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Just bought myself the Nike VR_S X irons in preparation for the upcoming golf season. Going to wait a few more paychecks before adding the Nike Covert driver and fairway wood.

Anyone played with these before? Really excited to get back out there.
 
Never been a Nike guy. Last few sets have been Mizzuno MP series. Not sure what I will go with next.
 
I just bought one of these BirdieBall putting greens.

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Then I went out and bought the new smart square Cleveland putter.

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My putting has gotten so much better in the month that I've had both of them. Highly suggest the putting green.
 
Plus 1 to whoever said straight>distance. In high school, I was a 280-290 guy, but rarely hit fairways. I'm down to 250-260, but I'm hitting five to six more fairways a round. It helps when you can place a ball for your second shot. It helps when you can avoid hazards. The thirty yard distance for me is instead of hitting mostly 8/9 into most par fours, I'm hitting 6/7, which I oddly like a little bit better because I play a loooot of run on pretty much everything outside of a wedge in preparation for when the courses start to get really really dry. I miss golf.
 
Playing Firestone Country Club's north course in a bit :)

Was supposed to play the south course but got booted due to scheduling. From what I hear the north course is more scenic and enjoyable though.

Plus I don't want to leave any divots that are going to show up on national TV a couple months from now anyways...
 
Bringing this thread back to life.... I'm finally giving into one of the golf channel infomercials. It was only a matter of time.

Has anyone here tried the Medicus driver? I have as massive of a slice as you will see. I've cut it down some, and have learned to play with it. However I only get 250-260 on my drives. I know if I can straighten it out, I can drive as long as most golfers because that's one of the strengths of my game.

I've tried 1000 things to fix the slice and some might work for a week, but that's about it. I can find the Medicus club for about 80 bucks, and wanted to know if anyone's tried it or had good/bad results.

I'm probably the last person who should give advice and there's probably a bunch of different causes for a slice.

In my case I fixed my slice (well, most of the time) by strengthening my grip, making sure my left arm is straight at the top of the backswing, and simply not trying to swing too hard. Also a hint of closed clubface when I address the ball.

Edit: and aiming to the left edge of the fairway as well just in case :(
 
If you are slicing with just your driver an not any other clubs a lot of times it is because the head of the club is not square at impact. I was doing this for awhile and to correct it I was practicing at the driving range by rotating my hands a lot more than normal. Basically I pretended I was turning a steering very hard to the left. It ended up helping a ton, I dont know if it might help you as well. The biggest thing is keeping a square base and limit as much swaying and excess motion in your swing as possible.
 
Playing Firestone Country Club's north course in a bit :)

Was supposed to play the south course but got booted due to scheduling. From what I hear the north course is more scenic and enjoyable though.

Plus I don't want to leave any divots that are going to show up on national TV a couple months from now anyways...


Enjoy the north course! It is quite fun indeed. 16, 17, and 18 are awesome finishing holes. I've played it quite a few times and it does get tight in some places and some water can sneak in too. I've played the west a lot as well but never the south course. Maybe one day I'll get the chance.
 
play the ball in the center of your front foot and over grip. gets you through the ball.
 
Try not going back in your swing fully. Take kind of a 3/4 back swing and focus on going UP, not "around." Don't hold your club too firm but don't let your grip slide. I don't even hit perfectly straight, I do what Kouki does too and I am a little left so my slight slice will make it in the fairway. I used to slice in the other fairway almost every time.
 
Played twice this week in Hilton Head. Shot 82 on Tuesday and 84 on Thursday at Fuzzy Zoeller's Island West course. Reasonably pleased with my play.
 
Enjoy the north course! It is quite fun indeed. 16, 17, and 18 are awesome finishing holes. I've played it quite a few times and it does get tight in some places and some water can sneak in too. I've played the west a lot as well but never the south course. Maybe one day I'll get the chance.

Had an awesome time. I was going to ask how you played it so frequently but I guess they have public nights occasionally, or do you know someone? I don't really regret not playing the south course. With our foursome it would have been terrible. We took five hours on the north course...I shot 100, another guy shot an 80, we are frequent golfers who understand pace of play and etiquette and whatnot (even though I'm not the best golfer)...the other two guys picked their balls up every other hole and shot in the 120's with the mercy rule.

Woke up at 4:45 for the 7:35 start. Got there, grabbed a banana and granola bar, waited for practice facility to open. Hit some on the range and chipping green.

