Fore! Who's playing golf, yo-

[BackCountryNC]

Someone in the Seattle area? If so yes ? At this stage I am open to any suggestions.

How far are you from Portland? Jason Owens is highly recommended.

[wooley12]

Can you guys explain this broom drill you are talking about, or quote the original post? I have gone back a few pages and can't find it...

Take a regular broom and swing it like a golf club. The weight and wind resistance will require you to initiate the down swing by using the muscles of your feet and legs and torso. Impossible to swing too fast. A tempo finder.

[4matic]

83 with 6 penalty shots today and lots of missed putts. Tired swing.

[spook]

83 with 6 penalty shots today and lots of missed putts. Tired swing.

how can you be accurate enough to shoot 83 and have 6 penalty shots and a lot of missed putts? 77 with a lot of missed putts?

[DasBlunt]

how can you be accurate enough to shoot 83 and have 6 penalty shots and a lot of missed putts? 77 with a lot of missed putts?

I think 4matic is the guy who plays the really tight bay links course, OB or tight fairways leading to hazard is up your ass often.

Links golf is the hardest golf. I am so fortunate to live in a place with some of the best inland links anywhere. In colorado we have some cheap links courses too. Learning how to play links golf, hitting the bump and run, wicked slope on greens, wicked slope on fairways, tee boxes with slope, can be a lifelong challenge.

Country club golf, bomb and gouge golf, perfect lies everywhere, perfect tee boxes,, is another animal with a whole other set of variables.

The US Open this week will be absolute carnage, except a very select few who bring some serious putting and accuracy off the tee. Moving day might be the most carnage ever seen because of the set up at Olympic and its blend of links and tight treelined. Holy carnage batman.

[4matic]

how can you be accurate enough to shoot 83 and have 6 penalty shots and a lot of missed putts? 77 with a lot of missed putts?

A lost ball is a basically a two shot penalty (stroke and distance)

Missed two birdie putts inside 6 feet and still had one birdie. 40 on the front with two penalty shots. 43 on the back with four penalty shots and horrific putting. My tee to green game has always been solid and I've been as low as 0.3 ghin (5.2 now).

Edit: To DB point. The course I play is links style, not extremely tight, but very windy. Any shot not controlled in the wind is trouble and it is very hard to get the ball close to the flags. I like the precise nature of this style golf but it's humbling.

[spook]

Missed two birdie putts inside 6 feet and still had one birdie. 40 on the front with two penalty shots. 43 on the back with four penalty shots and horrific putting. My tee to green game has always been solid and I've been as low as 0.3 ghin (5.2 now).

Edit: To DB point. The course I play is links style, not extremely tight, but very windy. Any shot not controlled in the wind is trouble. I like the precise nature of this style golf but it's humbling.

how did you end up with so many penalty strokes? just seems like a lot for someone who can shoot that low, disregarding the putting issues.

[4matic]

how did you end up with so many penalty strokes? just seems like a lot for someone who can shoot that low, disregarding the putting issues.

Three lost balls. Shots offline at many holes on my course are gone or not worth finding because they are impossible to hit.

You know, I take that back. One of the lost balls was a lateral but I played it as a lost ball and took the provisional stroke penalty. The other two were lost balls.

1 birdie, 8 pars, 6 bogeys, 3 double bogeys = 83

[cranked]

Just did an amazing 2 day school with 6 buddies at Old Greenwood Academy in Truckee. It was an amazing 2 days...they simplify the game dramatically. I have to groove a minor adjustment, but I know exactly what to work on, and I have about 4 new tools in my short game and putting (completely new stroke), and my driver is optimized too.

Keith and Rich aren't the guys that tell you 100 things to improve...they are about eliminating variables that create inconsistency.

Facilities are amazing...first class setup.

http://www.golfintahoe.com/Default.a...d=256169&vnf=1

[spook]

Three lost balls. Shots offline at many holes on my course are gone or not worth finding because they are impossible to hit.

You know, I take that back. One of the lost balls was a lateral but I played it as a lost ball and took the provisional stroke penalty. The other two were lost balls.

1 birdie, 8 pars, 6 bogeys, 3 double bogeys = 83

okay. sorry. it's late and i'm a little slow on the uptake. 3 lost balls sounds a lot different to me than 6 penalty strokes, but i see what you're saying now.

[guroo270]

So, for the majors, 4 buddies of mine and I make golf picks. 6 rounds. 5 normal picks, then a wild card that is worth double. (from each person) $20 for picking the winner, 10 for top 5, 5 for top 10, 2 for top 20, $1 for a made cut. Here's who I got. I would trade Westwood for Bubba right now with his month off, and again, I don't think he has the mental stamina for this tourney, and word is, he doesn't like the course, but Westwood got taken. I had first pick this time.

