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I never said to compare distance, I asked you to compare accuracy day to day and week to week. I'm asking you to look at so called 'consistency.' Understanding what the best do, leaves us clues about what we can do and how we can go about doing it.

I'd encourage you to go look at the driving stats for your favorite PGA Tour player and see how many fairways they hit day to day and week to week. Fittings do not take away a performance bell curve, but to move it in a direction that is helpful. If a player used to average 6 fairways, they probably had days where they hit 0 and days they hit 12. If you move your stats with a new driver to 9, you will still have days when you hit 4 and days you hit 14. That would be a fantastic fitting! Now, if you moved your average up 3-4 fairways but hit it 30 yards shorter you would have experienced a bad fitting.

There is often less difference than what marketing tells us to believe.

Knowing you have the best option in your bag is a fantastic fitting. You are know certain you have what you need.

There is likely a shaft length that is best for you, stick to it and adjust the other variables accordingly. Length, IMO, is far more important than SW as a fitting perimeter.

There is a reason why quick fixes have never worked for long term solutions. There are people with athletic abilities who are on tour and nobody that I know of employs the tweak strategy. Success and failure leave clues. Long term plans are not just for overhauls. (I'm not really sure what a overhaul is but I'll go with it)

Where the student is in their game? I'm going to make an assumption which is always a bad idea! I'm guessing you mean depending on what a student need for their game. If true, the most frequent model for the professional player is a coaching team led by one of the coaches. Most of us aren't professional golfers, but I believe there is big divide between the pros and ams. Ams want infrequent, let me work on it types of relationships and pros want ongoing support holistically addressing the entire athlete. Frequently ams don't reach their goals and they remain in the searching phase and confuse it with the working phase. Searching is the habit of many seeking the path of least resistance that leads down hill to the encouraging masses of mediocrity. Don't mistake mediocrity as a judgement of any score or level of handicap. It simply means those who believe working is searching for an answer. The fastest path to one's goals is the harder uphill path that ultimately takes less time to travel.

You are correct that it is incumbent on the student to do the required work to avoid returning to old habits. It is also incumbent upon the teacher to fully explain and provide tools to avoid slipping back to old habits. I believe there are three types, maybe more, of instructors that exist. Instructor 1 strives to see immediate positive change in ball flight. this plan can be executed in a single lesson or lesson series of any length. Instructor two, helps you achieve an immediate positive change in ball flight and lays out a plan that will make it a permanent change. The length of engagement is likely three to six months. The third accomplishes the same as two, but also provides the reason why the change is necessary, how it fits into your overall improvement plan and your strategy to improve. This is likely a multi year relationship that covers much more than just the swing. I'll let everyone guess which is most beneficial for all parties involved. I also think that it is important to understand that once a swing change is accomplished, the drills/practice required to make the change will always be a part of the players training plan. You are correct that it is the students responsibility to do the work necessary to maintain skill and technique. I very recently listened to a great tour coach who spoke about the relationship in vary clear terms. For every check earned the caddie receives 8%, the coach 5% and the player 87%. (I understand that additional money goes out) This means that the responsibility for all success and failures matches the money being provided to the caddie and coach. The burden of success and failure are really on the player.

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Dry training is a under utilized tool to train golf movements. We make it exponentially harder and increase the training time required to change movement patterns when we hit golf balls. When the ball is present, your strongest instincts will win. Dry training reduces the instincts and speeds up the transfer time. The cliche that you don't train full swings with full swings is very true! So, you can do it the hard way or the easy way. The easy way is the path of least resistance and it leads downhill to mediocrity. The hard way is uphill and a harder journey that gets you to your goals more quickly. Easy choice to me.

Their Catalyst and Gears videos are often done in Scott's facility. I've been in that facility with one of my players. Incredibly simplistic but effective.

They are smart guys who have an online teaching platform. Why would they one, give it away for free, and two, give a general how to that may have negative implications on your swing?

I think there can be more good than bad with online lessons. However, that opinion is based on what a player wants out of the lesson. If it is purely swing related, you can definitely improve general structure and movement patterns. At some point, seeing ball flight and tuning the minutia of impact could be difficult. If you are looking for a holistic approach to improve you game, then I think online is a tremendous way to improve. Swing work, strategy, tactical knowledge, tactical decision-making, mindsets, personal development, statistics, & group accountability are all easily accomplished online.

You are certain that both clubs are now the same length?

I agree. If you have prepared a routine, have a targeting plan, and know your yardages, an encompassing routine including striking the ball can be accomplished in 60 seconds or less. Now, if everyone is working at the same time, when possible, you can have 2-4 balls flying inside of a total minute. If you think your 60 seconds has to be consecutive, you have lost your damn mind. Walking into the ball and striking is less than 13 seconds. This idea that we have to watch each other is insane and is a big part of the problem.

