Lime Shark

Sure you do. There are different words for the same thing, because they have different shades of meaning. The next time you hit a bad shot, just start yelling "Intercourse!" or call your partner a "penis head" and his wife a "vagina". Language is like a toolbox, and crude words are your sledge hammers. Use them too often and you destroy your language skills. But, there are (rare) situations when a sledge hammer is exactly the right tool. Saving it for those situations makes it more effective.

The honor of putting the first dent/scratch on a club should always go to the owner. Whenever a friend gets a new car, I ask them if I can drive is "so I can be the first one to put a dent in it." They never do grant my request. I have the same response to anyone that wants to borrow a new car, musical instrument, or golf club (even if just to "try it out for a moment"): I want to be the first one to put a scratch in it, so I'm not loaning it out till then. Yea, I sound like a jerk, but you know who is a bigger jerk? The guy that borrows your new stuff, damages it, then "it's no big deal; it was going to get scratched eventually anyway."

1) It's not your job to tell him what to do with his life. If he wants to play golf, that's his business. 2) It's also not your job to teach him. At the most, recommend an instructor. 3) It's not your job to play with him either. Till he becomes competent, I would limit golf to TopGolf. A few beers and pizza while hitting golf balls.

He is entitled to his own opinion. He's not entitled to his own facts. Ball flight laws a physics, not opinion.

Would it be wrong if I start to root for Kylo Ren and the First Order?

No, on the old boxes, only the e6 said straight. Old box text: e5: distance and control e6: straight distance e7: pure distance The on topic part is the USGA is considering limiting distance, because it is a problem for pros. It is NOT a problem for amateurs. If the USGA wanted to improve the experience for amateurs, they might do something like change the dimple rule to allow straighter flying balls. But then, I'm not even sure the USGA realizes there is such a thing as amateur golf.

That was my point. The e6 was the straight flight (or anti-slice) ball. In the player demographic group the e series was aimed at (I'm guessing intermediate amateur players), the demand for an anti-slice ball dwarfed the demand for a short-game or distance ball to the point they discontinued them. Both the e6 current incarnations (soft and speed) have "straight distance" printed on the front in big letters (note the word straight is first). And the marketing message that sold the most was "straight", which should give some insight into the purchaser's needs.

IMHO, the problem for amateurs isn't the ball traveling too far. It is the inability to hit the ball without curving it into the woods. My evidence? The Bridgestone e series golf balls. This is a midrange series. They originally had three versions: e5 - urethane cover (short game ball) e6 - straight flight ball e7 - distance ball According to Bridgestone's website, the only one they still make is the e6--the straight flight ball.

They need to have a more typical amateur as well. The amateur in this video is a 2.0 handicap. The USGA average handicap for amateurs is 15.0. There's a big difference between a 2.0 and 15.0 handicap player. One thing I noticed is the pro seems to work to keep his arm straight on the backswing (even hyperextending at setup) and then allows his arm to bend on the downswing. The amateur seems to have more bend in the arm on the backswing, then actively tries to keep his arm straight on the downswing (till he gets to the end where he chicken wings). Lesson I would take from it? Focus on keeping your arm straight till the top of the backswing, then relax the arm. It would be interesting to see if these players described themselves as "hitters" or "swingers". If I had to guess, the amateur actively uses his arms in the downswing (hitter) and the pro relaxes and his arms and lets his body rotation square up the club (swinger). Not saying either way is right or wrong. Just that there are multiple swing styles. Comparing a hitter to a swinger is like comparing a diesel engine to a gasoline engine. They look similar, but the details of how they work are different.

So this ball curves to the right, because it has a clockwise spin?

All golf swings are an arc that goes around the player, not a straight line. Is it possible the OP is catching the ball just at the time on the swing arc is club transitioning from an inside out trajectory to a straight down the line trajectory? If the club is still on the early part of the arc at the time of impact (the still slightly inside-out path that matches the club face angle), it would produce the push-straight shot. If the club is a little further along on the arc and has reached the point where it is traveling straight in line with the target, with an open club face, this would produce a clockwise rotation, and thus a push-slice. If his impact point is right about the transition point on the arc between these two, it would account for the two different ball flights (straight or slice) yet would also produce a fairly consistent initial ball flight (push). (I think I have a headache.) If this analysis is right, he is impacting the ball too late in his swing arc. If he impacted the ball earlier in his swing he would still have the push, but he would also put a counter-clockwise spin on the ball causing it to curve to the left, giving him a push-draw. (I definitely I have a headache.)

This is a good excuse to make sure I understand the ball fight laws (every time I think of them, I get a headache). I usually have to think in terms of ping pong to sort things out. The initial direction of the ball is associated with the angle of the paddle/club face. A push-slice starts out to the right (assuming a right handed golfer) so the club face is angled open at impact. When a ball is spins clockwise, it curves to the right. To achieve this in ping pong, you hit the ball with a right to left motion, which imparts a clockwise spin. So, our friend with the push slice is (1) has an open club face at the time of impact, and (2) his club head is traveling in an right to left direction at the time of impact. But...he also complains about a push-straight shot. To hit a ping pong ball straight to the right, you angle the paddle to the right, but you don't use a sideways motion when hitting the ball. The paddle approaches directly from behind the ball. So, our friends push-strait shot means he (1) has an open club face at impact and (2) the club is traveling in the exact same path as the ball flight at impact. The push-slice scenario would seem to indicate he has an outside-in swing path (to produce the right to left motion that imparts a counter clockwise rotation). The push-straight scenario would seem to indicate he has an inside out swing path (which matches the face angle to produce zero sideways spin). And right about now is when I usually get a headache. How can he alternatively have an outside-in then an inside-out swing path? I can't see how he could be that inconsistent. Is there someway he could have an inside-out swing path and still impart a clockwise spin on the ball?

Horse hockey. If that was true, people who sat around all day and never elevated their heart rate via exercise would live the longest. Yet, those people are the most likely to die of heart disease. Your muscles in particular (of which your heart is one) have the ability to regenerate and maintain themselves. Your organs are a different story. If you exercise your muscles regularly (including your heart) you are more likely to die of some organ related failure than muscle/heart related failure. As I've gotten older, I've come to believe that compound exercises (pull ups, push ups, squats) are better for me than muscle isolation exercises (preacher curls for example).

Where do you think paper currency gets its value? It is no longer backed by gold or silver. Heck, most of it isn't even printed on paper anymore, it is just 1's and 0's in a computer. Blockchain is, in essence, a distributed general ledger system. It allows people to quickly verify who owns what, while at the same time being difficult to manipulate fraudulently. There's no reason it can't be used to track American dollars instead of bitcoins (at which point banks become superfluous) or who owns what piece of real estate (at which point the county records office becomes superfluous).