cireyamel

During the off-season we we bought my seven-year old daughter a set of Ping Moxies, and WOW! If you have a very junior golfer, this set is amazing. For last season we just used a homemade set, but on the range, if anything, she likes the way hving a "normal set" looks. I think I paid about $200 for all the clubs (w/bag), and they should be fine until she hits 5-foot in about four years. Just really impressed with them. cy

Ummmmm...kidding, no. I love my sandals during the summer here and in Hawaii and AZ. I have to blow them dry at the turn if I hit traps. I was just curious if anyone else wore them. cy

Anyone else play in sandals? I use the Footjoys. I'm just curious.

I have to second the hitting the stiff part of the flag and ricocheting off to trouble. But my second is playing in a scramble and being 285-yards or so out on a long par-5, downhill, and hitting a driver. It was a great shot. That plunked the guy putting near the hole in the leg! DOH! Honestly I didn't think I could reach it. But it was a scramble and we already had a ball within a hundred yards, so I got to swing away. They were cool about it, though, and knew I got lucky. But it is still my most out of my arse driver off the fairway I've ever hit, and probably ever well. cy

Our club is hosting an am-major next year and they want caddies for the kids. Anyone ever done this? I know the course, like the back of my hand, but I'll basically get linked up with some stranger for a week. If I say I want to be a caddy, what am I committing to? cy

I play golf almost everyday, and I tell myself about 36 times, "Don't do anything stupid." Phil was stupid on 18. cy

Boobs could have glided in for the landing. Remind me never to fly with him. Didn't we all absolutely cringe after watching him pull his drives all day when he yanked it out of the bag on 18? He could have hit three irons and been putting for par. Nothing from Ogilvy (geeze, he did just win a major). e

I was bored in Detroit at a conference and I caught that article about a contest in Golf Magazine: What's the most creative thing you can create out of golf balls, golf tees and peanut butter. Within an hour on the cell phone I had 3,000 former range balls, 3,000 tees and 50 pounds of peanut butter (all donated) and a teacher who was crazy enough to let about 50 high school kids try and pull it off. In all, we had about 15 entries...well, attempts at entries...some of it just ended up a big mess. So, today after school, students spent up to five hours creating their "art." I posted three of the photos here . It was a hoot. And, in the end, the golf balls and tees are all being cleaned to be used at the "tent" ranges in the gyms of the local high school. (And yes, we did cheat a little bit by one group painting the balls, but this is all made out of peanut butter and golf balls. It was also pouring rain, so we used half-inch insulation foam as are bases on a cafeteria floor.) cy p.s. The top one is an entire Pac-Man screen. The second one is the painted balls. The third one is just a complete commerical sell-out

Did anyone else see the story in Golfweek about the PGA Tour Superstore World Amateur taking away the title from the apparent winner? They took two things into account it sounds like: a USGA probabality scale and the fact he hadn't posted in two months. But his answer was pretty cool: "It's a good feeling to shoot a couple of days of good scores, but I understand where they're coming from. I'll try to go back down next year and do it again." Even though I suck...my first thought was to grab all those cards and get them posted. My second thought...what the heck is a probability scale? Isn't it up to each club to monitor what someone posts? And wouldn't it be the club be the one to question in an event like this, since it's sanctioned?

Are you the member of any national private athletic club or golf club? Just a thought. The concierge at my athletic club has hooked me up with some pretty cool golfing times on business trips over the years. As a single. But I don't remember paying more than $200 in that area at the private clubs.

