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Day 62 - Slow motion swings with a weighted club in front of a mirror followed by a few minutes of putting practice. 

  • Clubs: Ping, Callaway, SeeMore
  • Other: Snell MTB Black; Vice Pro Soft; Callaway ORG 7 bag; Shot Scope X5; True Linkswear 
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Day 116, February 24, 2023

Procrastinated a little with some putting work today. Working on my presentation.

Erik J. Barzeski —  I knock a ball. It goes in a gopher hole. 🏌🏼‍♂️
Director of Instructor Development, 5 Simple Keys®/Golf Evolution • Owner, The Sand Trap .com • AuthorLowest Score Wins • Golf Digest "Best Young Teachers in America" 2016-17 • "Best in State" 2017-20 • WNY Section PGA Teacher of the Year 2019 • Penn-State Behrend Head Coach • • • • • • • • • • :aimpoint: :edel: :true_linkswear:

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Day 62. Slow indoor drill work because winter came back to visit.

Scott

Titleist, Edel, Scotty Cameron Putter, Snell - AimPoint - Evolvr - MirrorVision

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Day 84: 2/24/2023

I got lots of putting practice in today. I did the gate drills and numerous putt-out drills. I didn't use the devil ball today. 

I also got to hit balls first thing this morning in the garage net. Everything felt pretty good, which means I'd better get some video to see if or how much I've reverted. I'll try and do that tomorrow morning. In the meantime, I got in front of the mirror for slow motion swings for about 5 or 10 minutes today, trying to get a feel for what the swing I'm trying to do feels like. 

My bag is an ever-changing combination of clubs. 

A mix I am forever tinkering with. 

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Day 55: Mirror work, playing around with the new downswing drill I’m working on. Looks like it’s something I can do, as long as I’m doing it fairly slowly. 

-- Daniel

In my bag: :callaway: Paradym :callaway: Epic Flash 3.5W (16 degrees)

:callaway: Rogue Pro 3-PW :edel: SMS Wedges - V-Grind (48, 54, 58):edel: Putter

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Day 63 - Snowing out today, so indoor practice. Worked on chip and run shots with my 8i and SW (using an AlmostGOLF ball) today for about 20 minutes.

  • Clubs: Ping, Callaway, SeeMore
  • Other: Snell MTB Black; Vice Pro Soft; Callaway ORG 7 bag; Shot Scope X5; True Linkswear 
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Day 63. Same as yesterday plus a Fit for Golf workout. Slow indoor drill work because winter came back to visit.

Scott

Titleist, Edel, Scotty Cameron Putter, Snell - AimPoint - Evolvr - MirrorVision

My Swing Thread

boogielicious - Adjective describing the perfect surf wave

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Day 1 (25 Feb 23) - (Missed posting yesterday and had not hit the full month since restarting, so it’s time to begin again.)  Today was more short “greenside style” pitches, staying in bump and run mode using the 9i.  Working with ball position in stance.  

Ping G400 SFT 10deg  R flex
Ping G410 3w R flex
Ping G400 3h and 4h R flex
Taylormade SLDR 5i thru PW graphite shaft R flex
Cleveland CBX wedges - 50, 54, 58 or 52, 58 (depending on my mood)
Odyssey Versa or White Steel #5
Srixon Q Star

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Day 85: 2/25/2023

I putted on the office putting mat and did my overspeed training. 

My bag is an ever-changing combination of clubs. 

A mix I am forever tinkering with. 

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2/25/223

I use 7 iron for working on particular items.

Today was working on trail arm "down"

working on aggressive transition and down and thru

working on imagining/seeing club path and duplicate with out thought and free loose swing, no tension

Total 60 balls with 7 iron; last 20 were speed and no thinking.

40 balls with 8 iron, same, speed and no thinking.

20 balls 5 iron, same, speed and no thinking.

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Day 117, February 25, 2023

18 balls after a fairly long day. Hit a few (three?) at medium speed without stopping. Really getting back to some old good feels.

Erik J. Barzeski —  I knock a ball. It goes in a gopher hole. 🏌🏼‍♂️
Director of Instructor Development, 5 Simple Keys®/Golf Evolution • Owner, The Sand Trap .com • AuthorLowest Score Wins • Golf Digest "Best Young Teachers in America" 2016-17 • "Best in State" 2017-20 • WNY Section PGA Teacher of the Year 2019 • Penn-State Behrend Head Coach • • • • • • • • • • :aimpoint: :edel: :true_linkswear:

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Day 64 - Putting practice: mirror with gates to check setup and then swing putter head between gates, putt through a gate set 3' in front of ball, aiming practice. Finished with slow motion swings with a weighted club. 

  • Clubs: Ping, Callaway, SeeMore
  • Other: Snell MTB Black; Vice Pro Soft; Callaway ORG 7 bag; Shot Scope X5; True Linkswear 
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Day 118, February 26, 2023

Just 18 balls today with focus on the downswing.

