GolfWRX Swing Performance Academy http://www.golfwrx.com/forums/index.php Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:25:01 +0000 60 http://www.golfwrx.com/forums/topic/355568-help-i-have-a-casting-problem/
This is my one goal of the season and I feel like I could drastically improve my game if I could improve on this.

I would really appreciate some help from you guys. I am sick of hitting some shots fat and missing out on distance.]]> Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:25:01 +0000 http://www.golfwrx.com/forums/topic/355568-help-i-have-a-casting-problem/ http://www.golfwrx.com/forums/topic/355507-callus-help/ ]]> Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:44:27 +0000 http://www.golfwrx.com/forums/topic/355507-callus-help/ http://www.golfwrx.com/forums/topic/355480-pga-tour-statistics/
I'm making a spreadsheet and want to have some kind of comparison...as ridiculous as they may be. Maybe there is a page deeper on the site the tour sites that contain a breakdown of the major stats like sand saves, scrambling, holes per eagle, scoring average, etc. Can anyone help?

Also if anyone has any great excel spreadsheets they'd like to share with the community, I'd love to see them!]]> Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:58:14 +0000 http://www.golfwrx.com/forums/topic/355480-pga-tour-statistics/ http://www.golfwrx.com/forums/topic/355476-need-help-with-bowed-left-wrist/

http://www.swingacad...er.aspx?id=5750]]> Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:44:14 +0000 http://www.golfwrx.com/forums/topic/355476-need-help-with-bowed-left-wrist/ http://www.golfwrx.com/forums/topic/355465-thinking-of-x-stiff-in-driver/
I need your expert opinion on shaft stiffness. I currently own an R9 w/stiff HD6 shaft and hit it decently if I slow my swing down. I am unable to step on the R9 or any other Stiff shafted driver (technical term) and when i try to to hit it hard it goes right, no slice just straight right. My buddy has a X-Stiff shaft in his driver and I can crush his, but my stiff I need to really need to make a very smooth swing. My long drives with his X-stiff are equal to longer than with my stiff shaft. Now here's the kicker I go to GG or GS (inside, in the simulator) and my swing speed just barely reaches 104 so how can I hit an X-stiff? I play stiff KBS and never try to step on my irons (it's a mental thing). So the question is do you think I should spend 100.00 bucks on an experiment with an X-Stiff shaft? What do you think?]]> Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:09:48 +0000 http://www.golfwrx.com/forums/topic/355465-thinking-of-x-stiff-in-driver/ http://www.golfwrx.com/forums/topic/355442-anyone-stop-trying-to-fix-their-swing-and-just-play-golf/
At what point does one accept their swing for what it is and begin to really appreciate all that this wonderful game has to offer?

I'm asking this of myself, but I surely can't be alone. I'm 53 and been playing 35 years. I am still swing oriented in my thoughts, which is not so bad in and of itself. But when it dominates your thinking to the point you are not enjoying playing as much as you should be, that's a problem.

You get older, you get stiffer, it gets harder to learn new habits. Let's face it, I'm over the hump and it's downhill from here, so why am I trying so damn hard to "fix" anything?

Maybe this belongs in the Senior section, maybe not. I'll let our mods decide.

Thoughts?]]> Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:10:02 +0000 http://www.golfwrx.com/forums/topic/355442-anyone-stop-trying-to-fix-their-swing-and-just-play-golf/ http://www.golfwrx.com/forums/topic/355432-i-have-developed-a-case-of-the-shanks-and-i-dont-know-why/
What is it that I can do to get rid of this case of the shanks? I am obviously going to go back to my instructor but between now and when I can get in front of him next how to I start to remedy this?

I felt that it could be 1 of 2 things to start.
1- I'm not clearing my hips through impact
2- My shoulders at address are off which is throwing me totally out of wack.
Could it be anything else? I'm sure it can, but what else?

Thank you in advance for your help!]]> Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:43:11 +0000 http://www.golfwrx.com/forums/topic/355432-i-have-developed-a-case-of-the-shanks-and-i-dont-know-why/ http://www.golfwrx.com/forums/topic/355402-golf-rules-and-golf-ethics/ I'm putting this in this forum and am hopeful that the moderators will NOT move it (even though at a glance it might not seem to fit here). A full explanation of my question requires 2 short/preliminary explanations.

