I negotiate for a living but guess I need to do a better job on the golf course. My buddy dropped a 76 and missed 3 3footers. I can’t compete with that. At least I cut my losses a bit with a prop bet on 17 with a closest to the hole for one swing out of the sand. Increasing variance is key when playing better players in any event.
Posted another sub-90 round at the same course I did last weekend. +17 for an 87 on a 72/120 course that’s not super long at 6300 yards but has some extremely challenging approach shots to 40-60ft elevated holes guarded by bunkers on pretty much every hole, narrow rairways lined by a river on the right side on most holes. Plays extremely difficult if you’re not driving well.
I wasnt driving or hitting the ball well but my up and down game was insane. I lost count at how many i had - it was at least 12/15 or something. But a lot of those were for bogey. I had 2 pars out of a greenside bunker which was nice because my bunker play is typically poor.
Just had an insane amount of chips to like less than 2 feet which saved the round.
I’m taking lessons again to figure out wtf is going on with my swing - I am capable of hitting a 7 iron about 150 yards but lately it’s like 110-120 and i’m posting club speeds in the low 60’s sometimes on the simulator. It’s not a strength issue im just rerouting the club in a really weird way on the downswing or something.
We did a 1/3rd swing drill to see if i could get the ball drawing - turns out i can, and my 1/3rd shot 7 iron was carrying about 115. Which is like the same as my full swing, so something’s really off. Hopefully we figure it out. If i could hit a 150 7 iron i will easily take 5-6 strokes off my game, approaches will be so much easier.
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Shot a 112 today which might be my best for 18 lol. My putting is so so good especially for how shit the rest of my game is. I need to hit up a pro and get my swing fixed. I pretty much can’t reach par 4s in 2 which severely limits your game obviously.
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This was me for like a year and a half until I just recently learned how to hit my driver. What I got good at consequently was getting up and down from 30 yards and in - youre gonna have to do that a lot if you cant reach in two.
If you can start to drive the ball well you’re gonna see it makes the rest of the game so much easier. I highly recommend lessons but that shit is expensive.
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lol 
An hour ago, I went to the range for the 1st time in prolly 2 years. Crushed some, duffed some.
Didn’t even finish a small bucket, left on a high-note after mash-potato’ing my last driver with perfect balance.
Been a fan of this Golf Goat thread for so long, back to the old site, but now with a reason to post. Going to play 9 with my bro on Thursday, will report the carnage itt maybe even take some vids at tee boxes lmao
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Had a breakthrough in my lesson today and got my 7 iron club head speed to 75 mph, with a really pure feeling fade on it. That used to be my driver speed.
I hit a 9 iron 140 on the sim a few times as well. I think my goal of a 150 7 iron might have been conservative, i’m so stoked.
All we did was start firing my hips way earlier than i was doing. I completely misunderstood the timing of it and then he showed me this weird drill that got me starting the lower body at the top of my backswing, and everything instantly got 30 yards farther.
So stoked. Cant wait to play this weekend
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that’s key to balance, too, is it not?
get that weight forward, so the momentum of the swing is integrated with the slight forward change in body-position. I recognized better balance on the range Monday, when I would have that lower-body forward lean more pronounced during the swing.
I’m up in 7.5 hours for a 7:33 central Tee-time. boo-ya
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lol fatty alert. horrible video quality on my bro’s phone, sadly
Only played 9. parred 3, bogeyed 2… came close to having a 4-hole-stretch with 4 pars and a boge, once I’d warmed up and settled in, or even better potentially, just missed 2 birdie putts, fractionally off on the speed but dead center - one short one long.
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I dont know about balance but i have a tendency to stay on my back foot through impact. The position he had me at impact was completely different than what i was doing - he was showing me swings of famous golfers and their hips are all 45 degrees facing the target at impact while their upper body is facing the ball. I was definitely square with the ball at impact before and had my chest opening up towards the target.
It just feels a lot easier to hit the ball this way because i can clear my hips easier and come in more from the inside. I was puring everything.
This instructor definitely was holding out on me, I dont know why we never went over this before. But i told him i wanted to hit my 7 iron 150 yards eventually and he was like “we’ll do it today” and we actually did it. Frickin awesome. I’ve been struggling with distance - A lot of courses were simply unplayable for me before.
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Yeah, a consistent reverse pivot will rob you of whatever power you have. The weight shift during impact is critical.
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Yea i can see that now. He had me hold the club while he fired his hips and without even moving his arms i felt a powerful yank from the club.
The back foot thing comes from years of baseball swing lessons - you keep your weight on the back foot at impact.
I thought my lack of distance was due to my takeaway being only at about 9 or 10 oclock - i cant take it all the way back due to flexibility issues. But he showed me a guy who had the exact same takeaway as me who hits a 3 wood 280 at 60 years old. So that extra little takeaway doesnt seem to really add much distance, it’s really about the lower body.
He was telling me i have plenty of club head speed, 75mph for a 7 iron is about what scratch golfers do and we got there yesterday. He told me it’s just the tip of the iceberg for stuff we can do to get that number up.
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We’re gonna get those terrorists. Now watch this drive.
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me and dubya
abbreviated back-swing can still poke it out there quite far
Those types of swings totally can. I don’t even come close to getting to parallel and can get it out there okay.
For short swings go check out Jon Rahm’s or Tony Finau’s swing and you can see how short swings can lead to some of the longest distance on tour.
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i just checked out finau’s swing and he takes it back about the same height i do. I never really noticed that in his swing before
I seem to remember JB holmes having a short backswing and he was a bomber. Defintely don’t need to get to parallel as long as you can create a ton of lag. Finau and Rahm are great examples and so is Sergio, at the top of his swing he is short of parallel but then he drops the club and creates crazy lag at the start of his downswing
I don’t think Dechambeau gets to parallel either and he is crushing the ball this year, dude is a basically golf ball hitting robot
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I can’t get my irons/hybrids in the air. I’m always either topping the ball or hitting too far behind and chunking it. Super frustrating.
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you need to impact/ compress the ball during the descent of the club, when using short/mid irons - that generates backspin.
long irons/woods, the impact should be on more of a flat plane.
chi chi rodriguez actually teed the ball so high for his driver, that he achieved an upward impact that created top-spin for more roll.
you need to watch pros and mimic their swings, or read golf digest and analyze still photos. helped me over time when I was beginning
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more simply, you need to keep your eye on the ball, and swing easy
do not try to kill it. watch Ernie Els videos