Erik J. Barzeski —  I knock a ball. It goes in a gopher hole. 🏌🏼‍♂️
Director of Instructor Development, 5 Simple Keys®/Golf Evolution • Owner, The Sand Trap .com • AuthorLowest Score Wins • Golf Digest "Best Young Teachers in America" 2016-17 • "Best in State" 2017-20 • WNY Section PGA Teacher of the Year 2019 • Penn-State Behrend Head Coach • • • • • • • • • • :aimpoint: :edel: :true_linkswear:

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Day 64. Indoor work this morning with slow swings then I did some mirror work at the gym in the afternoon focused on backswing.

Scott

Titleist, Edel, Scotty Cameron Putter, Snell - AimPoint - Evolvr - MirrorVision

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boogielicious - Adjective describing the perfect surf wave

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Day 2 (26 Feb 23) - Picked back up with choked down bump and run shots in the backyard that had to fly under the limbs of the tulip tree (read - had to keep shots 5ft at the apex at about 30 yards - and the tree is about halfway the distance).  Too high and it rattles the limbs, too low and it stops way short.  Having those upper and lower controls really forced focus on swing speed and ball position. 

Ping G400 SFT 10deg  R flex
Ping G410 3w R flex
Ping G400 3h and 4h R flex
Taylormade SLDR 5i thru PW graphite shaft R flex
Cleveland CBX wedges - 50, 54, 58 or 52, 58 (depending on my mood)
Odyssey Versa or White Steel #5
Srixon Q Star

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Day 86: 2/26/2023

Went to the indoor range early today. Filmed my swing to see where it was in terms of the stuff I've been working on. I was actually pretty pleased. Looks like I'm making progress. So, after filming my swing I did my work on my priority pieces and then worked on chipping for 15 minutes. Hit driver a half dozen times. Then worked on pitch shots for about 20 minutes. 

My bag is an ever-changing combination of clubs. 

A mix I am forever tinkering with. 

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Day 57: Did a super speed session and some mirror work. 

-- Daniel

In my bag: :callaway: Paradym :callaway: Epic Flash 3.5W (16 degrees)

:callaway: Rogue Pro 3-PW :edel: SMS Wedges - V-Grind (48, 54, 58):edel: Putter

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    • Day 144 - Played 18 holes.  Did a better job of committing to my priority piece with irons and hit some really high quality mid/long iron shots. Doing a partial practice swing feeling the left side bend before stepping up to the ball helped a lot. Driver was hot/cold, hit some really really good drive with multiple of them going 300+yd and also some really poor snap hook/toe balls. Waiting on my new shaft to arrive so looking forward to cleaning up those misses.  Putting remained very solid, this stretch since getting the Evolvr putting lesson is without a doubt the best I've ever putted (Shoutout to you @iacas), making so many more 5-20 footers than I ever have and feels like every miss is burning an edge or hitting a lip. Crazy how much easier putting has become when I already had good speed and reads and now I got the bead portion taken care of too. 
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    • You really need to know the numbers if you want to go down that path... You can have a perfect path of +3 degrees and the face aiming +1.5 degrees from the target (fadeToPath of -1.5) for each club in the bag and you will still see totally different ball fligth with each of them. Why? Going for the extreme examples... You are probably hitting down on your wedges by 6°. By the D-Plane laws (an extension of the ball flight rules) you are moving your path to the right by 3° so now your dynamic path is in reality +6° but the face is still only +1.5° (dynamic faceToPath is now -4.5°). As you know the ball is going to launch at around +2° to the target and turn left to miss it to the left (overdraw). (wedges curve less than less lofted clubs but enough to make you miss left if you don't consider the effect of AoA in the dynamic path. So basically every club you hit down on it you are going to miss it in average to the left of the target, just because the dynamic path is more right than you intended.  If you manage to hit your woods with 0° AoA then you are going to hit your target as you wanted.  But if you hit Up with the driver, lets say +4°, you are moving your dynamic path to the left by 2 degrees. So now your dynamic path is +1° to target and your face is still +1.5° degrees from target (face to path is now +0.5). This is going to be a ball launching +1° of target and moving rigth. (basically a Fade). So with wedges and every club you hit down on it, you are going to hit an overdraw (you need to aim more to the rigth), with 0° AoA you are going to play a perfect draw (you need to aim to the target), and hitting up on it you are going to see a Fade moving away from target (you need to aim left of the target).  Conclusion A: there is no perfect number. There are a lot of variables that affect ball flight that changes with every club you pick up. consider that toe and heel shots also affect ball flight.  Conclusion B: Having a faceToPath that is 1 or 2 degrees apart is going to make you hit fade and draws depending on your AoA.  To hit the ball with the same shape for every club you need to have more degrees between the face and the path than half of the AoA you are hitting each shot. If you hit down on wedges at -6° and up on the driver at +6° then you need to at least have 4 degrees between your face and your path in either direction.  
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