1) I believe that this forum is best served from the perspective that there are three ways to play golf

a) By the rules in the sense that it is played on the PGA Tour

b) Tend to follow the rules, but not exactly and make regular exceptions (or whatever you want - no big deal what you chose)

c) Item a) with occasional allowances for reality (typically pace of play issues where the recent thread on how to "Count OB when you can't re-tee" ( http://www.golfwrx.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=354207&view=getnewpost ) is a good example. I feel that this is an area/perspective worth discussing in this forum (as opposed to the perspective of "your either play by the rules or you don't" which excludes item c) - this item).

In my mind c) above leads you directly to a 'golf ethics' issue that b) OBVIOUSLY ignores and a) bypasses. The next item is related, although it isn't obvious at a glance

2) I consider myself a 'serious and honest golfer' but I find myself typically in category c). I am not a good putter per my typically 4-6 index and correct reading of putts inside 8' is one of my serious issues. While I can read 'this area slopes more this way relative to another general area', I seem to have no sense of absolute level. I think I know most of the typical green reading 'tips' regarding fall line, observing the green while walking toward it, always try to view the putt from 'the top' of the fall line, etc. While I am able to tell that 'this area slopes more left than that area' what I don't seem to have a good sense of is 'absolute level'. This SERIOUSLY affects my ability to make short putts on the greens that I play regualrly (FWIW, Pinehurst No. 2 is NOT the most difficult set of greens that I putt, although it is the 2nd most difficult).

So here is the question. Note that what I am comtemplating is TOTALLY LEGAL within the RoG, but it pushes or violates my own 'golf rules ethic'. I own a EXELYS ( http://www.exelys.com/ ) BreakMaster device which can measure the exact slope at any point where it is placed. Use of this device is obviously not legal during a stipulated round of golf.

The vast majority of my golf is on 6 courses associated with the club where I am a member. I typically play 2x per week (less than that being more common than more than that). That doesn't seem to be enough "golf density" to allow me to learn/remember the green slopes - at least for my 'problem putts' of 3-8'.

But with the BreakMaster I could (over time and outside of USGA 'stipulated rounds') map these greens. I am thinking of something like 15-30 points on each green - doable, but a ton of work. Given my 'slope dyslexia' I believe that this would be extremely helpful with the potential of dropping my index by 1-2 strokes.

OTOH, this violates my persponal 'golf ethic' (which, BTW, is quite willing to record my USGA Handicap USGA ESC score of 6 on a par 4, despite lying 5 in a bunker and picking up at that point).

So the question is... Is there an ethical issue with mapping the greens on the courses that I play? I just can't make myself do this, but ......

There most certainly is no rules issue, but I am somehow not comfortable with going down that path. OTOH, I made my piece with distance measuring devices which seems (to me) to be a similar kind of thing.

dave

ps. I recall when I was a kid back in the 60's I would (while walking to school) estimate the distance to various points on my route (stop signs, trees, intersections, etc) and walk them off, comparing my estimate to the paced off distance. From inside 200 yards I was typically good to 5 yards. But back in the 60's there were no marked sprinkler heads (no sprinkler heads, actually), no 150 yard markers, etc. These days laser/GPS is nothing more than a way to avoid walking off yardages from other markers on the course.

]]> Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:12:52 +0000 http://www.golfwrx.com/forums/topic/355402-golf-rules-and-golf-ethics/ http://www.golfwrx.com/forums/topic/355386-grip-size/ Anyone here play normal size grips, but should play a larger grip. I got fitted for like a midsize or jumbo, but prefer a regular size grip. I feel like I cant feel the club with a midsize girp. what are the pros and cons of grip size. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:51:20 +0000 http://www.golfwrx.com/forums/topic/355386-grip-size/ http://www.golfwrx.com/forums/topic/355385-how-can-the-left-side-help-you-keep-and-maintain-the-tush-line-during-the-swing/
Looking from down the line, on the backswing my left thigh goes out over my left knee and on the downswing my right buttock goes towards the target line.

Does anyone have some advice on how to keep the tush line on the backswing and downswing?]]> Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:43:50 +0000 http://www.golfwrx.com/forums/topic/355385-how-can-the-left-side-help-you-keep-and-maintain-the-tush-line-during-the-swing/