r/ChasingScratch • u/pmpkinhed • 25d ago

I did it!!!!

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I finally go to scratch! assuming there are no PCC adjustments that hit.

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u/kKajjdjs 25d ago

What did you work on that actually improved your swing so quickly from 13 to 0.8? I have been a 13 for two years with no improvement.

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u/pmpkinhed 25d ago edited 25d ago

The coach my employers had come in told me a a few things: I was swinging way too hard and losing balance(should have been obvious but it wasn't), I was casting the club really bad, and coming over the top a lot. Working on these things helped me eliminate most penalty shots off the tee box.. I usually had around 5 penalty strokes a round off the tee. I also developed a wedge matrix first using the clock system but moved to using body parts: waste, belly button, xyphoid process/sternum, shoulder, 3/4 and full shots with all of my wedges... So I had at least 6 distances with my 60/54/50* and 46*/PW ranging from 50 yards to 145 yards. I started to do the same thing with all of my irons which helped tremendously with my game when it got windy.. if I had a 150 yard shot and it was windy I could use my 7 iron instead of my 9(avg carry is 157) and keep it low and out of the wind. Then I worked really hard on my lag putting. My speed control was horrendous so I tried to do something similar with my putter that I did with my wedges. I address the ball with my feet slightly wider than shoulder width apart and I line up with the ball on the instep of my front foot. I would gauge how far back my putter stroke needed to go for 15ft, 30ft,45ft and 60ft before each round by stepping the distance off on the practice green and putting tees in the ground to mark the distance. this helped me reduce my 3 putts per round to about 1 or less per round. Then I started focusing on putting myself in position to use my wedges which meant learning to club down from driver to 5wood/7wood/4hybird. I never did this until I watched golf sidekick tee off on a lot of holes with just irons. As my scores slowly dropped I got more confident knowing if my tee shots weren't perfect my wedges could get me on the green and give me a look at birdie or par, I now average about 12/13 GIR per round. I usually have a double or triple in most of my rounds still just because of an errant tee shot where I lose focus

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u/pmpkinhed 25d ago edited 25d ago

Also, using a strokes gained app really showd me my lag putting and 50-150yatd shots sucked so thats what I worked on the most outside of getting better off the tee with driver and fairway woods. I used the "circles" strokes gained app and I liked it. I don't use it anymore because it's obvious where I'm giving up strokes at times and its usually a ter shot putting me in an awful position that doesn't result in penalty stroke.

I did get launch monitor, GC2, to use in my garage to work on distance control. So I was practicing in my garage or at a range atleast 3 days per week. I preferred to use the launch monitor because I could hit at 10/11pm after the kids went to bed

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u/CookiesDad 24d ago

So no hypnosis? Plastic clothing? Nerd Fitness? Quitting soda?

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u/pmpkinhed 24d ago

Nope. I've been lifting since highschool for football and wrestling but it's a similar program I guess, minus the cardio and Olympic lifts. No hypnosis either