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Jonny_Crash

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  1. So a bit of an update. Had a wonderful summer playing golf this year. Didn't really do what I needed to do in order to improve significantly, but did drop my HC down about 4-5 strokes. No complaints there. However, I just tore my ACL playing soccer, so I'm looking at some time off from golf this winter/spring. Hopefully it will recover okay and I can get back to playing soon, but for now I'm on the shelf... again.
  2. Hands down the easiest ball to find I have ever played!
  3. I bought a dozen of the black ones.... absolutely impossible to find in the rough. They are shiny, so if you can get the sun on them they are easy to find. I do like to use them on par 3s and also putting. They are novel and fun. IMHO, the Vice Shade balls are the absolute best for novelty and visibility. They are so easy to pick up in the air and find in the grass. Highly recommend!
  4. We excluded hybrids from our round, but all decided that would be the ultimate club to have
  5. It was really fun to try and think through the strategy! Highly recommend it!
  6. Over the past two weeks my friends and I played a couple of 9 hole rounds using only 3 clubs each. It's a short course (2682), so we excluded woods/hybrids from the discussion. We had a blast. The first round was pick any three Irons/wedges/putter and the second we all played 6-9-putter. The choose your own clubs round was great and we all ended up with different combinations. I played 3-9-54* and shot a 45. I struggled with the 3 off the turf, but it was great off the tee. I oddly putted better with the wedge than my putter (time for a change there!). Anyway, it was a blast, have any of you done the same? What did you pick?
  7. I'm new to the Ping game as I just got a G425 LST, but if I were to switch it would probably be to the Titleist line. The reason being some additional distance at the cost of some forgiveness. Ping is no the longest typically, but the increased accuracy and forgiveness is more important for me at the moment. As my swing consistency improves I may make that switch.
  8. Thanks, I'm a year and a half out from it and seem to be no worse for wear. I skied most of the winter and am back to playing soccer and trail running. So far so good, it sure was a crappy injury though! Definitely one to avoid if at all possible. Cheers!
  9. I guess I should note that I rarely play more than 9 holes at a time... so the "breaking 90" is a bit of misnomer. Since I don't play 18... I don't really every have a chance to break 90. That being said, I've got seven rounds this summer that are sub 45 for 9 holes and one 45. I'm hoping to get a couple 18 hole rounds during the late summer/early fall. So hopefully I can break 90 and get that box checked off!
  10. I've been playing a lot and working hard on my swing. It has settled into a pretty solid groove at the moment. I still have the occasional bad shot (shank, top, chunk...) but for the most part I'm hitting it pretty well. In particular I've been getting the driver in play and eliminating many of the driving penalties (played some wide open courses as well). The good news is my HC has dropped from 20 to 16. I've made progress on every aspect of my game. My goal is to get down to a 10 HC and I'm currently about 9 stokes-gained off that pace. My short game continues to be my best area and I'm playing at a 10 HC level there (0.0 SG). Approach and putting are holding me back (-3.8 SG each). I have noticed some weird things using Arccos. For example on today's round I hit a 3W off the tee and while it landed just in the first cut, my approach was blocked by a tree. I tried to pop it under the tree and came up short. This counts as a bad approach, but was dictated by the bad drive. So Arccos isn't perfect, but I really like it and the data available is improving. There is some interesting data starting to show up after 1,373 shots and 27 rounds of golf using Arccos. Here are some of my observations: I hit pretty long(ish) so I end up with a lot of shorter approach shots. My driver is averaging 264. This has resulted in a lot of bomb and gouge(ish). Consequently, I rarely use my 6-9 irons (all less than 30 shots this summer). I've become a huge fan of my 54 degree wedge and use that for everything inside 100 yards. It has been used 155 times this summer and I'm hitting 56% GIR with it. Oddly my second best club for GIR is my 6i, which I hit the green with 45% of the time. The 8i is my worst for hitting the green (17%) and I really need to work on those approaches from 150-200 yards (-2.1 SG). As is typical for most golfers it seems, I leave about 47% of approaches short of the green. (compared to 9% left, 29% GIR, 12% right and 3% long). Some of this is blocked shots from tee balls, some is just chunky shots. Overall, its a big area from improvement and I've started to club up and swing a bit easier (finally...) Putting, while improved, has been a problem. I particularly struggle with 6-9ft putts (-2.2 SG). From this distance I'm only making 7% of putts. This simply has to improve and I'm exploring some lessons/putter fittings in this area. I don't really have a club that is causing me problems. I am around -0.2 to 0.0 on SG for most clubs. So its a general issue, which I guess is nice haha. I have pretty good gapping between my clubs. All in all, it's been a great summer and I have played a ton of golf! I love getting better and I feel like I'm in a bit of a groove lately (I'm sure it will end ... cause... golf), but I'm enjoying it while it lasts! Thanks for reading
  11. I think a pertinent question is what happens if you go long? If its safe back there, I'd probably hit a 3W or 3U and try to take the bunkers out of play.
  12. It looks like around 330 to carry the ravine with the elevation drop. I'd say the landing area (for a flat-ish lie) is about 40 yards wide. For some more marginal sidehill/partial blocked shots you are looking about 60 yards.
  13. This one has been giving me fits lately. It is hole 18 at Bonneville Golf Course in Salt Lake (link) It is a very steeply downhill par 4 (454 on the scorecard). I've played it four times this summer and am a cumulative +10. It just eats me up. The red box is about 300 yards, but plays about 270 downhill. If you land in the red box, you have a relatively flat lie and around 130 -150 into the green. Everything to the right (on the picture) is severely sloped downhill and makes for a tough shot over a ravine from 160 plus. Right and left leave you with side hills and/or partially blocked shots. I've typically been taking my 3U off the tee. Well struck and I end up in the box, a push leaves me 180ish with a downhill lie over the ravine. It is so hard to get a longer iron in the air from a downhill lie. So I usually end up pitching to the box area and then hoping to make a bogey.
  14. I know you just bought a driver.... but you might try the G425 Max with the weight in the draw position. I can't remember where I read it, but apparently moving the weight can have a 10-20 yard correction. It really does seem to work and take half of the course out of play (unless it is just a bad swing...)
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