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golf-noob-bruce

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  1. golf-noob-bruce
    To answer the question posed in the title: No. I think being compulsive about your routine makes it more difficult to adapt to things outside of your control.
  2. golf-noob-bruce
    A little cryptic maybe?
  3. golf-noob-bruce
    Should be a poll! I vote irons. (Yes, I seriously neglect putting.)
  4. golf-noob-bruce
    Yeah, just guessing, but maybe they didn't have a close up shot of the ball going in when she did that, and just cut something in later. Judging by her reaction I think she did actually sink it.
  5. golf-noob-bruce
    Um...
  6. golf-noob-bruce
    This does wonders for me. Just ensuring I line up with the club face square and my body aligned no more than 10 degrees right has a major impact.
  7. golf-noob-bruce
    Not even close.
  8. golf-noob-bruce
    Sorry, I still don't get it. So if the differences between good and bad swings are immeasurable, what do you measure to verify that you're making a better swing?
  9. golf-noob-bruce
    If you're referring to how his hands move away from his body at the takeaway, then I disagree. Good golfers just don't do that.
  10. golf-noob-bruce
    If I had to ask someone else to make this decision for me and were given the choice between a) making a decision based on one relatively simple statistical rule or b) a professional making a gut call based on untold hours of practice, experience and situation specific factors which we are almost completely unaware of, I'm going to go with b every single time. The suggestion that we somehow know better than he did what decision to make is very difficult to defend in my opinion. BTW, I don't really understand the stat you quoted. Any chance you could explain it in a bit more detail? Speaking about the stats specifically though, I'd be interested to see what the actual measured statistical difference is between laying up from the distance he did, and choosing to go for it instead?
  11. golf-noob-bruce
    What was your handicap when you started?
  12. golf-noob-bruce
    Pretty modest goals this year: 1. Break 100 2. Take a few lessons specifically on hitting my driver.
  13. golf-noob-bruce
    Latest blog and he's still going on and on about equipment. You better golfers out there please help me here. I believe good golfers are good, almost irrespective of equipment (within reason, of course). Is that your experience?
  14. golf-noob-bruce
    Same here. I'll watch meandmygolf vids if they have specific golf instruction stuff I'm interested in, but there's just not much personality on camera to make me come back for more. Parfield's stuff I watch mostly for entertainment value.
  15. golf-noob-bruce
    It's colloquially called the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, also known as the frequency illusion.
  16. golf-noob-bruce
    Not surprised there's no graph like this on Dan's site. Not looking good. He had a below par round in April 2014 though and it's not on your blue graph. Or is that just an artifact of how it was graphed? EDIT: Oh, maybe the blue circles are actually the moving average...
  17. golf-noob-bruce
    @RFKFREAK I also liked the song. It's "Fifteen" by Goldroom.
  18. golf-noob-bruce
    Wow! Loved this. I really do admire people that are truly good at something. Sure, pros have a lot of natural talent, but honing those innate skills takes a lot of dedicated and concerted effort (true of golf, table tennis, whatever....).
  19. golf-noob-bruce
    If that is the case, how does it happen that the small timing changes in an amateur's swing has such a wide range of results. Presumably better golfers have the same timing variations (otherwise we'd call them, um, more consistent) but somehow for them the results are better? I don't get it.
  20. golf-noob-bruce
    His latest blog is up. Looks like he's sinking deeper and deeper into suspicions about his equipment. Dan is all over place at the moment. One paragraph is about the driver, the next about how his new wedges just don't "fit his game". This will not end well...
  21. golf-noob-bruce
    Ah, ok. So for everywhere in the universe where golf is currently being played (presumably) the distinction is academic.
  22. golf-noob-bruce
    http://thesandtrap.com/t/33326/sweet-spot-shifts-fade-vs-draw I find the references to COG confusing though. Isn't it really the center of mass?
  23. golf-noob-bruce
    Seems to me that all amateurs need to do is work on improving their swing and stop worrying about distance vs. accuracy. Improving swing = increased distance and accuracy, right?
  24. golf-noob-bruce
    Mm, might be stretching it a bit. There are things we describe using fluffy terms (athleticism, talent, for example) which, as far as I know, we don't completely understand the scientific basis for. Surely those topics are worthwhile of further academic work? Or are you referring to just The Dan Plan (in which case I wholeheartedly agree).
  25. golf-noob-bruce
    Holy moses you're flexible!
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