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I just went out and counted I have 8 in the bag that I will play and 4 found balls that go in the shag bag. I sometimes have more, but not often.

Wow, there is sooooo much good information here I just bookmarked the thread! I have changed my own grips for years. Usually a battle, but I am too cheap to have someone else do it for me. My little hint. Double sided grip tape is a waste of money. Any double sided tape will work though double sided carpet tape works best and from Ace hardware is 1/2 the price of "grip tape". Also mineral spirits, or regular el-cheapo Walmart charcoal starter fluid are excellent "grip solvents" again way cheaper than "grip solvent" . Just use throw away nitrile gloves.

I have had Arccos for a number of years now and for a straight forward start from hole one and play on to 18 the system works okay. Better with the Linc but still misses plenty of shots. Playing with the men's club and starting from say hole 7 the thing is a pure pain in the butt to get to work correctly. It is so bad that I do not use it when I play on my regular days. Then every 2 years or so the sensors die. I play a lot of golf. The sensors will not work for more than say three hundred rounds. So a yearly membership ( have been grandfathered in but I am sure there are parts of Arccos that are cool that I do not have access to) for whatever it costs, 200+ dollars for new sensors every couple of years, and a system that is not at all user friendly for a non-standard round, and the sensors wallow out the grip holes - new sensors mean new grips. Pros The feedback after a round Arccos provides is fantastic. Great information and handy analysis. Excellent on course data when available. Cons Cannot roll past hole 18 when starting on any other besides hole 1. Must do that manually and that is a very difficult process. If Link loses the phone connection the system will not advance to the next hold for any reason. Expensive sensors that you are lucky to get 300 rounds with before the sensors die and must be replaced. Sensors wallow out grip holes. This makes the sensors easy to lose and forces you to change the grip before you may need to, and buy more replacement sensors. Conclusion If you are looking for a short-term , say 200 rounds, of on course actual club and swing data for swing analysis and don't mind kicking out 450+ dollars for the sensors and the Linc Pro (I wouldn't get just the Linc, it misses too many shots) you could do far worse than the Arccos system. Long term data gathering? I would not spend the money again.

Good morning spies! My brothers arrive today. In 45 years of marriage, my older brother has never come to see me. Today he and my little brother will show up for about a week. This should be interesting. Going to be seriously hot while they are here too. Great hockey yesterday! The rematch from last year with the Canes and Islanders did not disappoint. I am surprised that no one dropped the gloves between the Bruins and the Maple Leafs. Domi and Marchand were at each other from the initial puck drop.

For a while, you will still get up. I spent 35 years working in remote oilfields 7 to 42 12-hour days stacked up on each other, then home for up to a month. I am still up by 6 and it has taken 10 years of retirement to get me out of bed that late. As for things to do, turn off the TV and attack life with a joyful gusto! Learn new things all the time and every day will be fresh with opportunities for enjoyment. Me, I have learned how to weld, wood carve, do macrame (I do macrame at night when we do turn the tv on) and play the guitar to name a few. Plus (when healthy) have gotten my handicap down to an 8 index. Retirement is fantastic.

Good morning spies! Boy, do I feel better today. No more of this feeling like I am going to slosh onto the floor. Have to take it easy for a few day so will probably just walk. Get my 15 K steps in and call it good. Temps will be in the mid-90s today so I will wear a hat that has the neck flap. tdc1 a friend of mine got me playing on the weekends if there was a tournament I want to play in coming in focus. The frustrating slow and stupid play of weekenders who are out for a good time - don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with that especially if that is the only time you can play- is the BEST tournament training ever! Tournament play, say a scramble, and the 4 guys in front of you are 205 yards from the front of the green and there isn't a one of them who can hit the green from that far. What you see is all four of them looking through their range finders at the flag. Then arguing about who's range finder is correct. That just drives me bonkers. I would rather chase weekend golfers who spend the entire day working the edge of the trees looking for the ball they put there.

@sirchunksalot @jbern @William P @tdc1 Thanks for the well wishes. The surgery was event free for which I am grateful. I should be able to start golfing in a week or so. @Steve F At least you HAVE a team. As of yesterday, the NHL approved the dissolving of the Arizona NHL hockey franchise and reforming it in Utah. That sucks, there is no other way to put it. But, bring on the second season! There is no better time to watch hockey than right now!!!!

I watch for gear reviews. Swing fixes are too subjective and my body is so broken I simply cannot move the way the videos want you to anyway. I watched some for ideas on how to post a review in the Maxfli Tour X ball test I participated in.

