Golf thread

[Banedon]

 

[cl smooth]

 

[CubinNY]

4 hours ago, cl smooth said:

 

Saudis already bought themselves a President, might as well capture a sport. 

Edited June 6, 2023 by CubinNY

[squally1313]

So horsefeathering gross

[bukie]

And just when I thought the rich old white guys that ran the PGA tour were taking a moral stand.

There goes any further reason to follow pro golf.

[CubinNY]

Sounds like at least some of the members are pissed. 

[mul21]

Where's Sully and his amoral corporations now?

[Tim]

 

[Old Style]

8 minutes ago, Tim said:

 

[UMFan83]

22 minutes ago, Tim said:

 

That was very clever in a cringy way, thus I decline to laugh.

[Old Style]

 

[Magnetic Curses]

glad i never really got into Tiger-less golf.

Edited June 6, 2023 by Magnetic Curses

[jumbo]

This past weekend I managed to break 80 for just the second time. 79 (again)

Not a super hard course and the white tees, but still feels good

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

Imagine seeing her swing and having the balls to pull this stunt. Good lord guys suck. 

 

[imb]

like most old horsefeathers boring white guys i picked up golf during the pandemic. i dicked around off and on over the years but the combination of there being nothing to horsefeathers do mixed with being able to get out of the house for 5 hours and escape my wife and kids proved to be too strong of a pull and i got fully addicted.

Last year I played a bunch, got to go to Southern Hills, it was a lot of fun. But I'm playing with this hodge podge set of used irons. The caddy that day was like brother you're 6'4, you need to go get fitted for some irons. 

So earlier this month I went to a club fitter here in town who's been doing it for 40 years or whatever. amazing experience. 

I hit my 7 iron 5-6 times and he was like "did those swings feel good?" And im like honestly yeah, i hit it pretty flush every time, timing felt good. I'd be happy with that. So we start looking at the trackman and he's like club a little too open, attack angle too high, spin rate way too high, apex too soon, etc. He grabs a club head and sticks it on a longer shaft with a power spec and goes hit this. First horsefeathers shot goes 180 and all the trackman numbers were in the range he wanted. One swing with a club that fit my oversized beanpole body. 

Now I was aware that he's a salesman and part of his job is being stripper/car salesman ("i think she really likes me dude"/"I need the rust proofing babe.") But swinging those clubs was a much, much better experience. I couldn't believe the difference even if some of it was a placebo effect.

Anyway I get my new irons tomorrow. Im stoked to still suck with my $1700 clubs. 

[CubinNY]

10 minutes ago, imb said:

like most old horsefeathers boring white guys i picked up golf during the pandemic. i dicked around off and on over the years but the combination of there being nothing to horsefeathers do mixed with being able to get out of the house for 5 hours and escape my wife and kids proved to be too strong of a pull and i got fully addicted.

Last year I played a bunch, got to go to Southern Hills, it was a lot of fun. But I'm playing with this hodge podge set of used irons. The caddy that day was like brother you're 6'4, you need to go get fitted for some irons. 

So earlier this month I went to a club fitter here in town who's been doing it for 40 years or whatever. amazing experience. 

I hit my 7 iron 5-6 times and he was like "did those swings feel good?" And im like honestly yeah, i hit it pretty flush every time, timing felt good. I'd be happy with that. So we start looking at the trackman and he's like club a little too open, attack angle too high, spin rate way too high, apex too soon, etc. He grabs a club head and sticks it on a longer shaft with a power spec and goes hit this. First horsefeathers shot goes 180 and all the trackman numbers were in the range he wanted. One swing with a club that fit my oversized beanpole body. 

Now I was aware that he's a salesman and part of his job is being stripper/car salesman ("i think she really likes me dude"/"I need the rust proofing babe.") But swinging those clubs was a much, much better experience. I couldn't believe the difference even if some of it was a placebo effect.

Anyway I get my new irons tomorrow. Im stoked to still suck with my $1700 clubs. 

