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Plugged the R1 back in my office. It quickly charged back to where the app reads 100%. Upon unplugging it, without using it, it's losing more than a percent of battery every minute just on standby. Again, I'm going to plug it back in. Perhaps it's not really at 100%. But then the app shouldn't say it is. UPDATE: it drained to 90% in a matter of moments. I plugged it back in: it instantly read 100% again. EDIT: @PMookie, when it's (actually) fully charged, does the white charging light stop pulsing?

On balance, I kinda like the rechargeable option myself; I'm used to charging my iPhone before rounds for Arccos tracking. But obviously, I must have goofed on the charging this time.

I received mine last week while I was away from home. Opened it last night; this morning, I got out for my initial nine holes with the R1. It...wasn't good. Let's start with the impressive parts: I like the build quality of the R1. The soft rubber finish is nice, and including it on the magnet as well is something I think is useful for giving it a more premium feel even when attaching it to a cart. The unit is large—much larger than the NX9 Slope. But it doesn't feel unwieldy: the weight is not outrageous, and it fits nicely even in my smaller-than-average-hands. It locked on to the target quickly and confidently. The display is great, both the image and the numbers. I'm a big fan of the slope switch: this is a major improvement from the NX9 Slope. On that device, not only was there no way for others to see whether you were using slope adjustment or not (important for tournament play), it was far too easy to inadvertently switch to slope mode. Precision Pro has fixed that entirely. Now on to the not-so-good: The GPS display on the rangefinder itself worked for only a single hole. The GPS was running on my phone; I could check things there. But hitting the GPS button on the device brought up a screen without any numbers on every hole but one. There was some connection issue, but I'm not sure what it was. The GPS software itself needs a lot of work. I don't know if my course is unique on this, but it gives no options for tees. These leads to absurd results: the only hole on which the GPS numbers showed up on the rangefinder was a par 3. The laser said it was 160 to the flag (which was right); the GPS said it was 145 to the back of the green, because it was locked to the white tees rather than the blues that I was playing. Much worse: the laser itself died after 6(!) holes. I charged the rangefinder last night until the app told me that it was at 100%. This could be my fault; perhaps it needs to be charged even longer. But for a first impression, this is obviously entirely a total deal-breaker. EDIT: It looks very likely that this was user error on my part. The unit needs to be charged until the indicator light stops pulsing, and I did not do that. I'm still confused as to why the app would say the battery is at 100% when it probably wasn't even close, but I'm going to give it a full charge before trying this again. I haven't yet gone through and set up MySlope yet; I'm looking forward to doing that (with my Mevo+). I'm certainly not ready to throw in the towel on this device yet. I'm willing to assume that the battery needs to be charged longer (though the app shouldn't report 100% battery if that's not true). But the software still needs a lot of work.

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Thanks guys! No golf on schedule today; I'm preaching at a Bible camp in Colorado next week, and so I literally have about a dozen sermons to prepare this week. But I think Kirke and I might might head out early in the morning tomorrow, if I make adequate progress today. Headed home in about an hour to grill up some chicken wings. And my wife is making me this totally ridiculous, over-the-top cake for tonight (the first recipe in this video):

Probably should tone down the temp on this discussion and bring it back around to the topic.

This is a good point. That said, his caddie got on the bag knowing what he was about as well. I will add this, because I had to look it up: Bryson is almost certainly bringing money into Cobra on irons: Source: https://mygolfspy.com/cobra-radspeed-irons/

If I'm understanding Bryson correctly, he's only talking about work Cobra has done with the face tech of the driver. This doesn't have much to do with his unusual swing: the issue is how forgiving can you make a face that is also designed for absolute max ball speed. While the specific face build they end up with for Bryson won't have much use for me, I imagine there will be things that they learn about face tech that might.

Not saying that you're wrong, but I'm glad Bryson is doing his thing. It's like automakers learning from racing and applying those innovations to consumer cars. If Cobra is pushed to make drivers that work for Bryson, that should (maybe?) have a positive benefit for mere mortals.

A few thoughts: Based on everything I've read, Bryson is amazing at finding the center of the face. I believe Tony Covey has tweeted things to this effect. That means he's not asking for a driver that saves drives that he's hitting all over the face. That said: he's playing a 5° driver and approaching 200mph of ball speed. There just isn't legal equipment (and in my opinion, there shouldn't be) that eliminates the prospect of giant misses there. Bryson nearly single-handedly created a niche product market for single-length irons. Nope, almost no one is playing the same clubs he's playing (and no one should). But I'd love to see what happens to One Length iron sales each time he wins. I wonder if that alone is worth keeping him on.

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I third (or fourth, or whatever it is in this thread) the US Kids golf recommendation. My son has been playing their UL series driver now for 2+ seasons with very good success. I will always throw in a recommendation here for Diamond Tour golf's junior components: https://www.diamondtour.com/golf-components/junior-components.html Diamond Tour is a sister company to Sub70. They also sell their clubs pre-assembled. You'd be hard pressed to beat the price, and I can absolutely vouch for both quality and suitability for young junior golfers. My 8-year-old plays at a very competent level, and these clubs are very well suited for his game.

This is devastating to read. I pray that you and your family find comfort, peace, and reminders of joy in the days ahead.

