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ERdiesel

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  1. I played a round recently with someone who claimed to be a low single capper and who also played with a set of Miura blades, and well I can honestly say that the Miuras were not some magical, mythical, amazing clubs that left me wowed. The guy played like crap despite playing with Miuras (who knows if he was really a low single capper, I thought he was more like a 12 or so capper), so what is the point that i'm trying to make? The point is, there is not "greatest of all" set of clubs. The Miuras obviously didn't elevate this guy's game.......sure he could have had a bad day, but he could have just as easily have had a bad day with any other set of clubs. Ultimately, your golf game will be determined by YOU more so than what clubs you are using.
  2. Vanity article that seeks to portray the course as extremely difficult yet not at his own expense. Lame.
  3. Me thinks playing in a tournament as an amateur where your livelihood didn't depend on how well you did versus playing in the same tournament as a pro where your future and livelihood depending on how well you did will result in two different outcomes. I believe that part of why he played so well as an amateur is there is lowered expectations and you can just go out and play. Playing as a pro, expectations are higher, and if you don't play well you don't get paid well and if you don't get paid well, you don't get your tour card or keep it. This difference in psychology is a factor not to be discounted.
  4. Just because HH says something is so, does not make it so. Especially when the guy is still trying to cash in on his former relationship with Tiger.
  5. If you've regripped with what you would normally play with and that hasn't alleviated the problem, I would also get the SW's checked. Since you bought them off CL, the previous owner might have gotten them SW'ed heavier, much heavier than you might be used to playing with and that could lead to quicker fatigue, even in the hands.
  6. "Mental issues" on the course is for all golfers regardless of handicap level. Yes, and even the tour pros.
  7. Nick Kokonas, While I eagerly await for my pre-order to get shipped out to me, I went ahead and downloaded the just released iphone Swingbyte app last night and have a few comments, actually more like areas of improvement particularly around the setup golfer/clubs process. I would appreciate it if you could pass these suggestions onto the developers: 1) Wrist to ground does not have half inch intervals, only full inch intervals. For example, if i'm a 34.5" wrist to floor, i'm only able to select 34 or 35 in your user setup screen. In a real world fittings, wrist to floor is done in half inch intervals so there is value to it (i.e. check Mizuno, Ping, etc. etc. fitting charts). You really should be able to specify this measuremet in half inch intervals and any swing data analysis/algorithms within the app should be tweaked to allow for this. 2) In the Edit Clubs setup screen, the Lie measurement for Drivers that you can select maxes out at 54*. Come on, seriously? This is a stupid oversight, considering that the "standard" lie for all off the shelf drivers out there exceeds 54*. For example, Titleist 910 drivers standard lie is 58.5*, Ping G20 is 58*, and so on and so on. Was this app NOT tested with a Driver? If so, how could this have passed QA? Why not make this a numerical field instead of a field with pre-selected values? Whatever number is specified here is simply plugged into whatever swing data analysis algorithms you have running so i'm puzzled as to why you took this approach. 3) In the same Edit Clubs setup screen, the Flex field only has the "main" flexes, i.e. Regular, Stiff, X-Stiff. This poses a few problems: a) You need to have in between flexes, i.e. S+ for example. The target market for your Swingbyte device is really for the more "serious" hard-core golfer types and that target market is likely to have shafts that are soft-stepped, hard-stepped, etc. etc. I myself play with C-Taper shafts in S+ flex in my irons. What am I to specify in this field? b) As you probably know one shaft maker's S is not equal to another shaft maker's S. For example, the C-Tapers are considered "stiffer" than other shafts so the C-Taper S+ for example plays closer to an X than a S as compared to Dynamic Gold shafts for example. But a C-Taper S is definitely stouter than a DG S300. However, I know this, because i'm an equipment junkie, but you should help in taking the guess work out for those who might not. 4) App is buggy..........since logging in this morning, even though I only setup and specified a few clubs, overnight the app seemed to have created several new Driver clubs in my bag, as well as multiple 1 irons all the way down through the bag. 5) Speaking of buggy, app also seemed to have lost my user settings, i.e. date of birth, height, weight, wtf measurements, etc. 6) Allow for portrait mode!!! Right now, app seems forced into Landscape mode. Please forward the above to the right people and i'm sure i'll find more issues once I receive the unit and begin playing with it. ER
  8. ERdiesel

    TPC Sawgrass

    I was watching the replay of the final round of the 2000 Players Championship last night and the 17th hole was playing to 145 or so with Tiger hitting a PW (slightly short of the putting surface) and Hal Sutton hitting a 9i I believe.
  9. If you're hitting your 7i pure 90% of the time as a 28 handicap, time to update your handicap? :)
  10. To maximize your scoring potential in this exact situation, in this exact round, on this hole, then yes you need to go the route of the layup. However, if you want to look beyond the immediate score, and look towards your "future" scoring potential, you need to get comfortable with your 3 wood. Seriously, if you really want to improve you need to learn how to hit the 3 wood, and in order to do that, you need to practice and play with it. Not trying to knock your abilities but just thinking back on my past experiences, but at around the 20 cap level I would say that in general when laying up, one's ability to string together two well struck shots, even if they are both short irons is probably just slightly more favorable than you just being able to hit the 3 wood as far and straight as possible one time to advance the ball without knocking it into trouble. And the more you put the 3 wood into play, the more comfortable you'll feel with it, and the more you will be able to get the ball closer to the hole in a single shot.
  11. If he doesn't get his health and his act together? He last won at the Shell Houston Open in April 2010 which would give him a 2 year exemption on the PGA Tour right? That basically means that in 2012 he would have to place within the top 125 of the money list to retain full status on the PGA Tour for next year? And so far this year he's played 9 events, made the cut only twice, and has only banked $33K to date. Is he in serious danger of losing his card?
  12. Yeah saw it yesterday on TV and the only thought I had was that he's not a very bright guy. If anything he should have snapped the club that he was using to hack himself from one bunker to another and out of the rough. That's the one he should have broken if anything :) Not the putter which seemed to have been working for him.
  13. ERdiesel

    TPC Sawgrass

    That short? Was that from the furthest back non championship tee, i.e. Blue tees? I think the one episode of the Haney project where they had the chef Mario and his friend play the 17th hole, both of them used a 7i. I'm sure they're not long hitters, but hard to believe they would be using a 7i for a 100 yard shot even if they suck.
  14. Hey Captainslow, i'm around your age and same handicap and live in Hudson County as well (West New York) and am always looking for people within the same ability level to play with. Would love to expand my network of playing partners so hopefully we can meet up on a local course someday.
  15. Were you able to find out who might sell that special impact tape?
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