What/How did you practice today?

[cnosil 17,071]

Was at MGS last night so I figured I would work on iron shots and try to reduce my toe hits. Definitely something I am struggling with. Ball back in stance has helped a little but not “perfect”. Thought about what Adam Young talks about and changing intent. This helped as well but it made my path go way in to out...7* range. To minimize path I opened my stance which reduced it to the 2* range. The open path gave me better contact location but I had the tendency to hit a straight pull.

It is interesting that I am not appearing to suffer from a lot of distance loss on the toe strikes, maybe because I am holding the club too tight. Got kind of frustrated after a while and really went after the ball and was able to increase distance by 10ish yards. Face,path, and impact location were no better or worse. Obviously have more in the tank based on that, but the whole swing seems messed up.

Gotta get to a range and film my swing.

Lots more practice and direction needed.

[RickyBobby_PR 5,985]

2 minutes ago, cnosil said:

Was at MGS last night so I figured I would work on iron shots and try to reduce my toe hits. Definitely something I am struggling with. Ball back in stance has helped a little but not “perfect”. Thought about what Adam Young talks about and changing intent. This helped as well but it made my path go way in to out...7* range. To minimize path I opened my stance which reduced it to the 2* range. The open path gave me better contact location but I had the tendency to hit a straight pull.

It is interesting that I am not appearing to suffer from a lot of distance loss on the toe strikes, maybe because I am holding the club too tight. Got kind of frustrated after a while and really went after the ball and was able to increase distance by 10ish yards. Face,path, and impact location were no better or worse. Obviously have more in the tank based on that, but the whole swing seems messed up.

Gotta get to a range and film my swing.

Lots more practice and direction needed.

Ball too far back will cause some of the excessive in to out. GG recommends playing balls off the left ear for stock shots. I’ve seen Monte and some other use left armpit or left chest.

[cnosil 17,071]

Ball too far back will cause some of the excessive in to out. GG recommends playing balls off the left ear for stock shots. I’ve seen Monte and some other use left armpit or left chest.

I know and I am probably just inside that with the adjustment. I am thinking I stupidly listened to all the rotational stuff and now rotate and pull the club inside which causes the toe strikes. Gonna have to retrain the brain.

[RickyBobby_PR 5,985]

5 minutes ago, cnosil said:

I know and I am probably just inside that with the adjustment. I am thinking I stupidly listened to all the rotational stuff and now rotate and pull the club inside which causes the toe strikes. Gonna have to retrain the brain.

I hear ya. Will be curious to see what you find when you video the swing

[rbsiedsc 2,057]

21 minutes ago, cnosil said:

I know and I am probably just inside that with the adjustment. I am thinking I stupidly listened to all the rotational stuff and now rotate and pull the club inside which causes the toe strikes. Gonna have to retrain the brain.

you could also just stand a little closer or address with the hosel like Adam Scott?

[Lacassem 10,352]

So my swing adjustments apparently have been working. 2 years ago this time I was -5* today at my fitting I was averaging with all clubs this pretty Number. More to come on a post in boom sticks

 

[rbsiedsc 2,057]

1 minute ago, Lacassem said:

So my swing adjustments apparently have been working. 2 years ago this time I was -5* today at my fitting I was averaging with all clubs this pretty Number. More to come on a post in boom sticks

 

Isn't that a little high for irons through as you want to compress? nice that your driver is looking better

[dlow206 6,886]

2 minutes ago, Lacassem said:

So my swing adjustments apparently have been working. 2 years ago this time I was -5* today at my fitting I was averaging with all clubs this pretty Number. More to come on a post in boom sticks

 

At my Titleist fitting I was like -5 as well. Hoping my swing changes will make my driver AOA less negative as well. 

[Lacassem 10,352]

5 minutes ago, rbsiedsc said:

Isn't that a little high for irons through as you want to compress? nice that your driver is looking better

Was only driver today I would have to go back to my irons and see what it was at my true spec fitting with irons from 2 years ago, But don’t remember any issues in the iron department 

[cnosil 17,071]

you could also just stand a little closer or address with the hosel like Adam Scott?

Tried it and it doesn’t fix the problem. I have put the ball inside the clubhead and still have toe hits. I have reached the point that I need professional help.

[Chip Strokes 3,723]

10 minutes ago, Lacassem said:

So my swing adjustments apparently have been working. 2 years ago this time I was -5* today at my fitting I was averaging with all clubs this pretty Number. More to come on a post in boom sticks

 

you better tee it up higher and go after it at +8 if you wanna catch up

[dlow206 6,886]

Random question, unrelated to anything I am specifically working on at the moment. Just some food for thought.

