Written on 7-11-21.
It’s another Sunday, and B, Kody, and I are relaxing. We have been invited to go to Trevor and Megan’s house tonight for dinner with Ben and Dixie, too. That will be loads of fun, and I am sure we will have great food and conversation.
I am looking at getting new irons and a new driver, too (in five years more than likely). I am watching videos on the best irons, and I see reviews of many different kinds. I am liking what I am hearing about the Ping G425 irons and Srixon ZX7 or ZX5. If I am looking at being more consistent with my strikes, I would like to have clubs that are very consistent with their distances.
I am also liking the new Ping driver, the G425. No real reasons why, except Rick Shiels gave it a rave review when he said it was the best driver he has ever hit, or the most forgiving? I just checked, and he said it’s the best and most forgiving in a video that has the title with the word, “straightest." I am trying to hit it straight, so why wouldn’t I want more forgiveness…along with being the best?
Written on 7-14-21.
Yet another cool date in numbers, and this one is counting by sevens. It is 6:05 PM, and I am attending the Shaft Lean and Perfect Impact Plane Talk tonight. It has just started.
I bought a new driver! Just like that. It’s the Ping I was talking about, but it was the model made just before the G425. It’s the G410 Plus, and Luke just put one of my single plane grips on it today, so it will be ready for me to play with tomorrow. It was the last one in the pro shop.
I am playing tomorrow with Shawn, Tim, and Herman (not his real name), I think. Tim Graves just said that the driver, speaking of drivers, has the hands ahead of the clubhead by about 5º. Hmmmm. I thought the head was “heading” up on the way to impact. He is also saying that we are looking for the hands leading to create backspin which will make the golf ball fly more accurately. Compressing the golf ball helps it to go straighter.
He is showing a drill that has a chip with the toe-up on the back swing, and it creates great shaft lean. The elbow is folding in and up in a simple way.
He said every club except the putter and the driver are made for a downward blow. Is he contradicting himself there? He is also saying impact should be made on the third or fourth line on the club face, because the other lines are below, or should be below, the ground. He is using the smaller “perfect impact” club (the little cousin of my 6-iron perfect impact club I bought), and he is saying that if you can hit that club off of tight lies really well, you have the proper shaft lean.
In his downswing, Moe was at approximately 30 MPH when his club was waist high, and it went up to 105 MPH at impact.
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