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Finally getting serious!
Syks7 replied to PapaGoose8's topic in Introduce Yourself/ WIYB (What's In Your Bag)
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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.
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Having just played a place with a very strict dress code I can say that I don't think a dress code is outdated.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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's only.... All joking aside... I've heard enough about the TPT that if I could I probably would.
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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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Haywood CB/MB Irons - 2024 Forum Review
Syks7 replied to GolfSpy_APH's topic in Forum Testing Reviews
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Just a friendly reminder that your LAB putter works better when you trust your stroke and let it do its thing. I've had some struggles with my DF2.1 the last few rounds so I actually went out this morning and practiced -- exclusively on stroke. I spent about an hour tidying things up and did a simulated 18 putting round. The goal was to be under 36 strokes -- it went poorly at 39 putts(I made it hard on myself with a lot of 40+ foot lags) and I was frustrated. Took a break and realized that I was way overthinking everything and there was far too much going on in my head with every putt. Kept the routine, threw out the mechanical thoughts, and immediately started holing putts... which immediately brought this movie clip to mind. That led to what was basically the best chipping practice I've ever had. Creative, in command, trusting myself, and generally not having any extraneous thoughts. Gotta love this game.
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Results posted and I feel much less bad. PCC was +3! (I've only seen +2 once) for the day and everyone in the tourney aside from the gross winner got thumped -- I wouldn't be shocked if they didn't have a great day either with a 78 in the top flight. Only a single person shot net par and the next closest was a net 78. It was a good reminder for me of what my instructor told me once. "If you're getting beat up by the course and your group is getting beat up, there's a chance that the rest of the players are too." I feel bad for anyone that went out for a random golf day and got hit with the pin positions and rough we ran into.
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Had a very weird day for my first tournament of the year. Harding continues to be a golf course that causes me issues. 44/44 93. My last three rounds at Harding have been 91, 97, 93. Maybe it just doesn't fit my game or its gotten into my head. First time all year that I haven't been able to hold onto my goal of having fun. Lots of frustration, some bad luck, and a few silly mental mistakes. 49/44 93. The good news is that I can identify every stroke that I gave away and 90% of it was not being able to string a good tee shot and approach shot together. I'd either hit a great tee shot then a terrible approach shot followed by a third onto the green or I'd grossly mishit a tee shot, hit a good recovery, then hit the green with the third. It was intensely frustrating capped off by a wildly inconsistent day on the greens (partially because of wildly inconsistent greens with though pin positions). Green speed varied wildly from one hole to the next. It did not help that I was trying to one-putt most of them. Venting aside, most of my issue was the pressuring myself to hit a good shot. Something I've been very good at avoiding this year. When I remembered to relax I was fine, when I was too worried about the shot or putt I didn't. Too much going on in my head and not playing loose. It was a very distinct contrast to how I've been playing lately... relaxed with confidence and an attitude that sometimes I'll hit bad shots. If I can the solution is probably to make myself step off the ball when I'm thinking too much or feeling too much pressure. I also need to focus on the positive. I made some great putts, and hit a lot of very good shots. I just lost sight of that in my frustration. I was feeling a little down after the round, so I went and saw Dune 2 and it was awesome. So at least there was that.
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I would also advise against this. LAB is pretty specific that there's limited tinkering you can do without throwing off the balance -- changing a grip +/-25 grams and lengthening shortening +/- 1/2" and that's pretty much it. Re-shafting is on the nono list. No two shafts are uniformly the same so each putter is uniquely balanced using their proprietary methods.
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I have not, but I know there is someone within this thread that has. It might be a couple pages back if you want to search. If I remember correctly it was relatively straight forward and quick. Not sure they did any lie angle changes.
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Could be a busy week coming up -- Tourney Thursday followed by a chance to play a bucket list course on Friday (if the rain doesn't screw things up). Figured I'd go out for a tuneup on the Van Nuys Par 3 since the Tourney course isn't one that I play particularly well and the other course is just plain hard. Not bad +3 front +4 back with a double. +7 total for a 61 on a par 54. Putter was back from the worst round I've had with it, short game still pretty good thought I did cost myself at least two strokes by being greedy (thinking I could hole a chip instead of setting up an easy putt) Irons, okay. I was a little stuck today but not so bad it was catastrophic. Just hung it out a bit right all day. If it was on a normal course with bigger greens I probably still would have been putting most of the time. Plus, I did 18 (3200 yards) in 1:45. Love to be able to play quickly. Helps me stay focused. I've been trying to figure out how to maintain that focus over a normal round that has a lot of waiting, conversation, and other things that break me out of my focus. It helps that I walk but I'm coming up empty. Any suggestions to avoid getting impatient or losing focus?
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Well, DF2.1 does not like slow greens... Or much more likely... This guy is a bad putter in slow greens. Woodley's greens also continue to perplex me with their flat yet also somehow still sloped weird break surfaces. Oh well. 44/42 86 from the tips at Woodley with (5) 3-putt bogeys. Ugh. Lag putting was very bad until the end. I also missed Multiple 5 footers. 38 putts total. Definitely not my best showing. The good news was that I was solid off the tee, my driver feels workable for the first time in history, and I was mostly decent on approach. 9/18 GIR. Short game was decent too even if I converted zero up and downs. Side note: I'm now feeling so solid with my 4 hybrid that I'm mulling being one the people that plays a 5 hybrid and only 6/PW in irons. .
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deWiz Golf Swing Modifier - 2023 Forum Review
Syks7 replied to GolfSpy_APH's topic in Forum Testing Reviews
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Thank you! I somewhat inferred the that but sort of simplified via left or right to make it faster on the green. It's a lot easier to guestimate 30" right vs. 30" at a 45 degree angle away or short of the hole. I'd imagine up or down the fall line has a lot to do with making sure you have the proper speed along with the proper break. Looks like I have some interesting reading to do.
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I ran across some content on instagram that's been pretty solid help for me putting wise and I'm trying to find some more info about it. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C276uwOvlVt/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== It's a basic algorithm that's -- Length of Putt * (1/2 of the Average Slope) = Inches to aim up the fall line. (For 10 stimp, more break for faster, less break for slower) In practice for a 40' right to left putt with an average 4% slope it means (40*(2*2)= 40*2 = 80" . So you Aim 80" (a little less than a flag stick) right of the cup. The way I've been using it is to pace off the putt when I get to the green, guestimate the slope by eyeball, run the algorithm and make adjustments based upon some other green reading info I know and whether or not the read looks too low or two high, pick my start line and go. I should add that I do this pretty quickly, and do a lot of rounding with the math. I also have a good eye for slope since I'm an architect and know 2% slope by heart. (good drainage is important if you don't want lawsuits) I've found that the algorithm gives me a great general start line and the small adjustments I make narrow it down. Provided I putt with decent speed it always seems to be a good enough read to leave me close. I've had very good success with it over three rounds, particularly with lag putting. I've been down around 30 putts 2-3 less than my average (my proximity to the hole on approach is not super awesome). It seems to have nearly eliminated my three putts (only one over the last 54 holes) and I've been making a lot more inside 10 feet and almost all inside 5. Maybe it's a placebo for my mind, because I sure feel much more confident standing over a 5 footer to save par with both a read I'm confident in and a putter I know will put it on the right line. I'm trying to find more info about this algorithm and coming up empty? Any suggestions? I know it's not aimpoint since there's no straddling the line or using fingers, but I can't seem to find any info about it. Is it tour read? https://tourreadgolf.com/ I don't have an Iphone to try it out? Or is it something else?