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I hope not. I did do research beforehand and was looking for stronger lofts because I tend to hit the ball high. But after taking some lessons and doing more work i feel like I would do better with 45 - 48 degrees as the PW because I want to work on my 120 yard in game. But almost no wedge composition covers me completely.

A lot of newer clubs are stronger lofted. My Cobras are a 4-PW but the PW is 43 degrees. Sorry, that's a nine iron dude! Many recent TaylorMade sets stop at 45 degrees for a PW. They also throw in Gap Wedges now, but mine is just terrible. I couldn't bump and run with it if someone put a shotgun up my butt. That does contribute to longer distances in a lot of cases. A hybrid or 4 iron (most modern 4s are almost 3 irons of yesteryear...they just design them to be easier to get te ball up) is a great play on a lot of holes. I recently began a "minimum distance needed" philosophy on my home course and it helps. I always take the lesser club when I have a choice to keep my out of trouble and rely on distance to front/center of the green instead of to the pin. Off the tee, I lay back to a safe distance and never anything that leaves me a half shot. It really does work!

I would break it down as: 1 - Driving (anything off the tee, except par 3s) 2 - Layup shots (anything where you have to pick a target other than the green) 3 - Approach shots (hitting to the green) 4 - Anything under your most lofted club into the green (need to take something off or hit a 1/2, 3/4 shot) 5 - pitching / chipping / bump-n-run 6 - putting One reason I don't like breaking down between long irons and short irons is that it gives a mental stigma that longer clubs are harder to hit. There is technical merit to that, but it's best to think that any iron/hybrid in your bag is comfortable enough to hit and play the shot. Lay-up shots are strategy because they are for where you cannot reach the green so you have to think about the shot after that. Approach is all about where to miss and what to aim at to maximize your score. And most people struggle with 1/2 and 3/4 shots. It's where a lot of people can shave strokes if they are comfortable and execute well.

Someone in my Wednesday foursome is like this, but only about his golf game. I could be standing there bleeding profusely and he would tell me how he crushed his drive. Bonus round is when he gripes that he is playing terrible and going to shoot $xyz score, and it happens to be around what I am shooting that day. Perfect when he says that totally sucks. Completely oblivious guy. I started saying "I'll pray for you" when he would complain about a shot. After a few times he just glared at me.

That is very good advice and something that I do as well. I try to finish off a warm-up (If I get one) with what to expect the first hole, both off the tee and approach shot. Also, you can take it like this. If you start off bad, you should feel less pressure because you had a couple of goofs and you shouldn't put expectations on yourself going forward. Use it to take pressure off, instead of trying to make up for it...which only will add pressure. But if you get off to a good start, take it that it's going to be a good day and try to relax. The first time I broke 80, I had a magic front 9 of even par and then tripled #10. Took the pressure off because I thought I blew my round so I stopped thinking about the score. Played great from #11-18.

I belong to a private course and this is actually a terrible problem. Not if you want to play by yourself, but it slows up play and wastes times. A number of people feel entitled to play by themselves or hold times and never release them. It's come up in committee meetings. The basic feeling is that people want to be by themselves and don't want to join up, whether it's a single or twosome or threesome. When the course is not busy, it's not a big deal and I think it's ok to have people play that way. However it burns times on the weekends and early mornings and that is not ok. The pro shop used to try and pair people, but because people didnt check in properly, people ended up getting booted off the tee sheet or delayed because people might team up on their own. Since I was one of the complainers about this, I noted down times i would encourage people playing with me. This year out of 2 dozen times of trying to pair up, only twice did anyone take me up on my offer. These were all people I didn't know. Pretty sad. One time I offered with a twosome behind me and then they yelled at me for not hurrying up when I had a slow twosome in front of me.

I only tee it up if its more than a 7 iron. I used to tee everything, but I found that's hit higher irons too high and felt i was losing distance. I take a normal swing when it's teed and take a normal divot. Might be more mental than an actual issue, but hitting high irons off a nice lie off the deck works for me.

Is there a class for that somewhere? I can do classes at any time, except 11am - noon. Price is Right is on then. I imagine you have to at least know how to lie on documents and do some good acting to pull it off.

1. Daddy 2. Indifferent 3. Smart Women 4. Big egos 5. golf ball at impact 6. nail clippers 7. gdmfpos 8. scientist 9. anything medical (I don't like blood and guts) 10. Welcome home!

By themselves, they are probably not worth too much. With the signatures, I would search on eBay for something similar with his signature and see what it retails for. Most comic books printed in the last 30 years, at least, won't fetch very much at all. But autographs are tough to pin down because it's completely up to what people would be willing to pay, and it's impossible to grade that, like a known quantity for demand of a particular issue.

I echo a lot of the comments about being in a tourney == "no" and casual match == "yes". I've played with a number of people who are pretty casual with rules overall, but adhere strictly for tournament play.

I actually miss the Wilson Staff balls. The ones from 15-20 years ago that were "Titanium Distance". At the time, they felt good and I liked them a lot. Every once in a great while I find one, on the course, and play it for a few holes. I think I thought they were something special when I was a kid because they used to always use them at the "Hit the green, get a pack of balls" where you would bet $5 against hitting the green.

OMG, just found this thread. I am an IT person who has tried, tried and tried for at *least* an hour a day to be successful, but I just can't cut it. I have panic attacks when the servers go down. I think they fell into the Ethernet. or maybe wireless signals are the voices in my head. I don't know, but I want to get me a cushy life on the golf course where I can drink and the cart girls are all model quality. I am thinking of hitting 20 balls per day and playing 7 holes at my local muni. After 7 holes I get tired. How long will it take me to play on the PGA tour? And do they allow carts. Sincere answers only, please. I believe I will have a good swing since I work with computers. The typing is hard and builds up my wrists. Also the other 7 hours of my workday I am scratching my butt, so that helps with my arm/wrist strength. Man, it's hard!

A guy I used to play with (this is a private club) was a horrible social climber. Was your best friend, until someone better came along. But acts like the Mayor (when really he's Mayor McCheese). He joined an uppity sub-group in the club and I really haven't had much to do with him ever since. However, he wanted to start his own group on Wednesday and proposed having teams, big betting and a set bunch of times blocked off. Also wanted to "approve" people who played, in other words he wanted it closed. I didn't want any part of it and he kept trying to pull all these different people in for my normal Wednesday game. One day he brought two guests I was playing with them. To say they had no etiquette was being kind. Nary a ball mark or divot was fixed, and they were drinking a lot. One guy was ok, but they all were laughing and talking when I was trying to swing. Like I sadi, one guy wasn't too bad, but the other guy had too much beer (at 10am!) and kept farting. While I was swinging several times! I looked up one of the times, and he just looked back at me and smiled, and then farted again. I was actually riding with "Mr. Social Climber" and he just said "I guess I need to go over their manners". Yeah, big-time. His Wednesday group never got off the ground. He's lucky he has two other people instead of the masses he thought he would have to play on Wednesdays.