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Pretty sweet deal. I used to be in love with the G15's after demoing them more than a few times, I never pulled the trigger on them though. Sounds like you got a good fitting, and if you have the swing speed for a X-Stiff shaft, which I assume you do since you got fitted, he wasn't completely BS'ing about the 1 in a 1000 thing. It's probably more like 1 in a 100, but either way congrats!

So the straight push and hook miss can be the same swing, but with a vastly different face angle at impact. It could also be two totally different swings and face angles. Hard to tell without video evidence of some sort. Anyway, these are my misses with my woods and long irons. When I push the ball it's generally a good swing, but I don't release the club through impact. Not terrible usually, just in the right rough on most holes. When I hook the ball it's because I flat out overswing and a multitude of things break down. Tempo and balance is my key. Smooth stroke and the worst that happens is that I'm on the right side of the fairway or green, if I try to kill it I can get into all sorts of trouble.

I use them all! Baseball for my driver, interlock for my irons, overlap on my chips, and reverse overlap on my putter... As a kid I started with an interlock grip on everything, and over the years of tinkering I've ended up with this insane combination.

Concentrate on your swing path. You have to come from the inside to cure a slice. Take some continuous practice swings without a ball, and just concentrate on getting your path moving in to out at the bottom of the swing. You'll eventually get the feel of what a draw swing is, then you just have to take that feeling to the range and hit some balls. Easy right? Honestly though, knowing the ball flight laws goes a long way to diagnosing errant shots. Once you know why a shot slices, hooks, pushes or pulls it makes correcting that problem much easier.

Seems to me like you could drop your RazrX LW and get a Vokey 60deg to use in it's place. A full shot with your LW is 60 yards which you could do with a partial shot with another club. Even then it seems like 5 is still too many clubs for 100 yards and in. It would be too many choices for me, and I'd try hero shots too often instead of just going with the safe shot. I'm on the other edge of the spectrum, I only carry 1 wedge, a SW. Well my PW is a wedge, but only in name only, I think it's like 44deg which is more like a traditional 9i. Anyway, I use the SW and various other clubs for anything inside 120.

That's pretty much it. If you're hitting straight pulls rolling your wrists over will just make you hook the ball more. It's best to probably get a lesson from a pro who understands the ball flight laws.

The 14th hole on this one course I play is listed as 358 from the back tees. The fairway goes out about 150 yards, then slopes down to the green, so it's a blind tee shot. Either I'm a god on that hole only, or the yardage listed is way off. My normal good drives are in the 250-260 range, but a few times I've ended up with a 10 yard chip shot left for my 2nd shot. Or in one case I was hole high right of the green. I think it's holes like these that give guys the impression that they can hit it 300. Or in my case 358, which leaves me a 140 yard gap to my next longest club.

A straight-fade, and a straight-draw (straight being the starting direction) are dependent on swing path. So the why part of your problem is simple, you set up for a draw and then your swing path is over the top, or to the left of your target. That puts fade spin on the ball, and you end up right of the green. Get that fixed and you'll be alright.:-P Easier said than done. My natural shot is a fade, I can draw the ball, but it's not a high percentage shot for me. I can grove the draw on the range, but walking up to the ball in the fairway and trying to hit a draw, after hitting my natural fade all day is like flipping a coin. If a baby draw is the best shot for a particular approach, then a baby fade usually isn't a bad shot either. It's only when I'm faced with obstacles where I'll try to hit draw and take my chances. In that case I'll actually aim right, and drop my right foot back a few inches. That gives me room to bring the club from the inside and increases my chances of hitting a draw. That takes the fade out of the picture for me, but can turn a nice draw into a pull-draw.

I bought a TM rescue a few years ago and liked it at first, mainly because I couldn't hit long irons. As time went on I got better at hitting long irons, and started hooking my hybrid, bad! Now it might just be the hybrid I have doesn't fit my swing anymore, but I prefer my 4i for most shots in the 200 range. I can hit my 3h 225 or so, but I never know where it's going to go. So unless there isn't trouble around the green, or it's a long par 5 second shot the hybrid stays in the bag. If I'm 225 out with trouble around the green I'll play my 4i and hope to roll it up there (if possible), or layup short with something else.

I went from a 20 to a 13 in one year by reducing my sway. It still not gone, it creeps into my driver shot all the time, but it's much better than before I got lessons.

I love course #2. Scenic, not too long, and challenging. It's very wooded once you get past the first 2-3 holes, and lots of elevation changes. Great course for the price

I've played there a bunch and have always used it as a money hole, or a playoff if we're playing match play. It's set up nice for closest to the pin, or low score, or however you want to play it for a few bucks. And really, who can complain about a free hole? It also borders Dubsdread hole 18, so it's the galley area when the PGA is in town.

