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thanks buddy, if anyone is on the fence at all, I love every stitch of ashworth clothing that I have ever owned. Pants, shirts, shorts.

the sale didn't apply to Canada, very disappointed

was playing in a small scramble with co-workers. I rarely drink on the golf course, never to excess, except this time. Ironically, if we weren't driving, I never would have made it. anyways, we're on our last hole, about 205 out and I am swaying behind a 5 iron that I somehow manage to reach back and hit the highest, longest, most beautiful draw i have ever seen. landed and rolled to within a foot of the cup. best shot I have ever hit. (and someone else had to drive me home)

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sorry, I'm not up on all of the nuances of handicap scorekeeping. But are you sure, I mean absolutely sure that he cheated? the first post said someone mentioned a par on the first hole, that guy could have been mistaken, no? If you are not sure, let it slide. If you are, I think the private conversation goes something like "hey pop, nice job with a 77 especially considering the disaster on ## hole, didn't think that would have been possible". This way at least, he knows someone is watching. And hey, check the scorecard every few holes. Not so much that the tension ruins your game, just to assert the fact that someone is watching. not that this is an easy one. good luck!

I can miss straight 12 footers for triple without any help, thank you very much.

was a high eighties golfer at the time, playing a tough, but favorite nearby course. back 9 consisted of six straight pars, on 16 I was getting so nervous, I yanked my drive left into some small trees. Got to it only to realize that somehow (really) it had landed in about the only spot possible with a full swing and an opening out, I literally laughed out loud when I saw it sitting there. Popped it on the green from about 140 and 2 putted from there. Then on 18, I plugged one in the greenside bunker, exploded out to about 10 feet and drained it for an even par back of 36. Most solid stretch of holes I have ever played, been searching for one like that ever since.

golfshot tells me 21%. would love to get that near 1/3, even 1/4 would save a stroke a round

lots of people use visualization to help. Try this, next time you are on the range with the driver (or whatever club you feel most confident in teeing off with), imagine you are on tee #1, everyone is watching you. should be easy to get yourself into that headspace with lots of people on the range. if you hit a good one, smile and move on, hit a poor one, then just tee another up. soon you will lose sense of those around you, or at least it won't bother you so much. GL

got a zepp a couple of weeks ago, been working on tempo and backswing length which really seem to help me get on plane.

yea, nice edit. lol. seriously though, nice swing too!

so it's right back to where you were when you started?

I'll go a different route, for me, the most pressure shot is when expectations are high, but I have difficulty getting the job done. i.e. shots from 170-210 are relatively low expectation shots anyways, ditto, shots from the trees etc. No, my pressure shot is middle of the fairway, 50-80 yards away. Usually after a great drive and you think, gotta knock this stiff! and I end up sculling a LW or chuncking a PW. I'm starting to acid reflux just talking about it.

dumb question...how does one go about checking putter alignment with a laser?

couple of years ago, I picked up a set of titleist 775cb irons and thought I was hitting them a ton, esp the short irons. When I looked up the spec sheet, i realized that the PW is only 45`. This caused the difference between my gap wedge and the PW to be far too large to be comfortable, so I went out and found the A Wedge that matched the rest of my irons and i love it. I realized that I was becoming far to reliant on the PW from everywhere inside of 135yards, now I have an additional lofted club that looks exactly the same, with extra loft, that I can trust 100%.

I've been using the Pelz 4 wedge system for a year now with some success. was actually thinking about expanding to the 7-8-9 irons with the 10:30 and 9:00 swings. this is basically the same thing, right?

wow, I only had time to go through the first and last page so far, I will agree with Ernie, Fred, and Moe. Has anyone mentioned Steve Elkington yet?

i'm going to assume this is some sort of club head malfunction and he very well could have hit it right down the middle. everything else looks awfully good.

general question: when going to the range, do you always have something specific you are working on that day, or do you methodically work through your bag? I will tend to start with something easy to hit that helps me to warm up, usually an 8 or 7 iron. >step down 2 clubs and hit 6 or 5 >hit some 4 irons. >back up to either pitching wedge or gap wedge (mainly to help tempo) >hit some drivers and/or 3w >back to some scoring clubs at intermediate targets to finish the bucket >finally off to the putting green and I usually play a game with a buddy to keep competition stress high that is a decent lunch hour for me. what is your routine? or do you have one? Do you always go to the range with a specific thought(s)?

There is one key difference between weighted club and swing fan and that is the direction of resistance. Weighted club uses gravity to provide the resistance, so you may find some benefit on the backswing and follow through, but on the downswing, it simply leads to a violent move down that hurts the elbows and wrists at the bottom. Think back to high school physics, the force vector is straight down with weighted club. The swing fan provides variable resistance (variability is contingent on swing speed) and that resistance is always directly opposite the path of the swing. in my opinion, this is where the benefit lies, there is no violent snap at the bottom of the swing, the resistance is steady and consistent based on swing speed. Imagine you could put on a scuba suit and swing 80 mph underwater! your 'on-land' swing speed would have to get faster as a result. no?

Fairly productive day at the range I think. Pretty certain I have my alignment issues cleaned up to a pretty good degree (though some of those drivers look a little sloppy with the feet, shoulders look much better (i hope)). here is a set of 6 iron and driver videos. My amateur opinion at this point is that i need to get the club inside my hands at that A6 position you noted. I probably also could use a little help getting the camera set up properly lol.

should have noted one other thing, while the results of day one were predictably inconsistent, i did note that with my irons, my divots were a lot straighter, and I mean a lot!

Hey thanks mvmac, amazing how those ingrained habits just go unnoticed, I started by looking at swing plane, swing length etc, but of course, start at the start! really makes you want to pound your head on keyboard. Anyways, took your advice to the range today. Unfortunately, I didn't have anyone to spot me, or a camera, but I noticed the following.. evaluating my aim by putting down an alignment stick after taking my stance, I am pretty good at aligning my feet when I am thinking about it. So that is good at least. turning my shoulders is an odd sensation, make me feel like the left shoulder really drops down. I did have another video from that same day, a 6i from the caddy view. the camera wasn't very well set up, but it was good enough to show that a line through the shoulders would definitely be rising from right side thru left, so I wouldn't be surprised if that shift in shoulder alignment served to level them out. I have never been so conscious of my feet, hips and shoulders at address, really a terrible feeling lol. but what the heck, we're all trying to get better. thanks again, I hope to have another vid soon. cheers.

Hi Everyone, my first video that mashes a bunch of driver swings. Looking at the swing, it is fairly obvious that I come over the top and have a left to right ball flight, though every now and then i catch one and it goes (i think the last one in this set). What I need to do is get far more consistent off the tee to set up approach shots from the fairway. Anyway, never took a lesson, so everything that moves or doesn't in my swing is as a result of my natural (un)giftedness. I'd be very interested in hearing what you have to say. cheers, rusty Videos: