golferdude54

Only Americans who are mega golf fans that know who endorses who.

I don't know, the far worse reasons seem to be getting pretty bad if a certain document ever get released...

Hah, we both wrote about wearing an eye patch and making a pirate joke, shiver me timbers!

Does depth perception really even matter much at address and during the swing? I've hit balls with an eye patch covering my non-domimnant eye (Arrrrrrrgh!) and both eyes closed, and arc and plane consistency didn't regress at all.

There's way more unpredictability when it comes to 1-putt % on public courses on non-tournament days for us normies. Greens for us are so bumpy compared to what tour players putt on that comparing 1-putt % to them is a stupid thing to do. It really only makes sense to compare from 5 feet in, and maaaybe 10 feet in but that's a stretch. 3-putt avoidance as Monte referred to, is the most important putting stat to track. For ball striking which is a lot more predictable and can be compared to tour players if one wants to, it's GIR and penalty/recovery avoidance off the tee (O.B., water, punching out of trees).

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Trevino for sure had to be right eye dominant. All that foot shuffling to move the ball back under his right eye in his stance before he took the club back. And then only turning back far enough to stop at the point where his nose wouldn’t block the ball from his right eye.

You gotta find a Bullseye putter and film yourself in FO view setting it up vertically and dead center of your stance with one eye open and the other closed. From your perspective, you need to have the shaft split the heel right in the middle, like the SeeMore Riflescope dot. Then play back the video and see which eye actually got the shaft vertical or closest to it. That will be your dominant eye, it’s the most precise and golf specific test I could find/make for discovering eye dominance.

1500 MPF score with zero offset… Dang, that would be nice.

We both frequent the Hogan subforum, do you not agree that he does roll his right hand over his left by P9 which is supination? He talks about it a bunch in his book though not really close to the extent of the drawings in it. The still I got of him hitting a wedge shot FO was from 1953 his best year, and it seems like his left elbow is basically pointing at the Palm Springs mountains behind him. It’s just that he supinates but he doesn’t rehinge, I call it an obtuse release angle. I haven’t really seen anyone with his rehinging rate aside from Tiger in 2006 inside 200 yards.

A ThinkingPlus adjusted MPF chart would be awesome. It doesn’t make sense now for a 2006 OEM iron model to have the highest MPF score out of any OEM irons up to 2025 with MPF grading as it is.

So in the past I’ve played two leather grip models, the first was BestGrip Microperf and the second was Gripmaster Wrap. Now I play Golf Pride CP2 Pro for shock absorption and forgiveness. For the leather grip experts, is there a leather grip out there that’s as soft and shock-absorbing as CP2 Pro and also non-wrap? I’ve found that wrap style grips are too inconsistent from club to club so I prefer non-wrap.

There’s no before/after video of your swing before and after you used this feel, you might not actually be doing it. On the chance that you are, it is the right release to do. By the time the right arm is parallel to ground after impact (P9), the right hand is always supposed to turn over the left, no hold off release whatsoever. Here’s a still of Hogan hitting a wedge shot. For some reason there’s a lot of Hogan aficionados that preach a hold off release when he’s doing the exact opposite here. Holding off your release opens the face too much so you’re unconsciously shifting your club path a lot more to the right in order to offset the open face, which leads to, you guess it, hooks.

The only time to be super aggressive is in a PGA Tour Monday qualifier because qualifiers are going for every pin every time to shoot the lowest 18 hole score. Over 72 holes it’s not possible to be that aggressive and not have it completely backfire on you and end up with costly bogeys/doubles that really add up. If you watch all of Nicklaus’ Masters final round wins on YouTube, it’s uncanny how often he hits the middle of the green pin high on the right tier instead of going for the flag.

Yes, I was just making an observation. The effort he swung at reminded me of myself in the past, thinking 50 different moves in less than 2 seconds and trying my best to do them at full speed. It was and is the wrong way to go about it.

Most people can keep their right arm from overbending at P3. But I don’t know if some even have enough radial deviation flexibility/mobility from their left wrist to bend the club 90* to their left arm at P3 without adding too much grip tension. The answer “it depends” really rings true here.

Trevino had course management and hitting fades and draws with the exact same swing down. Aimed his club path inside left edge of every fairway and green with a club face range margin of error from square to path to slightly too open; he had the whole fairway and green at his disposal and he knew it was always starting (different from curving) in one direction every time. For draws, all he did was close the club face at address a little bit and make the exact same swing as his push-fade swing, he wrote about it in his “Groove Your Golf Swing My Way” book.

The effort he’s swinging at just seems exhausting and it tells me he doesn’t take shorter swings at slower speeds to make swing changes at all.

Both Tiger and Nicklaus in their primes took the club back to P2 from P1 in 12 frames on 30 fps video and to P3 from P1 in 16 frames. That means P1-P2 they took 0.4 seconds and P1-P3 they took 0.533… seconds. That is not slow.

10-20 feet from 180 yards? Jim Furyk holds the single round record for strokes gained on approach shots which was +0.4 better per shot. From 180 in the fairway, +0.4 is equal to 12 feet from the pin. And you say 10 feet. Ok.

So I own both a SeeMore M6 and a Bell 2-way putter. The SeeMore is slightly heel-shafted and the Bell is center-shaft but both heads are symmetrical. I bring this up because I found a 2-part revealer test without needing a revealer and it’s actually done with just our hands. The Bell has less torque than the SeeMore because I felt less resistance spinning it and also I was able to balance it on my index finger at any toe hang and it would stay there, the SeeMore didn’t because the shaft wasn’t directly in-line with the head CoG. IMG_0387.mov IMG_0388.mov IMG_0389.mov IMG_0386.mov

It’s interesting to note that Tiger’s best year ever in 2000, he didn’t have children yet. Ben Hogan never had children. Or Byron Nelson. You have Hogan winning 3 majors in a row in 1953 and Byron winning 11 tournaments in a row in 1945 and Tiger winning 4 majors in a row 2000-2001, all without children. Even Tiger’s 7 win streak in 2006-2007 was before his first kid was born. There is definitely a pattern when it comes to win streaks in golf.

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Another low follow-through swing in this forum from doing thousands of swings in their home under their low ceiling…

Shaking hands with my opponent before every competitive round like… Also how good was Cobra Kai?