AbuTheMonkey

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Of all the aspects of my game this is probably were I should be spending the least amount of my time but I’ve got it in my head that I want to reach 120+mph clubhead if for nothing else than the hell of it. What are some good tips or aids y’all have found to help increase your CH speed? Currently play between 105-112mph but even when I reach back for another gear I can’t seem to get past about 118. I realize this won’t help my game at all but call it the downside of having a sim and having to much data in front of me.

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Probably some combination of three things:

1. Can’t say I’ve used them but I’ve heard good things about speed training, Stack system, speed sticks, etc. The science says they work.

2. A) Strength training, with a specific focus on explosive movements and B) mobility and yoga training. Also, don’t eat like shite and drink a ton of beer.

3) I assume you’ve done this already, but getting fit on the driver is important.

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quote:Some of these backup QBs aren't very talented but they stay quite they do what their told and keep a job for years.Chase Daniel comes to mind. $41 million in earnings 14 years You never heard a peep from the guy. He played a total of 5 games in the NFL. That is what they want from a backup.

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On a lesser scale, Teddy Bridgewater got $65M over 11 years and barely started at all after his rookie deal was up.

The ultimate culture franchise went out and got him as a back up for a playoff run just last year after he’d been out of playing the game entirely for a season - that shows you what the league thinks of him.

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Shough sucks Dude played at 3 schools and wasn’t great at any one lol

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Not sure why you think he wasn’t good last year - Louisville was a top 10 - 20 offense in just about every offensive efficiency / power ranking out there last year, and Shough was a big reason for that. I thought Shough was the best quarterback we played last year, and that included all the guys in the playoffs (Rourke, Stockton, Allar, Howard), Maiava from USC, Weigman from A&M, the kids from Army and Navy, etc. We missed Haynes King as he was hurt.

And he played well when we still had Morrison at CB which none of the above did except Weigman.

The obvious knock on him is that he’s 25, but other than that, he’s big, strong, decently mobile, good decision-maker, processes quickly, etc. You could do much worse as a 2nd or 3rd round pick than him.

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Absolutely. 99% of Trump voters are poor and have no invested money
Are you in dire straits because the S&P is only up 4.3% over the last 12 months?

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Well, isn't that some completely disingenuous bullshite.

Over that 12 month period, it was up 21% while Biden was in office. It's down 13% since inauguration day.

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Trump wants it both ways with potentially inflationary tariffs and uncertainty for businesses while having a strong stock market and investing environment.

The real world doesn't work like that.

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Tell tale sign is that, normally (like 95+% of the time historically), a significant correction in equity markets almost always results in a flight to U.S. treasuries. That has not happened over the last 2 - 3 months, and the dollar is getting absolutely destroyed. Instead, capital is fleeing both U.S. equity and bond markets concurrently into currencies viewed as next-best safe havens (Euro, CHF, Yen, etc) and things like gold. The U.S. government is looking like a less trusty lender.

Trump can say whatever the frick he wants, but markets have a brutal and quick way of correcting delusions and incompetence. Unfortunately, the American investor is paying the price right now.

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Just hope we can get all of these guys off the international teams, JT spieth and Ricky need to be left off.

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JT is ranked 5th in Datagolf right now and the 3rd best American behind Scheffler and Morikawa. He's 8th in OWGR and 9th in Ryder Cup points and climbing up that list quickly.

It'd be beyond idiotic to leave him off.

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Frankly, for Bryson, it's not the format but rather his iron play finally caught up to him. Didn't want to get over my skis after yesterday, but he was really hitting it like shite all day yesterday and managing to get the ball in the hole from everywhere. That really isn't sustainable at Augusta.


I just didn’t think he’d hit it that shitty 2 days in a row, but not only did he do that, he hit it worse today than yesterday. When he was only 2 back at the conclusion of play yesterday, with how well rory played and how bad Bryson played, I thought they’d both come back to the mean giving Bryson the advantage. Especially with Rory’s recent history in those pressure cooker moments

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It makes me wonder if Bryson is going to re-look at the single length irons. His Datagolf page is kind of wild - it's just green almost everywhere (especially SG OTT, where it is way in the green) except SG Approach where there is a lot of red. He was 51st out of 53 who made the cut in SG Approach this year, and he was truly awful last year at the Open. He is so good off the tee and so good on the greens that it makes up for it in a lot of places including Augusta, but he has the talent to get on another level, and he needs to do something there.

I think courses with a lot of undulation, sidehill / downhill / uphill lies, elevation change, weird angle and lies, etc. give him a lot of problems with the irons, probably at least in part due to the single length approach. His SG Approach results in the Masters over the last four years really are shite: -1.64 in True SG in 2022, -0.99 in 2023, +0.68 in 2024, and -0.69 this year. That's really bad for what is otherwise one of the very best players in the world.

For comparison, Scottie is +1.64, +1.89, +0.96, and +0.83 in that same time period. Morikawa is +1.52, +0.93, +1.53, and +1.55. Rory - who probably wasn't a truly complete ball-striker and shot-shaper until the last few years - is +1.01, -1.26, +0.27, and +2.51.

Bryson doesn't even have to hit his irons exceptionally well to put himself at or near the top - he was +1.30 True SG Approach last year at Pinehurst and +0.98 last year at Valhalla. Good, but not exceptionally so (like +1.50 - 2.50).

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Like others have said, never offer asking

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I see people keep saying this - this is highly, highly market dependent.

There are some zip codes or neighborhoods where you aren't even going to be considered if you aren't 10 - 20+% over asking.

He won't win the Grand Slam, but I'd take better than even money that he'll win another major this year. Quail and Oakmont are 5000% suited to him, and he will / should be heavy favorites at both; I know Portrush is at home, but that place isn't super well-suited to his game.

Winning majors is incredibly hard. Winning two in a year is damn-near-generational event.

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But anyone with a brain and two eyes watched what happened today, and it’s pretty clear he didn’t overcome the demons he came into the day with.

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He went out and threw the dartiest of darts in the playoff after an all world drive after having nearly choked the thing away in regulation. There isn't a bigger demon to slay than that.