Precis1on

When you go fit for a driver + shaft combo, look for one that keeps your ball RPM low (around the 2000-2500 mark or lower). The shaft if paramount in terms of what your ball will do in a driver, so I would just recommend to just go get fit.

If you're weight-lifting, focus on full range of motion. Cannot stress this enough. Doesn't matter what you're doing, bench, squats, shoulder press, or curls. Don't sacrifice ROM for increased weight. Patience is key. Yoga, especially arm binds, shoulder openers, will help free your swing immensely. Among all of the other poses that help your leg, hip, and back health, I've found that the rotator cuff and shoulder work to be most beneficial to my game. If you're a strong guy but lack flexibility, I would go straight to Yoga (Vinyasa Flow is a good place to start). If you can get into Bird of Paradise pose, then you've reached a very good level of flexibility for golf in both your upper and lower body as well as an awesome supported core. (http://www.yogajournal.com/practice/2776)

Hey Claude, I took my driver to a custom club shop for them to look at. Apparently the screw threads of the weights were beginning to break off inside the head. Normally they put rat glue inside the head to catch debris like that, however the debris on my head wasn't sticking. When they attempted to take my toe weight off, the entire thing snapped and I was left with a screw bit stuck in my driver. They put some rat glue inside my driver and it caught the bit and the debris inside. They gave me a free weight which is now glued into the toe because of the rat glue they shoved in there, but no rattle and I don't plan on moving the weights at all. So the solution from my above experience, is to get a very thin pipette and squeeze some heated rat glue inside your club. Shake your clubhead to get the debris to stick on that rat glue. Either way... I'd be careful :).

Can't make it this Saturday. Let's keep trying to get a group together every week though!

Glad to see some of us got out together! I played Sportsmans in Northbrook yesterday with some family. Would love to get out with some TST folks around the area! Tapatalking, sorry for typos and autocorrect.

I'm out in Evanston. Haven't played Schaumburg, but have played Poplar and a couple other courses out in that area. Hit me up when we're out of single digit weather :).

Welcome JSims! Reg5000, I'm originally from Winamac! Small world!

http://www.eyelinegolf.com/products/ball-of-steel-3-pack Might be a tool worth looking into. Gives you a heaver feedback and forces you to accelerate through the ball.

I think you're going to find your definition of consistent getting more and more difficult to maintain as you get into the sport of golf. When you first start playing, it's about hitting the ball and getting it into the air consistently. As you develop, you start getting more distance and be able to select clubs for certain lengths. Then you start working for accuracy on each strike and finally combine distance. Then you find the need to start making your ballflight consistent with every swing. Also throughout the whole process, keeping consistent ballstriking, which I feel is the only constant in the whole consistency discussion. Consistent in golf is an evolutionary concept (not trying to sound deep, just stating it). Everyone has a different idea of consistent, and everyone changes their baseline consistency probably more often than they know or think. Listen to the pros on TV talk about "I'm trying to keep it low, or I was happy that my putting was consistent, but my driver wasn't so I need to work on that.:

I managed to have to ball hit a very small tree in front of me when I was younger. The trunk was smaller than the diameter of a golf ball, so I didn't think twice about hitting it. I managed to nail it straight on and had it come back and smack me in the head.

Easier to play a 15 degree three wood off the deck than a thriver :). I'm super accurate off the tee with the three wood anyway. I couldn't sacrifice a bag slot for a second driver (although my dad did that for a while). I'm shortening my 45" driver anyway. I'm not sure why I let the fitter talk me into keeping it that length, I'm 5'6" and just can't control that length with my swing. 3W is about 3 inches shorter, and I'm much more comfortable with it off the tee.

Your swing speed fits the X-flex for the driver. I swing around the same pace and my current shaft is a Xstiff, although it's generally rated in between stiff and xstiff so I took a bit off the butt and tip to stiffen it up a little. Don't be afraid of the Xstiff if it gives you a better dispersion and accuracy while not sacrificing distance.

Could have taken the thread as a non-trollish thread until this post. I also prefer cutting grass with a lawn mower.

I was in the same boat as you last year. Mediocre long game accuracy (had the distance), and was relying on my short game to get it up and down on almost every hole. You just can't score in the 70s doing that unless you have a lights out day getting up and down and are lucky to sink putts on the GIRs you do hit. In short, I worked (and am still working) on my ballstriking and accuracy. You need GIRs . I bold that, because that's essentially how you will shoot in the 70s. Becoming a better ballstriker has actually increased my distance and given me confidence in my longer irons, which are now one of my strongest clubs in the bag. Once I started hitting GIRs, I set myself up for birdies opportunities and making birdies will take tremendous pressure off of you to get into the 70s. So work on your ballstriking, and distance and accuracy should come with. I am about 20 yards longer with my woods/hybrids, 15 yards longer with my long irons, and 10 yards longer with my short irons... so there was no sacrifice in distance when I worked on accuracy, but I also wasn't overswinging or swinging too hard to begin with. Also check out Erik's post: http://thesandtrap.com/t/58816/65-25-10-practice-ratios-where-to-devote-your-practice-time