The OS Golfer's Thread!

[Cusefan]

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Going to a PGA Pro for a lesson on Saturday - guy last played in the '23 Valero Open and I'm sure is hoping to have his own Michael Block moment one day.

Going to a pro is the best investment one can make when trying to get better. I won two auctions this year for lessons, and I just finished up with one pro who I've worked with in the past.

For me, my biggest weakness was an over the top swing, so my drives had consistently been sliced. After about 2 months of working on it, I feel pretty confident that I have the new mechanics down. So my miss hit is now a pull hook instead of a slice, which I will take all day. My irons and hybrids are good enough right now to keep me in the 90s, but I still need to work on my drivers. If I can keep my driver in play, then I could easily take 5 strokes off my handicap. It's still a work in progress, but I think I am going to have some pretty good rounds this season.

[BDKiiing]

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The game has been in a real good place. Now that golf season is fully here I'm starting to get into the swing of things. Putter has been out to an outrageously hot start. Paradym driver is just finding fairways. Everything else coming together. Went home to Wisconsin a couple weeks ago and shot 80, 83, 77, 78, 82, 77 at some of the local courses to my hometown. Played yesterday back in Michigan and fired a little 75 with 25 putts. felt like a round where everything came together. Handicap has been as high as 7.8, as low as 7.0, and sits at a 7.2 right now with some good scores coming off from last year. Game feels in a good place right now. Few golf trips planned in the late summer/early fall, so trying to stay dialed for those.

[legendkiller5]

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Going to a pro is the best investment one can make when trying to get better. I won two auctions this year for lessons, and I just finished up with one pro who I've worked with in the past.

For me, my biggest weakness was an over the top swing, so my drives had consistently been sliced. After about 2 months of working on it, I feel pretty confident that I have the new mechanics down. So my miss hit is now a pull hook instead of a slice, which I will take all day. My irons and hybrids are good enough right now to keep me in the 90s, but I still need to work on my drivers. If I can keep my driver in play, then I could easily take 5 strokes off my handicap. It's still a work in progress, but I think I am going to have some pretty good rounds this season.

Great work, man! Love to hear it's going well for you.

And agreed. It was expensive but worth it. Played a round later that day and even though I didn't shoot my best score, the lesson (which just focused on takeaway) already paid dividends that my friends noticed.

Definitely going back. Super cool dude, great instruction.

[Cusefan]

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Great work, man! Love to hear it's going well for you.

And agreed. It was expensive but worth it. Played a round later that day and even though I didn't shoot my best score, the lesson (which just focused on takeaway) already paid dividends that my friends noticed.

Definitely going back. Super cool dude, great instruction.

So I've had five lessons this summer, and my game is as good as it's been in years. I have never been so accurate with my irons in my life, and my driver misses are usually still in play. I actually lost about 15 yards with my driver, but I have been hitting more fairways than I usually do, so I can't complain.

I am really looking forward to Friday. I am playing my buddy, and we give strokes. My handicap is a 24 right now, but I have been playing closer to a 14. Going to clean that boy out!

[Skyboxer]

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Surgery went well. Just a bit sore. Going to take it easy for a while.
Hopefully our building gets done within next week or so and I can start on getting it set up.

UPDATE:

Still have some ceiling work to do and some cosmetics but it's coming along nicely.

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[pietasterp]

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Insanely envious of that golf sim setup. If only I had room to do something like that...

[Skyboxer]

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Insanely envious of that golf sim setup. If only I had room to do something like that...

Luckily the wife agreed to let me put a building in just for it.
I'll be a "yes dear" man for a while now. lol

[jb12780]

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So I had the lie angle on my irons and wedges bent 1 degree upright and wow what a difference. I had a very tight dispersion on the range.


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[pietasterp]

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So I had the lie angle on my irons and wedges bent 1 degree upright and wow what a difference. I had a very tight dispersion on the range.

I've been thinking of doing this for a while now. At setup, the lie angle is fine on stock irons for me, but I tend to come in with higher hands and more radial deviation at impact, so I get a lot of "toe down" hits and it leads to inconsistency.

For as far as golf technology and swing analysis has come, I'm constantly reminded of how much further it has to go. A lot of minute/milisecond issues that make a big difference in outcomes still don't get picked up on for your average golfer.

Luckily the wife agreed to let me put a building in just for it.
I'll be a "yes dear" man for a while now. lol

Worth it.

[jb12780]

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I've been thinking of doing this for a while now. At setup, the lie angle is fine on stock irons for me, but I tend to come in with higher hands and more radial deviation at impact, so I get a lot of "toe down" hits and it leads to inconsistency.

For as far as golf technology and swing analysis has come, I'm constantly reminded of how much further it has to go. A lot of minute/milisecond issues that make a big difference in outcomes still don't get picked up on for your average golfer.



Worth it.

I used pings color code chart for starters. I’m 5-9, 5-10 ish with pretty long arms, and for only 40 bucks to get them bent I was like, what hell why not?

Could not believe what I was seeing on the range.


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[pietasterp]

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I have similar dimensions...I might have to look into this more.

[BDKiiing]

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Keep in mind that static measurements are just a starting point. Actually results when you hit a ball and turf interaction are more so going to dictate what your lie angle needs to be.



Easiest test, next time you go to the range take a dry erase marker. Draw a line straight up and down on the ball. Pull it on the ground with the line up and down. Once you hit the ball if the line is pointing more toeward you're coming in toe down and need the irons more upright. If it is pointed heelward, the heel of the club is bottoming out and you need a flatter lie angle. Lie boards that were previously used in fittings are relics now. This is the easiest way to check.

[pietasterp]

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Shot a sub-80 round for the first time in as long as I can remember (maybe ever? Not sure, to be honest...). Pretty big caveats, though: the course was a par-70 and I played it from the white tees (was playing w/ my pops). So, the 78 only kinda counts in my book.

Nevertheless, definitely felt cool to be hanging around the par-for-the-course line for as long as I did. I distinctly remember thinking to myself, "This must be what it feels like for people that are actually decent golfers!"

[BDKiiing]

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Shot a sub-80 round for the first time in as long as I can remember (maybe ever? Not sure, to be honest...). Pretty big caveats, though: the course was a par-70 and I played it from the white tees (was playing w/ my pops). So, the 78 only kinda counts in my book.

Nevertheless, definitely felt cool to be hanging around the par-for-the-course line for as long as I did. I distinctly remember thinking to myself, "This must be what it feels like for people that are actually decent golfers!"

Nooooo. Feel good about that round. It's all relative anyways. Unless you were completely overpowering the course from that distance, enjoy it. Golf is first and foremost meant to be fun. I normally will play from 6300-6600 yards and live anywhere from 77-83. When I play with my dad or other older guys and shoot 75, I'm never gonna feel bad about that. I just enter than score and factor it into my handicap.

[kehlis]

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Shot a sub-80 round for the first time in as long as I can remember (maybe ever? Not sure, to be honest...). Pretty big caveats, though: the course was a par-70 and I played it from the white tees (was playing w/ my pops). So, the 78 only kinda counts in my book.

Nevertheless, definitely felt cool to be hanging around the par-for-the-course line for as long as I did. I distinctly remember thinking to myself, "This must be what it feels like for people that are actually decent golfers!"

Breaking 80 is breaking 80 no matter what. You should be very happy with it. It is my goal every time I step on the first tee (and have only done it once lol).


Very obvious edit - unless it's a par 3. Then it doesn't count.