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That's good advice- thanks!

thanks! I actually did a little better yesterday. I have been working through Bob Rotella's book "Golf is not a game of perfect" and just thinking about my swing and not the target. I don't think I am at thepoint that I can NOT think about my swing yet. I think maybe just thinking about the target is for people who have a good swing grooved through years of repetition? I am not at that point at all.

I am having some kind of mental block taking my "game" out on to the course. I can hit it fine on the practice range, and then I get to the course and it all goes south. It happens over and over again. I think part of it is I get too tight to let myself swing. At some points I get so out of whack I can't even remember what my swing is supposed to feel like. Does anybody know of a book or something I can read to help me get past this? My teacher says some days on the range I hit it like a single digit handicapper (minus the short game I guess) which is where I would love to be. But this hurdle is killing me! Any help would be very much appreciated!

Anybody just see that interview with Phil? "I need to work on this 'cause we've got some big tournaments coming up". WTF? What big tournament is coming up Phil? You just hacked up the British Open. What is he thinking?

Okay- Has anyone ever one a major in their 50's? You students of the game's history correct me, but I don't believe anyone ever has. It seems as though I remember Sam Snead played great in his 50's and might have come close a couple of times. Nicklaus wanted to, but he couldn't keep it going. Any thoughts? Nobody is talking about this angle on the story- I think it's a big deal.

Maybe she has a Sugar Daddy? or, er Sugar Momma? I'm just sayin...

Dude! Did you do that? That's major league pwnage right there!... I am impressed.

I am getting to the point I can't watch Lori swing without getting sick. It's big gut goes back- big gut comes through. It's just awful. Unfortunately it works. Kim really came through this episode, she played the best golf I've seen from any of the cast recently. I'll be fine with anyone but Lori winning. I just think she needs to work on more than her golf game...

I am beginning to wory about Kim... I don't think she is tough enough in the mental game dpartment. She looks great in the headscarf and shades and all, but now I am starting to think she wears all that stuff to hide the fear. Don't get me wrong, I am still rooting for her to pull off the win.

Reading this only makes me think, once more, of the competition Jack had to face. Maybe it's the passing of the years has me putting Jack's competition on a pedestal, but Trevino, Player, Palmer, Watson.. those guys were fierce competitors. They were mature, they were mentally tough in ways Tiger's competitors don't seem to be. Correct me if I am wrong- would Palmer or Player have taken a nine in such an infantile, idiotic fashon at the US Open? It almost seems Phil may as well have had a pacifier hanging out of his mouth while he hit those wedges- all because he thought the course setup was unfair. boo hoo. And he's the main challenger? And don't even start me on Sergio...or Adam Scott. Trevino would slice your heart out over a two dollar bet- and he was the most consistant ball striker since Hogan. He went toe to toe with Nicklaus Sunday after Sunday, and he was never intimdated. What about Gary Player, who in this country was regarded as the little brother among the "Big Three?" Guess who is one of only five guys ever to win the modern career Grand Slam? Palmer was never bashful about wanting to beat Nicklaus either- that's a given. Maybe it's just me getting old, but I have a tendency to regard these modern computer perfected wonderkids as soft in the middle. The older guys grew up more in the school of hard knocks. If they didn't win tournaments, they were going to back to the farm to dig ditches. Many of these kids on the tour now are from the school of computer generated David Ledbetter perfect positions at the top. The swings may be better, but the GOLF, the human drama, is sorely lacking. They just seem to be a bunch of cookie cutter copies of each other today. They don't have any fire. Tiger seems to be the only one who could travel back to that era and be right at home. But that's just me. I am sure lot's of people see it differently.

Thanks! I'll give it a shot-

I did a search, but I can't find anything- My question is: Can I change the loft and lie angles of my Ping Eye 2 (Plus No Plus) irons? I am undergoing a swing change, and they need to come flatter in lie angle. I put them on my golfsmith loft/lie machine and was suprised to find that some of them are 4 to 5 degrees more upright than expected. I have had them for several years and I don't ever remember checking them at all. So.. some of them would have to move quite a bit. I put the three iron on and I was able to move it 2-3 degrees, but after that, it's not moving at all. I am afraid to really crank on it hard because I don't know if the metal is so brittle it might crack... Does anybody know if I can just push harder? Would that end in breaking the hosel? Do I need to heat them with a torch or something and then bend them?

It's Lori vs Chris and Sophie vs. Kim in episode 10. This should get interesting... Lot's of bad feelings. I just can't understand why Lori acts the way she does either...

Thanks! that was the one-

Please help me here- I am just getting back into playing after a several year layoff. I had a magazine a couple of weeks ago with an article about one of the pros winning the British (IIRC?) and he was talking about his interaction with his mental coach. Or maybe it was from the mental coach's point of view? Anyway- now I can't find the article anymore. I wanted to see if the coach had written anything I could read. It was all about commiting to the process and accepting the results before you took the shot. It was about not looking at the leaderboard and concentrating on the process of the shot. Does anyone remember that article?

Well, remember- come backs after injury have been done in golf. (iirc...) Ben Hogan damaged his legs in a car accident. He came back even better. He had to quiet his lower body. It may have part of what made him the ball striker he was. As has been mentioned, Tiger certainly has the fire inside to beat whatever or whoever is in the way. He has a ton of experience and a tremendous understanding of the golf swing. On top of all that, he has essentially unlimited resources to spend in the way of medical care and rehab. I would bet he beats this fairly quickly. I say he's back in form certainly by two years from now.

It's true- you see football players often get up and walk off the field after a knee injury, and you think things can't be that bad. Then Monday, after the MRI, you find out they are done for the season from a torn ACL. It's a kind of a weird injury that way. They say you can walk, but not run on it. Tiger hasn't been able to run either.

Well- Maybe now we can put an end to all of the "Tiger was faking it" talk. I was rooting hard for Rocco, but I really have to respect what Tiger can do.

To do what? Unstop his toilets?

anybody but Chris Berman... Carol Channing would be better.

I wish I had walked over to see what this guy was hitting the other day on the range in Florida- horrible sound- like somebody was hitting an old aluminum trash crossed with a beer can... broke what little concentration I can muster every time he hit it.

I thought they ran the PGA at least?

No- Phil should leave out the driver and three wood and add two more wedges...

banal Main Entry: ba·nal Pronunciation: \bə-ˈnal, ba-, -ˈnäl; bā-ˈnal; ˈbā-nəl\ Function: adjective Etymology: French, from Middle French, of compulsory feudal service, possessed in common, commonplace, from ban Date: 1825 : lacking originality, freshness, or novelty : trite synonyms see insipid Now if I could only hit a persimmon driver...

I am 43 yrs old now. I like Jack, I remember the Masters win when he was in his early 40's. I remember rooting for him to be the first player to win a major in his 50s' (didn't happen- but Jack had that goal for a while- then Jack Grout died...). I like the upright swing and the flying elbow- they are more like my swing. I just can't relate to Tiger at all.