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Syks7

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About Syks7

  • Birthday 12/06/1982

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  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Los Angeles

Player Profile

  • Age
    40-49
  • Swing Speed
    101-110 mph
  • Handicap
    11
  • Frequency of Play/Practice
    Multiple times per week
  • Player Type
    Casual
  • Biggest Strength
    Putting
  • Biggest Weakness
    Approach
  • Fitted for Clubs
    Yes

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  1. I'm getting better about this but I do it all the time still. Same with wind. It almost feels like the temp has more effect the lower my index gets, but I know it's because my tolerance for what is and isn't good distance dispersion from my intended yardage(and acceptable trajectory) has gotten much tighter as I go.
  2. Having just played a place with a very strict dress code I can say that I don't think a dress code is outdated. It was nice that everyone looked presentable. Would I have liked to have been able to wear my preferred nice golf hoodie vs. a quarter zip and tucked in polo, yes, but it wasn't an issue. Do I think that should be the case for municipal golf courses, no, but I do think there should be at least some level of dress code. It doesn't bother me when there isn't, but I would mainly say as far as muni dress code goes. No graphic tees.
  3. Well... like a lunatic I woke up thinking "my body may be sore, but that's no reason to not go practice and figure out what went wrong yesterday." No need to take a break. I get to the golf course and decide, "No, I should just go play." Proceed to shoot 41/43 84 on the same course less than 24 hours after my worst round there in years. I hit two 300 yard drives today after never hitting a 300 yard drive. One right at 300 and the other at 312. Yesterday, I hit my first drive of the day off the inside of the heel into a pond. Golf is a mystery. It doesn't feel like much has changed since yesterday, but yesterday I had no feel and today I didn't even have to look for it. The problem has to be between my ears.
  4. I did not follow up yesterdays good round with another good one today. 54/44 98 at good ol Woodley in a men's club tournament. Maybe my worst score at Woodley ever? Some of it was the 30-40 mph Santa Anas out of the NE -- which I discovered is the worst possible direction for the course. From there NE there are exactly three holes where I would consider the wind to be helping. That said, "me" was the problem today. You get kind of behind the eight ball when you start out with a septuple bogey and follow up with a snowman a couple holes later.... . Some ugly swings today and I think my body was just tired from 36 holes on foot in less than 18 hours. Normally that wouldn't be an issue but I've been on a particularly intense practice pace in prep for yesterdays round and I think I've just made too many golf swings in the last three weeks. Time to put down the golf clubs for a week or two. Far too many repetitive stress sore spots right now. The big win of the day was that I didn't mentally melt down. Just kept reminding myself that I played well yesterday and that I was just having an off day and despite the score I did hit some good shots -- just none that were strung in consecutive order.
  5. Got to play yesterday and shot an 45/43 88. (Net doubled out to 87) I'm actually very pleased as the course is one of the most difficult I've ever played. Par 70 that we played from the white tees at 6100 yards -- and it's still a 70.2/131. Relatively benign off the tee, but resulting in very few flat lies for approach into heavily bunkered and protected greens. The rough was thick and the greens are absurdly fast and heavily sloped. Good times. Good workout too, lots of up and down. Overall, I played really well but I just got into trouble 5 times and it cost me most of my strokes. Two triples, 3 doubles. Trimming those down to bogey gets me to 82. Very positional golf course. If you were in good position it was great, if you weren't it could bite you hard. 32 putts on the day with a pair of three putts including on 18. (went back to the Link) 5 pars including two on 200 yard plus par 3s (both of which were GIR) and a birdie on 17. 170 yard shot to 3 feet. My only goal for the day had been to stay in the vicinity of 90 so big win to beat that by two.
  6. Since I've gone back to the well for the week with the Link I decided to put the factory grip back on. Ive been practicing with it since Friday and a thought has crept into my head that maybe you shouldn't tinker with the LAB putters at all, not even grips. That maybe you should just stick with the factory balance and call it good. It's also got me curious if my issues with the DF are related to a LAB pistol grip I installed last month. Time to put the press 3 back on and see. Also, don't listen to the people on the Facebook group. The Accra is money. I'd forgotten about the feedback you get from it.
  7. I think this is why so many people identify so much with Joel Dahmen. We are our own worst critics and it's important to remember to be as nice to yourself as possible. Especially in pressure situations where you may end up making pressure on yourself worse by being continually negative.
  8. I bought a pack of training aids off of amazon. One of the things that came with it was one of these arm bands. It was very helpful for setting up arm structure in the back swing, and maintaining it (the triangle) through the downswing. It makes it very difficult to let your trail elbow fly and get struck behind you wearing it. You can still get out of sequence if you are swinging your arms back instead of lifting them as you rotate your torso and if you initiate the downswing with your arms. I like this Nick Faldo drill The downswing is a little more of a personal feel but it's based off of a combo of the Faldo drill and this Tiger/Butch Harmon Drill. I like to do a partial swing so that the top of the swing (P4) is much lower and it's much easier to maintain your connection. The feel for me is to initiate the downswing from my lower torso and hips and rotate through while letting my arms drop. I will often do this drill without letting the club release (no ball) so I can focus on the connection. There's also a strange drill I've made of for myself that helps me with the feel so take it with a grain of salt. I sit in an office chair for a huge portion of the day and I've found that if I pretend to hold a club at P4, tuck my trail elbow into my torso, then try to rotate the chair it's the exact feel I have when initiate the downswing and am fully connected. Hips, Torso, Arms all moving together -- big muscles doing the work and the arms dropping through to impact. Hopefully this isn't super confusing. Good Luck.
  9. This game sometimes.... I started the year pretty successful and have tailed off in the last month. The feel just hasn't been there and I chalked it up to just being off. Contact has been poor and very heavy and I've been getting stuck a lot. I've been practicing in the garage and haven't been able to figure out what has been ailing me -- including lots of work with some training aids that I've found success with in the past. Nothin. Then today I ran through a half speed drill. Very little arm movement with all the rotation being driven by the torso -- whilst also focusing on maintaining connection between the arms and torso... And there it was. The feel I've been missing. best I can figure is been so focused on maintaining arm structure that I'd forgotten to maintain the connection between the arms and torso. I was way out of sequence and it was destroying my timing. So, long story short, I practiced well and hopefully it will translate back to the course.
  10. Also a dilemma for me. There's a possibility that I'm sending the DF2.1 in to rebalance and shaft swap eventually. It's one reason the Link keeps poking its head into my thoughts. I'm probably going to game it (the Link) this week since I feel like I've gotten way too technical with the DF2.1 and need to step away from it for a moment.
  11. It's only.... All joking aside... I've heard enough about the TPT that if I could I probably would.
  12. Sans the TPT shaft, its still very good. I did not have an easy time leaving PGA superstore without a stock steel one -- especially with multiple employees watching me putt and egging me on.
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