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Been going at it for 2 hours the morning with laundry and cleaning. Paid some bills and did prepped for the day. Grabbing a haircut prior to hanging out with my wife and son. Big PowerPoint presentation tomorrow at the local college for the first year students. 18 later in today with some friends at a really nice course. They’ve played a few KFT events their so I am looking forward to it

Love the stuff from cobra however the callaway bag looks like it was meant for a marvel convention

@GaryF happy birthday!!

I go back and forth but there are surely some solid brands that have some serious traction. G/fore and adidas have some serious non spiked traction.

Wesley Bryan did a good job of describing how the meeting went on the Monday Q info. Can’t wait to see how this plays out. I don’t think it’ll be a merger, I think they eliminated competition and lawyer fees without getting exposed in discovery. I assume the LIV guys will pay a fine to return, however I hope the guys who stayed are compensated. They carried the water enough the last 2 years for a tour they run just to have Jay making deals behind their back. Also jay needs to bring enough Monday to the table not just for the top tier guys but for all tiers to make sure his job is secure. As much as it seems like he drank the koolaid watching succession, I’d be overly concerned that he guaranteed this to the Saudi’s

I’d like to try to use my gap wedge with it placed in the back of my stance to hit a lower trajectory shot to let it run out.

I spent the last few minutes looking online. No luck. Maybe try to get a hold of your local ping rep. I would hope they have more answers

I have done it from time to time. Working on perfecting more short game shots and emphasizing proximity to the pin for birdie opportunities. I like varying the difficulty to see how my game translates when I “should” be able to score better

Really been trying to hone in my iron game, we fixed a few things last week with a lesson. Working on setting my hands forward to help with shallowing out the club helping with a negative attack angle vs mine previously being close to neutral. The problem is I used to set my weight/hips forward to help with weight transfer and it's caused me to have a small push fade, plus it was a lot of moving parts for me to time up at the same time. Took out the weight transfer at setup and strikes are back to solid and on line more consistently. Working with the driver today on quality strikes. Right now it's and all or non on the course, its bombed or it's terrible. A lot of it has to do with the swing, I know I stay under the plane with my driver and it's what helps me to get to an upward attack angle and also improve my club path. Tempo can be very bad with the disco stick at times.

Right now I'd still love to update my irons, my woods and driver are the safest, wedges will need updated at some point. The irons I'd love to go to a 5-p or 5-gw and find a 4 iron likely a utility iron that is graphite shafted. I have GI irons now and want to get into a smaller profile but with having 2 kids coming up and likely not having as much golf time I think it may dictate how small of a profile I go with

Played early yesterday morning in some cold temps. Really needed to warm up more. First time playing this course and my playing partner/Sherpa wasn’t the most helpful. Didn’t write down the pin location for the day so the first 9 we were off all day, I’m used to the red white blue system. The greens were like glass, incredibly fast and tons of movement. My driver was off until the last few holes, tempo needed some adjusting. I managed a 43 off the front but a 46 on the back. While I played better in the back I just could not sink any putts and had 6 3 putts alone. 2-3 of those cost me pars, even when I wanted to leave myself short with a tap in opportunity I was incredibly short or long. It was a positive day. I wouldn’t say I was mad with how I played because I bounced back and the putting wasn’t there yesterday. Tons of blind shots in a course are really hard for me the first time playing a course. I really like to pick lines and play off angles.

Outside of taking away or limiting the number of clubs a players could use, I thought the response by Dean Snell took into account the most variables and was one of the easier solutions to implement across the board: tee height. “A half-inch shorter tee would reduce distance by 10-15 yards based on how much lower they’d have to tee it, how much spin that adds to the golf ball and how much it reduces loft at impact. They can’t hit the ball as high, and there’s added spin, so it goes shorter. I’ve been saying the same thing from the time I was doing the Professional to Pro V1. That’s when driver spin rates got much lower and drivers themselves started to get bigger heads and longer shafts.”

Started with some half shots at the range today to work my wedges inside 100 yards then progressed through the bag. Finished with driver. Really having a hard time with the driver going at a target directly in front of my. If I pick anything in an angle it’s fantastic and launched. I really don’t love the baby fade I get playing it straight on however on the angle to the corners the nice baby draw I get is spot on. Worked the club speed on PRGR up to 104 at the same time. Good speed for the end of the day

Moscow mule and Tito’s please! Nothing like some refreshing ginger and lime to get the evening going after a long day!

Anyway we can see some videos of how it operates?

Happy birthday! @Zman56 and @mdumble21

No doubt about it Brooks is that “dude”, total alpha when it comes to majors. love him or hate hit the guy figures it out. Or maybe it’s just the state of New York? Maybe this helps to push him to leave to come back to the tour… sounds like he’s figured out his knee problems although they are long term issues

Hit the range for a little over an hour. Started off with wedges and distance control. Then did some target practice. Working on aligning club face and body to target. Finished off with maintaining speed with the driver using PRGR for feedback. Able to maintain 102-104 which is about 10 mph faster than what I finished with last year. Plus I’m down 32lbs doing it!!

42/41 yesterday. 8 pars. 3 doubles, 2 on the first 2 holes. Drive the ball decently. Irons were still hot or miss. Short game from 75 in needs to be better. Hit 12 fairways and 8 greens in reg. Please with the round as I tightened up on the last 4 holes to park out after 3 straight bogeys

If you can get up to Marquette greywalls is a bucket list course but the hard part is their isn’t a ton in Marquette

I can only imagine what the board meeting was like… I wonder if they held it in the men’s grill

The golf course landscape should make it an interesting week. Miss the fairway and end up in a bunker good luck. Or better yet land on a side hill in the rough with what’s being called “thick blades of grass”. Should make for a fun week. I think the middle tier guys for driving distance that are at the top of accuracy will do well this week. Especially someone that can hit the high draw!

Elyria now has a waiting list to get in to. Cash flow issues have been taken care of by all the new younger families. But tee times have been scooped up and getting reservations in the weekends are more difficult. most of my friends and families are members at private clubs and myself a semi private club. I can’t justify going fully private if I can benefit from my friends and family lol.

The cut line will be +2 spieth will be +2. let’s roll!!

I will unfortunately be out of town in Chicago for a family wedding