NM Golf

I carry a kind bar or a banana in my bag when I play unless I am fasting, I don't see how tossing a gut bomb like a burger or hotdog down my throat at the turn could ever be a good thing. I play 99% of my golf in the early morning so I'm normally finished well before lunch rolls around anyway.

Is he any relation to the "WTF is he doing on the green?" guy? I play behind him all the time.

Good god...how long can it possibly take to replace a headcover, it can't take more than a couple seconds? I mean maybe with a quick wipe of a hybrid 5-10 seconds at most?

Don't get me started on iron covers, they are a special kind of unnecessary. Never understood people that use them. While I always use my headcovers, I am thankful I only have 4 clubs that need them.

I had the same thing happen to my driver, my alignment sticks went up under the headcover and left a nasty scratch on the crown. I bought a cover for my alignment sticks so that would not happen again.

My father, in his advancing age, now refuses to use headcovers even on my Scotty Cameron I let him borrow 🥵. He says it's a pain. I myself am extremely anal about my headcovers, I take them off, place them on my alignment sticks for safe keeping, and then I immediately put them back on when I return to my bag. I have some friends like me and then I have some friends like my father. Now, I don't mean iron covers, as I have never used them, I mean covers for my driver, fairway wood, hybrid, and putter. It just seems like an easy way to keep your more expensive clubs protected and looking good. Your thoughts?

My father does the same thing and it drives me crazy! Plus he does it with my Scotty Cameron Newport 2 I let him borrow, that he now thinks he owns. Not only does it screw up the hole, my putter is a mess as well! I tried to get him one of those "do-hickeys" you mentioned but he refuses to use it. 🙄

Wow this thread is like an episode of Dr. Phil. All I can add is that sometimes people are incompatible. If you have an issue with the amount of time your significant other is home, or not at home, then have a talk. If you cannot come to some sort of a compromise then it may be time to move on. Some people need their space and some people need constant companionship, and those two types of people do not make a good mix. I play golf, my wife knew that when we met and got married. I will not stop playing nor am I willing to even cut down. We came to a compromise that I would predominantly play in the early mornings (which a prefer anyway) or when she is away working (approx 10 days a month). It works for the most part, she still grumbles on occasion, but I don't really give a shit. Like I said, she knew I was a golf nut when we met.

I second the Puma Ignite, I just got some and I love them, very roomy in the toe box. Mine are the spiked version.

I pull the pin 95% of the time. I just don't like it in, and the pins at my course are very often leaning one way or the other.

I'm just the opposite, I hate playing the longer tees because it kills my handicap. I pretty much shoot the same scores at my home course from the whites and the blues. The whites are 69.5 120 while the blues are 71.5 125. I shoot a couple under from the whites and my differential is +0.5 but from the blues its -1.5. I shot 69 from the blues last week and now my course handicap is +3! I've only played Pinehurst no. 2 one time from the blues and shot 75. I would love to get to play it one time from the US Open tees.

😝 I haven't been on a golf course that late in years! I tee off EARLY. I could play a six hour round, eat lunch, and take a nap and still make it for happy hour.

Slow play doesn't affect me, I like being on the golf course, its my favorite place to be. I've actually said it on here before, but what's everyone's hurry? A four-hour round is about perfect for me. I often play with a group in the summer that will walk 18 in less than 3 hours. That's fine, but I find myself just going and getting a bucket and practicing afterwards because I am not ready to go home. Practicing is fine, but I'd rather be playing. I suppose a 5+ hour round can get irritating, but thats such a rarity for me I don't worry about it much. I play 99% of my golf in the early morning, and I would suggest to anyone if slow play drives them crazy, play early.

So I can compete and beat other golfers. I play golf because I like the competition, I play very few non competitive rounds, so I work on my game and try to be the best I can be so I can win...simple as that.

I don't really attempt to move a ball right to left unless I absolutely have to. I play a fade 99% of the time because it's my natural shot shape, and I spent a long time and hit a lot of golf balls to be able to do it. Years ago I fought a hook so I overhauled everything to learn to fade it. I think for anyone other than the absolute best ball strikers, trying to move the ball both ways is an exercise in futility.

Go into any golf shop and they will let you use one. At my course we have lots of them. Personally, I have thrown them away in the past just because I have so many of them.

So 20 people I would guess since you are saying fourballs. We pay 30% of the field, so in this instance we would pay 1 gross and 2 net depending on the spread of the handicaps. If the handicap spread isn't too bad we might just pay all gross or all net. Remember too, you shouldn't give 100% of the handicap in a fourball competition, the USGA suggests no more than 90%.

How many teams in the event?

As @jsgolfer and @Club Rat both said, I think you're doing too much. A couple formats at most. Also you said teams of 4-6, how are you doing a team of 6? After running golf associations and tournaments for 20+ years, I've found the simpler the better. Having too many things going on just confuses people, and makes the scoring at the end of the day take too long. We used to do a simple points system at my course for a Player of the Year, and even that got complicated. What you've described would literally take hours upon hours to manage.

Twenty years as a scratch golfer and I have neither of those, can't help but be a little irritated at this.

Thought I had lost this, so now I have 2. Sorry it does not come with a carry case, its just the rangefinder. Like new only used 3 or 4 rounds. $299 new, selling for $150 shipped. Tour V5 Laser Rangefinder | Bushnell Golf Tour V5 laser rangefinder is the perfect combination of size, speed, accuracy & JOLT. The ideal golf accessory with Ergonomic design with Stabi-Grip technology.

Oh golly I'm hot today!! Kidding aside, when we set the course up for junior PGA kids we just put the tee boxes in the fairway. We also have several senior women who just tee off from the 200 or 150 disks.

I probably take off 6-7 days a year to play golf, especially when the weather starts to heat up in the spring. I actually just took this past Tuesday off and played. Doing the same thing next Thursday. I am getting ready to change jobs, and I am trying to burn a few sick days before I lose them. My new job pays you each year for your unused leave, so going forward I will have to make a tough decision, golf or money.

I don't play in the rain, but considering we average about 10 inches of rain a year that's not normally an issue. 40° is about my cutoff as far as temperature, but the average high even in December and January is 50° so again not really an issue. I wish Albuquerque wasn't such a shitty city, because the weather is great!

10 holes completed. Helped that made 5 birdies in 9 holes on Tuesday.