toehold57

Well, first big problem cropped up today.
Mid-round, on 13 or 14, the display stopped updating.  It showed 5xx yards to go even as I was on my second and third shots.  But it was registering which club I was swinging.  After a couple of holes it never changed so I powered it off.
Powered back on, now the display shows 999 in place of any other number.  I’ve turned it off and on several times, still see the triple nine’s.
I’ve opened a case with SS, fingers crossed there is a way to reset the watch.

Well, first big problem cropped up today.
Mid-round, on 13 or 14, the display stopped updating.  It showed 5xx yards to go even as I was on my second and third shots.  But it was registering which club I was swinging.  After a couple of holes it never changed so I powered it off.
Powered back on, now the display shows 999 in place of any other number.  I’ve turned it off and on several times, still see the triple nine’s.
I’ve opened a case with SS, fingers crossed there is a way to reset the watch.

We now have strokes gained metrics and we can compare ourselves against different handicaps.  If I compare myself to a 10 hcp and see that I’m X strokes plus/minus from that average, can I roughly assume I’m X strokes away in handicap as well?
I don’t carry a handicap and probably never will.  Plus I’m too lazy to calculate it myself.  I’m guessing if SS says I’m 1.5 away from a 10 hcp in SG that I am also 1.5 away in handicap as well.  Roughly.
Good assumption?
 
p.s. - it takes me twice as many words to ask a question as the average person.  That’s my handicap!! 🤣

P-average here as well.  Seems to match up to numbers I can count on in a good situation.  Rough?  Uphill downhill?  Wind?  Those are variables that will play in the club selection just like in the world without the p-average numbers.
That said, are the numbers perfect?  Not with me swinging the club!  But I greatly appreciate having a better baseline than what I had before.

I’m on my second season with a V3.  No real complaints but having it be a tad bit smaller would be good.  Maybe start computing handicaps, would be easy for them to add. 
 
I’m going to have to cut my sensor down as well.

One quick Kirke swing for today:
And my two favorite current comps for his swing:

His backswing is more "swaying" and less tightly coiled than Bubba's, but I suspect some of that will come with added strength.

I've mentioned somewhere along the way that I have SS and wife has ARRCOS. Her subscription is up this month and I bought her SS V3. She has also been using Golf Buddy for distances and I have more negative comments to say about that device than any other technology on the golf course - sometimes she has to reboot it 2 - 3 times before it acquires the course.  So she was looking at the watch as a substitute for the Golf Buddy and additionally she doesn't like the subscription model. There were other issues for the switch besides the subscription, like having to wear the phone (the Link was always an issue even after being replaced) and missed shots, etc. 
Both of us use shot tracking primarily and found only minor editing required. We use the putter sensor and so far it's worked well. While stokes gained is available, we're not at a point where we are using it - that's not to say we won't in the future. Seems to me both SS and ARRCOS are effective tools, just depends on how much you want to spend and what you're comfortable with  - SS on your wrist or phone in your pocket etc. 

Thanks for the update Tom, looks interesting  👏

Couple of updates:
First, Kirke has regained his ability to hit golf balls. So that's good.
As evidence of this, yesterday Kirke and I played as a team in a two-man par 3 scramble at our course. The holes were all set up within the normal course. The longest hole was about 130 yards. There were two really short holes, at 30 and 40 yards or so. The 30 yard shot was particularly insidious: the shot was blind over a hill, and the pin was tucked just barely past the hill.
Kirke and I had a blast playing together. We started with just the two of us. After parring the first, I hit a LW to the second green and Kirke poured in our first birdie from just over 12 feet. For the most part, Kirke putts second when we scramble. When he sees the line, he's a really amazing putter.
We parred the next five holes, some because we just didn't hit our tee shots close enough, and a couple of times because we needed to scramble for our par. Here's Kirke's tee shot on 3 that was right on line but just barely caught the front of the green:
When we got to 8, there was a sixsome on the green and a foursome waiting to tee off. Ugh. So we joined with the second foursome. Kirke loves to play in front of an audience, and hit a nifty 60 yard shot to about five feet. I made the birdie putt.
After a testy par (and our longest par putt) on 9 (another tough position for a 50 yard shot), we passed the first sixsome at the turn when they stopped for drinks. We parred 10, and then things got fun.
The 11th was a 115 yard setup, with the tees under a tree branch. It required the adults to hit a punch-and-run, but it's Kirke's stock hybrid shot 🙂. So he hit a perfect hybrid that scared the hole and finished inside 3 feet. Another birdie, and we're 3 under.
We also birdied 12 and 13. On both holes, Kirke hit good shots, but I got inside his ball and we rolled in the putts. Ordinary par on 14. Hole 15 was that blind 30 yarder I mentioned. Kirke hit his on the green but miles from the hole. I tried a spectacularly unsuccessful flop shot that was just chunked. But I cozied the long putt to about six inches, so we escaped with another par.
I birdied 16 to get us to -6, and then we finished with a couple of scrambling pars on 17 (135 yards) and 18 (120 yards). We had a blast!
Today, I heard from the course manager that our score (with tiebreaks) won the par 3 contest! So that was cool. We entered just because it was going to be fun. Winning the whole thing with my son is icing on the cake.
Second Update: DCP at Medinah
The Regional round of DCP is now just a week and a half away. We'll roll out early next Friday morning. We got an email from DCP that Medinah will be open for practice on Friday night, so we're certainly planning to take advantage of that. Also, the tee times have been posted here: https://www.drivechipandputt.com/2022/regional-qualifier/medinah-country-club
I believe that page updates in pretty close to real time once each player turns in his score. So if you want to follow along, you should be able to see the results there. As I mentioned before, there are 14 boys in Kirke's age division. Only the winner advances to Augusta. At this stage, every one of these boys is skilled and could advance; the winner (as cliché as it is) is just going to be the one who hits the best nine shots that day.
We're definitely going to take in and enjoy the experience as much as possible. Hoping to play 18 on Friday when we arrive in Chicago, then head to Medinah for practice. Kirke's on the tee at 1:00pm Saturday; by 2:00 we'll know the results, and we'll all load back up in the minivan headed north to be back for Sunday services.