Tournament 3: Portage Lake Golf Course, Houghton, MI I received the tee sheet from the tournament director last Friday. At that time, no one was signed up in Kirke's age division, so I had agreed to have Kirke move up in the 10-11 year olds. This would have been more reasonable than the last round, because they were setting tees at 2,100 yards for that age group, about 300 yards longer than Kirke's typically distance. Monday was another early morning; Kirke's tee time was schedule for 8:30 Eastern time. We live in the Central time zone, so that meant that, to make the two-hour drive with enough time for Kirke to get loose (he's always loose; he's 8), we left the house at 5am. I'm still yawning. But when we arrived Monday morning, we found that two boys had signed up in Kirke's age group. So he'd be able to play from 1,800 against kids his own age. Playing from a more reasonable set of tees than the last round, Kirke cruised to a tidy 3-over 39. Other than a double-bogey on a par 3 (he was tricked by a green that had a lot more slope than he was seeing), he played really, really well. The course closes with its two par 5s back to back; both were playing about 250 (which is relatively short for Kirke), and he birdied both. Cutting to the chase, here's his final putt for birdie: The leaderboard tells the story: he won here pretty comfortably: Once again, as the winners were announced, you can pick Kirke out of the lineup by finding the smallest kid On our way home, we stopped at Culver's for lunch and had to snap a quick picture with the sign of a neighboring store which was too perfect: Kirke's got two tournaments left in the UPGA Junior Tour, both the final week of July. I'll be out of town for those. The season-ending championship event is on August 16; the website says that the winners qualify to play at Michigan State for the Golf Association of Michigan Junior Invitational in September, although that may be only the older age divisions (I'm not sure).

The impression I have is that he insists on it with a driver and encourages one shape with all shots:

Basic course strategy discussion: during a round, do you stick to a single stock shape for virtually every shot, or do you attempt to curve the ball both ways to play different shapes of fairway or pins on the opposing sides of the greens? Scott Fawcett is a major proponent of having a single shape that you play for every single shot. Dustin Johnson, in a fairly recent interview, claims that he fades the ball almost exclusively now. On the other hand, Tiger famously had his nine ball flights drill to be able to work the ball in every direction.

Whoa! It's not often that any MGS Forum member is within an hour drive of me Welcome to the UP, and nice writeup of the course. Kirke and I got to see nine holes a month ago when he had a tournament there.

Tournament 2: Timber Stone Golf Course, Iron Mountain, MI Kirke's tee time was 8:00am; that meant that accounting for the two hour drive, I was up before 5 this morning. On the plus side, the course is in central time; the eastern time courses are real killers when the tee time is early. For this trip, Christopher came along to join Kirke's fan club. Upon arrival, we found out two things. The first is that there weren't many kids at all at this event. The second is that there was no one else in Kirke's age group. The very young man who was running the event hadn't set out special tees for the youngest players (I bear him no ill will at all; it sounds like this was dropped in his lap last minute). So that meant Kirke would either play in a tournament by himself from the 150 stakes (or something like that), or go up an age group. The youngest group they planned for was just playing the most forward course tees. I need you to grasp how big a deal that is. Kirke's home yardage, based on the US Kids recommendations, is 1,800 for nine holes. The most forward tees at Timber Stone are just under 2,600 yards. Take your normal yardage and add 40% to it and let me know what you're feeling! Nonetheless, Kirke and I decided to go for it. He'd win his age group by default, and he'd at least have other kids playing the same course as he was. Here was the group he was playing with: The tallest kid was playing a few sets of tees back. But the other three were playing from the same tees as Kirke. I'm gonna guess that they're all at least 11? As expected, it was a challenging round. Kirke started off double/double. He continued to grind. He bogeyed a couple of holes. I thought things were really going to go off the rails at holes 6 and 7, where he went quad then triple. But he made a really nice par on a 135-yard par 3 at 8. He ended up finishing with a 17-over 53. In the middle of the round, I was hoping he'd take a run at breaking 50. Nonetheless, it was an amazing accomplishment, considering the distance he was playing from. So when we got back to the clubhouse and turned in our cards, it turns out that Kirke not only won his age group (by default), but he also bested the older boys who were playing from the same tees: So far, then, that makes two tournaments and two wins for Kirke this season. He's got another event next Monday. Definitely hoping for better turnout and a course set up for him, but whatever happens, we'll keep having fun.

Probably about time that this line of the discussion ends. The broader discussion of the impact of PIP is still open.

Kirke is 8; he turns 9 at the end of the year. As for driving distance, it's funny. At the beginning of this season, it almost seemed like he lost distance compared to last year. He was getting really frustrated. Using the US Kids recommended distances, his course got 300 yards longer over the winter. That would be challenging for any of us, but especially so when he's going from 1,500 to 1,800. Imagine lengthening your course by 20%; if you play at 6,500 yards, you'd be moving to 7,800 (the tips at Kiawah). So not only did his course get longer, but despite doing a bunch of speed training work, he seemed to be hitting the ball way less efficiently. He also decided to tee the ball really high for a while, leading to a bunch of high floaters, almost pop ups. Somehow, over the last month or so, he's totally turned it around. He's really swinging the club fast and hitting the ball really solid. Check out this motion: So that's a long winded answer. What I'd say is that he pretty comfortably drives the ball 135+. He's had a couple when conditions were just right that got him out to 160. As for DCP: the field in his local this year (all due regard to the other boys) wasn't terribly strong. I may have posted this here: Kirke's first round score two years ago, when he was 7, would have taken first. Two years, ago, he finished T3 and was eliminated on the tiebreak. So I expect that the next round will be much more difficult. I don't think Kirke is going to be as long as the longest drivers in his age group, although he did finish second out of five in driving despite getting zero points on one drive that bounced OB. In general, in a stronger field, I'd expect him to rack up points in putting, do very well in chipping, and then be about average in driving.

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The next two events on Kirke's calendar: tournaments this upcoming Monday and the following Monday from the UPGA Junior Tour.

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Hard to say. I can't say that I committed to it in any systematic way, though it is a device I regularly incorporate with other training aids (including my PlaneMate). Consider it a work in progress. In terms of the device: it does what it says. I cannot swing my usual tempo and get the clicks to work. I have to wait. But I don't believe that I've used it enough to embed that feeling in my on-course swing.

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