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    How'd you play?

    in The Daily

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    42/44 today. I played a lot better then the score tee to just off the green. Struggled putting and chipping initially. Came together in the middle with a string of 6 pars then struggled to putt again. Few misreads and giving the greens to much credit.

    beautiful day that was pretty windy. Was very happy with my ability to lower ball flight when I needed to. Had some really pure irons today. Can’t wait to get out again.

     

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    Lacassem (GolfSpy_Shark) golf gains fitness app and golf fitness journey

    in Lessons, Drills, Mental Game, and Fitness Tips

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    7 hours ago, ParMan42 said:

    I'm curious if you have had any chiropractic work done. I'm on the fence about it and have read that it can improve your golf swing as well. I've never had any chiropractic work before but the back and hips are tight. I can only imagine that getting those loosened up would improve the power and accuracy of a swing. Let me know what you've experienced!

    I’ve done chiropractor work before and am off and on. It’s great IMO and helped a lot especially in the hips. I have a few local recommendations. I’m due to go back.

    Burger Talk

    in The 19th Hole

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    So I don’t usually get a burger when out to eat, always something else that I’m not going to make at home that I want.

    So my go to st home burger is seasoning 85/15 beef (gotta be sirloin) with salt, pepper garlic powder, paprika and last but not least Worcestershire sauce.

    on the grill cooked to medium only flipping once with American cheese. Last minute toss the bun on the top rack to toast.

    condiments are Mayo, ketchup, lettuce, red onion, tomato and a home made 🥑.

    you’re welcome.

    Lacassem (GolfSpy_Shark) golf gains fitness app and golf fitness journey

    in Lessons, Drills, Mental Game, and Fitness Tips

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    Another good session. 40 minutes today. I like the overall setup of the workouts in this week 1. Curious if they’ll change.

    Excersise to excersise is a little clunky and not every excercise has a video with it which is a little tough at time because I’ll have to read Exaxrky what to do, but not terrible.

    The excersises so far have been very leg and core bass which is great.

    round tomorrow hopefully not to sore!

    Lacassem (GolfSpy_Shark) golf gains fitness app and golf fitness journey

    in Lessons, Drills, Mental Game, and Fitness Tips

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    Started the sessions today.

    pretty standard fitness app. Enjoy the setup, pretty easy to navigate. 

    overall the workout was really good and exactly what I am looking for. Onky thing it didn’t have was a stretch at the end so I’ll be building that out for myself looks like, which is fine have some staples I really enjoy. 

    End of the workout had a pretty nice wrap up based on the weighting I used (you input the weight for kettlebells or other weights you use)

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    Lacassem (GolfSpy_Shark) golf gains fitness app and golf fitness journey

    in Lessons, Drills, Mental Game, and Fitness Tips

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    Hey all! Decided to start this thread after signing up for the Golf Gains fitness app today.

    Overall I’m a fairly fit person (best I can with jobs and kids of course). In my previous life I was definitely a gym person and when I was in the military worked out all the time. These days I prefer to use fitness apps because I am not great with planning out my workouts as I once was.

    in the past two years I’ve gone through two different guided workouts between Insanity (which I still really enjoy) and the Better Me app.

    i decided to go down the golf gains app, one because he’s all over my Instagram feed and have done a few of the stretches he has put out which I liked, and two because it’s a 14 day trial and only $14 a month if you pay for the year which is pretty good when it comes to fitness apps. I also want to focus on golf specific workouts since it’s something I really enjoy doing.

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    Very similar from what it looks like to Fit For Golf so I’m really pumped to get the program going tomorrow. Overall my goal is to lose a little weight (195 now wouldn’t mind being around 180) and just overall mobility for golf.

    There are 8 different programs and I’ll be starting with “minimal equipment workout” which is 23 weeks. 
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    Will be posting here over the time and tracking just how I feel overall and how my golf game is improving (or not improving). I am coming off a few months of Better Me which was overall really good with mobility and body weight excercise stuff so I’m hoping I’ll see improvement from this as we get deeper into the golf season.

