Ty_Webb

Guy that won is a +6.7 almost all competition rounds and all 20 played since June. A lot of the really low handicaps are like 3 rounds from 2021, 5 from 2020, 6 from 2019 and so on and they haven't posted anything since. That's pretty impressive.

I have had the app and book for about a month now. The only courses I typically play more than once a year are Bethpage black, which is really hard to get onto this year and a couple in the UK which I see in quick succession in April. Not ideal for a review like this, so I went with Huntington Country Club, which was the venue for the Long Island Amateur this year. A week long event with a qualifier followed by match play. Unfortunately my golf this year has been poor so my experience only lasted the one round. I typically use a laser range finder and the gps on my watch. That’s good for front middle back and okay for distances to hazards etc. With that said: The book was very helpful for my round prep and on the day of. Each hole has a detailed satellite picture with distances to and from all the landmarks noted. For example this is the 5th hole useful here is the fairway width marking and all the circled numbers are how distances are adjusted for uphill or downhill. That’s info I can’t get from my laser or my watch. I missed my tee shot here to the right but hit it poorly enough to not reach the bunker. I found it very easy to associate the land in front of me with the satellite image. The other thing I found pretty useful was standing in the fairway on the previous hole and looking at the green I noticed it looked like it was sloping towards me. I pulled out the book to check and saw this: That confirmed my suspicions and allowed me to commit to playing a little short of it. I wound up over hitting my first putt a little and had a funky 2.5 foot putt that broke about a hole. The confidence of knowing the slope was there and the putt was going to break was very helpful. I found this image of the green more helpful than the other two, but I’m a numbers person and if I was more visual I could see one of the others working better. It’s great to have all of them readily available. The app is good too. I can use that easily to prepare before I start. I would use google maps for that but this is quicker and more helpful if I don’t know the course at all. For example, I have a qualifier next week at Nassau Country Club. It’s super fast to search for it and add it to my course list. Then you can go hole by hole and see what’s happening. For example, first hole: It starts like this. The little numbers are a series of possible targets shown on the ground together with the yardage to and from that point and then front middle back from each point. Alternatively you can pick up that green circle and move it around wherever you like. It’s quick to tell you how far different points are. The larger colored circles tell you 50, 100, 150, and 200 yards from both points. You can easily pick up the tee spot and green spot too so you can measure lay ups easily as well. Here is the same hole where I’ve dragged the green circle to a different point: Then once you get to the green there are a few views. I didn’t find the equivalent to the book one with the numbers in it, but there are a few colored options which do the trick. You can move the hole around and your ball and then click the little target and it gives you the line and speed. Quite incredible and honestly I’m a little surprised it’s legal. Here is the green map with a couple of optional map types: This one is also showing the fall lines option - the red and green lines around the hole This is the ice option. Then this is the give you line and speed options in a couple of instances: That’s about it for now. I would echo that the putting thing while really impressive I can’t see myself using it all that much while playing unless it’s very slow or quiet. It will only work if you have the ball and hole in just the right spots and the time to go through finding the hole and so on. I think in practice I’m more likely to look at it for a general idea of the green rather than to get an actual read off it most of the time. It could be super helpful for practice rounds and getting my reads down.

Thanks for sharing Obee - always enjoy reading these. My tournaments this year have been dreadful. Last 4 tourny rounds have been 81, 80, 81, and 82 (which was 81 after NDB was applied). Last three friendly games 71, 70, 71. Haven't really felt like it was worth sharing any of the abject dross so have been a little sparse on here. Back in the saddle in a couple of weeks, so we'll see how that goes.

James Ridyard has an interesting video about chipping - it was part of a lesson with Coach Lockey. He talks a lot about radius and how depending on how you grip the club and release the club, your radius changes or doesn't. If your radius gets longer, then you need to do something else to come back to the ball at the right point. Standing up some is one of the things you can do.

I think the only impact the club would have on GRFs would be through you and what you're doing with it. If you let it fall with gravity then it has no effect on GRF. If you are accelerating it upwards (like early on in the backswing or late in the downswing), it's increasing your GRFs. If you're accelerating it downwards more than gravity would, then it's making you lighter and reducing your GRFs. But it's only doing those things reactively to what you're doing to it. It's not causing any of that to happen.

I think it's probably less than that...

Not least if you start trying to do something once you get to P6, the ball is long gone by the time you actually do it. The intent to do it has to happen a long time before that point to have it happen then. And how early or late that intent needs to happen will vary according to the current state of the swing of the player in question. Someone who gets it all right already won't need to add any more intent than they already have. Someone who doesn't push up at all needs to feel a lot of it and from pretty early. Someone who does it too early might need to actively try not to push up to get their timing right.

At that point it would become obvious he’s talking about 9 holes…