Jayjay_theweim_guy

Toyota sedan. They fit. Just. (There's way more room, they're just snug if you lay them absolutely parallel to the opening. Chiming in to strongly suggest not keeping them in the trunk, if you get a lot of sunlight and heat on it. Things get hot, here in SE TX. Of course they're usually fine on trips to/from range & course; it's the leaving them in there that may lead to issues if you have poor epoxy bonds. Or just use better epoxy. Which I know...now.

I've got the app on my iPhone. You've got to hit the "Select All" toggle to see all of the clubs in the system. Lemme check... OK. Selected All: Nippon 950 S HS is #1. 5.0 KBS Tour Lite S #2. 4.8 #3 950 R HS at 4.7. Yes, both hard stepped. I think it's a data artifact. Going further, Pro Modus 105 R HS 4.6, PX IO 5.5 Soft Stepped at 4.6, Steelfiber i95R (3 dollar signs) at 4.5. And DG Mid 100 S at 4.5. I think it was Ian Fraser who pointed out at anything 4.5 and up will probably be fine, and this is just a starting point anyway. The Tour Lite Stiffs seem interesting. I've seen some at my local PGASS in the used rack.

Related, if the alleged new owners are involved in selling new and used golf equipment, what pressure may that put on B/S/T? Sorry for the pessimism. IME, rarely has an ownership change on something like this, improved things for the customers. 'En-(word not allowed)tification', OTOH? Yeah, I've seen that a lot. We'll see.

Practicing today (with finally figuring out slomo on the iPhone, roast 2.1 inbound v soon), I'm reminded of my history professor's first visit to Saigon. White guy, speaks Vietnamese, Cantonese, Mandarin better than natives. Anyway, he steps down the airstair into his first time in Ho Chi Minh City---In Summer---and this little Vietnamese girl tugs on her mothers ao dai and asks, "Mommy, why is that man melting?" So cute. Unlike me, who just rains everywhere. God, I hate this place. I have been literally bouncing, like a Labrador Retriever headed for a duck blind, in a dress shirt/business wear, going to work in Jersey with snow flurries, wind, and maybe it got to 35°? So instead, I live here. FML...

We so need a nodding LeBron reaction emoji... I'm also in Pedro's post, and I don't like it.

Is easy to say now. And what else are they really going to say? I guess we'll see. Congrats on the payday, Founders!

Necro' thread, and I don't have my The Undertaker gif handy , but I did have a question about the ratio. I (finally!) setup the iPhone and got some video. Still working on it, but I have a swing with total time ~0.95 seconds, but it's a 2:1 ratio. Not 3:1. Shrinking the backswing length is just going to make that worse, right? Starting clock when clubhead moves, first split when hands change direction, final split at impact. Yes, we're not supposed to chase numbers, and in the video, I saw a bunch of issues I'll be working on (right leg locks out by P2, sway target-side at top---no wonder my lower back hurts, cheating the lead arm, lack of early wrist set, etc). Just curious about where the extra time for the backswing is going to come from. Thanks!

Tbf, I typed in the numbers given at Ping's color code site, fat-fingered 39.25 vs 39.5, and got 1" 3° and 1.5" 4° for results. (I'm similar, on the borderline between Blue and Green, and std or +1/2", on their old chart.) So there's a bit of slop, but as Howard's said, it's a starting point only. The line on ball test is absolutely eyeopening. It shouldn't be as accurate as it is, but it works.

Having been that guy, and realizing that (for me) the problem is paying that much to hit half-shots that go a bit further, but I can't go retrieve them. Like I can in the 40-50 yd field by my house. We're agreeing, btw. The solution I found was to take a lot of data on each practice shot. Strike location, divot location. Window. Distance. Did it stop quickly or zip away? Feels & impressions? Take your time, working through a pre-shot routine on each shot, and even a small basket lasts awhile. Plus, now I have data, trends even. Ego gets in the way, for me. A lot. "Hit it further than that guy! Awe him with the sound of your zipping ball!" Even if it doesn't make sense according to the practice plan. Sounds stupid, right? It certainly looks stupid, writing it here.

Lots of great content in thread, from both the instructors (which I'm used to seeing. We're spoiled here.) and the students. Due diligence on the student's part "should" provide them with a clue about the instructor's philosophy, teaching style, and capabilities, so that trusting the instructor's content, and trying to implement it, can proceed at once. Agreed there are a lot of bad and mediocre instructors. With those, you start (understandably) second-guessing what they want you to do, then you're toast as a student. In my limited experience, anyway. I get that learning golf is going to be three steps forward, two steps back. Setbacks in learning don't really concern me, because with a good instructor, and mutually agreed upon goals, I'll eventually figure it out. Might mean a few more loops on that particular bullet point in the pedagogy plan, but I'll get there. But if there's no plan, no path, no typical set of milestones and times, then I start getting concerned that this will be like the popular stereotype of psychoanalysis: a bunch of frequent lessons with no learning, no improvement, continually going in circles, so long as my money keeps flowing. But enough about franchised golf instruction... Anyway, neat thread.

Drew's great. His videos with Dr. Kwon are well-worth your time too. Just silly, how far he hits the ball.

We need an emoji of that LeBron on the bench, sadly nodding...

King of the "out of contention 64 on Sunday." I can't even imagine who would be 2nd.

The "Hit your 7-iron only a 100-120 yards, but do it solidly," drill has been helpful in my case. For Irons and FW anyway. Helps me firm up tempo, transition, while minimizing the "Kill!" impulse.

As someone who has the plus version of that, it's a speed radar. It is accurate on ball speed (or was; it's been having some perplexing data lately) and consistent on swing speed. The distance numbers are calculated, not measured, and are usually ballpark. Do not expect +/- 10 yd accuracy. Moreover, and YMMV, do not expect consistent ball speed numbers from partial wedges. I usually launch them high, and it has a hard time. More flighted wedges, it picks up easier. Not even talking bad distances, it has a hard time with actual ball speed on launch >30°. That said, I've liked it a lot for the $$$. Cheapest, consistent, accurate LM used to be Skytrak. I don't know how good Mevo, etc has gotten in that space.