billchao

You don’t know the Sam Snead method? It’s simple. All you need to do is be born with generational talent in golf 😉

Maybe it’s just me but my first instinct is hit that thing with the club in my hand if it’s coming after me like that.

@Coach Whitty do you actually take golf lessons?

I was going to buy a pair of OG Tours this year, but these look good. Now I have to decide which shoes to get.

And the course that held British Opens wasn’t built by him anyway.

This is still true.

Two grams is about one swingweight difference. Most people won’t feel that. Usually it takes about two or three swingweight to be noticeable.

I think I had a lightbulb moment last week with my priority piece because I played really well on Saturday. I was absolutely striping the ball and hit some partial wedges really tight. 9i from 150 to 4’ SW from 95 to 8’ GW from 105 to 3’ LW from 80 inside of a foot (almost holed it) Best shot though was this recovery from the fescue: Hit my second from deep fescue further into the crap and the ball was sitting up kind of floating in it for my third. I choked down all the way to the shaft and kind of bunt pitched it out and onto the green. Hilariously made the 40 footer to save par. In hindsight, I should have taken an unplayable after the drive. I was close enough to the rough that I could have gotten a decent lie out of it for my third. That’s something I really need to work on.

I still run into people who don’t know what Snell golf is. I tell them the founder helped create the Pro V1.

Even with a net, the rule is in place generally to prevent people from hitting over it. Sometimes this is because there is a hole on the course beyond the net that puts golfers in danger, other times it's simply because they can't retrieve the balls from beyond the net easily.

Hello and welcome to TST! Congratulations on both new fatherhood and the weight loss!

I don't think about where the lead elbow points at all at address. I simply take my grip and let the arms hang naturally. I don't think where you point the lead elbow really matters on its own. It's more of an indication of how weak or strong your lead hand grip is, which is going to affect your swing more than where you're pointing the elbow. I did check just now and my left elbow points at my left hip.

Played Green Knoll today and added two new holes to the composite sheet. Pushed my drive right on #10 into the rough on #18, had about 105 left to a front pin (left from my angle) and hit it to 3'. Hit a perfect draw off the tee and ended up having 80 yards left to a front left pin. Was pulling my wedges slightly today so I aimed a little bit right and almost holed it. Had <1' for a tap-in birdie. Lipped out a 4-footer on #1 for birdie, which not only would have been new, but would have closed out the front 9 for me. On the composite sheet I have #1, #12, and #15 left to go.

Yea I think you’re in the minority, here. I’ve never played a scramble round under 5 hours.

That’s my experience with the Pure Pros, but not so with the DTX. It’s been quite humid lately and I’ve had no issues. On Saturday it was raining on and off; I didn’t even put on my rain gloves and they were fine. I don’t wear gloves while playing.

I know different hosel settings will move the grip orientation around, but that seems a bit extreme. This wouldn’t bother me as I grip my club based on the clubface and not the alignment of the grip, but if it bothers you then just replace it.

Oh ok I misunderstood your original post. Hit driver. Make it a good one.

I’m with @GolfLug on this one. It’s the first hole of the tournament. You hit driver in the shit and your 36 hole tournament is over on the first shot? I don’t see how that’s worth it. I’m sure there are plenty of holes to chase score on later in the round. This one screams “don’t make a big number” to me. @Ty_Webb put yourself in the best position to score low. If you miss qualifying by one stroke, I’m sure there will be plenty of other places in the round you could have done better, too.

This is the first thing I thought when I saw the hole. Play to not make a 6. Bogey likely gains strokes on the field. Par would be a bonus. @Ty_Webb I’d play this one on the conservative side, myself. You don’t want to be hitting 3 off the tee on the first hole of day.

I still need 1-4, 10-12, and 15-17. I lipped out a 12-footer on 11 today, so just missed getting that one. I’ve already birdied the hardest four holes by handicap and none of the remaining holes feel unobtainable; I have haven’t gotten it done.

I’ve pretty much only played Snells for a while, now. I have five dozen Prime 4.0s sitting on my shelf waiting for when I finish losing my MTB Primes.

We played four courses: Atlantic Dunes, Heron Point, Old South, and Hilton Head National. Of the two Sea Pines courses we played, I felt Atlantic Dunes was the better one. The layout was more fun but still provided a challenge. I didn't like Heron Point at all. I felt it was excessively penal. Like you hit a good shot but just slightly too far on the wrong line and you're OB by a foot type of penal. Lots of weird doglegs that force longer hitters to hit less than driver off the tee and then still have a long approach to the green, and dogleg par 5s where you have to hit 200 off the tee and have 300 to the green. It was kind of everything I hate about a housing development course. Old South and Hilton Head National are both off the Island, but just off in Bluffton. Both are good courses, but Hilton Head National just didn't have the Hilton Head marshland golf vibe to me. It felt like it could have been built in eastern Ohio. It was still a good layout and fun. Old South has several quirky holes with 90° doglegs but the views were spectacular. You definitely know you're playing next to a tidal marsh. Of the four, Old South is the one on my list for the next trip.

Aren’t driver heads typically lighter than woods? If you play a shorter shaft, you’re shortening the lever, effectively making it feel stiffer. I think shaft weight is more important here and often overlooked by a lot of golfers.

Putts won’t break if you putt directly up and down the slope. I don’t think you need a perfectly flat putt in terms of uphill/downhill as that’s more about controlling speed anyway and speed varies from course to course.

Sorry to hear, Dave. Hope you get some relief before having to go the surgery route.