Winter Depression Thread

[RFKFREAK]

I'm hitting balls in the garage!

Edit: Oops. This thread is supposed to be about depression. =P

Nice!  Looks good.

Well it's depressing that I can't hit balls in my garage.

@CarlSpackler, that sucker looks big enough that even I couldn't miss it. Suddenly thinking there's a bunch of stuff in my small garage that we really don't need.

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+1.  I have a net and mat and can't do it because my garage isn't big enough so I'm subject to the elements.

[14ledo81]

@CarlSpackler , your gonna lose the "tough, braving the cold, winter practicer" look as long as that heater is visible in the picture.... :)

[CarlSpackler]

@CarlSpackler, your gonna lose the "tough, braving the cold, winter practicer" look as long as that heater is visible in the picture.... :)

I DEFINITELY had the heater going.

[boogielicious]

I played my first simulator round ever with a close friend of mine.  We played Pebble Beach.  I shot a 94 and beat him by 10 strokes.  He usually beats me on the course.  It was a lot of fun.

The only thing that was weird was some of the short game shots. Chips that would usually go 20 yards were going 40 for some reason.  I was using the chipping with a putting method a la @mvmac .  The simulator really gave these a lot of distance compared to how they are on real courses.

Anyone in the eastern Mass area should check this place out.  It is in Georgetown, MA

http://playpar97.com

[billchao]

I have a net and mat and can't do it because my garage isn't big enough so I'm subject to the elements. :-(

I subjected my net to the elements last winter. I don't have a net anymore. [quote name="boogielicious" url="/t/71391/winter-depression-thread/1230#post_1093376"]I played my first simulator round ever with a close friend of mine.  We played Pebble Beach.  I shot a 94 and beat him by 10 strokes.  He usually beats me on the course.  It was a lot of fun.   The only thing that was weird was some of the short game shots. Chips that would usually go 20 yards were going 40 for some reason.  I was using the chipping with a putting method a la @mvmac .  The simulator really gave these a lot of distance compared to how they are on real courses. [/quote]Interesting. I got to try a simulator at a place near me during a demonstration/tour of sorts and didn't find any issue with the short shots. The pro admitted he hadn't fully calibrated the greens yet, so they were running crazy fast. I ended up having to pitch everything onto the fringe and letting it release to the pin. The putting is what throws me off the most. I keep wanting to hit the ball to the screen. But even when the screen said I had a 5' putt and I hit it 1' in real life, the ball went 6' past the hole. I'm planning on going there tomorrow to use the driving range and get some launch numbers on my driver. Hopefully the thing is accurate enough for that.

[cipher]

@Jakester23 and I dealt with the winter blues today by playing 18 at the indoor simulator. Good times.

[Jakester23]

@Jakester23 and I dealt with the winter blues today by playing 18 at the indoor simulator. Good times.

He left out the fact that he kicked my a$$. It was fun I think Nate has been lifting he hit a few really long drives.

[JonMA1]

This past week has been tough. The combination of extreme temps, longer than usual drives home and running the snowblower almost every night has put a damper on my practice. Tomorrow is supposed to warmer with no snow in the forecast. Might be a good day for the simulator.

[dfreuter415]

I'm hitting balls in the garage!

Just make sure you...

1) Don't hit the ball through the net

2) Then the ball ricochets off of the wooden shelf

3) And finally hits the space heater, which then is all ablaze.

I love this game.

[boogielicious]

Speaking from experience @dfreuter415 I'm guessing?

[dfreuter415]

Speaking from experience @dfreuter415 I'm guessing?

You got it! Over the last 30+ years I have a wooded area behind my house and every year I hit balls into a net. Well, after a period of time the net wears out and the balls go zinging through the mesh, endangering birds and other wildlife.

I love this game!

[Ernest Jones]

I played my first simulator round ever with a close friend of mine.  We played Pebble Beach.  I shot a 94 and beat him by 10 strokes.  He usually beats me on the course.  It was a lot of fun.

The only thing that was weird was some of the short game shots. Chips that would usually go 20 yards were going 40 for some reason.  I was using the chipping with a putting method a la @mvmac .  The simulator really gave these a lot of distance compared to how they are on real courses.

Anyone in the eastern Mass area should check this place out.  It is in Georgetown, MA

http://playpar97.com

Yeah short game can be a bit iffy on sims. I've hit chips that hit the screen 13.5 feet away at about 2-3 feet off the ground and sim says it only went 6 feet. I've also had some weird pitches where my ball will hit the screen dead center but the sims say my face was wide open and the ball went 30* off-line... Me and my buddies have kind of agreed that if the the sim shows something completely incompatible with what the actual ball did on a chip or pitch then you take an automatic mulligan - this applies even if the result was good, it's an automatic "do-over".

[boogielicious]

Quote:

Originally Posted by boogielicious

I played my first simulator round ever with a close friend of mine.  We played Pebble Beach.  I shot a 94 and beat him by 10 strokes.  He usually beats me on the course.  It was a lot of fun.

The only thing that was weird was some of the short game shots. Chips that would usually go 20 yards were going 40 for some reason.  I was using the chipping with a putting method a la @mvmac .  The simulator really gave these a lot of distance compared to how they are on real courses.

Anyone in the eastern Mass area should check this place out.  It is in Georgetown, MA

http://playpar97.com

Yeah short game can be a bit iffy on sims. I've hit chips that hit the screen 13.5 feet away at about 2-3 feet off the ground and sim says it only went 6 feet. I've also had some weird pitches where my ball will hit the screen dead center but the sims say my face was wide open and the ball went 30* off-line... Me and my buddies have kind of agreed that if the the sim shows something completely incompatible with what the actual ball did on a chip or pitch then you take an automatic mulligan - this applies even if the result was good, it's an automatic "do-over".

It was weird.  My buddy had a couple that the path was shown as a zig zag and the ball went 10 feet.  It had the opposite when I would be a 10 yard chip and it would go over the green.  The sim must be reading spin and calculating off that.  For the most part, the full swing distances were spot on.

[Ernest Jones]

For the most part, the full swing distances were spot on.

My experience as well. What kind of sim was it? The one I play on has floor mounted sensors similar to the OptiShot. The software is E6.

[JonMA1]

Yeah short game can be a bit iffy on sims. I've hit chips that hit the screen 13.5 feet away at about 2-3 feet off the ground and sim says it only went 6 feet. I've also had some weird pitches where my ball will hit the screen dead center but the sims say my face was wide open and the ball went 30* off-line... Me and my buddies have kind of agreed that if the the sim shows something completely incompatible with what the actual ball did on a chip or pitch then you take an automatic mulligan - this applies even if the result was good, it's an automatic "do-over".

I thought the same thing with the simulators I've used. Full swings seem reasonably accurate, but pitching and chipping is all over the place. They have putting set as a gimme at 6' which is no where near accurate with my game, but it makes the round go much faster.

[boogielicious]

Quote:

Originally Posted by boogielicious

For the most part, the full swing distances were spot on.

My experience as well. What kind of sim was it? The one I play on has floor mounted sensors similar to the OptiShot. The software is E6.

It is HD golf.  Graphics were pretty good.

http://hdgolf.com/about-us/hd-golf-technology

[Foursum Golf]

I tried out a new sim golf spot a couple of weeks ago and had the same experience. The full-swing shots were bang on. Chipping and putting were a bit hard to judge. Definitely a fun night out though. It'll get me through the winter.

[CarlSpackler]

Could Erie win it?

http://goldensnowglobe.com/breaking-news-erie-pa-snows-into-first-unofficial/