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You should try spot putting. Find the line and pick a spot 6 inches in front of your putter on your line line and just putt it over your spot. I assure you, you'll put more in the cup. A good drill that I've been doing is put tees at 3-10 feet from the hole and with 3 balls start at 3 foot and make all three from each tee. If you miss a ball you have to start over from the beginning. EDIT: Go check out Putting Prescription too. It changed my putting completely. I was using a grip, swing and putter that just didn't suit me. Now that I found what suits me, my game has improved dramatically b Good luck and report back on how it works out.

I have been practicing twice a week and playing once a week for about a month now. I have been really frustrated with my lack of consistency. (82 this week, 99 the next week, 89 the following week, 107 the next week) it's pretty ridiculous. My main crux is just getting off the tee. Not only off the tee but off the tee to a position where I'm using a club I can hit solid and confidentially. I randomly came across a Shawn Clement video about him talking about the fishing pole cast and how your job isn't to hit the ball but to just swing through to the target and all this jazz. I have never heard it explained so simple in my life. I decided to try to feel what he was talking about and I made some practice swings and found some other videos of his drills and this past week I went to the practice range four days in a row to make some swing changes and wow, what a difference. I'm not hitting as far with this change but ball contact is much more consistent. I am fairly sure I'm not hitting the balls as far because I'm not delofting the club as much on my setup. After doing this I still couldn't get the feel of hitting my longer woods: Dr/3W. I googled, " Why can't I hit my driver?" Lol, what I found was shit I never thought about. I read a thread about one dude talking about swing weight, another talking length and shaft flex with some swing weight. I decided to try a test of length that I found one guy do with fantastic results. I taped the backside of my DR/3W grip and marked from the top, every quarter inch. I went to the range and did my warm ups and tested out the 3W from the normal position off the deck and every 5 balls I scooted down a quarter inch. After a half inch I was hitting the balls consistent and solid. I tee'd it up and went at it agressively and boom. Solid. I was stoked. I did my driver, same thing and had to choke down an inch and a quarter before I was getting consistent solid center strikes. With the other swing changes I made, my back doesn't kill me like it did before and I'm hoping that with the data I found about my woods plus swing changes that I can get to a 12 index before the end of the year. Would be nice! I'm 17.0 index right now after this last update.

I shot my best round about a month back at Sand Hollow Golf Club in Hurricane, UT of an 82 and I didn't know the course so I decided not to use the driver plus I was smoking my 3W. I had looked at the holes overview on Google Earth. The course was 64 and some change long so I figured, if I can play like that without my driver, why do I need it in my bag? Especially when I spray it every which way. Since then, I have shot a 107, 94, 89, 98, and 90, haha. ------ On a seperate note, I've started practicing twice a week. My short game, is so much better. I notice because in my past few rounds my doubles and triples have decreased dramatically. I'm still working on technique and I started trying the "chipping ratio" method and that works great. I have a huge problem with ball position with my long irons. I can't seem to find the right spot so I'm working on that as well as my full swing with mid irons. I REALLY need to work on my 4-6 foot putts because I have missed so many short putts lately. It's frustrating. It's not that my putting stroke is bad, it's my green reading skills. I am so bad at reading greens. Aside from going to an AIMPOINT seminar, any pointers on how I can improve my green reading skills without just playingt he course?

I would want Adam Scotts swing. I love watching that dude swing his golf club. It's so smooth, powerful and beautiful.

Shot 91 on a super ****ing windy day. Tough conditions when I normally shoot 93 on normal conditions.

Just swinging the club in front of the mirror, I can feel the difference. Less tension in my lower body and mid section. I can't wait to hit a ball with this change, haha.

Right on, I'll give it a try. I read about that in Ben Hogans book but never really liked it. It's been a while so I'll try it.

What did you mean by not an 18s swing?

Btw, that club was a 6i

Here ya go dude. I know the face-on isn't the best but my camera man didn't realize he needed to be a little further back and there was no time to make another shot. Hopefully this works out! Also, I made sure that this matches second by second so there is no discrepancy. I probably should have done a driver swing too since my problem is with my driver. d:|!

Couldn't tell ya, but the next person on the range to tell you stop practicing, I would tell them, unless they plan on buying me a replacement put a sock in it in the nicest way possible, haha.

I hated those balls. They felt good off my putter face but that's about it. I had some check but I get much better check and spin from my current balls, Callaway Hex Chromes

I'm speaking from experience because I was just like you last year. I was getting 45+ putts a round. My worst, was 52. HORRIBLE. I then bought the book "The Putting Presciption", the best decision I ever made with regards to my golf game. It talks about putting from the grip, to the stroke, it has drills and games to help you improve plus a lot more. It actually ended up helping me to choose a better grip and stroke than the one I was using. I went from your standard overlap grip to your somewhat nonstandard reverse overlap grip and wow, what a difference. If you're struggling with 3 putts, it sounds like you have a problem with the distance putts that are 30+ ft away. There is a great drill you can do to help you with it, one of my favorites. It helped me from 7-9 3 putts a round to 2-4. I have yet to have a round without a 3 putt, but in time, it will come. I am usually in the neighborhood of 32-37 putts per round. My best ever was 25. d:x (lucky) Anyway, check it out, I promise you with all I have, you will not regret it.

