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With stats like that you should be better then your index states..... If you hit 35% of the greens, which is 6 per round, and you have 1.8 putts per hole you would have on average about 6 pars per round, not too bad. Which leaves 12 holes where you missed the green, for the sake of arguement you made bogey on everyone of those, you would only be 12 over at the end of the round. So if your index is 18, then on one of your better rounds you have somewhere in the neighborhood of 3-6 doubles or worse? Do you have alot of 6, 7 and 8 on your scorecard? If you have lots of blow up holes then I would say it probably comes down to lack of concentration. Pre-shot routine is probably the best ways to make the transition from fun golf time with your buddies to serious golf time for that 20-30 sec during your shot. Once your shot is done the "golf" part of being on the course is basically over.

2 ways, shortgame or egoless golf. 1) Putts, although not a definative measure, is a good way to lower your score but less so at higher handicaps. I am willing bet that most 10 handicaps don't have that many less putts then a 20 handicap. With that said I would work on improving your shortgame to the point where it doesn't cost you strokes yet it doesn't really save you strokes. I would work on putting and shortgame to the point where you only need to take one chip and 2 putts on every green. Needing multiple chips or a bunch of putts will really inflate your score. If you usually have more then 35 putts a round then I would work to getting your chips closer and eliminating your 3 putts, if you can reliably make a 3 footer there is very little reason to ever 3 putt a green....rarely. Once you get your handicap down then you can start thinking about ways to reduce your putts, either through better putting or better chipping. 2) Keep the ball in play, if your score is truely the most important apect of golf then your ego is going to have to take a backseat. If the driver "costs" you more strokes then it saves then why hit it? Nothing inflates your score like penalties and punchouts to get the ball back into play. If you can hit a ball 200 yrds reliably there aren't many greens you can't make in 3 strokes. Hit something that will give you good distance but not enough to get you to the trouble. Sounds simple when you can hit a 5i off the tee, hit your 5i for your second shot, you're not going to make the green but that leaves you with porbably at most a 7i or 8i into the green on most par 4s. You can't play to the hole's Par, you have to play to your par....if you want to break 90 that is basically bogey golf. If you are relying on Pars in your round (which are basically Birdies to an 18 handicapper) then you're not playing "your" game. If you could make Pars on a regular basis you wouldn't be asking how to break 90.

Well after about a week with the new shaft, couple range sessions and round over the weekend and I think I am going in the right direction. I think I am right at and maybe a little above the upper limit of the shaft in terms of flex strength. The location of flex is pretty good but the tip is too active for my liking, it feels a little out of control to me. It is still early and I think going from the stock TP shaft to the V2 HL is a drastic change and might take some time to get used to - I wonder if the normal V2, the non-HL would have a bit of a softer tip, probably. If this shaft doesn't do it for me I am thinking of either the Epic or an Ozik Xcon 5 or 6. Any opinions on either of those shaft would be greatly appriciated. A few more rounds and some range time is still required before I make a decision, I will keep you all posted.

To me the interlocking grip feels the most natural but that is because that is all I have used. I think the main issue with the 10 finger grip is that it somewhat inconsistant. You tend to grip the club with both hands too much. With the interlock or overlap you tend to grip more with your top hand and use your lower hand to control the club. Very little grip preasure is used by your right hand to prevent the club from slipping out of your hands. You can also have varying gaps between the top and lower hand. Since the top and lower hand are not "connected" like they are in the interlock or overlap, you can sometime have no gap to a very large gap - its much harder to do that with the other grips.

Are you talking about his right wrist or left wrist? I think the hand in question for this post it the left wrist? The right wrist has to hinge inorder for the club to swing from the inside but I would suggest that the left wrist should have minimal hinge.

some of what I say might be effected by camera angle. I will start in sequence of the swing. You are a regripper, ala Sergio Garcia. I know this is a tough habit to break but I would try my hardest to do so. During practise try not grounding your club at address and don't take so long to actually swing when you address the ball. From the looks of it, your feet are aiming right, the ball start on a line to the left and then slices right. Tough to hit a straight ball when you have conflicting angles working against each other. I would try opening your stance a little, I know that sound like it will make your slice worse but make sure to open your shoulders too, line them up to your feet. You need to stop swinging across your body. Stand behind your ball and put a club on the ground parallel to the line you want the ball to travel, not pointing to the spot in the distance but parallel to that line. Then take your stance, you're probably going to feel like your stance is open, just make sure your shoulders are lined up with your feet. Your swing is a little too vertical for my liking, the camera angle might have soemthing to do with that but you have a very vertical backswing and a very vertical finish. Do you backswing with your left or right hand? Try starting your backswing with your left and completely relaxing your right hand and arm. Have just enough preasure on your right hand and arm to keep the club in your hands during the backswing. There isn't really any need to lift your left foot off the ground and if you do make sure it's not alot. If you lift it too high it's very hard to get it back into the same position that you started the swing on. It's very easy to lift your left heal and rotated it counter clockwise which will make your hips really wide open. Altering your swing path and more then likely opening your clubface. Maybe shorten your backswing a little bit, it's tough to tell but it looks like your club is beyond parallel at the top of your backswing. Try swinging out to the right instead of pulling the club across your body to the left. Even if you hit big slices out to the right, work on a more inside out path. I think your swing plane is in need of the most help, your efforts to anti-slice are only making it easier to slice. Take a look at your finish, your hands are too high - they are almost above your head. Your hands should finish about level with your left ear and your should be able to see the clubhead on the other side of head as it comes around the back of your head/neck.

