Ty_Webb

Got it - so you pick your favorite and then Jayson picks his favorite of those remaining and then Tyson goes twice, then Jayson and finally you? Or something like that anyway Are you doing a weekly release schedule?

What's a snake draft? I, like ChetlovesMer am looking forward to this one. Good drills and bad ones sounds interesting and informative.

I listened to the first one. It's interesting to hear you guys talk about this stuff. This one seemed to be aimed more at instructors than pupils. I'd love to hear one that's about something like how to be a good student or what sort of questions should students be asking in lessons. Aside from anything else there are a lot more people taking lessons than giving them so you'll reach a broader audience that way. As to the how to handle shorter lessons, it seems that you'd have to block off the longest possible lesson time and then cut them short as you can. That means more time twiddling your thumbs and less time teaching though unless you have people on standby, but I can't imagine that ever happens.

Article says it's flu-like, but 42% mortality rate or something like that - she may have just thought she had the flu and needed to beat it. Whole thing is pretty horrifying. His stomach was empty, but he wasn't dehydrated. I'm amazed they didn't have any in home help. They can't have been short of funds.

I am not sure that's the announcers - that's more the producers. It's like the "oh and we're going to cut over to Joe Schmoe here who has a 90 foot putt for eagle on 7. He's +12 for the tournament, let's see what happens", gee I wonder. But they do cut around and show the putts that go in or the shots that go close. One of my favorite announcers is Ken Brown. He played to a high standard and he's quite engaging too. Good combination. He is always talking about how difficult a shot the guy is about to play is. Player has a chip over a ridge and he'll say something along the lines of "this is such a difficult shot - if he can get this within 15 feet of the hole he's doing very well". Then they chip it to a foot and he starts gushing. That's almost the opposite. But it does add some excitement, especially if you don't know how hard the shot is, which, let's face it, is pretty tough to tell on television. There are though definitely some (Miller was pretty "good" at this) who will create unreasonable expectations. Like "he'll be pretty upset if he doesn't get this inside 10 feet" from 100 yards away. On a somewhat separate note, that's why I always quite enjoyed it when they showed every shot Tiger hit. Gave you a much better idea of how the game is actually played. You could watch him some days and he'd do literally nothing spectacular all day, but you add it up and he's shot 67 and you question how he did it. Well, he did it by hitting almost all the greens, making birdies on the par 5s and holing a couple of 8 foot putts on the better approach shots.

I used to find commentators really obnoxious like this, then I watched one of the online streams of the Masters (I think it was amen corner) that had someone commentating on it, but they were literally just stating the name of the player about to hit and their score and other drab stuff. It was so bland I couldn't watch it. Worse than nothing, but I did want to know some of the stuff they were talking about, which is something of a catch-22. I did realize that the commentary team have a pretty rough time of it and do a hard job and some of them do it better than you might realize.

This is pretty interesting. I don't have a Stack radar so I can't use the app, but given what they say it should be fairly easy to come up with some kind of proxy to it if I spend an hour with a trackman. Just note what ball speed gives what distances and plot it. It's presumably not directly linear, but if you hit 50 shots between 30 and 100 yards, you'll have enough to pin down most yardages in that window (yards vs ball speed). Then rather than trying to match distances, just try to match ball speeds with whatever radar you do have. The whole strokes gained thing would be more difficult, but that's not really necessary to work on it. Or just buy a Stack radar...

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I think BMR is pretty consistent given your body weight (lean body mass probably).

The way that I see this works is that your metabolic rate varies with your weight. If you weigh 150 lbs, your maintenance rate might be 1,800 calories a day. If you weigh 300 lbs, that might be 3,000 calories a day. I suspect that most people have a typical amount of calories that they consume in a given day. If that's 3,000 a day then eventually you're going to hit 300 lbs and stay there. If you want to get down to 150 lbs, then you need, long-term, to be eating 1,800 calories a day. That would have you losing roughly 2.5 lbs per week to begin with, but once you're half way there, it's more like 1.25 lbs and the last few lbs might take a few months. You can eat less than 1,800 calories and you'll get there faster. But if you go back to 3,000 calories a day then you're going to head back up to 300. Only way to stay at 150 is to stay at 1,800 calories/day. Or you spend 45 minutes a day on the treadmill and make that 2,000 calories. Hard to get around that though.

