Bought a mint condition/new set of G 30's in January...I love them but they're yellow dots (1.5 up right) and I have a fairly consistent fade / slice, I took them to the local golf shop and hit them with some tape and was consistently hitting the center of the club, the guy suggested I play a few rounds and see how I like them before making any changes.... so I guess my question is should I get "refitted" and what is the reasoning behind angling the club 1.5 upright... Edit: Just measured 35'-36' wrist to floor with arms at my sides, if that's how they measure....
Listen, If you like Mizuno then I'm not going to sway you otherwise. But I am friends with a ton of really good mini tour/canada/Latin America guys and literally none of them use a Mizuno.
It's settled then. You can never be a good player if you play Mizunos. Gonna go chuck my mp60s in a fucking lake now.
What are some putting drills that have been helpful for you guys? There's a course right by my office that I'm planning to go putt on their practice greens for 20-30 minutes during lunch some days. Have never really practiced my putting outside of 15 minutes before rounds.
Good article regarding an annual tournament me and some buddies set up. This year's version is a week from Saturday. http://firstcoastmagazine.com/news/grow-up-play/ If you enjoy golf, you ought to think about organizing something like this. It's a great time and leads to a year's worth of shittalking.
Place balls in a circle 6 feet from the cup (two putter lengths for easy measuring). This will give you a few 6 footers from different angles. Go through your routine for each putt and try to hit as many in a row as you can. Invent your own game of it to try to put pressure on yourself. 6 footers are important because that's about the distance amateurs have on most pressure putts. Going through your routine on every single putt is also vital. Going out there and just stroking putts over and over will not actually get you ready for real golf. The amateur that can stroke 6 footers is the guy that scores better than his ball striking would suggest. They're also match play nightmares.
my main mental note when putting the last couple rounds has been focusing on a minor pause transitioning from back to front swing and "sweeping the ground" with the putter. has helped me stop any pushing/pulling or mis-hitting.
I was just thinking I've never really seen my swing. I tell you what we'll record a swing for each other next time out :gays:
I'm starting to get worried about changing putter grips just when it seemed like I was starting to putt better..hopefully I'm just being silly.
I'm happy to see that. That was the tougest course I've ever played and I want to see how the best in the world will play it.
About 8 months ago I was watching golf channel and they were showing highlights of the Junior Ryder Cup and first person up is the kid I hit. On the right, looks like he should be in One Direction
I remember you playing in the US Am, but I don't remember you lighting up your playing partner. Was it a bad lie? What club was in your hand?
Middle of the fairway, he was standing about 20 yards up and to the right and I dead shanked a 6 iron into his shoulder. Ball speed was up there.
Saw this in ahigh school golf meet. kid warned the kid in front of us to watch out, so he hid behind a palm tree and peaked around to wacth his shot. Caught a ball right in the face from about 30 yards out. Cracked his "orbital bone" or,whatever you call it. THWACK. Still remember the sound.
Was playing with 2 other guys, Player C was about 30-50yards up the hole off in the rough sitting in his golf car turned facing the fairway on the right side. Player B slices his 3wood and I shit you not it goes into the guys golf cart and out through where the windshield would have been had the guy not had it down. He was just sitting on his phone and had no idea he was about 2-3 feet from taking a 3wood shank to the dome.
This happened in my foursome on the road hole last year. Guy that got hit took it like a champ and parred out.
So tiger has a restaurant opening here in 2 weeks called the woods. He couldn't call it Tiger cause Nike owns the name
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I can definitely get on board with being more accurate with a full swing than a half swing Don't forget to practice your 3-4 footers. Harvey Pennick suggests only using one ball on the practice green. Putt at different holes and always putt it all the way into the hole. Always finish in the hole so that you simulate real putting situations and get in the habit of always finishing your putts and not taking gimmies. I like the circle of ~6 footers drill already mentioned. I've also taken 3 balls and will stay in one line with the hole and hit one from 5 ft, one from 10 ft, and one from 15 ft and then move to a different hole or angle.