The range is only good if you are there to work on something, if you are there just to pound balls chances are your doing more harm then good.

This is very common.... When you say hinging your wrists, I think of a hinge on a door. It allows for rotation in a vertical axis. If you make a fist with your hand and stick your thumb up like you are giving the "thumbs up" signal and then then hinge your wrist the thumb basically doesn't move, it is the axis of rotaion. That is what I think of when some one say hindge the wrists - to me that is improper, that is where people I think get flippy with their wrists. I would rather you cock your wrists, like when you cock a gun. If you make the same fist with the thumb up again but instead of hinging your wrist pull your thumb back toward your forarm like the cocking the hammer of a gun. Think if it like you are casting the fishing rod. You cock your wrists (set your wrists) at about half way up your backswing, and then uncock them and release your hand through impact which should square up the face of the club. There is not really any wrist hinge IMO.

Old thread but didn't want to start a new one and since I was in the market for a new shaft and saw the I-Mix I thought I would comment. I am a guy who likes to tinker so I like the idea but I don't like the intent of it. I think the system could be changed and it would make a world of difference. 1) Make a standard for connecting shaft to head. I am guessing that every clubmaker will have their own proprietary system of connecting the shaft to the head. IF there was some sort of standard then all heads and all shafts would be interchangable. So when you went to a new head or new shaft you can still use the piece that you are not replacing. 2) Make the pieces rentable. I am invisioning a sort of library system where say you have a head already and are looking to put a shaft in it. You go to your local retailer or proshop and rent a shaft to try. You go and try all the possible shaft option available and see which one works best for you, then you go and buy the shaft and you know it's going to work because you have acutally used that shaft (not the exact one) in your head and you know it works. This can also work if you are planning to upgrade the head, rent the head and use the shaft that you already have. This is going to save the consumer money in the long run by not having to buy a bunch of shafts and the labor of getting a clubmaker to reshaft for you. Also when they go to upgrade they already own the other half of the club they are not planning to upgrade. I don't really see a large number of golfers buy different heads and shafts and having the knowledge to pick which combo to be used on which day. As for pros, I don't see them having any use for this. It's not like they don't get free equipment anyways and I am sure each morning of a tour event involves a trip to the equipment van to get any swapouts or tweaks before the round. So why would they carry around a bunch of different heads and shafts when the equiment van does all that for them and is filled with people who's job is to know about golf equipment?

Well I think I have given in and finally decided to reshaft my driver. I currently use an R7 425 TP with the stock stiff shaft and I think that the shaft just doesn't suite my swing very well, more importantly the tip was too stiff and the kick point was too high. I was fighting the shaft too much to get some more launch angle, which we all know only leads to the opposite. I used to have an R7 425 with the stock stiff shaft but the non TP and I really liked the ball flight on that club. So I hope the V2 high launch will give me a similar ball flight but I hope the high launch isn't too high launch and too much spin and it baloon :( Anyways, if anyone has any input/opinion on this shaft please post them up. The club is getting the treatment right now so it's too late to switch but just to hear how others who have played with it would be nice to hear.

I think you missed the point of the rankings, it's toughest as in physically hardest to do, not as in toughes to get good at. Golf, you never actually compete against some one else, well you do in match play, but it's not the same as say playing against some one in ping-pong or tennis. What your apponent did my effect you mentally but it's not like because they hit the ball harder or put more spin on the ball make your shot any harder or easier.

MONEY, plain and simple. Golf is not cheap, in fact it is probably one of the most expensive and exclusive sports out there. It is also one of the most time consuming sports out there, not only just playing a 5 hour round but to partice - it is a real time sink. Same reason why soccer is the number one sport, it's vertually free to play. All you need is a ball and a field.

Unlike some putters, the head of your putter is not dictated by the length of the shaft. Some putters heads are lighter the longer the shaft, so cutting one of those would require you to put some weights in to counter not only the lose in shaft weight but also the change in the club's dynamics. Since you choke down on the putter anyways the swing weight should be very much different. Once you cut the shaft and you can grip the putter closer to the end you should feel more connected to the putter.

