lyeager1981
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2015 British Open Prediction Contest, Win 12 Dozen Bridgestone Golf Balls!
lyeager1981 replied to mvmac's topic in Tour Talk
I was b-fit for Bridgestone tourB330-RX golf balls. Francesco Molinari -13 Ryan Moore -13 Brooks Koepka -13 -
It is similar to this situation, the only difference being that I can see is that the road is not marked on both sides in my situation and there is no way to get to the 17th tee (walking or riding) without crossing the road. It's probably not marked on the 17th side because you'd have to hit straight backwards from the tee on 17 to get it back to the road, so that's why it was likely not marked with stakes or even mentioned on the scorecard. Not sure if that makes a difference or not. It was a crazy enough bounce that I never would have looked over there.
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Had an interesting situation over the weekend where I didn't know exactly what the correct play would be... Hitting an approach to a blind 16th green, I pulled my approach shot left of the green and was unable to find my ball. There is a public road that runs to the left of the green and a cart path that runs parallel to the road and not too far off of the green on the hole that I was on. The road is marked on only the side that was nearest the green with white stakes, . When I couldnt find my ball I went back to the fairway and replayed my approach shot from where I had previously hit from like any other lost ball. Not too far on the otherside of the public road is the 17th tee box. As I approached the tee, my orignal ball from #16 was sitting on the tee box in plain view in play. Obviously once I had put my 2nd ball in play that I couldn't have played my orignal anyways, but assuming I had found it earlier before I played the 2nd ball, could I have played it even though it technically did cross the OB line on #16 and ended up in play on #17? Neither myself nor my playing partner knew for sure. There is no known local rule for this situation as far as I can tell, probably because the odds of this actually happening were very remote...
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Does a fade have to go shorter than a draw?
lyeager1981 replied to SoundandFury's topic in Golf Talk
I play a push draw as my stock shot, but certainly have noticed that the times that I hit a slight push fade or straight push also tend to be my longest drives. -
Understanding your own limits and limiting the two way miss.
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Let me subsitutue scientific with systematic. What I was getting at is that a lot players have always known that there is risk/reward and tell themselves are playing to it, but in reality they but they haven't ever been able to quanitfy it or have any idea of how to manipulate the odds into their favor with strategic decision making. I think the gameplan lessons in the book (or whatever you'd prefer they be called) do a fantastic job of providing a structured framework of how to define risk, evaluate risk and then how to reduce it or even play to it. Ego gets in the way a lot too, something I've always struggled with and am working to curb. I did buy an extra book, but I almost don't want to give it to my brother as I'm afraid he might start playing better. Lastly, just wanted to say that I thouroughly enjoyed the book and can already think of many specific holes and situations that I will be playing very differently from now on.
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To be a bit more clear, I would describe section 3 as an scientific version of the age old risk/reward strategy that most golfers are familiar with and probably already using parts of this process today, albeit incorrectly and certainly not in a scientific manner. As example an example, played with my brother last week and on a fairly long up hill par 4 (~400 or so, slight dog leg right), fairway bunker on the right corner (reachable with a 3w and just over that the beginnings of the lake, reachable with the driver), no tree trouble anywhere on the hole, or water off the tee, with a pond short and right of the green that essentially goes all the way behind the green as well. He elected to hit a hybrid off the tee to the left side of the fairway which left him a mid-long iron into a difficult 2nd shot. His rationale was that was that he wanted to make sure that he had a fairway shot into the green and avoided the fairway bunker. I hit my driver up the left side more or less aiming at the rough or the very left edge of the fairway, I ended up about 3 yards into the rough which is considered light, leaving an easy gap wedge from the desired angle to the green and thus reducing the margin of error on the approach shot. Since my brother was 170 or so out in the middle, he now had trouble short (water), right (water), long (water) and left (two greenside bunkers). The only miss that he could really make was left and short which would put him on the fairway run up, but also I place that I wouldnt expect him to hit to given his ball flight. To make a long story short, we both ended up making pars as he put his approach right in the middle of the green, but that is an anomally in this case, my strategy would clear have held up over the long term. Next time we play the hole I expect him to hit that same hybrid into the fairway as his feedback from his previous experience doing so was rewarded. My point being that he understood the trouble that was in front of him, but looked at it from a total perspective, while in reality, the trouble was mostly on the approach shot and only severe trouble if you were too conservative on the tee shot. In his mind, he was playing smart and I think that most people similarily equate the smart shot with the conservative/safe shot. I know that I've been there as well. Section 3 changes the definition of "smart" to strategic instead of safe.
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Finished it yesterday, very enjoyable and thought provoking. Loved section 3, while the theory behind the ideas in section 3 that most people inherently do already to some degree, the execution plan map is very strong and something I'm going to commit to doing from now on.
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I bought the original Covert back in Novemberfor a week long goldfing trip to Phoenix. I hit it what to knowledge was about the distance that I normally hit a driver, 260-270 or so when hit soldily, swing around 110 mph. I was playing it 9.5 degrees neutral. I did hit just about every ball on the starting line that I intended that week with a slight draw, and a slightly lower trajectory than I was used to. Had similar experiences with it again in April in Phoenix, hard low-med push draws, lots of runout, very accurate, not a lot of dispersion, the distance was probably a bit higher than 260-270, but Iattributed that to the hard conditions. I lost one ball in 7 rounds off the tee on some farily difficult courses, so I was very pleased with my late fall purchase up to thatpoint. However, once I started playing again in May in Seattle, I was very alarmed at my distance off the tee, probably somewhere aorund 240 or so on a solid hit. I was contuing to hit a lot of fairways, just was sitting about 2-3 clubs further than back tahn normal on a course I play a lot in Seattle. At first I chalked it up to the conditions being different in Seattle than Phoenix, but I wasn't playing any different carry distances with my long irons. So I started to mix in my 3 wood a bit off the tee to test distances on the same holes. I was surpised that I was hitting my TM 3 wood a very similar distance as my Covert driver. To further validate, I brought my old Razrhawk to compare distances to the Covert the next time i played. I am consistently hitting the Razrhawk about 30 yards further than the Covert, back to my normal 270 range. At least for me, there was a large distance loss in switching to the Covert. I'm sure it has to do with the stock shaft on the Covert, and if put in the same shaft that is on my Razrhawk they would be very similar I imagine. Just not worth spending a lot of money for driver that I only invested $150 in to begin with.
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Yes please
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Formula is (score - rating)*(113 standard / current course slope). so you are correct that if you shoot exactly what the rating is then it's a 0 differential. If you shot 75 then it would be about a .87 differential.
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Probably should have been more specific when I said penalties... Here's how i got there: On a par 72 course, to shoot even, with 2 putts per hole, you'd have an average of 2 shots into green (3*4 for par 5's, 1*3 for par 3's, 2*10 for par 4's) or 36 in total. Add in 36 putts and you get to 72. The given info says 26 putts, so 10 favorable to the 36 even score, and 9/18 greens so 9 unfavorable to the 36 to shoot an even score. That gets you to a total of 71, so the 3 penalties I was referencing are the plug to 74. They could be any sort of combination of penalties, double bogeys on missed greens, chip-ins for birdie, etc.
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I'm no rocket scientist, but assuming this is a par 72 course, you'd have to have 3 penalty strokes to go with 26 putts and 9/18 gir's in order to shoot 74.
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Jaybird bluebuds x. I use them all the time at the range, just keep the phone in your bag. Range is pretty strong indoors or partially covered, gets a bit worse outdoors, but probably has about 60 feet or so outdoors, maybe twice that indoors. They easily synch and have about 5 hours of battery life.