Through the season I work on a number of different things. Right now I’m really working hard on finding my tempo. Sometimes, when I’ve been hitting a lot of balls on the range, I find that my tempo suffers. That’s something you have to be careful of, particularly if through the winter you practise a lot but don’t actually play very often. You can get too quick when you take your ‘range game’ out to the course. So I’ve been trying to slow my swing down quite a bit. For me, and probably for you, that’s always a good thought.

On a specific note, I am aware that I do have a tendency to move laterally too much, so I always have to watch for that. I am trying to turn and stay ‘within’ myself more, so that I finish nice and straight. The ideal swing thought for me is to finish straight on the left side when I’m done. I have to watch that I don’t finish in a reverse-C shape, which occurs when the hips are working too fast and too much towards the target coming down, causing the hands to fall behind my body. When that happens you either lose it out to the right or flip the hands through the ball and hit it left.

So those are two things I constantly have to work on. I want rotary motion in my hips and torso (not a slide towards the target) and I want to keep it fairly slow. Other than that I really focus on the basics. I like everything to be comfortable and orderly at the set-up. I always try to picture the shot in my mind, and when I see it I then rely on feelings to make it happen. When I’m playing well I don’t think about anything technical to do with my swing. It’s more important to just visualise the ‘play’ and do it. I am lucky in that I have good fundamentals. My coach, Henri Reis, has been with me since I was a junior in Sweden. I see him about eight times a year and we reinforce all the things that we know work well for me. He’s not just my swing coach, I also do a lot of short- game work with him. But the basics are there and that’s why I am able to repeat my swing and trust it.

For you, I’d say the best thing is a simple concept of the swing. As I look at this sequence I’m not seeing a lot of hinges and angles here and there. It’s natural. Mistakes come when you are being too complicated. I try to stand up to every club in the bag and make the same swing. If I need to hit it farther, I use another club. The game’s tough enough without changing your swing every time you stand up to the ball.