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  1. I know you said it's not Pebble but the 14th hole is that way. If you don't hit it on the top portion of the green, the ball will roll all the way back into the fairway and usually in front of the bunker giving the player very little chance of going at the pin. The other hole is #9 at Augusta, approach shot too short with a little spin and it's back into the fairway it goes.
  2. Alphabetical order due to having them marked off in the 2001 NCGA Blue Book. As mentioned before, I played a lot of golf with a traveling NCGA Associates Club and then with a mini tour. In California- Adobe Creek Ancil Hoffman Bayonet Course Bennett Valley Blue Rock Springs - East and West courses Bodega Harbor Canyon Lakes Carmel Valley Ranch Catta Verde at Twelve Bridges Chardonnay - all 27 holes Coyote Creek - Tournament course Crystal Springs Cypress Hills in Colma when it was 18 holes De Laveaga Deep Cliff Delta View Diablo Creek Diablo Grande - Legends Dry Creek Ranch Emerald Hills Foxtail - North and South courses Fountaingrove Franklin Canyon Gleneagles Green HIlls Half Moon Bay - Old and Ocean courses Harding Park Hidden Valley Lake Hiddenbrooke Indian Valley La Contenta Lake Chabot Las Positas Lone Tree Micke Grove Kennedy Park in Napa Northwood GC Oakhurst Oakmont - west course Old Brockway Palo Alto muni Paradise Valley Pasatiempo Pebble Beach Plumas Lake Ponderosa GC Poplar Creek Poppy Hills Presidio GC Rancho Murieta Rancho Solano Redwood Empire Ridgemark San Geronimo San Jose muni San Juan Oaks San Ramon Royal Vista Santa Clara Santa Teresa Seascape in Aptos Sharp Park Shoreline Silverado Resort - North course Skywest Sonoma GC Stevinson Ranch Summitpointe Sunnyvale muni Sunol Valley - Palm and Cypress courses Teal Bend Tilden Park Turlock GCC Van Buskirk Willow Park Hawaii- Maui Kapalua - Bay and Plantation courses Royal Kaanapali Makena Nevada- Dayton Valley Incline Village Lakeridge Northgate Primm Valley - Both courses Wildcreek Oregon - Bandon Dunes Pacific Dunes Utah- South Mountain Thanksgiving Point Old Mill Washington- Sudden Valley Whidbey Golf and CC I think it's 90 courses so far
  3. I've been thinking about getting some new irons since the ones I have now are about 15 years old. I'm going to hold off until March when Taylormade comes out with their new line of irons....I particularly like these and looking forward to testing them out- http://www.taylormadegolf.com/mainlevel/golfshop/irons.html?IsPopUp=0#30 hmmmm, link doesn't completely work? The irons are the Taylormade Tour Preferred CB. Here's the link to Taylormade - http://www.taylormadegolf.com/ click on products and then on irons.
  4. the 2 courses at Primm Valley are excellent but it's a little out of the way (an hour west or so) from Vegas proper. http://www.primmvalleygolf.com/reservations.php
  5. lots of good courses down that way! 27 holes at Cinnabar Hills in San Jose San Jose muni is a lot of fun, can be a real challenge when the wind picks up. San Juan Oaks in Hollister isn't too far, Fred Couples had a hand in designing this one Ridgemark in Hollister Shoreline in Mountain View - can get pretty muddy this time of year Summitpointe in Milpitas - lots of hills 36 holes at Sunol Valley in Sunol Sunnyvale GC in Sunnyvale - kind of a short muni Eagle Ridge in Gilroy Coyote Creek in San Jose also has 36 holes designed by Jack Nicklaus Santa Clara in Santa Clara I know there's a couple more but they aren't coming to mind right now oh wait, Santa Teresa in San Jose and if you want to head over the hill into the Santa Cruz area, there are a few more over that way.