WTF??? http://scoregolf.com/blog/jason-logan/crazy-day-for-allenby-at-rbc-canadian-open/ CRAZY DAY FOR ALLENBY AT RBC CANADIAN OPEN By Jason Logan Created: July 23, 2015 COMMENTSSHARE ON TWITTERSHARE ON FACEBOOK OAKVILLE, Ont. – Robert Allenby has had one hell of a season, and not in a good way. In the news earlier this year for claiming to have been beaten and mugged in Hawaii at the Sony Open — a tale doubted and scrutinized by the media, but one the veteran Australian golfer adamantly stuck by — he has made only seven of 21 cuts and banked just $265,000. He’s in danger of losing his exempt status, which means he might have to rely on the second of two career money exemptions to tee it up on the PGA Tour next year. On Thursday, at the RBC Canadian Open at Glen Abbey, his year got even stranger. After incurring a penalty stroke off the tee on the par-5 13th, his fourth hole of the day, Allenby had just over 150 yards in for his fourth shot. His caddie Mick Middlemo, new on the bag this year, called for an eight-iron, while Allenby wanted to hit seven. Middlemo insisted and Allenby’s shot caught a gust of wind and ended up in the creek that fronts the green. He took a triple-bogey eight on the hole en route to a front-nine 43. The fireworks, however, started right then and there. RBC Canadian Open fan Tom Fraser finishes up with after nine holes on the bag for Robert Allenby. “I said to him, ‘You know this happens every week. This has happened for like the last three or four or five months. We keep making bad mistakes and you’re not helping me in these circumstances,’” Allenby said after his round of 81. “And he just lost the plot at me. He just told me I could go eff myself. And I said, ‘Look, you need to slow down. I mean just calm down.’ And then he just got right in my face as if he wanted to just beat me up. I said, ‘Stop being a such and such and calm down and get back into the game.’ And he just got even closer and closer and I just said, ‘That’s it, you’re sacked.” I said, ‘I will never have you caddie ever again.’ And we never spoke for the rest of the (first nine) and when we got to 18 we walked off and he said some smartass remark to me and I said, ‘You don’t deserve to be caddying out there.’ And he just got right in my face and threatened me so I said, ‘Go.’ So he left.” Without a loop, Allenby lugged his bag from the 18th green to the first tee and called over a rules official to explain the situation. In the gallery with some buddies, school principal Tom Fraser, in from Kingston, Ont., for the first two rounds, saw what was going on and offered to help. “‘Hey if you need someone to carry, I’ll carry,” said Fraser. Allenby said sure. So Fraser ducked under the ropes, picked up the player’s bag — “A little bit heaver than mine. I figured out the double-strap with two holes to go,” Fraser said — and got his first taste of inside-the-ropes action. “I just said, ‘Hey Robert, just tell me what to do, where to stand,’ and he was really good about it and the other caddies (for Jon Curran and S.J. Park) were helpful about where to place the bag and where to stand and how to stay out of the sightlines and stuff like that.” Allenby promptly birdied the first hole with Fraser at his side, but bogeyed four holes in a row from Nos. 4 through 7 and signed for an 81. He said he was going to withdraw from the tournament. “My nerves have been rattled. I’m in shock,” he said. “Everything that’s gone on this year, that was the last thing I needed. I’ve been obviously beaten up, robbed and stolen from, what have you in Hawaii and all that. I haven’t dealt with it well all year, it’s been tough, and then I got something like this. He’s meant to be one of my mates. I’ve done a lot of right things by him and helped him out financially and he just turns around and does this to me. “This is the worst incident I’ve ever witnessed as a player,” the veteran continued. “I’ve never been threatened and as he walked away he said, ‘I’ll be waiting for you in the car park.’ “He’s an Australian and he didn’t act like an Australian, let’s put it that way.” Allenby said he would be asking tournament officials for a security escort out of the golf course. Middlemo couldn’t be tracked down for comment and fans who witnessed the incident said Allenby was equally as aggressive towards his now ex-caddie. As for his substitute loop, Allenby couldn’t have heaped more praise upon him. “He did a great job. He did everything he was told. He was a nice guy. I’m really thankful that he helped me out,” he said of Fraser, who snapped a picture with his player upon finishing up. “It was nice to have someone friendly on the bag who didn’t want to threaten me.” Told Fraser is an educator who will have a nice what-did-you-do-this-summer story to tell his students upon returning in September, Allenby cracked: “Let’s put it this way, if it was the other way around he’d be giving my caddie the strap.”