So I've got:
Tiger
Bubba
Peter Hansen
Furyk
Padraig
Oosthuizen

[skiballs]

Played at a club called Moselem Springs on Monday , George Fazio design built in 1964 .
The course is just fabulous , 18 holes on 250 acres , no houses , no gimmicks , absolutely immaculate conditions .
It was a fun tournament 36 holes first round 2-man best ball , second round Chapman scotch ( both guys tee-off , then you hit your partners ball , then pick the best ball and alternate shots until the ball is holed ) .

[guroo270]

AAAAAlmost belongs in the Collection of junk thread...
http://waltersgolf.com/par-mates-caddy-program.asp

[MotherFucker]

AAAAAlmost belongs in the Collection of junk thread...
http://waltersgolf.com/par-mates-caddy-program.asp

She can clean my club and balls anytime.

[Art Shirk]

She can clean my club and balls anytime.

She can clean her own by the looks of it.

[Tye 1on]

AAAAAlmost belongs in the Collection of junk thread...
http://waltersgolf.com/par-mates-caddy-program.asp

pffft...it's in Vegas. $225 + tip can get more than just holding the flagstick.

[guroo270]

I'd bet you could convince them to be the 19th hole.

[Steven S. Dallas]

So, as discussed earlier- I'm looking to unload two Saturday U.S. Open grounds passes. It's sold out and we did have to pay a pretty decent service charge (roughly 20% extra) so I'd like to get face value, $125 each. Holler if you're interested.

[BackCountryNC]

Played Redtail Mountain in Mountain City, TN today. Decent course with some great views and a couple of quirky holes. Hit 15 greens and shot 75. 4 three putts! LOL 2 of them were virtually impossible to 2 putt. Interesting factoid, I played with the head pro who was the first left-handed American to win on the PGA Tour.

http://www.redtailmountain.com/gallerygolf/

[Art Shirk]

So, as discussed earlier- I'm looking to unload two Saturday U.S. Open grounds passes. It's sold out and we did have to pay a pretty decent service charge (roughly 20% extra) so I'd like to get face value, $125 each. Holler if you're interested.

Are you going but have extra or not able to make it, hence the sale (apologies if that info is buried in this thread)? If the later, I hope your alternative plans involve The French Laundry and a night of dubious morals at the Fairmont.

[Steven S. Dallas]

Just think bringing a six-week-old will be more trouble than it's worth. And far from any Dionysian pleasures, I'll probably spend the proceeds of any sale on diapers and nipple chafing cream- don't tell my wife and child, though. They can get their own.

[Art Shirk]

Point the AC at the dog crate?

[spook]

went to the range today and hit 120 balls, probably 30 w/ 56* wedge, 80 with 6 iron and 10 w/ 4 iron and hybrid. all but a few were straight and i didn't top any, though i hit several pretty thin. i am definitely starting to calm down. hitting 60 or so with the 56* on the soccer field twice a day has really helped me slow down my swing and it definitely carried over to the longer clubs. i also did a little pitching and putting for about a half hour before calling it quits because my back couldn't take any more.

i'll be back at the range tomorrow and will get a 45 minute lesson with the irons and another 45 with the putter. i'm playing on friday morning with the guy who got me into the club, so i've decided that regardless of whatever anybody else is doing, i will probably leave my driver in the bag and use the 4 iron or hybrid off the tee since i haven't figured out the driver yet. i'd rather be a little short off the tee but reasonably straight because anything off the fairway at this course is likely lost on several holes.

[DasBlunt]

changed my grip last night late while baked swinging my heavy club. Took it to the chipping green then to the range today and, holy balls it feels good.

I have small hands (big dick though, fuck you), and I went from a interlocking grip 10 years ago to overlapping about 8 years ago. Back to interlocking today and I am happy.

[MotherFucker]

Got out to Buffalo Run last night for a late evening nine with the wife and a buddy of ours. That is one beautiful course; quite possibly the nicest course I've played this season. It's easily up there with Riverdale Dunes. Course conditions were immaculate. Links golf at it's finest and for $1 a hole after 6pm, you can't fuckin' beat it. Seriously thinking about getting a regular weekly evening nine in. So sick.

Got a few pics but nothing spectacular since the light was pretty flat. No cart girls this time. They weren't sending her out just for us; we had the entire front nine to ourselves.

2nd shot into the par 4 first (thanks to a certain 50 degree and a few tips from some weird guy):




Pictures don't do this par 3 justice. Just a beautiful golf hole:




Started getting dark out there but we played on. Three pairs of eyes can follow a ball in even the flattest light.




Little Longs action.




Sprinklers came on at the seventh but only on the greens so we kept playing.




On the eighth the head pro came through to make sure we didn't steal the cart. After watching my buddy and I stripe our tee shots, he didn't say shit, he just drove back to the clubhouse. Thanks for letting us finish Mr. Head Pro! The following is a very happy MotherFucker who parred the last hole in the sprinklers. What a great fuckin' time! Finished at 8:51p.