NuclearMike

I went to the range yesterday to work on a grip change. For kicks I brought with me a couple of clubs from each of my past two sets of irons. Bottom line? New technology is good. Older technology, not so much so. I'm at a point now where I get to the range more than the course and I benefit from GI irons. I once had a much lower index than I do now but with my lack of time I don't know where I'd be if I was hitting my old irons again.

I went to the range yesterday to work on a grip change. For kicks I brought with me a couple of clubs from each of my past two sets of irons. Bottom line? New technology is good. Older technology, not so much so. I'm at a point now where I get to the range more than the course and I benefit from GI irons. I once had a much lower index than I do now but with my lack of time I don't know where I'd be if I was hitting my old irons again.

I have lost a gap wedge and a Nickent Evolver diver head cover. Neither was turned in. I can't imagine not doing the right thing, but for some people their own sense of entitlement prohibits them from considering golf as a "gentleman's game".

It fills an otherwise big gap for me. My irons are over-lofted (PW is 42.5, AW 64, GW 49.5) so I don't even think of them having numbers. My old PW was 47 so I think of my AW as the same type of performer. I have a lot of success with my 49.5 and don't like my 52 at all, so I'll hit a hard GW more often than the 52 degree.

A sincere "thank you" for using the word "plays" in your title. I've had it with the word "game" being used as a verb, as in "I game Wilson Staff irons." No you don't. "Game" isn't a verb and isn't a synonym for "play". At least not according to the dictionary or thesaurus. Plus the fact that it would look and sound ridiculous if I said that "I game the Gamer V2 from Top Flite", which is my ball of choice. Rant over. Return to what you were doing.

I keep playing for that one shot that will bring me back to the course again and again. Every round there's one or more of them- a striped drive down the middle, a bunker shot to par range, a perfectly read downhill 15 footer... Don't worry about having a bad start. You can always have a better finish.

You mentioned in your other post that you need help with the driver.

Dropping your handicap that far will require a full time commitment. Hundreds of balls a day of quality practice, not just banging balls to hit. I only get about four hours a week to practice in two 2 hour sessions. Some days, usually if everything is in sync and I'm hitting it well, I may hit 150+ balls in 2 hours but if there's something that I have to really work on, like changing my backswing, or if I'm struggling with my iron play, I may take 2 or 3 minutes per ball. Quality of practice beats quantity of practice every time.

Illinois- third best FBS team in the state! Northern Illinois, Northwestern, U of I. In that order. Go Huskies!

2.54 cm = 1 inch

I've been watching Playing Lessons with the Pros. Holly's golf swing is just a bonus on top of her looks. She gets my vote. If she ever wants to do Playing Lessons with the Scrubs I'm there!

3 putt? Nope, never done that .

Tacos originated in Mexico, not Spain. Paella and tapas are traditional Spanish foods.

+1 for the Gamer V2 2010

Don't get down after a bad shot or a bad hole. It sounds as if that 10 stuck with you for a while. There's nothing that we can do about our golf failures but learn from them and improve from that experience. Next time out will be better than the last one. Even if it's not a complete success there will be something positive on which you can draw for the following time out.

I have a Sonos wireless system in my A/V store playing Pandora through a great McIntosh/ B&W; system. I wanted to hear some good 70's rock and roll so I created an Emerson Lake and Palmer station. I've heard them, Zeppelin, Yes, King Crimson, The Who, Jethro Tull and others of their ilk over the past couple of hours. I think that I'll just let it play all day.

Although it's never easy to put a really bad hole behind me I try to think of the next shot that I face as the most important one of the day. Although cumulative score is what we play for (except in match play) try to think of a round of golf as 18 separate "games". Once I've finished out on a blow-up hole it's on to the next "game", one for which the previous bad hole has no impact at all. In a recent round I was four over through 10 and playing really good golf, but on the 11th proceeded to hit one OB and bladed one from the sand over the green, from where it took me four more to strokes to finish out my five over par nine. I parred the 12th and birdied the 13th and finished the round with one par and four bogeys on the last five for a more than respectable (for me) 84. Just get yourself to forget rather than dwell on the past and you'll better be able to recover your momentum from that really bad hole.

No. No justification for slow play. None. Never. Ever. Is that clear enough?

HotZ bag from about 1998.

There is more bare dirt at my range than at the courses I play but you never know what you'll find when you play. I practice a little from the dirt and from divots as well.

It's never too late to go to medical school!

Check out "hamate bone fracture". I had a playing partner with this issue and his symptoms were a lot like yours.

Hope I just overreacted to what the doc said on the phone before I saw him today. He gave me lasix this morning and told me that if he swelling went down that it likely wasn't a clot. So far so good. I'm not usually a hypochondriac but when I heard "blood clot" I apparently stopped thinking.

Welcome from Sugar Land.

Agreed, but they may not last as long as some others. I like the feel and they stay tacky.