My little gift to myself is arriving on Monday. G62 Garmin Approach golf watch. Now I don't have to keep score or track my distances myself. It's supposed to have a virtual caddy that will eventually even account for wind, distance, elevation change and suggest a club.

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Very cool. I've been contemplating getting something like this for awhile. Might take the plunge on this one.

7 majors in the next 11 months. Gonna be fun.

My fitting went well today. Learned a few things and think he got me pretty dialed in. There's a 3 week turnaround time, here's what I have coming.

Irons: Callaway Mavrik 4-AW, Fujikura Pro Iron 75R
FW: Callaway Mavrik 3W, Accra FX 2.0 160 M4
Wedges: Cleveland CBX2.0 54/58, TT Dynamic Gold 115
Driver: Reshafted my Taylormade M2, Fujikura Pro 2.0 5S
Keeping my Taylormade M1 5W as is

I've been fortunate enough to have played Harding Park 3-4 times when I live in San Fran and Silicon Valley. Great track, always in excellent shape and only complaint is if you play early morning, you have a HUGE chance of playing in fog. I did once and about the first 7 holes I had no idea where I was aiming for, where I was hitting to or see my ball past about 20 yards. Front nine sucked.

Likelihood you might hear the animals from San Francisco Zoo across the highway.

Enjoy the new sticks man.

Heh, no excuse for sucking now.

It's not the arrow, it's the Indian

Of course there is , wind , bad lies , noise in your back swing etc..

Bottom line bad shots are never your fault , having that type of mentality will do wonders to your game.

Thats alot of coin! Once Bitcoin hits 12,000 I'm gonna buy some PXG 0311 Gen3s. See if it makes any difference than my 16 yr old irons.

I love blades , grew up playing McGregor Muirfield 20th irons I hate the fact I don't play enough to be consistent with them anymore and have to use cavity muscle irons the AP2 are ok but feel is just not the same.

Those PXGs look nice, Never even heard of Dartgods new sticks before but those look nice as well.

Just a tip but I wouldn’t buy pxg. It’s pricey and I just wasn’t overly impressed.

I’ve always been a titleist guy but the ping blades and mizuno blades are more bang for your buck

IMO

Yep. Once I'm setup my swing thoughts are pretty simple.
1 Keep weight inside of right leg
2. Keep left arm as straight as possible
3. Strong left grip
4. Lastly focus on how close to the center of the club face I'm going to strike the ball.

I never tried the PXG but I Had few sets of Mizunos and there were the best feeling clubs around at the time, The AP2 are a nice performing club but well hit balls still don't feel as nice as the Mizuno forged.

I tried Ping blades back in the day when I was a 2 handicap. I wasn't good enough I didn't think and went back to players irons. I did love how they performed out of heavy rough. The smaller faces of blades make them cut thru the rough like butter

Have you ever tried a mix? Say cavity backs for 4 iron to 6 iron, blades from 7iron to PW? I've never been a great long iron player. I just cant hit them straight and hook them more than any club in the bag but maybe thats because everything is offset. My strength in my game is mid irons so I love blades for 7i to Wedge.

BTW, why do they make irons automatically offset? It drives me nuts. No one under a 12 handicap wants offset.

**** it. Bought one for me and one for my dad.

Never tried a mix but I assume it would make sense, I don't hit a high ball so long irons are not my strong suit not sure any amateur hits them well , I hti a pretty mean 2 iron off the tee on short par fours until I discovered hyrbids but I don't think i'm ready for 3-5 hyrbids just yet, and I concur on offset clubs drives me nuts.

My dad uses a full set of mizuno blades and does ok at 73 , shot his age(par 70) this year, but he is like me and would rather play with what he likes and struggle rather than go full game improvement.

Just sent an email asking for an application to the elite country club in the area. I played golf there when I was young on my dads membership so I know it well. I could have joined years ago but I didn't because to me it's a great responsibility and frankly I didn't want to be responsible. But it's time and I'm excited. I'm also buying a house there as well so woo who!

I have a like new set of Callaway Apex 19's arriving today. First time in a long time that I've bought a set of irons based on just hitting the demo, but as I get older and less flexible, the MP53's are getting harder and harder to hit consistently. Handicap has risen from 9 to 12 recently which is no bueno.

Looking forward to something more forgiving across the face, and not having to hit a sweet spot the size of a pencil eraser.

Where you goin?

HHCC

Nice

You’ll enjoy.