    Haywood CB/MB Irons - 2024 Forum Review

    in Forum Testing Reviews

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    17 hours ago, frazzman80 said:

    Practice round #2 – just the Haywoods!!! Starke Park GC, Seguin, TX.

    I wanted to get a round in with soft conditions specifically to test the soles and see how they performed in soft conditions (because you never know when it’s going to rain again in drought-stricken South-Central Texas.)

    Background: My Callaways are "fat city" when it’s wet. I do not like playing in soft conditions because I tend to play terribly because every shot I hit is fat.

    I got in 12 holes after work and went with the driver, 3W, 2H, 4H and the Haywoods 4-PW with my 53 and 57. This will be my bag setup if the Haywoods stick. I played from the tips so I’d have longer irons into the greens. Wind was light 5-10 max so I’ll only note direction if it mattered.

    Hole 10 – Par 4 409 yards dogleg left with big pecans lining the fairway. Green is elevated and protected by a huge deep bunker short left. I started on 10 and without any real warmup ripped driver 246 dead center. I was 146.2 on the laser so pulled 7 iron. I topped it…hitting it low toe and missed the green long right. It never really got off the ground. But I 57ed up to the green and 2-putted.

    +1 with 0 GIR

    Hole 11 – Uphill par 5 536 yards with trees lining fairway, but open green with bunkers protecting short left and right. Hit a bad driver 203 total to the right of the trees in the deep rough. The Haywood 4I to the rescue. I actually hit it TOO good and I was thinking it would fade a bit given the bad lie and the L/R wind, but no. 199 total through the fairway straight as an arrow and into the left rough. I had 129.2 on the laser with a L/R/helping breeze to an elevated green, so I grabbed 9I. PURED it. It was so beautiful flying high and landing soft with a 1-hop-stop! 9 feet short directly on line with the pin.

    MOST IMPORTANTLY, I took a huge dollar bill-sized divot from the muddy rough with this shot. This is the kind of divot that means fat city with my Callaways, the kind of shot where the ball goes 30 yards short. Nope…the Haywood was pure despite the very not me kind of divot.

    BIRDIE BABY!

    E with 1 GIR

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    Hole 12 – 380 yard dogleg left par 4 with a water hazard right that is in play on the tee shot and 2nd shot. Elevated green with a huge deep bunker right of the flag. Ripped driver 246 dead center into the breeze. My laser read 129.6 to the uphill green with the pin the back left. I felt in between clubs with the 9I and PW as the breeze was off the right. I pulled 9I and hit is slightly thin and a little right, but not quite in the bunker. It landed on the green and just rolled almost to the back fringe on the right (so lucky as if it had gone 2-3 yards further it would have rolled down a huge embankment. 127 yards total and pin high right about 35’ right. I pulled the PW just to see how that would have been and hit a PURE strike that drew on the wind to the center of the green 117 yards (30’ short of the hole). The PW shot left another large, long divot in the FW (again, the kind of divot that means a fat shot with my Callaways) and again, there was zero influence on the shot.

    I played the 9-iron ball and 2-putted from near the fringe.

    E with 2 GIR.

    Hole 13 was designed by the devil. I HATE this hole. HATE IT! In my life, I bet I’ve played this hole 100 times and I can count on one had the number of pars I have, much less birdies. It’s 187 yards (I lasered 179.9 to the front right pin) downhill ALWAYS into the wind off the left. There’s water short and right and a GIANT tree that guards the whole left side of the green that you can’t really hit over due to the long irons you have to hit into the green, which SEVERELY slopes back left to front right. Balls hit on the front of the green roll off (sometimes nearly into the water). Balls hit on the right of the green roll off (definitely into the water unless you get lucky enough to roll into the short right bunker).

    So today, on devil hole, the Haywood 4I had its opportunity to thread the needle between tree and water and land high enough left to stay on the green with the into/L-R wind pushing it toward the water. I topped it. It went 110 yards, stopping short of the water hazard but in rough so thick you could only see the top of the ball. I used my 57 degree to hack it to the back left of the green, leaving myself a 35’ downhill breaking right and the opportunity to putt off the green and into the bunker/water a distinct possibility. I managed a 2 putt after running the 1st 5 feet by (after telling myself to hit the ball only 20 feet on the first putt).

