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Golfspy_CG2

 
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  • Birthday 05/19/1959

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    60 and over
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    90 mph or less
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    8.9
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    Multiple times per week
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    Casual
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    Putting
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  1. So your impromptu loft and lie bending woked. Ha I told somone todsy the best i have possibly ever putted was with the Sigma Tyne 4 i was fit for at PING HQ. Im really tempted to go back ro that.
  2. Yeah, i was stylin and profilin! That was on the tee of the third hole. So only 2 shots with the 6 at thar point.
  3. Oh yeah, definitely more to come in detail, unfortunately looks like we are in for a bit of rain the next week. So not sure how much how often I'll get out with them. But they seem very hot off the face but with a nice feel and sound. Great looking club at address as well as in the bag, and yes they do have some shine to them
  4. For starters the TD head is going to be a bit more fade biased in its neutral position. I would buy the driver with the loft you desire. The reason is that with most adjustable drivers when you add loft it closes the face, when you reduce loft the face of the club opens. As a result the club become draw or fade biased. Some setup/address corrections maybe necessary as a result. Buying the club at the stated loft means it's neutral at that setting. Due to this, it's best to test the club and loft you desire on a monitor to make sure it provides the desired results.
  5. These made their maiden 9 hole voyage this week snd were very fun and pleasing to hit.
  6. Just a bit of an update. I put in a lot of work yesterday on the Ex Putt (it was an all-day cold rain and couldn't practice outside) I discovered I wasn't really finishing my follow through on some putts, kind of a decel and once I focused on that for 20 to 30 putts, the 10 footers started dropping. Today while the course was closed drying out, the Head Pro and I went out to our putting green for a bit of a putting then pitching contests. Keeping the finish the follow through in mind, I putted much better with the speed control. I didn't win any money off him, but I was down 10 bucks at one point but won it back on our last challenge. So that was cool! He is a +2 after alll and has a killer short game. So Maybe I saved myself some $$$ from buying a new putter....For now anyway!
  7. Agreed, and actually if you read my post, you'd see all the putters I use are Mallets and Mid Mallets. So yeah, kind of there already
  8. yeah, generally putting is my strength, and I know we all have our off days, but it just seems since like the end of last year to the beginning of this year, it just hasn't felt right. Maybe something more consistent time practicing will help regain that feel. interesting comment about the face of the putter, my playing partner (superintendent) says he notice that, once I appear set I loosen my grip and regrip it and when I do that he swears he sees the face open at times. It's something he will mention mid round at times as a reminder and I'll try and be more cognizant of it. even though most of my putts tend to miss left, so I may be over rotating the face. But again I'll go back to Sasha's comment on the Proving Grounds that a small 1 degree open or closed in a putter is not going to be the primary reason for a miss. It was interesting on putts that missed right with an open face, I knew as soon as the putt left the head that I left it open. And sure enough the data backed it up. Yeah, Ex Putt is awesome and this is the first version form like I said 5 years ago or whenever we did the forum test. it has 4 modes and this mode above is the practice mode, just pick a distance and green speed you can pick from like 7 to 14 and just practice straight putts. Then the other 3 modes are more of challenges and playing mode.
  9. Since this is MGS. I thought Id add a little data to my story So i did a quick Ex Putt session to ger some current. Now i will say i know EX Putt is not real putting. But having had this for probably 5 yesrs or so. It is very good on your path and face data. As you see my tendency is in to out path and slightly closed face. during this session i had prwtty good distwmce control and made 7 of the 20 putts from 10 feet. Which is 35%. Just below Tour average abd well above the 20% a 18 handicap wpuld have. My handicap is actually 17.1. right now. Now to be fair after this. I played a 9 hole ij challenge mode where you had putts from 26 to 51 feet with some uphill and downhill and big breaks. They place you on the green in regulation and you go from there. I had 22 putts so not much better than yesterday. Now i do think there were 3 putts that went in that it didnt catch. But still 19 would be too high. on a good round i normally have 29-31 putts i averaged 33.5 according to the GHIN stats
  10. I don't know if I mentioned it specifically in any of the posts, but good question. If I had to boil it down to one thing, it's been my speed control over the last few months. I used to have excellent speed control never really going more than a foot or two long or a foot short. So maybe it's just the lack of play and real time putting, I've lost a bit of sense of touch. That is the putter I was fit for when I mentioned I was fit at PING HQ by their master fitters. I putted really well with it for almost 2 years, before of course switching to the Scotty Don't every change Matt...EVER That is so true isn't it. Lots of choices! I took a short game lesson from Eric whoa....maybe 10 years ago or so. One of the best things I've ever done in my life, I'd love to go back down and see him. He taught me there were 5 different type of short game shots and how to approach them. I had always thought of like 1 or 2.