You will probably miss that buttery feel and feedback but long term new stick might help the game

I did the same thing, bought myself a birthday gift two years ago. It's a Garmin S20 GPS, I got it in a golf shop on sale for $129, comes white, black, etc, I chose black. It works good, and before that I had a Nikon/Callaway 1200 rangefinder, which is nice. However, you've got to shoot the pin everytime, it's sometimes hard to do and slows you down a bit. Now I just walk to my ball and I know the positions 1, 2 or 3 and I have front, middle and back distances right in front of me. I don't use the score part, I just write it on a scorecard cause I'm keep score for 3 others. It does sometimes take about 30 seconds to a minute to find the course initially, and sometimes you can forget to do it until in the fairway on the first hole and look and it's still tells me the time. That's another nice thing, it's a clock anytime I want.

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I was watching the 3M Tournament and the winner Michael Thompson was carrying a 7 wood. On one hole he was about 270 out and used that 7 and dropped the ball on the green straight down like iron. It was a thing of beauty.

I went on eBay and found a brand new Honma 7 wood, found several and they were $229 new. Found an auction for a new one and I bid and won it for $56 plus shipping. Not knowing how it would play, I didn't want to spend much more, but I figured what the heck. I took it last Friday and tried it twice and was terrible. I need to take it to the range. It's 21 degrees and I don't carry a fairway wood right now. I have a 4 hybrid which I hit about 175 and a 3 hybrid which I hit about 195 with rollout. I needed something for going over 200 without using my driver off the fairway.

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The last golf item I bought was for my Yamaha cart, I got an AM/FM console radio that goes into the roof. It was $159 brand new with free shipping on eBay. It's really nice although you can't really hear it when the cart is moving. However which you sitting still, you can hear it easily since the speakers are just about your head. I had to buy an eternal antenna and put on the roof for $20, it took about 2 hours of fooling around with it to get it installed and hooked up to the battery. This is the actual unit in my cart. I can pick up the Orlando channels 60 miles away. You can see I also installed a 12v fan I bought at Home Depot for $30.

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There's no way I could wear one of those GPS watches while I was playing. Especially in the heat and humidity.

I felt the same way, but after I put it on, it's on the same arm as your glove and it just feels like part of your glove. After you're wearing it you don't even think about and you never had to go looking for your rangefinder. For the past two months it's been 94 degrees or hotter here on the course, no problems.

Strap it on the steering wheel of your golf cart.

That's pretty cool. Needs to e XM Radio and bluetooth compliant.

I shanked 5 out of like 17 irons that I hit at the range yesterday. I am scared to golf this weekend.

Any shanking stories you guys got?

Typically my shanking comes just after I've played really well. I usually keep moving the ball more and more back in my stance to hit irons more crisp and then eventually it gets too far and the shanks come. Then I have to drop my hands, put the ball further away from me and up in my stance. Then fend off weaker contact for a while to avoid the hosel. I always smash driver when I have the shanks with my irons, strange how that happens.

You're smashing the ball with your driver because you're coming too far from the inside, which is great for a level angle of attack and hell when you have to hit down on the ball.

I fought the shanks for literally 10 years before doing a complete swing teardown.

Any time I would try to make a small swing change, I'd get the shanks. It took me years to understand why, and it all boils back to this:

When I was younger, like most players, I sliced the ball. My dad kept telling me that I was laying the club off. So, like most golfers, I overdid it. I built a swing with essentially no forearm rotation because I was afraid that doing so would get the club laid off, when in reality you need to rotate the forearms to set the club on the proper plane. As a result, my swing was incredibly steep and required phenomenal timing for me to play consistently. My feet were all over the place; it was a miracle I could ever play. I'd hit the ball dead in the center of the face and pull-hook a 9 iron 70 yards left.

Without seeing your swing on video, it's hard to quantify. Generally what happens is that you are out of balance and on the downswing your body is either moving towards the ball, you're losing your spine angle, or both.

One thing that helped me is to focus on turning my hips on the plane of my spine (that is, *not parallel to the ground, but parallel to my spine). In fact, it's one of the only thoughts in my backswing now. I find that if I focus on turning my hips (instead of the X-factor stuff by Jim McClean that ruined thousands of golf swings) I give my arms and body room to turn and clear on the downswing. Restricting your hips will not give you extra distance--it will only hurt your back and your golf swing.