Trust me I am doing everything I can to be around for another 60+ years, that would put me at 100+, my oldest aunt on my mom's side just turn 72, so I want to go for longer than that, and I know how much I missed not having him around to see each milestone that I have accomplished.

You get what you get with families.  Make sure you are doing all you can in order not to follow in those footsteps!  It’s a good thing to have father’s around.

You get what you get with families.  Make sure you are doing all you can in order not to follow in those footsteps!  It’s a good thing to have father’s around.

You get what you get with families.  Make sure you are doing all you can in order not to follow in those footsteps!  It’s a good thing to have father’s around.

It has been 36 years since my dad passed of a hearth attack, I was only 4 when it happened, I do remember some things from that day.
Dad came home for lunch, back on the 80s, things were slow enough that this was a thing, he ate, played with my brother and I for a little bit, than went to take a power nap before going back to work, the next thing I can remember is my mom screaming for help as my dad was not waking up, she told me to go get the neighbors, we lived on the country back than and did not have a telephone at our house back then, the neighbors were a doctor and his wife a nurse, I remember riding my tiny red bike the half a mile to their house, as fast as I could, she did call an ambulance and came over to help.
By the time the ambulance arrived and they were trying to take my dad to the hospital, my dad passed, they said the the heart attack was so massive that the odds of him surviving were very low, his side of the family have always had issues with heart disease, only 1 uncle and aunt from my dad's side of the family, 12 siblings, still alive, the other 10 including my dad passed of heart attacks, before their 40th birthdays. my dad was in his early 30s.
I don't remember crying back then, but every so often I remember that I am older now that he was back then and that I have seen my son grow up, and despite getting sad, I am very grateful to the few years and memories I still have of my dad.

I put all relevant data from both tests in Google Sheets for us data nerds to look at! 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/140qKBwQVN5beOitybapQYea6aRuERtGX7GYTrvBKoJY/edit?usp=sharing
EDIT: I should note that data is currently limited to 115 MPH swing speed. 

It would be really, really nice to be able to download csv files.  Tableau is nice but a real spreadsheet on a big monitor is better 👍
 

I can’t remember how to do it but I think(!) there is a way to put the watch in ‘pause’ mode, it will ignore swing until you enable it again.  I didn’t pay much attention to it, I’d forget to turn it back on 🙄

There is, push and hold the top left button until the pause screen appears, then press the top right button next to the check mark. To unpause is the same thing.

I can’t remember how to do it but I think(!) there is a way to put the watch in ‘pause’ mode, it will ignore swing until you enable it again.  I didn’t pay much attention to it, I’d forget to turn it back on 🙄

I can’t remember how to do it but I think(!) there is a way to put the watch in ‘pause’ mode, it will ignore swing until you enable it again.  I didn’t pay much attention to it, I’d forget to turn it back on 🙄

So... between tony@CIC & toehold57 posts alone, my understanding and low-maintenance use of Shot Scope has improved considerably. Now, post round clean-up is pretty minimal and the extraneous shots nearly eliminated.   I'm still working on a process of being able to keep loose by swinging a club well off the ball (like when someone else is setting up to hit) without recording a shot, short of pausing. Maybe I'll start carrying an iron without a tag installed for that purpose. Now I want to understand the reporting process to help Shot Scope correct location errors. I'll go through these posts & the Support files to see what they have to say about it.
Thanks again!

I know that feeling. Had a fight with my father when I was 17 before I went to a friend's house to study. Next I knew my mother was calling that he had been taken in an ambulance for a heart attack. Couldn't bring myself to see him with all the equipment hooked up at the time. Some days I miss him being around, other days I experience bitterness for everything he did before then. 

This is a biggie.
My dad died when I was 18 of a heart attack, there one day and gone that evening.  Oh to see him just for 5 minutes and be able to say thanks and that I love him.
46 years later and it still brings a tear to my eye.
 I hate that you have to lose her but I’m thankful that you’ll see her.

I don't care who you are, that Field of Dreams game last night and the ramp-up to it was damn cool. 
I'm not afraid to admit, I still sob like a baby at the end of that flick, and 30 years later it still has that effect on me.