Topic: Golf Talk / ISG Player Profiles

First name: Chris
Height: 176cm.
Weight: 85kg.
Location: Adelaide Hills.
Years Playing: 7
Righty or Lefty?: Righty.
Home Course: Echunga, Strathalbyn
What’s in the Bag?:

Driver: FT-i 9.5 until i clipped a tee marker last fortnight
3 Wood: 15 degree Titleist 904F2
Utility: 19 degree Titleist 585H
Irons: Titleist 755 4-PW
Wedges: Titleist Tour chrome 52 bent to 53, Spin milled 56 & 60 bent to 59
Putter: Taylormade
Ball: Callaway iX tour or Srixon ZUR-C

Handicap: 10
Handicap Goal for 2008: 7
Strengths: Distance and accuracy of 3 wood, not missing the driver all that much
Weakness: Breakdown when good round going. eg 37 – 45 – 82 last week
Your Typical Pre-Round Routine: Stay up till 3am as i’m usually pretty excited.. Rock up, some bar duties as i’m the Treasurer at the club. Hit the practice fairway and hit wedge up to 7 iron, hit the putting and chipping green for twice as long.. Walk to the first tee and tee off with a four iron for no other reason than it’s a dogleg.
Golf Attire: Whatever is clean, pants and a polo usually
Club Distances: 3 wood – 235, 9 iron 125-130 4 iron 180
Your Usual Ballflight: Mid to Hi
Have You Played Competitively? Where? When?: Try to go to as many opens as possible, Play pennants for strathalbyn visiting Links Lady Bay, Fleurieu
Pick The Ball Cleanly, or Divot?: strong divot post impact, slowly shallowing out with last lot of swing changes
Blades or Cavity Backs?: Blades if i played regularly enough, just love the look of them and the feeling of catching one flush
Links or Tree Lined?: Love the links
Range Rat or Gain Experience By Playing? Practice mechanics on the range, go onto the course to practice feel and rythm and brush up on course management
What Time of Day Do You Prefer Playing? Seem to perform better after lunch, probably due to being p till 3am
Do You Get First Tee Jitters? Never
Your Overused Golf Sayings: Don’t have one but forever hear running like a sailors…. get the occasional long iron thin
Quiet Player or Loud?: depends how i’m playing, quiet and focussed when playing well.. usually loud with a drink after the group has thrown away any chance of playing well
Walk or Golf Cart?: Walk.
Best score for 9 holes: -2
Best score for 18 holes: even par
Highest / lowest / current handicaps: 19/8.5/10
Best golfing memory: Hole in one in january, 177m into the wind

Topic: Golf Talk / ISG 2008 PGA Tour Tipping - Changes Thread

Steve Stricker USA Nick Flanagan AUS Out

Geoff Ogilvy AUS 5.83 In
Daniel Chopra ROW 1.86
Fred Couples USA .76
Bernhard Langer ROW 1.35

Heath Slocum USA 1.53 in for Langer
Geoff Ogilvy AUS 5.64
Fred Couples USA .75
Daniel Chopra ROW 1.78

Total 9.70

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Why Golfers Aim Right

i noticed norman doing this on the weekend

Topic: Golf Equipment / Post golf equipment in Aus

I had this prob before, the guy in the post office asked me if i could cut it in half.. what a laugh. I ended up taking it direct to the airport to the aae depot, about 30 bucks i think it cost me.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Dreaded Chicken Wing

Steering is not enough rotation of hands and club. You can’t spin or roll the club too fast through impact

Thanks for the tip Dart, I practiced on the range the other day and with this in mind. I found that my backswing was basically going over my right shoulder rather than around creating coil.

I felt like a human slingshot and used muscles and tendons i haven’t used since i was sixteen. The OTT is gone (for now but hopefully for good) and i hit a couple drives with my three wood about twenty to thirty metres further than usual.

Because my downswing isn’t like a lumberjack chopping wood anymore i seem to have reduced backspin quite a bit by having a shallower attack angle.. My measured backspin on a launch monitor was 4500-5500 with the driver so hopefully this will improve considerably now.

