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  1. Reviving this sweet post and game. Took an on-course lesson with @iacas and this game came up. Looked for a two-ball game to play as a single, and thought it fit the bill. Found that this game was both forgiving and challenging, but helped me with every facet: 1) Tee shots - if you blew the first, you basically get a mulligan and get to take the better of the two shots - never screwed both balls. While I don't condone this crutch in general (feel you have to play the shots you make), I was relieved that in this format which rewards the better ball, it helped me move along at a solid pace, but get the satisfaction and fresh taste of a solid tee shot, and play and practice more of "my" approach shots. I chose to treat par 3s as approach shots, so too the worse of the two balls. Luckily for me, I found the greens (though not exactly pin seekers) on all the par 3, so it only impacted my putting starting distance/location. In addition, when you absolutely stripe the first shot, it puts pressure on you to see if you can best it, or at the very least come up with similarly solid shot - which helps with consistency. 2) Approach shots - where my greatest need for improvement is, and where this game really forces you to make your score. Hit the green with the first? the second better as well - otherwise you are chipping/pitching. Again, it challenges you to make two solid shots in a row, which helps with consistency and getting more approach shots in on course and under "pressure" situations. I enjoyed the thrill of hitting a green twice in a row (and sometimes besting a really good approach), and I enjoyed the practice (and did not find it deflating) of hitting with one, and then finding myself in a bunker or off green chipping to try and make my score. Helps you get realistic scrambling and short game practice. 3) Putting - for this, I simply putted out the worst of the shots once on the green. Helps me specifically as I am working on lag putting and speed control. Playing just one ball out on the green helps you move along at a normal pace of play. So for me - a guy who is working on improvement and not necessarily posting scores, who often plays alone and is relatively quick - this game helped me enjoy the day, play at a pace where I was not nipping at the group in front, and challenged me in a way simply playing 2 balls would not. This game is going to be a regular part of my on-course experience, and I will try breaking it out next time I play in a pairing or 4-some.
  2. Going to try breaking 50 from the opposite of the tips like Bryson 🙃
  3. Anyone in the group play tennis and interested in playing some tennis this weekend while we are away on recreation? @StuM I messaged you about hotel accommodations please let me know what you can do.
  4. Let me know when we take next steps to formalize things but I am in for the golf, think I will take care of my own accommodations but LMK where group is staying
  5. I would like to play both rounds. Let me know more about the times and accommodations if you can.
  6. Sitting here, stuck indoors, watching this - it makes me want to run outside with my clubs and start chipping. It’s exciting content! To use the parlance of our times, “I feel seen“. I felt like this was directed at me specifically. I admire Rick for humbly exposing his weaknesses and I think Rick and I (and likely many others) have the same short game struggles and bandaid solutions. As a side-note, I feel this video also gives you a peek behind the curtains, and a little bit of insight as to how fraudulent YouTube instruction can be - In that Rick himself has short game tips and instructional videos, but clearly struggles immensely, and has no confidence in this skill. I think Ben’s instruction and techniques regarding chipping (0 release) and pitching (release 2) are the same as you outline and teach in your 30 day practice plan - but with less delineation. We’ve done lessons together, and it’s clearly the same idea(s)… that you need to let the club work for you, open/inside on the takeaway, take a nice fuller slower move rotational in character… let the wrist release, use the bounce* to your advantage, and let upper half turn to complete.. Easier said than done… The last part of the video that I find a interesting - and perhaps exposes a bit of my own experience - is that with the instructor there and while free to make mistakes, Rick is having great success. But it seems like he hasn’t really bought in (my dollar store body language interpretation), and doesn’t really have confidence that he could execute when push comes to shove. I feel that with chipping, he will work on it, and improve - because he is so down on his current results. But in bunker play, where he has a reasonable amount of success meeting his own expectations, I don’t think he’s willing to rework it, and to take the risk of regression. and part of me fears that Rick, while he was chipping the best he ever has in this lesson… during scored rounds or with some stakes reintroduced, will go back to his old form, which is safe and familiar. Or worse yet go back to the 50 yard putt… I guess this opens up a question to you as an instructor … do you feel it’s easier to teach people who are all out of sorts, and really looking for a way to rebuild from Ground Zero? Or is it easier to coach those who are already closer on technique, but may be reluctant to change, as they are already seeing moderate success with their current skills?
