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Yeah it's started early due to weather. I think Phil is on 15 already, so...not much TV time today. TGC sucks! You'd think they would have obviously moved the final round European Tour REPLAY to another time.

is this on TV somewhere? final round is almost over and i can't find it anywhere on television.

so incredibly stupid you can't watch coverage until 3pm EST

post of the month!

triple technically

now that i bring this up, i'm sure i'll snap a club on my next round, but... how in the heck do people break clubs so easily? i have given a couple of mine a beating or two before and never broken a club. at least i figure when you bang a club on the ground or toss is up in the air out of frustration there is no way the impact is too much more intense than when you swing the club normally and take a divot. i guess throwing clubs at carts or trees is different though, but why do that unless it's an accidental target?

i think it totally depends on the context. i say GD or MF all the time with quite a bit of sarcasm in my voice and i chuckle when others around me or on TV do the same. to me it's no different if you were to say "furry kittens" sarcastically instead of "mf" in that context. it's when you say it with that kind of anger that implies you would punch someone in the face if they came near you that is uncalled for (and uncomfortable for others). though admittedly i do that from time to time too.

i haven't. i personally have no motivation for lessons as i think my mechanics are pretty good. i think i need a lesson on how to adjust my cochlea though, as i miss about 50% of putts within 1" per round! i'll reevaluate the lesson thing when i get to scratch

i don't know about best, but i had to hook one out of the woods the other day around several trees. i'd say it was probably begging a 75y hook, and i was 210y from the pin. i hit my 4i and in fact it felt a bit thin, but it did come out and hook right around the trees like i had envisioned and it rolled up pin high about 6' away from the hole. it was pretty spectacular :) there are so many though in contention, seems like you remember the good ones a lot easier than the bad ones. my favorite shots are always intentional hooks/slices to go around obstructions too.

hrmm, i buy only used balls anyway so if i see them on the course used, unless they are a premium ball, i just leave em be. i'll pick up prov, b330, penta, etc. just to give them a try during a round. pinnacle, maxfli, mojo, i don't even consider touching them.

IMO the most entertaining tournament so far this year on the PGA.

and then played golf with a very sensitive right hand. my grip was very light and every shot i hit was drawing...something i've never been able to do properly. i played yesterday and today, sporting the draw pretty intensely. luckily i can hit a fade easily anyway, so now i can really do both shots quite nicely. the hardest thing for me so far has been hitting it straight!! anyway, i thought it was very weird that stabbing myself is what was required to realize i was gripping too hard to accommodate a draw! btw if you're wondering, i stabbed myself because i was cleaning my cooking knives by hand, and when i slid the sponge off of the knife and came back down my thumb landed exactly on the tip of the knife. it punctured me quite deeply, but luckily not across. had the wound gone across i probably wouldn't have been playing golf this weekend, and even worse, not had this epiphany

93. nice little 8 on the 18th par 4. 8 lip outs too, didn't sink a single one of them. golf sucks.

wrote it from my phone, it auto caps. though it is funny tiger got the capital. guess he is a deity in some sort of way though.

always bustin' my balls, you! i'm not talking fair in terms of the playing field. hell, if we all had to be blindfolded before and during a round of golf it would be even for the playing field, but by no means would i consider that fair for the SPORT of golf. no one would come close to breaking par and no one would have any fun, so fair relative to others is irrelevant IMO. there is nowhere you can go on a range and practice uneven tee shots from, so your only practice is on a poorly managed course. that doesn't seem fair to the sport of golf. of course the same could be said about fairway shots and sidehill lies, but tee boxes and fairways have different rules anyway...i.e. you can use a tee on a tee box and not on a fairway. so i don't think it's really the same thing. IMO in general the conditions for a pro should be the standard for common play of the sport. now i realize not every course can be in tip top shape, but something as simple as a flat tee box should definitely be achievable by munis.

Yep, tilt to the right introduces a slice on my driver, and the opposite a hook. downhill i'm more likely to hit behind it, and uphill more likely to sky the ball. they should all be flat damnit!

Played a course the other day with very uneven tee boxes. Is that normal? Seems like most tee boxes are flat on Tour courses? Doesn't seem fair on public courses unless they are intended. I have a lot of problems hitting driver on uneven surfaces, which is why I ask. How bad would it be if I started moving to a level surface as close to the tees as possible but outside of the tees themselves?

Is that you, Tiger?

seems like most of the players named are the only players that actually have a personality and don't just play golf. bubba is awesome. i'm not religious at all but i think he's a very witty guy that would be cool to hang out with. zach johnson gets on my nerves when he talks about god, even Streelman got under my skin when he said he won because he read some scripture that morning (hell you'd think he would be reading scripture more often???). fowler is awesome too, and a good guy (also very religious though, but censors it on TV). i wish there were more players like him, and i'd even support a long-hair tatted-up fella too. different is unique and unique is good, gentleman's game or not. i still have to say tiger must be on this list. no doubt he is the greatest golfer ever but his personality is questionable, and he is about the only player that can have any level of temper tantrum on the course and nobody gives a f*ck.

I read she is 28? She is definitely hot for sure, but honestly she looks a good 10 years older to me (not necessarily in those pictures, but on TV absolutely).

originally it was to break a 20 handicap, but i was calculating handicaps incorrectly and since i rarely break 90 i assumed my handicap was around 20. turns out i just play really tough courses and my handicap is 15.1 with 1 more round to go (hoping to get in the 14s). that being said i want to break 90 more consistently. my last 6-7 rounds have been 88, 91, 91, 92, 92, 92 which as i'm sure you can understand is extremely frustrating from a psychological perspective. my other goal is to learn some humility. i get pretty frustrated (particularly when i play with my girl...not at her, but at the game...which makes no sense) and really want to learn how to enjoy being outside a bit more and not get so frustrated when i four putt the 18th hole to score a 91 instead of potentially breaking 90 (and yes that really happened, though admittedly it would have been at least a 3 putt for 95% of amateurs and i actually lipped out on my 3rd putt too, it wasn't like i choked). that whole FIR/GIR is a great goal but i make some unlikely pars when i miss both FIR/GIR more often than making pars the typical way. i find the tricky shots are far more important in this game than the simple ones.

i'm not sure people get the idea here...if you pick tiger then you probably are set up to lose already since so many other people have picked him.

Sergio Garcia -15 Jason Dufner -10 Ryan Moore -10

guess i'm one of the few...i get tired of the same course. after a while...like 3-4 rounds in a row, it gets extremely boring. i like to play the field, so to speak :-D

honestly the best "deal" on golf is to play evenings and play during the week. the course closest to my home is $55 without a cart during the week till 2pm, but if you walk after 2pm it is $30 or if you walk after 4pm it is $22. cart is always $15, but if you can play after work and walk fast (i can finish in under 3 hours), you can play 18 for under half the price of an earlier tee time. if you live in an urban area, drive 30 minutes outside of town to save even more $$, as a course i play that's nicer than the aforementioned course only costs me $35 with a cart on saturdays past 2pm. golfnow is absolute crap in my neck of the woods with hardly any discounts and very few clubs that respect golfnow's policy (and therefore treat you disrespectfully if you purchased through golfnow). however, when i visit a buddy a few hours away there are a lot of good deals to be found on that site. i also find the more golf courses in a small area, the fewer deals golfnow can offer since supply is much higher than demand in that region.