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What happens on longer holes? Longer par 4s or par 5s are the examples I have in my head where your second shot would be too long for your 7i. Basically the problem I'm thinking of is that you would want something you could hit off the deck but still good for teeing off with, and drivers generally don't do well off the deck...

They are a professional for a reason, especially if they helped you that much to start off with to drop your handicap that much so quickly. I've said it before, but a lot of times I'll move on to a next swing key and if I focus on that too much I forget what I learned, so I go back through my checklist of feelings that end up putting me in good golf positions. I can then generally figure out which one I was slacking on and rededicate myself to improving that one (which normally doesn't take long) and going back to my working piece.

Read it, liked it, read it again, still liked it. Some of the actual advice has been proven wrong by newer statistical studies in terms of what to practice and what's really important overall for your golf game, but the mental side of the game and how to approach practice and your rounds is still top notch.

Shot a 41 (+6) last night in league which is exactly where my league handicap sits. Unfortunately that 41 is largely because of the last couple swings I took... Hole 8 I had probably the longest drive of my life on that hole leaving me 100 yards in. A fat, a hosel, and a misread putt later meant I had to drain a 25 footer for bogey which I luckily made. Hole 9 I pulled my drive to be behind trees, hosel'd chip out, another hosel'd chip to still miss the green and then a tentative chip up left me with a double bogey. So +3 in the last two holes and a +6 overall always leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth. I was driving the ball extremely well yesterday too, so I should be happy about my round but it's tough with that type of ending.

I'm slowly learning to love the range. Early on in my golf career (and even now) my home course does not have a range on it/near it. The course I would normally go to with a range is 20 minutes away and it's one of the nicer 18 hole courses in my within half an hour of me so if I was going to drive out there I'd rather play than practice as I could practice while I play. What I came to realize this year is it's very hard to really work on your swing when you're not working on your swing. I believe I've gotten about as good as I can be without doing some specific practice so I need to get on the range to really cement in the changes that I need to do to improve. The drive to the range still bothers me a little bit as my home course is all of 3 minutes away from my house so the extra time driving seems wasted but if I'm going for a good reason then I try not to let it bother me.

39 (+4) in men's league last night, which ties my best round there I believe. Unfortunately I finished on a Bogey-Bogey-Bogey train at the end where I pulled all of my tee shots on those holes leading me to lose a shot in each case (I did have a couple other pulls throughout the day, but they weren't as damaging to my score). I had a very good mental game though, I focused, got my pre-swing routine down and pictured the shot I wanted to hit and performed so it was a very easy-going round overall.

Please update this thread with how they wash, I'm struggling to find a good pair that I don't have to have some specific care that I have to worry about.

That is pretty weird. Clearly I'm not practicing my short game in the right manner in any case though.

My home course doesn't have any bunkers, so when I see them I avoid them at all costs. So I'd rather be closer in the first two questions, but I'd also rather lay up on the third question to just short of the bunker rather than 100 yards out.

On top of that, if you do somewhat accurately map the pin each hole (or at least get your distances to the pin for putts correct), you could go back and manually check to see the distances of putts you've missed/made in that 1-10' range.

It's actually kinda interesting hearing this come up so recently after I've read "Golf is not a game of perfect" where it's recommended to not think about golf until you are starting up your preshot routine. It is something that I prefer to do, but you also have to be diligent about focusing on the shot at hand when you're about to hit and not letting the outside world distract you from golf when you have to golf. I try to match my opponent. I feel confident in my ability to focus on shots (now, moreso than ever) so sitting in silence is my preferred way to golf (introvert) but I'll chat with my opponent if they're the talkative type. There will be topics that I wouldn't want to talk about, so I'm generally pretty dismissive at those but otherwise I just have to play my game and focus.

Shot a 42 (+7) over 9 holes last night. That +7 included a double and a triple bogey, so my other holes I was pretty happy with! +2 over 5 holes is something that I can definitely live with, and had a couple birdie chances that I missed longish putts at.

I love the conditions (when I can actually watch like 5 minutes of it before NBC asks what provider I have (none) and stop their stream). I think the R&A isn't doing anything to make the course harder, and that's the difference. USGA basically damages the course when they set up an event. The way Carnoustie is set up is just like it would be set up any other week (maybe greens a little shorter but still alive) so it's fine. There aren't special considerations or manipulations to make the course harder than what it normally is, they let the course be. It is weird as an american to see the brown fairways, but I know that grass under certain conditions should look like that. Unfortunate that they're going through those conditions now, but they are, it's fair, and everyone has to deal with it.

