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To some extent loft matters as much as the number printed on the bottom: not much at all. In theory we should just be concerned about ball flight numbers (how far and at what angle and spin it lands) but those are a lot harder to quantify unless your hitting every shot on a trackman. Distance sells because it is really hard to quantify accuracy. I am a bit curious to know where they can go next. Can you keep jacking the lofts? Find a lighter than 85g shaft? Start making the clubs 2" longer?

I would say he was being funny. Golf is 100% in your head. Where do you think those electrical impulses that control your muscles come from? Personally this reads like junk science that is designed to get the author mention in the new york times.

Exactly. In another 2-4k hours of applying himself he will be scratch. Piece of cake to spend the next 2 years living on the course right?

Given the birdie rate has been dropping (it was 6% in august) I am guessing it is the last 20 rounds or so. Again looking at Dan's stats it is the bogies and others that are killing him, not lack of birdies. Change 3 of those bogies or worse into pars and pick up one birdie and he is pretty much a 0 handicap player. Now doing that isn't very easy.

I can't imagine one that isn't snake oil. At best it will reduce the pain (which is probably a bad thing since it will encourage you to keep on hurting the tendon). PRP is right at the edge of snake oil and solid science as far as I know. The theory is great but the studies backing up that theory are borderline last i saw. Some studies have shown that water or whole blood (i.e. less of the supposed recovery agents) had the same or better results. One theory is that it is the actual needle prick that helps (it causes bleeding to encourage a healing response) not the crap that is injected so it doesn't matter what you inject. That being said there have been some other studies which were more encouraging. A lot of them do have procedural problems. If money was no object, I would do it. It hasn't been linked to anything bad that I am aware of so the risk is low so why not try it. Quote:

You are clearly hanging out at the low end clubs where the unwashed masses play. You are probably allowed on the premises without your jacket and tie also. More seriously last I heard Royal Troon doesn't allow shorts and there are a couple in Japan and SE asia that I am aware of. I am sure there is one in the US since at least one club will want to be know for being the most anal.

To a large extent it is the same as the recovery program. Stretching, Strengthening, and avoiding irritation. Golfers elbow is caused by a lot more than just golf. Things like mousing, driving, and pretty much anything where you grip and rotate the arm a lot can cause problems. Most of the time it is no big deal to a non inflamed tendon but if you have problems all those little stresses add up. Dr Greg Rose (the TPI guy) has examples of problems caused by sleeping (http://www.mytpi.com/mytpi05/ask/qadetail.asp?xid=530). And then there is the golf specific part. Hitting off matts is bad. Early extension puts a lot of stress on that area. Too tight of grip, same problem.

First youtube video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRuo6FY0tDs There are a bunch more if you don't like or understand that one. I only watched it really quick but it seemed about what my instructor recommended.

Tour Striker doesn't stop the flip either. But like the impact bag it will tell you when you have been flipping. If you are just doing air swings it can be hard to figure out what exactly the shaft and club look like at impact. There are also a couple of other drills you can do with the impact bag to help with release. The impact bag is a 20-30 dollar training aid or you could just make one out of old canvas bag which is about 1/3 the cost of a tour striker. Personally I like the bag because I can do swings in my garage. Not optimal but better than nothing.

I am thinking something like http://www.walmart.com/ip/Wilson-Profile-Men-s-Golf-Club-Set-Right-Handed/15739950 . It would drive the guys on the message board that focus on equipment and not golf crazy.

And at the other time the website says it is at the discretion of the club. Normally that works out to if you can play in under 3:30 while walking, they will let you out at the couple of clubs I have been to. Now finding partners that want to play with a walker and if they let singles out is a crap shoot at any club. And of course a lot of the development golf courses are not very walkable even if they allow it. As far as being a member or not, lets do that math 150x12 = 1800 6x52x18 (assume cart every time) = 5616 range balls = 0; so we have a total of 7416 for 312 round. Or just less than 24 bucks a round. You are not going to beat that by being a free agent. Yes you can find some deals for less than per round but you will not get the quantity needed and you will still need range balls. Now the guys is 2500 bucks over but if he can walk half the rounds he will be right on target. That being said, I can't imagine playing that much on the same course. I don't care how good the course is you are going to want some changes. Heck I am not sure if playing that much is even possible. I am sure you can play 6 days a week for a couple months but eventually i expect random things (being sick, taking a vacation, bad weather,....) to make it almost impossible to get in that much golf in .

2) or maybe the guy behind the counter doesn't know or care. How often to examine someones clothes very carefully? 5) The right thing to do is wait til the end of the round and let him know next time it is unacceptable. His wearing cargo shorts is not something like playing loud music, hitting into people,.. that needs to be addressed ASAP As far as Jordan being the bad guy, if he is right that he has played there a bunch of times in cargo shorts, maybe he thought they were ok at this club. I mean they are letting guys out in shorts. They obviously don't care that much about looks.

