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  1. The -2° aoa is a problem if there is also a path and face to path issue and if it leads to lower on the face contact. Dynamic loft is another thing to look at. Delofting the driver isn’t the best thing for amateurs. a number like aoa or spin or launch by itself doesn’t mean much. 0 to +2-3° aoa is what more than enough. Path 1-3° either in to out or out to in is optimal. It just needs to be consistent. Most amateurs have a path that’s more 4+ either way and not consistent from one direction.
  2. Pros aren’t spraying the ball like us amatuers. They don’t have a consistent two way miss like some amateurs do. They do have a wide dispersion pattern. It’s in the 65-70 yard range. Pros know the more speed the more trouble for control. Bryson’s biggest complaint is that heads can’t keep up with his top end on course speed. Finau can reach 200mph ball speed but plays at 180ish. the more aoa one has the more inside a path can get and when you start reaching the +5° it can cause issues. Rory has been plagued in his career with getting stuck, having a +5° is part of that reason. Pros are hitting between -1 to +1-2° aoa, and most favor a fade with driver because this helps them control the flight and their miss
  3. You go to a nice restaurant you dress up, you go to mcd’s you wear what you want. you go to a wedding you dress appropriately, you go to a house party you dress down, unless it’s a nice house party celebrating some event or a semi formal gathering then you dress appropriately. There are trends that come and go, mock turtlenecks were allowed when Tiger made them famous, it didn’t detract from the dress code and allowed for new trends to be allowed at some courses, some courses where Tiger played wouldn’t allow them at a non tour event. hoodies and joggers are cool and I wear them at times where allowed, but there is still a resemblance of a dress code and they aren’t the joggers worn at a gym. Dress for the occasion and the location.
  4. The 10k heads are nothing more than the manufacturer adding the moi of the two axis. Moi is limited at 5900. This is a lot of marketing. Torque is a value that has no standard in the industry so saying a shaft has a lower torque or higher torque and that leads to stability. A shaft fits a lower swing speed and is stable for that person may not be as stable for a higher swing speed. Did the shaft itself become less stable? No it’s just. Not stable for the higher swing speed golfer. The higher the moi the better the club head will deal with gear effect. But again the 10k is a sum of the two axis. The two axis have always been there the manufacturers just never talked about it so it’s a way to market the current drivers and claim they heads are more stable. Until we know what the previous moi readings were on both axis and what they are now you won’t know how much has changed
  5. Scotty is optimized for his swing and what he is trying to do on the course. as you see in the chart he has different launch for how he wants to hit the ball. Pros will give up distance for control of the ball. It’s why many are around neutral to slightly down with aoa. Rory is the outlier at +5° aoa, but you see how it can negatively affect his on course play. +2-3° is around all anyone needs.
  6. Really can’t say there’s a best setup equipment wise. Feel plays a big role in how one reacts to a setup. I could tell you tsr2 with ventus black tr but it would be a guess and could be an expensive blind buy.
  7. There aren’t workouts that will necessarily help with speed. Getting your posterior chain more involved in your workouts can help. Deadlifts, rows, pull-ups/pulldowns, Olympic lifts. Working out isn’t going to negatively impact your flexibility. Also while being flexible is good you need mobility which is being strong in those positions you are flexible in. Doing mobility work before and after a workout along with on rest days is what you want to do. All workouts should include a squat movement. Back squat, front squat, hack squat, goblet squat, leg press. And then add in isolation movements split squat, lunges, leg extension. A hinge movement. Deadlifts, rdls, stiff leg deadlifts. Accessories like leg curls, Nordic curls, single leg rdl. a press movement. Flat barbell bench, flat db bench, incline bench, overhead press. Isolation like flies, pushups, tricep work. and to offset the pressing back movements. Rows, pull-ups, pulldowns, shoulder work (front, side and rear delts). Bicep curls.
