Also started using my 7i more around the greens. Find I’m more consistent just doing a little bump and run
Yesterday I was taking penalty strokes off the tee but only had 1 three put. Today I kept my driver in play but three putted everything... It's a frustrating game.
I've never had a shanks issue, been playing about 5 years and it's maybe happened to me a couple times. Hit about 5 of them on the course last weekend, which is fun considering I haven't been able to drive the ball lately but my irons were fine. Totally flipped that hitting some really nice drives and then couldn't hit my irons worth shit. Golf's hard.
Shanks are such a mental thing. I’m the same way in terms of a shank being super rare for me. But when I hit one, I hit about 10 in the same round. Got so bad once I just had my group drop me off after the 9th. I wanted to snap every club in my bag.
Yep, that was the reason. I started to hit it pretty good after moving away from the ball and never looked back. Honestly, whatever action someone has would probably work if they spent the same amount of time I did on the range and, more importantly, around the practice green. Just about anything can work if it repeats.
Makes perfect sense. I completely agree, it doesn't matter what set up or action you have. If it works and you can repeat it, you're ahead of the game
Fuck these people https://www.savannahnow.com/sports/...eme?template=ampart&__twitter_impression=true
Brooks and Finau are playing together today and wearing the exact same outfit. Same bright pink pink shirt and same black nike pants. After one hole Brooks put on a pullover.
Will the USGA consider changing the golf ball? It's a shame seeing so many of these iconic golf courses becoming more and more obsolete. The only defense now is to have thick rough, narrow fairways, and concrete greens. Very little strategy involved in how these architects designed the holes to be played. Also, the amount of property it takes now to build a championship golf course is getting to be crazy. I know it's difficult to go backwards, but I really think changing the golf ball or driver technology would be a really simple change that would improve the game. I know this isn't a new idea but just curious to hear some thoughts.
They seem hellbent on trying to keep the rules identical between pros and amateurs, despite literally every data point showing that’s a terrible idea and becoming exponentially worse as time goes on. Their hand will eventually be forced in that direction. It becomes a matter of how long they plan on being ignorant to it before they bite the bullet, IMO.
I think you could keep the rules basically the same. Just tee it forward if you're an amateur. I play a lot of golf with 2 guys who were both former State Am champions. They're both 72 years old and talk about when they were 30, they would hit 4 irons into the 1st hole at our club. Now, they're hitting 7 irons at age 72. Interesting hearing their perspective. They're not the bullshitting "we walked to school uphill both ways" type guys or anything either. That wasn't their angle. More discussing how expensive it is to build new golf courses to keep up with equipment.
Well a different ball for Ams and Pros is technically “different rules”, which the USGA is nuts about.
Just took the plunge on a new set of custom irons. Went with the Mizuno JPX 919 hot metals. Hoping they make it in by the weekend.
I don't think making the golf ball fly shorter is the right move. It wouldn't fix the advantage that the longer players have on tour because the shorter hitters would also be hitting it proportionally shorter. I'm also a proponent of keeping rules the same between pros and ams. Don't make the game more confusing/complex. My "solution" would be to change course setups if the tour thinks there is an issue.
Do courses tend to alter setup more or just push tee boxes back more? You can put obstacles/dog legs into par 4s and 5s to even things out, but is that prohibitively expensive for a lot of courses? Like putting trees, ponds, creeks, etc. at ~275 yds. and forcing longer players to hit shorter.
Well the Tour has no problem with the length issue as it stands right now. They actually set up golf courses easier than private clubs do for their own membership in order to increase birdie opportunities. “Live Under Par” is actually a real thing. It’s the USGA and R&A that care.
Forgot to respond to this. My miss is usually me coming out-in (could be too far away from the ball as well), but I feel like I still get good shaft lean -- so I would assume that if the toe is going to get hit from pulling in it will be the top?
MLB players aren't out there with metal bats, I dont see the big deal with different equipment between pros and am's. You don't have to make the ball shorter, make it so that it sounds more and would penalize imperfect shots more. The dispersion on drives today is like the same as back when they were hitting it 290. Make it more risky to bomb it .
Agreed, but make the longer guys at least have to hit 8/9 irons into greens instead of 58* all day long.
Yea i'm very pro shortening the ball. The NLU guys mentioned it and i've never thought about it before. How weird would it be if tennis players could choose their own ball. i realize it's a different comparison because that's direct competition but standardizing one ball for everyone and making it fly less is ideal IMO. just not ideal for the golf ball companies.
You're wasting key strokes even typing this. The golf ball manufacturers would sue so quickly. Tbh, preposterous idea.
This would basically just necessitate a spinny-er golf ball, which is what existed prior to the ProV1. The issue with that is that it’s a lot easier to measure and regular ball speed (which directly correlates with distance) than it is to measure and regulate spin rate. Beyond that, it will give a huge advantage to players who hit the ball a massively long way and accurately despite high spin rates. Koepka would win every event.
I don't have the answer on how to accomplish it. I'm just speaking in theory, if you could reduce driving distance by 10-20 yards (slower swing speeds would see less change in distance), I think that would be a good thing for golf across the board, including amateurs. Long hitters will always have an advantage, which is normal. I just hate seeing golf courses having to play 7600 yds. I do agree that nothing is wrong with having par at 68-70 more often.
Broke 100 for the first time in a while yesterday. Was at 38 after 8 on the back side and tracking for my best 9 ever. Had a 210 yard layup off the tee and hit s 5 iron past it and into the water. Farthest best I've ever hit that club, was completely rattled. Missed the island green with my drop, made 8, shot 46.
That's brutal. Easy to get really pissed and rattled at breaks like that, but when I go long and I didn't think there was any way I could I try to look at it for the fact that I just hit a very solid shot that was unfortunately a little too solid. Trying to get better about shaking off bad breaks even though there are countless times I want to pull a Reed like that
For the past few (really more than few) years my game has been sliding backwards for a variety of reasons. I still have moments where I can hit shots like I used to but doing it for all 18 holes is impossible. But that ends now, I am setting a goal for myself that by the end of 2020 I’m breaking 70.