Golf!!!2!

[Major Major]

Originally Posted by Slava

I haven’t played there yet, so I really can’t say. But the thing with a golf course to me is that the location matters, and I love mountain courses. It seems a little silly to say that it only gets the recognition it does because it’s in a beautiful setting. Not many courses that people love get the reviews if they’re in the middle of the bald prairie.

It is a jaw dropping place. It is an old school design with lots of cool bunkering and some great elevation changes. I've heard people trash it before and it's a bit of an amusing take tbh. Is it the best course I've ever played? No. But it is an incredible place and great golf course by any measure. 100$ is a steal.

[silentsim]

Originally Posted by FragileMind

Time to start a feeding frenzy.
Banff Springs Stanley Thompson 18.$99 inc cart and taxes.
7 days a week after 1:00pm until the end of July.
Promo Code JSHOWSPECIAL.I played last weekend and am booked in for the next 2.So,it works.
You're welcome.

Out of curiosity where did this code come from? No chance they cancel on it right? Booking a bday round for the old man and currently have Mt. Lorette, but would switch for this.

[Tawiskaron]

Originally Posted by FragileMind

Time to start a feeding frenzy.
Banff Springs Stanley Thompson 18.$99 inc cart and taxes.
7 days a week after 1:00pm until the end of July.
Promo Code JSHOWSPECIAL.I played last weekend and am booked in for the next 2.So,it works.
You're welcome.

Awesome...worked for me. Never played there before, so thank you.

[BowRiverBruinsRule]

Originally Posted by Major Major

It is a jaw dropping place. It is an old school design with lots of cool bunkering and some great elevation changes. I've heard people trash it before and it's a bit of an amusing take tbh. Is it the best course I've ever played? No. But it is an incredible place and great golf course by any measure. 100$ is a steal.

Banff Springs is spectacular. I worked at Kananaskis for many years and played both K and L hundreds of times. Played L after the flood as well.
It was always a treat to play Banff. The original layout has so much history and the design is so old school. You know where you are hitting to on all the holes. I used to call Kananaskis and Banff golf in the mountains and Silver Tip and Stewart Creek(not so much) mountain golf. Banff may not be in the condition some expect but it deals with alot of regulations and wildlife. At $99 I would play it often. It is a resort course for tourists. It is an awesome course.

[jayswin]

Location doesn't matter is a crazy take. Of course location matters. Can you put a pitch and putt in the mountains and call it great? of course not. But of course the scenery elevates a round of golf. Put a medium course in the rockies and call it better than medium? abso-****ing-lutely.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Man, this game really sucks sometimes.

I hit my irons incredibly well today. 5 through PW, I could basically do no wrong. This is unusual for me, as I normally do rather a lot of wrong. Not today. Beautiful, arcing laser-guided missiles. I think I mis-hit one 8-iron shot, and even that one wasn't a catastrophe.

But of course, suddenly as soon as that all starts coming up Milhouse, I suddenly lose the ability to hit my driver. At all. I start slicing, which almost never happens anymore. I used to slice, the problem was my swing path, I fixed that, and now my drives are at least reliable enough so as to be generally playable. Well, not today. Nothing I did seemed to work. So a day where I should have been very pleased with myself, I ended up just being really frustrated throughout. I almost wish I'd hit everything badly, because at least then I could shrug my shoulders and say "oh well, bad day all around, that'll happen".

End of rant.

[Dion]

This past week has been tough for me. I can't the driver with an consistency with it slicing. Then I pop it up or skull it. I've tried all that I know including making sure the ball isn't too far up in my stance or that i'm keeping my left elbow close to my body. Maybe it's in my swing plane. I know i'll figure it out but it's frustrating when it does happen.

[EverfresH15]

Originally Posted by Dion

This past week has been tough for me. I can't the driver with an consistency with it slicing. Then I pop it up or skull it. I've tried all that I know including making sure the ball isn't too far up in my stance or that i'm keeping my left elbow close to my body. Maybe it's in my swing plane. I know i'll figure it out but it's frustrating when it does happen.

Have you thought about doodle twisting the lower section of your-inside back halfway down your backswing?

[Slava]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

Man, this game really sucks sometimes.

I hit my irons incredibly well today. 5 through PW, I could basically do no wrong. This is unusual for me, as I normally do rather a lot of wrong. Not today. Beautiful, arcing laser-guided missiles. I think I mis-hit one 8-iron shot, and even that one wasn't a catastrophe.

But of course, suddenly as soon as that all starts coming up Milhouse, I suddenly lose the ability to hit my driver. At all. I start slicing, which almost never happens anymore. I used to slice, the problem was my swing path, I fixed that, and now my drives are at least reliable enough so as to be generally playable. Well, not today. Nothing I did seemed to work. So a day where I should have been very pleased with myself, I ended up just being really frustrated throughout. I almost wish I'd hit everything badly, because at least then I could shrug my shoulders and say "oh well, bad day all around, that'll happen".

End of rant.

This is exactly what happened to me 3-4 weeks ago. I just inexplicably started to slice. I’ve tried almost everything to fix this. Finally, a couple rounds ago I just left the driver in the bag and off the tee I hit this rescue club I have. I might move to my 5w or even a 3w from the tee next time, but I’m not sure. I think I have the slice gone again (mostly), but I don’t even know what caused it to appear suddenly or how I really got rid of it.

It’s a weird game.

