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    There's a note at the top of the "My Team" page now. Confused me at first too.
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    First official round of the year today. Kind of a mixed bag. Shot 51-43-94 (19.8 differential). My goals for the year have very little to do with chipping and putting. Its all about getting from the tee to the green better to lower my handicap. So to that point, today was ok. I had 2 penalties, both on the same blow up hole for a 10 on the par 5 6th hole. That and 21 putts on the front 9 make for a 51 pretty easily. The back 9 was much cleaner. I hit 4 greens on the back, and if it weren't for back to back duffed chips on a short-sided downhill attempt, it would have been as good any 9 holes I've ever played. The last 3 holes were all GIR pars. All in all, 10 of 14 fairways hit. 5 greens in regulation, plus another 7 nGIRs. So with the exception of the blow up hole, this was a decent start to the year.
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    After 81 "preseason" holes, I'm adjusting some of my goals to be more realistic. My 2021 goals: 1) Maintain detailed stats for every round I play using Arccos, TheGrint, and a homemade spreadsheet. 2) Set an intention on staying focused during shorter practice sessions and avoid mindlessly hitting shot after shot. Every shot and action should have a specific purpose. Focus of this year's practice will be ball striking. Improved tee-to-green will get my score below 90 more often. Won't worry about short game or putting in an official capacity until tee-to-green improves. 3) Lower my index by hitting more greens and giving away fewer shots. Index lower than 17.2 (my current index). 25% GIR (22% in 2020) 69% GIR+nGIR Average less than 3 penalty strokes per 18 holes. 4) Play at least 6 courses I've never played before.
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    Day 2 - working on grip consistency by picking up a wedge in my office through out the day. Checking my left hand is holding the face square and folding the right hand over it.
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    Day 1 - Back at it. Partial swings in basement. Paying attention to SKs #1-3.
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    Day 9 - partial swings with a foam ball again. It was cold outside again.
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    Day 8 - partial swings with a foam ball again.
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    Day 7 - Partial swings with a foam ball in the basement. Paying attention to SKs #1-3.
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    Day 6 - Single digit high temp here in Chicago, so I stayed inside and did some chipping in the basement during the big game.
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    Day 5 - 30 minutes at PGA practice bay. Just swinging.
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    Day 4 - Some chipping in the basement.
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    Day 3 - Brushed up on the 5SKs. Key 1 of steady head. So now trying to match up what ive been doing with my forearms in the takeaway and backswing with keeping a steady head.
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    Day 2 - Same story as yesterday. Started out with drills to focus on takeaway and forearm rotation. Then moved into a few full swings. Doing my best to stay focused during the full swing portion.
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    Day 1 - After a rather lengthy and particularly unproductive swinging session on Saturday, I must have subconsciously put it out of my mind so deep that I forgot to post about it here to break my streak. And yesterday, between digging myself out of the snow all day, and the freedom of not being bogged down by a streak, I took the day off. Today, I tried to focus on drills and confirmation rather than swinging blindly into a net for way too long. I did just that. Spent some time watching golf Sunday, and watching how the back of their left hands traveled through the backswing. Really tried to notice how quickly the back of their hand got to be parallel to the plane. Today, I did some drills to try and drive that home. Get my forearms to turn my hands over and swing my arms around my spine with the back of the hand defining that plane. Felt pretty good and effortless. Will try to do these drills all week and see where that gets me.
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    Day 26 (9,15) - More work on takeaway. Tried to unify even more the shoulder turn and forearm rotation from the initial move back.
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    In terms of ball speed, apparently so. But in terms of ball flight, and therefore distance, ball speed is just one component.
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    Data. Lots of it. Already posted in this thread. The Best Golf Balls | Golf Ball Buyer's Guide | MyGolfSpy Always play your best game. Read the Golf Ball Buyer's Guide from MyGolf Spy to always get the best golf balls. Read more so you can improve your game! They used a robot at 115 mph swing speed and 85 swing speed. This graph charts Ball Speed vs Compression. When you're using a robot with a fixed swing speed, ball speed is going to be your best indicator of rebound effect of the ball. At 115 mph swing speed there is tight correlation between ball speed and compression. At 85 mph, its not as tight, but still clearly correlated. So, a firmer ball will basically always rebound with a higher ball speed. 115 mph swing speed. 85 mph swing speed.