    +1 with 2 GIR

    Hole 14 is a 551 yard par 5 with OB the entire length left and many giant pecans framing the fairway. I hit driver 240 but missed right and was blocked out from going for the green and had to get the ball over a smaller tree. 6I layup was perfect 163 yards out of some shaggy rough (over the tree and into the middle of the fairway). I had 172.8 on the laser to an elevated green with the pin in the back (so the giant front right bunker guarding the green wasn’t in play). I pulled 5I and struck it really well (again, large divot that would have likely been fat with my old clubs) but it drew just a bit too much on the R-L wind, landed just left of the green and down a large embankment. It wound up pin high but left, below the green about 15 yards. I used the PW to bump and run up the embankment to 12 and sank the par putt.

    +1 with 2 GIR

    Hole 15 is a 325 yard very tree-lined dogleg right with a giant deep bunker guarding the green. You are in jail in giant pecan-trees if you miss the fairway. I pulled the 4I and didn’t go after it, trying to get an accurate ball into the fairway. Success! A good strike and 173 yards later, I was dead center. I mean dead center. I had 137.5 to the uphill green with the pin tucked behind the giant bunker. I pulled 8I and PURED IT BEYOND PURE. The height was amazing and it cut through what breeze there was, disappearing behind the face of the bunker. I knew it was close. 5’ from the pin just a bit right. BIRDIE BABY!

    E with 3 GIR

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    Hole 16 is another tough par 3 with a large bunker guarding all but the front left front of the green. Of course the pin was fully tucked behind it. From the blue tees it was 186.4 to the pin and I didn’t want to hit 4I again so I moved up to the whites and the 172.8 yard distance. I pulled 5I. And it was perfect on line, but I didn’t quite catch it perfectly and it went 165 yards into the bunker. I re-teed and played the more conservative line to the very skinny (but bunkerless) front left and the PURE strike landed on the green and rolled over and down (did I mention it was skinny? This shot went 177 yards). Sand wedge and putters and a bogey followed.

    +1 with 3 GIR

    Hole 17 is a 392-yard dogleg right par 4 with a ton of trees right and a front right bunker guarding the green. I smoked my driver 280 down the left side, leaving me 119.5 to the slightly elevated pin. I pulled PW and left another huge dollar sized divot, but once again it was a pure strike (maybe a tad thin as it came out a little low) and 120 yards later I was pin high 12’ right of the flag. I 2 putted (little too much pace on the high side).

    +1 with 4 GIR

    Hole 18 is a beast of a driving hole. Water right and a ginormous pecan tree blocking the fairway on the slight dogleg right. Oh, and there’s also water left right in the landing area even though it was into the wind. I bailed out right (luckily past the hazard) 233 yards, but was dead behind the pecan trees. I had to hit 4 hybrid just to recover under the trees and hit to too well across the fairway and into the pecan trees left. So…on my jaunt across the fairway, I decided to drop 2 balls 145.7 yards and 146.8 yards out, pull out the 7I and just send them at the flag for fun (since I wasn’t going to get to hit an iron approach to this hole). I  hit the first just a bit thin and it landed on the right side of the green (the pin was back right) but just rolled over. The 2nd I hit PURE and it wound up in the center of the green I can’t count it GIR, but I really would have loved the 20’ putt.

    So when I got to the ball I was actually playing, I had 50 yards with overhanging trees and a terrible lie. Couldn’t go high, so I took the PW and hit a great low bump and run that landed on the front and unfortunately rolled just off the back. I used 57 to 1’ and tapped in for bogey.

