Pepsivanilla93

Weekends whatever month usually works best for me. We've got some Rochester school district renovations coming up for summer so I might be working weekends too. I can make a central Michigan course like in Okemos. That's pretty good distance wise but I'm always open to anywhere.

I hope you can get down to scratch. What an awesome goal! Have you worked with an instructor at all or did you put your swing together yourself? When you mimic your ball flight with your hand, do you stand behind the ball and gesticulate the ball flight as a visualization technique? I've never seen that before so that's interesting. Keep up the good work man.

You posted this a little while ago but if you haven't been made aware of AimPoint Express yet I'd recommend you look into it for green reading. It looks funny at first and a bit ridiculous, but it's accuracy is uncanny. Right after I took the class I was burning the edge of the hole on almost every putt as well as draining putts as long as 20ft. It worked really well for me and if you're having difficulty reading greens still I'd at least say to look into it and see if it's a viable option for you to learn. You have a really nice looking swing by the way. The ball seems to really launch off the face in your swing videos! It looks so smooth and effortless and the data you have looks pretty intimidating on first glance! I'm looking forward to see how you progress from here since you're handicap is very low.

Put in 10 days of practice since my last lesson. My setup improvements were correct but I still needed to get the club handle a littler lower by introducing more right arm bend at address. Aimed at or below the belt buckle was the desired goal. That was the first lesson that suggested actual swing changes, and what he was looking to accomplish was to steepen the shoulder turn so that my head stops lurching out over my left shoulder. My shoulder plane was too shallow causing compensations to maintain a steady head. I've been working diligently on doing the club across the shoulders and pivot drill. I've also done the drill to the top of the backswing and held it there while I move the club back to my hands and get into a full backswing position. Ball flight is a lot straighter still with the fat and thin mishits. No more hooks but I tend to slice on the driver, 3w, and 3h. I'm confident we'll get more and more consistent in the good way as the lessons progress. Went out and played Shepherds Hollow, a really nice public course here in Michigan. Shot in the hundreds but had nobody behind us so my buddy and I got in some good short game practice. I learned to play out of the bunkers out of necessity! So. Many. Bunkers. It became a running joke on the blind shots to suggest that our ball was probably in a bunker. I hadn't made any comments on LSW yet, but I received the book a couple days ahead of schedule and read it before the weekend! Lots of good stuff in the book. I particularly liked game planning and separation value. I found a lot of the info could be gleaned by lurking this website for a while but there were still plenty of new ideas to keep the information fresh. It definitely helps you prioritize the weaknesses of your game whereas 5sk helps you prioritize the weaknesses of your swing. Received Stan Utley's "The Art of the Short Game" a couple days ago as well. I've owned Pelz's "Short Game Bible" for a few years now but prefer Utley's techniques and Pelz's data. A little bit of both worlds and I'm having awesome success already with the Utley chipping method. Anyways, here's my swing as of today:

I'd give it a chance. Wouldn't hurt me in the slightest if I missed it though.

Just got my first evolvr lesson back for the year about a week ago. Looks like I'll be working with Stephan this time instead of Preston, which is starting off well. He had me address my address first, so I'm pretty happy to know that I'll have a sound setup and can focus on other things. A few things he wanted to adjust with my setup is he wanted to see my head pointed more towards the ball. He explained it as if I couldn't move my eyes in their sockets, instead I would need to point my eye sockets directly at the ball. He also suspected that I might have a bit of open shoulders at address and to close them/square them just a touch. Enough that my leading arm becomes slightly visible in front of my trailing arm at address. I think my baggier jacket hid my arms a bit, so I made sure to not to wear it for the upcoming uploads. The final thing was that I was standing too close to the ball not leaving enough room between the handle and my thigh. One palm width between the end of the handle and my thigh was the rule of thumb. I keep a couple clubs out of the bag leaning against the wall in my room with a couple golf balls. Whenever I walk past I'll do a set of about 5 repetitions just addressing the ball working on the setup positions. Every 5 sets or so I set up my phone on my selfie stick and get a DTL shot of my setup to confirm I'm seeing what needs to be seen. I was happy to hear him say I wasn't too far off! Found that very encouraging. After addressing setup issues his main concerns were sequencing issues and wrist loading, so I'm looking forward to what he has to say about those. Going to add in some backswing and downswing fixes once my setup checks out he said. I've included two shots of my progress on setup that I'll be sending in in just a minute here.

Slam dunk.

Anyone know the loft of the poo putter? Asking for a friend...

