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I can't much more to what @Shankster contributed. The reality is that I live on the complete opposite end of the UP from what @DeBartola_B is asking about: he'd have to drive another 4+ west to get to my side of the Upper Peninsula.

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On the one hand: I am convinced that picking smart targets is essential to playing my best golf. The ideas behind DECADE (and similar systems) are sound. Choosing targets that maximize your odds of the lowest score—objectively—is something that I'm committed to. On the other hand: confidence, even overconfidence, plays a real role in hitting good shots. I'm not talking about mere positive thinking or "manifesting reality" or anything like that. But most of us know that playing golf tentatively has real effects on the kind of swing or stroke we put on the ball. I see this in Kirke: on the golf course, he carries himself with "Rory on a heater" swagger. It can absolutely be obnoxious (and a dad, it's something we talk about from a character point of view). But it's also in part why I think he's so good at this game. Bad shots just get erased from his brain. He stands over each shot fully convinced he can pull off absolutely anything he wants with a golf ball. To me, it seems that these two ideas are at least a little in tension with each other. Certainly we can imagine the extreme caricatures: the swashbuckling, fire-at-every-flag approach and the avoid-all-risk approach. And before you jump in: I know that the mathematically correct choice is (most) often to send it. I get that smart golf isn't always "conservative." But if you're catching my drift, I think there is some tension between the mindset that says, "I can absolutely pull off any shot I need" and the reality that "Also, that's a really stupid shot that I shouldn't try to pull off." So all that to say, what's your best advice for playing confidently while playing smart?

Saw this earlier in the week. I think I'll stick with my Edel

I second everything @GolfSpy_CS wrote. I'll also add this (as a question): does the Lag Shot driver have a shorter shaft than your normal drivers? It may be (and I can sympathize with this) that with the shorter shaft, you're finding the center of the face more, whereas with your normal drivers you're getting dispersion from hitting a lot of different parts of the face.

Last year, he asked for volunteers to participate in a new podcast he was starting. He was looking for a mid-handicap player to receive a whole bunch of coaching and the podcast would chronicle the improvement. I was a finalist, but wasn't chosen, so this was my consolation prize (which was a pretty generous offer, I think).

Unless the one I bought from PuttView (mentioned above) blows me away, my intent is to scan all the pages immediately when I get it. Then I will combine the aspects of PuttView with those from the DECADE images I like best, and then print the thing in a format that fits the yardage book cover I got.

Definitely on my radar. I'm going to play with the phone version first just to see if it's at all adequate, and then I'll consider upgrading.

A bit out of the price range I'm looking at for this experiment. I had a gift subscription to DECADE, so I have the PDF of that book for my home course. And I pulled the trigger on the PuttView book (with another coupon code). No one has an official mapping of our greens, which isn't surprising. Kicking around making mine using one of the "bubble level" apps you can get for a phone, along with dropping balls at different parts of the green. The USGA limits right now are on book and scale size. The prohibition of information from mechanical tools (like a level) is currently only a local rule option for the PGA Tour, so (as I understand it) is not a violation for normal play.

[HONESTY HOUR DISCLOSURE: there is also a bit of Tour Sauce factor here, right?]

This is, for me, the biggest anticipated benefit.

Planning to experiment with something new (for me) this year: carrying a printed yardage book. I have a couple of goals/reasons for it: I need my wedge distance chart; this is a good place to keep it. I'll probably putt my club-gapping numbers in a chart as well, although I don't tend to forget those. I want to play with mapping the greens on my home course. No commercially-available green books have maps for us, which is unsurprising. I had a really cool Zoom chat with Lou Stagner, going hole-by-hole through my course and mapping out the best strategy for me. I want to make those notes to reference during the round. Anyone else here carry a hard-copy yardage book? If so, have you found it useful? Or does it end up being like using iron headcovers?

As an investment: so long as there's a market for sports memorabilia, Tiger's stuff would have to be the most coveted in golf. Over the past couple of years, the memorabilia market has been insane; I have to suspect it'll cool at some point. But in the next up cycle, I'd guess these retain and increase in value. For my part: I'm simply stunned that these ever got out of Tiger's possession.

Kirke got to Medinah last year, which is the Regional level (Local >> Sub-Regional >> Regional). At Medinah, he didn't hit bad shots, but other than holing his 6-foot putt, he simply didn't really hit any good ones (for him). He ended up finishing 9th of the 14 boys in his age group: https://www.drivechipandputt.com/2022/regional-qualifier/medinah-country-club Looking forward to the year ahead for DCP. Kirke's "little" brother is 7 and so is eligible to compete for the first time. Christopher is my moose; although he's only 7, he absolutely dwarfs his older brother: He's not quite so smooth as Kirke with a club, nor is he as driven to compete. But he enjoys the game and his driver swing speed is almost exactly where Kirke's is. If he makes solid contact, he might advance a round or two in the youngest age group just on driver distance alone. EDIT: Here's Christopher's swing. He popped this one up, but the brute force is his move is pretty apparent: 811933303_20220403_2012562.mp4

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We're still buried under snow here, but I feel more prepared for the beginning of a golf season than I ever have before: 20220331_143820.mp4

Kirke came with me to the church today. He's getting in some foam ball practice. This move is absolutely bonkers: 20220329_084557.mp4

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It's related, but in some sense, even more extreme. The claw works by reducing the influence that the trail hand has on the stroke. End-of-range-of-movement would mean that you take your trail arm, turn it as far as possible in one direction, and then take your grip. For instance, this image from golf.com shows how Bryson turns his lead arm as counterclockwise as possible and his trail arm as clockwise as possible: If you try this, you'll see that your ability to rotate the face of the putter at becomes very restricted, which is the point. It's also why I get how someone like @jlukes would quickly find it intolerable. It's very mechanical.

I suspect some of you are already familiar with this concept. It's most notable proponent is Bryson, who has been one of the very best putters on Tour the past couple of years. And it's not limited to arm lock putting. The basic idea is related to our normal understanding of strong and weak grips. A strong grip typically encourages the face to close through impact; a weak grip the opposite. What Bryson does is turn his lead arm as weak as possible and his trail arm as strong as possible. If you try this, you'll see that it makes it really hard to move the face around. Most of us have a predominant miss when putting. For me, it's a pull. And so this morning, I experimenting with turning my lead hand (I putt slightly left-hand low) very, very weak. The immediate results were quite promising. I felt like I could make a very free stroke without any fear of a left, pull miss. Has anyone else experimented with this?

That is precisely my issue. I don't have a lot of classic early extension, but my entire body (from the DTL view) sways toward to ball as I get to the top of my swing.

Really, really helpful. This concept has been big for me this offseason. Like many of you, I've done a ton of work over the past couple of (off)seasons to try to get the club to shallow through transition. This off-season, more than any other, I've begun to understand how much that move also depends on swing sequence and what the lower body is doing. Short version: if you can't clear the space between you and the ball, you have to come into impact steep and from the outside. There's literally no way to get the club there if your body is there. So just reinforcing what @RickyBobby_PR's post of Monty's post said, maybe a slightly different way that helped me get it: he talked about what moves, and I've found it helpful to think about what's stationary. On the backswing, the lead hip is the pivot point for the hip turn. The lead hip stays where it is: the trail hip gets deeper. On the downswing, it is reversed: the trail hip is now the pivot point, and the lead hip moves deeper.

You know the feeling of reaching into your pocket and finding cash there that you didn't remember? I had the golf version of that this morning, recalling that I had unspent credit at 2nd Swing. I now have a new 3 wood headed my way.