    +2 with 4 GIR

    Hole 1 – 390 yard par 4 with gigantic 70-80’ pecan trees framing the hole. You have to hit the fairway to have a 2nd shot. I pulled my driver left and hit it 284 yards somehow missing the trees onto the 9th fairway. My options were to go under a tree and avoid the front left bunker somehow or go over multiple 80+ foot tall pecan trees. I don’t hit the ball high. I just don’t. But I wanted to see if the Haywoods went higher. I had 126.3 yards. I grabbed the PW and opened the face and swung. Dollar bill sized divot.

    I can’t believe I hit this shot. It flew so high. I mean it cleared the giant trees by a good 20-30 feet. Cleared them with such ease that it had to be short…it was too high right? NOPE. Landed on the front of the green and stuck. 20’ putt for birdie (just missed it).

    +2 with 5 GIR

    Hole 2 is a 167 yard uphill par 3 with a water hazard (that isn’t really in play) short left and a bunker right. It’s an inviting tee shot. I had 157.7 on the laser. I grabbed 6I. This was the absolute worst strike of the day. I hit it so far on the toe that I didn’t hit the grooves. Missed the grooves. The whole club turned in my hand.

    I can’t believe what happened with the actual ball flight. Water? NOPE…Bunker right…NOPE. It started at the right side of the green with a low-mid flight (maybe 30-40 feet off the ground) and drew toward the center of the green, landing on the front and rolling uphill to 17’ left/short of the pin. I only hit it 149 yards, but I had hit the middle of the green on a shot that I literally hit so badly off the toe that I DIDN’T HIT THE GROOVES and I still hit the green. Unreal forgiveness. I 2-putted.

    +2 with 6 GIR

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    See the dots there where the ball hit the face on the toe where there are no grooves…it was a really bad strike.

    Hole 9 (I was running out of daylight so I jumped ahead to the next closest hole). 340 yard dogleg left par 4 with trees left and an elevated green with a deep bunker right. I played 2 sets of balls off this hole. Set 1 was a 277 yard ripped driver and a 60 yard 53 degree wedge and a 2 putt. But those aren’t Haywood shots, so y’all don’t care.

    Set 2 was all Haywood. I took 4 iron off the deck (no tee on the tee box) and ripped it as hard as I could winding up with a 197 yard shot that just crept into the right rough (that’s the side of the fairway I was aiming for as it gives the best angle to the green, it just leaked a tad into the rough). I was 147.1 out so I pulled 7I. I left a HUGE divot, but PURED the 7 iron. Hitting it so well it carried over the front flag location and left a pitch mark on the fringe left and of course rolled down an embankment for 161 yards total. I used the Haywood PW to bump it up on the green to about 7’ and 1-putted for par.

    +2 with 7 GIR (6 with Haywoods) on 12 holes.

    I can’t believe I didn’t have a single fat shot playing in soft conditions. I really can’t believe it. The thinner soles worked to keep the club from digging in the soft conditions and despite the large divots, the result was the shots were pure and not fat.

    Also, 58.3% GIR is good for me (I average 9.8 or 52% GIR per Arccos). But the 19’ proximity to the hole on GIR is crazy good for me (I average 27’ proximity per Arccos). Full Arccos stats/images for the 12 holes below.

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    Love the data and hole by hole!

    How'd you play?

    in The Daily

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    5 hours ago, StrokerAce said:

    surprised you haven't played there in so long... seems like it's right in your backyard. 

    that's a course where you have to hit your spots; if not, you can be in real trouble...

    I used to play it ALLLLL the time. Would get off night shift and they always had early morning openings. Played almost 3x a week there after work. I have never loved the layout, especially now as I have played so many courses in the area so it is never my first choice. 

    The first par 5 (now hole 4) got on in 2 yesterday. 275 drive and then a nice 220 4 iron was 10' and 3 putted, wicked bonehead I am.

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    How'd you play?

    in The Daily

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    Need d a mental clearing 9 today. Not bad 42 at a course I have not played in years. Never got a good feel in the greens and both par 3s I double with really bad shots off the tee. All the other holes tee to green I played really well. Great drives really nice 2nd shots (including a 220 yard 4 iron on a par 5 about 10’ from the pin. Still 3 putted 🤦‍♂️

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