  8. Been fit online for my Ping PLD and it was a good fitting and the putter works for me.
  9. A swing needs to be maintained even for those not looking to make any more changes. so honing in the current mechanics through block practice will help maintain the swing. To improve at golf with the current swing one needs to develop skills. Hitting golf shots and working on them at the range. Determine a skill you want to improve on and work on it, practice it. It could be as simple as proper alignment every time. Pick different targets setup for the shot then check alignment, adjust if it’s off. Use alignment rods to help teach it. This is probably a good one if at the range you are swinging and just hoping you hit the target rather than expecting to
  10. It’s not outdated and it doesn’t need to be changed. Not sure if people have looked but golf courses are still pretty full so it’s definitely not keeping anyone from playing golf despite what people want to say. Golf is still a gentleman’s game, dress like one. Dont like a dress code don’t play there.
  11. 1° is only worth about 2-3 yards assuming nothing else changes and yes the lie board is a terrible way to determine lie. It requires to know path and other club delivery to know why the tape is reading what it does. use the sharpie line test and see what it shows. Then adjust from there
  12. You have to figure out what’s causing you not to hit ball first and then address what can get you playing better faster and work on that. Typically it’s going to be improper pressure shift and/or improper hit movement that’s going to cause it. Other issues are going to be improper wrist hinge, arms getting away from the body. So figuring out what your issue is has to be the first thing you do.
  13. Drills are dependent on what is being worked on and addressed to fix issues in the swing. They should be player dependent and what works for them. There are some basic ones that most golfers could probably benefit from. a shoe box either inside or outside of the ball depending on whether the issue is to inside to out or out to in. Using something like the inside of a squeaky pet toy to work on pressure shift. using an alignment stick in the club and placed on the lead hip to work on wrist hinge and turn or to place it on the trail hip to work on handpath and turn. L to L or 9-3 drills
  14. So basically you’ve been fit to players distance or gi style irons. The iron shafts are all heavier shafts and designed to promote lower spin and launch(the amount is based on each individual swings) but we can look at tour players and see how high their hit their irons and know that it’s not super low launch or super low spin. The s300 and s400 are the same shaft and because the s400 is a little heavier than s300 it’s going to play a tad stiffer. I swap between these two shafts a lot Yup it’s going to be a snapshot of your swing that day and having a day where you can’t hit a shot even close to what you do on the course is going to make it harder on the fitter to see exactly what your normal shot is. The better the fitter the more they can guess what’s going to happen on your better swing, especially if outdoors and they can see ball flight and if on grass divot patters and turf interaction. Also correctly each fitter is going to have their personal opinion and process for how to address what the golfer needs or how to change things. The TM rep in my area used length to adjust contact point and ball flight over changing lie angle on irons based on the golfers swing and what the club was doing at impact. Sometimes he would use both. The old Ping rep rarely used his monitor and was only there to show the golfer the change or lack of change despite a change in shaft or head. He used ball flight and golfers feedback on what to change. He fit my buddy to a driver that hasn’t left his bag since 2013. I’m not as sensitive to changes. I did a ping fitting for the g400 driver on back to back days with the second day being a better swing day and the choice made on day 1 with my not as good swing was the same as the choice on my better swinging day. I’ve been fit to the same shaft or shaft profile for the last 20 years despite lessons and my handicap dropping. I’ve also played random bling buy setups that have worked and a few that didn’t. In 2015 I played on back to back days on the same course with two different bag setups in iron shafts and my fairway wood. Day 1 I had my buddy’s 105g r flex shafts in Bridgestone heads and his Bridgestone 5w with the tour green r flex shaft. day 2 I had the same irons but with my heavier and stiffer shafts in them and my Bridgestone 5w with a heavier and stiffer fujikura shaft. I shot the same score on both days
  15. Kind of a swipey swing. I can see why you have a two way miss. Open face that when you end up rotating it to square or a little extra you get the left shot and when you don’t you get the ball that starts right and most of the time doesn’t come back left. Looks like you end up with a lot of shots though on the face and towards the toe. That will keep the spin down and when it gets to high on the toe the sub 2k spin. Theres really not going to be any shaft or head that does anything magical here and it would come down to what feel you like. The two way miss and the the push/push fade wine hard to stop with the long swing and how the pressure is shifting in your swing
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