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Thanks a lot. That's the one!

Wow, Thanks for all of the suggestions. Which is the best between Schaumburg, Pine Medows, or Cantigny?

Hey, I'm shopping for a gift and want to get someone a few rounds of golf near their home. What are some nice courses near Roselle, IL?

I start out with my PW one handed. Once I can make solid contact with each arm, then I try it two handed. Once I grab the stick with two hands, it feel like cheating. The other thing I do is hit a few balls with a club, then switch. Switch targets, switch clubs, switch ball flights, switch anything. Just pounding golf balls does very little in comparison to switching it up. Also, hit a few balls, and then take a break. You never hit 150 golf shots in a row and I would venture to say that very few people can effectively do that. Fatigue will come into play after several swings and technique will slip out the window.

I had the very same problem this season. I could sissy hit my driver straight ~200 yards, but if I got into it I sliced so badly that when the ball hit the ground it no longer rolled away from me, it rolled right. My goal this year was to be able to get a decent 300 yard drive (I throw around weight like it is empty). My last few games this season, I had it figured out. I quit lunging at the ball and was even able to crank on the club like I thought I should be able to do. I still have the same club........ I know from recent experience. If you fix your swing with a club that is plaguing you, you will gain confidence that a new club can never give.

Well, if I was the most targeted person on the field, I would want the most protective gear. While an OK athlete may be good with optimum gear, a great athlete will excell with whatever gear is given to them. Part of the evolution involves managers accepting slightly slower passers that can play every game of the season.

This is a important point. The players are much bigger, faster, and stronger than they were 20 years ago. This means that the QB player has to evolve. The QB has to get smarter, faster, sneaker, and tougher than they were 20 years ago. There has been a mild movement towards this with Vick/Young/Tebow. These QBs are not always aplauded for thier lazer lightning arm, but they can take a hit, or dish one out if need be. This would force an evolution towards quarterbacks that are tough like Farve playing through pain and being good (not this year) at it. It would reduce the squeeky little whining b&^ches of QBs like E. Manning that can't slide at the end of a run without forcing his own fumble. Imagine a world where Christian Okoye is taking the snap, and he protected the ball till he found someone to pass it off to. Defense evolves, O. Line evolves, play calling evolves, clock management evolves, QBs evolve......... seems fair.

Back when I was 13 I thought I was safe off to the side of a tee box. I was about that far forward of the player teeing off and got hit just below the ribs by a nasty hook. I will claim that that bruise looks like the same one I received. In two days I will guarantee it turned purple and the pain got worse. I didn't squirm on the ground like that little girl did though. I also finished my round.

I play with a group at work......... I'm salery and we take off work to play. So, I guess the more golf I play the more my hourly rate goes up!!

Where is that Bam driver video? I was expecting to see it here?

That is what I intend to do. I looked at a couple of pairs at the pro shop last night and if you take the cleats off the tread left is still very aggressive. I would like to find a pair that I can take the cleats off on the front half, but I will have to look around to see if I can find a very moderate tread design left when the cleats are out.

I played again tonight and I noticed again more so with my driver and also my 4 I. I was cleaning up with the long iron and on the last hole I even tried a full all out drive on a hole that did a slight dogleg right. The speed that it all happened in would normally send the ball into the right woods, but it gently veered ~290 and stayed on the fairway. When the beauty happens I get done with my swing and my pelvis is pointed to my target. I will have to see if I can find some slick bottomed (my Vans are really worn out) golf shoes with cleats on the heel. Maybe I'll just get some nice dress shoes.......... watch me fall trying! !

My golf shoes were recently stolen, so I've been playing in my Vans. I have had a pair of golf shoes since I bought my first set of clubs 7 years ago. I really missed the traction walking up and down to the greens for the last couple of weeks, but I've discovered that I think I don't like cleats on the ball of my rear foot during my swing. I have struggled with my follow through for the last few months and discovered that I am not getting a good turn with the hips. In my Vans, I get good rotation and my back foot ends up nicely rotated effortlessly. My hips point exactly where I think they should at the end of my swing with this freedom of the foot. I am thinking about getting new golf shoes for the traction and taking the cleats off of the front of each one. Is this obsurd? Ever feel like the cleats limit the freedom of your swing?

