3Jack 6.5.10 Round

[Richie3Jack]

Today I played one of the courses I'm a member at, North Shore GC. Eastwood punched their greens on Monday and I was happy with my ballstriking and I just got my '67 Hogan PC5 (Percussion) irons bent flat and just flushing them on the range and I didn't want to waste a good round of ballstriking on punched greens. I only have 4-9 of the PC5, so my bag today looked like this:

3-iron - Hogan Apex PC
4-iron - Hogan Apex PC
4-9 - Hogan PC5
SW - Mizuno
LW - Nickent

Flew around the front side pretty well, but we got held up on #11. Probably finished in 4:20. Sweltering hot on the back side. Greens in solid shape, course in solid shape. Little wind today.

#1 - Hit an okay driver that found itself on the cart path and dropped in the fairway. Hit a pitch the way I wanted to, but it surprisingly checked up. Mis-read the putt, but had perfect speed and saved the par with a made 3-footer (E)

#2 - Big driver down the middle. Hit a 9-iron to about 2 feet and made the birdie (-1)

#3 - Another big driver down the middle. My work on M3 is paying off as about 3 weeks ago I was about 50 yards behind where I was. Part of this had to do with my super flat backswing back then as well. I hit a decent 5-iron and pushed it a bit. Paced it off to 48 feet. Drained the putt. I didn't think it would get there, but it did...and then some. (-2)

#4 - Good driver down the middle. Face pulled a 7-iron a bit and the ball ran off to about a 50 foot birdie putt. I was in between clubs and should've just taken what I thought I needed and be aggressive. Almost made this 50 foot birdie as well and tapped in for par (-2)

#5 - I need to stop hitting driver on this hole as I don't feel comfortable with it. I hit one so bad that I still wound up in the fairway, but I won't count this as a fairway. I then flushed a 7-iron to 13 feet. Not nearly enough break played on this putt, but tapped in for par (-2)

#6 - The 235 yard par-3 a bit into the wind as well. Hit a 3-wood well and high. It will be nice when I get my swing to where I want and then feel comfortable getting a Trackman fitted driver and 3-wood so I won't hit these too high shots into the wind. Really an easy up and down, but it checked up to 7 feet and a poor putt so I made bogey (-1)

#7 - Decent driver down the right side. Got really lucky here. Got greedy with a 3-wood from a poor lie and hit it low and right and into the water. Hit another 3-wood okay and thougth I would be in good position to make bogey. Get up there and can't find my 2nd 3-wood, but find my first (I did feel it probably skipped over the water). I then flush a 7-iron with my original shot to 2-feet and tap in for birdie (-2)

#8 - Hit a 8-iron pretty good and right at the flag, but too much and found the bunker. Excellent bunker shot from there to 5-feet (it was going downhill quite a bit) and then drilled the 5-footer for par (-2)

#9 - Decent driver down the middle. I then hit another low 3-wood, but this time down the middle. I then play a fade to a right side pin position and hit it to 9-feet and then drill the birdie putt (-3)

#10 - Good driver and deep. I hit my worst iron shot of the day, a slightly chunky, big push with a 9-iron. Still found the green, 60 feet away. First putt went 8-feet by, but I composed myself and drilled the comebacker for par (-3)

#11 - Good driver down the middle. I've only played this course twice before so I wound up not playing this big oak tree in the middle of the fairway correctly. I wond up crushing a 3-wood and it hit the oak tree, which surprised me (but now I see how it was very possible to hit that tree) and the ball dropped straight down. I had a good shot at the green, but probably lost about 50 yards due to hitting the tree. Hit a flush 7-iron but a bit to the right and not enough club and I was 30-feet away. Hit another putt too hard, but made the 5-foot comebacker. (-3)

#12 - Good driver down the middle, but found a tight, muddy lie. Didn't matter with the PC5's...I just flushed a 5-iron to 30 feet and just missed the birdie try (-3)

#13 - Push faded a driver into the right rough...bad swing. I then hit a nice 6-iron over some trees to the middle of the green. Good speed on the 2-tier putt and tapped in for par (-3)

#14 - Flushed a nice 6-iron with a draw to 13 feet. Bad birdie putt though and made the par (-3)

#15 - good driver down the right side. Played it safe with a 4-iron down the middle. Hit a 9-iron just like I wanted to, but a little too low since it didn't get there. The idea was to hit the middle of the green low and let the ball bounce and check to the back pin. Instead I hit the front part of the green and checked to the middle. Good lag putt and a par tap in (-3)

#16 - Crushed a driver and went into the hazard, but the hazard there is a nice mowed trench before it gets into the thick stuff and I was in the trench. I then hit a decent SW out of there. I'm thinking I shouldn't use driver on this hole, though. Anyway, hit a birdie putt at the cup, but it needed some more umph (-3)

#17 - Hit the Apex PC 3-iron and hit it well, nicely to 30 feet. Not enough break and not enough speed, but still left me with a tap in. As Geoff Mangum likes to say 'good putting is safe putting.' (-3)

#18 - This is a 460 yard hole and I believe I legitimately hit this drive 302 yards. I bombed this one as I teed it up a bit high, moved it up in my stance and just made sure to hit it up on the upswing. And I cracked it right down the middle. I then hit a 7-iron pretty well, but to 30 feet. Saw the putt perfectly and drained it for birdie (-4)

Wow, what a great round for me. The M3 stuff worked great today and I've certainly noticed more distance. I can't tell you how well I hit the PC5's. You can notice a great sound with these irons when I hit them. I can compress the shit out of them most of the time. I will probably play with them like they are for now until I get the swing to where I want it. When that happens, I'll probably experiment with iron shafts and just keep the old shafts just in case I don't like the new ones. I think it's a clubhead thing. And I mean this, I'm making the sound with those clubs that is noticeable and a sound the really good PGA Tour ballstrikers make with the ball.

