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I feel you - As I said - totally lost my swing in the last few weeks - It's a horrible feeling. What's different to the few weeks before that where I was playing well? Who knows..
Another 80 gross for 72 yesterday but it was a terrible display of ball striking especially on front 9 - all over the show... Putted fairly well which kept the score respectable.
Just keep grinding @ChroniC - it's will come back - Felt I "found" something again on the back 9 at least yesterday. County Doubles match today so suncream back on again for this afternoon.
That was me on the 13th & 17th tees yesterday. Iron in hand on both and hit 3" behind the ball
Range game great, on course ****. I really feel like I should be shooting in the 80's every time, especially given the great weather recently but can I bugger.Been a bit of a struggle recently, bit like @ChroniC it sounds, all over the shop. Even shot over 100 twice in the past 2 weeks!
Then today I go out, not expecting much at all but being an 'easier' course where it's wide open thought I could put together an 'ok' round.
First hole, pull the drive into a ditch, chip back towards the fairway and over cook it into some trouble, not lost/penalty but chipping back to the fairway. So now on my 5th shot and still 190 yards to the flag, been here before recently
Ended up with a pick-up for an 8.
But then my iron striking picked up for the tee shot on the 'long' (170yards today to the flag) par 3 2nd, my 6 iron landed just short of the green and rolled out the back at ~195. Chip and 2-putt for a bogey.
After that I was just solid all day, actually more than solid I was playing well. Shot +8 overall, 3 birdies to offset that first hole and 8 bogeys, no doubles.
I think that may actually hit that exceptional score thingy again though, and just before the Club Championships too. Great.
Got a lesson tomorrow, followed by the monthly medal, gonna review the round but think rather than ball striking per se maybe my issue has been direction, with it being wide open some shots were definitely far right/left but still in play...
Then today I go out, not expecting much at all but being an 'easier' course where it's wide open thought I could put together an 'ok' round.
First hole, pull the drive into a ditch, chip back towards the fairway and over cook it into some trouble, not lost/penalty but chipping back to the fairway. So now on my 5th shot and still 190 yards to the flag, been here before recently
Ended up with a pick-up for an 8.But then my iron striking picked up for the tee shot on the 'long' (170yards today to the flag) par 3 2nd, my 6 iron landed just short of the green and rolled out the back at ~195. Chip and 2-putt for a bogey.
After that I was just solid all day, actually more than solid I was playing well. Shot +8 overall, 3 birdies to offset that first hole and 8 bogeys, no doubles.
I think that may actually hit that exceptional score thingy again though, and just before the Club Championships too. Great.
Got a lesson tomorrow, followed by the monthly medal, gonna review the round but think rather than ball striking per se maybe my issue has been direction, with it being wide open some shots were definitely far right/left but still in play...
Smashed in the county doubles today....
Fourball - mate goes to 0, I got 3, they got 14 and 18 shots respectively.
We played fine - better ball around +2 for 14 holes. Lost 5&3...
Just so hard to give away shots like that in 4 ball - always one of them was putting for bogie on every hole (net par) - We were very steady but just couldn't hole a putt for a birdie etc.
Anyway - lot of golf in the last 10 days (5 rounds) - lot of sun as well! Busy work week and keep plugging away for the weeks ahead in terms of golf.
Fourball - mate goes to 0, I got 3, they got 14 and 18 shots respectively.
We played fine - better ball around +2 for 14 holes. Lost 5&3...
Just so hard to give away shots like that in 4 ball - always one of them was putting for bogie on every hole (net par) - We were very steady but just couldn't hole a putt for a birdie etc.
Anyway - lot of golf in the last 10 days (5 rounds) - lot of sun as well! Busy work week and keep plugging away for the weeks ahead in terms of golf.
Absolutely crazy round today. Couldn't do a single thing right on the par 3's but my long game was amazing. Golf is Hard.
10 over in 4 x par 3's
2 Under in 4 x Par 5's
Finished with a 85. would have been my best round this year even If I just bogey'd the par 3's and would have easily broke 80, infuriating!. I was 3 off the tee on 3 of the par 3's
10 over in 4 x par 3's
2 Under in 4 x Par 5's
Finished with a 85. would have been my best round this year even If I just bogey'd the par 3's and would have easily broke 80, infuriating!. I was 3 off the tee on 3 of the par 3's
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Today ends 6 days of consecutive golf... 4x 18 hole rounds, 2x 9 hole rounds and a lesson. I'm tired.
Ok day today though, 88 around my local which I'm pretty happy with, kept the same ball right until the 18th tee where I pull-hooked one OB. No birdies, but also only 3 holes over a bogey so reasonably happy with that.
Had the lesson just before the round too, so standing on the first tee I was a bit worried I'd be spraying it all over the shop but awlgud, obviously wasn't trying to implement the lesson drill/thoughts on the course, leaving that for the range. I quite like this coach as he only ever gives one thing to focus on and this week it's the first bit of the downswing where he wants me to focus on getting that lateral move/weight onto the lead foot at the start of the downswing to help correct path still. Got a drill to work with that so need to go get on the range and practice that
I also chatted to him about irons/swing/spin and he agreed that with the way I can swing it (with work to do still obviously) I could do with more 'traditional' lofted irons to get a better spin/descent setup for actually holding greens a bit better. Not that I needed yet another argument to get new irons but hey
Not gonna be for another month or two though...
