OT: Golf Season

[minidarren]

Playing TPC in a few weeks, what did you think? Played AAC a couple years ago, to be honest I didn't love it.

TPC was very nice. I just started playing 2 years ago so my barometer for the course difficulty is not that great. AAC was in very good shape aside from the water which was more like a dry lake bed than a pond.

 

[Deepster]

Love the Golfing Magazine cert. That thing pays for itself within a round or 2. Been doing that for a few yrs now.

I cant justify spending $400 on a driver for 10 yards. I hit my old callaway bertha (roughly 2005 or 2006) well and about 250-275. $400 for 10 more yards seems crazy.

Especially when you're still missing the par putt!

 

[mauconnfan]

Especially when you're still missing the par putt!

You still in that league Deep, still hitting that thing around? Eventually we need to go hit and have a few.

 

[Deepster]

You still in that league Deep, still hitting that thing around? Eventually we need to go hit and have a few.

Scramble today at Blue Fox Run. Playing with a 1 and a 5 handicap. I'm just bringing a cooler and a putter.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Especially when you're still missing the par putt!

Par put? I can't even count how many perfect 275+ yrd drives I hit and end up with a double bogey. But it's less putting than irons for me. I can't hit a green to save my life. Perfect drive-> topped iron shot that rolls 20 yards to the fringe -> Iron shot goes left or right into a trap -> lousy sand shot -> putt -> putt

Maybe I should take lessons again. It has been 35 years since my last one.

 

[mauconnfan]

Par put? I can't even count how many perfect 275+ yrd drives I hit and end up with a double bogey. But it's less putting than irons for me. I can't hit a green to save my life. Perfect drive-> topped iron shot that rolls 20 yards to the fringe -> Iron shot goes left or right into a trap -> lousy sand shot -> putt -> putt

Maybe I should take lessons again. It has been 35 years since my last one.

Let's combine our games Hawk. If I'm hitting 275 yd drives in the fairway I'm all set, no doubt around par to 76 all the time. I do have those rounds but it's only when I am hitting fairways and not showing my vast array of low cuts and draws from around trees and bushes off the beaten path after an erratic tee shot.

Lessons? Took 1 about 8 years ago came away all screwed up trying to take the club back in a way I wasn't comfortable with. Took a couple of things from the guy, really good teacher mind you, but for the most part I'm happy being the ex-baseball player turned golfer who can shoot from 70-85 on any given day. That's what makes it fun and frustrating - which swing is showing up? LOL

 

[uconnfan68]

Par put? I can't even count how many perfect 275+ yrd drives I hit and end up with a double bogey. But it's less putting than irons for me. I can't hit a green to save my life. Perfect drive-> topped iron shot that rolls 20 yards to the fringe -> Iron shot goes left or right into a trap -> lousy sand shot -> putt -> putt

Maybe I should take lessons again. It has been 35 years since my last one.

If I had a 275+ perfect drive every time, I'd be on the tour, with the kids.

 

[HuskyHawk]

If I had a 275+ perfect drive every time, I'd be on the tour, with the kids.

I didn't say every time. I certainly miss-hit often enough. I'm simply saying that more often than not, I waste them. Reaching 5's in 2 (or being just off the fringe) is my most common form of birdie.

When I play a best ball scramble, they use several of my drives and putts, and little else.

 

[uconnfan68]

I didn't say every time. I certainly miss-hit often enough. I'm simply saying that more often than not, I waste them. Reaching 5's in 2 (or being just off the fringe) is my most common form of birdie.

When I play a best ball scramble, they use several of my drives and putts, and little else.

How do you practice? My last teacher wouldn't let me hit anything but 7-iron. It worked.

 

[Deepster]

FYI. We won. And I really didn't use anything other than a putter and a cooler.

 

[mauconnfan]

I'm playing Oak Hill in Rochester, site of the PGA in 2013, with a customer. I saw it on TV and need to have my A game that day - problem is I'm already thinking about it and it's over a month away.

 

[Deepster]

I'm playing Oak Hill in Rochester, site of the PGA in 2013, with a customer. I saw it on TV and need to have my A game that day - problem is I'm already thinking about it and it's over a month away.

Did you throw some Rebel Yell in your bag?

 

[mauconnfan]

Did you throw some Rebel Yell in your bag?

F no! The forecaddies would turn me in and think I'm nuts. Maybe some chilled Mcgillicuddy's though.