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It’s just helping with the adjustments. Especially wind and green elevation. Most people in play with don’t even realize I’m doing anything. My phone is already on the magnet on my bag so when I’m picking club i put it in. It takes me 20 sec.

Don't know the overall temperature around here about AI, but I'm in IT and we got a team plan for Claude at work. Once I started using it, I got a feel for what it can do. Then thought, could it get me to scratch in golf?

I started feeding it everything. Every round I had on record, every sim session, my full bag with every club, shaft, grip, etc. It immediately identified a few things off the bat, I was playing the wrong driver shaft, and what was costing me the most strokes. It recognized I had an early extension problem also helped me go from ~100 mph driver speed to 111 on the top end with a 108 average. It started spitting out practice plans to work on path and face to target. Then hammering various distances like 75 or 85 yards. It grades every practice to tell me what the weak link is.

It eventually evolved to build me a course log artifact that basically replaces the Grint or similar. The advantage is its personnel to me. It knows my swing better than anyone, knows my misses, my tendencies, which clubs and swing lengths has the best dispersion, I'm talking splitting hairs.

I open it on my phone, give it temp, wind etc.. then as I play I tell it what the distance to the pin is and it tells me exactly what shot to hit based on the elevation, the green elevation, Green size, and the wind. If it has multiple, it'll pick the one I'm best with based on my dispersions. It'll also say aim 5 yards left of the pin or at the front bunker on the right. After each round, it reads the data back in to tell me what cost me strokes that round and what to improve on or identify problem holes on a regularly played course and work out a different strategy for the next round.

I've used it a few times now and shot 72, 75, 71. It's pretty damn incredible. The first time I used it, I wouldn't' believe the club suggestions, like no way I need to hit this 85-yard shot for 73 yards and sure enough, pin high.

Not scratch yet, but it's a pretty fun experiment and is keeping me grinding.

Apparently Golding is texting Kiffin once per day thanking him for recruiting Chambliss and Lacy :lol:

Trolling the troll, got to love it. I keep reading that those 2 are over all this and still talk a lot, so to them it's probably like playing a round of golf vs your good friend, you want to beat their arse.

That's doing rich correctly :lol:

One of the all time great Tigers and such a class dude.

It’s all homes that you rent through VRBO, AirBNB, etc.. they are all nice. The area overall is very nice.

I regret not playing Isabella over Cortez. Cortez was good with a mountain view big drop par 3 17th but apparently not s good as Isabella.

Spent 5 days there last week and played a couple of the 8 courses they have on property. They have 9 but 1 is private. Played Cortez and Granada.

Granada might be the most pristine and beautiful course I've ever played. Its Bermuda fairways and bent grass greens / collars. Even the damn tee boxes were absolutely perfect. The elevation changes were insane and there was a waterfall that ran down from the clubhouse through the entire 18th hole.

Just a heads up. Area would make a damn good golf trip. We took the kids and stayed on Lake Balboa so only got to play 2 of the courses.

90% of driver is setup. Grip, ball position. Ball position actually changes a little based on tee height, with a really high tee, the ball may be on your toe instead of heel. For normal height, on your forward heel. After that, i keep my eyes on the ball until after contact, one piece take way which means i rotate my lower body and upper body at the same time to ensure I’m actually rotating lower body. On the take away, i keep the club as close to the ground as i can for as long as i can. This creates width in my swing and i will typically return the club on the same path giving a positive AoA. Lastly you need release the club through impact.

I have 3 hand positions on my irons for about 3-5 yard changes in distance. My wedges I only choke up. All the way to the shaft on chipping/pitching, and about halfway for flighted shots.

Don't over focus on swing mechanics while on the course! You don't need a beautiful perfect swing, only a serviceable one. Play your miss.

Time and experience are almost more important. Once you start to recognize the lies, where to miss, etc the game gets a bit easier. Most of my consistency struggles are still expecting a certain shot from a lie where it's not very likely.

DF3i with the insert.

The regular DF3 doesn't come off hot enough and is easy to leave lag putts short. I went with Oz.1i because of that. DF3i was not out then or I would have went with that.

Go watch Horvat's latest videos, that putter has helped him a ton.