Ok day today though, 88 around my local which I'm pretty happy with, kept the same ball right until the 18th tee where I pull-hooked one OB. No birdies, but also only 3 holes over a bogey so reasonably happy with that.
Had the lesson just before the round too, so standing on the first tee I was a bit worried I'd be spraying it all over the shop but awlgud, obviously wasn't trying to implement the lesson drill/thoughts on the course, leaving that for the range. I quite like this coach as he only ever gives one thing to focus on and this week it's the first bit of the downswing where he wants me to focus on getting that lateral move/weight onto the lead foot at the start of the downswing to help correct path still. Got a drill to work with that so need to go get on the range and practice that
I also chatted to him about irons/swing/spin and he agreed that with the way I can swing it (with work to do still obviously) I could do with more 'traditional' lofted irons to get a better spin/descent setup for actually holding greens a bit better. Not that I needed yet another argument to get new irons but hey
Not gonna be for another month or two though...I'm in a similar boat mate, basically need a unicorn iron that is high launching, high spin, forgiving with a bit of tech, workable
I've put a set of ai200s in the bag for this season and am slowly getting dialled in with them, happy so far
I've put a set of ai200s in the bag for this season and am slowly getting dialled in with them, happy so far
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Something like the ai200s is kinda where I'm looking, my current thinking would be a combo-set from Srixon with ZXi5's in the 5, 6 and maybe 7 irons along with ZXi7's in the '7', 8-PW setup. Think roughly the ZXi5's would be similar-ish to the ai200s, much less game-improvement-y than my Dynapowers but still forgiving etc. Then the ZXi7's are probably a bit too 'player' for me right now but something to work towards/move into a bit, and limited to the short irons to make it a bit more doable right now...
In other news I won the medal last night \o/ Kinda shocked as an 88 gross (before EG net-double-bogey 'cap' down to 87) with a playing handcap of 15 so 'only' a 73/+3 net which tied for first in division 1 with me winning on countback
Don't forget - You can tweak spin/launch etc with a change of ball as well as irons.
Not as much as changing clubs/shafts etc but playing with the same ball, week in/week out is 100% worth doing.
I'm 100% dialled in on ProV1x now - won't play with anything else. Feel / spin / peak height etc - all things that are the same all the time
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I was watching a video about that just the other day, found it very interesting. Think I've got some AVX, going to give that a try on the course and see how much lower it flies on a windy day.
I liked AVX for a while - I struggle to keep the ball down at times with old driver and like the softer feel of it.
However after switching driver found that AVX just wouldn't spin at all and struggled to get any height on it....Moved into V1x and despite the slightly harder/clicker feel over AVX, it flies much better for me.
I'm definitely bad for sticking to a single ball... Especially when I'm going through the bad periods, during my singles match on Friday I started with 2 new sleeves of balls, 'only' TaylorMade TourResponse with the stripe (for cost reasons ) but at least new and consistent but I lost 3 of them on the first ~14 holes before losing the match. That'd be the best part of £15 if I was using ProV/TP5's 
Yesterday I played 17 holes with a yellow Callaway Warbird I found in the woods and then after losing that I used a TaylorMade Distance, also yellow, also found in the woods
) but at least new and consistent but I lost 3 of them on the first ~14 holes before losing the match. That'd be the best part of £15 if I was using ProV/TP5's Yesterday I played 17 holes with a yellow Callaway Warbird I found in the woods and then after losing that I used a TaylorMade Distance, also yellow, also found in the woods
Must admit I don't like the sound a warbird makes when you hit it, like you I found one in the woods and used it with a few others when practicing some pitching, sounded terrible to me. It's in the practice bag now.I'm definitely bad for sticking to a single ball... Especially when I'm going through the bad periods, during my singles match on Friday I started with 2 new sleeves of balls, 'only' TaylorMade TourResponse with the stripe (for cost reasons
Yesterday I played 17 holes with a yellow Callaway Warbird I found in the woods and then after losing that I used a TaylorMade Distance, also yellow, also found in the woods
My youngest came out with me when I was playing last week, sent him into the trees and gorse and over 9 holes he found around 25 balls, decent mix of pro V1's, Srixon and various other types. Gave him some money for them so I got some cheap balls and he got some money to spend.
Agree with this, in fact I was moving some stuff around the garage and found a dozen 2015 pro v1x with my initials stamped on them. So I'm going to go through them before ordering any more balls, from what I remember they fly very high but are a bit clicky.
Chrome Tour has been phenomenal so far this year I'm going to give the Chrome Tour X a whirl soon as well
Can't say I love them, just grabbed it out the bag on a whim, didn't expect to play well at all and randomly decided to use yellow balls so why not... Then when I started actually playing ok I wasn't gonna change a thing
pick 3.
for me depending on your skill level id take high launch, spin and workable. Which is basically any players irons.
generally the more "forgiving tech" you pack in to help miss hits, the more you lose on the high spin and workability. For example its really tricky to hit a 3iron stinger with a 2inch sole and weight all the way back to help launch.
Ive no idea about your game and swing speed, but if you can get something thats tough to hit, then learn to hit it, your game will thank you for it in the long run