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Day 12, June 3rd 2023

Spent about an hour working on the short game. Tried to get a bit more wrist hinge, and feeling the hands/arms drop/fall as the clubhead lags. Starting to get the club to consistently glide under the ball with no divot. More out of the center strikes instead of off the toe. 

Matt Dougherty, P.E.
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Driver; :pxg: 0311 Gen 5,  3-Wood: 
:titleist: 917h3 ,  Hybrid:  :titleist: 915 2-Hybrid,  Irons: Sub 70 TAIII Fordged
Wedges: :edel: (52, 56, 60),  Putter: :edel:,  Ball: :snell: MTB,  Shoe: :true_linkswear:,  Rangfinder: :leupold:
Bag: :ping:

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Day 23. Worked on tempo and center face contact with 7 iron and driver in a howling wind in my driveway. Trying to eliminate toe hits which cause hooks. I’m really slowing down the backswing near the top to keep my focus on the ball. It also helps with my priority piece of swinging down and back with my hand path. 
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Day 72: 6/3/23

Practiced prior to the round. Good warmup session with upper core swing.

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Day 215, June 3, 2023

Hit a bunch of 8I during a playing lesson. One of the kids shot his best-ever nine-hole score, and did it at Whispering Woods on the back nine, no less!

Erik J. Barzeski —  I knock a ball. It goes in a gopher hole. 🏌🏼‍♂️
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Day 98 (3 Jun 23) - easy swings with a couple of wedges, hitting foam balls into the pool for the grandson to catch.  

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 40 - Hit balls and then some indoor putting. Irons are pretty solid, new setup feels really good and ball flight is repeatable and predictable.

Driver is still a mess, not repeatable or predictable right now. Setup changes are going to take more practice to get right. It's such a small change but feels like I'm learning how to swing driver all over again. (I guess I am in reality)

Going to do a proper practice session tomorrow filming slow swings with a lot of rehearsals with driver.

Driver: :callaway: Rogue Max ST LS
Woods:  :cobra: Darkspeed LS 3Wood
Irons: :titleist: U505 (3)  :tmade: P770 (4-PW)
Wedges: :callaway: MD3 50   :titleist: SM9 54/58  
Putter: :tmade: Spider X

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Day 5: 6/3/2023

Worked on my priority piece with a 7 iron in the mirror. Than ran to the garage and hit balls into the net focusing on the priority piece. 

My bag is an ever-changing combination of clubs. 

A mix I am forever tinkering with. 

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Day 15:

Same as yesterday, but also did short game practice, and hit some almost golf balls with driver.

-Peter

  • :titleist: TSR2
  • :callaway: Paradym, 4W
  • :pxg: GEN4 0317X, Hybrid
  • :srixon: ZX 3-iron, ZX5 4-AW
  • :cleveland:  RTX Zipcore 54 & 58
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Day 2: Time at the range

First opportunity to try and swing and hit a ball at range - woefully bad. Varied through Driver/3wood/5wood/6-8-9iron. As expected alot of whiffs and slices.

Longest hit was around 175 with the Driver from the tee, got a 130 with the 3wood from the floor. Cleanest hit by far was a 9iron to around 125y dead center.

Lots to focus on before I head back down next week, mainly maintaining shape through the swing and avoiding addition wrist movement that was causing a few slices, didnt hook much but only had 50balls this week

 

Mike in Scotland - Discovering golf one divot at a time

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Day 16:

Played 18 this morning. Terrible night of sleep plus 530am tee time would have been a struggle even if I had been sharp, but I wasn't. Actually scored okay considering (85), but too many horrendous misses to do much better than I did.

-Peter

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  • :callaway: Paradym, 4W
  • :pxg: GEN4 0317X, Hybrid
  • :srixon: ZX 3-iron, ZX5 4-AW
  • :cleveland:  RTX Zipcore 54 & 58
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Day 24. Worked on tempo with a 9 iron indoors as it was a rainy day.

