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Hit a small bucket yesterday to prep for a scramble tomorrow, haven't touched a club in almost 2 weeks due to work & life craziness. Irons were pretty good. 3 wood was absolute money. Driver was all over the place. Something tells me I'm going to be the "just get the ball in the fairway safe" guy in the group tomorrow. 

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Practiced yesterday with 3 goals in mind:

 

1. Continue to work on taking the club away with my core while keeping the club face closed longer - that’s getting me in a much better position at the top and preventing me from getting stuck.

 

2. Measure drives with the auto flex shaft to see if the data matches what my eye balls are seeing.

 

3.  Getting the 5 wood to behave.

 

1. I’m continuing to hit the ball very well. I was able to hit beautiful 6 irons really got from the first one which is always a sign that my golf life is good.

 

2. Very good numbers there - the fact that my driver is 45” with that shaft in rather than 45.75” helps too, I think. I seem to hit driver most consistently at 45”. Oddly enough my last 2 driver fittings the fitter wanted me at 45.75 - it just doesn’t work as well for me in the real world though.

 

3.  Results were fair - more work needed - there were no ghastly shots like two on the course last weekend but I had some thins and a couple that were a little heavy.

 

Overall a good session - I even got a you’ve got a great swing from the guy next to me.  I used to have such a simple swing - this video work is helping me get back closer to that. 
 

 

 

 

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18 hours ago, Chip Strokes said:

my wedge game has been AWFUL lately. lots of chunks and scooping balls that land well short from 80-120 yards lately. 

hit a few buckets of wedges today aimed at the 100yd flag. i usually play that shot with a 3/4 swing 56*. here are a few swings.

second one is a touch fat but still flew the number. if anyone sees anything worth noting here, i’m all ears. 

shoutout to my wife for the camera work and my son for the commentary 😂

 

@Shapotomoushit on it with weight shift. The site loaded the pics out of order so (). Being that the angle isn’t directly down the line setup is hard to show as well as your turn but basically you have a false turn. You kick the left knee out and bend it yet you don’t turn the hips (second pic)

Because of this you don’t turn in the transition and have to alter upper body and drop the right shoulder (first pic)

This leads to early extending and standing your body and the club up and dumping your wrist angles and behind behind the ball instead of it. Your are going to hit it far from this position most of the time (third pic).

Moving body mass will lead to many of these faults in partial and full swings. Pressure shifts or maintaining it is a better way of thinking about it. Start with and keep pressure on the lead leg. Rotate the body so that rotation matches swing length. Full swing = full body turn. 3/4 swing = 3/4 turn

Good video on flighted wedges 

 

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I went to the range today to work on the points from the lesson I got while playing at @Tom the Golf Nut's course. The main things are getting the shaft more upright at the top of the swing, Martin Chuck also talks about this in his Planemate videos, and feeling my left shoulder rotate on the downswing to promote better weight shift. That's how I think about it, the instructor tried to have me come off my right foot on the follow through but I'm not that coordinated. Another thing I realized in the car after finishing was I completely forgot to try to pull the club through impact instead of push. Tom told me the left side should be more sore than the right shirt l after playing and I always feel it in my right bicep after playing or practice.  

I wasn't hitting as good as during the lesson, but I'm seeing improvement. I was thinning and fatting a bit, but I don't expect miracles after one week of practice swings. My irons were better than normal, my fairway woods were a mix of tops and majestic bombs (for me), and the few drivers I hit were money. 

I'm also working on trying to stay within my limits on my backswing. One of the things Tom noticed was my hands separating on the downswing and after watching the video he sent me I noticed my right arm on the downswing was getting parallel to the ground. 

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Old habits die hard, but this one's going down. 

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Trying out the arm lock putter and feels really strange.  At first I had the butt end float a bit but it’s much easier when the butt end is hinged right against my forearm like how it was suppose to designed 

As far as how I feel about anchoring   I used the broomstick and had it “anchor” close to my chest and this method feels very different but I agree it’s an anchor.   Don’t want to debate that but even in my standard putter length I have a slightly shorter than average length so I hold the putter butt end right at the palm of my hand. So when I hold standard length putter l am “anchoring” the standard putter along the life line of my hand. 


anyway I digress. I think I might continue with this method and see how it goes and see if still legal in a few years 

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5 hours ago, sirchunksalot said:

 

I'm also working on trying to stay within my limits on my backswing. One of the things Tom noticed was my hands separating on the downswing and after watching the video he sent me I noticed my right arm on the downswing was getting parallel to the ground. 

