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I doubt this'll make sense but if I takeaway my driver low/long/straight back, I pop it up but if I just tell myself to sweep the ball off the tee I'm okay (usually). My irons are fine with the conventional low/long takeaway. I have to tee my driver low. I don't want two different swings. My driver swing with irons is a disaster. I spent a lg bucket yesterday trying to get the driver to go with low & long takeaways but all I got were pop-up pulls and pushes. Any ideas? dayll

"dayll" is, and has been for as long as I can remember, my alter ego. It's me with confidence, courage, talent, and intelligence. He doesn't exist except in my head. - signed: me (meek, scared, talentless, and dumb)

I'm so glad this thread exists. I play five days a week and practice my short game on weekends and for months my short game has been right on. Then earlier this week it just goes away! Yesterday I was terrified of any shot around the green! I'm blading simple chips, hitting little lobs super fat, and putting like my hands, arms, and shoulders are made of pig iron! I get panicky real easy and think I'm the only person out there that is having a hard time with this hard game so it helps me immensely to see in print that I am not alone in this misadventure. thanks - dayll.

I play golf and tennis with a guy who denies himself water. He is in incredible shape and will only drink water (never a beer - god forbid!) at the end of the round or match. He believes that in the near future potable water will be in very short supply and he is training his body to live with the minimum amount. What bugs me is we often walk 18 in ninety degree plus heat or play three sets of tennis at noon and I'll be hydrating every chance I get and I'll be soaked in sweat and he'll be dry as a bone. I hate this guy! -dayll

Zombie- You showed great restraint - I would've gotten in his face. (I'm much braver now that I'm old.) I'm a Tonawanda guy, long removed from Brighton & Eggert - go Bills! -Dayll

huh? dayll

MGP: Thank you for the input. I'll defer to your opinion of the TF Feel ball and play another round with them tomorrow. My favorite short game shots are high lobs or semi-lobs all the way to the pin that just plop down like spent fish. Specifically, that was where the Top Flite Feel ball (for me) just did not match up to the ProV1. thanks again - dayll

I usually play Pro V1 or TM Tour Black but after reading the Top Flite hype I caved and popped for 15 Top Flite "feel" balls. Distance off the driver and other clubs was fine but on little "flip" sandwedges and lower "hop 'n stop" shots the ball was a big let down. I did like putting with them however but I was not impressed with their spin performance around the greens. I prefer the Taylor Made Tour Black over the Pro V1 but hate the way they scuff-up so quickly. Dayll (Always doing my best to prove P.T. Barum's dictum.)

#17 is a long par 3 over water which I have played over twenty times. The last few times I've played that hole I've hit the green or came very close each time. Yesterday while I'm driving to the course, for some inexplicable reason, I suddenly picture myself chunking a ball off the tee into the water. WTF! When I get to 17 tee I'm one up in a friendly but very competitive match and you know what happens! Topped shot into the water. Livid, I re-tee and lay one out there fifteen feet from the pin. Golf is strange - yes - but my brain is even stranger. dayll

If someone has a fence in their yard then of course by all means stay out but a gate and a sign saying "Your welcome to retrieve you ball but please be respectful of my property" would suffice keep 99% of us just that - respectful. Probably I'm giving golfers too much credit regarding behavior. Also, it no doubt has a lot to do with where a golf course is located too. dayll

I have been playing for almost a year now with Thomas Golf's hybrid iron-woods. I was converted when I hit my friend's just to see what it felt like. I carry a Cleveland 56° SW but that's it. For whatever reason I hit the Thomas' straighter than my conventional Cobra irons. Distance control, at least for me, is sacrificed somewhat - but my game has improved considerably since I made the switch. Incidentally, I back-up the ball almost as much with my 55° Thomas saucer-sized wedge as I do with my CG 10. Also, the mega-sized Thomas' make super-long and low "chip 'n run" shots very easy. e.g. the "21" (46°) punch n runs just over 100 yds.) My only criticism is that with fourteen clubs in my bag, all of them with head covers, it's a crowded mess! TM425 R7, Cobra 3w, 4 Nike Hybrids, Thomas hybrids 15,17,19,21,23,25, CG 10 SW, Ping Cra-z putter. dayll

I have been hit three times, twice serious enough to injure me, and it never occurred to me to sue the persons who hit the balls. Myself, I deplore the litigiousness of our society and its greedy marrow-sucking lawyers. Also, kinda related - I never understood those people that live on a golf course and then put loud and vicious dogs in their yard. It's a golf course! balls will be as common in your yard as birds! I was playing Mission Lakes one blazing afternoon and hooked a drive into a backyard. When I went over to see if my ball was retrievable a guy came out from his patio holding my ball and a cold beer! Sorry - kinda hijacked the thread a little -dayll

Last year I yanked a par 3 shot OB and the ball hit a parked mini-van breaking a rear side window. I left my number on the windshield and later paid to have the window replaced. ($160) While I realize what I did was the correct thing to do do you think that had it gone to small claims I could have saved myself that $160. dayll

I have a persistent superstition that does not make any sense but it bothers me to no end. Like most of you I have a closet full of very nice golf shirts and related apparel but I almost always wear older, almost threadbare shirts and shorts because I score better! huh? If I wear my classy stuff I play poorly but if I dress like a ragamuffin I, for some reason, feel like I can shoot lights out. It's not fair - I spent all my life hiding the fact that I was nutty as a Christmas fruit cake and along comes golf and exposes me! dayll

Peltz and his pals can take that 17 inches and do you know what with it! My wife (who is a "jam 'em in" type) says I'll probably die at the breakfast table IN FRONT of my coffee cup. Whatever - I'm the cautious, don't like taking chances, type. dayll