I was a serious golfer in my late teens and mid 20s. I wasn't good but occasionally I'd break 100 and rarely break 90. But I was also completely frustrated while doing it. Bitching at myself when I'd hit an errant 3 iron or miss a five-foot put. One day in the middle of a bad round I just quit playing and started drinking. I still drink and I don't play golf.

I've played occasionally, maybe once a year for a few years, but I haven't played a round since 2016 and I don't miss it at all. It's an incredibly frustrating game, if you're trying to be good at it. 

[Thusly Boned]

15 minutes ago, imb said:

like most old horsefeathers boring white guys i picked up golf during the pandemic. i dicked around off and on over the years but the combination of there being nothing to horsefeathers do mixed with being able to get out of the house for 5 hours and escape my wife and kids proved to be too strong of a pull and i got fully addicted.

Last year I played a bunch, got to go to Southern Hills, it was a lot of fun. But I'm playing with this hodge podge set of used irons. The caddy that day was like brother you're 6'4, you need to go get fitted for some irons. 

So earlier this month I went to a club fitter here in town who's been doing it for 40 years or whatever. amazing experience. 

I hit my 7 iron 5-6 times and he was like "did those swings feel good?" And im like honestly yeah, i hit it pretty flush every time, timing felt good. I'd be happy with that. So we start looking at the trackman and he's like club a little too open, attack angle too high, spin rate way too high, apex too soon, etc. He grabs a club head and sticks it on a longer shaft with a power spec and goes hit this. First horsefeathers shot goes 180 and all the trackman numbers were in the range he wanted. One swing with a club that fit my oversized beanpole body. 

Now I was aware that he's a salesman and part of his job is being stripper/car salesman ("i think she really likes me dude"/"I need the rust proofing babe.") But swinging those clubs was a much, much better experience. I couldn't believe the difference even if some of it was a placebo effect.

Anyway I get my new irons tomorrow. Im stoked to still suck with my $1700 clubs. 

Golf is definitely a operator>tools game, but getting fitted clubs can make a huge difference. I'm 5'11" so I've never felt like I had to, but I've known people who were really tall (and short) for whom getting a fitted set was really beneficial.

And good that you're doing it relative early. My dad was 6'5" and played most of his life with clubs that were way too short and when he finally got a fitted set, it just jacked him up because he was fighting decades of muscle memory.

[squally1313]

I'm 6'3", left handed, and forever afraid of looking bad at something in front of other people, so basically avoided the whole thing (even as a caddied my way through high school and college) until about 5 years ago, when I bought one of those Strata bag-in-a-box sets off Amazon for like $200. Took about 3 years to even flirt with 100, playing 10ish times a year. Like you, finally upgraded my irons to clubs that fit me/aren't made out of basically plastic, and have managed to break 100 a few times and 50 in 9 a few more times. I realize that I started about 15 years later than my friends, I'm not going to have the time to commit to this to make any serious progress in the near future....it's still frustrating as hell to duff an approach after a rare good drive or have that stretch where you can't get the ball off the tee, but man just being out there and walking the course with a beer in your hand beats pretty much anything else I do socially these days. 

My friends who are super into have dragged me to courses I have no business playing on....Sand Valley a couple times, Streamsong a couple months ago. Yeah, it's not cheap, but when you're paying that much for a good concert ticket or a really nice dinner these days anyways, just enjoy the fun of it, the scenery, the 4 good shots you have each round, etc. There are golf shots I hit 3 summers ago I think about weekly. 

[Thusly Boned]

7 minutes ago, CubinNY said:

I was a serious golfer in my late teens and mid 20s. I wasn't good but occasionally I'd break 100 and rarely break 90. But I was also completely frustrated while doing it. Bitching at myself when I'd hit an errant 3 iron or miss a five-foot put. One day in the middle of a bad round I just quit playing and started drinking. I still drink and I don't play golf.

I've played occasionally, maybe once a year for a few years, but I haven't played a round since 2016 and I don't miss it at all. It's an incredibly frustrating game, if you're trying to be good at it. 