[8sPOT]

Double bogey, doh!

[8sPOT]

I used to slice so bad with my driver I stopped using it for a few years and went 3 wood. Then I got a different driver with a stiff shaft and the difference was incredible. It’s now one of my more reliable clubs, drove the green on a par 4 a few weeks back, even drained the 40 foot putt for the eagle ��

Thing is, I have to swing 80-90% with it or I lose some control. In other words, a regular shaft was way too ‘whippy’ for my swing.

Golf is weird though. Irons can be hot, and then the putter is off. Or your putting is great but can’t hit an iron to save your life. I find a couple beers and a joint makes all that somewhat irrelevant lol

I remember as a junior playing in a tournament. I shot 79 on day one and was tied for first in my flight, day two was literally the opposite, shot a 97. Gotta love it.

[DoubleK]

Originally Posted by Dion

This past week has been tough for me. I can't the driver with an consistency with it slicing. Then I pop it up or skull it. I've tried all that I know including making sure the ball isn't too far up in my stance or that i'm keeping my left elbow close to my body. Maybe it's in my swing plane. I know i'll figure it out but it's frustrating when it does happen.

Does the slice start right and go right (I think you are a right hander)? If yes, that's face angle, not swing path. Check your grip and maybe try strengthening it a hair.

Better yet, go see the pro at Nanton for a tune up. Alternatively, I've heard really good things about lessons from Oasis Greens.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by DoubleK

Does the slice start right and go right (I think you are a right hander)? If yes, that's face angle, not swing path. Check your grip and maybe try strengthening it a hair.

Better yet, go see the pro at Nanton for a tune up. Alternatively, I've heard really good things about lessons from Oasis Greens.

Ball goes straight off the club face and then slices near the end.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Originally Posted by Slava

This is exactly what happened to me 3-4 weeks ago. I just inexplicably started to slice. I’ve tried almost everything to fix this. Finally, a couple rounds ago I just left the driver in the bag and off the tee I hit this rescue club I have. I might move to my 5w or even a 3w from the tee next time, but I’m not sure. I think I have the slice gone again (mostly), but I don’t even know what caused it to appear suddenly or how I really got rid of it.

It’s a weird game.

Indeed. I think I'm just going to take a few days off rather than frantically trying to figure out how to get rid of it and hopefully if I show up at the range next week it'll have sorted itself out.

I find that when things go wrong, efforts to get rid of it just end up installing new buggy software in your swing. For example, in an attempt to salvage a few drives, I started turning my wrists over to close the club face at the end of the swing, which still sliced but started left so that it didn't wind up as far right. Obviously that is horrible technique, and I'd rather not internalize it, so better to just leave it alone for a bit.

[Derek Sutton]

Originally Posted by Dion

Ball goes straight off the club face and then slices near the end.

Too much push action from the bottom hand and not enough pull from the top??? That what’s I was told my problem was as my drives follow the same slicing path you’re speaking of. It seams to be helping me. Pull with the top. My problem was that I wasn’t focusing on getting down through the ball with my driver like I would with my irons and just trying to hammer the ball rather then swing down through it.

I’m certainly not a pro, but this small correction off the tee helped me out.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

For me the two things that helped most were pointing my left foot outwards so that it was more natural to follow through, and most importantly, bringing the club head further towards me during my backswing rather than straight up (which created a swing path that was less right-to-left).

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Derek Sutton

Too much push action from the bottom hand and not enough pull from the top??? That what’s I was told my problem was as my drives follow the same slicing path you’re speaking of. It seams to be helping me. Pull with the top. My problem was that I wasn’t focusing on getting down through the ball with my driver like I would with my irons and just trying to hammer the ball rather then swing down through it.

I’m certainly not a pro, but this small correction off the tee helped me out.

That sounds plausible. My tempo and rhythm has been off this past week and I was thinking it might be because i'm bringing the club too far back and trying to kill my drives.

[Weitz]

Played a nice round out at Water Valley this afternoon. Little rain but not too bad. Pretty solid course for $55 after 1:30.

[Lanny_McDonald]

Originally Posted by DoubleK

Does the slice start right and go right (I think you are a right hander)? If yes, that's face angle, not swing path. Check your grip and maybe try strengthening it a hair.

That's not actually true. Swing path can be a culprit here. If the golfer is taking the club inside on the takeaway (a big problem for a lot of players) it is likely they are not getting the club back into the slot to hit it straight. The golfer either remains trapped and blocks the ball right and hitting a fade to finish. The other side of this coin is for the golfer to over-correct as they try and get the club back in the slot, leading to a more aggressive cut across the ball and a big slice.

The easiest way to tell if you fall into this category is to do a drill where you place a second ball about six to eight inches behind your ball at address. Initiate your swing and you should push the back ball away. If is rolls straight back you are taking the club away on plain. If it goes more away from you, you are taking the club inside. If it rolls more toward you, you are taking the club too far outside. This is a common swing flaw that is easy to fix in your backyard or basement as you are just taking the club away and not hitting anything.

Compounding this swing flaw with manipulations of club face and strength of grip can temporarily resolve the problem, but then really amplify the flight problem long term as it never corrects the underlying structural flaw in the swing. I agree with DoubleK. Have your pro look at your swing. Sounds like something that can be resolved quickly with a little bit of practice.

[DoubleK]

Lol.

Suggesting drills.

At least I've played with Dion.