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I have always had a tendency to sway in the backswing. I have found the 2-inch-shoulder-blade-into-the-spine move to help tremendously in rotating without swaying. I also like the concept of bolting your left glute to the ground to start the transition. But as with every other golf (or life) phillosophy, there are no absolute truths. You just have to find bits and pieces that work for you. I have also found some good pointers from Shawn Clement to help with my tempo, but would not consider his gravity methods and his perpetual motion drills to be the only schooling method.

Neither the 905, the 907 nor the 909 have been enough of a difference to take my 983K out of the bag... Waiting to try the 910, which looks promising...

Wear them to school and tell us all about it...

I have bought about a dozen items there. Every single time the items were in much better condition than I had imagined. Once I bought a 3W and after I hit it a few times at the range, it had some loose epoxy inside the shaft. Called them and they replaced the $65 club with a new head and shaft of my choice. Outstanding service.

Compressing the ball refers more to the feeling you should have in your swing. You should feel as if you where striking down at the ball, as if trying to pinch it or compress it against the ground. But the fact of the matter is that the ball never compresses the ground, rather, it rolls a few millimeters up the club face through the grooves while being compressed against the face of the club, then immediately leaving the face of the club up in the air.

I have an older-version Idea Pro 20º. Love it. Always had been reluctant to using hybrids until I tried it.

Ping irons are second to none. I have tried everything out there... and always return to my trusty i3´s... which I have recently complemented with a set of S59´s.

there is no such thing as self-taught. Whether or not you have taken classes with a pro, you have learnt the game from watching tv, reading articles, reading forums... hence you have learnt the game from someone... I have only taken one single class with a pro in my entire golf-life... but i am a deep student of the game and would never consider that i have taught myself this game. I have the internet, the golf channel, eccetera of other sources to thank for my advancement in the game.

nothing like crawling back to the 20th century...

have you heard of "metaphors". The saying is not literal. It is a mental picture you want someone to have to releive tension if they are holding the club too tight.

Replaced my cally x-tour 54º with a Mizuno MP-T 51º and now with a ping w tour 52º. So far so good. I like how easily it travels through thick rough on the takeaway.

I´d say that you have more room for improvement than me, for example.

I know this answer will strike as odd, but I do absolutely nothing, except maybe turn slightly away from where I hear FORE called and covering my head with my arms. The reason is simple. Why do people duck? What if the ball coming your way is a low-flying shank? If you duck you´ll only increase the risk of getting hit in the head. It´s almost impossible to figure out where the ball is coming from, so might as well just keep walking or standing or doing whatever it is you are doing when you hear it, because odds are just the same that you will be hit no matter what you do.

Hey look !! A cow flying...

Same thing happened to me. I had the mp57s with the project X 5.5. Lost my swing completely. Mishits were a total nightmare. Sold them, went back to my old ping i3, changed the original graphite shafts for KBS steel and have regained my usual swing and game.

Bingo !! Emotions and opinions aside, that, in fact, is the REAL reason why the tipping system has been developed. In essence, if my boss won´t pay me what I think I should be paid, let´s ask the customer to pay me directly (and mostly tax free I might add...). I think it is the biggest tax evasion scheme in the US. How much is gov´t losing on income taxes on the service sector??

Very painful, indeed. Don´t worry they shall pass soon. Whenever I get the illness, I go to the range and hit a full bucket of balls JUST doing half swings with all clubs. JUST HALF SWINGS. Good tempo and rhythm is all that should matter doing this exercise. When you are done with the bucket, go home. Don´t hit any more. Somehow it works for me.

I have never aced a hole. If I did I would follow basic common sense: 1. one round for the people in your group. whether friends, strangers... i don´t care. i would offer them one round to celebrate the event at the 19th 2. if once a the clubhouse there are less than 5 other people at the bar, i´d extend that one round to everyone there.

Interesting enough as the whole point of the thread seems to be to give a VERBAL picture of the incident. I do agree, however, that Ian is known for looking for excuses to his missed shots, but he is also known to be a fun and respected guy amongst his colleagues.

I would just get a little closer to the ball, with your arms hanging vertically. This will help you get some of the turning action with your hips and shoulders and not so much just with the hands as I see now on the videos. Good luck.

Amazing to see all the responses to this question, without someone actually asking: what seems to be your problem when hitting a 3wood of the deck? Without an answer to that question everyone is shooting advice blindly...

It seems to me you understand competition well outside the R&A; specifications. So go ahead and play against your pal whatever it is you played, but it ain´t golf. ... and I add, a 21 hcp that PLANS to shoot below 80 and ACTUALLY DOES... is not a hdp 21.

Great ball flight...

It sounds to me as if the shaft is slowly dislodging from the head. Are they the originally shafted sticks? Could be deffective epoxy. Do you have the possibility to have them inspected by the shop where you got them? If not, get them to a local clubmaker.

Am I assuming from your comments women, children and elderly should not play golf? Are you sure you walk the course like a man, because you sure don´t talk like one... Highly disturbing to hear someone claiming to be a traditionalist of the game and seeing the content of his golf bag in his signature yelling quite the oppossite.