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    I'm not going to apologize for not having a fully thought out, investor-ready, presentation based on a hypothetical on the internet. The main points still hold no matter how hard you want to push there is no merit. There is growing demand for a mixed gender event with evidence for such being that this thread even exists. And The Match has shown a blueprint for non-PGA affiliated golf events. There's not no potential there.
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    That's the same thing I just said. They weren't recruited by a promoter. They were in from the start. You missed the part where I said a prerequisite is finding the guys who are going into this with eyes wide open, knowing what they are trying to build. The specific names don't really matter. It was just to show what an event could look like without DJ or Rory. You're probably very right. I still want to see it.
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    If some random tournament committee just pulled this idea out of our thin air, started to move forward with it without any support, and started asking, begging guys to sign up for a new mixed gender tournament, yeah, it'll probably be a train wreck. That's not the hypothetical scenario I'm making up as I go along. Start small. As in field size small. Just a few players. And as I said in my first post about this, take a cue from "The Match". That wasn't successful because a random promoter tried to recruit Tiger and Phil. It worked because there was buy-in from Tiger and Phil first, and then they found support from sponsors. Something like this completely-hypothetical-on-an-internet-message-board-mixed-gender event would require something similar. You'd have to find a few male players to sign on first, and sell it from there. And maybe my math is off, but I'm pretty sure starting small, as in the number of players in the field, means larger purses for each participant given the same amount of sponsorship money. Tiger and Phil played for $9 million. Splitting that 12 ways instead of 18 or 24 means more money per player. A first iteration or even first decade's worth of iterations of an event like this might not get prizes like that per player. But again, player buy-in is a prerequisite. You find the guys to build the event around first who understand what they are trying to build and are going into it with eyes wide open. It doesn't have to be DJ and JT only at first. Even just Phil and a top 20 guy would be enough of a start to get it going. And over the years, if it works, you add teams. Just for the sake of putting together a field with no top guys, are you really not tuning in for Phil Mickelson/Billy Horschel/Brooke Henderson/Michelle Wie vs Tyrell Hatton/Paul Casey/and 2 European LPGA players vs Sung-jae Im/Byuong-hun An/and 2 Asian LPGA players? (my apologies for not having enough of an understanding of the prestige of LPGA players to make this hypothetical player field complete. I do assume top LPGA players would be more likely to commit however.) At the very least, you'd be aware of what's going on with it.
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    Day 25 (7,13) - Humbling, but important day in a practice bay at the PGA store today. I just couldn't find my swing. Which is important. My goal is to understand the fundamentals of what I'm trying to do, so I never lose it. Important to know and understand that I have a long ways to go.
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    I don't feel like anything I've said contradicts any of your points here. It would have to start small. So small that there would be enough sponsorship/prize money to make it worth it for maybe 4 of these guys to show up to an exhibition match. And once (if) it gains some traction, some prestige, and the fun of an event like this is marketed correctly, it could grow from there. Obviously you don't like this idea. So what is more realistic... something like a small independent event that may or may not grow, or the President's Cup altering its format to make it a mixed gender event? Or is your position that mixed gender events will/should never happen?
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    To be fair, that seems like just as much conjecture as assuming that maybe a couple of them would play. But the bottom line is if the sponsorship/prize $$$ is there, they'll play.
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    I mean, maybe I'm underestimating the additional logistics of an event like this, but they play 20-30 tour events every year. Its just another tournament on the calendar. If some men want to opt out, then so be it. And again, I'm suggesting starting small anyways. See where it goes, organically. Maybe it starts with 4 men and women from each of Asia, Europe, and North America. If its not necessarily the very top 4 North American men at first, its not the end of the world. The benefit of a tournament specifically designed around mixed gender competition is that it wouldn't have to be women vs women and men vs men. Have women compete from their tees against the men from their tees. Have team alternate shot, or scramble competitions. Have fun with the freedom of something brand new.
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