter putter. It hit and rolled about 18 feet away from basket, 3 times. I will take out something much softer in future.
I worked on my form what felt like successfully today. The last two rounds were very tiring (physically) because I would reach back too far, and as I set plant foot, would reach back even farther before pulling with effort from beginning. In abstract I knew it was wrong and my body was telling it was wrong, but I couldn't start pull softly enough.
Today was another story thankfully. I didn't reach too far back. I also thought about having disc out from body( ie not straight back, but a bit out) at end of backswing, and then pulling disc through my torso as close as I could. Results were good. I also tried to keep pull line high across my chest, felt comfy and I was getting a nice straight flight. I was really pleased.
At some point I will learn a bit of lefty forehand, not yet, but soon.
I threw a bunch of anhyzer shots with left. Some came out nice, some turned into annoying cut rollers at end. Seems like disc only needs to be up just 2-4 degrees from flat, and I was a bit higher than that. Getting closer with this shot.
I need to do field work. Period.
Driving is still around 200 -240. It is feeling better though.
Feeling like it has been a good month of learning. I definitely feel like disc is coming out of hand better.
Overall, I'm proud of myself for not quitting, and look forward to starting to see distance gains over the next 2 months.