vo-man

Half an hour early...split a small bucket with a friend...stretch and warm up.

with a 22 handicap you should probably stay with the white tees. I would think most course marshalls would tell you that as well.

I would think number of hits rather than number of years would impact the life span of a club. I've had a Taylormade Metalwood driver since the mid 80's and it still hits just fine. Although I don't use it anymore. Surprisingly that old club is only about 20 yards shorter than my Nike VR-S. but the club head and sweet spot is about half the size of the Nike.

I have a friend who lives on the Yaupon Golf Course in the Austin area and have played that course with him several times. The course regularly has white tail deer grazing along the rough and in the fairways and it's very common to hit a tee shot into a herd of deer. However, the deer are so used to it they just meander over to the side of the fairway and let the golfers play through then go back to their grazing.

Try Ebay Also try the Used club section at your local golf store or golf course pro shop

A course we played last month had snake warning signs in some of the wooded OB areas. Once, at a nearby course that is situated next to a lake, I used a 3 iron on a golf course inhabiting water moccasin. It worked very well.

The closest I've ever come is playing at the Pinehurst CC. My brother in law used to be on the staff there. He went out every morning around 5am and changed the hole/pin location and blew the pine needles off the greens on one of the PHCC courses. His house was situated at one of the course tee boxes so it was pretty convenient for him. That got him unlimited free golf there so whenever I visited I always took my clubs and we played one of the courses. Unfortunately he's not doing that anymore. But it was good, very good. The fairways were like playing on deep pile carpet. I'll never forget the sound a golf ball makes when it rebounds off of the trunk of a pine tree!

The 3W has always been a 'money club' for me. Instructor told me once that most weekenders shouldn't even try to hit a driver, just leave it at home, and use a 3W from the tee. He was right.

My standard course routine is; a U.T. orange knit shirt, or a light weight tropical shirt when it's really hot, with black or tan shorts. In cooler weather I switch to light weight slacks.

Need to see a good photo of your girlfriend before a decision can be made.

270 ... about a month ago. Somehow managed to hit a good one. Used the rangefinder from the ball back to the tee box.

Lately my Vokey oilcan 52 gets a lot of use. From 85 yards in it's my go to club. But in a fairway my go to is an old Taylor Made metalwood 3. It's old and outdated but that old #3 is always a shot maker for me.

I got a rangefinder this past Spring. It has turned out to be a very handy and useful item in my golf bag.

This seems to be an ongoing work in progress with me.

is that a lot?

before I watched the swing videos I would have sworn this thread was a dialogue a 13 yr old. now it seems more like a troll thread.

I seem to have the opportunity to hit almost the exact same shot you described in almost every round I play. Lots of big trees around here. Although I've never hit the 150 stick. My success rate at making the shot or hitting a tree is about 50/50 I guess. But when I make the shot it's always a good feeling. I keep my old Ping 1 iron in the bag just for that shot....low and long, like threading a needle thru the trees. .

I have two sets of golf clubs...but 6 golf bags. My wife keeps asking me to get rid of the empty golf bags in the garage but I haven't decided on or figured out a way to do that yet. Ebay maybe? and 37 guitars & 9 amps.

Alow handicapper friend of mine told me once that mid to high handicappers should always pull one club longer than you think you need....caclulate the shot, then pull one club longer and swing easy. So I applied that to my game and I stopped coming up short so much of the time. Arnold Palmer says in one of his instruction videos that you should always shoot for the back of the green with your approach shot...percentages will put you shorter and mid green most of the time, and if you do end up long it's better than being short and in the sand or water. I've got my wedges dialed in pretty well so hitting to the back of the green is something I only do when I'm farther out than a wedge. If I'm on target, directionally, It usually works just at Arnie says it will.

I came across these stats a couple of weeks ago, don't remember where though 50% of all weekend golfers shoot 100 or higher 26% shoot 90-99 24% shoot under 90 based on the players I share rounds with this seems to be pretty accurate.

I tend to agree with this. I've played with several golfers who hit 300 easily with a driver and they've got the short game to back it up and maintain a low handicap. And I have personally witnessed, along with 4 other players, a drive of 426 yards from our club's long drive champion. (granted it was from an elevated tee box, to a downhill fairway, with a strong lake wind behind the ball, that rolled over the green and ended up behind a 420 yard par 4 green) But that guy was also not only the long drive champ, he was a scratch golfer.

Don't have a basement but my back yard is 110 yards deep and 85 yards wide so I get a lot of wedge practicing done.

I managed to get two rounds in over the 4th of July holiday period.

I watched a friend hit a hole in one on a short par 4 once. Or is that an albatross? or Both?