I going to give some ambiguous advice about balls because to me what ball you play is dictated by what you want the ball to do for you that your current ball isn't doing. No matter what the ball does, how it is off the tee or how much spin it has around the greens, if you play with it long enough your game will adjust to what the ball does. It has to or else your scores will be aweful. The ball can not adjust to your game, the ball is one of the few constants in the game. So with that said, if your touch around the green is lacking, the ball isn't going to make any difference unless you want the new ball to do something your current ball isn't doing. Have you tried using different clubs to make the ball do what you want around the greens? Going from one highend ball to another isn't going to make a huge difference, not like going from a low spin ball to a highend ball.

Honestly for me I don't really care what you do that is against the rules, within reason. The large majority of the people I play with wouldn't benefit in any way shape or form by switching balls, weather off the tee, on their approach or on the green. Trust me, it's not the ball, the fact I tell them the yardage or even what club I used that is going to make them break 90. I am going to give high handicapper any advantage they want to make it more fun because I know as soon as golf isn't fun for them anymore then I lose a playing partner. I see it like teaching some one new how to golf or taking you child out and play with, you want it to be fun for them so if and when they get good enough they understand the rules and why they are there.

Most retail drivers have a closed face angle. If you want one that is neutral or even open, look for the "tour" versions of the drivers. Some club makers don't charge extra for their "tour" versions and some do.

Don't remember the scores from past rounds only remember what you did well and what you didn't do well. When you play golf shot by shot the final score will take care of itself. If you start the round thinking ok I shot 75 lastweek, you are already doomed. What you could do is say to yourself, ok I didn't putt very well last week or I didn't chip well last week and really concentrate on being focused on those things when those oppertunities arise. If you can't wait for the round to end, start thinking about what good things you did today. If you are hoping that the round never ends, you know you're shooting good and your looking forward to the next shot.

Casual play and its obvious to everyone in the foursome then I would give you the benefit of the doubt. If this was a legit tourney then I would say unless you can find the preson who stole it and place it back your SOL. I would like to think that anyone who is participating in the tourney would know better then to pickup any balls during the tourney. Just get good enough so the when you play the spectators find the ball for you :P

I don't care who I play with as long as you keep up.... I don't care if it takes you 10 shots per hole just as long as you are not holding up the group.

I would say no, keep the small fade as it is easier to control and when you fade too much it's not as bad and when you draw too much. The fade tends to hit and stop rolling sooner, the draw will hit and keep rolling. I have been working for almost 2 year trying to get rid of the draw and at times I still hit it, epsecially with my long irons.

Personally I don't like it, I am not a fan of the center shafted putters.

I don't know why you think Scottys are so expensive, yes some are if you want to buy a limited edition or collecters, Rife also has them and the simple blade putter is $500...but it's sold out. The off the rack Scotty is probably about $100 more expensive then an off the rack Rife. Oh and if you look the Rife's collector series, the circle R symbol looks like a straight rip off of the Scotty's tour series that is a circle T....I guess Rife likes Scottys too. Lots of putters use grooves on the putter face and I woudl think that if they made a significant enough of a difference then every putter ever made would have them...or the USGA would outlaw them :P

2 factors are at play here, Technology and strength of the field. Sorry to say but the technology argument works against those that say Jack is better, simply put technology makes everyone better not just the best players. Infact the best players don’t need the technology as much as even the average tour pro. You say Tiger has access to better equipment like 460cc drivers and multilayer balls that fly farther and stop on a dime but so does every other golfer on the tour. The technology benefits the player that is ranked 5th in the world more then Tiger thus making it harder for Tiger to win against a field with all this great equipment. This might be a bit naïve on my part because admittedly I don’t follow golf history but I think the current field is stronger and there are more players who have a chance at winning. I just think that there are more quality players now then there was, the population has increased and the exposure is much higher for golf then it has ever been. Who knows there could have been a guy who was even better then Jack during his time but never took up golf because he never even knew what golf was, couldn’t afford to play golf or was never given the opportunity. Some of that is hype brought on by TV but just the fact of the increased population would make the field better.

I would say your left hand grip is a bit too strong. I think that is causing your take-a-way to be too much to the inside, which is making you redirect at the top when you start your down swing and this is going to lead to the over the top. Work on taking the club straighter back and widening our swing. If you are going to keep that strong left hand I would say watch Zach's swing, he has a strong left hand and he squares up nicely with his body and not so much with his arms and hands. I know you're young and flexible like Gumbi but I would also try and keep your lower body a little more quiet. Less moving parts will make it easier to repeat.

Not sure why the big uprising for blades lately..... Wonder how many pros use pure blades these days? I am willing the guess that most use some sort of a forged MB or CB iron because even as good as the pro is they still make mistakes and need some help on mishits. If you are looking for some good transition clubs I like the idea of the mixed sets. Forgiving 3-5 irons mixed with some forged 6-pw set. I was looking at the Nike procombo tours before buying my MP67 ( I know the MP67 are blades, I just liked the look and feel of then when I was looking).