GolfLug

Relatively speaking I think golf is the most stupid monkey sport there is. A proper scratch player can garden-walk away with a ho-hum 75 while making the grocery list. It doesn't require supreme mental acuity to know/decide course management... i.e., you can't go wrong with FIRs/GIRs. Mentally, just need to cut out the noise and hit your stock shot shape all day to play to your physical potential. OTOH, a quarterback, a point guard or a midfielder prolly spends an order of magnitude more mental energy in decision making every play with way more options and way more negative outcomes they have to navigate and then execute. I find these sports much more cerebral. Physically, they are all hard depending on the level most avid sportsperson strive to achieve.

Everest meh it's okay for a 6 iron kinda low for an 8 iron

Out of curiosity what clubs do you play currently? Shaft flex?

Meh. We ams have a very low floor. There are not any profound reasons of why we suck overnight.

Good ol bait and switch..Nice! 😂

Did the countertop drill against a table edge. Coming away feeling a bit more stack and tilty (centered pivot). Replicating the feel here. Also, with a driver.. Note: Main focus on back swing. Downswing piece will probably harder.

Yes, distance is the reason I am going back to a traditional 15 deg 3W. It might be the only club off the deck I can get over 215 yards out of off the deck on a flat hole with no wind help. Of course, with the current consistency of my strike quality with this club makes it a low percentage club. So the mission is to get comfortable with it. Our Par 5-18th is only 460ish yards from the white tees I play. I want to get home in two but would need to hit 225ish yards on most days for my second. That would be a career hit for my 17 deg hybrid (same loft as a 5W, I think) but a decent 3W would get me there routinely judging from the few times I've done so. So yeah, the 3W will get a lot of business in my practices. How much is it?

Do you mean 10 yards more? I would think. But yeah, I see higher lofted woods in my olden future. Takes a bit more (loft) to get it up as I age.. 😜

That is a really good drill. Never thought of approaching it using a 'spacer' on the front. I feel like I will have more success incorporating with this. Thanks!

Appreciate the input. Thoughtful and on-point as usual. Truth be told, bit frustrated with my work towards the glute piece for over a year. Have struggled to break 90 on a lot of occasions this year after a stellar season last year all the way up until December. It got bad enough where I have a soft cap on my index at the moment. Finally focused on cleaning up arm structure last couple of weeks just to get back to a playable level for now which, immediately cleaned up my on-course play. But do agree that I can probably do both now that I have a bit of oxygen.

Shallow club face = lower CG = better chances of striking with CG below equator = ball up in the air. Taller face = opposite. This matter especially more with longer clubs. Of course, if you simply fear a smaller head then I don't know what to say. Familiarity breeds comfort, i.e. hit it enough to get over it.

That is rough..! He does have age on his side though.

One of my goals this year is to get over my fear of the dreaded 3W (off the deck). Admittedly I top half of my on-course attempts with this club. Here my check list is low hands with noodle arms. Tad cramped but tall posture. And then simply pivot the back swing around the good ol lead humerus (as the fulcrum) to high hands with a long one and a short two mental metronome count back and through impact. I have always come out of posture incline at A4 but not sure it hurts or how much of a priority it is at this point. IMHO this club is unforgiving of half ass attempts so being competent with the 3W off the deck consistently needs a lot of things to done right, especially a good tempo and firing the trail hand with proper timing. You simply cannot rush this club.

Shrink the game.

I know not the best angle but yesterday (shot 5.8 differential/no sixes) was the best I've struck the ball consistently for an entire round. Single thought is to let the humerus joint be the singular fulcrum for the entire swing. Trail hand/arm structure/torso/shoulders....basically everything simply goes along just for a ride. No downswing thoughts/feels.

Flawless swing?? Where do I sign? That could be 10 shots better than option 2. Show aaaannnnddd dough!

Yes, of course gotta condition it with repetition...😊. No way around it. Just don't want to simultaneously keep signaling to myself that being disciplined is hard all the time. I find it self-defeating. Like you said, got to make yourself do it, but without the fuss.

Oh I think it definitely gets easier like distance running with proper/sufficient mind/body conditioning. You gotta convince your ancient brain/subconscious that whatever you are doing is good regardless of what your immediate perception if telling you. You can convince it by simply grunting through the 'pain' till it becomes easier or somehow come up with a secondary reward system for your subconscious mind. I enjoy swinging a club at night without a ball or anything for a few minutes every night and in the morning before I jump into the shower. Visualize a 240 yard drive like a 12 year old/burning calories/keeping my muscles supple, etc are all brain placebo tricks I use to make it 'rewarding'. No expectation of any 'improvement'. Just the act. One more thing while I'm at it.. I don't continue telling myself discipline is hard. It unnecessarily elevates it to some challenge it isn't.

I think the OP's point is discipline is a skill since it often requires one to ignore/contradict our innate inclinations/type of person we are/desire for immediate evident improvement, etc. It is counterintuitive and hence a skill. That's how I interprete it anyway. An everyday example that comes to mind is most of us need to aim at the center of green majority of times. We all know it but not many of have the discipline to consistently stick to the game plan.

I think you are more disciplined than you give yourself credit for. Not patronizing at all, but consider this; of the 11-12 regulars that I play with only one ever hits the range (we have a really nice range) any other time than a pre-round 15-minute warm-up. And NONE of them even touch their clubs once they leave the parking lot until they show up next weekend. Of course, they complain about how little they practice (variety of reasons/excuses). I think you can run circles around these folk from a discipline aspect. I know you have a higher bar than these weekenders that I cited but discipline is on a spectrum. On that note, discipline and religion are similar in the way that you have to buy into an ideology of a 'greater good' in face of conflicting or even absent facts. Easier said than done. All we can do is be mindful and do our best.

I don't care what others think, I like SS. I like everything about him. Very much appreciated his interview after the mudball incidence. His intensity is a certainly understated but its there and is underrated. This has been a great year so far with both Rory and Scottie taking one (major) a piece.

Oh jeez.. it's not like rooting for someone to fail life or anything.

New rule: Any and all mud on mud balls should be declared GUR 100% of times No MLR needed. Hashtagproject2026..😜 I'm all about play it as it lies, but that's like being forced to swallow the accidental fly in your Old Fashioned..

Not sure what's different, and FWIW am not working on anything specific. Just flow. Finally a break. Found something last weekend. This is the best I have swung in a few months. Hit 9 fairways last Sundays and 11 yesterday. JIT for peak season..😊

Do I get strokes?..😂