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  1. mdl

    Would You Rather…?

    mdl replied to iacas's topic in Golf Talk

    Good one. I think they'll both fail. So I'd bet LIV since it's the one with the magic money behind it. As long as MBS still thinks it's a good idea or is a fun pet project or whatever, it'll be here no matter how badly it's failed as a product.
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    Shorts On Tour

    mdl replied to colin007's topic in Tour Talk

    Fair enough. I've never loved what strikes me as the stodgy element in golf. But it clearly strikes others differently. I will say that using Tiger is an unfair example. He's got shockingly bad style Even other 40-somethings mostly know that what were in the ugly dimension of stylish shorts in the mid 90s for God's sake shouldn't be worn 30 years later! Tiger never got that memo.
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    Impressive shift! Not enough info to have an opinion on the connection to thin shots, but agreed you could get your weight a bit more forward. Maybe hips forward a bit more? Def head not leaning back over the rear foot as much at impact.
  4. mdl

    Shorts On Tour

    mdl replied to colin007's topic in Tour Talk

    Don't let the utter lack of class of LIV taint your opinion of the totally sensible idea to move past backwards notions of acceptable dress!
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    Yeah the couple times I've clicked through to his videos they've been mediocre to counterproductive. But I will say that for certain players (including, ahem, me 😬) the feel of swinging "not hard" is really important. But yeah, this guy's content is no bueno.
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    Yeah I'm not staking that position out or anything. And maybe doing it with variable weights and a full program is different and more transferable. Just in my experience working only with the driver I felt like I had to make some changes to my swing to jack up the speed. Nothing ridiculous. But def different enough that I didn't feel at all confident bringing that swing onto the course. The time investment I meant was spending time on the range learning how to get good dispersion with the tweaked, faster swing.
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    I'd be interested in this as well. Inspired by DeChambeau and Kyle Berkshire youtube I've used my swingcaddie to do some speed training. I sit around 110mph with my game swing. When I was in a period of doing sessions regularly I got up to 124mph club head speed. Those were all dry swing sessions, like a stack session would be. My driver carry distance never changed on course. I guess the obvious answer is what Erik said. Depends on whether you bring the same swing to the course. My question is whether folks who aren't pros or retired have the time to train the swing speed but also the presumably slow-ish process of transferring that speed to a game swing without blowing up your dispersion cone?
  8. mdl

    Would You Rather…?