43-38 on a par 72. Back nine is the best I've done in relation to par over 9 holes I've ever done. Last two holes I wish we would have had more time, as daylight was ending so I rushed myself on a couple shots trying to ensure that we could finish in time, so ended up bogeying 17 and 18 when it was hard to even see the ball.

There's been plenty of people that train on a treadmill (myself included). As long as you don't run too far too fast, you should be just fine. Basically if you're used to 10 miles per week, or whatever number you're running, don't just double it out of nowhere as that will be the cause of your injury rather than being on a treadmill. All in all, it's better for your aerobic fitness to run than to not run.

https://www.gamegolf.com/player/shanneken/round/2289448 Felt like a worse round than it ended up being. 7 over after 4, ended up 9 over. All day long I couldn't putt, made some 4-5 footers, but anything over that I couldn't figure out how to leave it within a foot if it was close, or within 5 feet from far away. Hole 4 on this course is atrocious though, they need to do something about it as there might be three places on the green that is legal to place a hole. Today was not one of them. I think what really threw me off on that hole is that I saw a couple people putt from above the hole and they tapped it 2-3 inches and it rolled 25-30 feet; so I tried to hit it so it would just start to come down the hill on the lines they were hitting but it stopped there leaving tough putt after tough putt. First time I've 4-putt in a long time... After that things started clicking again, my swing was controlled on the takeaway and I got my weight going where I needed it to be causing some nice hits. The 6 iron on 7 was probably one of my best ever. My long game is coming around, never thought my short game would be a glaring weakness as that's the only "practice" facility at my disposal, I guess I just need more focused practice, better drills, or better technique..

Just make sure you bring me along to that round as thanks... :)

Found on Reddit, but here's a link to the full StrokeSaver yardage aid for Carnoustie. Not quite as detailed as the Kevin Na book (easily could've been Instagram instead of Snapchat, stories on them look similar to me since I don't use them often), but still cool.

Simply put, red numbers are from a specified tee off location that can obviously be varied from day to day. Black numbers are to the (front/center?) of the green. You can see some of the contours in the fairway, where balls would roll down from at certain locations. Landing the ball on one of those slopes will definitely make for fun watching if not fun playing.... I especially like the visual picture at the bottom of the page so you can better visualize shot lines from the teebox.

Congrats! Couple more bogeys into pars and you'll be there! I know it's tough to compare, but if you played a course rated at 74.4 and shot 82, that's a differential of 7.6. On a course rated at 71.4, you would've shot a 79 is the way that I look at it!

Kevin Na apparently put one of the pages from the yardage book out on Snapchat. If the fairways are so burnt, I would be scared to hit too much club as I can imagine rolling into a lot of crap.

I must need more caffeine or something then....

I agree, but I'm also confused. It seems like you're arguing with me about what-ifs as if I was trying to prop somebody up on them. I was responding to fnlights saying that Jack didn't push himself as much as Tiger pushed himself because Tiger was "looking up" to Jack, but then Jack didn't have somebody to "look up" to. I disagreed with that sentiment as all top athletes all push themselves. What "what if" did I propose? I think both Jack and Tiger pushed themselves hard to be as good as they could be, and Tiger's greatness surpassed Jack's. Referencing another thread: I couldn't exactly tell you when Tiger became greater than Jack in my eyes, as Tiger's # of majors now is more impressive than Jack's number of majors, but if Tiger won three less, or five less, would I still feel the same? I'm not sure. These are what if's, but they're irrelevant.

Jack still had people like Arnold Palmer, Tom Watson, and other greats of the time to compete against. The type of people that become top athletes in their sport aren't the type to take time off generally, or allow themselves to be surpassed by their competition. They will do what they can to be the best, be it through research, better drills, better course management, better diet and workout routines, better whatever. He still had targets to go after (Snead's all time wins) or majors before he got that record, so I don't believe he wasn't pushing himself to be the best that he could possibly be.

I'm back to hitting 40 relatively consistently on my home course (par 35 9 hole, just play it twice). Last league had a bad luck double that cost me a stroke (maybe a stroke and a quarter as I would've sometimes gotten up and down from the better lie) and had me score a 40. Recent swing change is paying off, hitting my driver straighter and I'm finally trusting that I'm not going to over draw it like I have in the past except on extreme mishits.