I can't say this enough: most of the famous golf instructors of the 90s got almost everything about the golf swing completely wrong. Leadbetter, McClean, Rick Smith, etc. were all much, much better at marketing themselves than fixing golf swings.

You might already know this, but carrying a 3-hybrid and 7 wood is redundant for your distance gapping in most cases. You might find it easier to find a good 5 wood and use that off the deck. 7 woods are better from the rough (a few guys at the PGA used a 9 wood because of the thicker rough at Harding Park; Vijay Singh used to carry a 9 wood bent 7 degrees open) but will impart more spin and fly higher than a hybrid due to their lower center of gravity.

The wife and I and another couple are gonna go to whistling straits for a couple days next year apparently

****ing Covid, I was supposed to be in Scotland for 10 days the last of July

I thought about that, but I'm one of the few humans who still carries a flip phone, no smart phone to connect. I have XM in my car and you can get the radios for free from Sirius/XM but they add $6 a month onto your account. I actually wanted a CD player because I still have about 500 CD's, but a unit with a radio and CD was about $400. I could just change out the head and get a Kenwood AM/FM/CD from Best Buy for about $85, which I still might do. Now that's I've talked to a few people, they say a CD player doesn't work good in a golf cart, it skips too much.

I played again yesterday and tried the 7 wood one time, I'm finding it's much harder to hit. I used the 3 and 4 hybrid a lot with no problems, I might just end up selling it on eBay. I was looking for more height in shots to the green. I use to carry a 4 wood and I reached a par 5 that was 240 on my second shot a couple of times, I don't know why I sold that club, I might go back to that. Over on golfwrx a lot guys like the 4 wood, it's a good combination of the height of the 5 and the length of the 3, that's why I tried it.

Skytrak golf simulator. Can probably get one for about $5,000 altogether including launch monitor, projector, mats and netting.

Yay or nay? Anyone have experiences?

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I would imagine so.

Most recreational players should carry a 4-wood instead of a 3-wood, IMO. You lose a few yards, but it's much easier to launch.

I play a weird setup where I have a 5-wood set open to lower the loft and promote more of a fade. Plays like a 4-wood as a result. My 3-wood is more like a second driver with a bigger head and a Ti face. To be honest, I'd probably be better off shelving it for a gap wedge.

My dad has a simulator set up in his garage. It's tough to get it calibrated and I'm not sure we ever really did. It's fun to play on but we haven't gotten as much use out of it as I thought we would.

If I had the room and the resources ($$$) I would absolutely have something like that.

Do you know what launch monitor he has?

Tried swinging like this today during my round. Was hitting it 15 yards further but it was going all over hell. Just need to make sure you maintain your spine angle and turn more than sway. Helps get your hands as high as possible on the backswing.

Drove one 325 and also actually drove it over the green on an uphill 307 par 4. Interested if I can swing 120 mph now like this. Need to find a simulator. Give it a shot at the local wide open muni.

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I shelved the 3 wood a long time ago , I carry 2 hybrid, 3-p(46), 50-56-60 wedges , I haven't hit a fairway wood in 25 years and never missed it , I bought a 15 degree 3 wood few years ago but I never have it in the bag I use those 4 wedges way more than I would need a 3 wood .

Just hit a 470cc driver off the deck like a boss. If you swing 130 mph it will go in the air.

I've tried that twice. The first time wasn't a complete disaster. The second time was. There won't be a third.

Hahah yeah I like to try it, but it never works. If your shot is downhill and you have a perfect lie you can sometimes get away with it.

If your goal is to skip it across the water hazard it works great.

Not sure if any of you are gamers as well as golfers, but I'm downloading this and giving it a shot this weekend.

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What a couple of puts that was!!! Johnson made a hell of a put to force the playoff and then Rahm drains that 60+ footer to win it. Just amazing. These guys are good.

Eleven under over the last 37 holes on that course was pretty amazing golf by Rahm.

First night in the new house within the CC. I'll be to busy and hungover to do golf tomorrow but Thursday I'll be on the course, the range the quality short game facility. I've played on AVG to shit courses for way to long so I'm stoked!

My clubs are FINALLY ready (most of them anyway)! The 4 iron head is on back order and they are waiting on a shaft for one of the wedges. I'm heading out in about 45 minutes to pick them up.

It's been a loooong wait. I have my Church's scramble tournament tomorrow morning, so I'll get to put them to immediate use.

Trying to stream the US Open at work. Can't get any of the streams to work correctly.

Ah, stupid ad block & stop auto play killed it.

