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MacTourney

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  1. And a nod to a King, a cardigan, a leather grip, and an open face-to-arc. Always some good stuff at Bay Hill.
  2. But we get senior priced coffee at Mickey D's so we have that going for us.
  3. Big fan of Woodland, especially after the "I got this" hole with Amy at the '19 Phoenix. And Cobra is known as a land of woods so Woodland just seems to fit as part of solid marketing.
  4. Yeah, but that's what brings us back, that little bastard wouldn't fall.
  5. I tend to think riders will slow things down a bit however that is purely anecdotal as I don't usually see older, or seasoned, players that hit it all over the lot walking and carrying and expending more energy, unless they want more steps in their workout. Maybe they are out there but not in my experience, will try to pay more attention to that this season.
  6. Twenty more days until spring equinox, getting close, so close the gear is slowly but surely escaping the basement finding freedom closer to the garage door.
  7. You actually get to ride a bike like this, interesting. I saw for the first time last year someone on what appeared to be a motor driven cycle type thing and didn't get a full look at it but his acceleration seemed smooth and even so I assumed it was motor driven. So on your set up you ride while bag is on your back? I'm a little surprised a course would allow it, but I don't know anything about the practice. Is this the wave of the future sort of thing? Changing gears uphill? Interesting stuff for sure.
  8. Real talent for cooking in this thread, something I lack. But wife had hand surgery and spending some time in the kitchen doing best I can. But made some progress, learned how to peel a fresh pineapple without cutting my fingers, which was my main concern, those suckers can be tricky. So, with great latitude, I can now say I know how to cook fresh pineapples.
  9. Wondering if the design also allows a full swing with it, will it stand up to that amount of force, or is just for short work around green. Interesting club.
  10. I would want some control over process, starting with the heaviest, stiffest, mid-kick, say with irons and work backward without telling me, or having shaft markings, what the numerical differences are on the way down so I can hit the heaviest club I can manage they way I choose. I find it better to start heavy to find light instead of starting light to find heavy.
  11. Solid approach, pretty much the same here but after seeing and allowing the only thing left to do is make the best stroke possible and see what happens. My putting improved by leaps and bounds when I stopped trying to make putts.
  12. Beautiful landscape! Yes, Harrington has a couple throw sequences on Instagram and Facebook which are really good viewing.
  13. An old toe weighted Maltby design RM880 blade as I recall, thin top line, been laying around in the barn for so long I almost forgot about them. Never got around to building them out, shown are irons 1, 3, 4, 5,.....thru 9. Also, the weight port was just the right size to epoxy a dime instead of their silly little plastic Golfworks emblem they had at the time.
  14. Just a couple comments. It's within normal limits at the top so you might have more range on the return than you believe, but it needs to be assessed during a hands-on session to avoid any potential injury. If you reroute you are releasing early, not late. I would say you are going toward the strike robustly-plus with an early release. Ever watch any of Padraig Harrington throw releases, they could be just what the doctor ordered. Love your enclosure...
  15. ...that's pretty much it, but there is some wiggle room after transition to 'square' an 'open' from last parallel to the strike but it's set up prior to transition so that transition becomes a launching point for a very deep drop down to that last parallel.
  16. Confusing terms do little in terms of helping others, especially being driven through different prisms of understanding and perspectives that folks have. One of my favorites to consider concerns direction. If at last parallel before the strike the shoulders point, which they should do, to the opposite side of an imaginary target line we are standing to the side of, the shoulders are considered 'closed', yet the corresponding club face orientation at that location with a toe up orientation is considered 'open', yet the face points to the same area as the shoulders do. It begs the question, why close a face that already is closed while in the toe up position....and it has really nothing to do with arc shapes or arc locations. Hmmm
  17. Knew a pro who did a beginning kids group of 12 for one hour each week for 4 weeks @ $100.00 per student. Maybe not so obvious to their parents, each hour a student in the group received 5 minutes of 1:1 personalized attention and spent the rest of the hour finishing their bucket. So for 4 one-hour lessons, spanning 4 weeks, each participant received 20 minutes of 1:1 instruction for $100.00, or the equivalent of $300 per hour for individual instruction- not a bad gig if you can get it. Parents loved it, an hour to shop each week while young acquiring minds took lessons under a supervised sitter-pro for the small sum of 25 bucks per week.
  18. That might be his version of do not go gentle into that good night, which is understandable to some degree for those on the down slope side of the hill. I know several folks like that. Me, if it's flat I'll stick a tee in it.
  19. Looks like a ball from the national dog day afternoon thread...
  20. Love this thread, but becomes difficult if I spend too much time in it. Great pics anyway!
  21. Feel is so important- it weaves itself throughout the game's fabric. Have always had a few doubts, and a few other ideas simmering, about how a brain-mind deals with a 'don't do this' exposure. So, if I'm in line at a Golden Corral buffet style restaurant and my thought awareness is don't take the fish it looks spoiled would I experience a physiological response and grab the fish anyway. I'm sure there's a difference locked away somewhere. Ever read Moe Norman's My Little Robot poem and have any thoughts about it? I think his message is we don't direct the brain, it directs us. Love the comment about your friend being his own worst enemy, lots of insight within.
  22. It's one of the game parts I enjoy the most, the only one truly experiencing how good a strike quality was, or was not, is reserved for the one doing the work. For me, if the shaft passes the trail wrist before the striking the ball arm extension after the strike becomes more a wrapping around my torso thanks to a bent rear elbow instead of that arm extending outward and finishing high while staying connected.
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