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Edited: Mar 28, 2023

Plan of attack and what is yours for this season?

Bear with me as I lay out my plan of attack as I chomp at the bit for this season to get going. And hopefully will get some responses about how all of you going about attacking this season. Whether you are playing in league, competitively or just recreational.

Okay, 2nd year with Saguto Academy and pleased with all that went down last season minus finals weekend left shoulder "injury"(really just age issues, bursitis). But got it injected after season and holding up great, right shoulder with the metal junkyard doing well. Keeping them rubbed and doing PT elastic band therapy at home keeping them in shape.

Bag:-

Decided after the 1st outing of attempting to bring back 3 wood to scrap that. Staying with my 2 & 3 iron crossovers, they are even distance wise with 3 & 5 woods. Much more versatile in where and what kind of lies I can hit them from and with a little Grid tweaking can play them to run out or drop in.

Callaway Rogue here to stay combined with Pro V1 see a 10 yard increase.

Carrying 4 wedges, PW, UT, ZipCore 54, LW 56.

Attitude:- Feeling really confident in all aspects of the foundation laid last season. Feeling the comfort with pre shot routine and setups and added delayed hip turn moving towards target line. Although only once out the "aha" moment and comfort and confidence was noticeable.

Attack:- Even though know home course well, have to play smarter. Times you just have to put it in the middle of the green. This year going to start off going for the "meat" of the green all the time. No matter where flag is unless am pitching from short distance because of short or missed green. This should be a boon for prep for MBWA at end of year playing unknow courses. The thought of this approach is I should hit more greens this way, at least I will be putting for more birdies and will hopefully hone my lag putting more. Thus building confidence and honing skills.

Focus:- Play smarter golf, stay within my game and really access what the shot should be, not what I want it to be(if that makes sense).

Stick with my pre shot routine and setup, behind ball picking a spot in front of the ball online with target direction. Staying with the 3/4 swing and power accumulators and acceleration. Chipping with putting stroke and changing clubs for roll distance needed. Pitching and approach shots getting wedge distances dialed in more.

Get in the zone, play one shot at a time and leave last shot behind , good or bad. Enjoy the game and keep a good attitude and remember what I am building on!

Hope to hear all of fellow students focuses for this season.

Blessings

10 comments

10 Comments

Russell Hogue, PhD

Apr 01, 2023

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Only comment on your club choice would be, consider 58 instead of 56. Your gapping would be too close on full swings and launch spin wouldn't provide enough difference in short game.

Otherwise, love your plan.

Steven

Apr 02, 2023

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Actually, Russel your right on there. The Zipcore is 54 and Lob is 58. My old G25's lob was 56 and couldn't' figure out why I lost distance with the 425's on my lob, till I realized the different in loft on new one. Which is why got the Zipcore. And early results are good and totally pleased with the Stopping and spin power of Pro V 1.

Thanks for feedback.

Steven

Mar 28, 2023

Nice Ron!

Knew when I posted there would be some that have a year round season, Although I know Florida can be a bit brutal in the summer.

Tom Saguto

Mar 28, 2023

@Steven - Great post! I went ahead and pinned it to draw more attention to it.

Tom Holt

Mar 28, 2023

I have goals to figure out why one day I was hitting everything crispy and now I am lucky if I hit it crispy. Not the first time it has happened either. Happened in Hawaii too. So my plan of attack is to get that figured out as fast as possible. Not in the setup. it's in the swing. (isn't it always.) The proof for me is the slice of the driver I have seemed to have acquired, if not perfected😐

I think if I work that out I will then at least know and it just might take care of the lack of crispiness with the other clubs. I never sliced the driver like this in my life. I also need to add at least a 56* wedge. Practice 2.8 more and get ready for the MBWA, and meet you guys. These are my goals and I will work hard to get them right and then look out.

If I start hitting like I was, I know I will be a contender. I want to be the guy at the range people want to hit like so that when they ask me I can send them in the right direction. These are my golf goals.

burkholder.ronald

Mar 28, 2023

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Replying to

This is a good point. The pre-shot routine and setup are the only aspects that we have 100% control of during a shot. Once the swing starts, we are taught not to control anything. The reason this is good advice is because of the delay in our nervous system’s detection and response to a stimulus. As Tom (and others) have said before, “You have to give up control to gain control.” So, it makes sense to pay close attention to the grip and set-up that you have control of and then abandon control once you pull the trigger.

I think I’m going to add this to my focus going forward.

Tom Holt

Mar 29, 2023

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Holy cow!! I went to the "ball flight fix" and saw many things that point at exactly to what you are pointing out. I never once even opened these lessons. Didn't need to in my mind.

Thank you, Steven. Now I have several things to ponder and look at the next time I go to the range. This is why I love the Saguto golf stuff and the people here. The first place I go to each and every morning. Can't even express my excitement to have the knowledge at my fingertips that will make me a better player. I know I can do it because I have.

Steven

Mar 29, 2023

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My 2nd year here, wish I found Saguto Academy sooner.

But yes it is a gold mine here. I have been playing for a long time but really the last few years the most serious since High School but did play before my previous 3 year kind of break.

I am a bit more of a foundation builder here. I did scrap all the old swing stuff and somewhat started over last season. I have only went through a minuscule of some of the stuff and build as I go and get things incorporated.

Like if you were building a house, you don't do the foundation after you frame it and start doing the inside.

I think you said you are fairly new golfer, so I am taking it you never played in a competitive atmosphere?

You are excited as I am for the MBWA. But if this first go around at playing competitively, make sure you focus on having a great time and play smart golf. Unknown courses and playing with others you never met is all part of the mix. That is why having a routine and stuff ingrained is huge. Like @burkholder.ronald stated the setup we control, the rest is muscle memory! And we want both. I can tell you from playing competitively in HS and the last 3 to 10 years when the heat is on the more you have a routine and muscle memory the better you are going to perform.

And when you get to the point where you have those days you are firing on all cylinders you can then stretch the limits a bit.

Remember scoring in this game is150-100 yards in and as the old saying goes "you drive for show and putt for dough". You are only hitting off the tee 18 times. And if you do the regulation of 2 putts on every green that's 54 strokes right there. So short game and putting is the difference in this game once you get striking the ball on a more consistent basis.

Keep us informed as I glean from everyone's post,

Blessings

burkholder.ronald

Mar 28, 2023

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Nice plan! Living in Florida just south of Jacksonville, my season lasts all year. We did have one frost delay back in January. LOL!

My improvement plan is to use the 2.8 Drill swing more consistently. I’ll be 72 in October. I don’t have any chronic health problems affecting my swing. I can still drive it over 220 yards 90% of the time. I play from tees that are between 5700 and 6200 yards. So, the 2.8 Drill swing is usually all I need.

I recently did have the weight forward tenet reinforced for me. I have gout that I have always managed with watching what I eat. But about a month ago I had a flare up in my lead ankle. The joint was pretty locked up so I couldn’t roll it but I could still tolerate putting weight on it straight down. Anyway, I played some lousy golf until this past Sunday.

Last week I surrendered and had the doc prescribe allopurinol. So by Sunday my ankle was back to 100%. I was able to setup weight forward like before but now I was able to move from 60% to 95% weight forward on the downswing. I shot 78 using the 2.8 Drill swing on all drives and approach shots. My faith restored.