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Your Mind Doesn't Understand "No"… Or Does It?
gbogey replied to iacas's topic in Instruction and Playing Tips
Totally agree. I used to play with one friend, pretty big hacker, who upon hearing "do not" could not hit it anywhere else. Made a conscious effort to tell him "to do" and it made a huge difference. -
I'm going with "c" throughout the round because that's what happened to me last year. I shanked on holes #1, #4, and #9 and yet birdied twice near the end of the round to shoot 75 (6.1 which pretty much matches my handicap). Amazingly, two of the shanks happened in front of water hazards but were so bad I missed the hazards and saved bogey. Also can't get over the fact that the previous day I set a PR with five birdies and no shanks, yet shot a stroke higher 76.
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Funny instance playing 9 last night - I noticed on one of the early holes that the pool noodle was not very far down in the cup. I thought it was strange because the previous time I had played there the noodles were well below the ground. Well after making my putt I realized that due to an afternoon rain storm there was water in the bottom of the cup. And of course pool noodles are made to float.
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So many to choose from, but the two that stuck / stick with me: Early in my golf career I shot 90 on the nose seven times before I broke it. On the fifth of these rounds, I was +12 after 14 holes so I had seven shots over par on the last four holes to shoot 89. Two good shots on the par 5 #15, feeling great, fubarred the approach into a triple, then went double, double, bogey to shoot 90 again. The most painful part was this was the last round of the season so I had to think about it in agony for six months before playing again. I have twice birdied the 17th hole to go -1 under par. The first time the 18th hole was the hardest on the course (and it had my number), so I was happy to make bogey and shoot par for the first time. The second time the 18th was the easiest hole on the course and I totally messed it up to shoot even par again. Obviously I have yet to break par.
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This seems mental to me. Don't pause too long. When these shots happen to me, it's usually because I have taken the club too far inside the line during the back swing. Don't know if this is true for everyone. My two fixes would be: Do my best to take the club down the line as long as possible during the back swing or Set up for a big fade and really open the club face and weaken the grip at set up. Usually this produces more of a banana slice, but once you prove to yourself you can hit the ball right, you can adjust your setup pretty easily to hitting the ball straighter.
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Funny story but I heard today that the reason some of the courses are using 15 minute tee intervals instead of the normal 10 minutes is so that the course has ample time to sanitize carts before turning them around. Of course, when the courses first reopened they had 20 minute intervals and walking only!
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Really depends on the shot but in general: Anything that's a chip I use my 54 degree. The reason is that the flight to roll ratio is basically one to one, so the math is easy. 20 steps to the hole, I chip 10 steps (adjusted for slope). I practice with it so I'm pretty accurate with it and it works for me. If I'm short sided and need less roll or need a lob, I use my 58 degree. Same goes for pitches, let's say anything more than a chip and less than 60 yards - if I want more roll I use my 54 and more flight I use my 58. I really don't use anything else. Same for bunker shots - 54 is my go to club, 58 if short sided. Occasionally will use my 50 or PW for a much longer bunker shot. I do like to putt from just off the green with my hybrid as opposed to chipping or putting - I find bermuda grain hard to master. It takes some practice but works well once you are used to it.
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A little off topic, but my daughter's boyfriend came to visit for a week. Since we were going to be in the same house for a week, we greeted each other with a handshake. Talk about a weird feeling after two months of social distancing.
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Six inches? You're riding closer to your playing partners than I do with my wife. Seriously though, even though it is outdoors and the risk is likely low, I don't think I'm ready to share a cart with a stranger. I did partially share a cart with a friend two weeks ago - I walked most holes as my back was acting up and he served as cart caddie, but I did sit in the cart for 3-5 holes. Didn't bother me, but it felt strange when I first sat down.
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Another good read! What’s the Risk of Catching Coronavirus From a Surface? - The New York Times Touching contaminated objects and then infecting ourselves with the germs is not typically how the virus spreads. But it can happen.
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Not really but the devil is in the details. Played the same course 3 days in a row. Setup and turf conditions were the same each day (or at least appeared to be so). Day One was slightly windier than average, Day Two was much much windier than average, Day Three was between the others. I had my personal best for this course on days one and three (day two was a disaster but not because of the wind). Day three had a -1 PCC. Puzzling, that's all. Makes one wonder if the PCC adjustment is ahead of its time.
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Because according to the PCC adjustment, the course was playing easier that day. Think about the reverse - if you had an extremely good score for your game and the next day the PCC was +2, wouldn't that make you feel better about your round?