Sounds like you are having the baby version of what I have. When I hit my driver the slice is controllable, but the ball runs right. I know that my issue is cause by a combination of lunging, collapsing the left arm, letting off the gas at impact, and looking up. I would guess that you have a slight case of one of these things on the long irons. Check that.

My follow-through is horrid. I lunge at the ball. I collapse the left elbow. I loose attention and attack tempo. I Finish by pulling my head up and having a great view of the slice that just happened. When it goes bad, the ball hits the ground and has so much side spin that it runs to the right. When it goes well, even I'm impressed. My irons are ok, but right now I miss almost every fairway. I actually hit the green from 150 in most of the time, so getting a good drive will be my ticket to a 18 handicap for next season.

I spent some time at the range working on this with nice easy swings. I overheard a dad say swing through the ball and after feeling good at keeping extention through impact and started swinging through the ball more. I had to really get on it to swing through the ball. I think I found the first step to fix my driver. If I really get on it, and stay on in through the swing......... everything comes together. Extended left arm, swing through the ball, full turn...... I had a few balls left after I figured this out and sure enough my irons straightened out too. I think I've just been getting lazy halfway through the swing. Thanks for reaffirming what I thought I was messing up. If it quits raining I might get to try it on the course.

I'm trying to get my driver back and one thing I know is that I tend to collapse my left arm during my follow through (and possibly impact). I think I am supposed to keep it extended throughout. Am I wrong? Is there any drills to keep the left arm extended through the whole swing? (the flying wedge drill has been great)

260 to the pin from the tee box and a fun house of hills from 200-240. I can't carry the ball that far so I tried for the lay up spot at 200 yards. I can't hit a driver straight most of the time, but I took a easy swing to try and get it to stop at the 200 yard mark and landed it exactly where I wanted to. Easy up and down for a birdie putt to finish out the hole.

Ahh yes!! I qualify! I would agree that it is more social to play from the same tees. If this is a one time golf outing, I would play from the same tees and enjoy the game for that. If this could be, or already is a repeat event, I would ask to play from your normal tees. I have played with a number of people that play from the blues and it doesn't bother me at all. I actually find that our second shot is closer so I enjoy the entire hole more. I also play from the blues when the hole just begs for it. (usually I loose a fair number of balls in that situation)

"My yonder was good, my towards was off." Co-worker.

I don't generally think about this possibility, but more often than not I hit good shots when I feel confident, and bad ones when I am intimidated. I have a mental report similar to that one, though I don't generally worry about score so much. I tend to ask myself if I am happy with that hit. I have plenty of opportunities to ask myself that question.

I think about all sorts of stuff during my swing. I hit the best when the only though is, "keep your eye on the ball."

160 yard par three over water that I hhave a magnetic attraction to drowning balls in. I stuck the green 10 feet from the hole just as I pictured it happening. (truthfully I pictured it in the hole.) That was good, but I hit my put to give our three man scramble another birdie. I love taking over the holes.

Lefty in a right handed world here. I write and eat left handed, but shift a tranny, play guitar, throw a ball, swing a bat, and play golf right handed. My left handedness gives me wicked control over the fretboard of a guitar, and I have power in the right side of my body that doesn't have the same control. I've thought about trying to go lefty with a golf club, but that is about it. Maybe when a set of lefty clubs falls into my lap.......

I had my best summer of golf yet. I started playing regularly with the company club after work and by late July my driver had the most beautiful draw to it. I was so excited after several rounds of good golf that I screwed up my game and bought a honest to goodness set of irons. I have been struggling with my entire game since. I keep tinkering with my swing mechanics and the complete sum at this point is great iron shots and a atrocious slice with the driver. Thankfully, down here my golf season is really getting started and I have all winter to get my driver back in line. I would say this summer is really the start of my golfing addition. (17 years after my first game, 7 years after I bought my first set of clubs). Yes, a good summer indeed.