Scott

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

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Day 13, June 4th 2023

Hit about 40 balls working on backswing length and hands down. I could feel the bad backswing creep in. Which good thing I can start to feel that more. 

Matt Dougherty, P.E.
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What's in My Bag
Driver; :pxg: 0311 Gen 5,  3-Wood: 
:titleist: 917h3 ,  Hybrid:  :titleist: 915 2-Hybrid,  Irons: Sub 70 TAIII Fordged
Wedges: :edel: (52, 56, 60),  Putter: :edel:,  Ball: :snell: MTB,  Shoe: :true_linkswear:,  Rangfinder: :leupold:
Bag: :ping:

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Day 41 - Solid practice session mainly focusing on priority piece with driver. Filmed some swings for evolvr and practiced slowly.

Did some short putting too, getting quite confident with my old putter, made 6 straight putts from 6ft to the mini cups on the green, something I hadn't come close to doing with my other putter.

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Driver: :callaway: Rogue Max ST LS
Woods:  :cobra: Darkspeed LS 3Wood
Irons: :titleist: U505 (3)  :tmade: P770 (4-PW)
Wedges: :callaway: MD3 50   :titleist: SM9 54/58  
Putter: :tmade: Spider X

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Day 216, June 4, 2023

Practiced for 15 minutes after a long day of teaching.

Erik J. Barzeski —  I knock a ball. It goes in a gopher hole. 🏌🏼‍♂️
Director of Instruction 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 :edel: :true_linkswear:

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Day 99 (4 Jun 23) - Sunday round w/son and grandson.  Tempo work is paying off with the drives and approach game.  

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 73: 6/4/23

Backswing practice t o promote full extension and width instead of narrowing my arms. Trying to promote consistency.

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Day 3

Following some great feedback on my awful swing technique this will he my focus. Managed my setup/approach and that is feeling more natural, focusing on shoulder twist whilst keeping hips flat as this doesnt feel comfortable (partly due to a back issue). 

Spent time working through the backswing in stages.

Mike in Scotland - Discovering golf one divot at a time

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Day 25. Worked on my left leg feel and feet at the gym.

Scott

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

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    • I'm just guessing here. But couldn't Titleist build a mini-driver with a very low center of gravity? Then it would work off the deck. The deep face wouldn't be as problematic.  I'm just spit-balling. I know nothing about this product. 
    • Yea, but a deeper face makes it not as useful off the fairway. This is why the driver is not easy to hit off the fairway.  For a select few PGA Tour players, it might be good. The concept of the mini driver has been around for a long time now. Very few ever keep it in their bag. This is a guess, but probably because it sucks off the ground. Nothing here looks like it is any different than the other mini drivers of the past.  I get it from Cameron Young and Will Zalatoris point of view. They hit the ball a long way. The odds they ever hit a 3-wood off the turf is like what, a handful a times a year? They probably would hit it 98% off the tee and 2% off the ground. They probably want something that think is longer off the tee versus their 3-wood because they don't hit the 3-wood off the ground much at all.  This is where I say, Titleist claiming "worked as a go-to club off the tee and off the deck." is more marketing than something that is actually beneficial to a golfer. This is primarily for off the tee.   
    • One thing I've noticed with Mini Drivers is that the manufacturers seem like they keep their quantities somewhat limited.  The last two TaylorMade Mini's and the Callaway AI Smoke Mini were sold out quickly. 
    • Huh? That's the niche of these mini-drivers. They can still work off the tee and off the fairway. They're designed for and work for both things, which is all that blurb says. You can see from the photos that it's a bit of a deeper face, which I find is more important off the tee than the fairway.
    • This statement doesn't make much sense to me.  So, I think the push and pull between a 3-wood meant for off the turf versus off the tee is how tall the face is on the 3-wood. I do not get how this mini driver would be good off the turf, or at least get the height needed to stop the ball as a normal 3-wood meant for off the ground. Maybe they care more about hitting the 3-wood off the tee versus off the turf. Nearly every strike would be low on the clubface relative to the CG location.  I would take that statement as more as marketing over what you would actually expect the club to perform.   
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