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Thank you. Sorry, got my decimal wrong. What I meant to say was that the effect of a -1 PCC on a best eight score was to increase my handicap by +0.1, so in this case my 6.0 would have been a 5.9. And yes, the PCC has the effect of adding a stroke to a round that for the differential gets adjusted by the rating, so with a 139 slope the differential increased by 0.8 and on a 113 slope course the differential would increase by 1.0. Still feel a little cheated by the -1 PCC. Unless there were friendly pins that I didn't notice, the course was playing no easier than usual that day. Don't care about the handicap impact - it was one of my best rounds on a very tough golf course. Feels like the round was slightly tainted.
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So I posted my 20th round yesterday. I've been watching the calculation closely to see how the old calc compares to the new one. I'm pretty good with statistics. However, I don't understand that somehow the average of the lowest eight scores is almost always the same as the average of lowest ten scores *.96 (for that matter I never understood the purpose of the *.96 either). Biggest deviation I saw over 20 scores was .1. After 20 rounds my handicap is 6.0 whereas is would have been 5.8 under the old system. The differences are: I was surprised to find out that I had seven triple bogeys on holes where I was now allowed to max at triple instead of double. I think this has to do with playing rounds at a 139 slope course instead of my home course (slope 114) due to covid closure - lots more hole to triple and a few of the holes are really tough. Not surprisingly, only one of those seven rounds was in my best eight so the impact was +.01. There would have been a second score if I had taken my medicine over trying a hero shot, but then it wouldn't have been a triple either. I had a adverse PCC adjustment on one round, so that was another +.01. Still trying to figure that one out as there was nothing unusually easy about the course that day.
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I started using a new pre-round routine yesterday off of a you tube video. Basically the putting steps are like this: 3 putts from 3 feet 3 putts from 10 feet below the a hole 3 putts from 10 feet above a hole 3 putts from 20 feet below a hole 3 putts from 20 feel above a hole 3 putts from each side of a hole from 10 feet I felt like my distance control was better than it has been lately.
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In case you didn't see this We’re Out of Toilet Paper, Hand Sanitizer—and Golf Pushcarts? Once-disparaged device is an item everybody wants after courses ban caddies and motorized carts to fight coronavirus.
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I have no opinion as to whether it is feasible that carrying is easier than pushing - might be possible but highly unlikely - but I do know that carrying is much tougher on your back. Last time I carried was for 9 probably 7 years ago - could hardly move the next day. And I've had PT's tell me, never "pull" your cart on a regular basis unless you want shoulder/back problems. You should always "push."
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I think I've only used one cart (course required) this Spring, but much of that is due to my walking preference. Share with a stranger, no. I'm still trying to determine whether I'm sharing with a friend this weekend. Not overly worried about Covid, but why take chances just in case.
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Here's a question - does anyone have a good pre-round routine for getting used to green speeds? With the weather changing green speeds have increased around here and my last couple of rounds have been a disaster with lots of three putts early in the round. Curious as this used to be a strength of mine.
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I think anything you can do to get loose, be it stretching or hitting into a net, is beneficial as long as it's within 30-45 minutes of teeing off.
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One thing that is often missing from these benchmarks IMO is I think these work better for par 72 courses. I remember several times hearing fellow players say, these tees are only 6500 yards. That was for a par 70 course, so really the tees were around 6800 yards.
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If done properly, I LIKE the swim noodles. Eventually you'll get old or creaky enough to like them.
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More courses need hybrid tees. I'm not sure what stops them from doing do unless there are extra fees for the ratings. I've played some courses where the choices are 6500 or 6000 - neither quite works for me. I have also found to some extent playing from tees is somewhat a regional cultural thing. When I lived in NJ, it was quite common to see people play tees that weren't right for their skill level and a lot of people needed to move forward. Here, it's almost the opposite. Even though one of the courses I play is quite short not many players use the back tees (unless they are decent of young). There's also a culture here that as soon as guys turn 50 or 55, they move up even if they have the skill level to play further back. Unfortunately, I only have two data points but I guess I can say it's not the same everywhere.
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There are at least two differences that you need to keep in mind about Sweden. First, they have a culture of obeying the government. So when the government encourages social distancing, they obey. Second, they have strong recommendations that the "at risk" population locks down. Still, there is a lot to think about as whether more countries should be following their model. I read something this morning that discussed how much harder it is to get infected with a virus outdoors versus indoors, so some of the progress we are seeing may be the result of better weather and people being outdoors more. Hope it doesn't reverse itself come October.
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I won't get it right but there's a Pete Dye quote where he says, "if you don't like playing out of the bunker, don't hit it there!"