Perfect example of the stupid samples, lol, but great song. It's almost to the point where the samples just annoy you but I will tell you something, it definitely grows on you.

Good question, you should ask it in the Rules of Golf forum. I'm curious. d:x Can your phone be a caddie? lol. Not sure if they released it for iOS but they have done it for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shotzoom.golfshot2

I bought this driver last year because my good drives were good but my misses were so much better than my old misses. I love that club and just recently upgraded the shaft to a Black tie 7M3! What a great shaft!

I like to look behind the ball and think about what my ball may or may not do based on how I'm swinging. Then picture what my ball may do. Go up to my ball take a 3/4 light practice swing to ensure it's the swing I want. I base that on if it glides across the grass smoothly and if I just "feel" it. Then I get up to the ball, look down the line and take my swing. If I think any bad thoughts or about what might happen on this particular shot, I TRY, I say try because it doesn't always happen and step away. If you hit it, I refer to those as, "anyway shots" because you knew you should have backed off but you hit it "anyway". Minimize your anyway shots and minimize your screw ups! Or at least try, haha.

You know what's funny is I hate playing with strangers and complain about it to my wife all the time. I paired up with my buddy who I haven't played with in ages (who is pretty horrible, he shot a 70 and 60 when we played, lol.) and I played horrible. I couldn't get my body to do anything right. I think I ended up shooting a 102 on a course that I should have shot a 90 on! Then I played with some strangers this past weekend and shot one of my best rounds in awhile of 91, as always it coulda shoulda woulda been better but what can you do? Haha. Anyway, it was almost like I relaxed too much when I was playing with my buddy or maybe it was because he is just so bad his juju leaked on me, I have no idea. I think if anything, playing with strangers is like playing with a clean slate. You don't know them, they don't know you so for all they know, you could be scratch. So mentally, you have the advantage and can play your best. Realistically, who the hell cares what they think? You're probably not going to see them again anyway. My one and only gripe about playing with most strangers is that it's the same conversation every freakin' round. "Where ya from?" "What do you do?" "Play here often?" "Where do you live?" bllah blah blah BLAHBLAH LBAHLGALHRJMGIOKNJRO^IJN*&$#$# @! It gets pretty annoying to the point where I'd rather be that guy who plays with earbuds in the entire round, haha. No joke, I have thought about doing that, though never actually done it.

I dabbled a bit when I was 10 years old but didn't really get into the game until December 2011 at age 26 when I randomly asked a friend if he wanted to go play a Par 3 course. After that night, I was hooked. Bought some clubs, took a few lessons and started playing every weekend. I was basically 30+ index and got it down to my lowest index rating of 17.4. My best score is an estimated 12 index score of 85 at Bears Best Las Vegas, tough course. I don't know how it happened, it seem to just happen. Anyway, I just recently took 3 months off because of a car accident and started the gym recently to work out some kinks in my back which have helped tremendously though I've sunken down to an 18.4 index but am slowing picking things back up to where I left off. I even moved up a set of tees at my home course to help, went from 6700 roughly down to 6200) Right now I'm just working on holding my follow through in my swing, trying to flatten out my down swing to help me to draw the ball versus my usual steep weak toe fade hit. I am also struggling to hit my driver in the sweet spot which is really annoying because I can't get the distance and consistency that I have done before. I uploaded a slo-mo video of my most recent swing and iacas asked for a face on view which I'm planning to do tonight. I honestly feel like I'm at a point where I have the fundamentals down, I just need to practice and play more in order to break through the bogey golfers wall. Who the hell knows!? Haha.

He's such a girl, he reminds me of my coworker. I'm sure he's metro as hell too, haha. I still like watching him!

I would love to join something like that. It would beat going to my Anytime Fitness down the street.

I've posted in this thread before but they just released a new version and I must say, it's AWESOME. Much better than the "classic" version. I find it quick and easy to use plus it gives me all the information I need, want and more. It's Golfshot Pro or something now, definitely check it out to those who haven't yet. My only dislike is that I can't disable the pin sheet news.

I'm stuck on this new Sonata Arctica album, Parriah's Child. It has some fruity samples but it's a great album. The more I listen to it, the more I like it.

I think the putter will help lower your score, though depending on the lenses color, it may help you read the green better. It just depends on what you want more, haha. If anything, sacrifice both and get The Putting Prescription. That book is amazing.