timabe

Any of the Sandestin courses from the forward tees will be fine, although the Raven will be the toughest. Seascape is pretty easy, but I heard they lost the greens last summer from the heavy rain. Emerald Bay is not too tough but the greens are pretty small so plan on having to get up and down a lot. Hope this helps!

I have both (Tour version) and get asked this question often. I think the driver is pretty good-no better or worse than any other driver in that price range. The three wood is awesome. For my game its the best I've ever hit.

David Toms when he was a junior golfer and I was around 24. It was obvious that he was going to be great.

So true. I walk whenever possible and I'm always waiting on the green for the riders who are crisscrossing the fairway.

True that. It seems like every time I meet someone who tells me they average 280 off the tee, I inevitably find that they are averaging a realistic 240 during a round. They'll occasionally bomb one, but for the most part they are right at the same distance as me. And I KNOW I don't hit more than 240 on average. Age has taught me that 240 in the fairway beats 280 in the rough almost every time.

It would be cool if someone looked at all these posts and compared the average handicap of walkers to that of riders. At the courses I play, I consistently see the players walking and the hackers riding. Obviously, there are exceptions to any rule, but wheen I join a threesome of fellow walkers I am rarely disappointed in their ability or pace.

I walk any chance I get simply because I play better when I am walking. Walking 18 on a course designed properly is one of the sublime pleasures of this game. Those who rarely (or never) walk will have no idea what I am talking about, and those who do don't need an explanation from me. Suffice to say that when I am forced to ride (too often for my taste) golf is less pleasurable.

When I was a kid we used to sneak into the local country club after security went home and go swimming for golf balls. In short order we would each fill a couple of pillow cases with balls. Those ponds were deep and we were undoubtedly covered with slime and chemical runoff. I would take mine home, throw them in the washing machine with soap, bleach, and a bunch of white towels, and 20 minutes later the balls would be spotless. Drove my poor mom nuts.

I'm in. Baby needs new shoes!

Good thread. Like others, I succumb to the realities of public course play and rarely do the walk of shame back to the tee because my ball is lost somewhere in a mountain of leaves. Otherwise, I play it pretty straight and dread the times I have to make a judgement call (like when a pond that is ALWAYS staked red is suddenly missing it's stakes!). I have a close friend who is an Englishman, and he is hard-core on the rules. He has made me re-tee a couple of times because my tee was an inch in front of the tees (you know how on public golf courses the tees often end up cockeyed by the end of the day). He is a pleasure to play with, and I always learn something new about the rules that I didn't know before. I generally play match play with him so I can easily concede a hole or a short putt to him in order to keep pace. He's always shocked when I give him a breaking two footer to halve the hole, but I'm always VERY aware of the group behind me and, if they are waiting, I generally concede the short ones. If we played stroke play we would have a hard time keeping up, but match play it works perfectly and is a lot of fun!