Golf will drive you insane if you let it. Mostly because of how elusive it is. That's an odd adjective to use, but it's the best one I can think of; getting good is hard enough, maintaining is even harder. One small tweak and you can level up, or the whole thing can fall completely apart and it's like you're starting all over.

I love golfing and would do it all day if I could. But the minute you start to get legitimately mad on the course (or range), you just have to pack it in and go home. Getting angry while golfing will only end in even more anger, and if it makes you angry all the time, it probably isn't for you. You have to have the patience of a saint sometimes.

[CubinNY]

1 minute ago, XZero77 said:

Golf will drive you insane if you let it. Mostly because of how elusive it is. That's an odd adjective to use, but it's the best one I can think of; getting good is hard enough, maintaining is even harder. One small tweak and you can level up, or the whole thing can fall completely apart and it's like you're starting all over.

I love golfing and would do it all day if I could. But the minute you start to get legitimately mad on the course (or range), you just have to pack it in and go home. Getting angry while golfing will only end in even more anger, and if it makes you angry all the time, it probably isn't for you. You have to have the patience of a saint sometimes.

Yes, I have impulsivity issues and had overconfidence in my own ability on the course. I'd go to the range and nail a bucket of balls. Then I'd get on the course and hit a bad tee shot and try to make up for it by hitting an impossible 2nd shot and chase that with a bad third shot. Get to the green and three put for a pissed-off 8.  Then the next hole nail a drive and be putting for a birdie. 

[BigbadB]

I have so many amazing golf stories from my time in San Diego, but have yet to take my clubs to a golf course in Central Illinois when I moved here in November of '21. I still take my clubs with me to Cali when we drive out there, which is sometimes 2 times a year. 

My reasons are unselfish for the most part. Reason #1 is my wife went through hell before we moved back here. Her only remaining family members that she grew up with (brother and father) both died during Covid. Neither died of Covid, but the depression she suffers for their passing is very tough for her to deal with, and it didn't help that she couldn't be there with them at their final moments. Then I up and moved her away from the rest of our immediate family by moving to Illinois where she knows no one outside of my group of friends and family. The reason itself is that I just don't want to leave her alone to go off and do fun things while she's at home being lonely and thinking about things that aren't fun at all. 

Reason #2 is my friends here aren't golfers and aren't starting any time soon. My one friend who loves golf really can't. He's got osteoporosis really bad to the point he can break a bone just walking. He wants me to take him out, but I can just see him breaking an arm by making too much contact with the ground or some such other bad swing issue. He's going to make me do it, so sometime in the next couple of months when it's warm enough out, I will take him out.

Reason #3 is I just don't really want to spend the money now that we are on a fixed income. Saving the money to allow for more trips to California to see the kids and grandkids is higher on the list of priorities. 

I haven't been good at golf for the most part, having only hit the '70's twice and mostly mid '80's at the highlight of my best golf since I took it up. It doesn't bother me to still shoot high '90's on a really hard course and from the blue tees, but hitting 100 still happens on a rare occasion and I absolutely hate that. Having now been away from nearly weekly golf every week of the year in SoCal and Vegas to only golfing once a year when I'm back there, I can proudly say I scored below '90 on some hard courses each time I was there. You don't loose that muscle memory that easily I guess.

I've played some amazing golf courses like Pebble Beach, Spyglass, Spanish Bay, Wolf Creek, Torrey Pines, Del Mar Country Club, San Diego Country Club and Ram's Hill just to name a few, and all of that will likely just have to live in my memory bank now as I drift farther away from a game I enjoyed a lot because the competitive group I golfed with made it fun. The famous par 3 green overlooking the ocean at Pebble Beach has been my cell phone background picture since I first snapped that photo on the course, June 19th, 2012. Favorite course I ever played was Wolf Creek in Mesquite NV. Course I played that makes me sad, is Trump National in Los Angeles. I played it for free, but it makes me sick to think I did anything anywhere with the Trump name on it. 