I'm inclined to agree - I used to putt with a Scotty Cameron Newport 2 and to aim it straight, it had to look like it was about a foot right from 10 feet. I switched to a mallet (Odyssey Eleven I have now) and I can aim that far more easily. What looks straight is straight. I did watch a video with a coach on youtube who was suggesting that your eye position relative to the ball affects where you think the putter is aimed. So he would line up the putter for a player, then have them move around until it looked like the putter was aimed at the target and then that would be where he had them set up to it. I suspect that people move where they stand over time and that might cause the aiming of the putter to change over time. Funny thing is I asked Sam Hahn a very similar question myself in September and he gave quite a different response to this. LAB offers more alignment line options than any putter manufacturer I have ever seen (I guess outside of a handful of bespoke artisanal type places) - I wonder why they do that if the alignment lines don't make much of a difference.

Youtube comments are not generally something I give a whole heap of weight to. The "working against you" thing is kind of their whole schtick. I don't think it's unreasonable for them to say that. It's obviously possible to putt well with a regular putter. Putting comes down to can you pick the right line, get the speed right and then can you start the ball where you want to. If you do those things well, then you'll putt well (hardly groundbreaking I know). Would a lie angle balanced putter help you start it on line? I don't know. I know lots of people have opinions about it. I can imagine that it might help some people and there are plenty of cult followers who think it does. I don't own one and I'm not sure I'm likely to either, but I go have a mess around at the PGA superstore every now and again and it does feel a little different for me. My putter has about 45* toe hang and when I last got fit the fitter told me that was a good level for my stroke. That's very different from a LAB so perhaps not surprising it feels different.

My putter is also counterbalanced. I have a 100g weight in the grip. I read something back in the day about how counterbalancing can improve putter stability and I noticed that my putter was quite wobbly. I put the 100g weight in the grip myself and it instantly settled down. I totally believe it. I did read once that it can have a detrimental effect on your speed control, but my speed control when I'm actually playing is pretty good for the most part. I don't think I've ever heard LAB say that no putter that fails the revealer will be any good. All they've said is that if it fails in the revealer then it's not lie angle balanced. I don't think that's an especially unreasonable claim. You can argue whether lie angle balancing helps or not - they say they think it does - I can see an argument for how it could be helpful. It's marginal, but putting is also tiny margins so 🤷‍♂️

My club in England hosted the US Open final qualifying for Europe for the first time in 2005. Michael Campbell actually came through that venue and went on to win, which was kind of fun. I'm not sure how it was that year, but one of the years, the winner shot 64-66. Roughly 100 players in the field I think. DFL was 74-74 for 148. We had our club championships the following weekend. Same tees. The winning score was 147 I think. Now, when the pros did that, they had to get 100 players around twice in the day so time was tight and they put the pins all in the middle of the greens to keep things moving. For the club champs, they pretty much tucked them all. No one really good was playing the club champs, but there would have been 30ish players off scratch or better in it.

That's a pretty impressive improvement rate! Do you play any other sports that might carry over somewhat? Hockey, baseball, tennis - that kind of thing. As to improvement rates compared with others, Greg Norman took up the game at 16 and was scratch in 2 years and then kept getting better too. Larry Nelson apparently broke 70 9 months after taking up the game. There's a handful of PGA Tour players who got good very fast. Then I played last summer with a 17 year old off +5 (and it's a legit handicap too). He must have got good fairly quickly. But getting to scratch is the (relatively) easy part. Improving from here gets harder and harder. Good start though!