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Cut golf balls would be nice to see tested as I play them.

Thanks for the replies and this article. Yes, I was teeing it up higher at first to maximize my distance and lower my spin, but the guy who works there came by and started handing me clubs and giving advice such as lower my tee height and I obliged because I wasn't paying for the time in the simulator. Most of the launch angles were about around 15.5 or so I believe. None of my pics cleared my phone's outbox yet. Must be too big to send. Will have to send one at a time.

I'm looking to squeeze out every bit of distance I can for the swing and ball speed I currently have. Yesterday I stopped into the 2nd Swing near me to hit some drives on their launch monitor to get a baseline of where I am right now. I'm about to start working out again and looking for general strength and to add swing speed as well. I'll post some pictures I took of the best drives I had when they clear my mobile phone and into my email. I was pretty happy with my efficiency numbers I saw, which is better than I ever really remember. I was hitting 300 yards pretty routinely, where I never really did on the launch monitors at PGA Superstore last year when I used to go there. My stats from the drives I hit over 300 hundred where as follows: I hit about 8 drives over 300 yards, with the longest being 307 yards. Ball speeds were 150 to 156 mph, and carry was 276-283 yards. My launch angle was usually between 12.2 degrees to 17.2 degrees, with the average usually being around 15.5 degrees. I used two drivers, both with 9.5 degrees of loft, one with a stiff shaft, the other with an extra stiff. The extra stiff shaft seemed to have a slightly higher launch angle. Backspin ranged from about 1698 to 2320 rpm's, with about 2000 rpm's being around the average. The launch monitor didn't give clubhead speed, but I'd estimate about 104 to 107 mph. Any thoughts on which area I could improve to squeeze out some more distance from my drives? *** Drives 1 - 4 were with the Callaway Driver (Rogue Low Spin), 9.5 degree, extra stiff shaft. Drives 5 -7 were with a Cobra Driver marked demo with a stiff shaft. The guy who worked there came over and started handing me other clubs to hit because he thought the stiff shaft was too soft. I liked it fine but didn't argue.

Go to the link, then scroll down to the graphic that shows the driver hitting the golf ball. Watch the golf club and note whether it is left handed or right handed. Then watch the graphic again and this time focus on the ball as it flies off, and the club head appears to turn the other way -- go from right handed to left handed. It's crazy. https://www.vicegolf.com/us/vice-golf-pro-plus-shade-yellow-orange

I'm building a set to my spec as well as a few demo clubs using a True Temper R/S steel shaft. If I follow the tip trim instructions on the page where I bought the shaft, my club length ends up a half inch longer than I'm going for (I'm going +1 inch over standard). Do I take off that half inch off the butt end of the club or just take another half inch off the tip? Seems like the tip end makes it stiffer and the butt end would make it less stiff. Any advice before i start cutting down the last pieces of the shafts?

I may be going that route soon enough. I have had the hardest time using my fingernail to get that piece of tape off the double side, to the point where it starts bending and crinkling. The last 4 have taken way longer than it ever should because of the tape, and I have the strips and roll.

Ouch. That's an expensive fix to simple problem. I'll have to figure out a different way.

My last few regrips have been a pain because I'm having a lot of trouble with the double sided tape. I can't easily peel the plastic off one side of the tape. I have both the pre-cut strips and the roll of two sided tape and both give me problems. Is there an easy way to peel away that plastic away from the sticky part of the tape?

I'm surprised that hasn't been thought of and implemented considering how popular these golf watches are nowadays.

Is there any way I can have my golf watch that I use for pretty much every round (unless I forget it on the charger) sync with the site that I use for track my handicap? It would be so much more convenient, especially considering how it tracks my fairways hit, greens in regulation, sand saves etc. that I don't bother to input manually on the website. The site I use -- www.ushandicap.com -- doesn't sync up with the watch, nor can I get an answer on their community page. My watch carries my handicap but I don't think I can use it for official play, which I'd like to get into this summer. Any ideas?

Has anyone done a study on how much the average golfer can reduce their handicap over a certain period of time? I heard that after 3 years, you're about as good as you're going to get, but I have no idea if that's true or not. I just started back golfing around March of this year after 12 or 13 years of not picking up the clubs even once. I established a handicap in May/June for the first time. I think I was 22 even or with a little change, but am now 17.8. I think I will drop this down about another 10 quickly because I finally have gotten the swing I want and don't plan to make any changes. [I typically love to experiment and was always experimenting, but I've decided on being an "educated hands" player, which simplifies matters and makes corrects easier.] I have good tracking and improvement tools like the Garmin watch that tracks my data, a friend with a simulator he just bought that I can use, and I live in Scottsdale where golf is year round. My only downside is that I herniated a disk in my back about 2 months ago and I still feel the disk bulging regularly, so it will limit my practice. The good thing is my swing mechanics are pretty much settled, so I don't need as much and will spend most of it on the short game. I want to see how quickly I can improve with applied effort. I play about 6 to 8 times per month and practice regularly. My last two scores were in the 80s and I expect to pretty much stay there and keep dipping down regularly. What are my chances of getting in the single digits in 3 to 6 months, would you say? What about scratch? Is that like 3 standard deviations of what would be expected? I want to see what I can do with dedicated effort to lower my scores vs. what is to be expected. I'll try to keep this thread going for the full 6 months. GM Club: Phoenix Area #008 Effective: October 28, 2021 Handicap Number: 10985016 Low Index: 17.8 17.8 Handicap Index® USGA

I just started back with golf earlier this year after not touching a club for about 12 years. I never had a handicap before but I felt like I might have been a 10 - 12 at my best. Not sure. But now I'm more a stickler for the rules and counting everything. I established with a 22 handicap in march and am now just under 18. I just felt like I've finally settled into the swing I want a few weeks ago (right after coming back from a herniated disk in my back) and am going to see how low I can get my handicap before next summer. I'm shooting for a single digit to hopefully near scratch, though that is almost statistically impossible but I'm good at making improvements and teaching myself.

I tried with a shaft puller I just got in and it went poorly anyway. It was hard to get the shaft off, and I had to use my hands instead of the puller because the vice wasn't strong enough to hold the shaft as it pushed out the head. Anyway, I ended up screwing up the graphite at the tips. I need to cut them off about an inch now, which won't work for my project. Luckily my friend wants to reshaft his old Bertha's and he's a good 1 to 2" in shaft length less than me, so it works out for both of us. I'm just going to have him buy me new shafts and I'll just swap them in. FWIW, it sucks pulling graphite shafts. It's hard to soften the epoxy and on one of them, I had to drill into the hosel because I couldn't pull the shaft cleanly. Looks like it used a lot of my hosel brush trying to clean the hosel on just that one shaft removal too. Definitely not a fan of shaft removal, at least not when they are graphite.