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i’m sure the mindset is helpful, but that’s not actually true:

nice find.

so that video explains one of the main parts of decade condensed into a few minutes. it’s the part of decade that helps you pick targets. i’ve been doing this for a while now, and it definitely works. the downside is that you are often left with a lengthy chip or pitch. so, if I can start nailing rule of 12 combined with decade aiming and putting, that’s a recipe for success. side note: while attempting to get good at the varying swing lengths(currently comfortable with 7, i can do 4 in the bottom but so far only 3 above the hip) i’ve also been working on generating power with my feet. so, i bring the shaft to knee level and just let it drop to chip, and then alternately i bring the shaft back to knee level, then i pivot and use my core to pull the club through and strike the ball as hard as I can. That move has generated some of the best ball striking i’ve ever done, and though i’m not quite to my normal yardage numbers, i’m close, and this is with a half swing. unfortunately this makes it ideal if you have shoes that fit well, which is always a struggle for me, but other than that i’m definitely in “game improvement” mode right now, and it feels great.

do you even boa bruh? the previous versions didn’t work for me, mainly because I couldn’t easily get my feet in and out of my correct size. I’m tempted to order a pair of these to see if they changed that. I love boa in my snowboard boots, but so far I haven’t found a pair between adidas and footjoy which work well for me for golf.

so i’m 6’0”, with 24 full pace’s between the club(where i was standing while hitting) and the hole. did some 9 iron chipping practice today. took a photo of my last group, but that was the first group i hit from that spot. all of those balls are within the good to great radius i would have chipping the same spot with my 58. so, something of a revelation, though still lot of work to do obviously. @RoverRick seems to be on to something here.

I hit a 25 ft downhill right sweeping putt that broke at least 15 feet for a par on the par 5 first hole after duffing my drive since the range was closed this morning and I couldn’t hit my 20 practice balls. the rest of the 4some were bickering about something as I made the strike, and it looked good the whole way. the length of the putt, and how severe the slope of the green at the cup, it just didn’t seem like it was possible, and for the last 10 feet everyone went silent and watched that yellow prov1 glide into the dead center of the cup. then a couple of the guys started yelling in disbelief. it was an amazing way to start a round. what a confidence booster and finally some validation for all the work i’ve been putting in with my putter. i then kissed a 45 footer off the flag on the third hole that did not go down. i’ve had terrible luck with flagstick’s this year.

@RoverRick Thanks for so much good information, so well communicated. What a great couple of posts. I definitely have a lot of work to do. >You say excellent pitching with the 58°, but define excellent. Is that hitting it in one-putt range? Not usually. From 50 yards and in I’m usually in comfortable two putt territory, 10-25 feet. However, I’m confident with it and usually don’t make bad mistakes. Besides driving, it’s the part of my game I’ve gotten the most compliments on. Maybe ‘excellent’ was the wrong word, but it’s definitely one of the best parts of my game. >Instead of using the clock, use your trail side: mid shin, knee, mid thigh, pocket, waist, ribs, shoulder, ear. That’s 8 different back swing lengths. Accelerate the same with all of them. Write it down on a score card or something. Practice this with one club. Then add another club. You can do this with all your wedges. Actually all your clubs. Wow. I’m not sure I have the awareness for all 8 zones. At this point I have 2 yardages per club, my comfortable shot and a punch shot. However, if I want to get serious, I can see that this would get me to single digits at least. >The important thing is you have a system that you practice. You have it written down. Definitely. I couldn’t keep it straight otherwise. >This takes discipline because everyone else wants to pound the driver. That’s me, and it’s my best club. I’ve have 2 distances I can hit consistently without much stress, and I can hit it straight or fade it without much issue. Dogleg lefts give me problems. >PCP is “Putt when you can, Chip when you can’t, Pitch when you must.” I’ve known this, but I haven’t been doing it. I need to start. Especially since my DF is such a good 'Texas wedge' type club.

can’t help you there unfortunately. i have a lot of items with sentimental attachment so we just self move with penske, who i do recommend.

he didn’t have any info because that’s not his job. his job was to direct me to the warranty form on the website, which he did admirably, unlike the designers of this shoe who designed it to fail. I’m not ascribing intentionality to the people at footjoy who put this defective design out into the public, but I am calling them on their BS, which @RickyBobby_PR keeps inviting me do over and over and over again. Keep living your best life man. I definitely appreciate you.

