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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

It’s not outdated and it doesn’t need to be changed.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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Again where the flag became that chagrns my club selection. 150 to a back pin is a different shot and different club than 150 to a front pin. I don’t have stock yardages because I have a choked down 1/2” and 1/4” shots with all clubs. I have a flighted shot with normal grip on the club as well as with a shorter backswing. Normal conditions can vary by location. I can play a course that despite what the weather is like in the parking lot it will be windier on the certain holes. Or I can play a course that’s about 15 mins down the road and it has no wind on the same day. So normal conditions isn’t just some pain statement.

Where’s the pin? whats my lie? what’s the weather conditions? lots of factors that can go into the decision. Could be 5,6,7,8 iron

Did the pro who had them originally have them custom ordered? if not they still fall within most manufacturers tolerance for loft and lie. most manufactures only do their best to get to custom specs and for non custom specs they will try to get to stock specs but there’s no guarantee.

Pace of play has zero role here. The drop needs to follow the rules of golf. Also the number of officials here compared to a U.S. open is irrelevant. There are rules officials available to make the determination. It’s on Rory to make the decision or get a rules official, his playing partners can say it crossed here or there wit whatever but they don’t have to gone to an agreement on where it crossed, that’s on the player himself

Article is pretty spot on

The data is incomplete and without a swing also doesn’t allow me to see what’s actually going on. Seeing ball flight helps too. Dont know what your face to path looks like. What your fath is, what your face angle is. theres still a wide variance in some of the data which is probably more swing issue than club issue. all golfers including the pros have some sort of compensation in their swing, the better golfers are able to control those and make them more repeatable from swing to swing. all of us regular golfers will have a variance in our compensations and things like rest, energy levels and so on can have an effect on how we are moving and this how well we can repeat our compensations for where the club is. It’s why you will see people say they played better once they got warmed up, or why some will have worse back 9s because they got more tired and couldn’t repeat their compensations. The way we swing doesn’t change from swing to swing. Those who whip the club inside get flat will typically get steep and over the top. They will have their normal ball flight for that shot then there will be their miss or big miss. The misses and big miss come from not being able to repeat the things they do to hit their normal shot. Many thing it’s their swing itself changes but it’s their ability to repeat whatever it is they do to hit their normal shot. Some also look at ball flight and start to change things to fix it from shot to shot and do it because Rey don’t understand what happened. Someone who usually has an open face or a path the causes a slice lines up slightly different or they rotate the face closed and now hit a hook will thing it’s the swing and to avoid that shot so they adjust something then end up with a totally different ball flight

Higher handicap benefit more from a fittting than low handicaps and some people don’t want lessons and are happy with their game, having clubs that actually work for their swing regardless if they want to take lessons or not is better than not being fit. Lessons and fittings for have to be mutually exclusive. They really should go hand in hand for anyone who does have a goal to improve their swing Even if the monitor is juiced having your current driver and a baseline on the monitor will tell someone if there’s improvement and a moved monitor can happen at outdoor fittings as can the course conditions to show more rollout The torque isn’t what is causing wayward shots and with no standard in torque measurement it’s an almost irrelevant thing to talk about or look at. I’ve seen a 2.1 torque shaft waggle like a noodle in slow swing. There is a lot more than can be done with graphite shafts and they can be made to play stiffer than steel shafts. It’s junk for your swing but doesn’t make it a junk fitting for his

Know your customers and the area. Any of us not in Dubai aren’t going to be able to tell you the growing trends there. But based on the area I would guess flashy and high end will be where things are at. as mentioned above do local research and get a feel for things

The probably didnt have any info because as has been said it’s not the major issue with the shoe that you initially claimed and your is a rare occurrence

A good fitter is going to be able to deal with some of the inconsistency. Gatehr information about your typical ball flight, your typical miss, your big miss. Use that along with what the ball flight with the gamer and each setup. Use your input about feel, what your eye sees, etc to make adjustments. Your swing itself is consistent it’s the compensations you make each swing and how consistent you can keep them. This is where most amateurs misunderstand things. They thing it’s the swing and try to adjust the swing rather than understanding they didn’t make the same compensation. Kind of when you hear or read about one’s timing being off on a certain day.

I would spray your face with foot powder spray and see where you are making contact. It’s probably sporadic across the face. If you are still struggling with face control and path control which is looks like with the variation in the spin and height, I would consider a new instructor, or maybe look at how you are practicing. I haven’t and not going to go back and look at the most wanted thread so not sure where you fit but a good fitter is going to be able to find a setup that reduces the miss and keep or gain distance. I would suggest finding a reputable fitter. If you choose to go it alone and do testing then search diy driver tuneup and follow that. Changjng shafts may improve things or they may make it worse. Head and loft are easier and quicker way to try to fix launch and spin compared to shafts

That’s not practice. That’s what is commonly referred to as bearing balls. 45 balls should be somewhere between 60-90 mins

Cnosil already touched on the key points. Unless doing some kind of testing where lots of the variables match it’s an apples to oranges comparison. As cnosil pointed out there’s enough data to show the improvement in new drivers vs old ones

Well you kind of have to try over and over since the drop zone is on one of the forward teeing spots so there’s not dropping up near the green if playing by the rules of golf.

What makes you think they want spin down? the tour average is close to 2700 rpm in spin. Some of the Ping staff use the max head which is very high spin designed head. But if we look at the pros they are making contact around the sweet spot of the driver. As the ball goes up the face spin drops and launch goes up. If they keep the ball around 5mm towards the toe and 5mm above center they will the optimal spot on the driver. Keeping it around that is where most are. also tm heads lately have a lower spin design compared to other manufacturers. There are lots of titleist staff playing the ts2,tsi2 and tsr2 heads

The hot putter is usually the one who wins. It’s early in the season and Scottie isn’t leading most categories this year like he has. The difference between guys on the tour isn’t that much when you look at stats. But despite what some thing about the current game and lack of skill by players today Scottie, Morikawa, hovland and some others show that there is still skill needed other than just hitting driver. look at strokes gained stats like accuracy and thing like that from the fairway and rough and see how many names are leading some of the categories and how little success on tour. Scottie is a superstar and if he ever gets a handle on his putting he will go on runs like some of the greats have

Bit did you stay at a holiday inn last night

Depends on how sensitive you are to weight. 9g can be enough to cause issue or it can be meaningless. That’s just less than 2 quarters. the change is stiffness from the shafts could be an issue or it may not be. Again depends on how sensitive to change the person is. Using swing speed isn’t the best choice for looking to see how a weight change will go. I know guys who are on the slower side that swing a 60g shaft better and faster than a 50g shaft This is really the truth. To say what will happen is nearly impossible for anyone to say