Best in bag beer cooler for smuggling brews onto the course?
Well when you say smuggling, a lot of courses will let it be known that they will be looking for alcohol on the course. Therefore a cooler will be looked for. They're doing this likely in response to local complaints. I've seen people having to pour our bottles of good booze or a case of beer on the course. Meanwhile the side jacket of my carry bag had a bunch of beer in it and not searched.Best in bag beer cooler for smuggling brews onto the course?
Well when you say smuggling, a lot of courses will let it be known that they will be looking for alcohol on the course. Therefore a cooler will be looked for. They're doing this likely in response to local complaints. I've seen people having to pour our bottles of good booze or a case of beer on the course. Meanwhile the side jacket of my carry bag had a bunch of beer in it and not searched.
I know you probably don't mean that. I have a discontinued Callway bag I got at a golf tournament. Easily holds a 6 pack and a couple of ice packs. Can stuff it to 8 if needed. Similar to this one. I like it because it's small and I always keep it in my trunk. Takes a beating and easily cleaned
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No, I specifically mean smuggling, so I don't have to buy overpriced [and inferior] beers on the course lol...
I ended up with this: Amazon.com
I played yesterday morning and the course had signs up prohibiting outside beverages/etc, and I even heard them question someone with a "just water in that cooler, right?" around the check-in desk. Meanwhile I had this in the big pocket of my carry bag with 3 IPAs and a couple water bottles with some slim ice packs and it was totally unobtrusive.
What I was using previously wasn't slim, so I had to pack beers in multiple rows which made it hard to fit the cooler in and even get that pocket closed. With this I could fit up to a 6-pack with ice and it's completely hidden.
It was helpful, too, as I don't think I saw the cart girl until around the 15th hole. I would have been truly parched ;-)
Played a great round, though, I broke 80! (Granted, par on this course is only 60..)
Oddly enough I rarely see any good players drink, rarely, maybe one. I cant think of anyone I have played with who has shot under 75 while drinking other than myself.
Some ducks get all the luck. I think some of the tour pros drink. I see them with the ol straw and cup action and I wonder. The tour probably asks them not to be flashy, idk, maybe they have a rule about that.I've known players who could shoot lights out while drinking, although not necessarily consistently. I was at a course I used to play (Fort Walton Beach) and spotted a pro I knew waiting to tee off in the annual pro-am. Tee times were running an hour behind, he was getting more and more nervous, and slammed four beers before teeing off. I was thinking "this guy is toast". He shot a 64 that day.
Why does it seem like the more I practice, the worse I get?
Given that I'm coming off the 5 year layoff, one of the things that's been bothering me lately is inconsistent contact with the ball. So I had two good range sessions this week where I focused completely on my setup and address, to make sure that I'm consistently setting up with the ball in the same position, with my weight balanced equally between the balls of my feet and my heels, consistent back angle, arm angle, etc. I think I was trying to set up with the ball too far away, and a little off balance trying to reach for it.
And it worked... On the range. Which isn't to say that every shot was good, but the horrible mishits (blading the ball, completely chunking it) weren't happening, even with the longer irons.
The best advice I've heard about taking the swing from the practice range to the course (which I'm prone to ignore, BTW) is to treat the range more like the course. Line up your shot, take your customary one or two practice swings, waggle (if that's what you do) then make it count.
The best advice I've heard about taking the swing from the practice range to the course (which I'm prone to ignore, BTW) is to treat the range more like the course. Line up your shot, take your customary one or two practice swings, waggle (if that's what you do) then make it count.
Yeah, I've been trying to also vary clubs from shot to shot. I read that one of the best things is to envision playing like you're on a course.
So instead of hitting 10 balls with your 7 iron, tee up one with the driver, then maybe a mid-iron approach shot, followed by a wedge shot. If you take 5-10 shots with the same club, it's perfectly normal that after you've hit one or two your next few will be good shots, but that's not the way you play on the course. You have to get used to your first shot mattering.
It’s very likely you’re practicing bad habits. Invest in a lesson or two.Why does it seem like the more I practice, the worse I get?
Given that I'm coming off the 5 year layoff, one of the things that's been bothering me lately is inconsistent contact with the ball. So I had two good range sessions this week where I focused completely on my setup and address, to make sure that I'm consistently setting up with the ball in the same position, with my weight balanced equally between the balls of my feet and my heels, consistent back angle, arm angle, etc. I think I was trying to set up with the ball too far away, and a little off balance trying to reach for it.
