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Callaway Hex Control from Costco. I used to play Callaway Hex Chromes because I like the way they bite on the green from an iron shot. Tried a box of the Hex Controls and they're about as workable around the green as the Hex Chromes.

Okay I decided to put up the front view as well. It's not my best, and I hit the ball a bit fat. But I think your idea on fixing the breakdown on the takeaway might do the job. My feet could be flared a bit because I'm torquing my knees too much here, too. I made that adjustment on the first video I posted. My right arm gets trapped behind my body and I have to make a compensation to hit the ball. The timing on that has to be perfect, but the take away fix might do the job. 1. One-piece takeaway. 2. Flare feet slightly. See if you can find anything else.

Just checked. Grabbed a club and got a grip. Not palmy. That's also one of the things on my mental checklist. Grip? check. When I started I had a tendency to have a palmy grip. I use a single overlapping grip. That swing adjustment isn't going to be that difficult to make. I've made a mental note of it, and repeated it again a few times this morning. I'm obsessed. I know that now. @Mike - I know t hat about swingin g like Lexi. I can do and things I can't do. There are things about her swing I can incorporate like her takeaway. I love her tempo. She doesn't mess around. I have a fairly quick tempo, too, but that's my natural tempo, and I'm not going to force it. I cannot snap that left leg like she does on her followthru - I'll need a knee replacement. lol. BTW my name is Julia.

If I'm putting it's on the cart path to the next hole. If I'm chipping, I've got my putter and two other clubs with me, and the cart is on the way to the next hole.

Yeah, they did that at my home course three weeks ago. The committee voted the local rule for the week: "One putt if you can make it, two putts max per green." And this is aeration season. Fairways were two weeks later. And now it's driving range season. I'm not going to be playing until April. My home course is a swamp until late April, and my other favorite course is finally playable in early April.

Wow. Thanks, Mike, for taking the time to do that. I'm a visual learner. Seeing it in pictures is one thing, but this was beyond the call of duty. You showed me just what I need to work on just set my next practice session. Please leave the vid up. I've been working on my take away, and today I wanted to see if I was staying on plane, which it appears that I was and it's a damned good thing I'm as athletic as I am to make the compensation. I used to hinge early on the take away and just got away from doing that. I've wanted the "one piece takeaway." So I just went downstairs and pulled my lob wedge out and tried this slowly, of course, I'm in the house. It's leadiing with the back of the right hand on the backswing, and the wrist will take care of itself. I have to keep it simple, because if there's too much to think about I'll mess up. I can't think while I'm doing this, you know. I have a front view, and it wasn't a very good connection. I hit fat, and I saw a problem. I had a poor weight shift to my right side, which I corrected on this one, and I had a slight reverse pivot. Reverse pivots are something I just learned about watching Sergio Garcia. Sergio does that, and he says he has to make compensations for that. Yes, he generates a ton of lag, but I'm 62 and not as athletic. When my compensating all comes together I hit the ball a mile. When it doesn't, I hook the ball or hit it fat. You mentioned the fat hits, I didn't. I'm not going to get more athletic. Sad but true. Another thing that I noticed when I tried this downstairs was that it forced a better weight shift to my right leg, whereas the way I've been doing it, it is easy to go into that reverse pivot because the club weight gets too much behind and back. So maybe this fixes that problem, too, yes? I'll work on it, and shoot another video in a month or so if I can snag someone to take one. I'll see if I can get both down the line and front views next time. Lexi is 19 and a hell of an athlete, and she generates a ton of club head lag. So if I'm going spend the time grooving a swing I might as well do it right, yes?

I've been Playing Golf for: 2 yrs My current handicap index or average score is: 24.8 My typical ball flight is: high draw The shot I hate or the "miss" I'm trying to reduce/eliminate is: hook Videos: In this shot I'm hitting a six iron. I striped it about 165. Sorry for the shaky camera. It was taken by a nice man about my age at the driving range today.

Establishing an official handicap this year made me a better golfer. It kept me honest. I also joined a league so that didn't hurt matters either.

Overgripping could be a problem. I have numbness in my 4th and 5th fingers on both hands due to musical instrument and work related RSIs. I can't really feel the club that well with the fingers, and that may be why I grip tighter. It's not at address, we checked that today. It's something I do during the backswing. I tend to tighten it just as I'm starting my downswing. I don't know what to do about that. I have a video of my swing taken today I'll try to get up on Youtube. I'm hitting a six iron.

