I was going to make it a pdf download and ask people to contribute what they thought it was worth, but I thought if I put the book up on Amazon’s website it would be better formatted for all types of digital readers.  If this doesn’t work after a couple of months I may put a link to the pdf up as well, but for the time being please think about supporting The Dan Plan by purchasing the book here:

Amazon Unites States:  http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MTC0NJA

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Amazon Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B00MTC0NJA

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And most any other country, email me if you want a specific link or search for “The Dan Plan”.

I wish to apologize in advance as a few external links did not translate to this format.  One of the most blaring absences are videos.  On a few occasions I talk about watching a video and it’s just a blank on the page.  Outside of that the content is whole.  I edited out about one third of the posts but there is still quite a bit of content, too much in a lot of ways.  Down the road at some point I will have a professional editor (or a well versed friend, or myself when the amount of time in a day magically doubles) take a gander at the content and polish it up.  For now, this is the story, more or less, word for word from the beginning.  I hope you enjoy and get some value out of the content.

For every book purchased from Amazon almost $5 goes to The Dan Plan.  Thank you for reading and please help spread the word to anyone potentially interested in seeing what it takes to make such a drastic change in one’s life.

Cheers!

While on TrackMan, I tested every major brand that they had and found that my best “misses” came from the new Nike Covert Tour with an 80 gram stiff shaft.  I decided that it made sense to try it out on the course, but I didn’t want to spend the $230 it was listed for at RedTail so went online and found it at a  discount golf website for under $100 including shipping.  It was a deal too good to pass up so I ordered it and the new stick arrived yesterday.  It was listed in “used” condition on the site, but came with the original wrappers still on the club:

It did, though, have one tiny blemish on the top of the club.  Something that I would have eventual put there myself…:

Definitely a steal of a deal and I’m interested to see if this change makes a difference in my 200-230 yard game as well as potentially adds some confidence in short par 4 tee shots.  I’m not saying it will or won’t help, but I’m going to give it a shot and see what happens.

To pay for this stick, I sold some golf clubs for the first time ever.  I posted one of my old Nike pro-combo iron sets (pw to 5-iron with Project X 6.0 shafts) on eBay and was interested in what they would go for.  All in all, after eBay took it’s cut, the irons sold for about $100, so it was a wash to trade the irons for the hybrid.

I truly hope this doesn’t spoil my potential relationship with Titleist.  I love my Vokey Wedges and AP2 irons as well as 913 driver, just have been struggling with the new hybrid.  I am sure there is a way to have it better fit my new swing and this is something I will talk with them about when I return to Oceanside in mid-January.  I do, however, want to keep it real and talk about what I am doing and right now I am exploring the world of the hybrid.  A club that I want to compare this Nike to is the Titleist 912U 2-iron.  As soon as I find one of those I will do a full comparison of the two.

On to newsy-news.

Over the past few months I have been working with Axon Sports to assist in developing an entirely different approach to golf learning in a new golf training app.  We are focussing on imagery, imagination and visualization within the golf swing and the first version of the app is finally in my hands.  I will be testing it out and tweaking aspects of the user experience over the near future and am excited about this new tool.  It should be a game-changer down the road when it has been fully developed and a way for anyone to optimize their 10,000 hours.

To do it right, these things take a lot of time.  I will definitely be updating this process as it develops and will reveal aspects of the app when the time is right.

I’m very excited about this.