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I nice intro. I think paying extra is only the beginning because of the supply chain challenges of this. As I mentioned the only market today for 3D metal printing is very high quality metals. Space grade rockets mostly. Once the supply chain gets geared towards making irons I think the price may even come down a little. There is also limitations on how many you can make. The printers themselves cost nearly a million dollars and you could probably make one set per day...maybe a bit more. Maybe 2-3 sets a day, the printing process takes time. Once there are more companies doing it everything might shift a little.

When I lived in Oregon my friend had a rule. It could only be 2 of the following 3 items for us to play. If all 3 we’d skip. 1. Windy (20+) 2. Rainy (needs to be steady, rain in Oregon is pretty common) 3. Cold (less than a high of 50) This was a pretty solid rule.

I searched around but didn’t see any other threads on this so I’ll put it here. I work in the laser industry and one of the applications has been additive manufacturing. The main market for the past 10 years has been SpaceX and the space industry and some medical applications. The new one I saw this week is 3D printing irons. Cobra and the company that they are using is marketing these irons pretty aggressively. In talking with the folks in the booth at the trade show, the claim is that they can gain strength but reduce the weight to put it exactly where they want. The print of the iron is very cool. Mostly everything behind the face is a thin metal lattice and then in the heal and toe is a block of tungsten for weight. I am old enough to remember the arguments about forged versus cast irons. I wonder if folks here will pay a bit more to get 3D printed irons. They have a booth here where you can hit them but I hate lines and the line to do it is always long. I go again tomorrow, and if the line isn’t too long I’ll give it a try and report back.

I found this app while searching for something else. I am wondering if anyone has any experience with it. It seems like a poor man's version of Decade or Lowest Score Wins. I like the concept but currently I am not playing enough golf to warrant the cost. Hopefully soon. Here is a screenshot from the app.

Typically less than 50. I find this can be affected by the "CART" signs on a given course. I don't like taking my rangefinder out of the cart and carrying it around to the green. I am very fearful I will leave it somewhere.

TEMU is owned by the same company as TikTok. ByteDance. Definitely will share your data. They also spent so much money on those Super Bowl ads and they were terrible.

Fair point. My only counter would be that Barry was very close to Walter Payton's career rushing record. It would have only taken a similar year to 98 to accomplish it. For many it was unexplainable. I guess with the now return maybe Michael Jordan 93 retirement would be a better comparison? However, there he explained at least a little bit his motivation. With AK is was truly a disappearance without explanation, just rumors. Pat Tillman comes to mind, but he was not the star that AK was.

Hmm, I'd argue his story is more like Barry Sanders than a lost airplane.

We all know Tiger is the best golfer to play the game, ever. There are numerous records that will take years to break if anyone ever does. His fist pump transformed the game. He brought an energy that made people come to watch golf who probably never would have. But, Tiger has a weakness. I think he has two. 1. He is really bad at high fives. I mean really bad. This video is a pretty good summary of numerous bad high fives. To support those of you who think he is awful at high fives I present a couple of photos. 2. He is also not very good at logo design. His TGR logo is strange, and I admit I have no idea what he was going for. His new Sun Day Red logo looks like he made a prehistoric version of the Slazenger logo. I don't think it is a good look to have a dinosaur Slazenger on an aging golfer, but that's just me. Here are the exhibits for the case against Tiger's logo design being his biggest weakness.

His singles record was 4-2-2. Pretty good but not stellar. In socializing this with friends this is one of the best explanations I’ve heard. I’ve heard the bad partner stuff but his Four Ball record is 5-10, yes you have a partner in four ball but if you play lights out you could still win. But certainly we’ve played with guys who make many birdies and win skins even though their score wasn’t very good. Tiger was more steady, avoiding the big mistakes.

Interesting trivia question. Don’t Google before answering. Does Tiger Woods have more major titles or Ryder Cup point won? To help you Tiger has played in 8 Ryder Cups.

I don’t think it’s unpopular at all. As you say the PGA Tour gets really rich off this event, why not share it with the players. It is billed as an exhibition but players should get something. I’d vote to pay them based on whether they were on the winning team and their record in the event. A nice motivation for winning. If you go 0-4-0 and your on the losing team they don’t pay you much. I think it is fair to say he should decline the invitation but he might feel the only way to change it is by protesting at the event. To be fair it is a minor protest to not wear a hat. It’s not like he’s kneeling during the national anthem or anything. The truth is probably somewhere in between. He might want to be paid and it might be he didn’t like how the hat sat on his head and it was distracting him and there was no protest.

Done this many times (not a hole in one, but my best golf). In fact I might qualify for the Pepsi Tour if it were played on a practice round. 🙂 Scheffler is a fantastic match play golfer. I know he's been struggling but an event like this might be just what the doctor ordered. Patrick Cantlay is also quite a good match play golfer. With that said I think Luke Donald was very smart to make the opening round Foursomes. Takes away the US's match play record strength. I think we will see a 2-2 or 3-1 to the Euros after the opening round.

I think Salas might be hurt. It doesn’t seem she’s played since the US Open. But even before that her form wasn’t very strong. She has a great record though, hard to argue with that part. If 100% healthy I would agree. Beyond D. Kang you are going pretty far down the CME rankings to players with no Solheim cup experience. I think I’d rather have Lexi over them.