LuciusWooding

Interesting that it notes this applies to a fitted and correctly lined up putter.

My brother swears by 83%. He might be overestimating his distances by about 17% and he's actually swinging full but I can't tell either way. The whole concept of percents as they apply to the swing is pretty subjective though.

Well IMO one can do the job of both; pick either the 13 or 15 for your longest club off the deck. That's how I'd do it though, personally I don't find the strong 3 gains many strokes unless you're hitting greens with it. If you're out to make eagles as often as possible it can help in some cases but probably lower scoring in the long run to go with the 15. And if you don't hit the 13 off the tee much then it pretty much only gets used on long par 5s. Maybe it'll give you incentive to add yards to your drives .

Ditch the strong 3 or bring it as a replacement for a driver. An 11 handicap shouldn't be worried about 220+ as much, having one extra club won't make you great from that distance. Hitting 15˚ from the tee should give you a good solid range and carry farther. Carry yardage is better for that part of the set and it's very rare to carry a 13˚ farther off the deck. The situations you'd need more than a 3 wood off the deck must be very rare.

I'd say get a set of maltby TE irons. They fit both .370 and .355 shafts, I use them with a .355 c taper right now and they're a fair bit more forgiving than blades despite looking pretty compact. Definitely launch the ball a bit higher and have traditional lofts. They also only cost 25$ per head and have several models available with more forgiveness as well. You'd be able to reuse the shafts you have now and it would only cost the reshaft job, which isn't too tough to do yourself.

Mine's on the way. Hopefully I can improve on the 1,000,072 I shot the other day.

Jack would be among the long hitters. I doubt he'd be the longest. I think people pay way too much attention to outliers in terms of launch data, it always seems like the numbers are hand picked to me. Lies, damned lies, and statistics. For one thing, Gary Woodland doesn't average 316 carry. Maybe if they had him hit a bunch of big drives for the monitor, but Jack's 276 is an average during competitive rounds and includes roll. Gary's 268 carry also reflects that he's probably never hit a persimmon in his life, so he won't get numbers that reflect his skill with the titanium. Gary is also not a guy who has great launch conditions; he plays either steel or extremely heavy graphite in his woods and struggles with his spin numbers so a guy like Jack definitely had better mechanics and relatively better launch conditions. Bobby Jones was known to hit drives over 300 yards at times with hickory shafts, and Rory hit one 400+ a couple weeks ago. Does this mean we can claim that titanium is 100+ yards longer overall? 30 yards is probably about right. This argument is really very pointless to me, it reminds me a bit of Jordan saying how he'd dunk on Lebron James if he still played. Until time travel is invented it doesn't really matter. Hopefully Jack stays out of it but I agree with his claim overall. IMO he should be thankful he played back then however, since he probably wouldn't win nearly as many majors against the fields of today.

Probably somewhere in the high 60s. Then if you added in the pro's strokes it would probably be enough to give me a chance to break 80. Personally I'd rather leave those off the card.

Check out this thread, I also agree you shouldn't worry about bounce; borrow your buddy's wedge if you want so you don't get distracted. It's good to get properly fitted then not worry about the wedge too much, and the technique done properly will work with any wedge, even with irons in some cases.

Yes, and I'd say it works better from bad lies as well. Tricky shot to learn but extremely useful.

You can either take some sand or thin it out of the bunker, essentially. The problem is that hitting it thin will only work in some situations where height and spin aren't needed. So I prefer to hit the higher explosion shot out of bunkers unless it's a really easy shot to pop it out.

I'd say proximity on approaches from 175+.

You'll get near 80 if you hit some greens and keep the big numbers off the card. Hit solid irons and make pars, don't worry about getting birdies. When I break 85, it's because I hit around 7 GIR or fringes and didn't really make worse than bogey. I made a few up and downs as well, but didn't seem to make more long putts than usual or anything. Pretty boring golf for the most part. It's more fun however when I'm driving it and hitting my wedges well.

The extra 30 yards per hole or whatever don't add much value to your round, IMO. I think it depends on the course to a large extent. My course is already pretty hard, so there's absolutely no need to play from the tips even though I certainly have the distance for it; all the reachable holes are reachable for me from any tees, and all the par 5s and long holes are really long and make you hit long approaches at times. The rest of the holes tend to be very limited in terms of a safe target, so one ends up playing a different club to the same area from different tees on those holes. There's no need to limit yourself to a single set of tees on every hole. It wouldn't be usable as a handicap round but it can really help on some of the more annoying holes. Sometimes they lay out the tees in a ridiculous spot so it becomes way more playable from somewhere else. I think my home course's back tees would be very challenging on a few shots just because of the angle. It would require you control your shape and start line pretty well for driver to be an option, and without a driver you'd have possibly 3 or 4 places where you need a fairway wood for your approach. It would also be impossible for someone who hits it less than 250 to hit all the par 4s in two from the back unless they got help from conditions. So for anyone to play my course I'd recommend they hit it at least a solid 270 with their driver or flat out stay back. Then anyone above about a 25 handicap will generally struggle to keep their shots in play so they need the shorter tees to make hitting the targets easier. Anyone without a strong long game, especially shots off the deck, will also struggle on a few holes. Ball flight or shape wouldn't matter though. I'm forming my opinion based on where I play, so ymmv.

I can understand the argument that he's bottomed out and has nowhere to go but up. However, in golf there is no rock bottom. I think it's foolish to assume he'll definitely play better; I think he's still talented enough to have chances at some majors, but he could also still get a lot worse, and he's got enough exemptions to play extremely badly and still play events for years. Personally I'd like to see him win another major but I think there are too many good players in his way for him to ever dominate again.