Smart ass. Do you ever see branches and crap like stones and rocks in a sand bunker on television? No.

Sorry for the necro on this thread, but if I posted a new thread someone would say "use the search function." I did. I have had pain the ring finger of my left hand. It is definitely related to golf and range practice. I had my clubs regripped with Winn Dritac Mediums, and that has helped some, and when I'm doing heavy range work I wear a pair of Mizuno leather batting gloves. If my hands bother me I'll wear the left one when I'm playing. They're plain so they technically meet the rules. But they're thick and you lose a lot of the feel. Still at night my hands can hurt so bad I can't sleep. Advil before bed and a little weed helps. But what is the answer? I take time off, and it doesn't matter. The damage is done.

Bunker rules...... some of them just don't make any sense. There are two sets of rules. One for us, and one for televised events. Then there is the crap B.S. that can happen on Sundays..... when you hit the ball into a bunker and some #@!!%!! didn't bother to rake the bunker after he left a 1-1/2" deep crater in the wet sand (?) and your ball of course rolls in and settles in the deepest part. Had this been a PGA tournament, someone would have raked the bunker before you hit your shot, and consequently a touring pro would never deal with that on the course. Us peons however must either fail on our first attempt, only to watch haplessly as our ball rolls back into the crater, now a 1/2" deeper on its way to China and take an unplayable lie and drop elsewhere in the bunker with a one stroke penalty which we should have done in the first place. The same goes for a fallen tree branch from a storm that the grounds crew hasn't gotten around to clearing yet from a bunker. That also would not be a problem if one fell from a tree during a televised round on Saturday or Sunday since the crew would promptly remove it. We however cannot remove it without taking a two stroke penalty or loss of hole. However we can take an unplayable lie costing us one stroke if we drop into the bunker. We can, however remove it after we've hit our shot out of the bunker so the next poor person doesn't have to deal with it. Also while banana peels and other litter like aluminum cans can be removed from a bunker if they obstruct the line of play because they are no part of the "natural terrain," half eaten apples and pears dropped by slobs in the foursome in front of you cannot because they are considered part of nature even though there is no apple or pear tree in the area ! Fortunately some of our courses have a local rule allowing stones and rocks next to your ball to be removed from sand bunkers. It's a safety issue + who wants to damage a $125 wedge? Also given that the bunker is X number of square feet what are the odds that your ball will end up right next to the rock? about 80%. PS: the rock would not be in the bunker for the televised event.... just saying. I know.... "don't hit the ball into a bunker."

Seriously, I messed around with wedges over the past year. I know I've only been playing a couple years, but I've got help. There's a scratch golfer down the road who's played for decades, and I've had input from a couple of pros. Sand up here is heavy and wet most of the year, so 14 bounce is too much ... here. In Southern California? Different game. I would go with the 50 - 54 - 58. - as much as I love my 60. My clubset has the PW - 45, GW - 50, and I added the traditional 56 (M - grind 10), and 60. The club gap between the 56 and 60 is fine. The 56 is obviously a Vokey, but the 60 is a Cleveland. The gap between my gap wedge and my 56 is too much. The gap wedge also being a cavity back can be a bit springy and I find difficult to control on the "feel" type partial shots so I'm seriously thinking that since I rarely use my 5 iron during the summer months just grabbing a 52 wedge to fill in that hole. There is nothing like that heart stopping moment of hitting a full 60 wedge shot over a water hazard and bunker to a short pin, and watching it sky and wondering on the way down "is it going to clear the bunker?" This is our 18th hole. Par 5.

I played a year back in 70-71. I could never hit those damned drivers back then and would always use a 3 wood off the tee or even a 2 iron. It got me out onto the fairway. Then two years ago I took up the game again, and these huge drivers had me scared. I teed off with my 3 wood in the new set. Worked well, too. Then I finally got fit for one of the new drivers and the numbers on the screen and shot pattern didn't lie. The Callaway Big Bertha gave me the best numbers. I'm hitting the 10.5 degree in the R shaft. I really like it. My drives average 230 yds. I tried out something like seven drivers including the new Bertha V series - the distance was there, but I had better control with the 2014 model. I do have a tendency to push my drives. What ended up happening is that I wrapped electrical tape about an inch down on the butt end of the club to see if it helped at all, and it did. It almost eliminated pushing the drives. So I had the shaft butt cut from 45.5" to 44.5", and that solved the problem. The Fubuki Z 50 shaft that is in them according to Mitsubishi, if your driver speed is 92 - 105 the Z 50 in Stiff should do the trick. >106 the Z 60. You should give the Big Bertha a try, too. It's in the same price range as the SLDR.