And it worked... On the range. Which isn't to say that every shot was good, but the horrible mishits (blading the ball, completely chunking it) weren't happening, even with the longer irons. My longer irons were starting to get the loft they should, which has always been a problem because I was previously usually hitting too low on the clubface. And I was actually making pretty consistent contact with the driver, which has, quite frankly, been a while!
So I tried to go out onto the little executive course this morning before work to see if I could apply it on the course. In 9 holes I literally did not properly strike a single tee shot. A few weren't horrible, but still were not properly struck. And this is a course where 7 of 9 holes are PW/SW/60° holes for me off the tee, so it's not like I was hitting long irons. I only hit 2 GIR, one of which was a bad SW mishit that just happened to work out perfectly, and the other was a 200 yd par 4 where I got a off center but not horrific swipe at it with a 5 iron from the tee so I left myself a short pitch from there, not a full shot.
Might as well drink thenBack already. We finished 18 in 2:40. Went to store and picked up some cold ones (I don't drink while golfing), back home chillin. I was under 100, so I'm happy
Haha ok I’ll try it.Might as well drink then
but no seriously get super drunk and play, it's a lesson. Happens in every karate movie, they learn and then get drunk and have to use what they learned drunk. I am being a little facetious but, do think there is some good in that lesson.
. . . I shouldnt have been to cheap and should have been working with a pro this whole time.
I shouldnt have been to cheap and should have been working with a pro this whole time.
Pretty. ugh its 12 degrees here.My trusty steed there, waiting for me on the #2 tee box yesterday. The green isn't really visible, just beyond and left of those trees along the left there (you can see the right edge of it, slightly elevated). It's reachable from drive, but risky. I hit an iron to the front of it and use my semi-trusty 52 lob to drop it in the middle of the green. Well, that's the plan anyway.
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Yeah my last pro was a hack and I effed up going to him. I was sold, like a bad used car salesman, I think he could help people and he could of helped me at the right moment but I just needed to make more birdies. I was playing great. We quickly dabbled in my swing and I spent a year recovering.I think picking a pro is as important as anything else, as might be evidenced by the video @Kee just posted.
Back before my long layoff, my now ex-wife had gotten me some golf lessons because I was playing. So I go to this guy, who I did not research, whose golf philosophies I had no knowledge of, and realized he was a Moe Norman cultist. I went along with it and was hitting the ball okay, and then after the lessons fell back into my normal swing.
It was one of those types who didn't really look at a student and say "how can I make him improve with a swing that fits him?", but just wanted me to swing like Moe Norman.
To me it’s a-okQuestion. Is it a Christmas faux pas to give a 13 year old a set of used gold clubs bought off Craigslist?
I found a full set including 3 wood, 4-PW matched irons, SW/LW, putter and bag for $90. Graphite shafts, so they're light enough for a young teen to swing.
I figure that should be pretty exciting for him even though they're not brand new, yeah.
I’ve found what causes poor golf is between the ears. . . . There is no perfect swing other than your swing. Too many get caught up in this arm straight, toe slightly set at the top, and buckle at the target finish. . . . It is fun to go to the course now. . . The obsession can take you over. . .
Wedge 30% (sand 10%, loft 10%, gap 10%)Even though I wasn't a "golfer", this has always been my philosophy. It never made since to me that most people would go to the range and just hit the driver over and over. You hit a driver, say, 12 times a round? Why then is that the club you choose to practice the most?!?! I am not a driver. I have a hard time getting off the tee box, but from 130 yds in, I'm money. So if I can lay a decent shot 170-200 off the tee box, and keep it in the fairway, I can play my irons in. And my putts greatly improved when I switched to a Taylormade Spider. Huge difference in keeping the ball straight.
I switched putters a few years ago and suddenly putting is the best part of my game. Might have been the putter, might have been my ultra slow backswing that I began about that time. Not sure, but I never sweat it once I’m on the green.
It’s true that half your strokes on scratch golf are putts. Half, with one club. Best to master that one.
haha never heard that before.Like the pros say, drive for show, putt for dough.
Like the pros say, drive for show, putt for dough.
Have you seen the word on Bryson DeChambeau? He's been on fire lately, but he's intending to make waves by mastering a 48" driver and going for long drive distances (e.g, > 400y). Not useful on most holes, but a difference-maker in the tournements. Augusta has been worried about their par 5 13th forever, and less woody courses will get murdered by a guy that can drive that far.
https://golf.com/news/bryson-dechambeau-jaw-dropping-round-augusta/
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