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  1. saevel25
    Day 6 March 17th, 2025 Indoor backswing work. Flinging a foam ball against the wall, with the back of the club, to keep my takeaway turned based, then quickly putting on the brakes stopping the backswing at A3. Getting the feel for speeding up the club and slowing it down at the right spot.
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    Good advice. When you see a golfer taking short steps, looking down at the ground, it's probably checking for temporary water. There are plenty of cases were just hitting it from the bad lie is better than where you would drop it. Like hitting of a cart path.
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    Yea I find it ridiculous people having an issue that he could drop in the fairway. Every relief situation is its own instance. You re-assess after a drop. Sometimes the drop is in your favor or not. Too many scramble only golfers commenting on golf rulings. Usually scrambles you need to maintain the same lie if you hit with in a club length of the ball. 😉
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    Jack played in 7 tournaments in 1986. He was on his way out. He was not training or trying to be the best in the world. Honestly, he just caught some good golf at the right time. Who says Jack wasn't battling injuries at that time either? A lot of stuff wasn't reported on until post 2000 in terms of covering athletes. At what capacity? He can play, but he can't compete at any sort of level for the PGA or Senior Tour. Yes, most of them walk away.
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    Day 5 March 16th, 2025 Went to the range for about an hour. Worked on backswing and downswing piece. Finally got to making shorter backswings. Feeling like the swing stops when hips get to hip height. That is more of a feeling for how much the hands move, the hands get closer to A3-A3.5.
  6. saevel25
    Golf puts tremendous strain on the body. Especially with how fast Tiger was swinging the club. Were any of them trying to be the best in the world at age 40+? Easy to stay relatively injury free under the age of 35, then cut the work load down as you age. Tiger went at it longer than anyone outside of Phil in trying to maintain #1 status.
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    Not for athletes who want to be elite in their sport.
  8. saevel25
    Better stuff today. Backswing mapping, watching the club go back to where I want it, pause and feel the position, take it back to address, and repeat while looking at the ball. Some feels I am playing around with. 1) Feeling like my right hand is pushing out away from me to keep the right arm extended. Really actively resist the momentum of the swing to collapse the right arm. I can't do this early because I will just push my hands outward. It's like A2.5 to A3.5. 2) Feeling a bit less flex in the left wrist at A3. I can't do this much or I will just roll the club inside. I caught myself doing this a few times and stopped. 3) Like above, feeling the overall body position at A3. I ideally want my swing to be A3.5 in length. Downswing, I got to really feel the pause again. I also was doing some downswings while looking at the club at A3-A4 just to make sure it was going down and not out. I kind-of can hit the ball flush while not even looking at the ball. 🤣 Yea, trying to disconnect the hands down and tilting back to lower the club is difficult. Also, even if I get my hands down better, I end up hitting straight hooks or flipping straight cuts. The club doesn't come in flush a lot. I definitely feel a flip at the ball the ball most of the time.
  9. saevel25
    Day 4 March 15th, 2025 hit about 20 golf balls, a lot of non-hitting practice. Backswing length to A3 feels, downswing stuff.
  10. saevel25
    Dang it, I even searched for that and didn’t find it. 😞
  11. saevel25
    Could be any number of things. With out something that can measure your strengths in certain areas, it’s tough to figure out where you need to improve. Maybe start a My Swing thread and post a face on and DTL driver swing?
  12. saevel25
    Day 3 Pie Day, 2025 Hit a small bucket checking stuff on video. Working on backswing hand/club path and downswing arm stuff.
  13. saevel25
    Go get professional medical assistance. I know we all hate going to the doctor. Without a proper diagnosis there is no way to recommend the correct procedures to alleviate the pain and it could be something that exercises might not even help out with.