Your ball is not going perfectly straight; it's definitely going to have a tiny bit of tilt, at least, and one's naked eye can't always pick it up. If you want to be sure you can go on a launch monitor that reads your spin axis and horizontal launch angle. That would be the only way to be sure what's going on.

There were 25 graduates in 2012, as an example. These were the guys that placed in the top 25 on their money list. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Web.com_Tour_graduates Out of those 25, there's a total of a winner and 2 runners up for all of their entire seasons. None of them were majors. And only about half of those guys were making a decent number of cuts. Only 8 went on to keep full status for the following year. So there's a huge difference between the top and bottom of just that 25, and even the best of the 25 are only combining for 1 single win at the next level. They are scrubs compared to the PGA tour. They won't miss every cut at the next level, but over time they either don't play well enough or consistently enough to compete with the big boys. Some guys start out there and go on to become winners at the next level since that tour is essentially to develop players, but it's pretty rare.

Any of the winners on the PGA tour would dominate the web.com tour. The web.com tour play lesser courses as well for the most part, but a winner on the web.com tour can probably make cuts at the PGA level. Consider the web.com tour to be like an all star team of minor league baseball; only a few guys are good enough to be bench players at the next level, and none are good enough to be starters. Most of them will never distinguish themselves at their current level with wins, let alone becoming a PGA tour pro. I'd also say the scrubs of the PGA tour would get an occasional win at the lower level. Someone in the top 20 would be winning every other week they played.

I prefer a dry rub in most cases. Doesn't need to sit like a marinade and it forms a tasty crust. Not necessarily for all meat though. Olive oil and sriracha is great for pork or chicken. Regarding strawberries and pepper, I like them chopped into a salsa with fresh ripe habaneros, cilantro, peach, mango, and served with salted tortilla chips and/or over vanilla ice cream. Just wash your hands before going to the bathroom. Regarding salt in coffee, @saevel25 is right since it can cut bitterness slightly and slightly add body. Not much though, around like 4 or 5 flakes of coarse kosher salt per cup. There's a little bit of difference between different water and soil around the world and it can give a different minerally taste to things like beer, tea, and coffee.

I picked a set of irons first, going with 3-PW. My lofts meant that I could use a 3 wedge setup plus a putter, and I wanted to go with the classic 1, 3 and 5 wood setup but ended up going with 15/19˚ hybrids backing up my driver because of what those clubs were capable of. Didn't need the lower trajectory shot or the extra few yards from the 3w vs the 1h as much as I'd thought. I kicked out my strong 3 wood, 2 iron, 17 degree hybrid and gap wedge because I can get the shots I need. I may consider replacing or removing the 3 iron and adding loft to my driver, but the irons are the core of the set and make the mid range game consistent.

What's stopping you from hitting your 9i into the valley by accident, either by spinning it off the front or landing short? Or missing the fairway with the hybrid and having a tough shot from even farther than the valley? Then there's the possibility of running through the green. It's a problem whether you're hitting into and out of the valley or in front of and over it. Plus hitting the driver left or right of the fairway could leave you a very playable approach from the rough, likely flatter or cushier than the lie in the valley. You'll hit the green in regulation from there in most cases, so really the driver gets you closer and gives you a better chance at a GIR and a better chance at a lower score. My thinking is just hit the second shot somewhere onto the green and disregard proximity to the hole. Even from a bad lie it's pretty easy to hit the green from 70 yards. Most people completely overestimate their skills from 120-170 yards. You'd be expecting to hit the green with a short iron but even the best players in the world will miss plenty of greens from there. From 70 yards? Even a hard shot from there will usually end up somewhere on the green for a routine look at a par or possible birdie chance. Maybe @iacas can quote reliable figures for amateurs hitting greens from 150 or so out, but I'd guess it's probably well under 50%. From 70 yards I'd guess it's about 15% higher, that's about the difference for pros. If you consider GIR to be a par and ignore proximity, you'll score roughly 1 in 6 more pars from closer in. To get a 50/50 length birdie putt you'd need to put it within a 6-8 foot radius. If you miss the green you probably won't even be able to do that often enough to break even unless you're really good around the greens. But you'll definitely be able to 2 putt from somewhere on the green more often than you'll be able to get up and down. I'm not saying always be aggressive, but extra distance on your tee shot shouldn't be taken lightly; it's a huge advantage. If you don't believe me then play a round where you throw your ball 30-50 yards forward into the rough from your tee shot on every par 4 and 5 and play Bubba golf; there's a reason he often leads the tour in GIR. It doesn't mean to go flag hunting from the rough all the time, but you'll hit a ton of GIR without having to hit your best approaches every time.

The sleeve just lets you change plus or minus 2 degrees from the base loft of the club. It should let you get the same range of lofts regardless of whether the shaft is in a 3 wood or driver, but not set the driver to 3w loft or vice versa.

For PGA tour players, they still benefit at every distance from teeing up. However, I'd imagine that the average amateur would benefit more than the tour player, especially since it lets you get away with a flip to some extent as well as hitting it slightly farther and higher; tour players don't struggle hitting their irons off the deck but most amateurs do to some extent. For me, I always tee it up at least a little bit.

I find I get the most stability when my leg and foot muscles are more engaged with these shoes, especially since the toe box is wide enough for your toes to spread, which gives you more contact with the ground and better stability. Having practiced martial arts barefoot for a couple years, I can tell you that's crucial to power, balance, and preventing injury and fatigue. Having your weight on your heels will certainly make it harder to get the weight forward during the downswing, and though I wouldn't go too far on the toes, you can do a lot better from there than your heels.