Fore! Who's playing golf, yo-

[spook]

, if you meant quit replying to skiballs - then fine, I agree.

not a problem

[wooley12]

i can sink a 20 foot putt. i doubt i could make the shot you made if i intended to.

That's because you never played "Knock Down!!" like I did as a kid. Two golfers stand 50 yds apart and fire 5 irons at each other. Lots of games to play with a club and ball that are not recognized the The Royal And Ancient. ( www.randa.org )

[Tye 1on]

That's because you never played "Knock Down!!" like I did as a kid. Two golfers stand 50 yds apart and fire 5 irons at each other. Lots of games to play with a club and ball that are not recognized the The Royal And Ancient. ( www.randa.org )

hahahahahaha!!!! The 'Guts Frisbee' of golf!

[spook]

brutal day today. went to warm up and play 18, but could not hit shit at the driving range. completely ugly. hit 30 balls horribly, went and go another bucket, hit those slightly better but still poorly. and this after having probably the best ball striking day of my life on saturday. thought i'd figured out some basics, but today was just ugly. plus haven't slept for shit for 3 nights and my back is killing me and nothing i can do about it.

anyway, played a brutal front 9, decided to call it quits and go do some pitching practice from 20 and 30 yards to try to get some kind of rhythm back, which helped a little. then went back to the driving range to see if i could figure out what i was doing wrong, but by that time i was wiped out. i did hit a few nice shots, but still mostly ugly. they moved the line back on the driving range so we were hitting off grass on a slight upslope, so i don't know if i wasn't compensating for that or if it was the lack of sleep or what, but everything felt off.

oh well, tomorrow's another day and i have another lesson, so hopefully i'll work it out with a second set of eyes.

[4matic]

brutal day today. went to warm up and play 18, but could not hit shit at the driving range. completely ugly. hit 30 balls horribly, went and go another bucket, hit those slightly better but still poorly. and this after having probably the best ball striking day of my life on saturday. thought i'd figured out some basics, but today was just ugly. plus haven't slept for shit for 3 nights and my back is killing me and nothing i can do about it.

anyway, played a brutal front 9, decided to call it quits and go do some pitching practice from 20 and 30 yards to try to get some kind of rhythm back, which helped a little. then went back to the driving range to see if i could figure out what i was doing wrong, but by that time i was wiped out. i did hit a few nice shots, but still mostly ugly. they moved the line back on the driving range so we were hitting off grass on a slight upslope, so i don't know if i wasn't compensating for that or if it was the lack of sleep or what, but everything felt off.

oh well, tomorrow's another day and i have another lesson, so hopefully i'll work it out with a second set of eyes.

You need a better warm up routine.

[spook]

You need a better warm up routine.

i start stretching for 10 minutes, then hitting 56* wedge easy high shots, maybe 5-10 balls, ordinarily i would move or start with 9 iron, but since i'm trying to revamp my swing and i've been focusing on the 6 iron, so for now i've been going from the wedge to my 6 iron. if i'm only warming up with 30 balls, i'll hit maybe 10 with the 6 iron, then move to the hybrid on a tee (i use it on a couple holes that are too short or narrow for the driver), 2-3 balls, hybrid off the ground 2-3 balls, driver 2-3 balls, and if i have any left i take a few more short strokes with the 56*.

if i'm just practicing at the range, i start the same way but hit more balls with each club. before i was trying to rework my swing (or rather, actually learn a proper swing), i would pretty much hit with each club, starting short and going long and finishing short again.

[philth]

Played 27 today....I'm back to sucking at golf.

[Buzzworthy]

About to resuck at it next week in TX after 2 years of summer injuries.

[cranked]

That's because you never played "Knock Down!!" like I did as a kid. Two golfers stand 50 yds apart and fire 5 irons at each other. Lots of games to play with a club and ball that are not recognized the The Royal And Ancient. ( www.randa.org )

We used to do this with sand wedges, in the dark, in the fairway behind my buddy's house. We would hit it, and you could tell if you were tracking at impact...the "fore"s were replaced with, "oh shit, that is on you". Only a few impacts ever...but, a lot of time spent with cases of coors light and the sand wedge.

[spook]

That's because you never played "Knock Down!!" like I did as a kid. Two golfers stand 50 yds apart and fire 5 irons at each other. Lots of games to play with a club and ball that are not recognized the The Royal And Ancient. ( www.randa.org )

i think the closest we ever got to something like that was soaking our snowballs in water and freezing them before snowball fights.

[stfu&gbtw]

I've learned there's nothing that I can do in 30 minutes that will help. Only postponing the inevitable. Walk straight to the 1st tee and say a short prayer that I don't fade the ball to oblivion. I try to remember a Ben Hogan quote I once read - "You could probably swing harder if you really tried."

[skiballs]

That's because you never played "Knock Down!!" like I did as a kid. Two golfers stand 50 yds apart and fire 5 irons at each other. Lots of games to play with a club and ball that are not recognized the The Royal And Ancient. ( www.randa.org )

Since you were using featherys , how bad could it be .

