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You do know it was vertigo that derailed Duval and not him checking out. Also didn’t help that he started chasing distance because of a tiger.

Yep. Its why when people post and show their club soled flat or post talking about they don’t like seeing the toe in the air at address I already know they hate going to have issues with contact

No I’m talking about shaft droop. It’s the bending of the shaft near impact. It’s a reason why determining lie angle is done dynamically and not just based of wrist to floor. Each shaft bends differently

You can’t return it because of droop. as you mention the pros return the handle higehr than address so why would anyone try to return the shaft at the same angle if the best in the world aren’t. The golfer isn’t in the same position at impact that they were at address. They are further into their lead side and the lead side is raising thru impact. Handle goes up and club face goes down.

Roll out on fades and draws are not always equal. It’s why fades are preferred off driver by the pros. They are more predicable in their end result. A draw can easily run out a lot more than expected due to spin. Balls can only spin a single axis. Side spin and backspin are just spin. What if I told you my fades and draws have very similar spin numbers? There are no absolutes in golf. What if I told you this people hit a draw and a fade with and ascending blow on driver and they both shots can be hit with an inside to out swing?

In almost every amateur swing including some very low hdcps including some + it’s missing to some degree. Theres a poster on wrx that basically just lifts his hands and has no rotation or pressure shift in his swing but makes it work to a 3 handicap. So it’s not impossible to play good golf without it but it makes it harder and more inconsistent

Again with the sinister term. He’s not sinister. I don’t think anyone is painting him to be a boy scout nor does what you posted indicate he’s some bad boy. Going to a bar with coaches and managers isn’t some sinister move nor is it some rebellious thing either. I don’t think he’s a killer like Tiger. Nobody was on that level. Scottie is just focused on his game and doing what he needs to do on the course to give himself success. He happens to be good at ball striking and short game and doest get himself into too much trouble.

Still required to add an event. 2b of the players handbook. even if he did the lead he has on the rest of the golfers in the top 5 would take most than the 2024 season to catch him. he makes the cut in 84% of the events he plays. He finishes inside the top 10 roughy 50% of the cuts he makes. That consistency it hard to make up points on by guys who aren’t making the same amount of cuts and having the same amount of top 10s. Rahm is slightly better in those stats. Rahm has 2 more wins on tour than Scottie and Scottie has 2 less years on tour. Smith has only made 71% of cuts and only finishes top 10 28% of the made cuts. the numbers don’t lie and data>feelings

The point?

Scotty has been number 1 ranked player for somewhere close to 50 weeks so he was dealing with Rahm and some of the weaker field guys like Niemann. Scottie’s game is far and above everyone’s. His strokes gained rankings in tee to green and approach show that. Strokes gains approach is the #1 strokes gained stat. Of the guys on liv the only ones with a chance to challenge Scottie if they were around would be Rahm, Bryson if healthy and Koepka if he cared about anything but the majors. Nobody else on that tour is top 10 level. All 3 of these have perform well while the other 3 were around. Mcilroy despite his struggles has been top 5. Assume what you are saying here is that about the top level pga tour members not playing in some of the smaller events and only focusing on the bigger events that the smaller events won’t get as many owgr points. Thats always been the case. Top 50 golfers and especially top 25 typically don’t play the smaller events which is why the tour put in the policy that if someone don’t add an event to their schedule they have to play 25 times a year. The top players set their schedule so they have enough rest and don’t play more than a few weeks in a row and have some on course time around the majors. Its why some will skip the pga tour the week before the open and play overseas the week before.

Many have the hit instinct. Then there are moves that we consider to be powerful but in the golf swing they aren’t. Having proper sequence along with a good rhythm will help with the not trying to kill it mentality. Many talk tempo but we all have different tempos. Watch different tour players and their tempos are different but the rhythm of their swings are all pretty close

#2 is spot on. #4 and #5 are When i see comments about willing to sacrifice distance for fairways I just cringe. Or the playing to a number whether off the tee or on a second shot on a par 5. Outdated ways of playing golf. Not to mention how many times people have ended up hitting a bad shot while trying to play safe off the tee and just made things worse

Anything higher lofted than 50° doesn’t get a full swing. I don’t have a go to wedge, I use what the shot calls for, whether it’s distance, pin location, lie or even green conditions. i keep most shots pretty basic. height is controlled by speed especially on chips and shorter pitches. Ball position usually stays the same. More speed keeps the ball lower, trajectory comes up as speed goes down which also requires a change in length of swing

Monte is also a world long drive champion, a former tour pro with time on what is now the kft, an instructor that the likes of Chris como invite to present with him at the pga show, companies like hack motion invite to do seminars. Using the ground properly is how one gain speed. It’s why guys smaller guys on tour have the ability ti hit it 300 yards. he doesn’t knock speed training, he says it has its time and place, it it’s not for those who have inefficient swings. And as mentioned one of the members here was told by his coach to stop speed training because it was causing regression in his swing work. That member had reported speed gains

I do and I also have experience as a personal trainer and have spent the last 4 years learning about the golf swing and how to teach. I have two people I’ve worked with in person on their swing. One already had a good swing and shoots in the low-mid 70s. He wanted to improve his driving so we spent some time making small adjustments to setup and takeaway. The other was the typical high handicap who also never played any racquet or stick sports. He went from never breaking 100 to breaking 90 regularly and a few rounds in the 80s on tough courses.

