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golferguy2727

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    Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Interests
    Golf, Vintage Audio

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  • Age
    50-59
  • Swing Speed
    91-100 mph
  • Handicap
    9
  • Frequency of Play/Practice
    Multiple times per week
  • Player Type
    Competitive
  • Biggest Strength
    Putting
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    Approach
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  1. @JerryB I did your suggestion yesterday - played my last two “serious” rounds of the season and will pack it up for the year. And I agree - after the Toronto snow clears in 2024, we will see what happens. This will be the first year, in at least five, in which I also have no intention of practice or lessons. It should be a good indication of my desire in the spring. @revkev and @fixyurdivot thanks for confirmation that I’m not the only one it’s been an interesting year - I don’t think I’ve hit as many very good shots as I have this year. I once thought that would be enough but hitting a beautiful towering draw for a nice birdie attempt inevitably gets crowded out by the string of doubles and triples that make me feel like I’ve never played before. The biggest learning has been - learning to swing is helpful, but learning how to play was the goal I could not achieve. Three years ago I got down to a 7 index. This year I opened at 9.9 and have now officially closed at 10.1. But having played so few rounds this year I think I broke 85 only twice and my “Shotscope” scoring average for the year is 90.5. So after two and a half years of instruction, about 130 rounds (9s and 18s) in total during that time and full bag fittings, I end up where I was five years ago. Golf is such a strange game. thank you all for a wonderful MGS experience - I wish you well. Formerly golferguy2727
  2. Yep - had that same issue - messed around with it for 15 minutes editing clubs and seeing if I can trigger the app to sync “the full bag”. Accidentally swiped right and voila - all missing clubs found - perhaps the UI can have some arrow indicator but in reality it should just add more lines rather than hiding the right hand side of the bag.
  3. Hello MGS folks - I like this community and the feedback that people give and I appreciate the civility you all display So, I find myself at a golf crossroads - and it’s such a strange feeling. So checking in with the community to ask - have you ever lost your love, spirit, affection, whatever for golf? If so did you ever get it back and how? If not, and you still somehow hang out in a golf forum like this, does it come into your thinking at all? For a number of years I have increased my golf participation in many ways, private club membership, lessons and coaching, considerable increase in rounds per year, fitted equipment - you name it. Last year I stepped away from my club and returned to public play as I felt like being a club member pressured me in ways I didn’t like or understand (competition in particular) but mostly the growing expectations that being at a private club can bring around improving performance etc. That return to public golf made me realize golf is just a game and I saw the joy it brought to people regardless of their expectations. So when I went back to my club this season, I tried to bring that nice enjoyment attitude with me. It worked in May. But then I developed plantar fasciitis and my level of play has been less than sporadic and the slow recovery has made the playing to be an exercise in pain and frustration management. And I persevered until recently. But lately, it’s been so easy to find excuses to not be golfing and I have gotten back to things which are having a more immediate and positive impact in my life - like the gym and a paused passion for photography. And from this - I now feel golf has no meaningful place for me anymore. It’s not fun, it doesn’t motivate me, it doesn’t energize me - I’ve lost that loving golf feeling. Any wisdom from the MGS folks for a wounded golf soul?
  4. It's funny @cksurfdude - I am at almost the same place as you. I keep collecting data, doing edits scribbling notes and now wonder what value it provides. I confess that knowing club distances was instrumental for me, and I now know what that looks like. But as you mention, there are a few metrics that ARE important and not yet embedded conveniently in the existing data platforms - like as you mention useful drive %, and things like lag putting effectiveness (especially for third and fourth putts ). I've also (mostly) moved on to strategy and technique. Strokes gained is interesting, but I haven't found a reliable way to leverage SG in term of practice methods etc. I also dabbled in DECADE (foundation level) this year and that helped me find out what matters at a macro game level. But it has been an interesting journey for sure.