You distance gaps would remain about the same as every club would be shorter. Your upper range on the irons would just be 5 yards lower. To some extend you can trade off club length and lie angle to get a club to fit your swing. I might have this backwards but it is something like being .5" shorter makes the club 1 degree flatter. So the tall guy has the choice of either extending the club and keeping the lie angle the same or adjusting the lie angle.

So poker is a sport then? After all when you have a couple thousand riding on a hand, I know my heart rate goes up well above 100. Given that physical motion is to core of golf, you have to struggle pretty hard to exclude it as a sport.

How about a 7'6 guy with the swing span of a 7' guy?

Yet me know when he can do Gainey, Furky, or Charles Barkley... Quote:

The edges are pretty jacked up loft wise (28/32/44 for 6/7/pw) but yeah the rocketbladez are a bit higher (26.5,30.5, 45). I would only expect ~5 yard gain though so more like half a club. The real question is always accuracy (i.e. is your jacked up 7 iron more or less accurate than a traditional 6 iron) and can you still hit the lower clubs (if you can no longer hit the 4 iron, you really haven't gained distance. You might have gained accuracy though).

http://www.probablegolfinstruction.com/PGI%20Newsletter/news09-07-04.htm I haven't read the source paper in a while but saying ~3 seems like a pretty safe answer. Quote:

280 carry with a 105 is stretching the limits of what is possible. 280 total distance is more doable. But even like 265 avg carry is enough to survive on the PGA tour. You get 10-20 yards of roll and your good to go. If you look at the PGA stats there are a couple guys down around 105 averages (David Toms made 1.6 million with the slowest speed on tour) with a 262 carry (probably some combo of driver and fairway woods) that have done ok. He posted some numbers a while back: http://thedanplan.com/blog/?p=1240 . He claims a 100-105 mph swing speed (along with a 1.5 smash factor) and 275 yard drives and with 200 yard 4 irons. That is plenty of distance to get his handicap down but you would need a killer short game and long iron accuracy to survive on tour with it. And I am always suspect in comparing pro swing speeds to amateurs. I have a feeling a lot of the pros have another 5-10mph that they don't use (44" driver instead of 46, swinging more controlled, heavier versus lighter shaft) while a guy like Dan(and me when I go to dicks) is swinging away with the lightest, longest driver as hard as they can.

It keeps the regular season relevant and doesn't require extending the season to 16 games. Those games are getting played anyway and I would rather see Alabama play Oregon than Western Kentucky, Florida Atlantic or Western Carolina. Getting 2 or 3 more real games from each of the contenders would go alone way to figuring out who is the best. Look the proposals for having an 8 team playoff using conference championships. Do you really want to see Wisconsin, Louisville, or even Fl St in a playoff over Fl, LSU, GA, SC, Or, A&M;, or Ok? This year 1 of those teams would make the playoff (ND would be the other open slot) and the others would stay home. You could have some rule where you need to be in the top 15 to make the playoffs but that does nothing to encourage the SEC (or other conferences) to play real games out of their conference.

Dan doesn't need to turn bogies into birdies to become scratch. He needs to turn bogies into pars. And get rid of those doubles (well cut them in half). The birdies will come as a side effect (more GIR , closer approach shots due to better drives,...) of this. Quote:

If you look at the stats, the scratch guy is making 4-5 more pars and 1 or 2 more birdies than the guy shooting 80 on average. He is also having a lot fewer doubles. Birdies to some extend are a result of hitting another 4 GIR. If you have 4 more 15-20 ft putts, a couple go in. Birdies are also worth more to the higher scoring player. Lets compare a guy shooting 81 and a guy shooting 72 (assume those are ~10 and 0 respectivily). The 81 gets an extra .5 strokes per hole. So every birdie saves 1 stroke while a bogey only costs .5. If that guy gets a birdie and a double, he is right on pace. The 72 guy on the other when he makes a double, he needs to get 2 birdies to make up for it. So the high scoring guy can negate a double with a birdie, while the scratch guy needs eagle for the same effect.

Or would you take those top 16 teams and make the losers keep playing? IE after 1 beats 16 does 16 then get to play 7? The other question is would the money still be there? IE supposedly the big bowls make money off of tourism. It is a bit harder to get that if you don't have 4 weeks to plan vacations. Personally I think the real solution is to have more REAL games during the regular season. Get rid of the cupcakes and make the SEC (to big the most blantant example) play real teams. It would be a bit of scheduling nightmare but make week 8 Pac-10/SEC challenge week where the teams all get seeded and face off. Week 12 could be SEC vs Big 12. Or maybe you split it in half and have some of the teams play ACC/Big 10 games. You could get enough good intersection games (sure it favors cupcakes early, good teams late scheduling but nothing is perfect) to get a decent idea how good the conference is. Right now I don't have any feel for good the Big 12 or Pac 12 is. I know the ACC and Big East suck but teams like Oregon, Stanford, Oregon St, Kansas St, and Ok don't have any big out of conference wins (or losses other than Stanford and OK) to talk about.