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Please remember if the right arm folds correctly down and under the shaft, the left wrist hinge is automatic. You folks who are struggling with the wrist hinge are probably lifting the club as a first move back. This adds tension to the wrists and gets the right arm folding incorrectly up and locking out the proper hinge. Work on the initial takeaway of the first inches to make sure it is a level swingback and not a microscopic lift. The lifting comes from grounding the club under its full weight, a lift is then necessary to clear the turf. Once in this wrong motion the arms continue folding wrong. Set up with the club grounded, but the full weight still in your hands so the club swings back freely.

[QUOTE=imtomtomim;282332]well, I'd stay away from trying to draw those scoring irons then. Fades tend to stick better so just keep going with that. Really well said, hooked iron shot make decent numbers impossible. They just too hot and run into trouble or far away.

Learn to waggle and incorporate the waggle in your pre shot routine. It is the wrist cock and releases tension so you can hinge back. Also, buy a Swingglyde, about 30 bucks off line or in a golf store. It really helps you learn to feel a good wrist hinge and teaches you to swing to a on plane position at the top. You can also just swing back slowly so that the butt end of the club faces an extension of the target line behind the ball near the top of the backswing to get a good feel for this well hinged position. You will also see in this position, to be correctly on plane, the right arm has folded so the right hand is under the club and the elbow is pointing down. Work on folding the right arm correctly in the backswing and the hinge will happen more naturally.

For a multitude of possible reasons your swing-path is out to in. Really work on hitting the ball to first base with a straight, flat wristed left arm. This requires you to get the club down inside and making a good turn back to allow the club to descend down inside from the top. The right arm should extend through and beyond the ball at the bottom. If it extends at the top, you spend your hit and the club is outside or over the top. As a pro on the OTT move, for me to rid myself of it, it took a view of the golfswing no one teaches, that is, turn back and swing down, not on plane but down. The proper plane will result form the turn forward. You must also religiously insure you take the club straight back from the ball to start the backswing so that the club crosses over to the rear at the top, this allows a natural drop to the inside. If you take the club away inside at all at the bottom, you will use your arms to raise the club and complete the backswing resulting in a natural over the top move forward and also little or no body coil to go forward with, hence the rear shoulder has to fire at the top to move the club OTT. Hello pull or slice.

Your numbers are right on to me. People who consider low 80s players, not so good mystify me and are not in touch withe the mainstream skill levels in golf. 90 is actually a decent score on a regulation course of 6500 yards playing strict rules of golf. Few souls who have played or now play can do it once, much less regularly.

That's because this is fantasy land for many people, they can't play golf but can work a keyboard.

Great advice. Short par fours have lots of trouble but only need a three wood or 20 degree hybrid, to set up an easy approach shot to the green for an easy par or birdie. The driver opens the door to the high numbers on these short holes.

On the Internet anyone can ask anything, no matter how nutty or off the wall. Easy answers, go to a store, get fitted, or try something else. But most of us already know that anyone, if they could swing at really high speeds would tone it down to levels which afford some degree of control, and that should put you in the X100 or 7.0 area with no issues.

Simple answer is to expand and play with lots of different people at this point.

I love to see folks dress up for golf. They dress up for every other sport in some sort of uniform, unless its in an vacant lot or field. There you can hit golf balls also in cutoffs with no top.

A lot of tee height can be added if you do not ground your driver. Teeing too high really makes the shot more difficult as the miss under the ball increases with height. Teeing the ball too low encourages a too steep swing, so better to err on too high, than too low.

One reason I struggled with this somewhat, I now realize is my failure to execute another magic move which is to stay behind the ball through impact in your spine angle. Not so easy to do with the lateral hip slide, at first. To all trying this really work on sliding the hips to the front while holding the head behind the ball and maintaining the spine angle through impact. A poor swing is a poor swing, no matter which swing method you use. Holding the correct angles is vital to any type swing.

Absolutely nothing. It is their club and its great they run it as they see fit. When the bottom line dictates, they can alter their rules, if they want to, on any issue. Most clubs are struggling for menbers at this point, Augusta is not one of those clubs.

The problem I have is coordinating the wrist break and shoulder turn so it is one fluid motion.

I don't know what question is being begged. Pros hit the ball to a spot on or near the green where it will end up close to the hole and do it well often. How much spin they employ depends on the situation.

Drive the face of the wedge behind and down through the ball with a flat left wrist, (any scooping will doom the shot) and turn and accelerate through the ball to the finish. Your swing thought is you want to scrape the backside of the ball as you drive through it so as to spin the ball backwards.. A sweeping type motion will not impart any backspin on the ball. Just like ping pong, you slide the paddle down the backside of the ball to spin it backwards. Its really very easy. But, as you spin the ball wildy back it can be tougher to get it close if you land too close to the hole and now it works it way back to you away from the hole.

12 hours and I cannot even remember which end of the club to hold.

I will take an 83 thank you and its sure helps my ego. Not many people can shoot a real 83, its like 2 percent of all golfers under strict rules. Golly, even an 84 cheers me up. But, I cheer up easy under 85.

These distances rate a regular flex shaft. I do not know the flex you have, and did not read all the replies, but you clearly are a R and S will tend to be too low.

Shafts too stiff?

Swingspeed comes from the coil and the wrists releasing through at the right millisecond. All of that comes from creating and maintaining the correct angles while turning back and through which takes flexibility and some strength. I am working on a perfect setup and then turning back maintaining my hands in front of my chest so my body turns my arms back and then maintaining the left arm on the chest on the downswing so I am holding the hit and releasing the right arm through the ball. If the arms come off the body in the downswing too soon, the right arm "hits" early and the left arm folds early resulting in a weak, slow, up lofted clubface at the ball. Even a split millisecond early hit will rob you of serious SS. As long as the arms stay on the body, the body is swinging the club and if the hit is timed correctly, the body will continue to swing the club through. If the arms leave the body early, they decelerate and the clubhead goes pass the arms at impact with a cupped left wrist. To increase SS, hold the hit.

I used to live on Pine Lakes golf course. I still work a few miles away and hope to play it this or next week. I hear it is really nice and the changes were for the better. Where I regularly play we do not overseed and the dormant Bermuda makes a great winter turf and the grass is already green. Once the lows overnight stay above 60, the grass will take off.

Barefoot's rates are $185 per their website; way overpriced for Myrtle Beach. The courses here are overseeded with rye and some years it doesn't take so well and the fairways can be thin, muddy and soft. I am glad you found some courses in great shape. All the greens should be in top shape this time of the year in Myrtle. They will start punching in May as the spring season winds down. Then they kill the rye and its 4 to 6 weeks of some pretty bad conditions until the Burmuda, shaded by the rye grass can grew in. If they did not overseed, the Burmuda would take off in April and the summer would be the best course conditions here.

Nope, sliced the heck out of them as everything can get locked out and no release of the club.

That is why I quit doing the Dante method, my left elbow hurt. You explained why.