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We all know we have to keep our egos in check in this game but sometimes it just gets the better of us. What parts of your game does your ego seem to over power your better judgement?

 

For me it's when I try to cut a corner or hit over a tree. Even though I know I shouldn't I just can't help myself when I have a shot at the green but there is a tree in the way. I tend to try and go over instead of under more times than I should.

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Putting.  I have a tendency to crush my putts way past the the hole, especially on downhill putts.

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I try to do too much on recovery shots from the woods/weeds etc. Honestly I am extremely good at inventing shots like this but it does cost me big time on occasion. So I guess I should be better at picking my spots.

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Thinking I can chip or pitch it close when I am short sided when I should just be hitting to the middle of the green.

 

Even though I pull it off 25% of the time the other three times I'm chipping again or putting from the fringe.

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Much less so now, but thinking I CAN hit that perfect 3W/hybrid to get to a par 5 in 2.

I try to be reasonable about the lie especially and just lay up if I'm not feeling it. That decision was not in my course management at one time.

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egos??????

 

 

I ate three of them this morning..... I was thinking about golf as i did so...... does that count????

 

 

 

in reality..... trying to get on in two when I have to carry a hazard. I just KNOW my three wood will carry it.........

 

 

SPLASH , THUD (in sand), Boink (off kids head in park next to course)......you get the idea.

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Much less so now, but thinking I CAN hit that perfect 3W/hybrid to get to a par 5 in 2.

I try to be reasonable about the lie especially and just lay up if I'm not feeling it. That decision was not in my course management at one time.

2 years ago that was 100% me. I went for EVERYTHING.

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Age has a lot to do with it for me anyhow. I will not lie I used to have a big ego or as one friend of mine put it "balls as big as church bells". I could get away with it when I was younger now I have gotten older and wiser so to speak. I cannot CARRY a 3 wood 250 yards in the air over water. But I still run and gun all putts and still of the mentality that I can make it just as well from 70 feet as 7 feet. And I still get aggressive with my short game especially my wedges. I have to get back to reality especially the last because I do not practice and play every day like I used to

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Recently in tournaments, I have evened out the amount of three woods I hit off the tee with the amount of drivers I hit, and I have also started laying up on par 5s much more often.  The way I see it is that you are still using your length if you can go 3 wood 4 iron lob wedge resulting in a easy birdie opportunity on a par 5 rather than going driver 3 wood pin high, but 40 yards left or right resulting in a struggle to make par.

But I still end up about 30 feet short of the flag most of the time with my mid and long irons because I always think I can pure everything as well as my best shots.

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Flag hunting on Par 3's -- I'm not that good.  Best aim for the middle of the green, take the par and walk away.  

 

Take the par, walk away...

 

Take the par, walk away...

 

Oh hell....

 

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Apparently, it's club selection.  Not for a specific shot, but the entire iron set...  

 

After hitting on a mat over the winter, I REALLY thought I'd be gaming one of my Mizuno sets (MP-32 & MP-30).

 

After two days hitting outside on real turf, it's the more forgiving cavity-back Alpha RX-1's that are making it in the bag.  At least to start.

 

Iron fitting Tuesday afternoon, will almost certainly be going to graphite shafts.

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I think it's an age thing but that's not to say older guys don't have egos, we do don't let us fool you.

 

I used to be the worst, it was an ego thing even when I was laying up (good players hit iron off the tee so should I on some homes). But now, on the golf course at least, I've managed to channel my ego to score and/or money won that day. Having done that the overwhelming majority of my decision making has to do with how I can take the fewest possible shots from the spot I'm at. On rare occasion I will make an overly risky play (approach shot or aggressive putt/chip) chasing a skin.

 

I have a pretty good short game though and I dont take those risks if a penalty stroke is involved.

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Rev like we have discussed before you and I have a similar game. I have learned especially on the par 5s to lay up to my optimal wedge distance and go from there. Today we had quite a strong match going with some great players. On the first par 5 I hit a good drive and had 240 to the green thought I could hit a chaser 3 wood up there Wrong I rope hooked it into the hazard and took a double. Next par 5 I hit a good drive took the little 7 wood laid up to my best wedge distance hit wedge to 3 foot of the hole made birdie. Played that way the rest of the day and birdied the remaining 3 par 5s. Pretty good par 5 day -1 with a double on the par 5s. We ended up winning against two other teams and I felt we had the weakest team. goes to show brains work best

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Rev like we have discussed before you and I have a similar game. I have learned especially on the par 5s to lay up to my optimal wedge distance and go from there. Today we had quite a strong match going with some great players. On the first par 5 I hit a good drive and had 240 to the green thought I could hit a chaser 3 wood up there Wrong I rope hooked it into the hazard and took a double. Next par 5 I hit a good drive took the little 7 wood laid up to my best wedge distance hit wedge to 3 foot of the hole made birdie. Played that way the rest of the day and birdied the remaining 3 par 5s. Pretty good par 5 day -1 with a double on the par 5s. We ended up winning against two other teams and I felt we had the weakest team. goes to show brains work best

Ah yes the old rope hook, a weakness of mine too. I'm very fortunate that it's hard to get the ball to run much most of the year down here, it causes me to rethink it when I want to trot that sucker out on par 5s.