This may not have been the intention of your post but it certainly got me thinking in the right direction

Thanks again

Chris

Topic: Golf Talk / Slow Play

Golf was built on traditions of respect and ettiquette which is fast becoming a thing of the past. It seems there are a few players that don’t take a second to think how their actions might be affecting everyone else, or just don’t care.

Getting a seventh read on a putt for birdie seems to be sufficient cause to hold up the course.

Topic: Ask Bruce / Unrepaired divot hole at Masters

The problem with any ruling on it being GUR is where the ruling start and where it ends, does an 8 week old divot thats 95% covered over give the player a right to relief, when do you determine that the last blade of grass has grown sufficiently enough that it is no longer GUR.. Players would be taking relief just about anywhere making all sorts of stupid claims

Topic: Golf Talk / Golf... called off?

send some of that rain our way in country SA we are playing on dirt

Topic: Golf Equipment / Cobra FP

Thanks for the help guys, not keen to commit to buying until i’ve had a hit with them.. have made that mistake before will have to see if i can get my hands on a demo somewhere

Topic: Golf Equipment / Cobra FP

Hi guys, i know the “What new irons should i get?” has been done to death but i wasn’t sure what thread to tack my question too.

Through rather unfortunate circumstances i no longer have a set of clubs, was previously using Titleist 755’s.

I’m keen to buy a new set ASAP so i can get swinging again and saw that i could get the Cobra FPII irons reasonably cheap.

I’m a nine handicapper and swing my driver at 98-105 mph

I found my 755’s to be great clubs but i lack the consistency needed to use them well after a week or two off, also they had S300’s fitted and i think i might need to swallow my pride and go down a peg to regain some distance and a bit of feel.

Anyhow, the Cobra’s seem to fit the bill as far as forgiveness and also have the narrow sole small offset that i like. Has anyone had an opportunity to use these?i’m keen to hear your thoughts especially any comments regarding the nippon n.s standard shaft offering

Cheers, Chris

Topic: Golf Talk / ISG 2008 PGA Tour Tipping - Changes Thread

has made 6 out of 7 cuts this year, very good value at .76

Topic: Golf Talk / ISG 2008 PGA Tour Tipping - Changes Thread

Steve Stricker USA Nick Flanagan AUS Out

Geoff Ogilvy AUS 5.83 In
Daniel Chopra ROW 1.86
Fred Couples USA .76
Bernhard Langer ROW 1.35

Topic: The Lounge / The Price for a Beer!

Sydney has just hit a new high!

Arrived to experience the offers of the ‘Olympic City’ and was greeted at a Sydney Bar called “The Basement” and passed over $7.10 for a scooner of VB!

This cannot be true?

Anyone else got horror stories about being ripped off at the “tap”.

Thank god I’m leaving Sydney this morning!

continue handing over money, they will continue putting up the price. If everyone refused to pay that amount the price would have to come down

Topic: Golf Talk / 7-9 hcp stats, f/w's,gir, putts etc

I guess the same could be said about fairways, Do you count it if it richochettes of a tree into the middle of the faiway? If you are 1 metre from the green after two on a par five, chip on and two putt.. do you fail to add it as a missed up and down??
I tend to take stats as a guide only as they will be slightly inaccurate, If you take stats over alot of rounds the error’s don’t have as much impact and it gives you a clearer picture of how you actually hit it.

Topic: Golf Talk / Professional

Anything is possible. I’m not sure if their are any age restrictions on starting a traineeship, although you need a 3 or better handicap and a Pro who would be willing to take you on.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Teaching a newbie

start small if she has the patience…getting a good solid down and out impact on a chip is a great start on getting the same thing with a full shot.

down and out…did ya get that?

Have to agree, start small, your more likely to learn faster and maintain motivation if your making contact most of the time. 8 iron on full shots might be a good start or maybe start with putting and small chips if she has the patience, if you start with a driver or Fwy Wood she’d be bound to loose confidence quickly..

I’d leave advice out of it until your asked, if they are having a hard time and you continue to suggest what to do it might come across a little patronising.. alot of the time it’s better for people to work it out themselves, creates a sense of achievement and accomplishment, and if they make the fault again they know how to fix it.

