Why is it unbelievable I can drive 300+ ?

[bplewis24]

Well, since this thread has gone on this long, I will admit it is nice to know we will get some actual results.

[Golfingdad]

Good luck, Jimbo!

[Beachcomber]

Jimbo... Make sure you drink a 5 hour energy before the Trackman session.

[Valleygolfer]

No red wine, red meat and cheese. Black cherry juice helps. Remember to swing easy.

[bplewis24]

Originally Posted by Valleygolfer

No red wine, red meat and cheese.

That's basically what my father had to cut out.

[bunkerputt]

Good luck James.  My suggestion:  forget about this thread when you go.  Don't try to prove people wrong and swing out of your shoes every time.  You'll end up wasting your trackman session and all the time and money you spent.  Try to just make your playing swing and see what your numbers are.  That way there may be a bunch of internet mavens saying, "See!  I told you so", but you'll have yardages that you can carry away to lower your scores.  In the end, you are the one who matters to your improvement.  Good luck again.

[iacas]

Originally Posted by bunkerputt

Try to just make your playing swing and see what your numbers are. That way there may be a bunch of internet mavens saying, "See!  I told you so", but you'll have yardages that you can carry away to lower your scores.  In the end, you are the one who matters to your improvement.  Good luck again.

The bold deserves to be repeated.

Frankly, I hope you do hit some drives that show as 300. But if you don't, don't waste the session trying to get them.

[onesome]

Just to clarify this, what does the OP have to actually accomplish? Does he have to consistently hit the ball all carry 300+ our just reach it carry and roll? Or does he just have to carry 300+ once or carry and roll just once? Or imo I think he has to show some level of consistently to hit it at our near 300+ with no editing.

[Spyder]

Personally, I'm cynical at times and it's always easier to just laugh off a claim (I think all of us are, it just depends to what extent, how often and who can admit it). The problem is, most people cannot admit that they are like that.

Best of luck to you! Once you've lived through enough and have gone through enough, it's quite easy to offer up an "I'm sorry, you were right and I was wrong" statement and I will be the first one to do that for you. You're already gaining in my book by scheduling a session to begin with - but make sure you're doing it for your own game and not for the keyboard warriors out there.

[LovinItAll]

I'd like to see two things: 1. 300+ yard drives 2. People choking on the nasty, snide remarks they made to you Have fun at your session!

[RonTheSavage]

Good Luck my man!

[Beachcomber]

Jimbo's been working on out on his Somax hip trainer.  300yds?  Yeah - with a 3-wood!!

[tiger187126]

Originally Posted by onesome

Just to clarify this, what does the OP have to actually accomplish? Does he have to consistently hit the ball all carry 300+ our just reach it carry and roll? Or does he just have to carry 300+ once or carry and roll just once? Or imo I think he has to show some level of consistently to hit it at our near 300+ with no editing.

i think the whole 300 carry was put in his mouth by other posters here. i don't think he ever claimed 300 all carry, i think he just said he hit some drives that have gone 300. it's been hard to follow but there have been a lot of claims he never made being tacked on.

like i brought up before, i hit a drive on a certain length hole and when i get up to it and i only have so many yards left and i subtract from the total length it has ended up over 300. that could be hole design, elevation, roll, etc., but i could say it was a 300 yard drive and it would be true.

people began to point out that hard fairways might be helping him, but he never said i hit 300+ at sea level into a strong headwind. again, just more crap thrown into his original post by people who take another's ability to hit a little white ball a long way too personally.

[TourSpoon]

Jimbo Slice, I hope you get a 350 on the Trackman and become a YouTube sensation! Good luck.

[brgolf]

Put a 30mph wind behind me and I'll give you a 300 yard drive. It is the people who claim that it is their average drive that I have trouble believing them and there is no doubt that this relates to handicap. A 20 handicap could very well hit 1 300 yard drive every 25 shots. He can't average it. In fact some of his drives will be 75 yards into thick rough way right of the tee box. That is what being a 20 handicap is.

[tiger187126]

Originally Posted by brgolf

Put a 30mph wind behind me and I'll give you a 300 yard drive. It is the people who claim that it is their average drive that I have trouble believing them and there is no doubt that this relates to handicap. A 20 handicap could very well hit 1 300 yard drive every 25 shots. He can't average it. In fact some of his drives will be 75 yards into thick rough way right of the tee box. That is what being a 20 handicap is.

yeah, but these guys don't say straight when they say 300. guys do make a point to attack 300 claims with self-reassuring claims that they can hit 250 straight down the middle every time, which is just as big of an exaggeration as the 300 claim, but it's usually made by better golfers.

but it is the internet, so why expect any truth at all, unless you're that girl from the commercial dating the french model because "you can't put anything on the internet that isn't true."

[Spyder]

Originally Posted by tiger187126

i think the whole 300 carry was put in his mouth by other posters here. i don't think he ever claimed 300 all carry, i think he just said he hit some drives that have gone 300. it's been hard to follow but there have been a lot of claims he never made being tacked on.

like i brought up before, i hit a drive on a certain length hole and when i get up to it and i only have so many yards left and i subtract from the total length it has ended up over 300. that could be hole design, elevation, roll, etc., but i could say it was a 300 yard drive and it would be true.

people began to point out that hard fairways might be helping him, but he never said i hit 300+ at sea level into a strong headwind. again, just more crap thrown into his original post by people who take another's ability to hit a little white ball a long way too personally.

That is not true.

Take the letter  "S". Say this was a 600 yard, fantasy Par 5 where you begin on the lower left end of the S and work to the top right. Following the fairway may be 600 yards, but cutting from the lower left to the top right may only be 240 yards. Driving the green in this fantasy, made up scenario, Par 5 is not a 600 yard drive, but a 240 yard drive.

Again, I think people brought up the fact that "clearing trees on a dog leg" doesn't mean you drove the hole's listed length. Tracking the ball from Point A through its entire path of travel to it's resting place of Point B is what you would need to do. Not go to Point B and subtract your distance from the green or look at a nearby yardage marker.

[Jimdangles]

Originally Posted by Spyder

That is not true.

Take the letter  "S". Say this was a 600 yard, fantasy Par 5 where you begin on the lower left end of the S and work to the top right. Following the fairway may be 600 yards, but cutting from the lower left to the top right may only be 240 yards. Driving the green in this fantasy, made up scenario, Par 5 is not a 600 yard drive, but a 240 yard drive.

Again, I think people brought up the fact that "clearing trees on a dog leg" doesn't mean you drove the hole's listed length. Tracking the ball from Point A through its entire path of travel to it's resting place of Point B is what you would need to do. Not go to Point B and subtract your distance from the green or look at a nearby yardage marker.

thats why when you play certain dog leg holes the card will say 350 but a gps will say 280 or whatever.

For what its worth I played in vegas this weekend and the ball really does fly further. I played a straight forward par 5 dead straight either 502 or 510 I dont remember but even call it 490. I was able to go driver 8 iron and my friend went driver 7 iron. On a short par 5 last week i went driver 5 iron over water dog leg right. So that hole wasnt playing as long because of the little dog leg but going driver 8 iron with a 175 yard 8 iron was still a 300+ yard drive. The fairways were also fairly soft. I think Jimbo truly may have been tricked into thinking he hits 300 yard shots and its very possible that he does. Would he at sea level? maybe not but that is never what he claimed. Another thing he stated from the beginning was if he were to go to the driving range and you watched him hit 20 balls he is sure 1 of them would go 300. He never claimed all carry either.