Stryper

Hi all. Just a heads up, we are offering $AU30 off our StanceMate stance width training aid. Just use code RORY at checkout! This code will expire in a few days, but for TST members please hit me up privately if you'd like to take it up in future.

Nice mate, very nice. I'd say forget about weight until what you're doing stops working and go win some beers from your mates while you're in the zone!

Geez I love seeing improvement like that. Well done. As someone whose "natural" swing is out to in 2-3 degrees I have to really stay on my front side (like 80%) to get that back to closer to 0 or even + for a draw. A big backswing also makes the path even worse. On the contrary a really short backswing with heavy front foot creates a hook. And to clarify, I feel that weight through my foot, knee and hip, it's not just leaning to the front side, it's almost like winding the coil in that front leg. That's probably the exact opposite of what the textbooks say? Perhaps because the textbooks are for guys who hit the ball well with an in to out club path struggle taming a hook?? For some reason ANY conscious weight transfer to my back foot exacerbates everything and stops me getting through the ball and I stand up off the ball. When I'm trying to hit a cut I don't consciously hold weight forward (but I make sure I don't transfer back) and it works. I have very bad hips, knees, shoulders from decades of (falling off) motorbikes and (falling off) surfboards so I can only do what I can do I have found this "weight" approach works better for me than "try to swing in to out" using any method as I then lose impact angle and distance. With say an 8-iron I will lose 20m from my best shot even if it's a +2 path, because I just cannot get everything to work together. I don't know if any of that helps - I am certainly a trial and error guy and not a coach with any kind of theory to back up my ponderings - but I am learning what works for me by making weight my number one swing thought.

TRIGGER WARNING: This will upset MANY people. I WAS experimenting with various forms of these. I am about 70% red/green colourblind so to me, these balls stand out yellow, not fluoro yellow, but yellow nonetheless. This colourblindness also affects my brain's interpretation of blue/purple and I have trouble distinguishing between browns and greens if they are in the distance etc, making golf one sunnuva in summer here when the course is cooked. To non CB people these are a dirty yellow (so I am told) and are very hard to see on the course. So while I can find my own balls easier than a white-only ball using a marker, my playing partners helping me look for a wayward ball cannot, and I found I was losing more shots by not having that extra help when the chips were down. And although this was done with "permanent marker" it was invaluable in telling me if I was hitting off the toe. I'd actually recommend it to anyone to use for a round or for practice and have a look after each shot what shot shape happened after different strikes. Yes, it puts some muck on your club face, but yes it rubs off quite easily, and I may be colourblind but I'm not certainly less worried about the temporary aesthetic assault on my clubs than if I'm drinking my playing partners' free beer at the end of a winning round. Anyway I've learned to stick to fluoro yellow so I can see them and my buddies can too. And they've stopped feeling like vomiting and their OCD has calmed down big time since they had to stop looking at them on the tee and green.

Hi all. I've joined as a TST sponsor and while I don't intend to bombard your forums with product plugs ad nauseum, I wanted to put a bit of philosophy behind how I've trod this path. Although I've only been playing golf since COVID, I've realised there are minute changes in golf setups that impact performance like no other sport I have played/contested in my life. Recently I made a super small change to my grip (using a trigger index finger on my trail hand) that has improved my ball striking dramatically. It blows my mind. I love being so involved in something that my spare moments are spent analysing how I played and how I can improve. (I recently looked at my stats and my worst pickup holes are Par 5s - I actually play the lowest index holes better than the rest - what he heck?? Mental game after bad shots and concentration needs work there methinks) And when the small changes matter so much, we need to ensure there is a strategic approach to improvement. Incremental change is critical. Don't deviate from what is known without understanding that any change affects another. This is where the concept for my training aids was born. Something Erik shared a long time ago - The Virtue of being a Stupid Monkey - stole way too much of my spare time this week pondering. Do I want to know WHAT to do, or do I want to know WHY to do it? It is indeed the what. I've always been a "Try it, and if it works, keep doing until something better springs to mind." A sore back or knee will ruin your round. Do you want to to know how to play around it, or do you need to understand why it's happening? I'll go into more detail on this soon. In the meantime, here's a video that wraps up the basics of SwingMate, the flagship product. Thanks for having me!

Realise this is VERY old thread, but the above comment has been an absolute game-changer for me. I've gained 10m (easy) with Driver on average since I started doing this. Previously I was holding it - still in the fingers - but fingers all together. I find it helps me feel when the release should be, direction of the shot, the whole nine yards. I do have to be careful with Driver to strengthen the grip up a little with trail hand to accommodate it. But it's been going extremely well.

This is a decent sized carpet python we had to move from beside the green on Hole 3 at my home course. These are non-venomous but would give a damn painful bite and you’d be almost certain to get an infection without antibiotics. The ones you need to avoid that are common here are eastern browns and redbelly blacks. They are angry and aggressive if provoked whatsoever. And deadly. So it ain’t worth looking for a ball in long grass!

Absolutely love this concept. I try very hard now in my practice to just get something to work, ignore how it looks or why, then go execute it until it stops working. Then work out what to change next. As long as my stats are improving I'm happier (I'm never happy, just happier or not happier :-)).

Snakes yes, crocs no. It's certainly not worth looking for a ball in long grass here .

G'day all. My name's Glenn and my mates call me Corbs. I'm a 50-something-year-old Aussie who HATED golf until COVID when I got utterly and irrevocably hooked. I'm playing three rounds a week and loving it. My best mate that I started golf with during COVID hit an Ace this week! Our foursome - including his son - all watched the ball disappear and we went absolutely mental! Only been playing a few years and improving quickly and trying to get to under 17 handicap this year. Thanks for having me!