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Early extension is destroying my tee game. Any good drills to help this with the driver?

Just getting the red ink all over my club faces would be enough to annoy me...

Lots of things come into play with iron shafts. CT's take a bit of spin off the ball compared to DGs. That means they'll go further, but you run the chance of not holding greens. Don't go for the longest iron shaft, go with the most consistent shaft that you. An control and hold greens.

Don't get over romanced by FCM. For me X100's feel smoother than PX 6.0s. C-Tapers feel pretty smooth. I can hit the CT-X about 8 yards further than the CT-S and they still felt great. Unfortunately they brought my 6-iron spin down to 5,300 or so. A little low for a 6-iron.

I've fought the snap hooks before. For me it's all about the right elbow chicken winging on me (I used to play baseball and swung with a punchy right elbow). If the elbow came out early in the down swing I'd cast and slice. If it came out late in the down swing I'd get a snap hook. I can't see your video, maybe it's my browser.

Son, your mom ever tell you about the birds and the bees? If you can't figure out how people cheat in a scramble, I want to introduce you to a Nigerian prince.

Really great news. Glad to see your sudent's hard work paying off.

Last season, with the help of this forum (especially Erik) and AimPoint I went from a 10.8 to a 6.7 in on season. I've read A LOT of putting books. Several of Rotella's books, Zen Putting, Putting out of your mind, Pelz, and others. I agree with the folks above saying putting is about confidence and for me knowing exactly where to aim gave me far more confidence than the books . AimPoint will do that for you. In addition, AimPoint has made me a much better pitcher and chipper.

Eric- You've played with more driver loft than most with your swing speed over the past years. Now that you're hitting up on the ball more what loft are you playing with?

Ricky Carmichael is the GOAT.

Very interesting. I took the class earlier in 2011 and it was the best thing I've done... I've had a few rounds in the 76-77 range where I couldn't buy a fairway or GIR. I attribute it to Aimpoint. I've noticed with Aimpoint my bad rounds are much better than they were in the past. I haven't been on the Aimpoint message board lately, but I'm going to check it out and see if I can audit the course with my old instructor.

I have the Tour Striker X. It's an amazing training aid. Good luck!

Pics or it didn't happen.

Keep up updated and post your videos. I plan on signing up for Evolvr at the end of the season so it's good to hear positive results.

I played a casual round last weekend with my brother. I was worried it would slow down play, but it wasn't until the 5th hole he noticed I was using the flip charts. 3 one-putts in a row from 12'-24' on stimp 11 greens!

A lot of it depends. I was working REALLY hard on a Stack and Tilt pattern early this season and was seeing amazing results. The swing was fairly ingrained, but over the past few months I've slowly been overdoing some of the changes and reverting to my old swing on others. The reality is that feel isn't real and it takes more than a few thousand reps in a month to have the swing down. No matter what you do there will have to be some level of maintenance.

Are you swinging the putter with your arms or rocking your shoulders? Putting with the arms can lead to pushes.

How did you get a free eval?

In one sentence: You take the average of the best 50% of your last 20 rounds and use it to normalize your score against other golfers of different skill levels.

Solid Jamo. My instructor just emailed Mark. Once I get access, where in the forum are the goodies?

I was hoping to get the terminology down better... anchors, the different name of the lines, etc... The process for reading the green. I glanced through the "last copy" of the student manual Jeff had and it had a nice list of dos and don'ts. The main thing that drew me to the class is that is a scientific method, but then presumes I can't handle too much information in a manual? WTFrack? A huge letdown... Either they feel students are too stupid to handle it after the class, are afraid of copies getting on the internet, or they are trying to save more for later to get people to come back to the advanced class. I'm not sure which is worse. I REALLY wish we got one homework item: 6 inches of capture speed. I've been so used to running the ball 18-24 inches past the hole I missed everything high side... To anyone considering taking an AimPoint class: practice running the ball only 6 inches past the hole for a few weeks before you take the class.

It blew my wig back. Thanks to Jeff Shaw in Seattle... Is it true you no longer get the student manual? I'm pretty bummed out because the class is pretty action packed and I didn't get a chance to jot down notes and document all the terms... Is there a PDF of the manual for students?

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