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I only measured clubhead speed using a 6iron. I didn’t fully warm up so I may check again later today. Not surprisingly to me, center was fastest averaging 93mph. Left foot swings were 86mph and right foot swings were 82mph. I definitely felt limited in my ability to rotate the chest on my right foot suggesting some mobility restriction.

I think everyone will be center to right for right hand swings. I have a few students with hip mobility/restrictions from hip replacements and weakness. So that would affect their ability to swing fast on one side or another. But both being healthy, idk, I feel like it’d be odd if people were not somewhat center leaning in this experiment. Both feet on ground, balance, comfort create more relaxed environment which should give higher speeds. I’ll do the test this morning.

I got this in an email this evening from my PGA Section. So many people confuse the two. Sad that this had to be sent out. But hopefully people start to use the names properly more often.

Generally I put people in a stance width just outside their hip line, except wedges which gets skinnier and driver which is slightly wider. Let’s just assume there is some sort of hand balance. What is the range of data and standard deviation? In other words, how much off “normal” does what? And does that actually happen for a majority of players? I can’t imagine it changes something significantly enough. But I have no idea. Certainly I put people in thicker grips for arthritis and big hands or fingers. But I also think it’s more for comfort than mechanical. My mobility around the wrist is not affected by what my hands hold. Certainly if I grip too firmly, that freezes the wrist joint, but that goes back to comfort. Core rotation range is based on the hip’s ability to rotate and chest ability to rotate. The hand’s don’t effect range of core motion. There are things to help increase range on one side or another, like flaring the feet out. But, my core rotation and hand mobility are mostly independent. Even if there was an effect, it would be minimal and negligible, imo. If it works, though, it works. Glad you are playing better and having fun. I like to pick at things too, to keep learning.

Why can’t people understand the difference between calling someone stupid and calling an idea/opinion stupid? It’s ok to be wrong. Being wrong doesn’t mean you are an unintelligent or bad person.

I’m wondering of all that too. I think Jay will do his normal thing and day to day operations. Any “bigger” decisions would need PIF approval. He’s there because he has been doing it a long time and Greg wasn’t cutting it. But PIF is now the real boss of it all. It really seems like PGAT did not have enough money to keep doing what they were. They made elevated events with bigger purses without truly having the money to do that. Add in legal fees only made them dig into reserves faster than they would have. They needed money and PIF was clearly there to say they were interested.

2 iron? 😉

Block going from being the humble guy to saying that is a Reed move. Disappointing. Dead last after Thursday, which I’m not terribly surprised by.

I’m definitely mental. I know the technique but I have zero confidence and feel to do it. If one were to watch me warm up before the round, you may not even know I had this problem. Doesn’t matter if it’s a hybrid runner or flop. All the same. What I do wonder is whether the conditions made a significant impact on my feel. Greens rolled around 13 and they were nearly as rock hard as rock hard can be with healthy greens. Many of us were wondering if greens would even survive this week. I swing fast and not even my 60 would back up. If you didn’t have a wedge or short iron in hand and you know how to spin it, you had no chance to hold a green if you landed there.

Today is a great example of my golf game. I had 15/18 GIR (83%, where PGA Tour average is 65-70%, 70% is pretty average for me too). I shot 78. 1 bad course management decision and I definitely own that. 3 god awful short game shots. Putting has generally been ok but the last 3 days of the NW Open, I hit every stupid edge and lip-out of every cup. High side, low side, didn’t matter. I know I’m putting better, whereas short game had been a disaster for 2-3yrs. But, it’s been this same story for 10yrs. It’s tiring. If putts drop, I get my scratch. If short game shot’s decide to show up, I go low.

What’s that mean? You sandbagging? 😉

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Kind of a crazy round this morning. 4 birdies, an eagle, and 5 bogies. 4 bogies were from a bad tee shot and the other was a 3 putt. Tried to force the draw too much. When it worked, I birdied or close to. When it didn’t, bogey.

Not all the way there yet, but a big difference.

My course raises price about 5% per year. Still best value around as we have similar conditions as those who charge $30 more than we do.

Interesting.

Well most of the time, the hole ends with a tap-in so the ability to score must depend on that part of the putting skill. So, tap-ins are king of golf. 😉

1) researching golf forums 2) knowledge, people, community 3) LSW, knowledge on the site in general has brought me to where I am today 4) we need to get an outing at bandon dunes or something.

I would say you are over rotating the lower body on your back swing. You have good movement, but need more rotation on downswing. When backswing over rotates, it’s hard to get enough the other way.

For those that take lessons, what information do you take home with you and how is it presented? Would you prefer it a different way? It could be video of the lesson, video of a summary, maybe a specific swing video, a notebook that you keep notes on, a coach/player app to make notes on, or something else. Do you get assigned homework, in a way? Are you given something specific to do every day and do you have to track it so the coach knows? If not, would that be something you’d want?

For trying to be “modern” and change the game, this tweet doesn’t help their narrative. Of course, this isn’t an official LIV account but still.

I replace my driver when it cracks. Seems to happen every year, somehow. If you have an instructor you typically use/trust, see if they have recommendations, can fit you, or go with you to get fit. It would help steer clear of sales jobs.

Fun tourney to watch. Glad Rahm got it, dude has been playing really well.

Will it come down to 12 again? Down wind and many guys nuking it over. Brooks has been one to hit long on approach shots.

The right leg thoughts @iacas had and the left knee I mentioned, generally, work together to get to a similar goal. One way to think about it, is try not to let either knee go past your toe line throughout the swing. @mvmac did this demonstration of the 2 step drill. The first swing he does. The club goes past ball and he steps with his right foot back. The club changes direction to go into the backswing. As he is approaching transition, he steps with his left foot. It takes time to get this sequence feeling exactly right but it will help with loading and shifting, with good timing. The next few swings are the progression after you can do the first swing well.