For me it ends up the difference between trying and doing. Example: Yesterday I was looking to buy a "beater" driver for winter range work. Unlike pros I have to buy my clubs. I have a Big Bertha that I don't want to beat up. I found a Razr Fit for a very reasonable price in the clearance bin. While trying to kill the ball I was hitting it all over the place. While trying to swing properly I was hitting it all over the place. Swing speed was low. Launch angle low. Yeah, I was still getting over 200, but I sucked. I stopped. Then instead of analyzing what I was doing wrong, clear all those swings I watched from my brain. I just relaxed and started swinging the club and hitting the ball. My club head speed went up from 80 to 92. Launch angle from 7 degrees to 14 degrees. Distance from 200 to 235. Notice what word is missing? Trying. Forget about trying and just do it. I realized I have my own swing, and apparently it's not that bad. I just need to work out the kinks in it with my pro, then groove it into my muscle memory with repetition by hitting thousands of balls. Don't forget lessons are included. I can get in 6500 balls between Nov 1 and the end of March. Boring? Perhaps.

Here's Brittney Griner when she was in college.... dunking like a girl. She starts at 30 seconds into the video. She just finished helping Team USA bring home the Gold in the 2014 World Championships.

Thanks for the welcome, everyone. Thanks for the link. Great information. I use a mirror whenever possible. I need to check my wrists because I have a tendency to bow them too much at the top of my back swing. Winter. I go during the day - hardly anyone is there. I have access to the mirrors. I'm also a classically trained musician, so fortunately I know how to practice something. You don't start out full speed. You go through the movements. You're going to make mistakes when you're learning it. Then you go through sections faster. Then you put it together at a comfortable pace and take it to full tempo to see what happens. Then work on the areas that need fixing. Then go back to full tempo and see what happens. I am working with a pro and plan twice monthly lessons over the winter unless he flies down south. He's the coach. I'm just the dumb athlete. If he flies down south, I'll get someone to video me, and see what I do and what I can improve on.

3 x 20 single leg extensions 30 lbs. (each leg) 3 x 20 cross leg lunges body weight 3 x 20 11 lb medicine ball slams - superset 3 x 20 bridges 3 x 30 orange whip swings 3 x 15 hip adductor 160 lbs 3 x 15 hip abductor 160 lbs Protein drink.

I'm tall. 6'. I played basketball, and before you ask, yes, I played b-ball in my youth. My height gives me an advantage as far as distance, but the disadvantage is that the little errors multiply. The takeaway and downswing has to be more precise, and it takes more practice to get consistent center contact. I struggle with this.

Lot's of good information. That's why I just joined.

I've been lurking here for a while, and finally thought I'd join in, if you'll have an old lady in the house. I'll be 62 on Sunday, and just took up the game a couple years ago. I'm a retired IT Sys Admin. I played for a year back in 1970-71, but real life got in the way, and I never continued. I wasn't that bad at it either, but I didn't have much support in playing then from family. So a couple years ago I decided to take up the game again, and it has changed a lot since the old days. Another thing is that I've always managed to stay in somewhat good condition all my life, and for my age am in athletic shape. I joined the women's club at one of the local clubs this year and established a handicap that dropped from 37 to 24.8 over 5 months. It took a lot of time and effort. I drive the ball about 230 yards and hit about 8 FIRs per round. Those other six? The usual crap that happens with us higher handicap players. Winter goals: the driving range is heated - buy unlimited ball pass and groove my swing. Strength and flexibility train. Lessons and learn how to shape shots. I want to learn how to hit a fade and a cut. Add 20 yds to drive. Yeah, I'm that person. That will make a the first hole (short par 5) a driver + 8 iron. I've looked at Lowest Score Wins . I'm going to buy and read it. I'm retired. What else have I got to do? I don't bake.