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  1. Not sure how Nike's is but Callaway has the best customer service around.... If that pretty important to you....
  2. A buddy and I had been planning a trip to play at pebble a few years from now. After watching the US Open, I think I will just settle for watching a Tournament there.
  3. Anybody else experiencing this in their area's?? I was wondering why I was getting e mails from our course offering free golf balls with a round and lots of other promotions. Guess I know now. 500 to 1000 courses may close by 2015 according to the National Golf Foundation. Wow!!!! http://www.fresnobee.com/2010/05/15/...play-to-a.html "Golf managers are getting creative as their industry tries to rebound from a recession that sent rounds and revenues into a sand trap. For a sport that's not exactly cheap, both public and private courses in the Valley are using aggressive pricing, more features and better promotions to preserve rounds and memberships in a region where golfers' options abound. The efforts seem to be working. Golfers are trickling back -- and they expect courses to keep fees low and offer good deals. "Whether there's a recession or not, that's something they should have been doing all along," said Melissa Frenn, a Placerville resident playing recently at Fresno's Riverside Golf Course. "There's so many courses now, they have to be more competitive and offer a good experience," added Patty Moser of Jackson, another of Frenn's foursome. Course managers are listening. "We're sitting here in the Valley with one in five people unemployed, and that puts some stress on the minds of golfers," said Aaron Hensley, general manager of Fresno's Riverside Golf Course and Valley Oaks Golf Course in Visalia for CourseCo, a management company. "They're being a little more cautious and thinking through their discretionary spending." Memberships -- the traditional bailiwick of private country clubs -- are now promoted at many public courses to give frequent golfers better prices and priority tee times. Sierra Golf Management, which runs public courses in Madera, Lemoore, Chowchilla and other communities, lowered green fees and created a "Golf Revolution" membership that lets golfers play all of its courses for a single monthly price. "Golfers are much more sophisticated and demanding shoppers today than they were three years ago," said Jeff Christensen, Sierra Golf's owner. "They go online anticipating to find specials or discounts." In Lindsay, the nine-hole municipal course partnered with the city's McDermont Fieldhouse to let members use both recreation sites for one monthly fee. Without the dual memberships, "our numbers would probably be so low that there'd be no reason to stay open," said Bryan Rios, whose family manages the Lindsay course for the city What's happened in the Valley reflects what golf has endured nationwide. The National Golf Foundation estimates that golfers played nearly 3 million fewer rounds of golf in 2009 than they did in 2008. About 140 courses closed in the U.S. in 2009, and the National Golf Foundation predicts that 500 to 1,000 more may close by 2015. Public courses aren't the only ones feeling the strain, said Travis Moore, the pro at Fresno's members-only San Joaquin Country Club. "It's not just Fresno, not just California, but country clubs nationwide took a hit," Moore said. Country clubs offer exclusivity and amenities, but their members are watching their wallets, too, said Steve Menchinella, general manager of Sunnyside Country Club in Fresno. "Our membership slipped just like everyone else's," said Menchinella. "A country club is a luxury, and when the economy gets tight, people give up their luxuries." At Sunnyside, memberships are on the upswing again, Menchinella said, thanks to aggressive recruitment drives, lower fees, a "buddy system" and non-equity memberships that don't include an ownership stake in the 100-year-old club. Moore said San Joaquin had success with one-year "preview" memberships with deferred initiation fees. If the member decides to stay, the initiation fee comes due; it is forgiven if the member opts to leave. The Valley's newest course, the public Ridge Creek Golf Course in Dinuba, took a bite out of other courses in the region when it opened less than two years ago. Ridge Creek attracted golfers with its novelty, and unlike other Valley courses saw play increase in the recession. Its rounds per month are ahead of what officials expected at this point. But it shows that Valley courses are competing for a finite number of golfers and rounds. "Let's say the magic number [for a course to survive] is 4,000 rounds a month," said Sierra Golf's Christensen. If the sport's not growing, "you've got to compete and steal those rounds from somewhere else.""
  4. Watched the movie "A Gentleman's game" on Golf Channel the other day. I gotta say, disappointed. Really bad movie. Didn't expect the teen lust, child porn, racial innuendo. Golf kinda took a back seat to the terrible story. Didn't see how it was a Golf Channel worthy movie.
  5. We are in our 30's and late 20's. I was dressed in the usual golf attire while my buddies brothers were a little more dressed down. If you didn't know his brothers you might think twice about letting them borrow your car just by how they look but the guys golf a great game (better than me). Pissed me off more than anyone else I guess.
  6. First off, I shot a great round today at a course I have never been to. Course was nice, the staff was Terrible. Not sure if I can say the name of the course on here but it all started on the second tee. My foursome was about to tee off when the guy blowing the green slams on his brakes about 30 feet behind our carts making it sound like an accident was about to happen. Then as we were starting the back nine, (27 hole course, they choose which ones for you to play) we hear over the loud speaker "Your on the wrong hole, you start on the oaks course." An old man with a clip board comes up to us and tells us we are on the wrong hole. We explain we are on the right hole, he checks our names on the clip board and tells us we are right then tells us to pick up the pace. (there has been no one in front or behind us for a majority of our round) Just as we are about to tee off, the prick from the club house comes running out "Hey wrong hole! Oaks then lakes (names of the courses)" We explain that we are correct and that the old man said we were correct. "What guy? Are you guys on your second nine?" We explained to him that we were, and in the most condescending way he says, "Your right, I'm dumb, your smart." Who the hell treats people like that. We dished out $200 between the four of us and we get treated like punks. Ok vent over. Anyone wants to know the name and location of the course so they can avoid it, PM me.
  7. Dealt with Them through e mail to get a putter cover. They asked for my address, then told me to allow 4-6 weeks for delivery. The day after I received the e mail my cover arrived. Callaway, Taylormade, will always have a loyal customer. Anyone know how Ping is on CS?
  8. So I was doin a little digging today. Well I live in the valley and apparently driving ranges have not been too successful around here. The place I was looking at is near two prisons and a state hospital roughly around close to 10,000 state workers. (So far the research has been totally fascinating) There used to be a golf course near by that was pretty successful "back in the day" but has been closed for some time. At one point the course had a deal with the prison near by to have prisoners do all the up keep but the state realized they were putting out money to provide free labor. Then the place was having issues getting water cause it was so far out in the middle of nowhere. 3 owners later and its closed. The city golf course was bought by the city from a private owner because it was going under and right now they are barely able to keep it decent. The 9 hole course down the road is in bad shape because of alkali. The course the next town over is only open for tax reasons and lots of law suits were involved with well diggers and construction guys and the current club house is a single wide. So far it is not looking good.
  9. We have 3 golf courses with ranges within 7 miles of us right now. One range looks like you are hitting into a paintball field, another range you cant see where your balls land cause they have never watered it, and the best one has a big ditch on the left side and you can only tell how far you hit it if you hit it near the markers. In my head, this thing is going to be everything a golfer wants in a range.
  10. A few guys at work and I were talking about buying a decent piece of land locally and building a respectable golf range. Anyone know the cost to build one of these? Up keep? There is a town about 30 min from here with no course and no range near by, and the town is full of correction officers and other law enforcement and we figure it would be a great place to stick a range. Any range owners out there?
  11. I was just looking through a bucket in the garage and found a bunch of old ones with what I assume is Japanese writing on them. Pretty old.
  12. He is 55. Doesn't play much anymore, would love to inherit his clubs but he is a righty. Has a bag full of old clubs.
  13. Found this in my dads old golf bag. Bristol "Backspin Wedge"
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