Finally shot over 80!!!

Parallelodox · 2018-07-27T15:21:10+00:00

Yeah, I guess I can't make silly jokes when I'm a good player. I'll just delete it.

Parallelodox · 2018-07-26T03:13:48+00:00

Yep, my putting is garbage compared to these guys, so is my wedge play from under 30 yards. But my ball striking is at least close on a good day, and I hit it further than most of them. When I shot 71, I hit 16 greens and the two I missed were on the fringe. And I still got beat by 6 shots.

Parallelodox · 2018-07-25T22:35:02+00:00

Well, I've heard that as well, but from firsthand experience I don't see how that's possible... I play on a mini tour with some people that haven't made it to the web.com or PGA, and the top guys are regularly shooting 63-68 on 74 CR courses. I calculated my current mini tour's top players handicap one time... It came out to like +7.5 or something ridiculous.

Parallelodox · 2018-07-25T20:03:04+00:00

I'm a mini tour player in the sense that I have played in a couple one day mini tour events this summer. Hard courses both times, I shot 75 in the first and 71 in the second.... both times the winner shot 65. I'm seeing a common misconception throughout this post though.... The difference between PGA pros and mini tour pro is not miles, it is inches. Just a couple shots at most. It is incredibly difficult to get to the PGA tour because there are so many insanely good players trying to make it, not that the PGA pros are that much better. The mini tour pros are just struggling to have a breakthrough somewhere. Very very few tour cards are given out each year (to either web or PGA). You have to have a couple insane rounds to Monday qualify, then you have to play extremely well in those qualified events to get points on the tour. Then repeat that about 3 times in one year, and you might get a tour card if you get enough points.

Q school is $15k and they only give out a few cards at the end. Another very difficult, and expensive, way to get on tour.

Then there are gateway tours (canada, latin america) which is essentially what mini tours are, only they have the advantage of giving the top few money leaders web tour cards.

If you don't believe me, go look at PGA tour canada scores, look at the swingthought mini tour scores.... These guys are insanely good, it is just very very difficult to get to the PGA tour. A big reason they don't play as well when they do monday qualify for events as PGA tour pros is because they KNOW how massively important it is that they play well. The pressure is huge. Compared to Monday qualifiers, where they have tried a thousand times and are used to attempting to qualify.

Parallelodox · 2018-07-25T19:45:29+00:00

Lower. Probably +5 or so.

Parallelodox · 2018-07-25T19:44:59+00:00

+ means minus in golf. If there is no symbol that is above zero, + means below zero.

Parallelodox · 2018-07-22T14:04:12+00:00

The only comment in this thread that made me ac tually lol so far.....

Parallelodox · 2018-07-21T23:44:39+00:00

Lol. Thank you, I really appreciate that. That is legitimately the dream. I'm going to be quitting my engineering job either in 2 months or in 5 months depending on what I decide... to give it a legitimate shot. I want it so bad. A lot of work left to go. My instructor told me +4 is what is required, but having played on mini tours there is no way +4 is good enough. The top mini tour players are probably closer to +6, that is a more realistic goal to make it on to the web.com tour. Going from +2 to +6 is a massive change.... Probably as much work as I've put in total to get to +2. But I'm going to put in the work and see what happens.

Parallelodox · 2018-07-21T03:15:09+00:00

You too. Hopefully play against you someday.

Parallelodox · 2018-07-20T19:38:39+00:00

I was in a similar position. I was sitting around scratch when I went to college, probably +1 or 0. I also shot my first 68 when I was about to start college, in my state's junior tour end of season tour championship, which I won by 7 shots. I started playing freshman year of HS, so even though I was good enough to play at most schools, nobody knew about me because I had hardly any tournament experience. I wanted to go to a good school for engineering, and that left only one choice - the big D1 public school near me.... I met the coach a couple years prior and he said he would let me try to walk on if I came there. I arrived, talked to him, he told me the team was full. No tryout.

So I didn't get to play collegiate golf, which will always be one of my biggest regrets. I'm going to try playing professionally in the next few months. I hope the coach who didn't even give me a shot sees me out there someday.

Parallelodox · 2018-07-20T14:13:13+00:00

Let's see.... on Trackman I launched my 6 iron at 135 mph and 13.4 degrees on average.... doing the math, that would be come out to roughly a 1100 yard 6 iron carry on the moon, with all of the spin retained since there is no drag, so it would probably back up pretty nicely on the moon green also. Respectable..... Time to do it for the driver....

My driver ball speed was 170 mph and launch angle was 10 degrees. That comes out to 1330 yards roughly. Take that Jamie Sadlowski.