  5. Yes - with my swing speed and consistent, my hybrids vastly outperform any fairway woods I have ever owned - and for me, they are far more versatile
  6. Well time for my dumb-ass confession. I had been struggling with the X5 and had been using the reliable V3. My x5 symptoms were: 1) watch seemingly lost in the gps worlds, 2) watch not triggering into putt/pin collect mode, 3) random penalty strokes appearing and 4) kooky score results. Last week and today I think I finally cracked the nut - and feel pretty darn stupid. 1) and 2) - somehow I’ve been doing something that gets the watch living on a different hole than the current gps position relevant hole. Not sure if root cause but a simple glance at the watch face hole indicator (bottom of screen) is a good reminder where the watch thinks I am. Easy fix despite not knowing what I’m doing to get there. 3) looks like with locks off, I’m somehow getting into game mode and accidentally adding penalty strokes - likely my hand cupping at top of backswing or some other motion - turning locks back on fixed that and local on wasn’t a terrible experience at all. 4) looks related to either me again being stupid or the “wrong hole” issue in 1/3 above. Again a quick fix by periodically reviewing the score card based on current score indicator (top right of screen). I did put auto putting back on and that was mostly a bad outcome but will move back to auto putting on my round on Monday. After 4 hours 20 minute 18 holes also had 46% battery left - this was after stating the watch 10 minutes before starting and imitating gps/play 1 minutes before starting. I did have a weird issue last week - while editing a round it somehow got stuck on “in progress” after saving and it got locked. Eventually it got unstuck but not sure how it happened. I wondered if simultaneously using V3 and X5 devices on the same account caused some bad golf tracking karma, but since that now resolved not sure. anyway, happy to say I think I’m now an X5 guy for the foreseeable future. Thanks to Shotscope for all of the improvements- it’s a much better experience now, even for a dumb-ass like me
  7. How much is “way off”? GPS can be slow to catch up to me when I walk fast - like after the fourth putt - but if I walk leisurely and linger close enough to my ball or the pin the accuracy of Arccos (and Shotscope) was better on the greens.
  8. I just wonder how many active paying subscribers they have. Part of the business model must surely be making “data as a service” available to OEMs by Lou and the team. I’m99% sure that’s how Shotscope works. In any event as different options appear I don’t see how Arccos can continue to grow subscription revenue besides raising the rate. Even the notion of something other than the “thou must pay for a year regardless of whether you use it” model would be helpful - I think most shot tracking apps for iOS work on this premise. Being in Canada, with a shortened season compared to many AND (I think) paying a higher currency adjusted sub rate really pushed the value proposition for me. Especially as Shotscope has upped their game year over year. It a confusing long term business model for me unless everyone adopts it - then I wonder how many people will continue to use that model at all. It’s not that hard to record shots on any phone shot tracking app with no sensors etc - V1 game is something that I very nearly came to a happy medium with - reasonable subscription models, enough data for me and a reasonably good experience for the price. But again with $0 subs from Shotscope, my other leaving if I have the sensors and devices.
  9. I’m in Canada, and Ireland previously, and for the last 28 years I get the same rejection - regardless of how many passes/days combinations I’ve been able to create So I’m not sure if it’s a geographic thing - maybe they just heard I really suck at golf and we’re afraid to afford me the title of patron
  10. Yes I would expect the rangefinder and gps to be in relatively similarity. And thanks for the confirmation on the dogleg question. I’m not aware of any gps device that relates distances based on hole designs - all I’ve ever noticed is that it seems to take a similar approach to that of vehicular gps etc - effectively the distance between two gps coordinate points regardless of topology, design or any other real world phenomena. On the lighter side of life, I’ve often wondered about the difference in how far a ball goes versus the distance it has travelled. I know for sure some of my wild @ss slices travel farther in the air (due to Curvature ) but always go a much shorter distance
  11. Hi @fixyurdivot - can you confirm if the holes with a large discrepancy are holes with doglegs or other features? I believe markers are based on the centre line of the hole (tee - through centre of fairway etc to green) , whereas GPS is line of sight to etc GPS coordinates of the green or "as the crow flies". For dogleg holes where you can have shorter distances but flying over the dogleg parts, a hole can play shorter than the markers. For the same reason, the GPS distance of a hole on this assumption will never be longer than the markers unless the tee is placed farther back from where the "verified" distance was achieved. Does this make sense?
  12. Lots of folks at my club do so in the Sun and I think I will be doing so this forecasted hot and sunny weekend. But I recall one day when it got quickly windy, we saw a push cart half flying, half tumbling down an adjacent fairway and a guy running after it - so I guess a PSA about being aware of weather conditions could be in order - me, I expected that an umbrella would release from the holder …..
  13. Thanks Phil - that’s what happened for me after the first reset/ update cycle. So do you factory reset after firmware updates as well? I have never had the need to do so after years of assorted technology firmware upgrades, but some of the comments in this thread refer to the factory reset in a way that makes its sound like a standard practice x5 users do as standard. i appreciate the support from everyone in this journey - it takes a village (it seems) and this is a really nice village to be a part of
  14. So I did the factory reset- and when completing the setup it suggested another firmware upgrade. This took me to 2.1.10 or similar. once that was done I did another factory reset and it took me back to firmware 2.0.35, or similar. Then got another firmware upgrade to 2.1.13. Am I supposed to “factory reset” after each firmware upgrade? In this case it resulted in a number of firmware installations and I’m not sure why.
  15. I will do the factory reset again to be sure - thanks @tony@CIC
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