check out that video at the 4:33 mark. for me, adjusting the position of my eyes to get the coins to line up was an absolute game changer as far as aiming. I have to line up with my eyes passed the ball to make that work, and now I don’t even think about aiming, since I can actually see the line correctly while in a putting stance. also, i did some research and found that many right eye dominant golfers can aim a dot better than a line, so I got a dot on my df2.1, and i’ve never looked back. as to whether you should pull the trigger on the df3… no equipment recommendation is going to be fool proof, but this is as close as it gets. for me, traditional putters are like the brakes on classic cars, and lab putters are like antilock brakes. there are certainly classic car aficionados out there, and more power to them, but i’m more comfortable driving my family around in a vehicle with antilock breaks, because they work better every time.

the rep I talked to didn’t have any information on the problem, but they did get me a warranty replacement that arrived within a week of my warranty claim so I have to commend them for that.

thanks for this response. your point about liquid? plastic being slightly cooler when rejoining on the other side of the pin, and that being responsible for a point of weakness makes sense. given that, i am even more mystified as to why they wouldn’t have used a more robust material for the eyelet, especially as eyelets are traditionally metal in the first place. i’m not a materials engineer so i have no idea what difficulties they may or may not have been dealing with when choosing the eyelet piece, but given my experience the combination of materials and type of laces to ship with those shoes seems to have been a poor choice. for the warranty replacement i got a pair of $4 waxed white hard boot laces that don’t bunch up to a point under pressure like the ones that come with the shoes, and i’ve been been using as little force as possible while lacing up, and so far so good. the shoes are very comfortable otherwise so it’s unfortunate I can’t recommend them overall. thanks for dusting off your expertise. i definitely learned something today.

thanks for breaking down your thought process and strategy. I’ve been plateaued for a while now where most of my scorecard is pretty even between par and bogey with 3 or 4 blowup holes a round, which are usually the result of a bad mistake in the short game. so, i’m gonna give this a shot. i’m excellent at pitching with my 58°, but my chipping could definitely be better. to break my plateau I need to minimize mistakes around the green, and hit more greens with my 9 and wedges, and I can see this strategy helping me towards that. thanks again.

i could have stated it more clearly, so let me take another shot: the ripped eyelet is the top eyelet on that side of that shoe. There are 4 such eyelets that have all started to wear through, and they are that same top eyelet of that main structural support on both shoes. so, 1-right shoe right side, top eyelet 2-right shoe left side, top eyelet 3-left shoe right side, top eyelet 4-left shoe left side, top eyelet. all of those eyelets were compromised after 13 rounds, and none of the bottom eyelets of the main structural plastic piece had an issue. so we both agree that the eyelet that’s not ripped through on the photos is still fine. I wouldn’t have a problem with it if the design hadn’t failed on me in such a spectacular fashion. It’s possible that the designers didn’t mean that grey circle to look like a traditional metal eyelet, but that is what I as the customer thought until the shoe failed, and that’s why I was so shocked at what happened. So, i definitely felt deceived. I totally get what you’re saying. In my opinion, in this case, it’s a case of footjoy having a short sighted, defective design that ruined my ability to enjoy a pair of shoes that worked really well for me before the failure. To fix the problem their engineers left me, i bought a pair of white waxed boot laces that fill the hole better that don’t deform much under stress, with the idea being that more of the lace would out pressure on more of the plastic/rubber eyelet and hopefully lengthen the life of the shoes. so far it’s worked really well. the new laces make it easier for me to get a good fit, and after a few more rounds, i’m not seeing any issues. which is what i want. i like these shoes and want them to work out. I also got a pair of these for backup.I’ve only worn them in the house but they molded to me feet pretty quickly, and i’m a lot more confident in the build quality of these up against the hyperflex. Also, thanks for the thoughtful response, even if you largely disagree with me.

i’m curious if we have any members who are all in on the “rule of 12” as articulated here: https://www.coastalbreezenews.com/columnists/let_s_talk_golf/the-rule-of-12/article_2e65fbac-ab20-11ec-b1e4-dbefc3adccd3.html my question for someone who uses this short game strategy would be are there specific situations, such as if the ball is in a bunker(edit: if there is a bunker between your ball and your target) or if water is in between your ball and your target, where you feel it’s not appropriate to do “rule of 12”, and also when should you absolutely be using that strategy. i am currently most comfortable with my 58 degree and hybrid around the greens, but i’m thinking of branching out into other clubs when other options may be appropriate. Thanks for any discussion.