[wekse]

I got fitted for new irons (Mizuno JPX 923 Hot Metal Pro's) over the winter and I'm set to play my first round with them Sunday. Been to the range a few times with them, and it's night and day the difference between these new clubs and my old set. 

[jumbo]

On 2/29/2024 at 4:18 PM, imb said:

like most old horsefeathers boring white guys i picked up golf during the pandemic. i dicked around off and on over the years but the combination of there being nothing to horsefeathers do mixed with being able to get out of the house for 5 hours and escape my wife and kids proved to be too strong of a pull and i got fully addicted.

Last year I played a bunch, got to go to Southern Hills, it was a lot of fun. But I'm playing with this hodge podge set of used irons. The caddy that day was like brother you're 6'4, you need to go get fitted for some irons. 

So earlier this month I went to a club fitter here in town who's been doing it for 40 years or whatever. amazing experience. 

I hit my 7 iron 5-6 times and he was like "did those swings feel good?" And im like honestly yeah, i hit it pretty flush every time, timing felt good. I'd be happy with that. So we start looking at the trackman and he's like club a little too open, attack angle too high, spin rate way too high, apex too soon, etc. He grabs a club head and sticks it on a longer shaft with a power spec and goes hit this. First horsefeathers shot goes 180 and all the trackman numbers were in the range he wanted. One swing with a club that fit my oversized beanpole body. 

Now I was aware that he's a salesman and part of his job is being stripper/car salesman ("i think she really likes me dude"/"I need the rust proofing babe.") But swinging those clubs was a much, much better experience. I couldn't believe the difference even if some of it was a placebo effect.

Anyway I get my new irons tomorrow. Im stoked to still suck with my $1700 clubs. 

Getting fitted is awesome. I try to convince every golfer I know to do so on a Trackman, even if they're average height (looking at you XZero77)

Two reasons: First, you get the best club for you. Choosing the right clubs without being able to see the numbers is too feel based for me. Nothing's better than the fitter saying, this is the one, and knowing he's right. Added benefit here is no buyer's remorse when golf happens. Second, the confidence you get from knowing you've got the right stick in your hand is invaluable.

I got fitted last year for the first time since 2015 and it really helped my game

[jumbo]

8 hours ago, wekse said:

I got fitted for new irons (Mizuno JPX 923 Hot Metal Pro's) over the winter and I'm set to play my first round with them Sunday. Been to the range a few times with them, and it's night and day the difference between these new clubs and my old set. 

Since you're getting ready to get out there, I'll share the really cool side effect from my new clubs I got last year. 

I picked up about a club or club and a half in distance. So instead of a 7, I'm hitting 8 or sometimes 9. I play in a league at a local muni and there are a handful of not quote 350 yard clubs. I rush over after work and there's no range, so I just started hitting 5 iron off the tee. I hit more greens with 5 iron/9 iron than I did with driver and chip from trouble (or touchy 50-60 yard fairway shot. Knowing I had that extra distance let me focus on staying in play off the tee and avoiding penalties. Eventually you have to hit driver, and when it's working its awesome, but it was an AHA moment for me and it really helped my scores. 

Hope it goes well for you and IMB 

[imb]

2 hours ago, jumbo said:

Getting fitted is awesome. I try to convince every golfer I know to do so on a Trackman, even if they're average height (looking at you XZero77)

Two reasons: First, you get the best club for you. Choosing the right clubs without being able to see the numbers is too feel based for me. Nothing's better than the fitter saying, this is the one, and knowing he's right. Added benefit here is no buyer's remorse when golf happens. Second, the confidence you get from knowing you've got the right stick in your hand is invaluable.

I got fitted last year for the first time since 2015 and it really helped my game

Yes! I changed nothing about my swing. He just put a ping head on longer firmer shaft (pause) and all my swings were in the range he wanted. It was unbelievable. I was looking at him like he was a wizard and he said brother, I've been doing this 45 years. Awesome, awesome dude.