I would be happy with a 3-putt on some of these massive sloped greens at Winged Foot.

Fatprick Reed winning the US Open would be the most 2020 thing that could happen.

Guy misses every green. Makes pars. I want to see ball striking succeed.

I find it interesting that a guy who has been caught cheating by improving his lie multiple times somehow always has a great lie when he's missing fairways in 4+ inch rough.

I don’t follow the PGA all that close outside of the big tournaments and didn’t realize he had a this history until now.

He was also kicked off his college team for stealing and cheating.

Peter Kostis made news for talking about it earlier this year:


"I’ve seen Patrick Reed improve his lie up close and personal four times now. But putting…. You can go on YouTube. It’s the only time I’ve ever shut McCord up, he didn’t know what to say when I said ‘the lie that I saw originally wouldn’t have allowed for this shot.’ Because [Reed] put four, five clubs behind the ball, kind of faking whether he’s going to hit this shot or hit that shot – and by the time he was done, he hit a freaking 3 wood out of there. Which, when I saw it, it was a sand wedge layup originally, right?"


He caught a penalty for improving his lie in a waste area last year here:

https://youtu.be/nCuTyD5VhsM

His relationship with his parents is completely toxic. He even said he'd have them thrown out of a tournament if he knew they were there early in the round.

By most accounts he’s a loathsome person.

That’s a bit of a bummer about him. I know a fair number of members of his local club and they always have good things to say about him but easy with limited interaction.

How are you liking the i500s? I got 4 rounds in last week and was striking my irons as well as I have in a while and loving these things.

The last of my new clubs finally came in and I picked them up yesterday. Can't wait to get out and hit them.


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Yeah reed is an ass.

On a separate note

One of the guys I play with a lot played at South Carolina collegiately. Still is a stick, really good player. He played with matt kuchar a lot when he was at Georgia tech. Interesting to hear him talk about how the guys who were the best players in college generally aren’t the ones who made it on tour. A lot about luck and development I guess

I don't know if I can watch the final group much today. Two weird swings that are not really nice to watch. One guy just tries to gorilla it on every swing and the other guy has a really awkward twitchy forward press or something combined with a funky takeaway and rerouted swing. The Gorilla vs Twitchy.

I mean the guys who are good enough to make the PGA (or even Nationwide) are probably at that level by their middle college years if not earlier. Wouldn't you rather get paid to play golf rather than pay tuition to play?

Some are but not most.

The biggest breaking point on it is always cash. It costs a **** load to go out and try to make it. Most of those guys who are that good aren’t paying tuition anyway and the amount of experience they get in college without having to be paying for it is worth it.

It’s a lot different that the other sports. Very few if any guys come out and are ready to do it halfway thru college.

I equate golf with baseball. The guys who can get paid start getting it as earlier as they can.. though even Tiger played college ball.

Very amateur here... I hit some balls at the range last night and couldn't drive more than 200 yards. I'm going to blame it on my $50 garage sale clubs. I was shooting most balls straight. What's the key to getting more distance?

Vast majority of guys who try to not do college don’t make it

Pretty much everyone does it that way

Swing harder:D

Hit the weight room.






Or find save some cash, wait to see when a local club is doing a demo day with a pro on site to see your swing mechanics so he can recommend the club characteristics which are best for you.

Remember Ty Tryon?

Michelle Wie didn't really make it either.

Reaffirms what you are saying.

I think being swole can definitely help but it isn't the end all be all. I think being tall is the biggest determining factor of being long. One of the shortest hitters on my college golf team was the strongest, but he was just 5 ft 8. He spent and still does spend all of his time on golf specific work outs too. Hes now a PGA Teaching Pro specializing on fitness and I hit further than him while being barely above avg.

The longest kid on our golf team was a twig and couldn't bench the bar....but was 6'3''.

That too. Taller person, more distance between the clubhead at the apex of their swing and the ball on the ground -> higher club velocity.

How do you explain Ian Woosnam then? He was like 5'4 hitting the ball 300 yards. One of the longest hitters of his time eve fat Jack probably not even 6' could bomb with real wood drivers.

I’m no golfer but I think that is a bit of a stretch and over simplification. One of he longest and most consistent drivers of the ball I have known was this tiny Canadian guy I went to grad school with. 5’ 6” at most maybe 150, likely less but damn could he crush. 300+ dead straight time after time. He grew up playing hockey, was a scratch golfer and course pro for some years during undergrad.