Fifth Avenue Forum

what would the doc be about? life on the tour?

Kevin Na is coming out hot

Matsuyama with that big dick energy on 18, damn.

I'll be interested to see just how true to life it is, at least the part around tournament time. I also wonder how many times I'll want to kick one of their production people out of my way.

Had a fun afternoon.
It's been bugging me that I have zero confidence or proficiency with my driver. I wasn't just bad, it was actually completely unhittable. So I went back to extreme core fundamentals and used an alignment stick to make sure I was placing the ball in the correct spot in my stance (about 1" inside my left heel). It turns out all this time I have been setting the ball up much, much closer to my center. There is probably 14" of gap between where the ball is teed up and my center, now. But before checking it with an alignment stick it was maybe 6". I'm still not used to it being set up correctly because it feels like I'm swinging at nothing, but the results are really positive.
With that adjustment made my drives are much more like my iron flight. The 70yd-off-the-centerline slice is gone and it's been replaced with a modest fade and the occasional pull. In the sim I'm getting out to 245-260 with a careful swing speed of around 95mph. I might have a functional driver swing to build on this season.

I bought that brand new Cleveland driver over the summer. I think that it was just too light for me; I couldn't swing it fast and I never felt like I had control. I tested out a used Bridgestone JGR that has been in Corsi's shop all year. Despite it being 9.5 degree instead of 10.5 degree like the Cleveland, I was averaging 11 more yards of carry with the older driver. I alternated with them every 10 shots for about 45 minutes and the results were consistently the same. The older driver was 10+ yards longer and had tighter dispersion. It gave better feedback, swung faster, sounded better, and although it was only 15 grams heavier it just felt better in my hands. So I traded for the old one. The only downside is the Cleveland was a much sharper looking club.

I feel really good about this because driver is probably the only club where simulator training should carry over directly to outdoors on account of there being no turf interaction.

Unrelated; but the Stealth looks less stupid in person than on Youtube. The guy in the next booth was getting fitted for one. Corsi has a whole display of them already.