I can dig it. Haven't found any with cool logos yet, but I got out for a round on a nice day in January and the pro shop cashier gave me a free golf course logo golf ball to shut the gate for the course after we left. It was a slow day and he was looking to leave ASAP. Closed his mailbox for him too, free of charge.

I would go right, simply because buying golf clubs will be more plentiful and cheaper, both sides considered equal. You won't have to flip the mats around at the range, almost all products are default right handed, etc. I play hockey left handed and golf right.

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It's a pain but keep at it though! When you've hooked it into the woods for the 9th time that day and you're frustrated and not thinking, you'll revert to whatever swing is ingrained the deepest and most unconsciously(?). This is a really good website to join that takes giving credible advice very seriously. Welcome!

Not a fan. I think it's too easy for this show to screw you up. It's like the TV version of an issue of Golf Digest.

Almost said between red and black until I realized I was thinking total distance. I carried my driver 230-250 last time I was out and my 8 iron about 135. I'd say purple is close to slightly short for me. This will be a nice little chart for me to set goals with when I start adding distance.

You're right about that! I think I've been on this website long enough to realize feel ain't real and I should always use my camera. It's my phone so I always have it with me anyways. Sad to say I'm still that guy that uses the range poorly but plenty of you have made tremendous progress on your swing thread videos that it's time to say you all might be doing something right!

Awesome that's really helpful. Doing video analysis certainly presents itself with its own challenges.

@b101 Thanks for the quick feedback! At least I'm not the only one to get carried away on a launch monitor. It was quite frustrating but I just shot some video out in the yard to submit and I appreciate your experience helping me. I figured out how to take slow-mo high framerate video and it was very telling. I'll be looking to implement this, so thank you. When it comes to video on your first range session, are you specifically looking for your swing to be moving in the direction of the fix, or are you videoing your drills, or maybe something else? I expect the way to do it would be to run your drills slow enough that you can fix any inconsistency immediately and build speed slowly from there. But you're taking full swings and checking those on video, correct?

Tried out this range about 30 minutes away that has the Trackman Range feature, today. Couldn't get it to register a single shot. Very disappointing and frustrating range visit. Just one of those awful days for your swing too. I just wanted to get an average carry distance for my clubs and some shot data to review at home, so I didn't show up with any game plan for practice. The app for Trackman stopped working after about 20 balls all the way until I left. I contacted the range to see what was up after my visit since they were packed when I was there. Got too carried away as well trying to fix my club path and whole slew of other swing faults that weren't my priority and since nothing was working I was getting frustrated. This post is a bit of a vent of my awful range visit as well as a reminder to work on, and video, my priority change since working on one thing at a time is going to be the only way I'm able to track progress. A couple questions for anyone who drops by and can answer: What's the best way to track ball striking progress? My goal is to improve sweet spot hits with proper ball first contact and that's the fix my instructor was helping me with. Should I take an initial percentage of quality hits to mishits and then test it at certain intervals to track progress? Should I just video my swing and make sure my swing changes are present, then continually submit videos until my instructor sees the progress? Then he can adjust as necessary? Thanks guys, going to send in some more videos anyways for instruction. It's just too complicated and 'instant gratification inducing' trying to fix it myself at this point.

Sweet, looking forward to it! Come on TST members, you know you want one....

@kpaulhus @klineka @divot dave @nabzi @GolfLug @Pepsivanilla93 open open open open Count me in. This swing caddie isn't the greatest quality and I'd prefer spin, launch angle, and review-able stats for the extra $100. Let me know what info you need.

Currently saving for a down payment on a house. Golf simulator is coming after that house. There will be plenty of room without a couch

Thought I'd drop by your thread to see your progress and wow! It looks really nice. In fact I could see your finish on a book cover haha. I'm happy to hear evolvr is working for you. How long do you usually practice every day?

Thanks, Erik. LSW scheduled for delivery Saturday and I'm really looking forward to finally reading it! Thank you, I'm glad to be back. I've only done a lesson or two in evolvr so far and it's really paid off. I will definitely be signing up again soon to keep me on track. Had the day off work today so I decided to take a couple videos of my current progress. Last time I was at the range I was getting pure strikes and straight ball flights with the things I was working on. Progress is unquestionable at this point and I'm just waiting for the weather to warm up a bit more before the courses will open for the season so I can see how it reflects in my scores.

From what I understand, a USGA handicap can be given after 5 rounds have been played. Eventually when you have played 20 or more rounds it will use the best 10 scores from your most recent 20 rounds. For what it's worth I have a different 9 hole handicap compared to my 18 hole handicap. I would suggest keeping your scorecards and inputting the score, slope, and course rating into a calculator to find your handicap. There are websites that do this for free.