My Swing (amoline)

[Hardspoon]

10 minutes ago, amoline said:

Anyway, that's not to say that's an excuse or anything, but I'm also not sure how one improves on that. Maybe I have bad eyes, lol. 

Buy a rangefinder. 

[amoline]

1 hour ago, amoline said:

Also, I didn't have my rangefinder as my brother had it for school tryouts, so I was bad at distance. Shame, too because after seeing on GG how far some of those shots really were, I wouldn't have ever chosen the club I did had I known. 

@Hardspoon see first post.

Not as unprepared as I look, so ha!  I'm just a very good sibling and put his tryouts over my 9 hole exec. course round. Haha. Would do much better with the rangefinder next time though, I agree. 

[Hardspoon]

Just now, amoline said:

@Hardspoon see first post.

Not as unprepared as I look, so ha!  I'm just a very good sibling and put his tryouts over my 9 hole exec. course round. Haha. Would do much better with the rangefinder next time though, I agree. 

Whoopsie!  New answer...be a worse sibling?

[DaveP043]

20 hours ago, amoline said:

Not as unprepared as I look, so ha!  I'm just a very good sibling and put his tryouts over my 9 hole exec. course round. Haha. Would do much better with the rangefinder next time though, I agree. 

Congrats for being a good brother.  But you know, we managed to play golf before lasers and GPS were invented.  Next time you're out, look around and see what kind of yardage markers there might be on the course.  Even if you don't pace off distances, you can probably look at a 100 or 150 yard indicator and estimate a distance to get you in the ballpark.  I know I'm much better at distinguishing the difference between 20 and 30 yards to the marker than I am distinguishing the difference between 120 and 130 yards to the green. 

Congrats on another front too.  I read your post from July 5, comparing your swing from a year ago to your current swing, and the improvement is remarkable.  Keep up the good work!

 

[amoline]

Thanks a bunch, @DaveP043! I agree with everything you said. 

I mainly was just playing to try out Game Golf for the first time and do a little practice. This particular course has no sprinkler yardage markers like I'm used to. If I'm completely honest, I'm not sure the course even has sprinklers. The history behind it was that it used to be an IBM employee-only course, and then IBM sold it and it's now family owned and operated. There is very little upkeep to be frank and it's just not a great course -- but it costs $10 to play 9 holes all the time on a week day so it's just a good place to go and hit it around a little bit.

Compared to usual, the greens were just awfully slow. Don't think I left one putt long all day! 

Thanks much for the compliment

[amoline]

Have some awesome news and a little story (and pictures!) 

first of all I wanted to give a huge, massive thanks to PING for really taking care of me, putting up with requests, and doing everything they could to make me happy. Which is not always easy to do.  I think I've been more or less converted . I've always wanted a set of PING clubs and now it has happened  

New sticks came in today! And they look awesome.  

Recently a close friend was diagnosed with cancer, so those close to them are trying to show our constant support in any way we can. Plus, pink is really my favorite color.   And as we all know, PING is not a stranger to mixing pink with their golf equipment, so I cannot express truly how thankful I am to everyone with PING for doing this for me. The alignment line (bottom groove) is also in pink but I wasn't able to upload that as well because of file size.   

cant wait to hit these. Kind of. Part of me also wants to put them in a shadow box so I can drool forever  

[mchepp]

Very Nice!

[amoline]

Again I find myself here posting a huge THANK YOU to all the folks at PING in AZ. What an awesome company. I can't believe the lengths they have gone to for me, "just a customer." Now I will shout praises from all golf courses.  

I got to my new driver in action today, and it's definitely an adjustment to my last setup; however, it looks just so awesome that it's hard to pass up, and the shaft definitely did its thing in lowering my ball flight! I think it's funny that this setup happened to be what I was custom fit into. (And when golf works tells you the only shaft they have is pink...) Had some major time heel hits on it, just horrible shots, but that was because I hit way more golf balls than normal today, as it was a day off school so I had to make it worthwhile! It's the same mistake I always make when I'm tired, though. (After all, strike will be me all the time anyway).  It's a definite heavier set up than I'm used to, but all in all very pleased with it. I am so thankful for PING and what they did to get this driver to me. 

Proud to represent PING at my home course, tournaments, and proud to show off the pink and the causes it supports.

What was not a bad shot at all, though, was this awesome in-action picture a fellow photographer friend was able to get of me today!

Keep on swingin' 

 

[amoline]

One of the first videos I've done after practicing with the new irons. 

Having some issues hitting things left (as is evident in this clip), but not too displeased with the swing as a whole. Driver swing is a different story

 

[amoline]

Been awhile since I've been able to drop by TST! Guess that's what happens with school. We are most definitely cheating the weather here in CO. It was 52 degrees today, so I went to hit some balls. Still just working on smoothing out transition and improving sequence. Swing much more compact now, which lets me get my hands more forward at impact.  Reasonably satisfied with how things are going though. 

 

 

[amoline]

Annnnnddd... we can clearly see where Andrew needs to work on his game this coming season

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[iacas]

On 1/6/2017 at 1:50 PM, amoline said:

Annnnnddd... we can clearly see where Andrew needs to work on his game this coming season.

Indeed!