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As I understand it, square grooves are very effective at creating spin, too effective according to the powers that be. A trend developed on the pro tours called bomb and gouge. Players would bomb it from the tee with less regard for course management because landing in the rough was not the penalty it used to be. The square grooved clubs could get the ball out easily while creating the backspin needed to stop it on the green. Bomb it from the tee, gouge it out of the rough. Taking away the square grooves the players now have to put more emphasis on where they place their tee shots, they have to think more now, and be more precise.

You play golf with your father-in-law, and you have the type of relationship where he txts you about stuff. That's pretty cool.

Buy him a 7-iron for Fathers Day.

I was at the golf range yesterday, and the dreaded shanks payed me a visit. I'm a fairly decent ball striker, and any inconsistency in my swing is typically duffing the ball, and I usually know what to do to fix that and it's commonly tension as the fault. Anyway, the shanks is not something I have a problem with, but it showed up and I could not figure out what was going on!!! It was windy that day so I was having a bit of problem with my setup, I never felt completely right in my stance, but I've felt that before and still hit the ball okay. I finish the range session, take my shoes off, and then I see that the front cleat is missing from my right shoe, which is were I push off from on my downswing. I had to laugh a little bit about that, but am trying to resolve in my head that would be such a contributing factor to my sudden problem of the shanks.

I have Airvue and I'm quite impressed with it's accurate readings. It defaults to Meters so make sure you change to yards. It is not full-featured, and I only use if for distance measurement, but for $9.95 you just can't beat it.

Perhaps "Confessions of a duffer" is more appropriate, most who have replied have handicaps that appear to be better than the definition of a hacker. Too true on the minigunning at the range post. I'm definitely that guy. Started getting to the point where I was fairly consistently shooting in the lower 90's and then breaking 90 a few times, and then the last couple of rounds were terrible, high 90's and then a 101. Playing conditions were terrible, but it was still pretty dejecting. Oh well, I still love golf.

Can't say no? So if a 300 pound woman with a beard asks him for sex he's going to do it? I obviously am going overboard with that question but I'm sure you get the point here. To me the person is unable, or unwilling more likely, to control a compulsion.

Addiction? What addiction are you talking about? The idea that you have a disease because you let your moral compass got out the window is such a load of garbage.

You may have just answered my question for me. I just realized in my last round I used my 3 iron twice for punching out and having to go under a branch.

I carry a 3 and 4 iron, the two most commonly replaced clubs with hybrids..... at least in my opinion. I shoot in the 90's, mostly because of my short game, but I still can hit a fat shot with the irons and put a drive in the woods. That is getting better, and I'm working on distance control on the short game. I recently purchased a 3 hybrid, but have not intended to pull the 3 iron from the bag. The hybrid will be used for shots out of the rough or handling a distance gap between the 3 iron and fairway wood. I've always considered that being able to hit long irons is the mark of a better golfer, which is something I'm trying to achieve. Is this misguided? Are long irons becoming antiquated and I'm leaving shots on the course by not using the hybrid in place of the 3 iron? I find myself questioning whether holding onto the long irons will help me achieve becoming a better golfer, but I'm uncertain.

Ridiculous. He has not created his norms. He's lied about them.

It's funny, I've always wondered if I was the only one who emptied their pockets for golfing. It pretty much started when I was learning how to golf. I was acutely aware of anything in my pockets during setup along with 30 or so swing thoughts that would swim around my head. I swear sometimes it would take me a minute to even start the backswing. Talk about paralysis by analysis. Luckily those days are gone. I couple of times I have forgot to empty my pockets before the round, and after I'm finished I realized I hadn't thought about it at all, but out of habit I will still empty them before a round...... or practice at the range.

I'm right there with you.

I use head covers for Cobra CB's. I like that it protects the heads, and I don't hear them rattling in the bag when I'm walking the course.

I've never been one to keep statistics, I'm more of a "know where I'm at" guy. I played a round Sunday and decided to input the score into an application on iphone, deciding that I wanted one place to keep all my rounds. As I did this I realized the application would allow me to input GIR, Fairways hit, putts, up and down, pentalty strokes, what club I used for drives, what said of the fairway I was on if I didn't hit it, and a few other things. I decided what the heck I would enter that also. The results of doing this was enlightening, and although I knew I needed work on my short game this REALLY showed me the truth of it. Now, instead of thinking I should work on this and spending some time chipping and pitching I now truly know I have to focus more on energy on doing this and now will make a regular routine out of it. I always thought my driver was my biggest issue, but the scorecard did not lie, it wasn't that bad. It was missing the green then coming up short on the pitch or chip that would result in a two-putt almost every hole.

They need to say something soon. He is a public figure, and in the world of PR if you don't fill the void it will be filled for you, and probably stick, even if it's not remotely close to the truth. To me this is not a police matter at all really, it's a PR issue for Tiger the public figure.

I'm not into gossip, rumors, celeb chasing at all, in fact I hate it, but something is fishy here. That being said, life goes on.

Okay, I know the title probably doesn't make much sense, however....... I was at the range yesterday and the wind was blowing pretty good. I was hitting the ball fairly well, but the crosswind was driving the ball to the right a good 20 to 30 feet. I remembered an article I read that stated the more spin on a ball the less the wind will affect it. This made me think about the fact that I would really have to compress the ball to get good spin on it. I have always had a slight issue with "casting". I haven't worried too much about it as I can hit pretty well with decent distance, and when I say "casting" it is more of releasing the club earlier than I should not actually flipping the club, but my hands are still ahead of the ball at impact. So anyway...... I usually have one swing thought, on purpose, and it's "take it back slow". I setup to the ball for my next shot and the thought turned into "compress the ball". The result was unexpected and very welcome. The release occurred naturally and I hit my six iron about 10 yards further than normal with a penetrating flight that was barely affected by wind. It was a bit of a revelation. My next shots I was able to duplicate the swing and finally felt proper release without even thinking about it, and each time the ball went further than normal, was barely affected by the wind, and I was putting less effort into the swing. I just had to share this as releasing the club was something I always had an issue with, and I finally felt it for the first time. Thank you North Texas wind.

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Anywhere between 160 and 170, Cobra Carbon's with S300. Sometimes I'll pop it pretty good and go over 180, but that's few and far between. Still working on my swing.

That may be somewhat true, although 90 would be a huge push, it will most likely be anywhere from the 40's to high 50's as an averge....... just from memory of course.

Have to agree, can't stand the look. Big and bulky looking.

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Hard to say with this constant rain for 3 days. Your best bet is to call a course and they will tell you when it will be fit to play.