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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. 🏌🏼‍♂️
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 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: :titleist:  GT3
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

  • :titleist: TSR2
  • :callaway: Paradym, 4W
  • :pxg: GEN4 0317X, Hybrid
  • :srixon: ZX 3-iron, ZX5 4-AW
  • :cleveland:  RTX Zipcore 54 & 58
  • L.A.B. Golf Directed Force 2.1
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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.

Edited by klineka

Driver: :titleist:  GT3
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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Day 14, June 5th 2023

Range session working on same stuff. Backswing length and right elbow bend. Hands down to right pocket.

First 10 balls were good because I did everything in pieces. Next 10 were meh because I can’t do this at speed yet. Next 10 where good because I went back to stopping at A6 and hitting chips from there.

Matt Dougherty, P.E.
 fasdfa dfdsaf 

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 74: 6/5/23

Stack neural training.  2nd session in a row with a dip in speed. Will see what happens on Wednesday prior to a vacation with my family.

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