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Hi Everyone, i ordered a new Qi 35 Driver, 10.5*, Regular Flex Diamoana shaft. Received by Fed X on Thursday, June 4th. Took to Precision Valley and had a "Jumbo Grip" installed. Friday morning, headed to Claflin, Ks. and played 18 holes. Front 9 wasn't to bad but I had hit my budddy's Qi with better success. Finally got a little more accustomed to the new club. I shot a 50. Back 9, I started hitting the driver really well with the Driver delievering longer and straight drives down the fairway. On my last drive, it was about 230 off the tee. I shot a 53. (We play for .10/hole; $1.; Birdie; $5 or an Eagle. I won $0.60) I was tired and headed home. (46 miles one way to play this course but the yearly rate is very cheap. They also have grass greens instead of sand.) I pull my Golf cart with a trailer.My nearest course witrh grass greens is 25 miles away. Saturday, I had the iPhone in do not disturb. Finally took it off of DND and I had a text from my golfing buddy that he wanted to play Hays late afternoon. So, he came by, picked my up and we headed to Hays. I was tired from playing 18 holes Friday and was hoping I could play 9 holes and call it a day. At Hays, KS.. I started off pretty rough and just could't seem to relax enough to hit well. (I was planning of finishing the front nine and the go home. However, on hole number 8, it's a 322 yard par 4, and I was able to get on in 2 and 2 putt for a par. #9 hole is a 114 yard par 3 and I hit an 8 iron and landed on the west edge of the fringe for pin high. Chipped up and 1 putted for another par. Front nine = 53 Headed to the back 9. Eerything started to click and #10 = 6; #11=5, #12 = 5, #13 = 4, #14 (Par 5) on in 3 and 2 ptted for par [Driver, 3 wood, and 9 iron and 2 putts] , #15 Par 4; I had a 6, #16 Par 4, I had a, #16 I had a 5, #17 Par 5, I had a 5. (Driver, 3 wood, 3 wood, 8 iron, 1 putt; #18 Par 3, I had a 4. BACK 9: I SHOT A 45! Yes sir, I like this Driver. I would like to go out again tomorrow but will see how I feel. My goal is to shoot my age before I turn 80 year old. So, backto Right handed clubs. Qi35 TaylorMade Driver, 3 Wood, Callaway Rogue; 5 Wood Callaway Rogue, Majek Hybrids 4-PW, A Wedge, Loft wedge (60*); White Hot Blade Putter. When I decided to change to the new driver, I went back to playing right handed. My hybrids are failrly new and are easier to hit. I do carry a conventional 7 iron in case I ge into a bad rough. I will keep you up to date as the summer moves on. Blessings, RetiredOldMan -
Went up to Erie to clean up some stuff with the distance wedges, short game, and driver. Distance Wedges Ball forward in stance. Less handle high at set up. Weight more in balls of feet (feels like more in the toes). Clubhead travels more up than around. Less arm and more pivot turn. Weight/pressure stays on lead foot. Pivot around left leg. Center of chest goes forward and up. Not back and down. Hands move down not out, so clubhead can move from the inside out (gets neural path). Don’t pull hands down which causes out to in path and hosel out at ball. A bit of wrist flexion. Though better path and pivot will help this. Short Game Similar to this wedges, ball is forward, except hands are higher at setup. Pivot with torso, keeping weight forward. Gravity brings the club back down to the ball. Body just pivot so the center goes forward and up, not back and down. Be patient on the transition and downswing. Let gravity take over. Driver Feel like hands are slowing down at A2. Fast early and put on the brakes. Stay wide with right elbow. Arms travel down chest, wrist flexion. Send the 10-deg text on the driver at the ground at 45 degree angle to target line. Wrist flexion should feel like it continues through impact with hands and club exiting out right. Don’t drag hands across body and exit left. -
I definitely prefer medal play, but then again, as @StuM points out, it's what I grew up with (or, in my case, began playing golf with -- I took up the sport in my early 20s). Interestingly, the unforgiveness level of it is something I really like. A friend of mine (a much better player than I am) won her club championship a few years ago. At her club, this is contested as match play, and something she didn't like was that her opponent could get a triple bogey on a hole she birdied and only drop a hole in the match. On the other hand, that's something I'm sure some people appreciate (especially the opponent who triple bogeyed that hole, I am sure). My club has a handful of tournaments it calls majors, and one is our Match Play tournament, which was my first big win (wow, over a decade ago). Of course, I won whatever flight I was in, not the top flight. Organizing and playing a large match play tournament, outside of the professional or top amateur ranks, is difficult. I think our medal play play-in was one day, 18 holes, but then we had to self-schedule with some reasonable deadlines, measured in weeks for each round. I think a flight with 16 people advancing to match play took a few months to resolve. Nice to watch as the summer unfolded I suppose. By contrast, our club championship is medal play, three rounds on three consecutive days (with a cut after two). I won this (well, my flight within it) twice, and the second time, I managed to keep to a great gameplan: out of 53 par attempts, I had putter in hand for 52 of them. I think I began that tournament with a handicap of ~13 and having two full rounds (and most of a third) where I at least had a putt for par on every hole (excluding the single birdie across the three days). Some of those par attempts were 40+ feet away, but having a putter in hand could limit the damage. A format that works well with both stableford and medal play is skins, either as the main event or as a side event; even if you have a terrible first hole, you could potentially pick up skins at the remaining holes. I was playing a tournament a month or so ago and a friend of mine, after a few holes, was clearly out of contention for the medal play portion, but he was in the skins game. He very plainly was playing for the skins in a match-play style manner, attempting shots he'd never consider if he were trying to post a low total score for the day (I think he shot 108 or something). -
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