 

Keeping the elbows together on the downswing is a tough fix;  that is what I have been working on with my swing. 

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5 hours ago, sirchunksalot said:

I went to the range today to work on the points from the lesson I got while playing at @Tom the Golf Nut's course. The main things are getting the shaft more upright at the top of the swing, Martin Chuck also talks about this in his Planemate videos, and feeling my left shoulder rotate on the downswing to promote better weight shift. That's how I think about it, the instructor tried to have me come off my right foot on the follow through but I'm not that coordinated. Another thing I realized in the car after finishing was I completely forgot to try to pull the club through impact instead of push. Tom told me the left side should be more sore than the right shirt l after playing and I always feel it in my right bicep after playing or practice.  

I wasn't hitting as good as during the lesson, but I'm seeing improvement. I was thinning and fatting a bit, but I don't expect miracles after one week of practice swings. My irons were better than normal, my fairway woods were a mix of tops and majestic bombs (for me), and the few drivers I hit were money. 

I'm also working on trying to stay within my limits on my backswing. One of the things Tom noticed was my hands separating on the downswing and after watching the video he sent me I noticed my right arm on the downswing was getting parallel to the ground. 

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Old habits die hard, but this one's going down. 

If you have a smart ball use that to practice 3/4 swings. If not get a long towel and tuck it uber both armpits and take 3/4 swings. This is to keep your arms and body connected. Your arms get farther away in your backswing and it’s going to be hard to get them back together in the downswing. Also going to make pulling with the left side hard. 
 

 

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5 hours ago, sirchunksalot said:

I went to the range today to work on the points from the lesson I got while playing at @Tom the Golf Nut's course. The main things are getting the shaft more upright at the top of the swing, Martin Chuck also talks about this in his Planemate videos, and feeling my left shoulder rotate on the downswing to promote better weight shift. That's how I think about it, the instructor tried to have me come off my right foot on the follow through but I'm not that coordinated. Another thing I realized in the car after finishing was I completely forgot to try to pull the club through impact instead of push. Tom told me the left side should be more sore than the right shirt l after playing and I always feel it in my right bicep after playing or practice.  

I wasn't hitting as good as during the lesson, but I'm seeing improvement. I was thinning and fatting a bit, but I don't expect miracles after one week of practice swings. My irons were better than normal, my fairway woods were a mix of tops and majestic bombs (for me), and the few drivers I hit were money. 

I'm also working on trying to stay within my limits on my backswing. One of the things Tom noticed was my hands separating on the downswing and after watching the video he sent me I noticed my right arm on the downswing was getting parallel to the ground. 

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Old habits die hard, but this one's going down. 

You were actually re-gripping at the top of the backswing. Your right hand would open a bit, then you would gain separation between the hands and then you would grip again with the right hand. Any time you re-grip at the top people tend to grip tighter for the down swing and the club face closes.

Try to maintain the same grip pressure throughout the swing and keep the hands working together as one unit.

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7 minutes ago, Tom the Golf Nut said:

You were actually re-gripping at the top of the backswing. Your right hand would open a bit, then you would gain separation between the hands and then you would grip again with the right hand. Any time you re-grip at the top people tend to grip tighter for the down swing and the club face closes.

Try to maintain the same grip pressure throughout the swing and keep the hands working together as one unit.

Thanks for that, it's kind of hard to see the re-grip at the top of the backswing on video, I've noticed it before coming down. I'll work on keeping more consistent pressure in my hands. 

Also, thanks again for letting me use the Swing Jacket. I've gotten in a lot of reps with it at the house and it's really helping me to manage over swinging and keeping me connected throughout the swing. 

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6 minutes ago, sirchunksalot said:

Thanks for that, it's kind of hard to see the re-grip at the top of the backswing on video, I've noticed it before coming down. I'll work on keeping more consistent pressure in my hands. 

Also, thanks again for letting me use the Swing Jacket. I've gotten in a lot of reps with it at the house and it's really helping me to manage over swinging and keeping me connected throughout the swing. 

