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If they are his irons - most likely his practice irons. But something is weird - when looking at the wear on the iron head - okay he probably has a really close pattern but when you have this kind of wear on an iron you hit quite some balls with it (i was looking through golfwrx picture threads searching for similiar wear marks and found absolutly nothing - most of them had very new irons without wear and the rest had a way wider impact pattern), and shouldnt there be also small wear marks from taking divots? Its almost as if somebody scratch that little circle on and let it rust for a bit...

I dont know what stats you are looking at, but at Driving accuracy he is 64 % which is 83 and total driving (for distance + accuracy) he is about the same rank - and considering that he only takes out the big stick when he absolutly has to, i don´t think you can call Woods a good driver .. of the ball! And yes, the difference why LPGA plays such low lofted drivers is cuz they hit up on it (they had the stats here somewhere) and the men hit down.

How was the golf vs. advertising ratio? I turned in late and it seems there was only one group left so they showed 2 shots then showed ads - 2 shots - ads and so on. How many groups had they covered during the round?

Pressure? Who of the greats always suggested the best way to practice and withstand pressure is playing with 10 bucks in your pocket when 50 bucks are on the line. How does this resemble if you step on the first tee with 10 mil / year in endorsements and already know that whatever you do, you wont go broke. That might take a bit of wind out of your sails.... And there are more than enough examples out there that did just fine handling the pressure without all the antics of MW. How often did Lorena Ochoa get DQ´ed or arguing about obv. rule violations for 1/2 hour with officals instead of eating some humble pie! And comparing her to Erica Blasberg is just completly wrong, since she never had such a financial cushion like MW and had to rely on playing succesful to make money.

They do this a lot this year it seems - but i have yet to see a ball that is lifted, that is actually plugged.... Everything for the low score i guess, and yes the occasional mudball happens, but for pet´s sake, that is golf!

You might want to look at this, listen to her how she disrespects the game throughout this video and then you maybe realize why there are people who dont think that

That was only a "phrase" (but when you say you hit them all over the place you most likely overdid it), and i also understand what you are saying and trying to achieve regarding float loading. One important thing with float loading imo is finding the correct grip pressure. If you grip to tight (you can grip tight and still hit it well) your wrists wont be able to hinge properly on the downswing. When you grip to loosley it is easy to float load, but then it becomes a thing of controlling the club and clubface into impact and you might just overdo it again. When you want your arms to go faster you also have to pivot faster - first to get the lower body out of the way and secondly to have right arm bend (bending) left into impact. If that doesnt happen - flip. Look at the picture above how his right arm is flexed at impact, when you look at your video you dont have much flex left in it, now assume that your pivot at impact is a bit more advanced with the same arm position and you will have more flex left.

You cant just add lag ad infinitum, you have to use the proper amount you are able to control, otherwise as you said, you will be all over the place, not just left or right but also behind or infront. The more lag you want to bring down, the more strength you need.

Nicole Castrale. Did any of you watched the coverage yesterday? Wie hit it into a hazard (uhh danger) - so she goes in there then the camera follows - she hits the shot, and the camera immediateley turns away - just in case, you never know what rule screw up might follow with Wie

From what i understood is that Jamie´s strength comes from growing up shooting icehockey in the winter and golf in the summer - so he trained both sides very well - and thats why he is capable of doing what he is actually doing today with his wrists. But genetics might play a role - otherwise half of Canada probably could bomb it 350 on a regular basis. I´m doing drills into an impact bag and the first step is to get your forearm / wrist strength up. I told my buddies about it, and they said, why would you do that - you hit 1000 balls a week, why would you need strength in this area. When i started this drill i barley could to 20 reps, and i did it inefficiently due to lack of strength in the proper areas and my forearms and wrists burned as hell when doing it. It was quite eye opening. I never really felt these muscles activated during the swing, since they simply werent developed enough - so my swing obv. wasnt very good. Yeah - maybe, but just look at Ben Hogan or Moe Norman, these guys looked like freakin Popeye - and if anybody seriously wants to tell me, that wrist/forearm strength is not important for golf unless you need to hit it out of the rough, he has a long way to go.

