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Mixed up some practice with some scramble/par 3 course practice over the last few days.

Hit balls last Thursday and had a nice breakthrough. Found that cupping my left wrist at address, for some reason, really helped me square the clubhead with the driver. The feel I get is that I've "released" the club while at address, and hit helped me hit a lot more solid tee shots. Played in a little scramble on Friday with the wife, playing from the gold tees. I can say this was easily the best I've hit the ball off the tee (taking into consideration the format). Drove one green from 282yds, and averaged over 270 and straight for the round, only one shot offline was a push that wasn't too bad...just a tight fairway.

Saturday I hit balls with my father and had a similar experience, bombing driver with a little draw. Found that I have to slow down my hands a bit as I did hit a few ugly hooks. We played a little par 3 course on the way home in 30-40mph winds. This is the first time I'd tried some knockdown shots from 120yds, and found it to be pretty straightforward with a 7i. This will come in handy if it's ever that windy again, and for "trouble" shots in normal conditions. Put the ball back in my stance and used and abbreviated follow through. Missed most of the greens due to the wind, so had a good chance to work on the short game to TINY greens. Felt very good about some of the bump and runs I pulled off...still learning this technique. I still need to get more aggressive with flying any kind of ledge to the green, hit a few bumps into an upslope that left the ball well short. Pitches with my 52* were very solid, feeling better technique-wise now that I'm rocking my shoulders to hit these shots. All in all a good couple days of practice.

Also, found a 13* CB2 w/95S Grafalloy Prolaunch Blue that is a CANNON, and got it for a steal from a local course back home. I have a 15* CB1, but the strong 3 is ridiculously long and feels better then the 65g NV in the 15*. Will be interesting to try this on the course.

Driver: i15 8* UST Axivcore Red 69S
3w: CB1 15* Grafalloy Prolaunch Platinum 75s
5w: G10 18.5* UST V2 HL
3h: HiFli CLK 20* UST V2 Hybrid
4h: 3DX 23* UST V2 Hybrid5i-pw: MX-23 TT Dynalite Gold S300GW/SW: RAC 52*and 56*Putter: SabertoothBag: KingPin


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