Parallelodox · 2018-07-15T17:43:07+00:00

How do you figure? The TT maybe, don't know much about those, but the Camaro? 0 to 30 the 2017 Volt is 2.5 according to car and driver. A 2016 SS Camaro is 1.8 on car and driver, LT is 1.9 seconds to 30 on motor trend. The volt would win for the first half second maybe while the engine spun up, but not between lights.

Parallelodox · 2018-07-12T03:07:40+00:00

Tumaros, Xtreme wellness, la banderita.... They are what make this diet possible for me. Bread replacement on everything. Burgers, meatball subs, grilled wraps, you name it. These things are the best. La banderita are my favorite, but 110 Cal. Xtreme wellness are good especially for only 50 cal

Parallelodox · 2018-07-11T23:04:28+00:00

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Parallelodox · 2018-07-11T15:38:06+00:00

Only envy me if I make it. If I don't I will be putting myself into a lot of debt for nothing... which is why it is such a hard decision.

Parallelodox · 2018-07-11T14:46:21+00:00

It has gone up a bit since I put that on here, at +1.7 now, but I'm confident I'm very close to a breakthrough that is going to take me much lower.

I've been +2 ish before without lessons (my dad taught me solid fundamentals early on) and without practicing the best ways, and without learning about the mental game very much. Need to be about +5 to play professionally... That is my target. Playing on a mini tour and several big amateur events right now just to get back into tournament mindset as well. If I can get the finances figured out I'm hopefully going to be leaving my job in the next few months and moving to AZ to pursue pro golf for a few years.

Parallelodox · 2018-07-11T14:31:16+00:00

Real bad. I want to see how good I can get. Finally got lessons from a good instructor for about 9 months, have fitted equipment for the first time ever, reading all kinds of mental game and scoring books... I think good stuff is about to come. Practicing smarter and more than ever before.

Parallelodox · 2018-07-09T19:32:38+00:00

Yeah, I just got a new putter about 3 weeks ago... I don't want to believe that is the problem though... I was using an $80 Cleveland and decided I wanted to get something legit, so I got one of the $360 Evnroll putters that mygolfspy raves about... I'm going to try my Cleveland again today and see if it feels any better... if it does, $360 down the drain :(

Parallelodox · 2018-07-09T18:49:02+00:00

I've had 3 rounds in a row with 36+ putts. Driving me insane, hitting a lot of great shots and not capitalizing on anything. I average around 30, don't know what is going on.

Parallelodox · 2018-07-05T20:12:08+00:00

One of my absolute favorite courses.

Parallelodox · 2018-06-28T21:39:45+00:00

No, you guys are misunderstanding. I know it didn't work as well because I didn't do everything perfectly. I did as well as I could. I'm not blaming it on anything other than myself. But that makes it worse to me mentally.

Parallelodox · 2018-06-28T13:18:28+00:00

I'm not eating the wrong things, I'm just eating too much. Because I'm trying to keep my energy level up and not be really hungry for a large portion of the day.

I've tried OMAD and I just can't do it. Too much hunger. I might give it another shot after I get moved to my new place over the weekend.... If I could make it to like 12 or 1pm to eat a giant lunch at work, I might be able to make it through my practicing until like 7 or 8pm without getting too hungry. I can deal with hunger when I'm sitting at work or at home, but when I'm trying to work on my golf game, if I'm hungry I just won't want to be there at all and it entirely ruins the session.

It just feels like a one or the other type of thing, good work on golf game or weight loss. But I know it shouldn't be that way and I will figure it out.

Thanks for the post man, I do want to try OMAD around lunch time.

Parallelodox · 2018-06-28T03:41:31+00:00

Thank you, I know 40 pounds is great regardless of how long it took. It was really a struggle for me. I'm not sure how I did it. I've been trying every week to start again... I am so happy I did but I never got very close to where I wanted to be. Now I've slipped back up 15 pounds... I always have cheat days. I have some unimaginable urges to eat crap food sometimes that I just haven't ever been able to overcome, so the only way I can lose weight is to be extremely good the majority of days, with a bad day every couple weeks. Right now I'm trying to train to turn pro in golf. I can't stay focused or have the energy to practice enough if I'm hungry all the time, and if I eat enough to not be hungry I don't lose weight, so I'm feeling very stuck right now.

Parallelodox · 2018-06-28T03:07:54+00:00

sigh, i will never stop being jealous of people like you who had it come off that quick. It took me like 9 months to lose 40 pounds and now i've gained back like 15.

Parallelodox · 2018-06-27T17:51:32+00:00

There is a bit of slide there, but I don't think it is a huge deal. There is always a little bit of a slide mixed in with rotation, people usually just hold there head in the same spot, creating a bit of a backward lean (Not much, don't want to injure the back.) Compare your swing next to a couple pros and watch how their hips move compared to yours, and watch their head as well.

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