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wachesawgolfer

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  1. To me the parameter you play in is determined by the controlled power of your tee shot. The best short game will not replace a 275 yard drive down the middle consistently. Bottom line if you hit 200 yards off the tee, that makes you a bogey golfer at about 18. You can lower it to 10 to 12 with an exceptional short game but you will never be 5 or 0. You can also have it 25 with a poor short game. The 0 guys hit the greens easily in reg and get up and down a lot to save par. The plus people hit the second shot tighter and make more putts. Its a pleasure to play with the good guys, who are 140 out or less, hole after hole, on those long fours and easily hit the greens with short irons.
  2. I have the i701 tours and they are great irons. To me the Mizzies don't have a lot of feel.
  3. That is interesting to me that humid air is less dense than dryer air, considering that a cubic foot of water is much heavier than a cubic foot of air and it is much harder to hit a golf ball through water than air. I learned something.
  4. Of course, you could also, go to any putting green and make a 1 inch back and through stroke and see how far the ball rolls and progress from there. Its much easier if you know a 3 inch back and through will roll, say, 15 feet on a level green and 6 inches will go 30 feet and so on. Keep the same stroke just adjust the length back and through to the distance. Make the stroke with a quarter on the putter, so the tempo is smooth and accelerating through the ball, but the quarter does not fall off due to jerking quick movements.
  5. That is the idea, but doing it, as Dante instructs, your whole shoulder girdle is really free moving so yours may be dropping too much and hence the fat, behind shots. I have really given up on this method. I think the power is in the hands and the whipping of the club through for a solid release. Eliminating the hands, to me really takes out too much effortless power from the swing. I do not believe Dante really did what he "felt" he did, as is so often the case in golf instruction.
  6. These people who hit irons a long way also deloft the club a lot in their swing through a great hands ahead impact position, whereas we mortals allow the club to play to loft, if we are lucky, or worse, hit early and up loft that 7 iron to a 9 iron at impact with just a slight left wrist fold at impact. Ball goes nowhere, no matter what you do. Practice chipping a fair distance and feel the hands staying ahead through impact and continue to enlarge to a full swing. There is a load of backswing drills you can do to make a fuller turn back and not just pick up the club.
  7. Mostly answered above but the Japanese market is big enough to support several companies there and the Japanese are quite willing to pay a lot for what they believe to be superior products over those made in mainland China. (where all US golf heads are made except PING) Japanese irons are designed to be played on Japanese golf courses with minor grind changes from non Japan products and cosmetically appear to the local market there. Miura is a good example of a Japanese company which makes a line for the world market and a line for Japan which has more informational graphics. Of note, even the Japanese drivers and fairway woods are mostly made in China, even for the Japanese market, but the local shafts sold there are almost all made in Japan.
  8. Look into the Tour Edge Exotics CB2, last years model but still one of the longest hottest heads out there. And, they make a 16.5 degree four wood. Downside is they are still $$$$, but well worth the money. These clubs can be custom ordered with virtually any shaft to any length and SW.
  9. 8 over for nine, seems that handicap will be going down real soon whether you take the lessons or not, to a 16 or 17.
  10. Regardless of why you wear one, the glove changes the feel of the size of the grip and adds weight to grip/hand area which decreases the swingweight feel of the club. Thus, it is hard to wear one regularly and then not wear one for a full shot, too much difference in feel.
  11. Just ignore them. Sometimes the pairings just do not work. So play your game and move on, who you get paired with is an integral part of the game if you cannot set up a foursome.
  12. I see no reason to spend over $500 to buy strangers drinks. I think the drinks "on me" is for your playing partners. And you do get stuck if you in a big group, but many clubs have "hole in one clubs" where you pay $5 or $10 to a hole in one player on your bill to cover his or hers bar tab on that day.
  13. Its a local rule issue. Reds are easier to understand and most players expect red stakes around water. Most players could not even tell the options off the top of their head with yellow stakes, that I play with.
  14. I am the same and it has to do with my quicker transition. A regular shaft for me balloons to the right, no matter what I do. Stiff go longer and straight.
