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@StuM I will not be able to make it this year, hope y’all enjoy yourselves!

Interested as well

Interesting. All the different weight lifting protocols reminds me of the various swing patterns (morad, Gankas, leadbetter, etc). They all seem to work half decent if you stick with them. They all have trade offs (maybe you give up some accuracy for some speed). Luckily with weight lifting I’m not switching methodologies every 2 months… so I actually see long term results. Can’t say the same about my golf swing.

Very cool, had never heard of it, thanks for the recommendation.

I weight train every monday and friday. I do 1 set to failure at a controlled pace for 8 - 10 exercises. If the weight is right I hit failure between 90 and 120 seconds. I've been consistent with this for 18 months. It's hard and it only takes about 30 minutes. I have a trainer which means I have an appointment which means I actually go... every time. I also go in spurts of doing cardio work. Lately I've been walking at a 12 degree incline at 3mph. This gets me right into that zone 2 sweet spot that longevity doctors like Peter Attia recommend. I'm not as consistent with this as the strength training but I intend to get 3 thirty minute sessions every week.

Yeah, the front is so demanding. I think it was after hole 10 where I turned to Erik and said… I don’t know if I could ever play even par around this track. He scoffed and said I could. Proceeded to play the back 2 under… but it didn’t feel easy.

Have been messing with the low spinner on my gc3 the past week or so. I found the angle of attack part quite easy but still wasn’t getting high spin numbers. The gc3 doesn’t have the lie or the dynamic loft numbers which made it quite confusing to sort out at first. But after a few sessions I’m consistently launching the ball sub 30 with 4000 - 5000 spin. I personally needed a squarer face, a steeper backswing that goes more outside the hands, a closed stance and more shaft lean at address/impact. Clean contact feels almost guaranteed now. Not sure I’d ever have figured this shot out on my own. So thanks to Erik / Joe Mayo for leading me down this road.

A couple of my favorites… Camargo was my first time playing a Seth Raynor course. Wish I had done a little more research into his different template holes beforehand. If I could join any club in the country this would be high on the list. Seems the course would never get old as there are a wide variety of holes. Unfortunately I got oddly worked up at the beginning of the round and played so poorly I didn’t enjoy the first 6 holes. Hope to play this one again sometime when my game is dialed. Tom the head pro might well be the nicest and most knowledgeable man I’ve ever come across. Southern Pines was incredible. The hole layouts are interesting. The sandy areas are pretty to look at and penal to be in. The place has a mystique to it (a bit like sweetens cove) where the whole course somehow glows with a golden hue. The new putting course is absurd. Fun to mess around with but nothing like any courses actual greens. If anyone is curious about some of the other courses let me know and I’ll give my 2 cents. Was a rather successful first trip to Pinehurst for a golf nerd like myself.

The way I read it, the following underlined words imply where one should aim to lower one’s score. “If you bail out to the forgiving left half of the fairway, you’ll have a dicey approach to a shallow target between the bunker in front and a fierce runoff behind. If you find the right side of the fairway while avoiding the hillside and grove of trees to the right, you’ll have more room for error.” And it sounds like poor advice on top of it. That right side with the grove of trees sounds like a crap place to be. Doesn’t usually help the score when you have to use a stroke punching out of the trees.

Unfortunately I’m not going to make it. Below is the updated list without my name: Sat. May 20th - Little Mountain @StuM @iacas @ChetlovesMer @dennyjones @boogielicious @billchao @saevel25 @bkuehn1952 @Divot Master @vasaribm @David L Yskes @Jeremie Boop @CarlSpackler @GolfLug @rwolfe @BradSomrak @DrizZzY @jtroutman @Greenshirt100 @brockman21 @Old1964 @Dwalk2088 Sun, May 21st - Location TBD @StuM @dennyjones @David L Yskes @Old1964

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Heading to Erie tomorrow for some work with @iacas. Had a setback 3 weeks ago where I didn’t have time to practice for about 5 days straight. I’ve been back on the grind since. Most of my work has been mechanical sessions (often wearing the proSendr). I do 3-5 ball sets cycling through the following: ⁃ Lead knee internal rotation to start backswing ⁃ Arms in front of body p1-p4 (with occasional assist from gravity fit yellow band) ⁃ Lead knee stays internally rotated p3-p5 as I fall towards the target ⁃ Yo-yo sensation to shallow club from p4-p6 ⁃ Lead hip pushes 45 degrees away from target from p5-p9 ⁃ Left arm only drill focusing on loading left arm and then flinging it with a good pivot This has left me with a mental model of my swing that I call “Xander (somehow it looks like xander's swing in my head).” To verbalize Xander it's something like: add a little bit of right wrist hinge to set into proSendr, take arms straight back and wide and add a little shallowing move with right forearm in transition. Happy to report I have some speed that I can crank up as needed (stock swing is currently a 150 yard carry 8 iron). Also been doing some measured practice. I will hit 5 balls to targets ranging from 50-215 yards and record the median proximity to the hole for each distance. Plan to do a lot more of measured practice work as the season is coming up soon.

Impressed / inspired by how much you work the feel before hitting the shot.

Scott teaches the pattern to Ian here:

🙏 😊