I agree. Your club is fine. The reason it drops slightly too under and you see your hands have to release the head to get to the ball is because your hands are too far back. I'm guess from face on you see a bit of a 'flip' to get to the ball versus your hand/grip being somewhere on your lead/left thigh at impact. Your sequence is the problem. Train your arms to go earlier or your body to go later. This is a simple problem that many players face, especially with the rotation craze that we are experiencing.

Determining what and how to practice is probably the biggest struggle for golfers of all levels. I think golfers spend more time searching for the answer than finding and sticking to a plan. This has a lot to do with the individual nature of the sport and and media who show 19,000 different ways. When that happens the golfing population believes they can go anyway and meet their goals. I believe this is the biggest problem with golf improvement. For example, a player could swing with what would be commonly accepted as a poor or non functional swing. This golfer, however, knows where his ball goes, knows it has reasonable precision, and they make decisions based on standards that accommodate their skills. Even wrong technique can get the job done when they know what to do, how to do it, when to do it, and stick to their system with great tenacity. Predictability creates certainty and confidence. This is the biggest learning curve for players who enter my program. I have written standards and procedures for everything we do. Once they meet the standards we can evaluate what they do best and adjust the standard to exploit their strengths and develop their weaknesses. Most golfers proudly defend their way. This is ego getting in the way of personal development and improvement. Standards, systems, & SOPs work! Evaluate and job that has life or death implications and you will find this system. Think how beneficial a program/system would be for golf. Please notice that I haven't mentioned anything about a swing. If you sill matches the standard for you current skills then no reason to change your swing/technique. If you don't, time to get to work. We know to much about the swing and how people learn to struggle the way we do with golf. Golfers romanticize the journey and feel like they are working toward some greater good. In my opinion - boring! Success and failure leave clues. Collect them, filter them, and create standards based on reality and not on hope. Hope is a horrible plan. I'm open to opinions and happy to share.

It affects ball position, ball/face with all clubs including the putter, and how you set the face up at address. Most, if not all, players start with the face closed. Our eyes seem to like straight lines as in connect the dots versus an actual straight line. Most players connect dots from the hosel to the toe of the club at the leading edge. Place your golf club against a flat wall or base board. More than likely you will see a gap. Now, make the leading edge square to the wall. Once you are done, pull the club away and it more than likely appear open. This is a real problem if you hit a push draw but set up with a closed face to the target line.

Not random at all! High performers in all arenas know that details matter. We would all be better if we better identified what was important and fixated on it. Most players are horribly random or focused on incorrect details.

You aren't wrong, but for many golfers, 76 would be a fantastic day!!! Not so much for a + handicap. That said, they would need a few approaches a bit closer to shoot par or better.

The carpet has the padding integrated. I do mean hit the paper plate. If you can't start it very close to the same spot every time the game will be quite difficult. As for the shredding of the plate - they are cheap. The carpet I'm using is very unforgiving without being painful. That said, I'm a reasonable golfer so anyone's experience could be different.

I really only mean that there is a good padding integrated into the carpet. This way you don't need a second component and the padding is thick enough so that hitting off cement in your garage doesn't hurt. I have had no discomfort hitting balls in my garage. (high quality was a poor choice of words). It would be in between Berber and 70's shag. I'd say the fibers are between 1/4" - 1/2" long. The carpet I'm using is a remnant from carpet replacement last year. I'd guess you could go to a carpet store and get a remnant for free or very cheap. I have hung netting from when I had my store. Bed sheets would work equally well. Nothing fancy except that I get to use my GCQuad and K-Vest.

I'd suggest a high quality carpet remnant if you want to get really good. Hit it a bit fat and you will know. It provides virtually no margin of error which is fantastic! Obviously a driver becomes difficult as there is no way to tee a ball but you can be creative. I have a good mat as well and I find myself pulling out the carpet much more frequently. Just to clear, I think fairways hit, GIRs and putts per regulation are not at all good indicators of performance. Probably the weakest stats available. As for swing - learn to hit a paper plate repeatedly and then make sure it curves the desired direction. If you can do that it won't get much better.

KPIs are really important. Skill always trumps technique. What are your KPIs to perform well on the golf course. I'd advise great caution in what you track and your expectations of each indicator. If you are following the general traditional concepts portrayed by most you are probably missing the true story about your game. That said, a slacking performance indicators would lead us to either concepts/strategy or swing numbers. This is how you identify and solve problems. Most of my players report the issues and are way off base. It takes a long time to get back on track when a player is chasing the wrong solution.

Just an FYI. While tape does tell you your impact position, it really throws off numbers like spin and launch. You have changed the friction of the face and it makes a big difference. I'd suggest foot spray.