Considering doing an Elite Golf school in AZ in a few weeks.

https://elitegolfofaz.com/golf-schools/#schedule

I've been following their system for a year or so now - and would love to get some on course, in-person reps.

Anyone else interested at all? I tried to get my brother to go - but he's out of country that week.

what topography to carve a golf course from

highly recommend any reader take their hole by hole flyover tour and taking into account the distance and par try to quickly think how you would play it

Place might have the most reasonable greens fees on earth.

For absurd layouts I nominate Indian River Colony Club in FL. Water all over the place. The thing that is really dumb is its a short course and has par 4 where you need to hit these layups off the tee with mid and potentially short irons to stay out of the water.

https://colonyclub.com/wp-content/up...ted2025-09.pdf

Still almost four weeks from the first golf of the season, but it nearly hit 50 degrees today after two months of hardcore winter. Definitely got the itch. Bought a glove and a couple dozen inexpensive balls for my spring trip last weekend, not much left to do other than clean the clubs and make sure the bag is stocked. Might need to hit a simulator just to get a couple swings in.

Decided to re-grip my clubs for this season. Grips and double sided tape arrived 3 weeks ago. Keep forgetting to buy lighter fluid when I go to the store. On my list to remedy this week dang it!

could also order some grip tape solvent. works pretty good to clean the grips inbetween replacing with a few wipes on a rag.

Headed down to Kiawah next month with a friend and his golf buddies.
Solid deal, excited to play the Ocean Course.

Had both (and a Mevo+), MLM2PRO is a major step up from the R10, though I was hitting in to a net with the marked balls. Overall I thought it was very good, though they have since increase the cost of the subscription (which is mandatory really as it's fairly useless without it). The impact video and the ability to pair your phone so you can add video of the entire swing was unbelievably good.

Lots of people had issues connecting to Wi-Fi but I never had any major problems. It was a lot more accurate and reliable for me than the Mevo+ (which I had no end of issues with) and leagues above the R10.

I sold it due to having an outside net and loads of young kids so didn't really get the time to play it. If I was using it only inside I would look at the Square golf LM as that gets good reviews and the subscription costs seem more reasonable.

*Edit* always use the official balls. The ball dots are nowhere near as good or reliable in terms of reading spin. Wonky spin readings = poor ball flight projections (see the Garmin R10 for example!).

Thanks. I learned that about the official balls, when using inside, after the first use. I didn't realize it was basically a $1,250 launch monitor, because you have to buy the subscription if you want to use it for GS pro. I'll look into square and mevo. I'll mainly use it outdoors at least for a few years before I have a simulator built. Oh, I just realized you said a lot of issues with Mevo. Maybe I won't look it up.

I have a Mevo+ and it's bang-on for carry distance, launch angles, and spin readings, from partial wedges up through driver. Using it indoors with 13 feet ball to screen, and titleist RCT balls.

Short chipping is a little funky. Putting is "ok" but it takes a lot of trial and error to get the setup right and it's not reliable enough to, say, compete in online sim golf tour that's not autoputt.

There's a small issue with driver spin axis where if your face contact is bad (like mine) it mis-reads 45 degree +/- which is annoying. The GSPro software allows you to set it to "ignore" those 45 degree axis shots which helps but frankly a spinny low pull off the heel is a pretty functional shot even if not very long. It's annoying for that shot to either be ignored, or read as a 60 yard duck hook.

But other than the above, it works pretty flawlessly. For the price it's a great device and I've used it for a couple years without real regrets.

If you're looking at an indoor setup I'd probably recommend an optical monitor given the above, but the mevo is a viable option. All radar-based monitors are a little funky with limited flight just because of how the system actually reads the ball flight.

the $250 annual for GSPro is worth the price no matter what monitor you use. The course library is insane with new courses added nearily daily, and the dev team is constantly iterating and improving that software.

Thanks. Guess I'll take a look at it!

So, my father-in-law insists I need new clubs that are fitted for me. I bought my woods second hand. My driver and irons are hand-me-downs from him. The irons were fitted for him. They seem fine but he firmly believes they aren't. He says I'm bending over too much.

I figure that when I break 90, I might reward myself but it just feels like if I'm not very good it ain't the clubs.

FWIW, he's about 5'9" and I'm 6'5"

What say you?

8 inches of height seems like a pretty big difference regarding club fit, but I think that wrist to floor distance when standing is actually the number that matters. Might be worth going to a fitting, whether paid or free, to see if there's an immediate difference for you

Yeah, overall body geometry matters I think, not just purely height. But at 6'5 it is very possible you need some longer clubs.

suggest not trying to even hit a ball with the following offering

just pick up a club and lazily start swinging it in slow orbits around your center of mass while feeling the weight of face tethered at the other end and is it easier to maneuver while hunched or with more vertical posture allowing you to push resistently off the ground

Do you have a PGA Superstore near you? (Or similar) If so just take your current 5, 6 or 7 iron in (whatever your favorite club is) and tell them you are looking to buy new irons. Let them watch you hit in a hitting bay and bring you clubs more suited for your height.

That height discrepancy is like a 5'9" adult hitting kids clubs. Your spine at impact should be relatively straight. There is no way at your height and those standard length clubs allow for that. I'm surprised that none of the teachers you have seen hasn't brought this up before.

Setting some mythical goal of if I break X score then I'll get fitted is backwards thinking. If you're learning a swing all hunched over, hitt your goal, and then get fitted you're going to have to learn a whole new golf swing. At least go swing some clubs and then at least have a base line for your decision on whether or not to spend the money for new clubs moving forward in your golf journey.

I'm a bit taller than you and I cannot IMAGINE hitting clubs that were fitted for someone who is 5'9". I have hit standard length irons on occasion (usually rentals) and it's awful.

You may well not need to do anything about the driver (drivers are plenty long) and woods, but getting irons fit for you might be the single biggest equipment improvement possible.

Not only would you very likely benefit from proper length, you may also need a tweak to the lie angle. Most of my irons are 1" over standard and 2 degrees upright. If I play a club that is standard or has a flat lie angle I make contact out on the toe and it usually goes right.

Get fit for irons, don't wait.

Damn, some tall mofos around here.

furiously scouring wins of golf footwear seasonal change sale specials for fj dryjoy lift insoles to perhaps allow me to approach and borrow wedges from the likes of frightenling stastically deviant tall humans such as you
have you ever thought about your potential future in circus sideshows and perhaps loosely regulated county fairs in certain states

In my experience someone of your height would need irons 0.75-1 inch longer than standard. Woods perhaps not so much but almost certainly would need longer than normal.

Right now chances are your posture is horrible with tiny clubs relatively speaking leading to swinging on an inefficient plane which therefore causes various flaws.

The whole talent/fitting question has been around forever. If your equipment fits you properly it will be easier to play golf leading to naturally lower scores. The only issue with that is it costs money. So you have to ask yourself is the several thousand dollar price tag to do this right worth enjoying yourself more on the course. And only you can answer that.

If you're not sure about making the financial commitment, consider plugging your two measurements (height and wrist-to-floor) in and find your Ping color code and club length. Then watch for people you play with, eBay, thrift stores, 2nd Swing, whatever to find a Ping iron with the right length and color code.

It's not a proper fitting, not even a half-assed fitting, but I still think it'll be an eye opener.

First round of the season coming up on Thursday. I do not remember how to golf.