  7. Interested if there is an objectively superior design for putters. I figured that this is very subjective - and use what works. But like all things in golf - we are moving towards data driven and finding clear superior things. I have always liked and gravitated towards blades, but in the interest of "Lowest Score Wins" and in market for getting a fitting for a putter - is there data out there that has proven one type of design to be superior to others in any of these aspects? Please share and discuss...
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  9. I think that this gets to the heart of the issue. The margins between a good golf, and a blowup like a triple, are actually rather slim when things like penalty strokes come into play. I saw a top guy on Korn Ferry have a triple yesterday due to OB (and he was a really good ball striker). For mid-high caps like myself that could also be due to a poor chip/pitch, poor putting pace and 3 putt… but I think biggest culprit is swings that result in OB, or don’t advance ball purposefully - simply put inadequate striking. It seems like a cop out, but laying up more, playing cautiously, taking your medicine etc. are probably won’t save you from these holes. It probably comes down to not being a good enough ball striker. It’s a painful truth (at least it is for me).
  10. Thought I would give my two cents. Former Arccos user - including with the wearable hip tracker, which helped pick up a lot more shots than the watch or cell phone alone. I find the H4 to be very easy to start up and play - app not needed during rounds is so helpful! Frees up your watch and phone, and makes less interactions needed so less room for errors to occur. Post rounds it sometimes takes a minute to sync but not bad. Battery life good enough for a round - and stays well charged between rounds too. use, excellent att tracking shots including putts, and easily becomes part of the pre-shot routine. Quite easy after first couple times to edit rounds (expect I have found adding penalty shots a little tricky) And addition I find the stats to be very useful. It is cheap and I think very useful for any golf or looking to get into their advance metrics, and review their previous rounds.
  11. Agree fully. And you have to understand how or why you are getting to the impact you are - which like you said takes a lot of time working on how to get into those perfect positions with - as you distilled it to - with block practice. And analysis of your mechanics (video) and what the results are re: ball flight. So I think the article is a little simple, and slightly misleading with the lead - because in my opinion working on technique isn’t completely blind. You aren’t either working on nailing technique or how to make adjustments - the two are not mutually exclusive. You see the results of what your changes do, and learn about striking and making changes concurrently. Thus purposeful work on mechanics leads to the ability to work with what you have on the course, and is the best way to better golf (or at least better striking) - in my opinion. Some guys go to the range and work through a bucket of balls thinking all they need is experience and repetition to make cleaner contact and play better. But those that go and work on (for example) their take away and getting in the right position at club parallel to deliver a square club face, also get the learning experience of knowing what those changes in their swings, which are specific and reproducible lead to, and those are much informative to improve quicker. It is causation driven improvement, not result driven reaction.
  12. At the beginning of the article I was fully prepared to strongly disagree with it. Primarily because through my own experience, trying to develop a mechanically sound swing is the fastest way to improvement. When you go on the golf course and you think forget technique, how can I hit this ball to get the desired result (seems simple no?) things fall apart, as you are then constantly reacting to the previous shot and swing… going purely off feels and not equipped or thinking through why - don’t have the tools to properly analyze what you’ve done. I do however agree with multiple points, including the ability to develop diagnostic skills, and to make appropriate changes to work with the swing and the ball striking that you have that day. Is the definition of insanity to repeat the same action expect different results, so not making adjustments with the type of swing you have that day is sitting yourself up for an extremely painful day on the links. All that being said, I think you have to you have enough experience to know the changes you specifically can make in your swing, to get back to the mechanically sound swing that you want, that produces a predictable bow flight pattern.
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