Dave2512

Home Depot but avoid the artificial turf stuff look at the brown and grey indoor/outdoor they have on the reels. I buy 12x12 every other month and it's just under $60. I putt on it all the time but we use it in the living room like a giant puppy pad until it stinks, old dogs don't always make it through the night.

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IME many struggle to hit all longer clubs when it's not from the tee. If you have a hybrid in your hands it's probably because you already duffed the previous shot. You're further out than you'd usually be and there is pressure to recover. A big wonky swing later trying to fix the mistake and you're chasing another errant shot. My swing thought when hitting a hybrid is smooth and easy, let the club do the work and usually it goes where I need it to, somewhat.

Nothing to do with handicap and I'd rather that than wiping sand off between shots. I'd like it if our range left the mats out all year. If I can find a spot that hasn't been hacked to bits I am usually standing in a spot that was hacked to bits.

Like this or this Pretty big difference hybrid iron to hybrid. I use the CB and it's a forgiving and versatile head compared to a regular hybrid or iron. hot face and bad hit usually fly towards the target unless it's a bad hit because of a path issue.

Unfortunately mostly due to injury, still not 100%. But I won't be 7 long if I don't get back at it, at least that's my guess. I am playing a weird version of old man swing and course management now. To prep for 9 holes on Sat and Sun I have to stop exercising on Thu and get to bed early and hope I sleep well and wake up without back stiffness. Anyway when I was capable of serious practice I did most of it at home. Previous house had high basement ceiling and I had a net, mat and 18' of practice putting surface. After my morning workout I'd hit balls every day and I wouldn't come up until I made 18 3-4 foot putts. When I had an instructor I did all of my homework in my office, I'd enlist people here to take vids with my phone and I have a mat here too. Since I plan on playing this weekend I will be hitting ball in here shortly to see if my back is up to it. That will determine how much "fun" I have tonight.

IME spin is unreliable and if I am inside 70 yards I've already made a mistake or it's a par 5 I am playing well or short par 4. From that distance I hit a low flying runner that I judge like a putt unless I have to fly it to a high flat spot on the green. My distance control flying it is iffy.

Those stats are for the range of 6.6-7.6 right? Pretty much dead nuts for me over the last three years playing to a low of 6.6 and high of 8.3. I don't use GHIN HBH but I was doing HBH with US Handicap before I got GG.

Haven't practiced in a year.

3 and all are C, so 6 times out for 9

I've never seen any fence issues. Typically it's pretty open unless it's path only holes or within 30 yards of the green. With modern courses being built into housing developments my guess is there will be autonomous carts soon. Those courses here already have a track like cart paths. A good portion of the courses aren't grass and some holes are several hundred yards apart. Carts are mandatory.

They rebuilt the bunkers at the home course and the new sand is perfect, when raked. I couldn't have done this in the past and the new sand has changed the way I play bunkers shots there. This was a all the way open PW blast to a ridge that let the ball trickle to about 2 feet, somewhat long at 30 yards. Was actually to save bogey after the wind took a shot that came out of scrub hot and it flew over the green. If this was last year I'd have tried to pick it clean with a LW and get it anywhere out of the bunker, the sand was that bad.

I have an older family friend that sometimes comes with me. He's 73 has never golfed and likes to get out see the course and get a little exercise. At the home course they don't care and I don't even tell them he's riding. We've booked a few family rounds at resort courses I haven't been to before and I've paid for a 4some when we are 3 so they don't put a single with us if he wants to come along.

I like it. The courses around here with geofenced GPS carts are well managed. The cart provides a flyover for the upcoming hole complete with strategy tips. The carts monitor pace of play and if you fall behind there is an audio warning. They monitor it form the clubhouse and slow carts with get a visit from the ranger. On the 8th hole the carts remind golfers that it's a time saver to place drink and food orders then and not to wait until they finish 9. Carts give yardage to hazards and bunkers. It helps and it tends to keep the unrealistic on the correct tees, the cart telling people they are 225 out on every par 4 seems to humble.

I get the spirit of the game stuff but also agree that viewers shouldn't have that much impact. The do-gooder armchair RO calling in a penalty and the dork that screams FREEBIRD! at concerts are samey to me, both are interjectors.

Probably not but it seems the issue is the tours need to come up with a way to close the door on after the event info spotted in replays. This happens to be more cut and dried than others and people seem to be stuck on the timing and intention. But there has been other replay penalties that were less obvious, players moving blades of wetland grass in hazards etc. Things players may not be aware of.

Maybe the tours should have somebody reviewing what the cameras record and have an official process for things like this. Seems the gripe is a viewer is the source. Players are going to miss things, my guess is there are more unintentional infractions than we realize. If the players knew there was an official review maybe they'd be more cautious.

Considering I first heard about this on CBS This Morning this may be the most attention the LPGA has gotten in a long time.

When I was using a 5w it was more for keeping balls in play from the tee during rough rounds. My setup was driver 3-5-7. I changed because for me it's easier to hit a 4w than a 3w off the turf. I found the 4w offered the best of the 3 and 5 so I went to hybrids because for me I hit the ball more solid with an iron type club and that also offered more versatility from the hybrids. Now I use driver 4w 2h 3 hybrid iron.

Bigger face and wider sole typically with a GI iron compared to a blade, should be more forgiving. I'd look at the numbers after the fitting. IMO casually demoing clubs to vague targets in wide spaces or sims can be deceiving. I got to a point where I had to decide what looked better, pretty clubs or pretty good misses, chose the latter.

Admitting inconsistency says it all to me. All but the best are only consistent at being inconsistent and the few "better" shots your playing partners are using as evidence you are better than your handicap are random anomalies.

I haven't seen this yet but it was funny I was wondering what he'd shoot on the courses we play around here. Totally random I know but the answer was waiting for me when I browsed Yahoo this AM.

All my long clubs are shorter than modern lengths unless it's a hybrid which are shorter than a fairway wood even if it's the same loft, I sometimes use fairways and sometimes don't. My driver's are 44".

One thing that helped me as I got better was to map out the hole an plan for every shot before I hit the first one rather than hit and chase. I play the same courses all the time and knowing my limitations I plan for the miss not the great shot which minimizes mistakes, also curbs unnecessary risk taking. I know where I am going to get looks at GIR and where I'm not and when not I don't push it. The goal is keep the bogeys in check and if it's better than that it's a bonus. I work in groups of 3's and adjust as the score requires me to. If I am standing on the 3rd tee +3 due to bad play or bad luck I don't think get it back I think play smart be patient and wait for it to happen by slowing down. Tracking stats for 3 years or so has taught me that round to round the numbers are pretty consistent a couple bad holes early means the good holes are coming later.