  15. Bad putting is the result of bad setup to the line and deccelerating slaps at the ball. You need to be able to see the line to your hole and then square your putter face to that line. I see so many people with a toe up putter which closes the putter face or grounding the putter on a sloping green so that the face opens or closes a hair with the slope and is no longer square to the line. Remember a downhill lie goes right and an uphill goes left of line whether its on the fairway or on the green. Then people take the club back quick and too far so they have to slow it down through impact which results in a weak slap at the ball which never goes in the hole. Take the club back an inch and through the line a few inches and see how far the ball rolls and work up from there concetrating on hitting the ball on the sweet spot of the putter.
  16. The best practice is on the golf course if you have a place you can access late in the door and play: several balls, say one from the blue, one from the white and one from the red and hole out on each. This puts a whole new prospective on each ball as different trouble comes into play. or play one ball hit twice from there and play the worst shot each time. or hit a driver on one ball, three or five wood the other and play out: or carry a few clubs say a 7 iron, wedge and putter and play on adjusting the shots with the 7 iron : or drop balls within 100 yards and attempt to get up and down....the list is endless. Merely playing regulation helps your game mettle and scoring but doesn't give you the many shots you need for real on the course "practice" To me the range is only good for certain basic swing fundamental tuneup or a warm up for the full swing as the body quickly adjusts to make the compensations necessary to hit the ball with whatever swing you have that day from repeatedly hitting balls off a flat lie to the open, but such compensations will not repeat on the course. Save the range for the short game.
  17. I agree the ideal driver loft for most golfers is 12 or even 13 degrees because of their swingspeeds and launch angles, but the problem is most drivers in these lofts, off the rack, come with A shafts and are too whippy and soft to help the average golfer.
  18. But, if you ponder it further, it is all still relative, its not as if only the poorer players can avail themselves to the better gear. So, in a sense, the poor will play better but so will the best.
  19. Take the club back with your body and finish with a shoulder turn, if your club is out of position at the top you are using independent arm motions to take the club back. This results in poor club position at the top and a relaxed coilless body, so the minds resorts to throwing the right shoulder out to power the club down, but it goes out instead OTT and all the bad and inconsistent shots result.
  20. The two things every golfer should do every morning in the shower, and I mean every morning is after warmed up and washed, take your best golf stance and position yourself so your forehead just touches the wall. Put your hands on your opposite shoulder not turn back and through not changing your spine angle or lifting your head off the wall. next stand up straight and turn back so both hands touch the wall behind you but your feet don't move and hold a few seconds working up to 30 seconds. Do it on both sides. If you cannot maintain your spine angle you will find tightness and will not be able to do these but in time going easy at first you will be able to do these with no problem assuming you do not have a preexisting back injury limiting your motion. There is no reason lack of flexibility should hamper anyone's game.
  21. He shot 86 or so, your friend shoots over 130. Might it have been frustrating for him also? That's the problem with public golf, your paired up with whomever and it can be fun or really be a pain in the neck for everyone concerned, not just you, but everyone.
  22. What I meant when I said a full turn is to make a full "torso" turn back and through on a level plane against a firm rear leg. Your expression of an active hip with the arms attempting to catch up is surely a sign of an arms based steep lifting which throws the whole forward move out of sync. The pop up is the result of a very steep over the top swing which will not happen if you make a good level turn back and through. Lessons are fine but are no substitute to learning the proper feel to make the correct sequential moves on a stable axises. Swinging such a common thing as a rake or other tool which has a little more weight and length to than a golf club will allow you to feel the proper moves much more quickly than attempting to hit a driver at a golf ball on the range. It will also build golf muscle memory, strength and flexiblity much quicker.
  23. Short answer is you can be anything and say anything (politely) on the Internet. But, you should also know some of these kids coming up today do hit it a long way. I played 9 holes with a kid 15 or 16 and he hit the ball, carried it, over 300 yards twice at sea level. All over- power and inconsistent, but the raw distance is there for a lot of these youngsters.
  24. When my driver swing go out I tee the ball lower to make solid contact but I normally tee the ball 1/2 above the soled driver which is very low compared to what most teachers recommend.
  25. What bends the left wrist forward prior to impact is the arms coming off the body too soon in the downswing, once the arms get ahead the left wrist breaks down. Learn to make a better coil and take the club back with your body and not your arms and the lower body move to trigger the downswing will come naturally and the over the top move will disappear. Drills to correct the problem only, otherwise, would involve tensing the left arm resulting in a poor hinge back and an open club face/poor release in the downswing.
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