I was just scooching around the internet on a holiday-weekend morning, and I saw that a club I belong to is officially listed at one prominent golf course site as having 61-70 bunkers. Which made me chuckle, because I've visited them all, I'm sure, but I never thought to count them, either. I can just see the caddies or a junior pro in the pro shop debating how many they had and saying, "61-70," to the person asking the question. What I really suspect is someone filled out a profile and marked the "61-70" box for that question. So I went out to count them today. Pretty dang accurate description, depending on how you count them... Because...I then fluttered online to a pretty good course my family built. They had "71-80." on the website. But I know the exact number and it's less. So I had to walk that and count. They counted all the "grass bunkers" on the list. Which isn't a bad idea. I watched the course get designed, built and produce a USGA champion, and I know that those "bunkers" with the really long grass are meant to penalize you just as much as the sand. So that's why I ask, what's a bunker? I think I've decided it's any deep impression on the course's regular lines of play that tries to penalize you for being there. I'm sure there's a more technical definition, but that's just what I came away with after thinking about, and walking, both courses today. cy p.s. And it was really cool because I shot below net-par on both courses. I've never pulled that double before. I usually just get too tired out on the course I played second. Or I just plain sucked for several holes on one of the two, over 36 holes in a day. Nothing like a Monday holiday and playing some decent golf in great weather.

Fluff getting too big for his britches with Tiger.

Yeah, I know the rules and I still was called on them a couple of years ago because of something "like" this. In the end, of course, I called myself on the next tee (no one said a thing to that point) because I had the book with me. Cost me 58 bucks. Call it a total brain fart. People get on my case because I play better than my handicap. But I also play by the rules and have no problem calling anything on myself that breaks those rules. Or, just completely playing my rounds by the rules of golf. Yep, I have a high handicap, but that's just the way my swings play. eric

Wouldn't using a GPS during a posted round be against the rules? cy

How do I make it quit emailing me everytime someone posts on a thread I posted on? eric

One more tidbit...the PGA people accepted their Saturday tickets for the Monday finish. I thought that was pretty cool. I don't know if that was an "official" thing or just a case of talking their way in. But they both assured me that Monday was a much, much better experience than Saturday. cy

I played in a charity tourny today where you only had a seven-iron and a putter. I hit the fringe, pin-high on a 208-yard par 3. I also beat the longest drive, but I was off the fairway, so it didn't count. The funny thing is that because I forgot to pick up the sticks at the club, I played with two clubs I haven't played in 15 years. I think they were made by Mizuno and KMart( ).

No, I don't remember the "good old days." But my dad-in-law did say that he thought the days of not letting players wear shorts should end ASAP. They just cooked out there. e

Well, I couldn't make the trip myself...but my father-in-law and a cousin-in-law went. The report from Saturday: Brutally hot. Like, wicked hot. As in people passing out hot. They parked on the first tee early in the morning, and, basically, watched everyone go off. They said it just was too hot to think about following any group. I'm sure all of you have seen details from the day, but dad said it was amazing how many players were (a) wet even before they hit their first shot and (b) couldn't hit the first fairway. eric

I forgot to mention...I have plenty of family in NJ, but I might make a trip out myself. Or make an early Christmas gift to my cousin-in-laaw if the stars don't line up right.

Dang that's impressive where she leaves her clubhead after the swing.

OK, I'll bite... My wife hated the game when we went to our first USGA event. Bored skirtless. The second one, she started asking questions. What iron from here, who's that? type of stuff. She was really curious by the time Tiger won at Pumpkin Ridge (but he already has some tickets). Three points here: --She has taken lessons but really has no interest at the moment of playing the game. -- I golfed mu butt off in Sun Valley during our honeymoon...and she enjoyed it. -- She let me (we) join a private club at a stretch of our budget and loves fiddling around on the putting green with our five-year-old daughter. Which leads me to the ultimate conclusion: you don't have to play the game to enjoy the game (and kids love having their own putter).

Shoot...I was going to chime in with Spackler...but what out Bill Murry? The BM Cup!

I know I'm a high handicapper now, but I played in HS and college. But the only thing I would suggest is modify six's first comment to "don't worry about what other players are doing until it's all over." Good luck.

Have you had an ace that no one could confirm because there were no witnesses? Happened to me a few years ago. I was playing speed golf on a big course and I had my (only) hole-in-one. But there was no one there to see it. I was playing by myself and it was a tucked away par-3, so I couldn't even wave at anyone and have them be the witness. So I get in the clubhouse and say I aced such-and-such a hole. They said, "Where's your witness." My first thought was, "My word is my witness."