Love Golf?

[passedpawn]

Just gonna drop in a little humor here, very relatable to my game...

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Aim for the branch.

 

[Broothru]

Aim for the branch.

Works for me every time. Well, maybe 40%.

Approaching the green, I'll 'look' at the pin and then aim for the bunker. The bunker is so much easier to hit!

 

[balrog]

Huh.

You mean…there’s “aiming” in golf?

 

[Broothru]

Huh.

You mean…there’s “aiming” in golf?

Yeah, lots of aiming. For instance, for the last 50 years I have "aimed" to get better at golf, sadly to no avail.

But I take solace in the remarks of Mark Twain, who once commented that, "Golf is a good walk spoiled."

 

[balrog]

 

[passedpawn]

I just bought a set of those Cobra One Length irons. Heading out in a few minutes to see how they perform over 18 holes.

Anyone ever used them?

 

[passedpawn]

Played 19 holes with them and love love love. They are staying in the bag.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

I just bought a set of those Cobra One Length irons. Heading out in a few minutes to see how they perform over 18 holes.

Anyone ever used them?

Not Cobra, but I play the Wishon EQ1-NX single length irons. Had them almost 3 years now. I definitely prefer it.

Because I'm very tall, my previous set was extended 1.5". That was great on the short irons/wedges, but as I started getting into the long irons, they were just too long to consistently find the center of the face. The single length irons I play an inch longer than designed, but that means everything from my 4 to my GW is 37.5", which on my previous set was 9i length. I then had three wedges built to 36.75" with the same shafts as my irons, and the vendor (Sub70) cherry-picking the lightest weight heads to keep the swing weights manageable. As someone who finds a club <36.5" to feel like it's a junior set, it was a HUGE thing for me to have appropriate length "short" clubs without the "long" clubs being impossible to hit.

It's so much easier as someone who is a moderately high handicap golfer, who doesn't practice enough, that everything from 4 hybrid to gap wedge is identical in length, lie, swing weight, etc.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Played 19 holes with them and love love love. They are staying in the bag.

Are these DeChambeau based? How'd the short irons play?

 

[passedpawn]

Are these DeChambeau based? How'd the short irons play?

Great. I really didn't use all of them (had a great round, hit most greens in regulation!). I think their G (gap), P, 9, and maybe the 8 would have been longer than my normal set. I hit all of those, no problem - they hit maybe a wee longer than normal, but I'll adjust.

The G seems to be somewhere between my 52 and my pitching wedge (P).

Regarding DeChambeau, that's where I learned of these clubs. I don't exactly what he uses now, but at one time it was a version of these Cobra 1 length clubs.

 

[passedpawn]

I'll have a closer look at them tomorrow. 2pm, I literally was sitting on the pot thinking about golf, bought the clubs at 3pm, hit the course at 4pm. Haven't really assessed them yet.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Been trying to play an easy nine almost every night after dinner. Grass has been growing crazy up here. Lots of rain and downpours. Played tonight in 1:20

 

[day_trippr]

Did the deer help you find your ball?

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Once he put on the scuba gear.

 

[day_trippr]

lol!
Is that Wedgewood?
Looks like it, and whenever The Spousal Unit and I have walked up there from our house we almost always startle a deer or two...

Cheers!

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Yup. Every night I run into one wandering down the street on the way home. I'm guessing tick season is gonna be bad.

 

[day_trippr]

You're probably right about the ticks. Not having an actual "winter" this year I think we've been set up for blood letting

 

[Ozarks Mountain Brewery]

A little humor, was in my FB feed

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/pfYTun46CytxZGUk/?mibextid=xfxF2i

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Played golf with my son yesterday for Father's Day. He kicked my butt lol. Granted, I played terribly, but unlike last year he didn't beat me by playing slightly less terribly--he played at a level I'd probably have to play a career round to match. So good for him.

Daughter was going to an art camp this week and was SUPER excited about my Father's Day gift. So excited that she couldn't wait until today for me to open it. She made me this (using an add-on at art camp that I paid for lol).

 

[Broothru]

Played golf with my son yesterday for Father's Day. He kicked my butt lol. Granted, I played terribly, but unlike last year he didn't beat me by playing slightly less terribly--he played at a level I'd probably have to play a career round to match. So good for him.

Daughter was going to an art camp this week and was SUPER excited about my Father's Day gift. So excited that she couldn't wait until today for me to open it. She made me this (using an add-on at art camp that I paid for lol).

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Sweet!

That reminds me of my Father’s Day gift after I retired. Kids gave me a beautiful sampler board engraved with “Captain’s Flight”.

This Father’s Day we’re camping (Glamping) with our son and his family along with three of their friends and families. It’s become an annual event for the last six years. Daughter and her family are arriving Tuesday from Florida, since ‘someone’ is having a surprise 75th Birthday. Big crab boil planned with lots of friends. Sshh. Don’t let SWMBO’d know.

Hope this Father’s Day finds you all as happy and blessed as I feel on this day.

 

[Kee]

I finally pulled the trigger on a new set of irons, the discontinued Mizuno 921 JPX Forged. (Too good of a deal to pass up on Ebay). They were waiting for me when I arrived home from the golf course. I've only hit them into my backyard net but can already say with conviction that they are the perfect clubs for me and my expectation is that I'll be using them for years.

I'll see what happens tomorrow on the golf course.

 

[passedpawn]

View attachment 397096 I'm going to play at least once a week now (or, if that doesn't happen, get to the driving range). I'm pretty lucky to have a lot of cheap courses around me. I also have two boys who are very good golfers (my oldest boy hits in the 70's, youngest one is getting there).