@Dead Solid Bogey Thanks. No coffee, no water, no food, get to shower with this nasty soap that kind of burns off the first layer or so of skin, and no you don't use it there. All in preparation for my date with the doctor and his scalpel later this morning. But it could mean I am golfing in a week or so. For now, I am going to be happy with pain-free walks in the heat of the sunny weekend days. Supposed to reach near 100 on Sunday! Hope everyone has a great weekend

Good morning spies! I am going to buck the crowd and tell all that today will be hot and sunny! Temps will crest 90 this afternoon so I expect the guys to get my solar panels up quickly (so I can have my driveway back!). Plus we don't expect rain until the monsoons start in July! Ooooo I like the club building opportunity! It is so much fun to play the clubs you have built, and if you play well it is hard not to strut around! Kind of like catching a nice trout on a fly rod you have built. Nobody cares, but what a personal accomplishment! It is probably a tiny thing that you have gotten into the habit of doing. Pain (not saying you had any) can write a swing change habit in less than a round that can be minuscule, impossible to feel or notice without help, and very detrimental to good play. Stay very positive, ignore bad shots, celebrate good shots, and that tiny swing change will be fixed in very short order. You are a good experienced golfer and this is much more of a brain thing than a body thing.

Good morning spies! Well I get fixed on Friday. Surgery is scheduled for 9 am. Next we had the equipment for solar panel installation delivered just a few minutes ago. It will be installed tomorrow. Unlike Oregon, where if your panels produce enough power to push back into the grid you actually get paid the same rate at which the power company sells the power to you, here in Mesa it is way different. Here SRP, my utility company, screws you over if you put panels up and produce power. SRP has it set up so if you produce a lot of power the power you have to buy goes up 2 and three times the regular rate and they pay less than 3 cents for power produced. In a desert state, with tons of sunshine this makes zero sense.,

Congrats to all the testers! Is anyone using an armlock putter shaft? L.A.B. can put one in any of their putter heads and I love the feel of that Df head on the armlock shaft. Just don't love it enough to fork over $585.00 at my local PGA superstore to get one. I noticed DeChambeau used an armlock during the masters. I wonder if I look as uncomfortable as he did....

Good morning spies! Temps are creeping up here in Mesa. Should be close to 90 today and could reach 100 by next Monday when my brothers from Minnesota arrive for a visit. There will be early bedtimes as we will need to be on the road in the wee hours of the mornings so they can see the beauty of the Sonora desert while avoiding the heat of the Sonora desert. See the surgeon this morning. He will ask when I want it done and I will answer with 'this afternoon'. But it will be up to the schedulers in the back office. Don't discount the emotional, habitual connection to that swing. Every time you feel that little electric jolt of disgust (usually an injection of cortisol -fight or flight brain chemical) as you see the ball leap off the club in the wrong direction you are telling your habit central (Basal Ganglia part of the brain) that the shank swing is what you want to keep and use. That's why the shanks are so hard to get rid of! Put all of your non-shank swing in the forefront of your mind. Not just the contact part. Then every time you hit a non-shank shot give yourself a big mental high five. The big mental high five releases a little dopamine into your system. The dopamine takes that swing that you have been fully focusing on and copies it from your conscious mind (prefrontal cortex) into your habit central. It is hard work. It is exhausting work, but it will make the shanks go away and stay away.

Good morning spies! Ah yes the day of reckoning starts tomorrow for me. Talk with the doc at 9 to find out when he can sew me up. Should be no later than two weeks from tomorrow, but that means another 2 weeks on the island of NO golf. A sad and boring place to be sure. My island is a purgatory of no full swings so I have been working diligently on shots inside of 100 yards. Snuck an old sheet out of the house yesterday and placed it 85 yards away on some Bermuda that is greening up nicely. I hit the sheet (according to the dents) 14 times out of 20 from that distance with my 50 degree wedge and a 10:30 finesse swing. The practice is paying off. I did hear about the sheet though...

Agreed. I am a retired engineer and over analyze everything. Used to get me in trouble at work when I expected everyone else do the same thing. Some things don't change and I guess that expectation is one of them.

I looked at your pictures from yesterday and thought "boy he spent thousands of dollars for that set up" just to give him close access to play and practice golf. I bought a house in Arizona, in a gated community, with 2 golf courses that are open essentially 365 days a year, bought a yearly membership, and a new golf cart to get me to either course. When I put the amount @Jean D spent vs what I spent for access to golf he got the real bargain! Good morning spies! Figured out why I push my chips to the right yesterday. It comes from the last shoulder blowout and yet another pain avoidance habit. I think I have a fix and will be off to test it in earnest later this morning. If a wizard waved his wand at me and said "Prang! You have a fully healed and functional body." My golf swing would be soooooooooooooo hosed up.

So we are saying the same thing in a different way. The feels you are referring above are the swing habits I referred to earlier and said because of the habit you cannot tell if the swing is wrong because it feels right. This is why I said make a video. I tried the video thing yesterday on the practice area on the back nine of my home course. I started pushing my chips and pitches to the right after my last shoulder blowout. The chip stroke feels perfect but launches 15 to 20 degrees right. So I took videos of the club head and then my hands. Come to find out the chips where the ball went where I wanted my hands were about 1 inch further left (I am right-handed) at address. Or... More shaft lean.... Or put the ball further to my right at address Bingo. Further to my right. This takes my crappy unstable shoulder out of the chip shot. A little more videoing showed my upper right arm rolling open slightly after it passes the edge of my torso. I could see the slight change in my hands and in the club face as it approached the ball. I can stop this by clenching my bicep and front shoulder but clenching the shoulder hurts. Pain will write a habit into the brain's habit central faster than just about anything This is all to say, "I agree, the "feel" is not real". If you want to get into a discussion about the myth of "muscle memory", swing habits, conscious thought in the prefrontal cortex or habitual movements derived in the basal ganglia (habit central). I am happy to, but the science involved here is a great cure to insomnia for most people.

