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Which pill are you taking?  

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  1. 1. Which pill are you taking?

    • A. +100 yards on your drives
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    • B. Never Hook or Slice Again
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    • C. Never 3-Putt
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    • D. Free Beer Anytime You're Golfing
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Which pill would you take and why?

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I voted for adding 100 yards to my drives because duh ;-)

While it would be awesome to never three-putt again the choice that would have the biggest impact on my game would be A. and holy crap how cool would that be. Not three-putting on average would only help me a couple shots a round, hitting it 370-400 yards means every par 5 is reachable and a lot of par 4's are drivable. Now obviously I might make a few more putts if three-putts were eliminated, I would make sure every putt got to the hole. But I'm still going with A.

B. isn't a big deal because I don't curve it much. My misses tend to be contact misses or start line misses.

D. doesn't matter to me at all.

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I voted add 100 yds to my drive for the obvious reason but also because ‘Never hit a shank’ wasn’t a choice.

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365 yard drives would be great! Of course, all other clubs would be scaled up too! :-D

 

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Can I break them in half?  If so; I'll take +50 on drives and half as many 3-putts.  If not; I'll swallow the +100...although that's going require a putter, off the tee, on the short par 3's.

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+100 yards. It's a no brainier, since I already have a pretty good short game.

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I voted for pill B.

I hook and slice a lot in a round. While 100 yards would be great on my straight drives, it would do no good on those with curve to them and hurt even more when adding 100 yards to my pulls and pushes.

I'm ok playing shorter courses.

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Among the choices offered, I chose "Never 3-putt." 

But if I could make another choice, it would be "Hit the ball in the exact direction I am aiming."   I don't hook or slice much, but I do push and pull the ball off line too much. 

An even better choice for me would be "Make solid contact every time."  I guess what I would really want is consistency.  100 extra yards doesn't matter to me.  I'd just like to know where the ball is going. 

 

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A 100+ drive would be nice.

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I believe that the never three putt option blows away all the others. It would never matter how you got the ball anywhere onto any green up or down any slope at any greens speed.

 

 

 

 

John C.

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Not even close.  +100 yards on the drive!

Besides, with that, my buddies would be paying for my beer anyway! :-D 

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For me, I would choose to add 100 yards to my drives.   I can practice to work on the other items but practice isn't going to add distance (100 yards) to my game. 

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12 minutes ago, David in FL said:

Not even close.  +100 yards on the drive!

Besides, with that, my buddies would be paying for my beer anyway! :-D 

Dude, if you want to hustle your buddies how about blowing a five footer by the hole 60+ feet all the way to the edge of the green.

Then bet 'em 100 to one that you'll hole the next one!

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Seems I am the only one to vote for the little Blue Pill. :beer:

Golf is expensive, having a few freebies once in a while enables one to play more golf... ;-)

100+ yards? Keep on dreaming...

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I picked the free beer.  Even when I am playing bad, which is often, the cold beer never lets me down.  HA!

I almost picked the distance on drives but my last round I hit the driver pretty well and still could not score because I was laying the sod over on my short wedge shots so, there is no guarantee that extra distance would help me overall.  I can still jack it up with horrible scoring play.

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I voted A. With extra yardage I can dial it back if I need to. I can fix B and C, though C would only save me a few stokes per round anyway - it's  the least beneficial of the three (I just checked and on my most recent bad putting round I 3-putted four times on my way to a 94).

Don't care about D; even if I did drink on the course, I still have to drive home so it's a complete waste of a pill.

57 minutes ago, NEhomer said:

Dude, if you want to hustle your buddies how about blowing a five footer by the hole 60+ feet all the way to the edge of the green.

Then bet 'em 100 to one that you'll hole the next one!

You realize that C says "never 3-Putt" right? It doesn't say you can't 4-Putt :-P

1 hour ago, boogielicious said:

A 100+ drive would be nice.

Don't worry about it. Once you're 100% healthy, I'm sure you'll be able to hit it longer than 100 yards again :-P

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A. Add 100 yards to drives. 

I considered B as a close second but figured the yardage gained 14 times per round effectively shortens the course by 1400 yards and is worth more.

Not C. Even in our off season now, this would only save me 1.6 strokes per round (over the last 10 rounds). 

Not D.

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