timtim

3W, then lesson one, then lesson two. You have to have a go to club off the tee. You have to cure your slice. Youtube: "Top 25 Golf Pro Lesson ARMS FALLING Down Plane"

No. While some charts would put you into X, I don't think you are swinging fast enough for X, but it might be a good idea to look for an S shaft that is 70 or 75 grams, and has a torque in the low 3s. Why don't you think about taking some lessons?

Adams and Nickent for hybrids. Cleveland, Titleist, and Mizuno for wedges.

...in the water with a few holes to go and only a few shots back two weeks ago.

I think that many people try to hit the LW too high like Phil M and don't pull it off and therefore see the LW as a difficult club or a trick club. I simply put the ball in the middle or a little forward of that and put a simple chipping stroke on the ball and let the loft of the club do the work. The better I play the more I need the LW because the more often I am up around the green with sand between me and the flag, and my SW has way too much bounce to play the shot I want to play in that situation.

1) Yes. I would recommend getting some and trying them. Much easier to hit than long irons. Look at 20 degree and 23 degree to replace your 3 and 4 irons. I love mine. I also have a 26 degree to replace my 5 iron, because I have never had confidence with my 5 iron. Look at the new Adams Idea Pro Gold. They are number 1 on all the tours. 2) Yes. The guys I know who have a few hybrids also have a driver and a 3 wood. 3) If you hit driver that far, you need a 3 wood for the holes where the architect fools your friends into hitting driver when they should not be. Most courses have shorter par 4s and dogleg holes and holes with trouble where you need a 3 or 4 wood to get it out there in play and not risk getting into trouble. 4) I have both. Love my GW. Love my LW. My missing club is in the 5 wood/2 iron range. And I would rather have the GW and LW in my bag.

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oh, I am sorry, do you KNOW that you need a standard length club? have you already been fitted? Is you KNOWN length standard? Is your REAL question, what if you buy clubs that are 1/2 inches longer than your KNOWN fitted length?

You should go somewhere and get fit for a set of clubs, just like you would get fit for a pair of shoes, or just like you move the seat up and back in a rental car. If you get a super deal on a set of clubs you really like, you should have the lie and length adjusted to your fitting measurments, and have your favorite new grips installed. You should NOT adjust to a set of clubs that is not fitted to your requirements.

My thread has been hijacked.

I thought the half one color half another color ping balls were to practice your putting with. My dad had a ball retriever, and had a piece of tape on it were he kept track of the balls he retrieved. Little pencil marks. Like a gun slinger. His rule was that he only put a mark on it when he retrieved one of his own balls. I remember he had like 16 marks on it. He played in Florida. He also put a fluffy headcover on it so people would not know he had one.

The brain is a funny thing. For some people, and for some people at a particular level, they can actually be thinking about dropping their arms and pulling the handle of the club, and the body reacts by turning the hips, because that is what has to happen. When I throw a baseball, I don't think about my left foot or my hips, I think about the target and the feeling of the ball in my fingers. The fact that my left foot has to move toward the target and my right elbow at some point has to point toward the target are unconscious movements. When you push a child in a swing, you don't sit there and think about turning your hips, you think about applying a force from your hand to the back of the child, and the feet and then legs and then hips do what they need to do to support the force of the hand on the back of the child. Year's ago someone noticed that Jack N's first move was that his left knee shifted toward the target, so some people started teaching to think about that, until they asked Jack and he did not even know what they were talking about. It was not a conscious move to him. So, you may be moving your hips correctly, while thinking about your hands. As I watch video frame by frame of golf swings, it appears to me that lots of men start their downswing as one move. One frame they will be moving back, the next frame the club will be motionless, the next frame the club will be in the same position, but the hips will have flexed and the arms will have flexed in a starting move that looks together. And it looks to me like lots of the women start the downswing a little earlier. They look to me to be staring their hip turn before the club stops its backswing. Do you guys see that? Does Sergio do this? Is that a Hogan thing? It looks like it takes more timing and talent than starting down together at the point of the club stopping.

It looks like your only concern would be...does make ball retrivers?

You will love the G10 head. Great sound. Great forgiveness. Plenty of distance. If it is the correct shaft and loft you should like it.

Whew. Took me a while to figure out how to post YouTube videos.

And like this of Tiger from behind: Note that he is on plane going back, stops at 30 degrees above horizontal, then is on plane going down toward the ball, and keeping his right elbow close to his body as he rotates his hips toward the target while keeping his chest pointing toward the ball. Who else swings like this? What is this swing called? This is what my teacher has me working on, at my level of course, and I would like to see more swings like this. Thanks, Tim.

I absolutely do understand this part. I know that different positions have different values. I remember that part of Phil M's new contract a few years ago was that he had to start wearing a hat with his new sponsors logo, to make the type of money that they were willing to pay.

I was very specific that I understand the mechanical process of putting logos on material, but I am very curious how this works on tour. For example, I saw a picture of Ernie Els wearing a shirt that had SAP on the left breast logo position, and Mercedes Benz on the right sleeve. And you would think that it would have been an Adidas shirt. So there is some person in the background who is either sending shirts to SAP and then to Mercedes Benz, or there is an embroiderer who has both those logos in their computer and Ernie sends his shirts to that vendor with his contract requirements. It is ok with me if you don't think about this kind of stuff, but I do.

Excellent posts. Thanks.

My dad used to say that if you don't occasionally hit is past the pin, you are not taking enough club. He used to play with guys who would never be behind the pin. They would be short of the green, then chip up short of the pin, then put short of the hole, then tap in. He felt that if they only took one more club on every hole, they would be lots of shots lower.

Yes, maybe from the same stack, just not the exact shirt.

Seriously laughing out loud.

Who has compact on plane swings on youtube that I can watch? So I am working on a swing that, at my level, is similar to Tiger's new iron swing. Back on plane, stop short of horizontal, around 30 to 45 degrees from horizontal. Simple transition, down on plane. Right elbow toward the ball then the target. I was thinking about this while reading the best looking swing. I am not interested in Couples, or Hogan, or Garcia. I am interested in compact and on plane and simple, and within my grasp, down at my level. Like these: Thanks, Tim.

Sirius PGA asked him in their interview, and he said it was "not the exact same shirt, no".

Fantastic replies. I was a little sheepish about asking, but I think I found out that we all think about this stuff. So were to shop for the close fitting new technology wicking undershirts.