I've actually been working on this the past few weeks. The straight right arm feeling makes the whole swing feel more compact, and for me leads to more consistent results. It actually feels like my right arm is more connected to my side at the top, almost like there is a tension there waiting to be released. Most of my misses are because my backswing can get pretty long. When that happens I lose connection between my arms and torso, and timing from the top down goes to crap.

I just pop it in my mouth, yummy! Yeah, towel. If it's not clean enough after that, you have OCD and should seek help

Eagle Ridge in Galena, IL about 3 hours from Chicago. Never been there, but hear about it all the time. Pheasant Run in St Charles IL, a western suburb of Chicago. I've played there a couple times, decent course. St Andrews is right down the street, so you have a bunch of options.

Driver - 260 3H - 215-220 4i - 195 5i - 185 6i - 175 7i - 165 8i - 155 9i - 145 pw - 125 sw - 105 putter - 3ft

I'm trying to get my backswing to go more straight back on plane instead of sucking it inside. What seems to cause me to suck it inside is my right arm bending too soon. So the last few sessions I've made a conscious effort to keep both arms straight at address instead of the semi-relaxed position that I'm usually in. I can't really say if it's helping or not, I haven't videoed myself since the change, but it feels more like I'm taking back down the line. Contact is usually crisp, but I can tell I'm still coming over the top slightly on the downswing because I'm pulling most iron shots. Not terrible, I can play with a pull, but I'm wondering if I'm putting the wrong bandaid on the problem. Are the arms supposed to be almost locked straight at address, or more relaxed and bent?

If you are hitting the ball and it doesn't get over 6 feet high in the air then you are either hitting the ball way low on the clubface, or are really delofting the club at impact. Your setup sounds a bit strange to me, 70% weight on the left foot?

Part of the reason why club makers have been going to stronger lofts is because GI clubs are designed to launch the ball high. They generally have a low center of gravity and get the ball up quick. So a 40° GI club might actually be shorter than a 40° blade since the GI iron is going to launch the ball higher. So the end result is that a GI 8 iron will launch the ball as high as a blade 8 iron, but go further because of the stronger loft. In the end though it's all about knowing how far each iron goes for you. The number on the bottom doesn't really matter.

I don't know that I've really ever watched what I eat or drink before a round, but if it's a morning tee time I won't eat a big breakfast. Because I know roundabout 9am I'll have to visit the sandtrap to leave a present. During a round I usually pass on the Chinese buffet at the halfway house, MSG issues. And cake is pretty hard to sneak on the course, so I just wait until I get home for that.

Here is what I would do. 1. Go to the pro shop 2. Hit sets of clubs that you think you might want 3. Hit clubs that you never considered before today 4. Note which ones you think feel the most comfortable, hit the best, etc 5. Come back a different day and do it again Then you can either pick the best set in your price range, and have them fitted in the shop, or hunt on ebay and then bring them in to be fitted. Nobody cares if you paid 300 or 1300 for the set, the only thing that counts is that you hit them well.

Hybrids usually go a bit further than the same numbered (lofted) iron so 3h 4-GW is going to leave you with a big gap in the 210-230 carry range. For most guys 210-230 is no-mans land as far as hitting greens, so it's not super important to have a club that flies that far. It might be a different story for you, I don't know. Here is what you could do to tighten up the gaps 3h, 4h, 5h, 5-gw or 3h, 3i-GW Or some combination of the above.

How far are your stances open? Do you guys play the ball off your back foot?

I was doing a bit of putting around the house today trying to get my alignment issues fixed, and sort of stumbled across a technique that feels very comfortable to me. My typical putting stance/stroke is pretty conventional, eyes over ball, stance inline with the intended start line of the putt. My problem has always been that when I'm over the ball I have no feel for my line. It's like when my eyes are parallel, the line disappears in my head. So I end up starting everything right. I can compensate, but the bottom line is that I have no feel for the direction of the putt, and it really hurts my score. So I started messing around with a very open putting stance, and playing the ball off my back foot. Something akin to a side saddle stance, but with a conventional putting grip. The stance is about 45 degrees open to the line, just enough to let me use my binocular vision for gauging distance and direction. I started sinking putts left and right. I could see the starting line in my head, and while I don't have the technique down quite yet, my confidence on each putt was way up. Now I know I'm just putting around on a carpet in my house (that's hopefully level), and from inside of 12 feet or so, but I've never felt this comfortable putting. Once it stops raining here I might take it to the practice green and see how it goes I'm pretty sure the stance is legal, but has anyone good (past or present) ever used a putting stance like this? I know I'm going to look like a fool if I end up sticking with it, but if I can sink putts I don't care what it looks like.