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easyjay39402

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  • Birthday 07/15/1944

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  1. I've been dealing with glaucoma for about 18 years. This year, I have finally lost the ability to see the ball in flight, mainly due to glare. I surely miss seeing my shots, especially the ones with a good outcome! Anyways, most of the guys that I play with are pretty good about watching out for my shots, but there are inevitably times when they are off dealing with their own problems, and I am unable to determine by feel where my ball might have ended up. (This is really only a problem with tee shots and second shots on par 5 holes. My irons typically end up in the vicinity of the green.) I play a yellow ball and have tried various eyeglass combinations. Today at the range I tried a pair with amber tint and anti-reflective lenses. Was not able to even see the flight of my short irons. I would appreciate any suggestions, especially those that you have personally found helpful.
  2. Well, I’m an Old Timer, old enough to remember when the previous generation of old timers complained that something had to be done because Jack Nicklaus was hitting the ball too far. Regardless of the decade, the level of golf played at the local level has always been a shadow of what the professionals were doing. It would certainly be refreshing if the USGA focused its energies on improving the golf experience for the 99.9% instead of writing their hands over the elite. Sports analogies abound. The NBA hasn’t raised the height of the basket, etc …
  3. $25 at my club in Mississippi. I post scores with the GHIN app, which allows for some tracking of round stats.
  4. Exactly! What makes aging and loss of swing speed (I’m now 76) frustrating to me isn’t so much the loss of driver distance ... we can compensate for the driver by moving up. The discouraging piece is the lost spin and distance with irons. So back when I was 60 or so and I could hit the 8i high and have it drop softly from 150 yards is now a low flying 6i that is going to roll out when (if) it strikes the green, sometimes rolling over in the summer. Birdies (more importantly skins) are hard to come by nowadays. What I loved most about golf was the good tee shot, followed by a high flighted 6i that settled nicely on the green on a long par 4. Even better when it was a 4i on a short par 5 😄 Anyways, when I answered this poll a couple of years ago, I believe that I said more than 50% are hitting from the wrong tees. I’ve changed my perspective and now believe that it is under 15%. Most folks are hitting from the correct tees in terms of how far they hit their driver. The problem is that our drives are often errant, but moving up doesn’t make them less errant and might bring into play additional hazards. The issue of which tees to hit from isn’t so much a matter of distance as it is of skill level. I play with some geezers who are going to score well from any tee because of their short games. They won’t shoot their ages from the tips, but they won’t shoot in the 90s either ⛳️
  5. When I am missing short putts left, I check 3 things, from easiest to hardest to fix. 1. Am I moving my head towards the hole? If yes, my shoulders will follow. Easy, immediate fix. Keep the head steady. 2. Have I moved the ball forward in my stance? This usually affects my entire game. So if I am also pulling my irons, this is the problem. 3. Is my left (dominant) eye directly over the target line? If it is inside the line, my putter will look like it is pointing to the right, even though it is square to the line, so when I putt I pull it left. Fix requires some practice. I place an alignment stick down pointing to the hole. Then adjust my eyes over the ball until the face looks like it is square to the alignment stick. It takes me a lot of reps to retrain my eyes. Fortunately I can do this at home.
  6. I’ve been playing off and on for more than 6 decades. Started as a caddy. The Assistant Pro (who later played and won on the PGA Tour) gave us free lessons and played with us before the course opened in the morning. Members donated their used clubs to the caddy shack. Those early lessons have stayed with me a long time. Shot my age for the first time last summer and decided to get serious about the game one last time. Been taking lessons at Golftec and am enjoying trying to learn the modern swing. Not certain that my body is up to the challenge ... old dog and new tricks 😎 Edit - forgot to include that I have taken four lessons at Golftec over about 10 months. I bought a package. I live about 2 hours drive away from the facility and COVID has been an obstacle. I come away from the lesson with one big rock to work on and don’t go back until video shows that I have made some progress on it.
  7. A few years ago, I compared scores between rounds that included a warmup routine and those that didn’t. I could find no correlation to my scores. The pros, however, wouldn’t be so meticulous about their preparation if it wasn’t important for scoring. On the other hand, despite their preparations, they sometimes experience a round of woe ...
  8. This sentence in the original post caught my eye. My instructor has encouraged me to allow a very substantial hip turn in order to get my shoulders to 90 degrees. I’m 76 and, despite decades of yoga, I’m just not very flexible anymore. This appears to be common advice that instructors give elderly golfers to claw back some lost distance. The challenge is getting those hips back to an open position at impact, while keeping the club on plane. The usual outcome is squared up hips with early extension (a common sight on the senior tees). When I was much younger, I didn’t rotate my hips much on the backswing, which made it easy to get them open at impact.
  9. A fellow from our club made it to the pros. We watched him grow up, and it was obvious from a very young age that he had uncommon athletic abilities. Hard work has its place, but “you can’t put in what God left out”.
  10. The club championship at my home course is typical - lots of flights, as well as gender and senior categories. Everyone gets a trophy, more or less. Which is similar to the tournaments held every other month, except that the player with the lowest total score is named club champion. I would like to see a unique event with the sole purpose of identifying the club champion. Any member could play and there would be only one trophy, given to the player with the lowest total score over n rounds played from the tips with the tournament pin placements.
  11. I’ve noticed that the college kids usually wear earbuds and listen to music on the range and putting green. On the course they play music through portable speakers, sometimes too loudly. I wear airbuds and listen to music when cycling out on the local bike trail, but never considered doing it while golfing. Might make a playlist of tunes that match up with my desired swing tempo and give it a try. Old dog, new tricks and all that ...
  12. My index is from last year. After a bit of statistical analysis, I decided, with input from a pro, that I couldn’t get any lower than 8 without a major swing rebuild. No guarantees, of course, but I am hopeful. I’ve only been playing 9 or fewer (walking) for the last few months to keep the short game in hand. I expect my HCP to shoot up when I restart next week ... but maybe not. I really like the consistent strike and distance I’m getting with the new approach.
  13. My opinion. Any certified PGA professional will do a good job teaching a beginner the basics of the golf swing. After that you need to take stock of your physical state - your body type and flexibility. At that point, a pro with a lot of teaching experience is important. They may show you swings of tour pros whose body type is similar to yours. They may test your flexibility and suggest stretching exercises, etc And, it’s really important to sort out your personal goals so that you can communicate them to the pro. In my view, you should be careful of a pro who doesn’t start with your goals.
  14. The layout of my home course - long stretches between greens and tees - makes walking slower than riding. So I ride when playing in a group. I much prefer walking, however, so I sometimes check with the Clubhouse and can usually find a tee time that allows me to walk without causing delays to other players. I find that my solo walking pace about matches that of the typical riding foursome. In the summer I use a push cart so that I can haul plenty of water, towels, etc Otherwise, a Sunday bag does the trick.
  15. My hands are no longer steady enough for my range finder, so I use 18Birdies. The free version allows you to easily track the most important stats. If you are serious about golf, the pay version is excellent. I especially like the apps ability to determine how far I *actually* hit every club in the bag.
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