  6. I'm a General Contractor and I got tendonitis years ago from swinging a hammer and what jonanthans posted above is what the Dr recommended to me also since I refused to get a shot. As mentioned above, I believe the shot would just numb/mask the problem where I'd rather be able to feel when the pain started so I could stop what I was doing. In any case, I've pretty much been doing those exercises for about 22 years and they really help out. I'm not saying the pain is non existent 100% of the time but when it pops up, it's no where near as painful as it was. BTW, I do take a couple of Advil before I hit the range or go out to play.
  7. Way back when when I was about a 10 handi, I joined a traveling club where we played all kinds of different courses. A couple of the members were club pros so I was fortunate enough to be able to have on course lessons when we would just go out and play for the fun of it. Within a few months I went from the 10 down to a 6 mostly due to hitting the ball solid to pretty much where I was aiming....course management. Managing where you hit the ball on each hole can lower your score just by giving yourself the best angle to a pin, avoiding bunkers, shots over bunkers to short pins, and hitting the ball off the tee to leave yourself a shot that is best for you. For example, if you come to a 320 yd 4 par and your most comfortable with a 110yd wedge then hit a club off the tee that leaves you with that distance into the green. The same holds true on a 5 par, if you know you really can't reach the green in 2 then lay up leaving yourself that same shot your most comfortable with. I can't even begin to count the times I would leave myself a 30-40 yd shot with trouble between the ball and the pin because I decided to hit driver off the tee. Many times I'd end up with bogey due to leaving that shot short or hitting too long. When I learned to leave a full short iron shot into the green, the scores started dropping. When I got down to about a 6 is when I really concentrated on practicing with the short irons (8 thru SW) for better distance control which really helped get down to under a 3 index. If you're in the San Mateo area of the Bay Area, I'd suggest you go see Joby Ross, Mick Soli or Mark Cato at Mariners Point in Foster City. http://www.marinerspoint.com/ They also happen to be running a special right now, $99.00 for 3 lessons.
  8. Golf is a visual game for me and it starts with looking down at the club at address and personally, I can't stand looking down at an oversized or an offsett iron. I like a thin top line and a traditional sized head but not necessarily a forged iron. As far as some of the GI clubs, many of them are like putting a bandaid on a carotid artery, sure it may work for awhile but it's not going to correct the real problem. I have 3 sets of irons, 2 of which I switch between to use out on the course. The third set is a set of Nicklaus Muirfield forged that I'll take to the range to practice with but not for distance, they are for trying to hit the ball solidly. My other sets are Taylormade ICW5's and Spalding Tours which are both what, 15 years old? The Muirfields are probably 30 years old. The Taylormades and the Muirfields are muscle back and the Spaldings are a cavity back but they all have a traditional size head and a thin top line. All 3 sets have the same shafts, same grips, same loft/lie and the same swing weight for consistency. As far as why you should use a blade over what you're using, I don't see why you would want to. If you're comfortable with what you're using, why change? How's that for typing a bunch of stuff that in the end, doesn't really matter?
  9. Silver Bells and White Christmas I took my wife to see the play White Christmas in San Francisco a couple of years ago and it was awesome!
  10. IMO, the piece of equipment that I see that doesn't fit the golfer more often than not is the type of ball. A lot of people could shoot lower scores by using a ball that doesn't spin so much. Not saying that the OP is included in this opinion of mine but it could be another option to try before spending a couple of C notes.
