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  1. I was on pace to shoot my best ever round yesterday at Forest Creek but ran out of light for the last two holes.  Just needed to bogey the last two holes to get an 87. 

    Hit probably the best iron shot I've ever hit on the par 5 16th.  After slicing my drive left (I'm a lefty) into the bunker I got out but didn't quite round the bend to have a clear third shot into the green.  As mentioned before, I struggle to get the ball up in the air, so I was anxious hitting straight over the tees, but I stepped up and hit a 9 iron 155 yards up the hill, dead straight with tons of clearance over the trees.  Birdie putt from about 12 feet away (didn't make it of course).  Not much feels as good as when you hit an iron right in the center of the sweet spot

  2. Probably wouldn’t hurt to move those forward a bit. I have 60*, SW, GW at center, PW-8i 1” fwd, 7+ 2”

    Do you have a pretty strong draw? Perhaps your club face is closed at impact reducing loft as well.

    Final thing to consider is more difficult to correct, but how confident are you that you have the right shafts?

    I definitely draw the ball at times. Especially long irons, sometimes more a hook than a draw.

    I’ll give it a shot with moving the ball forward and being open. The frustrating thing is if I’m not drawing it I sometimes it a straight push...so I get scared of opening the club face...
  3. Been lurking this thread, thought I'd actually enter the conversation.

    I've made a ton of progress over the last year and a half after actually getting some lessons and playing/practicing consistently. I had been an on again off again golfer since I first started playing in college 10 years ago.  Have been shooting in the +-90 range now for the last few months, with a low round of 88.

    I've become much better off the tee, able to hit drives mostly straight to about 250.  This alone has made the largest difference, as I'm not losing balls or having 300 in after a skulled tee shot.  

    Where I need to get better to really lower my scores is on my longer iron shots.  Anything above a 7 iron I really struggle to get enough air under it to land soft.  Even with shorter irons my ball flight is too low, and I struggle to hold greens, which leads to lots of tough chips after initially hitting the green but rolling off.  I really struggle to take a divot, I just can't seem to get a steep enough angle of attack I guess.  Not really sure what the issue is, I have begun hitting ball then turf consistently, just not steep enough I guess...

  4. Any Ruidoso recs?  Going this summer for a heat escape.  

    Log Cabin restaurant is a great breakfast spot, Casa Blanca is solid Tex/New Mex, and The Village Buttery has the best buttermilk pie I’ve ever had.

    Grindstone Lake is a nice place to hike and/or swim in the summer months. The drive up to Bonito Lake and Camp Monjeau is very nice.
  5. 2 hours ago, fellside said:

    A lot of high schools lift programs are superset, full body workouts.  They'll target five different muscle groups rapidly in a 30-45 minute period.  It's good for conditioning but I don't think it's good for building muscle.  So most guys are "beginners" when they get to college.  A beginner can expect to grow muscle more rapidly than the average person.

    Having said all that, human beings cannot add more than a few pounds of muscle per month.  3 lbs of muscle in one month would be a lot.  Which leaves several options.

    1. Guys like Sweat weren't measured accurately before showing up on campus.

    2. Guys are adding a lot of fat and water weight in addition to the muscle gains.

    3. Guys are using performance enhancing drugs (even then it wouldn't account for 30 lbs in two months)

    All of those could be true, but #2 has to be true.  When you see that guys put on that much weight, most of it is not muscle.

    Yep, you've got it right.  He mostly put on fat and water, with some increase in muscle mass and probably a large degree of strength.  Strength and muscle mass are obviously highly correlated, but you can add a lot more strength than muscle depending on how you train.  See powerlifters vs bodybuilders.  

  6. Be sure to tell that to the descendants of Juan Nepomuceno Seguín, José Antonio Navarro, José Francisco Ruiz and Lorenzo de Zavala. Or maybe you've never driven through Seguin, Texas, Navarro Country or Zavala County?
    And let's not forget these others of the Texas Revolution…Arocha, Antonio Cruz Arocha, José Maria Arocha, Manuel Arreola, Simón Bárcinas, Andrés Bueno, Manuel Cabrera, Juan M. (First Corporal) Casillas, Gabriel Cormana, Cesario (orderly) Curbier, Antonio Curbier, MatiasDe La Garza, Alejandro Flores, Manuel (First Sergeant) Flores, Nepomuceno Herrera, Pedro Jiménez, José Maria Maldonado, Tomás Mancha, José Maria Menchaca, Antonio (Second Corporal) Navarro, Nepomuceno Peña, Jacinto Ramirez, Eduardo, Alamedo, José Arrocha, José Maria Barbo, Juan José Benavides, Plicido Blair, Samuel Bowie, James Brugmeins, John Bustillos, Clemente Cain, John Cárdenas, Francisco Casillas, John Casillas, Mateo Casillas, Pablo Castinon, Louis Cavazos, Albino Cervantes, Agapito Chacón, Carlos Contes, Ciriaco Cooke, Wm. G. Cronican, Michael Cruz, Antonio Curbelo, Fernando Curbelo, Matias Daily, Michael Dashalier, P. B. De La Garza, José Maria De La Garza, Marcelino De La Garza, Paulino DeLeon, Silvestre Diaz, Domingo Dimmitt, Philip Duval, Andrew Escalera, Manuel Espinosa, Ignacio Flores, Manuel Flores, Manuel María Flores, SalvadorGallardo, Manuel Gaona, Pedro Garcia, Clemente Garcia, Jesús Gaytón, Agapito Gómez, Francisco Gómez, Máximo Hernández, Antonio Hernández, Eduardo Hernández, Gregorio Herrera, Pedro Herrera, T. Jiménez, Juan Laso, Carlos Leal, Manuel Lynch, Jos. P. Malone, Wm. Mansola, Pablo McNelly, P. McNelly, R. D. Menchaca, Antonio Miranda, Francisco Mora, Estéban Nolan, James (husband of a Mexican) Rodriguez, José de Jesús Rodriguez, Justo Ruiz, Antonio Ruiz, Esmerigeldo Salinas, Francisco Salinas, Miguel Salinas, Pablo Seguin, Juan N. Silva, Miguel Tejado, Agapito Valdéz, Francisco Villareal, Steven Zuníga, José.


    Not sure what that has to do with what I said...
    Does the fact that Mexicans joined the Texians somehow change the point that the right to slavery has much to do with Texas independence?
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  7. 1 minute ago, ABTX said:

    If I was TH I would have a home visit to every top target that’s not considering us and have them look us in the eye. I would ask why he hates us. And give home a brief story about the founders of Texas, the Comanches, the land he lives on and how the aquifers run underneath us. Telling him to shoot me a text within a week if he has a slight change of heart to create some bond. Absolutely no way Texas should be outside the top 10 in recruiting.


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    I'm sure you'll really win over the black high school players with tales of slave owners taking Tejas from the mexicans so they could have slaves...

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