Random musings...

illest

According to the track man simulator tonight, I backed up an 8 iron...I think maybe I’m putting too much spin on it Giphy - uncomfortable donald glover GIF

Putterho

geaux I’m still trying to figure out what all of those numbers mean.

ForeLeft

Putterho huge nerd for all this. I can make you a PowerPoint if you want 😂

Eddie

What was the spin number and decent angle? Come on, details!

illest

Eddie so I didn’t grab a photo of that particular shot but off the top of my head, the spin was 8900+ and I didn’t have the decent angle numbers.

dphatt

geaux any other numbers like ball speed or attack angle?

illest

dphatt it obviously wasn’t one of my better shots of the evening and for some reason it wasn’t spitting out the attack angle numbers for all of the 8i shots. (I only brought an 8i and 5i)

But from what I can tell, when it did show attack angle for the 8i, it was around 2.0+, ball speed for that shot in particular was probably 101-103. Carry was 133 and “total” was 132.something. It was definitely an outlier although I don’t hit it very far.
I’m an idiot and didn’t just snag a picture of the data from all of the shots, just a few of them. And recorded some of the swings.

My “best” 8i shot of the night was:

Ball speed 108.3
Smash 1.31
Carry 142.5
Launch 27.1
Spin 6364

But that dispersion though. 😎

ForeLeft

Rule of thumb I go by is...take the iron, multiply it by 1k...should be at or below that for spin. Anything more and you risk losing distance.

so 8 iron should spin at or below 8k

height should be 90
land angle 45°

ForeLeft

geaux if you saved the session under your name, you should be able to retrieve it from mytrackman.com or have them export the report to you and you can select numbers from there

Putterho

ForeLeft Please do.

illest

ForeLeft I’m going to call the place tomorrow and see if they can send it to me. I’m not sure if they have it connected to automatically upload to my trackman and I’m having login issues with that right now.

ForeLeft

geaux they should be able to just go back into the session from last night and export it to any email of your choice. If they don't have it under your name, that's probably why you won't see it.

illest

ForeLeft just sent an email to place I go to; I’m pretty sure they keep it stored by person but I don’t know if they’re connected with trackman. They just have them? I don’t know.

illest

I’ll probably regret this but here’s an 8i and 5i swing:

ForeLeft

geaux Roasted like some marshmallows! nothing wrong with a 206 5 iron! haha.

Eddie

Yeah, plenty of speed there, what I see, especially with a positive AoA on some shots is a little bit of delivering more club loft into the ball than "optimal", which will lead to high launch angles and a good amount of spin. I have fought that for years, and now deliver too little loft to the ball, so go figure haha.

Swing looks good, would just work on how you get to impact with loft and your carry numbers should jump.

CLTGamecock

Seems like a decent place to ask this but does anyone have the B. Draddy mask? My current face mask is hotter than all get out and theirs seems like it would be more comfortable, given that it's made out of their inventory fabric.

Any other suggestions also welcome.

Jaybananapantsarthur

CLTGamecock I have a few

1) the wires used to shape over nose all broke within first two wearings
2) comfortable but warmer than you’d want

I’d look elsewhere

illest

I played 9 this evening and was joined for a few holes by a kid who just graduated. He played at a D1 school and is trying to go pro.

Lets just say, him and I play a completely different game. Giphy - awkward kobe bryant GIF

ckay

Was going through my closet where I have all of my golf stuff and came across this. My wife’s company was a sponsor and the PGA rep had made this for me as a new father gift.