Your welcome. The jacket is a good for exactly what you mentioned. It will take a bit to get that feeling to become a natural part of your swing. But it helps for sure.

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Well, I was planning on taking some swings with my new shafts installed in a few of my irons... Unfortunately FedEx is failing me on that end and they are somewhere between Iowa and California. Package hasn't been scanned since Tuesday so who knows. Since my irons and wedges are all pulled apart waiting on the shafts, I took the new to me driver to see how it worked out for me. Also spent some time putting. I gotta work on that 8-12 foot range because I have a tendency to leave them short. 

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Went from hitting my driver really well and irons lack consistently . To hitting my irons really consistent and my driver sucked   I think one of the keys to making it all work the same day is to set so my left shoulder/upper arm  "rotates with the clubface" with  iron  , cover the ball and hit down

and with the driver , working on having the left upper arm more freedom  from being to "tucked' against my left armpit and  remember  to "swinging up"

These are two very different feels that seem to contradict each other .

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On 10/1/2021 at 4:30 PM, Chip Strokes said:

my wedge game has been AWFUL lately. lots of chunks and scooping balls that land well short from 80-120 yards lately. 

hit a few buckets of wedges today aimed at the 100yd flag. i usually play that shot with a 3/4 swing 56*. here are a few swings.

second one is a touch fat but still flew the number. if anyone sees anything worth noting here, i’m all ears. 

shoutout to my wife for the camera work and my son for the commentary 😂

 

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You've gotten some really good advice already, but this is also something I struggle with. For me, what feels like 50/50 isn't 50/50 and more like 40/60 to my backside. It could be the angle, but it almost looks like you have something similar going on at address:

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Echoing what @RickyBobby_PR mentioned, I find too much weight back causes "false turn" and then I get stuck back there with no option but to chunk it/scoop and early extend to get the club through.

One thing that is helpful for me is to feel a little bit more of my front hip bumping toward the target at address. That sets my weight forward a bit more and really helps with the scooped wedges.

Chris Ryan's 60/60/100 drill might also be a good feeling to practice with for a bit, even if only on partial wedge swings.

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My quest to get to a single digit handicap continues -- specifically by trying to build a serviceable pitch, chip, and sand game.  I'm still working on the Stan Utley stuff and it felt a lot better today than it did in the round I played last week -- where all my old bad habits were fighting with the new things I was learning.  It's still a work in progress but I feel like I'm getting more comfortable with it and the more I practice with it the more I discover what I can do with it.   

I work from home so I figured rather than taking breaks surfing the internet I could take a break and practice if I had something at home.  So the other day I bought a small mat and set up a pitching target inside my daughter's sandbox, collected every random golf ball I have in my golf cabinet, and set to work on practice.  The sandbox net combo works shockingly well as a target.  It's basically a 8-12 yard  chip into a tight target -- the range and type of target that is  responsible for the vast majority of my blowups.  I don't get to practice rollout but I do get to practice landing it exactly where I want.  

During one of a couple 'breaks/sessions' today I noticed that even when I was I was weighting forward I was still transferring weight to my back foot unconsciously during my downswing.  It wasn't a lot, but it was enough that when I caught myself doing it I was generally thinning or skulling the chip. To stop it I started trying to chip balancing on only my front foot which kind of evolved into a modified version of one of Utley's drills where I was standing on my front foot with my rear leg pulled back and on my toes.  Doing that instantly made it easier to swing exactly like the book described using small hip rotation and club release to control distance and trajectory.  It worked well enough that I holed 5 straight in the yellow ring on the net.   For longer than I care to admit, I seriously mulled the idea of adopting my practice  flamingo stance for chipping during a round.  😁  I did that for another 10 or 15 shots and then set my foot down in a proper stance and promptly holed another 4.  Hopefully, I can continue to build that into muscle memory or you might start seeing a 6'2 300 pound dude chipping on one foot like some sort of mutant bird.  😜

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39 minutes ago, Syks7 said:

   For longer than I care to admit I seriously mulled the idea of adopting my practice  flamingo stance for chipping during a round.  😁 

I've gotten to the point that I played a round and hit pitches/chips with my right hand only.  