I would suggest starting with a few games, ie, trying to leave all the putts within one metre of the hole, chipping within two metres etc etc.. you can always change the games to avoid unnecessary pressure to perform. but atleast the focus is not on the mechanics of a swing which just confuses 90% of the population.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / keeping club face square through impact

I found that i cured OTT when i realised i was straightening my right leg to create a hip turn (although more a slide), as soon as i worked that out, I maintained the knee flex and coiled correctly.. Added distance was the big bonus, and far better contact as a result of less of a descending attack angle.
Live4golf i thought i had a quick hip turn but it turned out that my hips never rotated in the back swing meaning they were always ahead of where they should have been causing me to throw my hands out to get to the ball, resulting in Slice, Cut, Pull and Shank and several other colourful words.
I’m starting to see good results with the work i’m putting in the only down side being i’ve flattened my swing plane too much and have a pretty impressive hook.. It may be totally different to the issues your having, but thought i’d share my experiences incase it isn’t

Chris

Topic: Golf Equipment / 'Draw' drivers

Atleast with a neutral driver you get the shot feedback, you don’t have to guess whether you hit a draw or the club helped you do it, draw drivers are a band aid fix, sometimes it’s just better to know your faults and work on them rather than covering them up until they get so bad not even the strongest draw bias can fix them.

Topic: Golf Talk / iseekgolf.com Golf Classic

Hi GGM, could you please email me the details,

bellswansson@dodo.com.au, thanks

Topic: Golf Talk / Range Finder

Any recommendations on models? There seems to be about $50 dollars difference between the Bushnell Pinseeker1500 and the Tour V2… i can’t find any significant difference that qualify’s a $50 price difference.. Does anyone have any experience with either of these?

Topic: Golf Talk / Mr Woods Please Step Aside for Mr Scott...

A very good player is born every 20 – 30 years Tiger will probably be playing on the seniors tour before someone dominates the game like he does. Based on 30 years the next big time world number one is currently about Three years old.

Topic: The Lounge / Aussie's best and brightest

There is a big difference between innocent people being beaten up and those that put them self in the situation as it was eluded to in the story about Corey’s fight.
He put himself in the situation, he can’t choose the good and the bad results of his fame, especially when it involved damaging the property of an entire street he would have to expect some pretty negative outcomes.
I think i was taken a little out of context, do i want to see him hospitalised, NO, do i want to see him scared of showing his face in public, NO, do i think he needs to wake up to himself, YES

Topic: Golf Equipment / Help....In a panic

Out of the hundred I hit, I pulled at least 65% a good 20 to 40 metres left of target (depending on iron used) No real turn on the ball just a “straight” pull, if you know what I mean.

I also hit around 10 balls with a shank. I haven’t done that for years. Of the one’s I hit straight they were a good 20 metres short of what I would normally expect with my Mizunos.

Batta

Sounds like the extra length in the club has put you too close to the ball, causing you to hit the hosel or comeover the top causing the pull. I struggled with this forages until i made sure the butt end of the club was vertically inline with the tip of my toes.. See my comment in Ask the guru about ‘curing outside in on the course’

This is the only change I made after constantly pulling slicing and shanking the ball for about three months, Since i changed a couple weeks ago i’ve had 39, 44 and 42 stableford points. It has worked for me, and may not for you but in these desperate times anything is worth a try.

Topic: Golf Talk / Golf Course Measurements

Club runs on volunteer work only, just interested in having accurate measurements to make it a little more enjoyable to play.
If the fee to do it is to high someone will just use a measuring wheel problem is there are a few holes where someone who walks on water would be required, I was hoping something could be hired around the $100-$200 mark as the club could afford this, any more and the committee will say no.

Topic: The Lounge / Aussie's best and brightest

Reports are he was beaten up in a recent brawl, was all caught on a mobile phone.

Isn’t it interesting how what goes around comes around. Hope the kid that shot the video profits from the experience like Corey did. Corey might see what it’s like on the receiving end and wake up to himself.