  11. I do use a line on the ball, and I've spent a lot of time this winter on EX Putt and both my path and face angle were all very spot on, and as mentioned int he Slack thing, we know that Sasha said a path or face has to be really off to cause a putt to miss. To the Rest of the group! First off, lots of great replies and thoughts here, thanks to all of you. I could have quoted just about each one as they all had valid points, but the ones below all touch on something I've ever thought about, have tried or have some thoughts on. Also I realize a lot of you that responded don't know my propensity and easy access to knew clubs. I'm a certified fitter with several brands and as such have a lot of access to many of the OEM's products through either demo or personal purchases. My iron and driver purchases are well documented. I haven't been one to burn through putters, as it's generally the strength of my game. I in fact have an actual grass putting green less than 50 yards from my office, and while I haven't yet this year, it's not uncommon for me to spend several afternoons a week out there on it. Ultimately that's where I need to get back to in the next week once the aeration heals, it was done last week as well. The few putting fittings I've been to, PING HQ and TM HQ I rated as a +2.1 putter, and was fit into mallet style putters. My current Scotty is a smaller mallet, and have used the X7 in the past with great success. I totally realize buying a new putter or any club is not always the best answer, but it's usually the most fun. And after all isn't that what most of us play this game for fun. We all find fun in different ways. All that said, there were things in the following posts, that really were spot on and I wanted to comment on. That brand is sounding interesting and I will have to go check out the testing thread. And oddly enough the best Blade MWT is out today...LOL I don't know if you follow Chasing Scratch at all, but in last year or the year before Eli went to TPI and I think he was working with Greg Rose on the putting green, and he used the simple analogy ---You were a good college basketball player. When you shot free throws did you look at the Rim or the ball as you were shooting. We all know the answer to that. And Eli was shocked to hear that and spent a lot of time reversing his pre trigger routine. Most of us spend 80% of the time focusing on the ball and 20% or less on the hole. When focusing on the hole more than the ball, he improved dramatically. I haven't yet tried this. But now might be the time. You know I'm tall...something like 6'12" last I checked....(sorry some inside humor) anyway I have always used a 35" and actually tried a 36 and 38 and had just horrible results with them. During my very first EVENROLL fitting with Guerin Rife, for our first member testing several years ago, he mentioned. You should use the shortest putter that you can comfortably stand with. So I tried a 34" and I just was never comfortable with it, so I have stuck with the 35" It just seems to fit. To your very first question, it was last fall. I didn't play much this winter at all due to some recent health issues. So obviously that is probably no. 1 reason, I need to get back into the "swing of things" as much as I can. The Aeration greens were a handy excuse, and yes they certainly didn't help. But one week before that, I played in a scramble and didn't make a single putt. Our Superintendent who is my most regular playing partner said, it looked like the ball was "jumping" off the face of my putter--the Scotty Cameron gamer. So that was something new he said he didn't notice before. Obviously the putter face didn't' charge or the ball, Pro V1, so something in my delivery did. So that is something I need to get on the putting green once they heal and find out what's happening there. Yeah, the aim I think goes back to the Sasha comment I mentioned above. I would say in the past my aim and green reading has been maybe slightly above average at best. Perhaps I need to get wish someone like our Superintendent (who you have actually played with) and get some green reading tips. you know since 98% of my rounds are played on the same course for the last 9 years, I may have fallen into a trap of knowing what a putt is going to do without actually reading it. Oh!! I do love me some Toulon, I had a Indianapolis a few years ago and putted very well with it. I do like the looks of this one
  12. That is the 2nd recommendation for Edel putter fitting, @GolfSpy BOS also suggested it. I do know the local Edel fitter who is only about 30 minutes or so from my course. Also @revkev that is very interesting on the SP putter and fitting and you are correct about the PING Long game and having to go with the recommdations. Often we stick with what is comfortable for us. @Girldad18 The reason for my emoji on your reply about Lean Lock is that scares me to death, I tried it once a few years ago out of curiosity not need, and you might as well told me to try putting left handed that's how much I hated it.
  13. That's a really good post thanks. And I agree with it 100% On a recent PING Proving Grounds Podcast Marty and Shane had Shasa on and they talked about short game and putting in particular. And I'm going to forget the stat, but we discussed it in MOD Slack Chat, that the most common reason for missed putts is bad green reading, after that it was speed control. And down the list were poor contact or something like that. But the general thought was along what your saying, if you can read the green (i.e. speed and break) correct your chances of making more putts goes up significantly.
  14. Help!! I need putter advice! I know there will be no shortage of that here especially on one particular brand. But i haven't felt comfortable with a putter in the last 6 months Including the following Scotty 1.5 Flowback-my gamer for the past 2 years. Odyssey Ai 1 Rossie a couple rounds PING Shea-a couple rounds EVNROLL 11 some good days and some really bad ones!! MEZZ Max was good but not great. Only a month or so with it. I didn't miss any short putts inside 3 feet, but I didn't make ANY putts in the 10 foot range and I'm usually good for a couple of those a round. Look at these stats yesterday. Yes, I'll take the shame of publicly posting a 49....I deserve it Granted i played on greens that were aerated 24 hours earlier. Also the lack of greens hit isn't too alarming. I played tees longer than I normally do and was into a wind all day. Par 3’s and 1 par 5 were the only ones i was capable of reaching. And all just barely missed. Driver was excellent (more on that in my driver shootout thread) and hitting 7 fairways and 23 putts just doesn’t work. If I had a "decent" day putting I would have shot 43 or 44 and been pretty happy. Call me the Scottie Scheffler of the Forum Ok so lets hear any and all thoughts
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