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About gavinski91
- Birthday October 18
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NW WA
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Age
30-39
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Swing Speed
101-110 mph
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13.4
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Weekly
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Casual
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Putting
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Driver/Off the Tee
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What Have You Bought Lately? (CHA - Club Ho's Anonymous)
gavinski91 replied to hckymeyer's topic in The Daily
I just can't do black shoes for some reason, and already have a pair of white golf shoes, so I figured grey was a good middle ground. -
What Have You Bought Lately? (CHA - Club Ho's Anonymous)
gavinski91 replied to hckymeyer's topic in The Daily
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Got out for nine holes after work. First time out with the newly reshafted irons. Putter sucked, so I didn’t score great despite 6 GIRs (finished with a +7 41), but the 3 iron with the MMT UT shaft is an absolute rocket launcher!
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Yep. I will say that regardless of whether you do everything with one wedge (which is my preference) or have different wedges you use, mixing up your practice from shot to shot (rather than block practice where you practice the same shot 30x in a row) will get better on-course results.
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The draw vs. fade in the different settings makes sense. Loft sleeves pretty much universally move the lie angle more upright when you add loft, and flatten out the lie angle when you remove it, so a driver set to -1° will normally tend to fade more than that same club set to +1°.
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Don't know if it counts as "practice", but I've been reading this book: A lot of stuff that I already know and may be obvious to people who track their strokes gained and follow some of the advanced stats out there now, but still some nuggets that are useful. And I can think of a few playing partners who could really use to read it!
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S159s available for a forum test? Say less!
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2020 Official Member Review: Exputt putting simulator
gavinski91 replied to StrokerAce's topic in Forum Testing Reviews
I have a white face on my putter, and haven't had issues as long as I don't have the light pointing directly at the putter face (and I don't use the stickers). I stick with overhead lighting, and sometimes an additional reading light pointed at 45° down on the mat from behind. -
For reference, my Apple Watch SE (the very base model) can barely get through 9 holes, so for an 18-hole round I typically use my Link. Ran into an interesting issue on Saturday though where I went into a cedar hedge looking for my ball, and realized 20 yards down the fairway that my Link wasn't on my belt anymore. Spent about 10 minutes looking for it and couldn't find it, so finished the round and went back to look more. The phone app has a "Find My Link" feature which shows the last place it shared it's location with your phone, and I was able to narrow the search down by starting a new round on my phone and walking up and down the hedge until it showed that my Link was connected via Bluetooth. However, there is no way to use the app to get the Link to make a sound. Ended up finding it after another 10 minutes of searching, but it seems like that would be a useful feature that would be pretty easy to implement.
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Challenged myself at the beginning of the week to sink 10 consecutive 10-foot putts on the Exputt sim. Last night was the fourth night of trying and I finally completed the challenge (after about 850 putts between the 4 nights). Key changes for me were to wrap my right thumb around (instead of pointing it down the grip) and adding a few degrees of forward press. Really useful to be able to roll hundreds of putts with the immediate feedback you get from the Exputt system.
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Edel Array Putters . 2024 Forum Review
gavinski91 replied to GolfSpy_APH's topic in Forum Testing Reviews
Congrats to the testers! Although I can't believe that @GolfSpy_APH would go so far as to call @GolfSpy AFG a beta..... -
What Have You Bought Lately? (CHA - Club Ho's Anonymous)
gavinski91 replied to hckymeyer's topic in The Daily
Ordered a couple of $-Taper 120 shafts for my 4 and 5 iron, and an MMT UT 105S for my 3 iron. Excited to have a full set up and running again! -
2020 Official Member Review: Exputt putting simulator
gavinski91 replied to StrokerAce's topic in Forum Testing Reviews
3.5 strokes gained over your averages though, that's a crazy improvement right off the bat! -
2024 TaylorMade TP5 and TP5X Golf Balls
gavinski91 replied to GolfSpy_APH's topic in Golf Balls/Shafts/Grips
Came across this on my instagram feed this morning - $100m investment not looking too good if this is a persistent issue! The one ball is definitely way off, but it looks like a good amount out of a dozen box have off-center cores to some degree.