East TN Golf....

[GAVol]

Playing in a tournament in college and at the same time the head met the ball, the head of the driver came flying off. The weirdest feeling in the world. It felt like my arms came out of socket because of the weight change swinging through the shot.

My Senior year of high school, I was warming up before a tournament and the shaft on my Driver snapped way up on the grip right before impact. The ball squirted off to the right like a toe shank and nearly hit the guy next to me. He turned around and got this weird look on his face. I looked down and the shaft had slashed my right index finger and I was bleeding all over the driving range. Good times.

 

[the.one.the.only]

Playing in a tournament in college and at the same time the head met the ball, the head of the driver came flying off. The weirdest feeling in the world. It felt like my arms came out of socket because of the weight change swinging through the shot.

lol: lol: Ya it was def a strange feeling. I can imagine it'd be worse in the middle of a tourney.

 

[DownNDirty]

Yeah I have my distances down pretty well. For a 3 Wood I get it about 270. My 3 iron runs about 210. There's one hole I play at alot that is a 156 yard par 3 and I use my 6 iron and generally get it on the green with that so I know I can get a 6 somewhere between 155-165 most of the time. My 9 I get 110 or so and my PW I can get 100. I pretty much swing every other club in the bag hard all of the time besides the driver. I guess that's why I can get as much distance with the 3 wood when I get a hold of it.

Ok, yesterday I hit a local course and tried to keep up with my distances and write them down. I still did average about 280 with the driver and got at least two over 300 yards. They were both level to downhill lies on the 300 drives. I confuse myself with some distances though. For instance, one hole is a 282 yard Par 4. I overdrive the green on this hole alot with the driver so I tried a 3 and 5 wood and the 5 generally gets me there at 282. It is a bit downhill. Yesterday with the swirling winds I hit a 3 iron to get it out of the wind and drove the green with a 3 iron. I would venture to guess the 3 went at least 275 from where it landed.

Another hole is listed at a 170 yard Par 3 (I was wrong in the post above where I said it was 156). I had been hitting a hybrid 3 on this hole. I moved up to a 4 last year. Then to a 5 the first time I played this year. Last week I used a 6 on this hole and it hit on the backside of the green. Yesterday I hit a hard 7 iron and it landed dead center middle of the green about 12 feet from the cup. There is another hole that is a 175 yard Par 3 so I done the same on this hole and the 7 hit right dead center of the green here too. So, I know that I am getting 170-175 on my 7 iron - quite a bit different from what I listed above. The other Par 3 on the 9 hole course is around 130 yards. I hit my 9 iron - missed the green but it was just because I pushed the ball right. It was the right carry distance. What I am doing different is swinging harder with more confidence and making sure I follow through. So I suppose these distances sound a little better than the one's I listed for last week.

I think what I may need to do is just go out to the range one day and hit 5 buckets of balls and try to figure out what I am hitting with each on level ground and keep that with me when I travel around to different courses. Since I'm getting a bit more serious now I want to play better. Shot a legit 91 yesterday in 18 holes.....almost broke 90. If it wasn't for a double bogey on the easiest hole on the course I may have done it. Oh well, always next time.

 

[the.one.the.only]

ya go out there, find the distances to the pins on the range, and swing away

 

[doozer]

your best bet is to walk off the distances yourself, but that may be hard at the driving range.

 

[the.one.the.only]

your best bet is to walk off the distances yourself, but that may be hard at the driving range.

Lol people would be gunning for him if he started walking out foot by foot to each pin. IDK I know at one course around here they walk the distances every morning, or at least every time they change the pins, and write the distances on a dry erase down at the range.