  11. back when I was a single digit, I didn't mind playing with real high handicappers at all. The reason is when I was first starting out and shooting high scores, I would always get that 1 a$$ that would always blame me and get pissed off for their errant shots. I vowed never to be like that and I pretty much held true to that at every level I was at. Actually, just last week I was paired up with a person that was every bit of a 100 when he decided to quit after 16 holes. Most of us started out the same way so why belittle someone for doing so
  12. I took a couple of pictures of a few of the drivers that I had readily available that I've had over the past nearly 40 years....ugh, that really makes me feel old From left to right , Walter Hagen, Hagen, MacGregor Eyeomatic , Spalding Tour Edtion Persimmon, Spalding Tour Edition metal, Top Flite Intimidator and a Taylormade R9 As you can see in this next picture, I was playing around with shaft length back in about 1976 with the Walter Hagen. With the regular shaft being longer, it was one hell of a thing to try and control but it did help me out in the long run. I had to swing smooth and easy to make the ball even consider to go in the direction I was aiming. My favorite by far has been the Top Flite Intimidator. I hit the ball real long usually with a slight draw but could work the ball very easily with it. Since I've only played 1 round with the R9, I really can't give a good assessment although at this point, there isn't any real difference is distance over the Intimidator. The thing about the R9, visually, I don't really like the large head....kind of reminds of a Porky Pig cartoon or something. I'm too used to a smaller head but I did hit it pretty straight when I played it. My other favorite out of the bunch was the persimmon Tour Edition. At the time, I averaged around 240 with that club with a tendency to fade. When I switched to the metal Tour Edition, I gained about 10 years on average but could muscle up and hit it much further than I could ever hit the persimmon. I had a Top Flite Thunder Heat between the metal TE and the Intimidator that was also a pretty good club until the shaft broke out on the course one day. I have the head around here somewhere that I had a mind to throw another shaft into. Anyway, with the Intimidator, my average went up to around 270 without swinging nearly as hard as I was used to. If I did decide to go after it, 300 wasn't out of the question at all. After nearly 10 years without playing, I picked up the clubs just about 5 weeks ago and averaged about 240 with that Intimidator with a best of 270 down wind. In the following 2 rounds with it, the average has stayed about the same but the courses I played were very wet so there wasn't much roll on the fairways. This last round with the R9 was pretty much the same as the Intimidator and the off center hits weren't all that different either. Once I'm able to get more rounds under my belt and get my golf muscles and flexibility back, I'm sure I'll be able to notice more differences. I can only wish to get this kind of turn again. This was 11 years ago -
  13. like OC, I too was born, raised and lived here in the Bay Area my whole life. The list of golf courses from San Jose up to Santa Rosa is a pretty long one. Since I really don't feel like typing them all out, here's a link to the Courses page of the Hooked on Golf website- http://www.hookedongolf.com/courses/northern_california/index.html It has all the the courses, public, private, resort and the 9 holers that you would want to play. I was fortunate enough to be able to play the private course, Green Hills CC in Millbrae, as I was growing up. If you ever get the opportunity to play it, do so. The same holds true for Stanford, the California Club and Peninsula G&CC; not to forget the Olympic Club and San Francisco Country Club although I've never played the latter 2. I had the chance on a few occasions but something always prevented me......I kick myself about it now. Oh yea, when you come up to the North Bay, let me know and maybe we can hook up for a round. Note: Adobe Creek in Petaluma is closed until further notice while they figure out bankruptcy issues and then restructure.
  14. At least an hour, no but I have spent some time in a couple of stores familiarizing myself with what equipment is out there these days. Don't take multiple trips but do go for specific items and yes, I usually buy something when I go. To me, I'd rather support the local store(s) than buy online for the simple reason I want to support local business.
  15. What you posted about alcohol is absolutely true, "even one beer will slow your reflexes and impair your decision making ability somewhat". That is the exact reason why a little alcohol can help someone. I'm definitely not an advocate of drinking alcohol but for some, a little bit helps them relax just enough to loosen up their muscles which allows them to swing without the tension. Has anyone taken a look to see if there is a relation to alcohol consumption and handicap? I haven't looked but it is my feeling that beginners and/or high handicappers are probably more inclined to drink alcohol moreso then a low handicapper that may take the game more seriously? Maybe it's just because there are more golfers out there above say, an 8 handicap, so that's why the numbers would be skewed towards my thinking.
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