melchior

Originally Posted by melchior Course Name : Pierz Municipal GC Course Website : Course Style : Hilly, open or wooded depending on hole Regular Tee Yardage / Rating / Slope : 3018 / 34.6 / 110 Regular Tee Average Score : 96 Forward Tee Yardage / Rating / Slope : 2395 / 31.9 / 104 Forward Tee Predicted Score (Aggressive Round) : 87 Forward Tee Predicted Score (Conservative Round) : 83 Quick note: I haven't gotten to the conservative round yet; but if I'm able to finish that I'll edit this post. Aggressive round: 85 (44/41) a. Did you find that the aggressive or conservative round was more enjoyable? N/A b. Did you discover a hidden strength or weakness in your game? For the most part, the 50-80 yd pitch shot I'm relatively accurate with as long as I don't pull-hook it.. Length was generally within 5 yds of where I wanted it. c. On which area of your game did the shorter tees put pressure? Straight Driving. On this course the women get a fair amount of straight shots at the flag where men generally have to go around/over trees or a dogleg. If I drove it straight, it was an easy par/ sometimes birdie but if I didn't the scores were relatively close to my "normal" holes. d. Did you have more fun than normal? Will you occasionally play shorter tees for fun? I did have fun, it definitely gave me a different outlook on the course, and I ended up meeting a nice woman that I played the same tees with and had a good afternoon with her. e. What'd you learn? (this is going to tie in with f.) I'm already used to shooting out of the rough so that didn't hurt me as much as I thought that it would, but the added "length" made all of my approaches significantly easier. If I can find a way to consistently get another ~20 yards then I should be shooting really well with my current skill set. f. Did you shoot your predicted score(s), and if not, why not? If so, was it for the reasons you suspected? Shot better for aggressive round, largely due to the fact that shooting out of the rough is quite a bit easier with a more lofted iron for me (I would assume for pretty much everybody) Being in the rough hurt, but not as much as my normal rounds did. Seeing the course from the forward tees allowed me to cut some corners that I didn't think I'd be able to go for either so that added a couple strokes here and there.

Basically this for me as well. I either find I'm a little long for the distance or a little short. Almost exclusively due to the course that I play at, the hole is either too long for this as an approach shot or too short to really take advantage of it. I'll use it on 1 hole depending on where the tees are that day (really long tee box) and that's about it.

I was (am) in the same boat, I couldn't figure out long shafted clubs for the life of me. Even my hybrid occasionally gave me fits. Two things that helped, absolutely keep your head 100% still. The added length of the club makes it harder to hit it on the clubface where you need to hit it so that should help with the poor contact. As to the slices, one swing thought is kinda making me hit it better: keep my left knee (the forward one, I'm a righty) bent as long as possible. My practice swings I can keep my club going in to out all day but on the real swing I needed to actually replicate that. Trying to keep my left need flexed allowed my hips to keep moving out of my arms way to actually hit in to out a bit. It should help make better contact as well. --edit-- Should mention that I do have the ball set up kind of off my left ear and try to keep my hands in front of the ball at impact too to give you a baseline for what I've set up doing.

Course Name : Pierz Municipal GC Course Website : Course Style : Hilly, open or wooded depending on hole Regular Tee Yardage / Rating / Slope : 3018 / 34.6 / 110 Regular Tee Average Score : 96 Forward Tee Yardage / Rating / Slope : 2395 / 31.9 / 104 Forward Tee Predicted Score (Aggressive Round) : 87 Forward Tee Predicted Score (Conservative Round) : 83

Total beginner friend of mine was putting on a green just trying to hurry up so we could clear the green for the group that was pushing us from behind. As neither of us are very good, it's completely friendly and we're rushing. That being said, he putts and his ball comes to me about 25' past the hole going uphill, I just decide that I want to stop it so I put my putter down and deflect it towards the hole. It was as though I read the green perfectly, it came back slowly and broke about a foot and a half to just make it into the hole. 70', 2 putters, and a bogey for the trouble. Neither of us could believe that that just happened so we went with the score and moved on...

The only thing that I'd say you shouldn't do if you're planning on switching swings is to avoid any specifically offset clubs ("Draw" drivers come to mind). Since they're built to "fix" a swing flaw; and as you improve you'll have less and less flaws the band-aid fix for now will only hinder you later on. Unfortunately I did this by picking up a G15 Draw driver, and now I have to deal with it but I've let other people that aren't SnT'ers try out my club and they hit it just fine. I wouldn't worry too much, as pretty much every single current driver is so forgiving that you can pretty much do whatever with it; like I said though, probably try to avoid any "draw" or "fade" specifically designed clubs and just work on your swing instead of buying the band-aid fix.

One tip from the SnT book: place an empty soda can under your left foot, and try to crush it during your downswing. You won't if you don't shift your weight forward enough.

Best I've done was a Birdie-Par-Birdie...

My Ping G15 is amazing; I'd experiment with that line as well, since the new K15 line is replacing their Rapture for a SGI driver.

I was fitted for a driver before switching to SnT (mistake, but have to deal with it); and I don't have that much of a problem with it. My driver SS is about 95-100 and on my really good pokes it does go ~265-270. The thing is the extra shaft length and widened stance that's "prescribed" for the SnT driver swing shallow it out a lot; typically reducing the downward angle that you hit the ball at. (For reference, I use a 10.5 Ping G15 driver with stock R-flex shaft). For a long time I was hitting down on it, but then I teed the ball up essentially like I should (I was teeing it up low; so it was half above the clubface when the club rested on the ground; now I tee it up so I wouldn't even hit it if I touched the ground with my driver) and the feeling of a very shallow swing has reduced all the ballooning that I've noticed in my swing. So for me: widening my stance and teeing it up so I can't rely on using the ground anymore have made it so it doesn't balloon. Hopefully this will help ya out :)

Golf balls... All of it... :(

About 105 out, not much wind. Full pitching wedge went straight at the pin, hopped once basically straight up and down and stopped within 5 feet. Got me some compliments from my playing partners, but too bad I couldn't keep it up.

This is exactly what happens to me as well.

Ouch, that looks like Celtic Manor's greens... and you can't call for a squeegee... Congrats on the good season overall and best of luck in the future!

First let me ask what do you want out of your swing? It looks like you're pull-fading; so do you want to keep that? Do you generally fat/thin the ball so are you looking for better contact (somewhat alleviated by the mats you're hitting off of)? Are you trying to get rid of pushes/pulls for your mishits? Mainly: what direction do you want to go in with your swing?