Anybody use Hole 19 to keep track of their play? Cool app, just used it for the first time. http://www.hole19golf.com/

My goal is to get good enough to not embarrass myself when I take my boys to Streamsong, a nice new course (2 of them actually) about an hour from me. Hope stay in their accommodations and play both the courses there. They are links-style, which should be cool.

I often say I'm going to do something, with some amount of drunken seriousness, and it's just a whim later.

I have played every week since I said this. Just finished a round. I walk always (unless I have a golfing partner, which is rare).

 

[passedpawn]

^^ and, to be completely honest, I've gotten a lot better at golf, but not "good". I don't care much, I love it and I am sure I'll be some sort of apocryphal story about the guy who died on the course later. I play through the weather FL has to offer.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

^^ and, to be completely honest, I've gotten a lot better at golf, but not "good". I don't care much, I love it and I am sure I'll be some sort of apocryphal story about the guy who died on the course later. I play through the weather FL has to offer.

I will say for a thread called "Love Golf?" that I'm in sort of a lull. I feel like the work being put in should eventually show up on the scorecard, especially since I suck so badly that there should be easy gains to be had. And yet every round I feel like I'm struggling just to keep my scores from being worse. I've been working on my game and since last October my index has risen from 21.1 to 23.9. It almost makes me not want to go to the range and almost makes me reticent to even schedule tee times.

Maybe it's just the summer heat. Hopefully it'll break when the weather does.

 

[passedpawn]

I will say for a thread called "Love Golf?" that I'm in sort of a lull. I feel like the work being put in should eventually show up on the scorecard, especially since I suck so badly that there should be easy gains to be had. And yet every round I feel like I'm struggling just to keep my scores from being worse. I've been working on my game and since last October my index has risen from 21.1 to 23.9. It almost makes me not want to go to the range and almost makes me reticent to even schedule tee times.

Maybe it's just the summer heat. Hopefully it'll break when the weather does.

What I'm about to say might fall on deaf ears. I understand the nature of people.

Don't keep score. I haven't kept score for at least 5 years. This will immensely greaten your joy of the sport. If you're playing with others, play skins, which does involve a score but it's different. Grab a copy of The Golf Omnibus by P.G. Wodehouse and laugh about it. It's a recreation, not your job.

I won't get into somber life lessons here, but I can tell you that golf is fun if you let it. There are other things in your life where you need to focus your attention. Family. There you go.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

What I'm about to say might fall on deaf ears. I understand the nature of people.

Don't keep score. I haven't kept score for at least 5 years. This will immensely greaten your joy of the sport. If you're playing with others, play skins, which does involve a score but it's different. Grab a copy of The Golf Omnibus by P.G. Wodehouse and laugh about it. It's a recreation, not your job.

I won't get into somber life lessons here, but I can tell you that golf is fun if you let it. There are other things in your life where you need to focus your attention. Family. There you go.

LOL. My ears aren't deaf, but my brain can't comprehend

I've often said that if you can't have a good time playing bad golf, you're taking it too seriously. And I'm taking it too seriously.

But my brain doesn't let me not keep score. The object of the game is to put the ball in the hole in the fewest strokes. What's the point if you're not counting strokes?

And my normal group plays skins. But we still keep score for stroke play. I'll admit that losing in stroke play but collecting money from skins softens the blow if I played poorly. And in my last round with my son, we decided to play match play--he's better than me so he was giving me 10 strokes. And I absolutely smoked him in match play, and enjoyed winning $10 off him, but what I was REALLY excited about was being 2 strokes [gross] up on him heading onto the 16th tee. And ended up losing by two strokes [gross] in stroke play.

What really gets me is that I feel like I'm doing the right things. I've been working on the things in my last lesson that should help. ESPECIALLY short game stuff that was my Achilles heel. I'm still not a short game wizard but I'm less of a court jester. And yet... The index isn't moving. I think there are fewer super-bad scores, but the good scores aren't better. Which means that the handicap isn't dropping. It's frustrating.

 

[passedpawn]

The object of the game is to put the ball in the hole in the fewest strokes. What's the point if you're not counting strokes?

Well, sure, I see the problem.

Maybe it's an esoteric leap, to be able to play for the enjoyment of the sport, rather than the endless agony of lowering your score. I get that. I don't have much advice for you. I'll suggest, though, that it is a solvable problem. You can be shat at this sport and love playing it at the same time. I will retire one day (or die thinking about it) and play every day, badly, lol.

 

[Dog House Brew]

I found that when I’m in a rut, stop going to the range. When my game is off, the range dooms me. My rhythm gets off and I start swinging too hard. I thought I’d play once a week this summer. I’ve played about 10 rounds. Still love the game even when I’m playing poorly.

 

[Broothru]

I found that when I’m in a rut, stop going to the range. When my game is off, the range dooms me. My rhythm gets off and I start swinging too hard. I thought I’d play once a week this summer. I’ve played about 10 rounds. Still love the game even when I’m playing poorly.

I took a sabbatical after injuring a rotator cuff. No surgery, just PT, and I regained full strength and radius. That was nearly 5 years ago. Guess it was more than a sabbatical.

Still have a soft spot for the game, every time I see my idle clubs in the garage or drive by any of the courses I used to play. It became more poignant last week after attending the funeral for our daughter-in-law’s father, with whom my son and I often enjoyed a spirited round on the links.

Maybe I’ll head out to the range today…

 

[passedpawn]

Just got off the course with a friend - 2nd round this week. Place was empty and played the 72 par in about 2.5 hours. Hilly course, uncharacteristic in FL.