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St. Andrews lottery - looking for a 2nd
FrankfurtDave replied to FrankfurtDave's topic in Destinations and Travel
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Hi All, I am booked up for a 3 week trip to Scotland in Sept this year with my non-playing wife. I was too late to pre-book for The Old Course and have seen that you can only take part in the Lottery as part of a twosome. As such I wondered if there was any other single going to be in the area Sept 3rd-7th that would want to join up for the lottery. Otherwise I will do the 3am queue thing and try out as a single Thanks Dave
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FlightScope Mevo - Portable Launch Monitor for the Everyday Golfer
FrankfurtDave replied to mvmac's topic in Golf Talk
I can not say anything about the actual error that they had, and hence what additional use cases there might be. I can only say that if anyone has the issue that their unit is not registering ANY shots that switching the mode to something else and back again when connected might help. For me I only test "Outdoor" mode hence I went from Outdoor to Indoor and back again. Whether the same issue can occur for Indoors or Pitching I do not know.- 310 replies
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FlightScope Mevo - Portable Launch Monitor for the Everyday Golfer
FrankfurtDave replied to mvmac's topic in Golf Talk
Just to answer my own reply in case it helps anyone else. The versions that I mentioned above are correct. The issue I had is a known issue within Flightscope and there is a fix coming coming in the next days. The workaround should you have this problem is to change the mode (Outdoor to Indoor and back again in the app) when connected to the Mevo. After doing this everything working perfectly again. As usual great support from Flightscope. They replied within hours and came up with a solution immediately.- 310 replies
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FlightScope Mevo - Portable Launch Monitor for the Everyday Golfer
FrankfurtDave replied to mvmac's topic in Golf Talk
I recently updated the Mevo App which wanted a new FW update of the Mevo. Since that I am not getting any shots registered. Anyone else seen any issues. My app provides the following version information: App Version 1.3.5 AVR Version 0.08 FSMevo BT DSP Version 1.09 Do these versions match those used by others? Thanks Dave- 310 replies
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Thanks for the info. Can you say anything about the size of the black disc and whether there were any comments about where that need to be stored during use (i.e. front pocket only).
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TST Explores GAME Golf
FrankfurtDave replied to iacas's topic in Balls, Carts/Bags, Apparel, Gear, Etc.
Shifting the old models before the release of the new Game Golf Pro that is now being hinted about on their website -
Advice needed how to buy (used) clubs as a beginner
FrankfurtDave replied to jaochoo's topic in Clubs, Grips, Shafts, Fitting
Has already been mentioned elsewhere but I have used golfbidder and ebay for my excessive club buying. One other thing to consider or check on is whether your club (or any local club) has a for sale board. Mine does and often they will have sets available at good prices. As for the fitting, I am very standard in height and structure and hence knew that standard length would be fine for me. I only think that a full fitting makes sense after a year or so when your swing has stabilized. My advice recently to a colleague that just completed his platzreife and is already addicted was to look for a second had set from about 2/3 years ago in the Game Improvement category. http://www.golfdigest.com/gallery/photos-hot-list-game-improvement-irons#1 My preference being something like the JPX EZ range. You can get a fairly decent set on golfbidder for around 300 Euros I believe although most are standard length. If you email them though they might be able to provide some alternatives. -
I have seen a few oddities for which I have contacted Arccos. For instance it recommends clubs and distances that are longer than my averages by up to 20-30m and sometimes suggests taking a PW off the tee on a Par 5. As said before it is a beta version currently but with work could be very interesting.
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Very interesting screen shots and tracking there. I assume that you are having to manually take it from GG to Excel and there is not something I missed about being able to get access to the raw data or being able to export the data? Thanks
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Golf tracker on kickstarter
FrankfurtDave replied to kris0's topic in Balls, Carts/Bags, Apparel, Gear, Etc.
