Jeremie Boop
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2024 TST Outing - June 1/2 @ EagleSticks and Virtues
Jeremie Boop replied to StuM's topic in Member Outings & Meetups
I'm trying to talk my wife into letting me. We just bought another house, put money into our other one to get it ready to rent. So convincing her to let me spend money on a golf trip, on top of being away for a full day can be..... challenging -
I stopped watching a majority of sports well before any of this. Though I'm disappointed to see this. Just reinforces my decision to enjoy playing sports,, but not watching.
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I be there. I already told my wife I'll be gone until late so she's prepared.
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Ah, must have been a post I missed or simply didn't remember reading. I'll look for a range close by.
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That's kind of what I was worried about. A lot of course around here either don't have a range or have a very limited area.
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How early are most people getting there? I have about a 3 hour drive but since we are starting early afternoon I can get there a bit early to warm up and visit/get to know people before we start. I was thinking of arriving at 11-11:30ish. If there's a range close maybe meet up there so we don't jeopardize the course range? Just tossing an idea out.
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This is plenty far out enough that I should have no issues attending.
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Sure, but they use it in relation to hitting down on the ball by playing it back in the stance as if they are using the ground to accomplish the task. I know it's a silly thing, which is why I roll my eyes and not comment about compressing the ball into the ground is not real
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Because you can't compress the golf ball into the ground, just reinforces the old school mythology.
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Something I've noticed watching the Good Good videos, as well as Grant and Garrett's personal channels, is they mention "compressing" the golf ball a lot. It makes me eyeroll every time. Other than that I really enjoy watching them all. You see that even people who play as well as them still hit horrible shots, have bad rounds, and are still working on their game.
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Simulator.
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Not sure about that, they don't have a way to qualify to play on the tour. That's a pretty big one. Right now it's invite only, no?
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Exactly... I can't understand why people can't grasp the simple fact that LIV just started, they don't just get points off the rip because they have some big names over there.
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Shot a Career Low 79 and I Attribute it All to Changing What I Practice
Jeremie Boop replied to KyleH's topic in Golf Talk
I can't say I've ever seen someone who's never played before, or just started, do extremely well. I think I've heard that the golf swing is not a very natural movement, so I would guess it's pretty darn rare for that to happen. That said, even the most naturally gifted players would benefit from some sort of coaching, if they want to improve. Now, if anyone is happy with their current level of play then that is fantastic. I wish I could come to that level of satisfaction. -
Shot a Career Low 79 and I Attribute it All to Changing What I Practice
Jeremie Boop replied to KyleH's topic in Golf Talk
While I am happy that you had your best round, and I agree that playing without expectations is much more enjoyable, I have to disagree with the "your body will find the right swing" statement. If I just allowed my body to swing how it wants, well... I already know where that leads and I'm really trying to correct that! Mental game matters, absolutely, but if you don't have a solid physical game to go with it your ceiling is going to be lower and your rounds probably much more erratic in score. Not trying to put down your accomplishment or "rain on your parade", just throwing out my two cents for the extremely depreciated value they have. -
Weeks 8 & 9: Catchup
Jeremie Boop commented on dagolfer18's blog entry in Journey to PGA Membership!
I hope you take @iacas advice here. I kick myself all the time for not taking more seriously the things he's said in the past about my game/swing. I could have been a much better golfer than I am if I just put in even half the effort he's suggesting to you. -
I actually signed up for an indoor league for the winter. Only $17 a week, with a free week with prepay in advance. If nothing else, it'll keep me swinging the clubs.
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Tail of 2 rounds for me for the day. Best ever 9 holes when playing with you, +3 39 2 birds to offset the 1 double. Second nine, 3 putted 4 times, had 2 bad breaks, 1 really bad decision, 2 really bad shots came out to +14 50. I don't know what it was that killed my putting, but the bad decision that I made I knew was bad as I was making it but couldn't seem to stop myself. Easily have of those extra strokes could have been gone had I just maintained some reasonable putting and not made that dumb mistake.
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Has Golf Instruction Gotten Too Technical?
Jeremie Boop replied to iacas's topic in Instruction and Playing Tips
So, I'm going with no on this, but there's a slight caveat to it. I believe it depends on the instructor/student how much of that technical knowledge needs to be shared. A good instructor will know who will benefit from that more specific information. Being able to get more in depth in the analysis in and of itself isn't a bad thing. Then again, I've been known to be wrong before and I didn't sleep in an Holiday Inn Express last night. -
Obviously, you complain about the "unfair" consequences of the actions you knowingly took, which were pretty much blatantly obvious in their impending application.
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Recently I saw @mcanadiensgive a clinic on why leaving the pin in is such a beneficial thing. I think he banged 3 or more putts into the pin and they dropped in that otherwise may have jumped the hole. Was a solid reminder to me why I always leave it in myself.
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I agree with the "golf is an all day thing" being extreme and that he's choosing to make it that way. Not taking you on the golf trips, meh, I can go both ways on that. If he's doing 2 trips a year then my position would be you should at least be able to go along for one of them. I think he's extremely lucky that you've decided to take up golf so you can go with him. I wish my wife would have gone that route. All that said, it does seem like he needs an excessive amount of "me time" based on your description of all the activities he does alone. That in and of itself is more concerning to me than the golfing is an all day thing and the men only golf trips. I've tried to find activities that my wife will join me in doing, not exclude her from things that she wants to join me on.
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So, this came to mind because there is a course locally that I've never played well. It's the easiest course on paper of anyplace I've ever played, and I have played it a lot because it's also one of the cheapest. It's not overly tight, only a couple of holes where OB is really an issue. It's also pretty short overall. I have no idea why I just can't seem to score well there. I've tried clubbing down off the tee because I don't really need the length of the driver, but that doesn't really help. This made me curious, is this something other players run into? A course that, for some reason, just always causes issues.
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Maybe I read it wrong or just think totally different than everyone else. I read both as a stand alone type event. Like you have that score one time, but never play that good again. Obviously if it means I had a significant breakthrough in my game and had that game the it would mean more in that context. But I'd still take the ace over a stand out one time only great score overall.
