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2 rounds this year. Lost interest

Ok. I'm getting to desperate now. I began last summer playing to about a 10 handicap and I can honestly say it was 100% due to my shortgame. My game off the tee is atrocious. I'm not talking it skirts the tree line etc I'm talking when I miss it's GONE. Then I hit 3 off the tee and that one might be GONE also. I don't carry a driver and it gets to the point where I hit 5 iron off the tee. I strike the ball solid but my problem is I don't know where I miss. I can't say that I'm a fader/slicer or a drawer/hooker because it feels like if I aim left and try make sure if I miss it's going to be right I double cross and hook it deeper into the woods. Vice Versa for the right side Last year I finally decided to take some lesson and see if I could get straightened out. I got worse, A LOT worse and it's carrying over to this year. Not only is my long game worse but my 7 - PW is more inconsistent where from 150 and in used to be my game. I have absolutely 0 confidence now. I stopped yesterday after 15 holes because it was punishing and I just couldn't take anymore. My clubs almost found there new home at the bottom of a lake and I drove home. So I ask the gallery here. What should my next steps be?? I've got the Stack and Tilt book and DVD's. I've watched the first two DVD's and read through the book. I haven't tried to implement yet. Think I ought to do it that route and just try it myself? Take some video and upload here because there are no instructors that I can find in Atlanta and see where that gets me? Should I just find a new instructor work with what I had and see if I can get it sorted? Turn around left handed? (ok, that's a joke but I am ambidextrous) I just want to step up to the ball and if I aim down the right side of the fairway know without a shadow of a doubt that the ball will go either straight, draw or hook. I can live with that I think. Sorry, this is 65% frustration and 35% honest questions. I know swing changes take time but I got gradually worse and worse as last season went on and the penalty strokes I was looking to get rid of got higher and higher It's supposed to rain today but I'll get some video of my swing both front and from behind on Sunday for folks to look at All opinions welcome. BTW. I hit the ball solid. Rarely chunk it etc so it's just the left/right that's my problem. I seem to be able to hit the same spot on the ground well

No particular order Duval Harrington Kenny Perry Stricker Kim

non existent. Haven't picked up a club since Thanksgiving. Lost 40 lbs and lost 5" off my waist though :D

without a doubt driver... YOu can make birdies from the fairway being an ok putter. It's hard to make par from the woods

5: 3W,5,8,SW,Putter 7: 3W,3H,6,8,PW,SW,Putter 10: 3W,3H,6,7,8,9,PW,SW,LW,Putter

That's a big part of it. But I bet also, pro's are always trying to shape the ball a little bit. I know I try to because it keeps me engaged in what I'm doing. Anyone notice how far left Ryan Moore aims? Wow

Which makes me respect him even more

I putt with one. I like how balanced if feels. I don't know any other way to explain it.

I'd save my $400/mo for a while and buy a car without a loan. Something cheap. $3500 or so. Then start saving that $400/mo again and in 18 months or so you can sell your cheap car and buy something better but still not have a payment. Just one guys opinion though. I hate car payments

Tiger is a class act. He's overscrutinized but that's only due to how freaking good he is. I'm no Tiger homer but I'll be the first to get behind him being a quality person and a class act. Along with 99% of other professional golfers

I've seen golf digest and golf magazine suggest that. It's because we're all not as flexible as professionals. Flaring your back foot a little encourages (and helps) a good turn back away from the ball. in fact it's page 101 of this months golf digest. I'm not flexibile at all.. I flare my right (back) foot

Guess I'll paint the dining room this weekend.. For some reason nobody close to tiger decides to play well and tag along. how boring. not b/c tiger shoots 67, b/c nobody else close by makes a push

And he bogied.. that's an Opie hole!! lol

565 yd par 5.. Driver - 9iron.. insane

I meant it as you're standing on the tee box 100x. Requiring a Tee ball and a 2nd shot

There should be a scorecard folder also

BTW.. I voted the 1-10%. I have the distance but not the aim :D

And take wind out of the equation.. calm sunny day

Hole 12 at Hazeltine looks like it's gonna play the toughest. I don't even have a clue what it looks like but just for fun. If you had to play a 518 yd par 4 a hundred times what % GIR do you think you'd get? BTW.. I can't type of spell so forgive my grammar/spelling in poll options :D

I believe they're approx 3° stronger through the bag than a typical set and 1/2" longer for comparison sake

Wish I had started with a coach to get my body rotation and posture correct. Arms and hands seem to be the easy part for me but getting my body right has been a fight

Got steel in both my hybrids. makes them feel like irons which I like better than woods

I hosted mine on my own domain. When you use the "export" command in scorecard it creates a scorecard folder on your hard drive. I uploaded that folder to my server and then made the link to that location in my user control panel Hope that makes sense