[jfost]

Since you were using featherys , how bad could it be .

now that is funny!

[TyWebb]

Birdie putt on #1 at white bear yacht club in MN. Shot a 79

[spook]

I've learned there's nothing that I can do in 30 minutes that will help. Only postponing the inevitable. Walk straight to the 1st tee and say a short prayer that I don't fade the ball to oblivion. I try to remember a Ben Hogan quote I once read - "You could probably swing harder if you really tried."

i agree, but i wasn't sure if i was gong to play or not because i felt so crappy. i kept trying to tell mysel that if i just focus on the fundamentals i was working on, i could salvage something before heading out. but all that really happened was more frustration. and of course, i only started swinging harder, which is opposite of what i've been working on. it got worse from there.

[PassTheDutchie]

I played Thunderhawk north of Chicago in Lake County yesterday afternoon for the first time. Great, great track, one of the best I've played in the state. Tough & really, really punitive if you're missing fairways--I lost three balls on the first two holes (and I wasn't missing by much... fucking cart paths & wetlands). Managed to find my game again on the last couple of holes, finishing with an awesome (for me) scrambling par save on the last. Anyhew,$47 twilight rates a fantastic deal for anyone in Chicago or Milwaukee area looking to play some golf. Went off at 3.02 and we didn't bump into another foursome the entire afternoon.

Left my phone in the car (where phones are supposed to stay during a round), but here's a pic a grabbed from the web for a little perspective.

[Art Shirk]

i agree, but i wasn't sure if i was gong to play or not because i felt so crappy. i kept trying to tell mysel that if i just focus on the fundamentals i was working on, i could salvage something before heading out. but all that really happened was more frustration. and of course, i only started swinging harder, which is opposite of what i've been working on. it got worse from there.

I play better when I feel like shit. I think it is because I make fewer superfluous movements. I remember Faldo mentioning something similar as it pertains to nerves, i.e. he plays better under pressure because his body tenses and he doesn't shift around as much, staying compact and repeatable.

[MotherFucker]

Heading back out for an evening nine at Buffalo Run in a few hours. I really need to get out there earlier for a full jog; that place really is fun.

Skiballs, fill me in on what you have the R7 set up for screw-wise. I need to set it up for a right-to-left ball flight if it already isn't. My buddy seems to think it's set up for a neutral flight atm. Still too inconsistent to help my game but I got some work in with it Monday morning and am improving enough where I should be able to start pulling it out in rounds in a couple weeks.

[skiballs]

I don't remember how it's set-up .
More weight in the heel promotes a draw .

[Like a Boss]

I played Thunderhawk north of Chicago in Lake County yesterday afternoon for the first time. Great, great track, one of the best I've played in the state. Tough & really, really punitive if you're missing fairways--I lost three balls on the first two holes (and I wasn't missing by much... fucking cart paths & wetlands). Managed to find my game again on the last couple of holes, finishing with an awesome (for me) scrambling par save on the last. Anyhew,$47 twilight rates a fantastic deal for anyone in Chicago or Milwaukee area looking to play some golf. Went off at 3.02 and we didn't bump into another foursome the entire afternoon.
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I played there once in about an 8 club wind. Shot over 100 probably and I was about a 8 or 9 handicap at the time. Meanwhile, another legendary "for sale" craigslist ad, this time golf clubs...

http://raleigh.craigslist.org/spo/3102325889.html

[spook]

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purty....

[spook]

I play better when I feel like shit. I think it is because I make fewer superfluous movements. I remember Faldo mentioning something similar as it pertains to nerves, i.e. he plays better under pressure because his body tenses and he doesn't shift around as much, staying compact and repeatable.

i have played better when i feel like shit in sports i'm competent in because i get more zeroed in, but i'm still trying to figure out my swing so it doesn't seem to work in this case. i still try to get zeroed in, but i'm only doing it with parts of things because i don't know better and it's more disastrous.

[spook]

does anybody have a distaste for balls that are stamped or printed with things other than the brand? i don't know any better. but when i have a ball in my bag that is stamped with a college team name or a sponsor or a tournament i instinctively don't like that ball. just wondering if they've been compromised somehow by the process.

[jfost]

does anybody have a distaste for balls that are stamped or printed with things other than the brand? ...

I kind of like it when I find a weird one, like the Pro Vx I found that was stamped with "Hooters" and the hooters logo - made me laugh until I lost it in a pond at lakeridge!

[guroo270]

does anybody have a distaste for balls that are stamped or printed with things other than the brand? i don't know any better. but when i have a ball in my bag that is stamped with a college team name or a sponsor or a tournament i instinctively don't like that ball. just wondering if they've been compromised somehow by the process.

Jesus, you are fucking head case. On the other hand, I can only hit off of white tees, and you can't even see them. I can accept unfinished wood tees. If they are gloss finished wood tees, it's in the lumber yard.