If you are stating that you cannot feel your body as it moves within the swing we will have to agree to disagree. As a practitioner of yoga, tai chi, and mindful meditation, 3 ancient, diverse, and proven methods of physicality that force you to learn to feel your body. In yoga, the "tree" pose. If you cannot feel where on your knee or thigh you will place your foot as you sink into the stance before you lift your foot off the ground your balance will fail. There are a series of steps in the last section of the 108 steps of the Yang Long Form in Tai Chi that require you to turn and stand with the backs of your heels pressed against each other. A very odd and difficult finish. Again if you do not know what your foot is doing, if you cannot feel how it is orientated you will either complete the step wrong or fall. In Steven Kotler's The Art of Impossible he explains how the best of the best in sports and extreme sports perfect the drive, focus, and ability to train through boredom required to move through the drills you have established for him. But to establish the neuroplastic synaptic connections - yes the neuroscientists can now unequivocally prove that training like the subjects in The Art of Impossible actually rewires your brain for success in that endeavor - and overwrite a swing issue you must have the focused emotional connection to the training or you are just whacking golf balls.

Cool. As long as he knows where the problem is. The drills and videos will help as long as he can feel it. If you cannot overwrite the habit, it will not change. That is what makes changing a golf swing so hard. I am not being facetious or flippant in asking this. Do you have a method that would allow you to feel and know you have turned your hips too soon other than watching the ball go the wrong way? I don't, and I would like to.

Same here. The shaft is the driver of the club. If I can get one on my driver that improves how I interact with the ball, to me that is a game changer. I have picked up the LAB putters a few times at the PGA Superstore plus at a fitting, I got a chance to fiddle with that gizmo that shows the balance (oooh my ping putter in comparison was AWFUL). This is a very cool concept. I even have a design pretty well drawn up to test the difference in the LAB armlock putter vs my Odyssey armlock putter that takes me out of the putting process .

Lots of good responses here, but I have to ask. Have you had your shafts checked to make sure they match the power you are putting into your swing? Trying to fix what could be an equipment miss match problem with a swing change could have terrible repercussions down the line. If your shafts are good try: Set up your phone to video your swing. Make several videos and be sure to note if it was a good one or not. If you can do it so it films in slow motion. Make videos from all the compass points, N,S,E,W. I have said it before, but here it is again. A golf swing is a series of habits stacked one on top of the other. The human brain cannot consciously focus on all the parts of the swing at the same time so it stores the swing as a series of habits in an entirely different part of the brain than where conscious thought occurs. This means there is a very good chance you are making a subtle change in your swing that you cannot feel. By that I mean the change is a habit, so when the habit is accomplished with no issues it feels right. So watch your swing, then target that one point that maybe doesn't look right and feel for it in your swing. If it is wrong you will know it if not immediately within a swing or two.

Good morning spies! Today I get to hand out the first-day winnings of the spring Calcutta for the Wild Bunch. 2 man teams. Score 1 net ball. The net = 90% of the player's net. So an 8 handicap on the course played at a 7 yesterday. I didn't get to play because of the annoying hernia, but this allows me to participate a little. Back slaps and a little chirping as they say in hockey. @GolfSpy_APH I really like the LAB putter option and the golf shaft.

Dump your carbohydrates. Keep those down to less than 25 grams a day (a slice of bread has 15 to 30 grams of carbs). You will shed pounds quickly. But this is a lifestyle change, not a diet. If you add carbs back into your meals (+100 grams or more a day) you will add pounds. You can eat as much fat and protein as you want, just no carbs. Potatoes, rice, pasta, most fruit, anything sweet, and bread products are ejected from your food sources. It is a hard lifestyle to adhere to, very boring. But it keeps the weight off. We have no rice or potatoes in the house and I love taters....But I don't want the carbs.

Good morning spies! Short game practice nearly every day is starting to work. With my 58 degree, using the Pelz finesse swing, 40 balls monitored on the Garmin R10, 35 of them in the 40 to 43 yard range from a 7:30 swing. That was pretty cool. IMO repeatability in the short game is the key to scoring well. @Shrek74 hate to tell you this, but weight loss does not occur in the gym or on the treadmill.... It happens in the kitchen. By staying out of it.

Good morning spies! Talked with the scheduler yesterday when they called to confirm my "consultation" with the surgeon. She told me that they should have no problem getting me repaired within a week or so of my consult. That pretty much made my day. 90 degrees today and that seems to be the magic mark that sends the rest of the snowbirds flocking north. This weekend should be the last mass exodus of northern visitors with their massive 5th wheels and 45-foot motor homes clogging the freeways heading north and east. Good thing the Masters is this weekend. I can stay home and watch golf.