But logically - if i bent them flat 6° i should be able to get them back to original, correct? So when OP´s irons got so flat by playing he shouldnt have a problem getting them back to factory standard or whatever he had them before - otherwise, every forged club once its off by a fair degree can´t be "repaired" and has to be disposed.

I understand it for any kind of club with a lot of room where sound can develop and resonate - i owned the original Nike squre driver which popped your ear drums when you hit it inside a room - but irons? Didnt Mizuno do soundtesting on their irons 3 years ago? I dont think they sound tuned them or? I just bought a set of old MP-33s - there is definatley no sound tuning going on there and why should it, once you hit the sweetspot all is fine, why mask it up when you dont hit it.

Why Mac? No Windows version planned?

We are talking about your Titleist 695mb, correct? I had 2 sets bent in the last months - both forged irons (Mizuno 67 and old Wilson Pro Staff blades) - i had them bent 6° flat - not one iron broke - bending forged clubs is really no problem. Only when the guy who does it craps his pants. I expierenced the same concerns, but i told him when he would break one its on me (but i watched him). So go back to him and tell him to do it right until they fit your swing! Cast - 2 degrees according to the manufactures - forged - i read people bending their lie´s 10° without breaking it (at least with older forged clubs).

Thats the first time i read about golf irons and sound tuning - i think they are slowly losing it! Whats next, you duff it somewhere 80y with a 5i and they make it sound like Garcia hitting it 250 out there????? BTW 5i - 24 ° loft and when you look up the womens specs - its the same...........

Have a look at Sergio Garcia and the kind of lag he builds up - that is some stored up power that you can dump into the ball. You need huge strength in your wrists/forearms to deliver this kind of lag into the ball. And there is no way you could do that if you dont posses the strength. So yes - forearm/wrist strength is important you just have to learn how you incorporate it into the golf swing - or you can settle for less, thats another option.

I know - thats why i called it incidents instead of cheating, since its just a rule violation.

There are so many incidents with her - e.g this one: look closley at 0:15 - her domment " I guess I knew the rule wrong , from what I always knew... if you swing through it, everything would be OK." Then the one at the KIA classic, she forgot to sign her Scorecard and got DQed in 2008, she got DQed in her Pro Debut in 2005 for an improper drop - somebody might add more to this list... One more - when she was close to shooting 88 and withdrew due to "injury" just to be spotted 2days later practicing. Not only this, but during the round she seemed to have taken advice from her father - which is a rule violation...

Sorry i cant read the GD article - are you ironic or are they indeed bad putters?

LOL - think of Tiger filming Phil (and the other way round) and then adding comments to his shot - that would be hilarious.

I think thats a bit above GC´s budget. They snap up what they can for cheap and leave the rest for NBC and CBS: http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/article/99671

Just read this - awesome. Hope the cameraman packed up some hiking gear to be prepared for the spots he will have to go when following these two hacks :)

They should play in bikini - but of course only for a scientific purpose , so that we can study which muscles move the golf swing......... This of course would only apply for women whos muscles are actually visible and not hidden away under 15 layers of (you know what).

Ever since he started playing on the European Tour he has been very steady, despite having to deal with family issues and one injury that took him out for a while. Congrats to his wins. I would love to see Kaymer go up against Kuchar in the Ryder Cup - two of the hottest (steadiest) guys around at the moment.

Anna Rawson made ONE Top10 in around 40 starts on the LPGA - i quickly would forget about her and how she swings. She has a lot in her mind, and golf doesnt seem to take a priorty there.... She is another great example why you cant judge somebodys success (or the lack of it in her case) by the swing pattern she uses - simply put because she uses golf as a platform to promote herself instead of taking the game serious.