TheDSmith

OP: have you birdied every hole on your home course? If so, have you eagled every hole there? These could be good ones if you are bored with your home course. Other suggestions: go ___ holes in a row without a bogey, go ___ rounds in a row without going over par. For me: Goal 1 is to break 100, which should be very doable since I shot a 103 last year in my first full season of playing Goal 2 is to get a handicap (index) below 30 The two things I need to do to achieve them is to cut down on big misses on long shots and get some actual practice on my short game off the course. Way too many times where I've needed 2 chips to get on the green. It's always tough for me to hit the range more than once a week, but I have a few lessons purchased I'm going to use soon, and hopefully the weather in NYC will become more conducive to golf soon (range is covered/heated, fortunately).

I caddied for a few years at a pretty decent country club where caddies were technically not employees of the club (no caddie fees) so all the money was a tip in that it went directly to the golfer. $40 a bag for a new/young caddie and $60-70 a bag for a more experienced caddie were the going rates, with more for great service (or less for bad). I felt that was very fair, and that the more experienced caddies who didn't do a great job were a bit overpaid if anything. So I would say whatever tip gets the caddie to the above, depending on what they get from the club. When in doubt, ask the caddie master or a member what the going rate is. If you ask the caddie, most will also be pretty honest with you I feel.

Well, it kind of does as long as you are in the process of improving, since you get to play an average of 10 of your past 20 rounds but you will be better for the current round (call it round 21) than you were for that average.

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I've traveled on Amtrak numerous times and not had to check my clubs. I was on Northeast Regional, so it may differ line to line, but honestly I'd be surprised if anyone said anything if you just walked on and put your clubs up.

Hi all, I'm fairly new to golf and not familiar with lots of the less-well-known rules. Now I know you get a free drop if a ball is at rest on a sprinkler head/drain/the like. A drive of mine today ended up not on the drain itself, but on the downslope of grass leading down into the drain. I played it as it lay, as it was sitting up pretty well, but the guy I was playing with said that you got relief if your ball came to rest in a "manmade depression" and told me to take another from a drop (which I did to be polite, and had no other chance but to play from when he nicely picked up my original ball for me). This guy was moving his ball out of divots so I think he may not have been as much as a rules guy as he claimed, so I would like to get another opinion for future reference. To clarify/reiterate, the ball was on grass, but it was in a depression/on a downslope that would not be there but for the drain. Thanks!