Rory is a standup guy - what was it last month he thought his lie was too good after a drop and had them give him a worse lie? There was no reason to do that other than he thought it was the fair and correct thing to do.
Contrast that with patrick reed cheating on camera multiple times. He even did it last week. If you havent seen it yet:
https://twitter.com/TheGolfDivoTee/status/1307422994264993794?s=20
I think my perspective of him was influenced from what I’ve read about how he ditched his ex, Caroline Wozniacki. Obviously I shouldn’t judge as I know nothing about his/their personal life. That all is good to hear as I love the way he plays and appreciate his honest talk compared to lots of other robot-players.
One more golf-related post for the night. Was my FIL’s 70th bday recently. We haven’t played in awhile together but I’ve never seen him shoot higher than 79 in the scores of times we’ve played together. He told me he shot 70 yesterday. Idk what I’d like more, make it to 70 years old or shoot 70, let alone be able to do both at the same time. He was born and raised in Charleston, SC and really doesn’t look a day over 50. That southern lifestyle was easy on him.
Had a great driving range session last night in preparation for my 36 hole weekend. Went through a bucket with only a single shank and everything else was pretty crisp, with the exception of two fat-ish shots.
My default shot from wedge to 8 iron is a draw now. But for some reason I’m just not drawing longer clubs, and the longer they get the more prone to slicing I am. Down to 5 iron I’m not really in danger of slicing but my hybrid and driver I am. Why could this be? Just a more open club face? What I dont understand is why it’s so much harder for me to get the clubface square with longer clubs.
The golf swing is opening up so that you can then extend in the direction of the target. Most people extend in the direction of the golf ball rather than the target, hence the prevalence of the term early extension. With longer clubs, you need to open up more/the results from not opening up are more severe.
How to fix the issues in your particular swing I have no idea, lol, but this is a flashbulb moment I have gathered from the George Gankas instruction referenced earlier.
I think I understand what you mean by extending towards the target and not the ball. I definitely extend towards the ball and I think my instructor has been trying to explain this to me but the way you just said it makes more sense.
But what do you mean by opening up?
If you just try to extend towards the target from the top you are going to have a bad time, which is why we early extend as beginners. GG is known for teaching a squatting type transition move (PAC-Man or eat the ball) to then get to you in a position where you can extend towards the target (hump the target or a chair in front of you, instead of the goat). He has a setup and backswing to match these thoughts so not sure if they match exactly what you are learning but do think it’s universal that you need to use transition to get yourself in a position to make solid contact while extending towards the target.
Oh, and it’s key that your upper body stay back when you transition via the Pac-Man/eat the ball squat or whatever transition move you use, else your chest, hands and arms will be too far forward and you will have no room or ability to extend towards the target.
I guess to more directly answer your question, you open up by squatting or whatever and keeping your upper body back. Then you extend through.
My first ever chip in!!!
It was for bogey lol
When I keep my upper body back my weight tends to stay back too. It’s a really unnatural motion for me (my instructor says the golf swing is an unnatural motion in general though)
Shot a 71 on my local par 59 today. My score doesnt really reflect how well I played. I hit 8 greens and got two birdies. That’s more birdies and greens than I’ve had all summer combined. Unfortunately I had 3 doubles on the back, but managed to finish par-par.
Putter was white hot but nothin was dropping except my birdies. Lots of lipouts. I think I’m close to a sub +10 there soon.
Another transition thought just mentioned in the program is “let the air out” of your body from the top, that will get your lower body passively shifting forward w/ your upper body staying back so that you can then swing through.
Mention this because it is a more subtle passive move that I assume will help with a wide variety of backswings compared to the “squatting” stuff I mentioned earlier that are more forceful so need more precision in what you are doing.
Will let you know more as I learn more, lol.
I’m still out here my gay friend is flirting with the cart girl I want to be friends with her if you know what I mean
That’s a long ass round, but I guess it is saturday.
We were stuck behind a tourney and now we’re super drunk so it’s been a day
Grunching so may have already been mentioned:
I bought one of these, haven’t used it on the course yet, but messing around on the carpet it feels good:
https://www.costco.com/kirkland-signature-ks1-putter.product.100645850.html
Not gonna judge but if you’re gonna spend $150 on a putter why not get a really nice used one?
Hard to find, and this one is supposedly very nice.
Plus, if I don’t like it I can bring it back. No risk.
I strongly believe putters are like wands from harry potter. The putter chooses the golfer. If you like it and it works for you then it’s a great purchase. I didnt mean to get snooty, I just didnt know kirkland made putters. It’s just at the $150 price range you can get almost whatever putter you want as long as its not this year’s model.
I like most of the Odyssey putters because they’re weighted in a way that makes it really easy to stay on plane. I forget my exact model but i love it.
This. The one part of my game I’ve always shined is putting, and I had great success for over 10 years with a cheap no-name $15 putter I picked up somewhere. I would have been happy to upgrade, and eventually did, but it took years before I found a putter I liked better.