    mdl replied to iacas's topic in Golf Talk

    Well I have this dilemma right now without needing to go over 14 clubs 😆 I have 13 clubs: Dr, 2i, 4i-9i, PW, GW, SW, and LW, plus putter. Conventionally I should add a 3w. And I have a pretty sizable gap yardage between 2i and Dr. But at the same time, My wedge distances are something like 140, 125, 105, 90. I wouldn't mind going with 5 wedges and having more like 140, 128, 116, 104, 92. I'm 100% unwilling to drop my 60˚ in favor of a higher loft as I absolutely LOVE my 60˚ around the green. But, if I got 15 clubs, I guess I'd add both!
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    Minor correction TBH, I got a chuckle out of it 🤷🏼‍♂️
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    Nope. Sorry. Big difference. LIV is literally the Saudi government funding it directly. Titleist isn't funded directly by China or whatever. If we applied that strategy to everything, we wouldn't be able to do anything. Big difference. Beat me to it. This logic is so tiresome. Let's try applying it another way! American urban design and geography makes driving a car a necessity for most. The Islamic Front gets a lot of their funds from stealing oil from pipelines and selling it on the black market. So you have to buy gas and you're already funding the Islamic Front. Thus living in America and sending donations directly to Islamic Front cells are morally equivalent! I'm so logical and smart!
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    Are women even allowed to play golf in the land of the house of Saud? Even if they are, the dudes in charge surely don't want to spend their money promoting servant/slave class (women) sports. And as long as MBS thinks it's a good idea there is infinite money to keep LIV going. I won't watch but among golfers I've asked I'm in the minority. And I'm in Portland, where I assume even golfers are, on average, more liberal and thus more inclined to care about whether the league directly supports an evil dictatorship. 🤷🏼‍♂️ I think they've got a long runway left at minimum.
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    I see the mods added a smiley face. Thanks for that! It's always dumb to assume sarcasm is clear in text without specific indication (like emojis). Erik can be prickly but to the degree that I know him he's always struck me as quite principled!
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    Awesome round last weekend. Swing changes are finally showing results on the course! This was with two dumb 3-putts too! Though with one chip in. Still, "should have" been a 76 My one birdie was a 6i on a par 3 to 8 feet. But I had four other birdie putts between 14 and 22 feet with a few burned edges. I'm super pumped about next season!
  14. mdl
    Don't bullshit us. We all know how greedy you are. Your integrity is for sale for less than $100 for sure. 😀
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    Haha. Obviously. I was talking about what I'd count for myself. I would hype that ace until the day I die
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    I missed this first time around. Totally fun! I said no to mulligan and simulator. Obviously . And an ace on a standard par 3 on a regular course doesn't need discussion except the special cases below! For the rest: Ace when you're playing a partial round: Yes. I don't care what the USGA says! If I sneak out after work and play 7 holes before dark and ace one of the par 3s, that's a f***ing ace! Temporary par 3: Depends. Temp green, no. Temp tee box at reasonable (as in, in range of where the approach shot is expected to be hit) par 3 length from the designed green, almost surely yes. < 75 yards on a regular course: No. That just shouldn't happen from the correct tees even for short hitters. < 100 yards on a regular course: Yes. Assuming you're playing the correct tees. If I'm playing a 6400-7000 yard 18 hole course and there happens to be a 94 yard par 3 that's designed as such, I'm def counting that! Somewhat arbitrary, but hey, that's golf! Par 3 course: Depends. We have a nice nine hole par 3 course near my house where I play with my daughter. I play the front tees with her, so the holes are mostly 65-100 yards. I wouldn't count it if I holed out a 75 yarder. But playing the back tees there it's not long but it's mostly in the 115-160 range. As in, totally reasonable if on the shorter end par 3s. And the greens aren't always in the greatest shape but they're surprisingly interesting and contoured. So I'd count an ace from that range. Agreed it's dumb the choose any you want poll reports percent of total votes. Obviously what we care about is percent of respondents who said yes for each answer independently!
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    Really excellent! Now fix the flip and you'll play off a 5
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    It's been a long road for me, and I still fall back into getting wide, wide, wide.... narrow at the top But this video and the explanation that you can get most of your arm rotation back using the SC joint rather than the shoulder joint really helped me take a step forward.
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    This whole video is worth watching, but the marked spot below shows what many amateurs do and then what you should be doing.
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    I don’t disagree that the baseball swing isn’t very comparable to the golf swing. I posted that just because it seems counterintuitive in both sports but is true in baseball, so… golf? It’s funny, those two pics of Judge, to me, are an excellent demonstration of how the right hand motion is rotation and not a punch 😆
  21. mdl
    I've spent some time thinking about coaching baseball, kibbitzing with my brother (we both played in college) about my nephew, a burgeoning youth star. I came across this, which I WISH someone had told me 30 years ago. Time params don't work in the embedded player. You can start at 0:34. On his channel you can find a number of videos where he analyzes the great swings and 100% of them do what he's talking about. He's also worked with a number of stars, including Judge. This is def right in baseball. Then... Youtube recommended me this. You can just watch the first 10 seconds of this one and compare to above. The moves look almost identical!! Has anyone ever heard of this? It's hard to tell on pro swing videos. Much harder than in baseball. But it looks like it might be there. I've been playing around with it with dry swings and it definitely has to be subtle in the golf swing. It feels super different to me! I've always thought the athletic thing to do was to get into position to punch through (more baseball) or maybe slap or throw the low frisbee (for golf). With this move I'm able to actually get my hands to impact very close to where they were at setup (aiming for forward and slightly towards the ball for shaft lean of course), rather than where I've always gotten them, reaching out much closer to the ball at impact. That's with several stretches over the years of trying really hard to train them not to reach out. Gotta get to the range to have a firmer opinion, but I'm interested if anyone has heard this or tried it.
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    Googling to find the video I took this from and he seems to have pretty much always been wearing awesome 70s short shorts Yeah fair. I figured the plane of the shoulders in the back swing would decrease the angle from true. Which works against my claim that top players don't adduct much in the back swing. So since I could still claim I was right, I went with it 🤷 I'm with Erik. I'd say ad/abduction doesn't imply muscle activation, just joint movement towards/away from the body's center line. Regardless, as a fellow pedant, I move we call this one and go back to annoyingly harping on semantic points with our friends and family who... love it! 😆
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    Of coures I agree there's variation among top players. But even your example of more adduction is decreasing shoulder angle by... 14˚ versus the 10˚ average. Still wanna keep an eye on keeping the hands ~in front of the right shoulder.
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    Yeah, so, I don't know about that one Cedric. Mac's never been on GEARS, and almost all of the Tour players will actually WIDEN the lead arm adduction angle during the early part of the backswing, because their left shoulder is moving forward a bit in their shoulder joint. I'll update the other topic with a bit more on this. You gave me an idea for a tweet. That's what I meant! Widening adduction is... abduction. 😉
  25. mdl
    I generally need to improve my ball striking, but don't we all Per Arccos, ranked from most to least strokes lost per round: I need to improve my mid range iron game. I play at a low to mid single digit handicap level for approaches shorter than 125y or 175+y. But I lose 2.6 strokes a round on approach shots 125-175 yards. I lose too many drives (as in, penalty strokes), even though my non-penalty drives are often awesome. Improve on those damn 6-9 foot putts. I lose 1.4 strokes a round just on those! Improve on very short short game. I'm playing almost at scratch from 25-50 yards but lose 1.4 strokes per round on shots 0-25 yards. In terms of what I'll actually do, I'll still spend most of my time trying to improve my ball striking. But I'll add in some sessions pitching from just off the green and need to get back on the putting green at all!
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