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#1. I rather lower my score by 3 instead of making an eagle... but a hole in one is a hole in one and I'm still didn't make one.

#2, Golf would get really boring if you only play Par 3's. Par 5s let you have a lot more strategy and design to play with. Also.. as a short hitter I'm normally laying up on the 2nd shot.

Are there going to be episodes outside teaching and lessons or is it the heart of the podcast? Me personally, as a self-tough player, don't find this segments appealing to hear. I do love the idea of short episodes straight to the point.

Show the stats or give a convincing argument. Just because you said it is not enough argument. An even at that distance and with a disadvantage in dispersion I think that missing short/long is better than left/rigth. So? One.. he said this in a world were statistics weren't a thing yet and also he was talking about real golf, not and invented trhead where you need to decide if it's better to be straigth or really (insert here world that describe that you hit the ball exactly the distance you want) #1 Give me putting yips. My home course have 90% OB left.

Yeap, tried a couple times but always ended with back pain after a month so I abandoned that route and focused on improving my swing to be more efficient in order to gain speed. Yes, this is what I can't figure out. When I go after it with irons I can increase club speed (more ball speed), but with driver I cannot drive it faster than my normal on tournament speed. In fact, changed from 716 AP1 to Callaway APEX pro 2023. The new ones are slightly softer in loft and a little heavier in shaft.

Totally, but keeping the ball in line i will keep you a LOT more out of trouble. I agree! but still, in average greens are more depth than wide so what you are showing are less normal in golf courses. Take the time and you will see that even on your own home course you have a lot more greens that have more depth than width. So having less dispersion sideways is better than in depth just because of how greens are made in general. Also average greens generally have more danger sideways than directionally so makes it even more important to keep it straight. Perception of reality is on thing, numbers that backup your ideas is another.

In a normal 30x20 green, a left/rigth 15 yard miss is going to be missing the green, probably in the bunker. A short/long 15 yards miss is still going to be in the green. Scoring average is always going to be lower if you have 100% GIR. Unbeatable. I love this tool I created. Is an spreedsheets that calculate the scoring average of a dispersion in a certain green with the flag you want. I set both dispersions in order to score as low as they can in this Par 3 from 150 yards, in this case avoiding going into the water. Option 1: Scoring average: 2.96 GIR: 59% Option 2: Scoring average: 2.79 GIR: 97%

3 years ago I made a Driver fitting. Started with my on course speed and was almost 150 ball speed. I tested a lot of drivers and went after them with all I had reaching 160 ball speed. In the last 3 years I improved my swing and now my on course speed is around 158 but no matter how much I force the issue I still cannot hit the ball faster than 160. Not even when I hit the ball perfectly in the middle and gave it all I have, the numbers are never more than 160.. 161. Club speed also is stuck on the same number. On the other hand for every other club in the bag I also started hitting it farther with the new swing on course but I'm able to gain 6..7 miles of ball speed if I go after them. As an example, I'm around 121 ball speed with my 6 iron but I can muscle it to 128 without much trouble and also club speed jumps 4..5 miles. Any ideas?

No, you club down so the longer ball still hold the green and the shorter roll closer to the green.

In addition, the roll after the ball lands is going to be better in option #2. On option 1 the ball is travelling a couple degrees away from the target so after it lands is going to roll a couple more yards away from the target making the dispersion wider. This don't happen with option 2, the ball is travelling straight to the target so after it lands it will roll in the same direction. More importantly, in general, the landing areas around the greens slopes away from the hole so the balls that miss left or right of the green are going to bounce away from the hole even more. In case 2 the slope on the green and short is normally slopping against the flight of the ball so it not going to roll out away from the target, it's going to help stopping the ball.

I go with option #2. Since my average approach shot is around 130-150, both dispersions are almost equal but I think that in general missing the green short is better than missing left or right. Of course missing long is in general the worst but I can club down and always be on the green or short.

Rush or delay your own pace and you are probably going to suffer in the long run. PGA pro are well oiled machines that work on an specific pace, it's not surprise that if you move them out of their normal routine things are going to go sideways. I normally don't rush shots, but I sometimes delay the trigger if I'm not feeling it. The result is a lack of athleticism, I kind of get a little stiff and I could loose some yards and accuracy.

Argentina: I read about the 3 or 4 clubs challenge in several countries. Here in Argentina, once a year, on several clubs, "Torneo de Brujas" (The witches tournament) is played. It consist on the same concept, only 4 clubs are allowed but the difference is that only woman can play it. What amaze me is that the winning scores are almost the same as if they were playing with all 14 clubs. Seems like sorcery to me..

I agree with you both, the bigger you are it's going to be easier to lose weight. We are 70/80% water. So loosing water weight is a big part in dieting. You can loose a lot of weight during an intense workout the same way you can retain a lot of water after a big salty meal. Weight yourself naked every morning before doing anything an pick an average of the week and look at the trend of the month. If you are not going down in weight then add a couple more exercise to the week or reduce 500 calories for you daily diet. The key is patience, it took you years to pack a little extra weight. It's going to take you years to cut them off, that's way most people don't succeed. A magic pill / diet / routine is not going to make it happen a couple weeks before summer.

All of my life I been a feel player. I always swung with my arms and hands. Never been consistent but it lead me to a respectable index around 1. Since I started to have more rotation in my swing and feeling that I'm hitting the ball with my right shoulder I kind of get a little bit more consistent with my longer clubs. At least for me it always felt like hitting, I've never been able to feel that I'm swinging and the ball is getting in the way.