Most people have an inefficient swing. When you put speed training on top of that it makes the bad swing worse. Does the person get faster, sure just like weight training, even with some bad technique one can get stronger, but it doesn’t improve their technique and it can create more inefficiency in the movement. With the golf swing despite the added speed it doesn’t translate to the course because you have to react to the where the club it at and the brain is going to get the body to slow down to let the necessary parts catch up and you end up with no speed gains on the course. now take that same inefficient swing and work on improving pressure shifts, rotation and using the ground and one will easily pick up 5-10mph. Instructors get students extra speed just by improving their swing. I’ve read Monte talk about students he has going from 80mph swings with driver to 100 or more, 90 mph guys reaching over 100. Adding speed to a bad swing is a recipe to have bigger misses or no change at all for on course play

What evidence or medical training, coaching or other experience of any kind do you have to indicate anything he is doing in his swing will cause an injury?

Because the hippies and anti dress code crowd will be after you. i agree with you. The piece wasn’t great and missed the point of what the issues was. But it’s not the only opinion piece on the main page that has issues, but I digress. I like what Augusta does along with Wimbledon.

Again people aren’t watching tv like they used to and streaming services are very popular especially since one can be out and about and still watch. ESPN+ had over 3 million viewers for rounds 1 and 2. Who knows how many were on the masters app or another streaming service. Talking about viewership numbers on tv without looking at what they are measuring which isn’t the viewership numbers where there are multiple proper watching at home, at an establishment that has TVs. It was on at the gym i go to.

Let’s talk the 260 number. That is 10 yards past what is used to define a scratch golfer. Yes we know lack of distance can be overcome and strokes gained tells us on a shorter course the shorter hitter has the advantage. We also know that those who excel in their approach game and around the green despite being shorter play better and that distance isn’t everything. If it was then cam champ and 5-10 other golfers would be where shorter hitters like Scheffler , Morikawa, Harmon and hovland are. Major winners and/or ranked high in owgr. The amateur who can’t hit it as far has to work even harder to make up for being short. Not only on approach shots (most important strokes gained stat) and around the green (also pretty high ranking strokes gained stat) There’s no guarantee in anything golf related that makes scoring easier. If so then the cam champs of the world wouldn’t be ranked 278th in the world. Strokes gained says closer regardless of rough or fairway is better than further back in the rough. It tells us closer to the hole means better proximity to the hole which leads to increased make percentage on putts. distance makes the game easier

Not surprised. The sequence of the movements of the swing don’t change much from an iron to a driver. The plane changes due to length of club and distance from the ball. Things like aoa will take care of themselves with a good swing

Listening to others feedback on a club or shaft should be the last thing anyone does. How something performs for someone has almost no application to how it performs for someone else because we all have different swings even if someone’s swing speed or handicap is the same, play we all have our own preferences for sounds, looks and feel. As to your skytrak findings. Did you test the stealth 2 on it? If not then it’s hard to say what’s different between the fittings on a high level monitor vs skytrak For some a shaft may not work as good in another head because of feel, weight, balance and so on. How the shaft is designed and the design of the TD head can impact your delivery of the club which will change contact point on the face, dynamic loft, face angle, face to path and swing path. All these will affect launch, spin, peak height, descent angle, could be negative, positive or no affect. There are no bad clubs on the market, only bad fits for the golfer. Again basing purchases off other people’s experiences with golf clubs where feel has a big role in how a club is swung is a bad thing. Personal experience is the only thing that matters. Did you do your fitting indoors or outdoors? I would see what the performance is outdoors before deciding anything. General advice would be to trust what your preferences are and if the results are worth it to upgrade quad is far better than skytrak

Speed training can be a detriment to those with bad swings and those who fix their swing will gain speed through that alone. Speed training with a bad swing ends up causing more problems than it helps because it creates bad movement patterns on top of already bad movement patterns. Good to great coaches have touched on this and one of the members here was told by their coach to stop speed training because his swing regressed

Distance can be a huge limiting factor. Just look at strokes gained stats. Also disagree with the playing every day or practicing. I got to sub 10 with playing at most 3 rounds a month and 2-3 hours practice a week while also playing baseball 2 times a week. As mentioned in the articles, having clubs that match the swing, minimizing the mistakes (better course management along with better swing) and working on short game. two friends I played with are self taught, never played a sport that required a bat or racket and got to sub 10. The shorter one hits it or the worse their shots are off the tee puts more pressure on the short game. The 4th guy in our group hit a banana ball off the the struggled to hit the green on most par 4s and all par 5s were 3 shot holes on courses that were 6000-6300 yards. He had to work hard at short game to make up for that in order to say between an 8–12 handicap. He would be on the higher end of the range when he struggled around the green

Scottie proved that you can win when you don’t putt great but he also proved that it can be a weakness and cost you wins. when you dominate the important strokes gained categories you can win when not so great at the lesser ones like strokes gained putting. It was as much the switch to the mallet as it was the putting coach that turned his strokes gained putting stats around. He’s gained around 2.3 strokes since the switch