If you own an Android phone then you can already use the GolfPad tags. You can even try the complete tagging manually using the application only (Android or Apple). The new kickstarter campaign is really to copy the GameGolf idea and add a separate device for tagging that then enables Apple users to take part as currently NFC tagging is not supported. I signed up early after having got fed up with the lack of progress on the GameGolf backend and having tried the manual tagging and statistics collection. -
Royal St. George's to Host British Open in 2020
FrankfurtDave replied to Billsy's topic in Destinations and Travel
I played there last Summer and loved it. I know a lot of people complain about the random nature of bounces you can get on the fairways but I had an absolute blast. I played in June and had a stretch of 4/5 holes where the wind suddenly got up, and at that point I gained a real appreciation for the skill of Links golf- 1 reply
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Two strokes seems excessive for playing a wrong ball
FrankfurtDave replied to Baculus's topic in Rules of Golf
As it is a straight two shot penalty without the errant stroke counting, it is basically the same as having hit the ball out of bounds which I think is fair. Especially when you consider that the action has also directly affected another competitors round and position on the course. As someone who did this for the first time ever in his club championship last year you can guarantee that it is lesson learnt - mark you ball and check it carefully. Do not simply rely on the fact that it is a Titleist and in your fairway -
Okay understand the difference but not sure I really agree on its "coolness". Not sure where the enjoyment is in ranking that says my 1 over on a dog track in still conditions here in Frankfurt was better than Tiger's 4 over in windy conditions in Torrey Pines. Let alone a comparison with a round made by Joe Nobody in Winnepeg.
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The information provided above for South America is also available here in Germany and hence I would have thought in the UK as well. Depressingly it tells me with 9,1 Hcp that I am 4th in my club, 1727th in Hessen (State) and 17,501st in Germany.
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2017 M1 3 wood and epic driver
FrankfurtDave replied to Dans11's topic in Clubs, Grips, Shafts, Fitting
I think most people would say that it is not possible to provide any sensible estimations as it depends more on how well you are suited to your current equipment than the equipment itself. What I can say is that I recently changed from a fitted Callaway V Series Driver and non fitted V Series 3 Wood to a fitted Callaway Epic Driver and a 2016 M2 FW. For me my older driver was far too spinny and I ended up gaining approx 10m in distance and my dispersion was much better. For the 3Wood I went from an average of about 190m over the season to a fitted average of 205m. I will need to see how these figures hold up over the complete 2017 season. By the way that is with a driver swing speed of approx 97mph -
For me what I always wanted is stats per hole. For instance I would like to be able to filter on a specific hole and see how often I miss the FW make a GIR, birdie, par on a particular hole and then break that down into what clubs I used so I can check my strategy on that particular hole. What Arccos lets you do is see all your shots from all rounds on a particular hole and then colors them differently depending on your end score so you can look for trends.
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Golf Destinations in Germany and/or Austria
FrankfurtDave replied to jandrewsgolf's topic in Destinations and Travel
I am based in Frankfurt (central Germany) so can try and provide some info. There are some fantastic courses in Germany but they tend to be scattered around. There is no one go to area. Hence I would say you would need to provide a little more info on where you will be travelling. I find that this site http://www.top100golfcourses.com/golf-courses/continental-europe/germany is good for getting some overview of the best courses and you can also locate them easily on the maps and focus on specific areas you are travelling to. If you have any specific questions, add them in the thread or PM me and I will try and help where possible. -
That's good to hear. As calm as he tried to be in pre-round interviews, I can't even imagine how nervous he really was and he came across in all other instances as a nice guy
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GAME GOLF - Digital Tracking System
FrankfurtDave replied to dhanson's topic in Balls, Carts/Bags, Apparel, Gear, Etc.
I got around that one by creating a fake empty round at my two favorite courses and then adding the shots manually. I never sign the rounds and so can always go back to them and change strategies, clubs, distances and the like easily. -
DeChambeau on Saturday when in a flight with McIlroy and Sullivan. Sullivan put a tee shot in bushes down the right and searched for 5 mins before returning to the tee. McIlroy, the ref and members of the crowd helped search whilst DeChambeau stood in the fairway with his caddie.
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I see nothing wrong with the hat, however not helping your flight partners search for a lost ball and simply standing in the fairway waiting is a big no no in my books and shows a real lack of class.
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I reinforced what I had already guessed that I am more often short than long. What shocked me was that I am 4 times more likely to be short than long. Compared to some other people above I realized that I am far worse vs par on par 4's than I am on Par 3s and 5s and that my GIR on Par 3's is no where near where it should be. Par 4 problem stems back to needing a long iron into the green and there I can see a huge drop off in my