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alfriday101

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  • Birthday 03/26/1958

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  1. I start most days with a 10 minute yoga session that also includes the McGill 3. I highly recommend it to all golfers. I'm 65 and I am more flexible (and less injury prone) now than in my 30s. It definitely helps with golf--a stronger core, bigger turn and a lot less soreness after a round. I also will do longer sessions a couple of times a week to work on specific areas of tightness. The past year I have been doing parts of my yoga routine on a vibration plate. It ups the stretching/strengthening to 11. The vibration plate especially helps hit hard to stretch areas like the psoas and illiacis, and for me, the upper back (between the shoulder blades).
  2. I play Edel Sl irons. My SW through 7 iron are all the same length. The 6-4 are 1/2 inch longer. I also have Cobra SL hybrids , but they are 3/4 inch longer than their standard SL, but still shorter shafted than their standard hybrids. So basically, I have a set of three different lengths for "SL" irons/hybrids. When Edel first came out with SL irons, he did a number of interviews/podcasts and talked about combo lengths. He was a proponent. He said it made sense for a lot of players to have the lower lofted irons a bit longer than the higher lofted irons. He foresaw sets with two and three lengths. The golfer gets more consistency than with a standard 1/2 inch change per club, but the golfer isn't tied into strict single length. I was fit for my clubs by an Edel fitter. The extra length on the low lofted irons helped my gapping, but I don't even notice the difference when playing. I'm glad to see a company pursuing this even though Edel sold. I'll have to follow the company to see how they do.
  3. I collect ball markers on my travels. I keep them in a plastic bag and randomly grab one out before play. Brings back good memories.
  4. I really like the above video. To me it explains what is really going on with the putting stroke. How the club shaft goes straight back and forward on plane, but the club head rotates open and closed to the line, but stays square to the plane. Clarified a lot of concepts for me.
  5. Here is a video by Malaska with three drills that directly apply to the issues mentioned in the OP. While the video title refers to drills for juniors, the drills apply to all golfers and are great drills for syncing the lower body and upper body and improving balance. I highly recommend the "Feet Together" drill. Here is another take on the drill for more advanced players: As for getting your weight to the left side, check out the "Gary Player Drill", a/k/a the "Walk through Drill."
  6. I'll throw out a drill that really helped me to develop feel with the putter. Short, in, long. I set out four tees in a box 3 feet by 3 feet, or 2 feet by 2 feet on shorter putts. I will put to a target at the front of the box. I use either a ball marker or a fake hole--a round, rubber jar opener tossed on the green. Putt from various distances to the hole. Key: Don't watch the ball. Call out before the ball stops whether it will stop short, long, or in the box. Can also be done with eyes closed.
  7. I regularly use a rangefinder. Not once has my rangefinder read a putt for me, raked a bunker, told me how the wind coming over the dunes will knock my shot down, found a ball in the woods, given me a line off the tee, cleaned my club, carried my bag, held my umbrella, told me to aim away from the pin because the green slopes toward the bunker, told me a joke....
  8. I'm watching ISU/Michigan to see will beat up on the Hawkeyes in Indy next Saturday.
  9. Stoop's last game at Kentucky? Rumors he's off to A&M. I remember him as a linebacker.
  10. I had to think about this question for a bit. I realized that I tend to pay more attention to shotmaking and course management when watching the LPGA v PGA. I hit the ball about the same distance as some of the LPGA players. I like seeing how they approach the game: strategy, club selection, etc. I don't have a 200 yard 7 iron, so I have a hard time relating to the PGA distances.
  11. Thanks for the recommendation. I just read the preview part on Amazon and decided to order the Kindle version of the book. Thanks.
  12. The point that Nichol and Morris make is that looking at the putt only from behind the ball "foreshortens" the putt--i.e. the putt appears shorter than it actually is. So it doesn't matter whether the putt is uphill, downhill or flat--your brain registers the putt as shorter than it actually is. Looking at the putt from the low side, and being far enough from the line to see both the hole and the ball in your vision, counteracts the foreshortening and you are able to accurately judge the distance. This worked for me. When practicing on a putting matt with known distances, I would rarely leave a putt short. But on the course, I consistently left putts just short of the hole. I tried picking a target beyond the hole, but that lead to a bigger dispersion. Once I incorporated looking at the whole putt from the low side, I started getting more balls to the hole.
  13. How you read your putts can lead you to leave balls short. Golfers who only read the putt from behind are more prone to leave putts short. In "The Lost Art of Putting" Nichol and Morris, 2018, the authors emphasize the need to look at all putts from the low side. p. 114ff. "You will see the full picture if you stand far enough back to see both your ball and the hole in your peripheral vision. You will see the full length of the putt." p. 114. Only reading the put from behind foreshortens the putt and the golfer tends to leave the putts short.
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