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FINALLY had a chance to hit some balls on the range! Been struggling off the tee, so I used about a third of the large bucket to hit driver. I think I have it ironed-out now.The new Cobra hybrid arrived today, so hit some with that too. All-in-all a good session!!!

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I considered posting in the How'd you play? thread but today was really just practice.  My wife and I played 9 holes with her brother from Seattle.  Once a very good player, he suffers from a lot of health issues and can barely get around the course... picking up after too many shots.  Sad to see, and he may not be playing much longer.

So, it was a practice round for me.  Started like I always do with a few warmup swings on the range to a 100 yard flag and then a few drivers to see how it's working today.  I had a little more time so I went to the pitching green to work on shot trajectory from 40 yards.  Then I spent 15 minutes putting; lots of people on the green, so not many long putts.  I thought I was done so headed to my bag, but all of a sudden the putting green cleared out.  Great!!  Good time to practice a few chips with my 60º.  

I grabbed my club and headed back to the green, but as I got there a couple of yahoos showed up.  I dropped 2 balls in the fringe about 3 feet from the green.  One of the guys putted a ball to the hole I was going to fire at... went about 8 feet past.  He then hit his second ball and it did the same, and he started walking to his balls.  The other guy was about to do the same.  I chipped a ball to the hole, about 12 feet away, and it went in.  I heard the first guy mutter something as he walked past the hole.  I chipped the second ball, and it went in the hole.  Casually, I walked over the the cup, picked up my balls, and walked off to my cart.  🤣  I guess the equivalent of mic drop??

On the course I drove the ball pretty well and hit some decent approach shots in to greens.  Something I never do... flew a ball passed the pin with a 7i and it stuck... no hop... and backed up a foot.  Missed the birdie, but happy with the approach.  Had a nice round going (with a few extra shots taken in certain spots when time allowed) but finished with 3 straight bogeys to shoot 40 (+3).  I need to practice like this more often!!

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2 hours ago, cnosil said:

I've gotten to the point that I played a round and hit pitches/chips with my right hand only.  

 

... When some of my students would not release the club through impact, holding on and producing a weak slice, I would have them stand at a 45* angle to their target line with their back to the target and take a full swing. This forces then to release the club head or they would be hitting 45* right of their target. One 45yr old lawyer that was one of my original students would hit nice straight shots or even a little draw with that stance but as soon as he went back to his normal stance he would hold on again producing his weak slice. He used golf as a business contact and needed to be competitive on the course so he started playing while standing 45* to his target line. His friends and business acquaintances thought it was crazy how much better he played with that stance so he stuck with it. I worked with him for 2 years and by the end I could get him to hit good shots with a normal stance but it had become his trade mark so just played that way all the time. 🤪

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8 minutes ago, chisag said:

I worked with him for 2 years and by the end I could get him to hit good shots with a normal stance but it had become his trade mark so just played that way all the time. 🤪

Love great golf stories like this.

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Small bucket on the range this morning working on setup and aim. Lots of shots went left on me the other day and after setting up some aim sticks I was hitting more in the direction of my targets. Just trying to remember to keep things simple when I aim and set up so I can pull the trigger and go.

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Now that the season is over for the golf masses here in Ohio, I enjoy the solitude on our course and I practice the shots that gave me problems during the year … on the course. Our back 9 is mostly side hill, up hill, & down hill shots. So while I don’t divot up the fairways, I do find a spot in the rough that is near or equivalent to where I end up on a round. Our greens have recently undergone aeration, so trying to hit 3 balls into them from 100-150 yds out is not going to take a toll. I do repair my ball marks WHEN & IF I hit one 😝. My up hill and up / side hill shots have improved, but it’s tough getting a down hill shot up, in front of an upslope. I push that shot a lot … if I get it up that is. No wise cracks please.

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Took my wedges to the range to practice what I've been working on in the back yard.  It went very poorly(even trying my stork pose).  I finally hit the point of frustration that I took a breather.  I spent 10 minutes putting short 3-4 footers to clear my head.  I came back to the chipping green, scattered the tube of 20 balls randomly around a 10-15 yard area and decided to forget about thinking about the mechanics of what I was working on and just to focus on hitting the ball.    Let's just way that it went exceptionally well immediately -- I spent 30 minutes chipping and pitching after with really good accuracy (a lot of shots in my high make zones, a lot more holeouts than I've ever had in a session, and only a single shot skulled into oblivion.   

