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Try cross handed with a face balanced putter. Spyder type, fang type, you choose, but find a face bal you like, spend a few hours practicing. Look at left Brian Harman, or the LPGA rookie winner last October Hae Ran Ryu. A fat grip helps. I place my front (left) hand almost totally below the right hand, index finger on the shaft. Mt right index finger and thumb barely touch the pad of my left palm. I think Billy Horschel does also. I see more pros, men & women, on TV like this.

Before the beard, he reminded me of Alley Oop, the old caveman comic strip. The beard hides his chin. I hate how good he is and the foot shuffle. Now that he can putt, I expect he will be rich enough in a few years to buy a Texas baseball, NFL, or NBA team. Or maybe PBR (Professional Bull riding, rodeo). Then, when he is in his 40s or 50s, governor of Texas. Nobody could beat him.

PW is the 45 deg Ping I 500, set., from 100 yards. (I am old). Then a Mizu, the S18, 52 x 9. From 80 yards in, my best club. Another Mizu, a T7, 60 x 6, from 25 yards in, but only if I have to go over stuff. My CHIPPER is where I am different. I don't use a wedge near the fringe unless I have to. I have a 60 year old Don Martin Up-n-In bronze chipper with 25 degree loft. The sooner you get the ball on the ground, the less chance of a bad result, so 25 deg is easier to control than 58 or 60 deg around the green. I give up a long shaft in my bag to make room for it. Sand is another oldie, an original Hogan Sure Out, 56 x 12. The sole is bigger than a 460 cc driver and heavier than a EV pickup truck. I am on my 2nd onet. It might not be the most accurate, but it gets me out almost every time with the type of sand at my local, Oceanside (CA) Muni. When the 52 deg Mizu wears down, I will try a fittiing for a 50 degree Indi Golf wedge, their home is 10 minutes away. I want to close the 20 yard gap between my 45 PW and 52 Mizu.

I have Cox cable and saw the weekend shows on regular CBS, delayed until the last 2 or 3 groups tee off.

Probably he loves his wife more than he loves golf.

Anybody here try or have Paradym Star on the UST ATTAS shaft? I am a moderate swing speed 69 yr old, so it is made for me, but $7 beans???? Holy. Cow. I use reg flex on my irons, but usually go to a A flex on the longer stick, 3w and 1w. I am just getting over toe surgery, can't give it a tryout for another few days yet, but I handled one yesterday and it felt "Just Right" on the 48 gram reg flex ultra light shaft. At such a low weight I can probably do the reg flex.

SUCCESS! The boot came off yesterday, April 8, the doctor said I can resume golf. Six weeks after surgery. It is still stiffer than normal, there is still mild pain with pressure on the front of the foot. But I started taking normal swings. I plan to hit 20 or 30 balls the first few days and work up to my normal range day of a medium bucket, and some time working on chipping and pitching. If I can figure out how, I will try to post the x-rays that show the plate, the 1 longitudinal screw about 1.25 inches long, front to rear, and 3 small vertical screws through the plate in each of the 2 bones being fused. And he took a small piece of bone from the heel, where the bone is a fast re-growing property, and put it in between the 2 toe bones, where the cartilage used to be. I am amazed, six weeks!

It's easier to predict the next earthquake than it is who might win this year. Way too many good golfers. And some of them are also good putters.

I think it is , in The Twilight Zone, Season 14 Episode Sub 70.

Yes. Too soon, usually 3 or 4 years before the nerves calm down enough to let you win.

I like it . Positive reinforcement. As long as there are not players waiting behind me.

Probably maraging steel which dates at least to the 1970s or as early as the 1950s and is still basic to all non Ti or non carbon-blend steel faces.. I think maraging was a big part of Barney Adams promotion.

Oooppps Yes, mt mistake, Chris. Well I found which forum category has shotscope. there are a lot of forums and u have to search each one separately I think. I broke doctors order today , put on a regular sneaker to move my car 1st time in 5 weeks. foot feels promising.

Here's the title it was March 20 2024 in Golf . com What’s more important: Greens in regulation or fairways hit? Data tells us BY: NICK DIMENGO MARCH 20, 2024

I did see something in a different online bip that greens in regulation is a more important stat than fairways hit. which makes sense. Either way, my surgery boot comes off Monday the 8th (April 2024) after 7 weeks and I can finally start hitting real balls instead of hitting the keyboard.

1st ? is Chuck, how you feeling? Hope still getting better. My foot is almost healed, the boot comes off Monday, and I think the doc will let me start putting some weight on the front of the foot in a regular shoe. Next, can you or someone link me to the shotscope user group in forum/ I can't search right, I get hundreds of wrong mentions or nothing.

Oh NO! You addd another topic to argue about!!! Slow swing!!!! AAaaaggghhh!!!. (Someone forgot to tell Hideki )

I wonder about some stats, such as scoring from the fairway versus missing the fairway. Officially, if you are 1 inch off, and you make par or birdie, it benefits scoring from the rough. But nobody tracks scoring where you consider the first cut of rough as if it was a fairway. I am sure that scoring from 1st cut is way better than scoring from the real wilds. So, the tally for scoring from the rough is improved. Which bolsters the idea that you can bomb away and not worry about accuracy. Driving accuracy is underrated? Or, am I just causing trouble for the hell of it? Anddddddd,, I don't know that good fitting, using club makers and technology, has to do with improving one aspect of the game more than another aspect, Dough or Show. Or has it? Is putting the one part of scoring stats that has not benefitted from the last 20 , 30, yrs of tech & fitting?

Good job on spelling curmudgeonliness right.

Thanks. So it is basic course management. At the risk of sounding like a wise ass though, did we really not know this before Elrdrick? "Drive for show, putt for dough" comes to mind. So does "Take your medicine and avoid a bigger number".

Someone edimitate me what Tiger Score card is. No clue. Me a trog low dite.

It's good to see them list the CPM numbers. I think, just a hunch, I hope, assume, hem and haw, and all that, that CPM numbers are measured the same by all people. But, who knows? If you clamp 1/4 inch shorter or longer on the butt end, ????

I will add 2 vignettes. Tom Landry, Dallas Cowboy head coach, never said to a player "don't do this, or don't miss". He always said "you are going to make the play or you are going to kick the field goal right through the middle". In a book I think by a caddie, he explained the difference between Tom Watson and Greg Norman. When he landed in a divot or an unlucky bad lie, Greg Norman would get mad, moan about his bad luck, ****** about it, etc. Tom Watson would jump at the opportunity. First, he knows everyone is going to get a few bad breaks. If you keep your head, it keeps you on track and it shows your opponent what he is up against, both skill wise, and mental grit. "Ah, this gives me a chance to take the bull by the horns and make a good play that the other guy can't."

Not golf specific, but in my opine a very good book about creating your own positive mental health: Psycho - Cybernetics, written in 1960 by Maxwell Maltz. I think it is still in print!

I'd like to hear from any using the 2 dot or 3 dot. I'm going to start shopping for a new shaft for a 2021 PXG 0211 driver. The blue Evenflo Riptide CB A flex 40 gram is too whippy. BTW I finally learned that the CB is Counter Balanced. It used to be a type of radio in trucks.