Has anyone had much success in curing wrist pain/tendinitis?

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Soft grips maybe? (Golf pride cp2 wraps for example)

In all the years I've been playing, I had only witnessed one ace - my own 3 years ago.

Now in the last two rounds I've played, I witnessed an ace each time. First was on Friday when the older guy I was paired up with hit one on #11 at Sahm golf course outside Indianapolis. Today it was a guy I've played a couple times with since moving to Indiana I met off golfwrx on #4 at Royal Hylands about 30 min East of Indy.

Both holes were about 170 yards. Both hit a hybrid. Both are about 20-25 handicappers. Both hit the slope short of the green and bounced up and rolled in.

So if you'd like to get an ace, come meet me in the Indy area this week. Seems I'm good luck!

Not sure but I've found the most effective way for me is to focus on one thing with putting -- example "rock your shoulders" when I get too armsy. That single putt thought before every putt can be very therapeutic and provide some mind clarity before hitting a putt.

I haven't taken one yet but from what people say an Aimpoint class is the way to go. I imagine if you have some awful putting stroke they will fix that for you while teaching you a fast way to read greens accurately.

Won't fix your putting stroke, but I highly recommend AimPoint.

ty, might buy the DVD althought my problem is more speed than direction

Front-hand-low grip helped me with my pace when putting.

Speaking of putting, my biggest leak is being able to read the greens correctly; I'll try Aimpoint out.

get a digital slope meter thing that will give you the % grade and use that to get a good feel of what % a slope is.

Suggestions/link to a good one?

I used to have this one. It worked all right till I lost it. You can literally spend thousands if you wanted to though. $50 was about as much as I wanted to spend for something that I really didn't need.

https://www.google.com/shopping/prod...B4b7gwSknpboBg

Most smartphones can do that (as long as they have a decent tilt-sensor thingy).

If you're "bad at putting", knowing if a slope is 1deg or 2deg isn't going to help as much as you think....

Just look around you. What's the general lay of the land? Do you picture what a ball would actually do, or do you just aim right some random amount and hope?



Here's the secret to getting your mind to read greens and figure out the arc that the ball needs to take to get to the hole:

Go to your local putting green when no one is around and bring a 32oz (or 2liter or whatever) bottle of water.

Set up a 20 foot putt that has some break in it.

Look at the putt from behind the ball as you do when you're on the course reading a putt. Now look at it from the other side of the hole, looking back through the hole at the ball. This should give you an initial idea on how much break there is.

Now pour enough water in the hole so you can see which exact direction gravity wants to take the ball at the hole if it has no speed. The opposite side of the cup is the direction from which you want the ball to fall into the hole. That's the front door. With a ball that has very little velocity, this will give you the widest hole for which the ball can fall, which is pretty much the fill width of the cup.

Now backtrack on that line and picture the arc needed to make the ball do that. This should give you a good mental picture of the full arc the ball should be taking and if you're not completely new to golf, you should have a feel for how hard you need to hit the ball for that to happen.

Obviously there are more lines that the ball can take that will result in a holed putt, but as the speed increases, the hole effectively gets smaller because a putt that hits the edge will lip out if it's traveling too fast. In this amazingly awesome MS Paint presentation I have created, the dark red line would be my preferred arc. while someone may still take the lighter red line but have to hit the ball harder.




I always look at a hole and ask myself where the water will flow if it was bubbling out of the cup. I can almost always form a mental picture of the arc needed from that and kinda just go from there.


MOST PEOPLE DON'T READ NEARLY ENOUGH BREAK. It also helps to identify the lowest point of the green before you even get to it. It's easier to see if you're away from the green and it's at an elevated level from where you're standing instead of trying to figure it out while standing on it. Unless the green has a lot of built in tiers and humps, this is usually a very good indicator of the general break of the green. Look for valleys and bodies of water. Looking at the overall lay of the land can make it much easier to see the true break of a green.

I just use putt preview.

The entire aimpoint express system is based off accurately guessing the slope degree, the slope level just helps you get a feeling for it to see if you are correct.

I got aimpoint as a massive scam

I have a friend that did Aimpoint recently and we played together on Sunday for the first time since he started using it. He couldn't stop talking about how it changed his life etc but I didn't think he was putting any better or worse than before. He did take a little longer to feel the slope and then finger his line and then he was full of excuses for every single putt he missed; "didn't hit my line", "hit my line, but it was too hard", "i didn't see the double-breaker".

Yeah you still have to learn how to apply it right. I haven't actually taken the class yet but got the basics down but seems to work pretty well but I was already a fairly decent putter for a non sub 5 hdcp player. Went from like 32.3 putts per round to about 31.2 or so now. But putts per round is a useless stat so take it for what it is worth.

Aimpoint is worthless if you aren't able to consistently hit putts with proper speed.

Prednisone worked for me. I used to have almost unbearable pain in my hands/wrists for the first 3-4 holes and now its under control. Not back to normal, but a thousand times better.

In other news, I am finally starting to come out of my funk and play some pretty good golf. I haven't shanked a ball in like 4-5 weeks, the thin shots are starting to disappear and I'm absolutely striping my driver. Last week I had a round where I only missed like 2 fairways. This weekend on Sunday morning I was playing out of my mind; hitting greens from everywhere and ****. It's a nice feeling when the game starts to come together.

I use this one from Home Depot: http://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-9-i...-100653598-_-x

I think the issue with using a phone is that isn't very long could give you an inaccurate reading.

Hit balls at Seaside (Sea Island) yesterday. Great range. Playing tomm I think.

St Simons has to have the most churches per capita of anywhere in the country. Or maybe it's just a south thing

Do the pros using aimpoint just go through the motions of figuring out the slope, you think the caddies would have already mapped the greens and got the slope of the main features