9 minutes ago, iacas said:

So the advice from last week…?

I am still trying to come up with a practice schedule that I can commit to.

@dagolfer18, are you keeping stats or strokes gained data? Also, pardon my slight criticism, but you seem to be playing much more than practicing. Is that part of the plan?

I feel like you have a unique opportunity, and since you've posted on pubilc forum I feel I can ask,, "what have you accomplished this week?"

1 minute ago, mohearn said:

@dagolfer18, are you keeping stats or strokes gained data? Also, pardon my slight criticism, but you seem to be playing much more than practicing. Is that part of the plan?

I feel like you have a unique opportunity, and since you've posted on pubilc forum I feel I can ask,, "what have you accomplished this week?"

I do not keep strokes gained data, but I honestly I should probably start doing that. I do keep stats on GHIN though.

I do typically play a lot, but I’m starting to lean more towards practice. At least, I would like to start to lean more toward practice. In my practice plan (still in progress) I currently have a “practice on weekdays, play on weekends” sort of setup; but that could change.

As for what I’ve accomplished this week, I seem to have stabilized my lag putting.

32 minutes ago, iacas said:

Dude.

It doesn't take anything except actually doing it.

• Have you started a Member Swing topic? No.
• Did you practice more this week than you had in many previous weeks? No.

So what are you doing? It's been another week. As you note, the semester is over in a little over a month.

These kinds of things aren't "fixed" for good.

Look, I'm trying to give you a kick in the butt. You need to improve more than you've ever improved at golf in the next year or two. And you're dragging your feet on even making a plan to do so?

Thank you for this @iacas. I’ll be honest, my lesson Thursday will be only my third lesson this semester, and my second full swing lesson. That is on me for not going after more instruction, whether from one of the instructors there or here on the forum. I am completely willing to own that.

I think a large part of the reason I don’t have a specific practice schedule is because I don’t have anything specific to practice. That is partly why I have a lesson Thursday. And here’s what else I’ll do:

•I am planning on going to the range tomorrow. I’ll have someone take a video of my swing at whatever angles needed.

•I will post those videos to a My Swing thread.

I saw in the article it said a tripod is pretty much a must, but I unfortunately don’t have one. Would I do ok if I just had someone film my swing at the angles described?

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Then I got to the par-5 17th where two pars would give me an 83 on the day.

But then I pulled my drive into the creek on the left, and it all went downhill from there. I limped off the green with a quad

Even if you did choose the wrong club off the tee and hit it into the creek, assuming you dropped next to the creek and were at least what, 100 yds or more off the tee box, laying 3 after the drop? I'd personally be more concerned that it took you 6 strokes to hole out from what, like 350 maybe 400yds than I would be that my tee shot went into a creek on a narrow hole. 

What was the sequence of shots after you dropped that lead to the quad?

7 minutes ago, klineka said:

Even if you did choose the wrong club off the tee and hit it into the creek, assuming you dropped next to the creek and were at least what, 100 yds or more off the tee box, laying 3 after the drop? I'd personally be more concerned that it took you 6 strokes to hole out from what, like 350 maybe 400yds than I would be that my tee shot went into a creek on a narrow hole. 

What was the sequence of shots after you dropped that lead to the quad?

3rd: Fat with an iron out of the rough, left me 230 out uphill.

4th: Actually a pretty solid shot but it hopped into a greenside bunker

5th: Off a downhill lie, I caught all ball and it flew over the green

6th: Out of fluffy rough I got almost directly under the ball and it didn’t make it to the green.

The second chip was better, but still not great. It left me about eight feet, and that one lipped out.

Honestly after the drop I should’ve made no worse than a double but it just turned into a blowup hole that got under my skin.

1 hour ago, dagolfer18 said:

I saw in the article it said a tripod is pretty much a must, but I unfortunately don’t have one. Would I do ok if I just had someone film my swing at the angles described?

For $45-$50 dollars, you can get a set up that will last you years. This is nearly identical to what I have. 

11 hours ago, dagolfer18 said:

Thank you for this @iacas. I’ll be honest, my lesson Thursday will be only my third lesson this semester, and my second full swing lesson. That is on me for not going after more instruction, whether from one of the instructors there or here on the forum. I am completely willing to own that.

I think a large part of the reason I don’t have a specific practice schedule is because I don’t have anything specific to practice. That is partly why I have a lesson Thursday. And here’s what else I’ll do:

•I am planning on going to the range tomorrow. I’ll have someone take a video of my swing at whatever angles needed.

•I will post those videos to a My Swing thread.

If you are on your third lesson, and you had nothing specific to work on yourself, then get a new teacher. Lessons are not a place for you to hit the ball solid and feel good afterwards. It is a place to figure out what you need to work on and how to work on it by yourself such that the next time you take a lesson you should be improving on that or need to work on something else.

Example, 

In my previous lesson, we figured out what to work on. Then spent the lesson working on feels that get the club and body to do what we want it to do. Which means, it feels strange and in some instances dumbfounding. Then, it is my job to work with these feels over the winter to ingrain muscle memory to change the image of my swing. 

There are times where I will hit the top of the ball, or almost whiff at the ball because my focus is on the swing, not hitting a ball. A lot of times, those type of results produce the best change in the swing. I know when I go play, I can get back to focusing on the ball and find contact again. 

3 hours ago, dagolfer18 said:

I saw in the article it said a tripod is pretty much a must, but I unfortunately don’t have one. Would I do ok if I just had someone film my swing at the angles described?

There are plenty of cheap tripods available on amazon. I have the one below, which was less than $25 and it works fine. I also have a LivePod2 tripod ($50) that I previously used with my Live View Pro camera, it is a little easier to set up then a more traditional style tripod.

https://www.amazon.com/UBeesize-Adjustable-Smartphone-Bluetooth-Compatible/dp/B07QJVB3YF?pd_rd_w=SCAJn&content-id=amzn1.sym.deffa092-2e99-4e9f-b814-0d71c40b24af&pf_rd_p=deffa092-2e99-4e9f-b814-0d71c40b24af&pf_rd_r=WX5FGHWRMV30839FPTZC&pd_rd_wg=gD0Ds&pd_rd_r=19ee464e-c3c6-45e7-af8e-0dcd770377be&pd_rd_i=B07QJVB3YF&ref_=pd_bap_d_rp_1_t&th=1

There's also the Selfie Golf setup that uses a camera holder that clips onto an alignment stick, which can be staked in the ground or clipped to your bag.

https://www.amazon.com/SelfieGolf-Record-Golf-Swing-Accessories/dp/B07PRJK85J/ref=sr_1_3?gclid=Cj0KCQjwkt6aBhDKARIsAAyeLJ2oNFQT0LJBOL-uyxnScT9xljVbOsmtkyQp6JKZsu_gUVkggolqPQ0aAhUzEALw_wcB&hvadid=616991211242&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9032065&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=121851951428043742&hvtargid=kwd-96413416114&hydadcr=24664_13611849&keywords=selfie+golf&qid=1666715308&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIyLjYwIiwicXNhIjoiMi4zNCIsInFzcCI6IjIuMjIifQ%3D%3D&sr=8-3

Quick question: how do I convert the video’s URL to a non-shorts URL? I got as far as uploading the two videos to YouTube but they uploaded as shorts and not regular videos.