My putting is getting much better. In the past I would try to hit putts with my left hand or my right hand, now I just use both of them going back and thru. This allows me to hit the putts off the sweetspot more often and control the speed better.

This was a ton of fun. One of those days I thought I could have a round in the 60's, but wasn't quite sure it would happen, but it did and could've been lower. I played with 2 hot shot junior golfers, one a boy and one a girl. They'll probably get big offers to colleges in a couple of years. But today the old man smoked them both. The boy said to me 'it looks like you're just hitting punch shots out there all day long.'

If only he knew the truth.

33-35=68 (-3)
12/14 fwy
16/18 GIR
30 putts
1/2 scramble




3JACK

[slice_oftheday]

Oh 3Jack went off today, nice man that's very impressive. What did the juniors shoot?

[cloran]

12/14 FIR
16/18 GIR

I'm not worthy, I'm not worthy, I'm not worthy....

Just awesome 3jack.

[pavaveda]

Sick. I can't imagine.

What swing weight are those PC5's?

You just inspired me to get moving off of Mod 2. (not that I'll be shooting anywhere near those kind of scores anytime soon.)

[Richie3Jack]

I have all of my irons at a D-6 or D-7 swingweight. The wedges are at D-9 to E-0. Driver is at D-4. The junior boy shot 78 from the back tees with me. The junior girl played the regular mens tees, which is 6,500 yards and shot 77 and doubled three of the par-3's.





3JACK

[bentshaft]

sweet round...wtg...
bent

[gmbtempe]

Fantastic!!!

[TeddyIrons]

Can we ban 3jack from posting in this sub-forum?
Oh, he's the moderator! :lol:
Awesome stuff... wish I had the ability to just turn on the ABS stuff like you same able to do.

[Richie3Jack]

So far Teddy I think I've been very lucky because ABS has really fit me like a glove for the most part. I don't really think of ABS as a method because all that is really mandatory about it is a flat downswing (and follow thru), the rest is pretty much different depending on the individual, just some principles to follow.

That being said, the flat downswing plane may not work for some. I don't think I would tell a young Nicklaus type to come in flatter on the downswing. In fact, Nicklaus did and it hurt his swing until he went back to his Jack Grout, Turned shoulder plane downswing.

So, I consider myself fortunate that it is something that has really jived well for me so far. So far the results have been much improved and it seems like a week into each module I play a really good round where I hit a ton of greens.

Now I'm arming myself with constant video work so I don't rest on my laurels. That's what I did at the end of M2 and my backswing got Doug Sanders flat and it was effecting my ballstriking. I videoed the crap out of my swing and got my backswing more normal and that helped create more leverage on the downswing. And it was just in time for me to start getting into M3.

Fun stuff.





3JACK

[Richie3Jack]

I also want to go over a bit of how understanding D-Plane has helped me and helped me in this round.

For starters, posting these rounds up here has been good because I can go over my bad shots and start to focus on what I did to prepare for the shot and then what happened at impact and start to see if there were any trends.

One thing I've noticed was last year I noticed that if I didn't want to lose a tee shot left, I was best off tee on the left side of the tee and aiming towards the target. Conversely, if I didn't want to lose a tee shot right....tee it up on the right side and aim at the target.

Lately I noticed that when I tee it up on the right side of the tee I tend to hit a pull hook. I believe that my path is usually very consistent, so the pull hook was a result of a clubface that was closed at impact and because of that, any path would be inside-to-out in relation with the clubface.

So, I put that into the memory bank and whenever I had a shot I wanted to tee up on the right side of the tee and aim left towards the middle of the fairway, I would just aim the clubface a little more to the right than I usually do and it works. My guess is for whatever reason, on that type of tee shot I just do not aim the *face* properly.

On #13 in this round, I had been hitting great drivers all day and then I get up and hit a push-fade/push-slice into the right rough. I believe the face was just too far open at impact. That was a bit odd for me, but from all of the practice with ABS I was pretty certain I just didn't get into pitch elbow on that swing and that usually causes me get the clubface open at impact. After that, I didn't miss a shot on the last 5 holes.

Had I not understood D-Plane, I probably would've blamed that shot on my path and where I was aiming and then started swing well out to the right and perhaps hitting one into the water on #14 and #15. Things are much easier when you understand how the ball flies.







3JACK

[cloran]

"Things are much easier when you understand how the ball flies"

I was at the range last week. In the stall behind me was one of the "Pros" and a new student getting his first lesson. What do you think was the first thing he explained to the new golfer?

The OLD flight laws... I almost threw up on my shoes.

[Richie3Jack]

Yuck. The confusion, frustration and poor play continues.






3JACK