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Originally Posted by beanocomic  Hi Mox
Have you used it with the guidance of a pro or have you used it on your own.
I am a 24 Hcp golfer but I am trying to improve my consistency of my swing. 4 recent Tests (10 swings each) with 7 iron resulted in consistency indexs 14.1, 16.2, 17.1 and 20.2.
Each test preceded a game and I achieved nett 64 with the best test 14.1 it also felt good.
Please reply as I am keen to exploit the potential offered by the watch.
Have you read the Tour Tempo book by Novosel.
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Hi Beano.
Yes - I'm still using the watch when practicing, and I'm still happy with it.
At the moment I'm working on my swing with my local pro - trying to get a more inside path to the ball, and I can use the watch to check if I'm on track. If my takeaway and backswing is "correct", I will be unable to rotate more than appx 155 degrees, but if I get it wrong, my hands and arms collapse and my backswing goes to 180 degrees (sometimes even more
).
I can also see a substantial increase in clubhead speed (but you can of course just look at how far the ball goes for that).
Apart from that, I of course use the consistency test - but due to the swing change, I'm not all that consistent at the moment. From a value point of view, I think the test-mode is the most important tool.
I usually go to the range - stretch and warm up - hit 10-15 balls with a 6 or 7 iron - take a 10 shot test - then hit maybe 100 balls contiously working on whatever change is on the agenda and using the practice mode - then take another 10 shot test, hoping to improve on the first.
I'm playing off 22.4 at the moment - not a big improvement over last year, but I've spent a lot of time working on my swing this year and getting back to level, and I'm definately hitting it a lot better and more consistent now than last year, scoring a lot better on average, despite not breaking my best score by much.
I still find a lot of motivational value in the G6. I still look forward to switching it on, every time I go practice. And after having it calibrated and tested on a launch monitor with fairly good results, I'm confident in the information it puts out.
Only thing that annoys me is the lame PC-software that just isn't up to modern standards. The data format is XML though, so with a bit of programming skills it should be easy to get more from the data. So easy, in fact, that I'm deeply dissapointed that Suunto haven't done a better job at it.
The same goes for the community site at
SuuntoSports - a great idea, but poorly executed - and nobody uses it. A shame, really.
If only ...
I haven't looked into the "Tour Tempo" stuff - not books, CDs, tapes, beeping gadgets or anything. But I HAVE tried to calculate the Beats Per Minute of my swing and picking out tracks on my iPod to help with in practice. I found that insanely annoying.
Perhaps I should just read the book.
In 54 "games" I have used 4619 shots. I wish I could say that it was an average of 85,53 shots for 18 holes, but sadly, some of those games were only 9 holes
I get up-and-down only 2% of the time (chipping and pitching sucks, but putting is the main culprit), 6% sandsaves (SUCK), 87 GIR (11% - thats only twice per round), 150 Fairways (26% - better than it feels at the moment
) and 1653 putts (averaging 2.04 per hole).
All that data is from the "History" mode.
Let us know how you get on - and be sure to ask if you have questions, even the stupid ones. I'll happily provide stupid answers.