Yea keeping the right elbow tucked close to the body has you usually swinging more in to out, it’s my swing thought when I’m slicing.
The strong grip helps promote getting the club face square more easily but i’ll have days where i’m just pulling the absolute shit out of the ball with that grip.
Made it two holes today before it started raining. While we were waiting out the delay, my dad got racist about the NBA / protests so I left. Fuck Boomers JFC
Fuck man. I love golf but the people that play it generally suck. I’ve posted how boomers have casually dropped deplorable shit around me before.
But I had a more bold one recently playing with a random guy and his friend. He mentioned how a lawyer at his office left and was hired to a pretty senior in-house job while casually saying that she only got the job because she was a woman and black, really emphasizing on the black part. It was early and I wasn’t prepared for that kind of comment out of nowhere so I was pretty taken aback by it and only said “yo man, wtf” but he got the hint. That ended any small talk between us for the rest of the round. I could tell it made his playing partner uncomfortable but that guy didn’t say anything.
Yeah golfers as a group are shitstain people. I’ve been thinking about joining a club and am dreading the kind of people I’ll be around.
Yea it’s hard reading the comments of some pages i follow. I follow a TW fan page and he just answered a question about whether there was any thought to sitting out the bmw championship and he said absolutely not.
The comments section had me pretty ill. I love the guy’s golf but he’s one of the nut low humans. Serial cheater, substance abuser, trumpie shitstain who could’ve used his privilege to accomplish something good for those who didnt have the same opportunities he did but he spends all his time chasing a major record he’ll never beat.
/rant
Not playing my best but the forecast was rain all day so no one is out here and I’m just having a good time drinking and golfing.
May have played my last round of the year, sigh. Didn’t realize how wet my cutting board was while slicing some vegetables this morning. As I was holding the top of a green pepper it slipped as I was cutting down and instinctively reached to move the pepper back while my right hand with the knife didn’t stop. Chopped right through the top of my left index finger nail. A trip to the walk-in and 5 stitches including one on the nail later I’m sitting here like an embarrassed dumbass.
Did get to play yesterday at a pretty nice course, Fox Hopyard in East Haddam. There’s no reason to be in that area anymore as I doubt anyone here is going to Mohegan or Foxwoods but if you are I recommend it. They also have a sister course that’s even more legit but that’s even more out in nowheresville of Western Mass/almost VT.
Blue tees are 72.6/131 at 6500 yards. It played all of it because there was some pretty wild weather Thursday night soaking the course. Lots of forced carries and really solid, fast and true greens. Their signature hole is a par three that is like 190 on the card but with the slope it played 161. I hit a smooth 8 iron but because the hole is so far downhill you can’t see it land and could only hear a giant thud from it hitting the green.
Dropped an 89 that included three penalty balls because there were some holes that required less than driver off the tee but I decided to drive away anyways, finding some red staked areas when I hit it too far twice and not far enough once.
Snuck out of work early and squeezed in 18 here. Played about the same both times around, difference is keeping it in play, not an easy task.
@jwax13 - I played yesterday and focused completely on keeping my elbows close and tucked into my body… FUCKING GAME CHANGER! Didn’t slice it at all. Was hitting 200 yards straight consistently. Thanks!
Oh my god the putting
Fucking awesome!!
DJ hit a ridiculous 35 footer to send it to a playoff then Rahm hits a 60 footer for the win.
Yeah, what an awesome end to the tourney.
Shot an 87 best was a 92 with rain on the last 4 holes too
Thats pretty good for being a beginner.
Shot an 88 in 101 degree heat today. Pretty stoked, I felt faint for half the round. Was hitting everything pretty crisp, not super long off the tee though. Was only about 170ish off the tee (!) but i got out of there with 26 putts so my short game was really saving me on the times it took me 3-4 shots to reach the green. Just one triple and two doubles.
Pretty stoked on that round, scored decent despite feeling really shitty.
One thing in my lessons we uncovered while trying to diagnose why I’m hitting my long irons fat, was that I am dipping my head forward and down in my backswing. I just focused on standing taller at address today, hoping that my head would dip into the right position. Was hitting my irons fantastic this way. Probably the best I have ever hit my irons and i’ve really been struggling with them lately.
Now if i can get my driver firing, i’ll have most parts of my game working pretty well. I even had a bunker save today and I rarely ever get those.
2nd golf outing in the books. Double bogeyed every hole but the last which I parred. Can only go up from here!
In the beginning i feel like the gains are the biggest and most exciting. My first outting i shot over 100 on a par 59. My second outing was like a 95. 1 year later was consistently in the high 70’s. Now 2 years later i am close to the 60’s.
But the stroke gains are getting harder now as the problems that remain are the ones that are the most ingrained and the toughest to be rid of.
in my opinion for a total beginner all id work on is short game. If you have a good short game, missing greens a lot or having a ton of whiffs on the way to the green dont matter as much when you’re getting up and down with a good frequency. It makes the entire game easier. Almost half the strokes in your round (or more on a bad day) will be putts - keep that in mind. And when you dont ever need to worry about blading a chip into the next teebox, the game is far less stressful. That’s where the really big numbers on holes come from are short game errors.
I think this is a good way to go for most people but I find my big numbers come from blasting tee shots OB over and over again. I hit the ball far and high with a good amount of movement so if I’m off I can not hit a fairway all day and end up with 15-20 penalty strokes in a round, no short game is making up for that.
I recently got tired of playing that way and had a bit of a revelation. I decided to approach every shot like its a pitch shot, narrow stance ball further back in the stance, short backswing and abbreviated follow through. Been striping the ball and keeping it in play off the tee with a small distance reduction and lower ball flight. I played 9 holes Friday, shot 42 and 15 holes yesterday at 8 over on a course I usually finish 25-30 over on. I’m a 21 handicap so these are significantly better results than I’ve been having this year.
Shot a 52-47 yesterday. Almost chipped one in from 30+ feet for birdie. Hung on the lip. Our first cold front of the season moved in after our round, so I may be able to start playing 3-4 rounds a week. I think I can get back to the mid/low 80s by the end of the year if I can maintain consistency off the tee and stop wasting shots on topped balls and chunks. Not like I have anything else to do!
