Duff McGee

I love the Home Course and almost paid for a tee time tomorrow but something came up. Another one would be the Olympic Course at Gold Mountain or even the one I hit with one of the pros that oost on here this summer: Tumble Creek in Cle Elum.

Thanks, that's good to know. I've always suspected that I could putt better on those greens due to them being so damn "true."

Don't pros generally putt on more difficult greens than the average weekend warrior though? I honestly don't know the answer.

I would also guess that he still somewhat blames you for stopping so quickly at the light because he thought he was going to have to gun it through to keep up with you. That's no fun for friends.

Yeah I guess the part I left out is that I used to always follow through just like that for years after meeting this guy. It wasn't the worst but I certainly could have done much better

Thanks a lot for this. I was once paired up with a guy at a local course that tried to explain that the best way to putt is a short backswing, accelerate, then follow through with a huge follow through. Lol.

It could happen but it looks like the competition will be better than in those years.

Thanks guys. It doesn't sound worth it if the actually affects the distance that much.....

Thanks everyone. :)

Ok thanks dude, that's good to hear.

Thanks for that. I just watched the video Mvmac and Iacas posted of their alternate ball round and I noticed that they don't seem as concerned about wrists and all that and seem to be more about tempo too. I could be completely wrong but that's kind of the impression I got. I mean, obviously we want to strike the putt on line, but I swear I get into my own head too much worrying about the perfect stroke (in theory, it is never actually perfect) and I lose sight of the "you are trying to get a ball to go into a hole" aspect.

The green was somewhat wet from the morning dew and it had been plugged and sanded a few weeks ago if that makes any difference. And the shot was a nice high baby draw.

This is 100% spot on. Instead of worrying about the perfect pendulum and all that other stuff, I'm just all about tempo now. Granted, I did open the blade up once badly today which led to a 3 putt and is entirely due to my new method, but one putt out of an entire day didn't do what I wanted? I'll take it. :)

So today I had a 220 yard par 3 where I hit a gripped down 3 wood beautifully into the center of the green. At first I thought it plugged but when I got up there I realized it was just an optical illusion and that my ball had actually spun back about a foot. So my 3 wood produces backspin but even my wedges don't spin back? Isn't this a little disconcerting? Ever since my swing change I am hitting the ball so much better. Yet doesn't putting enough back spin on a 3 woods that it actually backs up on the green an indication of a swing flaw?

Haha oh man that's a bad one. That made me laugh.

I wonder if anyone else has experienced this so I'll just ask. So for my entire golf life I've tried tons of different putting techniques. So often I focused so much on pendulum and "don't break your wrists" and everything else about putting. Yet my putting is still mediocre to maybe average. "Well," I said to myself a few weeks ago, "since I've tried being so technical and haven't really improved more than a monkey out there trying to hit a round thing into a hole, I'm just going to wing it." I've decided to treat putting like the task it actually is instead of trying to be perfect in my mechanics. Instead of getting into the nuances of a golf putting stroke, I'm just going to try to hit the ball into or near the hole like someone who never plays golf would do at a putt putt golf. The results have been pretty dang good so far! It takes a lot of the worry and timidness out of my putting stroke.

I've heard that this is satire.

I played on greens like this last week but with a ton of sand. You could barely see any green. I had to make my chips count. If you were 3 feet or more away it was pure luck if you made it.

Thanks guys. Ha we are swing speed twins.

Thanks guys.

Agreed. As much as it is clear the Seahawks need to make coaching adjustments and can't just get by on talent alone now, those were the two games I was most worried about when the schedule came out...they just so happened to be the first 2 games. It would not surprise me at all for the Seahawks to still win 12+ games. BUT.....home field advantage looks like a GB year.

Day from hell today: lost 3 of my 4 fantasy games, mostly due to starting the wrong people. Then lost Ina. Survivor pool bc of the Ravens. Sucked at the weekly pick ems. And then the Seahawks lost. This day has to go down as my worst all around football day ever.

Are they better than E6's?

Same. But he didn't give us any reason to think he'd blow up this week after crap he gave last week