At first I thought, 'Man you should have just done that from the beginning,' before but then I realized that all that frustration and drill work had built the muscle memory to allow me to hit those shots without consciously thinking of mechanics.  It was one hell of a window into how I practice and how to translate that practice to actual play.  That little insight combined with my latest re-reading of Golf is Not a Game of Perfect has landed me on what I hope is going to be my goto swing thought of the future -- "Trust your swing, focus on hitting the ball"

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I took the day off after playing 4 of the last 5 days.  Headed to the range.  😱

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I think it's a little early for the mats to come out, but apparently the clubhouse didn't think so.  I hate these mats, and they have been around every winter for the past 5 years.  I'm surprised they have lasted so long, but that's why they bought them I guess.  Very thick and spongy!  Every iron shot goes much higher than from the turf.  The mats don't have tees; we are allowed to hit drivers off a tee in the grass between the mats.  It can get a little dicey when someone is on a mat and I'm hitting driver from the grass right behind him.  Spacing looks fine now, but after a week or so when they move them back a few yards, some will be much closer together.  They are heavy!!

Didn't spend much time here; moved to the chipping and putting greens.  Might be a good thing that I will spend more time on my short game.  I need it!

 

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Went to the practice pitching/chipping green to work a little on the short game.  Tried to maintain a consistent trajectory and tempo through the shots.  Felt pretty good by the end and hoping it translates to the course for more tap ins after my chips.

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Went to the course after work to work on my shortgame.  Hit a couple of hundred chips and pitches of various distances and it went really well.  Only had a few shots that weren't center face and solid contact.    I am hoping they are wrong about this weekends weather as I am eager to get out to the course since I haven't played in 3 weeks.  

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had a lesson tonight tonight. spent most of the time working on my 80-100 yard wedge shot. 

my coach suggested i play that shot with a higher lofted club and use a full swing instead of a partial wedge.  he also thinks my wedges are too uptight and recommended bending them 2* flat

we worked on keeping the weight a little forward, and a low, outside takeaway with the hands. it wasn’t perfect, but by the end, everything felt pretty good and the chunks were gone. 

finished up with some drivers. we played with tee height, stance, and ball position to try and bring my ball flight down. 

i definitely ended on a high note 

 

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12 hours ago, Chip Strokes said:

had a lesson tonight tonight. spent most of the time working on my 80-100 yard wedge shot. 

my coach suggested i play that shot with a higher lofted club and use a full swing instead of a partial wedge.  he also thinks my wedges are too uptight and recommended bending them 2* flat

we worked on keeping the weight a little forward, and a low, outside takeaway with the hands. it wasn’t perfect, but by the end, everything felt pretty good and the chunks were gone. 

finished up with some drivers. we played with tee height, stance, and ball position to try and bring my ball flight down. 

i definitely ended on a high note 

 

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That is a bomb, any changes with the driver I know mentioned you felt that some where really spinning up on course.

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1 hour ago, ejgaudette said:

That is a bomb, any changes with the driver I know mentioned you felt that some where really spinning up on course.

driver is still at 6* 

we changed a few things to get me delivering the club better. 

stance is open to get my hips out of the way and promote a fade, which is my preferred ball flight 

ball is teed lower - top of the ball just about even with the crown of the driver because i don’t need any help getting the ball in the air

ball is a touch further forward in my stance to make sure my AoA is positive to prevent gear effect. 

i’m still not making perfect contact, but at the beginning of the session i was seeing balls spin at 4300+ and balloon out to 240/250

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1 minute ago, Chip Strokes said:

driver is still at 6* 

we changed a few things to get me delivering the club better. 

stance is open to get my hips out of the way and promote a fade, which is my preferred ball flight 

ball is teed lower - top of the ball just about even with the crown of the driver because i don’t need any help getting the ball in the air

ball is a touch further forward in my stance to make sure my AoA is positive to prevent gear effect. 

i’m still not making perfect contact, but at the beginning of the session i was seeing balls spin at 4300+ and balloon out to 240/250

Sounds like some good changes. On the last one that last one being 5 up with your speed is probably pretty good given all that speed you have there. Hope you see more bombs in the future

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