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What's a "rope hook"? Having been a slicer most of my golfing life and now playing a straight ball with maybe a little cut, the only hook I know is when I also pull it. Ahh! The pull hook... This is the tee shot that happens when I am hitting into the wind and I think I can play a low draw that has lots of roll.

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Ah yes the old rope hook, a weakness of mine too. I'm very fortunate that it's hard to get the ball to run much most of the year down here, it causes me to rethink it when I want to trot that sucker out on par 5s.

The rope hook was always my nemesis because as my old man put it my fast hands. But that is why I developed my anti hook swing. If you look at Brendon Dejong (from S Africa) we have the same swing that cut across swing. I have been doing physical work on the yard when I come in off the road and I have bulked up my arms some and lost 16 lbs and I am really turning through the ball now so I have to close up my left side a little more to keep from turning across the ball and hitting a combo pull/snap hook believe me it is naaaasty!

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What's a "rope hook"? Having been a slicer most of my golfing life and now playing a straight ball with maybe a little cut, the only hook I know is when I also pull it. Ahh! The pull hook... This is the tee shot that happens when I am hitting into the wind and I think I can play a low draw that has lots of roll.

It is also known as a left lateral it is nasty as I told Rev. But unlike a s#*#* it comes off the clubhead fast almost like a boomerang.

BTW I could not write that awful word so the astericks

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It is also known as a left lateral it is nasty as I told Rev. But unlike a s#*#* it comes off the clubhead fast almost like a boomerang.

BTW I could not write that awful word so the astericks

 

 

Thank you Stu!!  That's my nemesis!  I am almost to the point that I might as well say it as often as it occurs.  I just have to laugh!

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My ego came into play twice today. Par 5, 220 to the flag. Took 3H and put it on the front of the green then 3 jacked for a par. Second time I topped a drive about 200 yards on the hardest hole on the course. Again, 220 to the flag but this time with an island green. My inner Phil took over so I pulled 3H again. Pin high just right of the flag in the fringe. Up and down for par. The good news is I used up all my luck today in the first round of the season so I can confidently lay up for the rest of the year.

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I played baseball growing up and it made for some nice duck hooks when I'd play golf in my teens (is that a MN term?)

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I played baseball growing up and it made for some nice duck hooks when I'd play golf in my teens (is that a MN term?)

 

Nope!  We have duck hooks out here in the Pacific Northwest.  Lots of them!  We actually names a college team named after Ducks (this is where Mmmmmbuddy jumps in).   When someone hits one, I've been known to "Quack"   :)

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Nope!  We have duck hooks out here in the Pacific Northwest.  Lots of them!  We actually names a college team named after Ducks (this is where Mmmmmbuddy jumps in).   When someone hits one, I've been known to "Quack"   :)

I played baseball growing up and it made for some nice duck hooks when I'd play golf in my teens (is that a MN term?)

I have heard it called a 'duck hook" too. Here down South it depends where you are from. We always called it a rope hook or a left lateral

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So once in your life you opened the face of a sand wedge off a hard bare lie, hit it like Mickleson over a bunker and stopped it a foot from the hole.....

 

For the next five years you kept trying to recreate it, knifing them over the green, dumping them in the bunker.....

 

That was young me, all ego and no brain. A better swing, longer off the tee but not admitting my weaknesses and of course repeating my mistakes (the worst crime).

 

Now I play safe, take punishment and try not to put myself there in the first place.

 

And yep the duck hook is what I'd call it, usually when going hard at a 3 wood or taking a bit off driver!

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Duck hook or "quacker" here in Michigan.  Sometimes snap hook.

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Duck hook or "quacker" here in Michigan.  Sometimes snap hook.

Not to change the subject, but what part of Michigan, I moved to SC from SW lower Michigan, I have family all around the Kalamazoo area.

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Duck hook, yes I know that one. A rope hook is a controlled shot, I used to love it on the hard clay in the summer months in Indiana but in Wisconsin with the elevation changes, it didn't work so well. I pretty much put it to bed and started to flight my tee ball and most other shots higher. But every once in a while I try to trot it out.

 

Newer equipment has pretty much eliminated the duck hook from my game. I still use a hook as my go to shot to get out of trouble. Put me behind trees and my first thought is always to find a way to hook the ball out and back into play. I grew up as a fader wanna be (Nicklaus) until I recognized it just was not a part of my DNA. Too much baseball as a kid.

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Srixon ZX5 MK II  5-GW - UST recoil Dart 65 R flex

India 52,56 (60 pending)  UST recoil 75's R flex  

Evon roll ER 5 32 inches

It's our offseason so auditioning candidates - looking for that right mix of low spin long, more spin around the greens - TBD   

 

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Not to change the subject, but what part of Michigan, I moved to SC from SW lower Michigan, I have family all around the Kalamazoo area.

Metro Detroit area.  Within a couple of hours (as you know), but I don't get that way too often.

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...Newer equipment has pretty much eliminated the duck hook from my game. ...

I have worked VERY hard to remove the quacker from my game - and for the most part I have been successful.  Technology helps but I will say this:  there isn't a hybrid made that I can't and won't hook.  I call 'em "hook wands" and just won't carry them.  Thank goodness I am pretty good with longer irons.

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