  14. saevel25
    Finally slowed it down Feels like 30-50%. trying to make it look slow mo on normal mode. And I’m trying to not let my hands go out and tip the club inside at A2. Also trying to not just carry a closed clubface up to A3 because it’s easy to keep the club head outside the hands if I just keep it turned down. Opening the clubface feels similar to flinging the club head inside at A2. Better downswing stuff with the arms I think. Then just a reward, full swing at the end I like the athletic motion here. Shift, turn, using the left leg better. Club still steepens and too much right arm bend. The key will be able to do the body turn stuff and arm stuff. Together I can’t disassociate right arm bend from twisting. If I use my arms, my turn and athleticism dies. If I concern on the other, my right elbow stays bent.
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    Day 2 March 13th, 2025 Hit a small bucket checking stuff on video. Mostly back to controlling swing length and right elbow.
  16. saevel25
    Video 1 of 2025 Lower body is better. Right knee kicks out less. Left knee straightens better. I don’t have that knee bounce post impact. Backswing and downswing with the arms, needs a bit of work. Nice OTT move there. Video 2 of 2025 - hey I can keep it short. back to trying to keep the swing shorter and control the right elbow. Lots of half backswing feel and very straight arms. Also trying to start the downswing sooner so the swing doesn’t go on forever with the turn. Got to limit it to 90 degrees shoulder and 45 degrees hips.
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    I can see how some people might not think or know it is how they are pushing against the ground that causes your hips to spin in a certain way. It makes sense when he describes torque. Also, that PGA Tour average is like 2x more push with the left leg than the right leg. Yea, if someone is very right side dominant, or just has a weakness in their left leg, they could struggle with early extension no matter how they try to keep the tush back. Even if you feel your left leg extend, if the direction of the force is not pushing the hip back and up behind you, it can push your leg back and away from the target more, which is not ideal. Pending muscle weaknesses and mobility, I almost feel like early extension is solved at this point.
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    Ah man, that is on the northern border. I was out at the Grand Canyon last year with the family. We hit the south rim and went down to Sedona. Which, it is unfair how gorgeous it is out in Sedona.
  19. saevel25
    Day 1 March 12th, 2025 Hit a small bucket working on backswing length and hip turn in the downswing. Work on getting rid of some early extension. I don’t want to aggravate my back because I EE and compress my disc.
  20. saevel25
    I will add this. It’s something that has been happening last golf season and today. sometimes when I make a turn with the lower body through impact and into the finish I will bring my back leg off the ground. It’s like if the back leg stays down, I can’t turn fully into the finish. It’s like my turn drags my right leg forward. Usually, I hit the ball really good when this happens. anyways just an observation.
  21. saevel25
    First range session of 2025! The Good, PT helped, felt much more limber. I was able to do the pause at A6, pump and hit the ball drill pretty good. The mediocre, right elbow stuff. I can feel when it stays bent. Which is all the time right now. Hey, first time of the year, and still battling old patterns. A good number of swings were either over the top, or shallow with the body stuff. Anyways, good to be out at the range for a bit.
  22. saevel25
    Yep. They don't. Sliding Filament Theory, Sarcomere, Muscle Contraction, Myosin It is actually interesting that the entire picture of muscle contraction is not fully understood. For the most part we have a very good understanding of how muscles contract. There is a tube, where filaments are pull inward or released outward. They are not rubber bands. I can understand where the confusion comes from. When you turn, you feel that stretch. Just because you stretch doesn't mean it will rebound automatically. The muscles have to contract to bring you back to center.
  23. saevel25
    Yea, I think something like 5% to start out with is good. See how that works out. Majority of people are not playing PGA tour courses, so I doubt they will feel bad for clubbing up one club on their approach shots.
  24. saevel25
    I think he liked his privacy. So, maybe they just like it being the two of them. She obviously did a decent job of taking care of him on her own till she caught this rare virus. Yea, just a strange set of circumstances.
  25. saevel25
    Just tells me late stage Alzheimer's is terrifying that Gene couldn't even realize his wife was dead.
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