Exaggeration feels/drills, are they helpful or hurtful for you? For me, I need to be careful with exaggerations. Sometimes i start to over do the exaggerations in real swings, which turns into doing the wrong thing.

[RickyBobby_PR 5,985]

6 minutes ago, dlow206 said:

Random question, unrelated to anything I am specifically working on at the moment. Just some food for thought.

Exaggeration feels/drills, are they helpful or hurtful for you? For me, I need to be careful with exaggerations. Sometimes i start to over do the exaggerations in real swings, which turns into doing the wrong thing.

They can be helpful as are slow motion swings. Worth exaggerations and drills in general one shouldnt do them for extended periods at a time. Example would be do a few exaggerations of a movement then make swings rinse and repeat for a several cycles. Same with a drill. Hit 3-5 balls with a drill or training aid then hit 3-5 without 

[dlow206 6,886]

Was watching this today. AMG is very big on posture and how it affects the swing. They have some similar thoughts as GG, but slightly different posture. They make an interesting point about finding a Tour pro that is in the same height range as you that has posture similar to what is highlighted in the video and then you can compare how your posture looks to theirs as a reference. 

 

[RickyBobby_PR 5,985]

23 minutes ago, dlow206 said:

Was watching this today. AMG is very big on posture and how it affects the swing. They have some similar thoughts as GG, but slightly different posture. They make an interesting point about finding a Tour pro that is in the same height range as you that has posture similar to what is highlighted in the video and then you can compare how your posture looks to theirs as a reference. 

 

They do have similar thoughts to GG, but lots of instructors talk about the same type of setup. Some coaches I know of like Monte and Bradley Hughes discuss this and Bradley even says the same thing about true weight being on the shoe laces.

The setup is similar to many of the greats. Here’s Jack and Norman. You can see the butt underneath them

[dlow206 6,886]

6 minutes ago, RickyBobby_PR said:

They do have similar thoughts to GG, but lots of instructors talk about the same type of setup. Some coaches I know of like Monte and Bradley Hughes discuss this and Bradley even says the same thing about true weight being on the shoe laces.

The setup is similar to many of the greats. Here’s Jack and Norman. You can see the butt underneath them

Yep, agree there are lots that setup similarly. Just trying to find a similar height & proportion player. The AMG guys were talking about some of the angles looking different if you try to compare yourself to someone thats not in the height range. I have to go to the LPGA for a better comp.

I am more or less the same height as Bianca. 

[RickyBobby_PR 5,985]

Just now, dlow206 said:

Yep, agree there are lots that setup similarly. Just trying to find a similar height & proportion player. The AMG guys were talking about some of the angles looking different if you try to compare yourself to someone thats not in the height range. I have to go to the LPGA for a better comp.

I am more or less the same height as Bianca. 

That suggestion by them is something I had an instructor tell me back in 2015/16. He had me looking at Molinari. Same height and we’re working a few lbs of each other just distributed differently.

I agree for your build you will see more similarities with lpga players. Danielle Kang, Brooke Henderson are some others you could look at.

On the pga tour someone like Bud Cauley who’s is about 5’7” 

[Micah T 1,018]

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I started the GG online academy 2 weeks ago; done nothing so far but look at my stance in the mirror, and try to get my butt underneath me. In the mirror I look for my belt to be level, and I’m standing so much closer to the ball. Gonna be a long, long time before I take this to the course...


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[Shapotomous 2,186]

11 hours ago, dlow206 said:

Yep, agree there are lots that setup similarly. Just trying to find a similar height & proportion player. The AMG guys were talking about some of the angles looking different if you try to compare yourself to someone thats not in the height range. I have to go to the LPGA for a better comp.

I am more or less the same height as Bianca. 

The LPGA swing speeds are more in our general neighborhood also which I think makes certain equipment references more legit for us.  

[RickyBobby_PR 5,985]

6 hours ago, Micah T said:

@dlow206[mention=65848]RickyBobby_PR[/mention]
I started the GG online academy 2 weeks ago; done nothing so far but look at my stance in the mirror, and try to get my butt underneath me. In the mirror I look for my belt to be level, and I’m standing so much closer to the ball. Gonna be a long, long time before I take this to the course...


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Lots of good info in that course especially the first module