I could talk about it for hours...should have shot in the low 90's since I flubbed many pitches (like, taking three shots to get on the green from 50 yards out flubbing). 16, 17, and 18 were definitely great closing holes. Parred 16 with a crummy drive (short of bunkers on right), excellent four iron, and stuck a 9 iron to about 12 feet (probably my best back-to-back shots of the day - the 9 iron was all OVER the hole the whole way). In the water on 17, I SO wanted to hit a good shot there but ended up about five feet short. 18 was oddly comforting because of my slice. Crushed my driver through the fairway (was hoping for more slice), 5 iron from about 205 from the rough barely caught water on the right. (the good golfer in our group stuck a 5 wood from ~230 and left his eagle putt from 60 feet about two foot short - hell of a putt). That other par three that's surrounded by water front and rightish, pin was on the left and I landed on the green with a ~60 foot putt I had to give about 10 feet of break to...I was proud to two putt it!

It was one of those days where I would follow up a fantastic drive with a crummy approach, or vice versa. And the type of day where I absolutely nailed really tough drives (like on 14, I carried the fairway bunkers) but did shitty on the wider-open ones (like the par five (i think it was a five) with the transmission lines on the right; definitely went OB off the tee). Never really chained good shots together (like on 14 where I ended with a triple bogey after that perfect drive). I put pretty solid, only a couple three puts, sank a couple tricky ten footers. Greens at Turkeyfoot prepared me well for that.

Just the kind of experience where I can remember each and every hole vividly despite playing it only once. Probably because we were waiting so much on the other two in our group.
 
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Had an awesome time. I was going to ask how you played it so frequently but I guess they have public nights occasionally, or do you know someone? I don't really regret not playing the south course. With our foursome it would have been terrible. We took five hours on the north course...I shot 100, another guy shot an 80, we are frequent golfers who understand pace of play and etiquette and whatnot (even though I'm not the best golfer)...the other two guys picked their balls up every other hole and shot in the 120's with the mercy rule.

Woke up at 4:45 for the 7:35 start. Got there, grabbed a banana and granola bar, waited for practice facility to open. Hit some on the range and chipping green.

I could talk about it for hours...should have shot in the low 90's since I flubbed many pitches (like, taking three shots to get on the green from 50 yards out flubbing). 16, 17, and 18 were definitely great closing holes. Parred 16 with a crummy drive (short of bunkers on right), excellent four iron, and stuck a 9 iron to about 12 feet (probably my best back-to-back shots of the day - the 9 iron was all OVER the hole the whole way). In the water on 17, I SO wanted to hit a good shot there but ended up about five feet short. 18 was oddly comforting because of my slice. Crushed my driver through the fairway (was hoping for more slice), 5 iron from about 205 from the rough barely caught water on the right. (the good golfer in our group stuck a 5 wood from ~230 and left his eagle putt from 60 feet about two foot short - hell of a putt). That other par three that's surrounded by water front and rightish, pin was on the left and I landed on the green with a ~60 foot putt I had to give about 10 feet of break to...I was proud to two putt it!

It was one of those days where I would follow up a fantastic drive with a crummy approach, or vice versa. And the type of day where I absolutely nailed really tough drives (like on 14, I carried the fairway bunkers) but did shitty on the wider-open ones (like the par five (i think it was a five) with the transmission lines on the right; definitely went OB off the tee). Never really chained good shots together (like on 14 where I ended with a triple bogey after that perfect drive). I put pretty solid, only a couple three puts, sank a couple tricky ten footers. Greens at Turkeyfoot prepared me well for that.

Just the kind of experience where I can remember each and every hole vividly despite playing it only once. Probably because we were waiting so much on the other two in our group.

Sounds like a great day indeed, outside of the other two guys in the foursome!
I had the chance to play it a few times while in college in Canton. I was on the golf team at Malone College (now University) and we would have some friendly intra-squad matches there as kind of a "treat." I can picture all of the holes that you're talking about. I'm a nerd in that I can remember golf courses VERY well so I'm familiar with it.
 
I'm probably the last person who should give advice and there's probably a bunch of different causes for a slice.

In my case I fixed my slice (well, most of the time) by strengthening my grip, making sure my left arm is straight at the top of the backswing, and simply not trying to swing too hard. Also a hint of closed clubface when I address the ball.

Edit: and aiming to the left edge of the fairway as well just in case :(

In particular, if you're right handed, strengthening the grip of your right hand helps to counteract a slice (and vice versa for left hand).
 
Thanks for the tip.

Now I'm on a golf binge, like I've always enjoyed golf but now I really want to get good.

Could use a new driver :) I hit my buddy's yesterday at the range, straight as an arrow and maybe only 20 yards shorter than my driver. My driver is tiny, most others' fairway woods are about the size of my driver. But I think a larger clubface would lead to more consistency while sacrificing distance. Any suggestions on good used woods?
 

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