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Technically as your opponent he is not allowed to share your driver (rule 4-4a). Partners can share clubs but must only have 14 between the two of them (4-4b). So next time tell him it is against the rules for him to share a club.

I have a lower hcp than many people who out drive me (most golfers I play with can out drive me). I am straight for the most part. I don't have some of their flaws. So I have tried to optimize my game based upon this lack of distance. But I think if I could drive further, my other strengths would combine with this length to make me much better. So I am jealous of long drivers. Of course I could gain length and find more trouble and have the same handicap - but I would like to have the opportunity to try.

I think most players can't play well changing how they putt trying to avoid this penalty. Say 95% of the time you ground your club but 5% of the time when it is windy you hold your putter off the ground (either totally or until the last second). I know I can't. I know some pro's never ground their putter (I heard Nicklaus) but apprarently current pros ground their club just before stroking, even one raised in Ireland, and presumably exposed to more wind and faster greens that the rest of us. There are many cases in a round where you might need the other players to help you make an on course decision. I have had to call them over to help me judge if my ball was in/out of the hazard or in/out of bounds. We sometimes have to ask to see who might be further from the hole and who putts first. If a ball hits one already on the green, help to determine the original location. So I think you could change the rule to one where the cause could be determined with similar help, no grey area need to exist.

I also thought this was great drama today. I felt for Freddie, I would have liked to see him attempt a birdie putt. Phil hung on and got the birdies when needed.

Yesterday was the first day above freezing this year! I was begining to believe it would not happen again.

We have to spend down our vacation balance quite a bit this year, so I will have more time for golf. So I was going to play more. My home course announced zero increase in fees which is nice. Also, if I play more I might pay for the discount membership (you pay some $500 up front but each round is then $7) if you play 25 rounds or more you start saving money.

My dad played with me a few times (he let me tee up the ball in the fairway - what a great dad!) but I became serious in graduate school when every guy in the program was a golfer. A close buddy was very good and he gave me playing lessons over 4 years of rounds together. Then we all got jobs at the same company after school and still play together - 25 years later. I think finding this sort of a regular group where you can semi-regularly get into a foursome really keeps up your skills and interest in the game.

The famous saying: " The US is moving toward the metric system slowly - one inch at a time" As a scientist my work is in metric and my daily life in US units. I seem to have a good grasp for both. I was surprised that one of the Mars missions which failed was due to two separate teams on the project using different units (launch team and landing team at a later date). To save money there was not much if any overlap between the teams so the landing team assumed one set of units were used when in fact the other was actually used. It seemed strange - both should have been using the same units.

I just reviewed my numbers: Hit fairway 60% of the time and frankly when I am off I am just barely off. Hit green 40% of the time and am short of the green 35% of time. Like a previous poster I am length challenged. The last tournament of the year is basically a one man scramble. You can re-hit one shot from tee to green and one putt. You have to take the second shot no matter what happens. There is a risk - reward calculation. I shot even par on my course where I averaged 85. Most of my re-hits from the fairway were re-chips to get closer. And the second putt really helped me make the longer length putts - I got to read my own scramble putt basically. I won this event. I averaged 36.2 putts this year.

Driver-200-220 2 Wood - 170-200 3 Wood-170 -180 5 Wood-155 to 170 4 Hybrid - 150 to 160 5 Iron- 140 to 150 6 Iron- 130 to 140 7 Iron- 120 to 130 8 Iron- 105 to 115 9 Iron- 95 to 105 PW- 80 to 90 54-60 to 70 60-40 to 60 I gave some ranges as there is some scatter. The midpoint of the range is my go to distance - if I have exactly that value the club selection is automatic (except adjusting for wind) and the result is within the range outlined. Also there seem to be some gaps that don't seem to show up since I can hit a 3/4 shot for the higher lofted irons. Because I am fairly short I have a 2W that goes a bit further than a 3 wood when well hit. I use these woods a great deal so I am fairly stright and a very high percentage shot.

I found this on Wikipedia. Basically the score a "bogey" golfer would expect to shoot can be calculated from the slope of the course. In this example the bogey golfer would shoot more than +1 on each hole. ------ The bogey rating is the USGA evaluation of the playing difficulty of a course for the bogey golfer. It is based on yardage, effective playing length and other obstacles to the extent that affect the scoring ability of the bogey golfer. To figure out this number, one should take the slope rating, divide it by the set factor (5.381 for men, and 4.24 for women) and add that to the course rating. The result is a target score for the bogey golfer, and is a truer yardstick of the challenge that lies ahead for the particular set of tees. Example: A male golfer plays a course with Slope Rating 126, and Course Rating 72.5. Per the formula, compute 126 / 5.381 + 72.5 = 95.9 - which predicts the bogey golfer's average of his ten best (out of twenty) scores would be approximately 95.9 from this particular set of tees.

She apologized to her caddy. She gave an interview on the subject and admitted she was wrong and is taking this as a learning experience. She overcame this event and won the tournament. What else do you want from her? I have heard Tiger swear on TV, and at the time they mentioned he often swears at his bad shots (and the announcers wished he did not do this so much). Yet I have not seen his apology.

1964 Mercury Montclair. Only car on the lot I could afford ($300 or $400). This is a sedan but the back window was electrically able to go up and down. Trunk large enough for a foursome to throw in the clubs and carts. Really drank gas, but gas was cheap in 1974.

You really need a witness for a hole in one. Or put it another way, someone could verify your claim of an ace by asking your playing partners. But your drive distance is less verifiable. The others in your group are not paying that much attention, in particular if you are significantly further than they are. All they know is you out drove them. I "measure" myself on the same hole each time I play. It is straight without any tee box elevation. It is slightly downhills so I am giving myself a break. My drive ends up near the 200 yd marker. Good drives go past and poor drives are short (or drives into the wind). So I glace at this marker to give myself a relative measure of my drive each round. I have been able to determine the effect of wind conditions and the like on my drives. Of course my drives are no where near 300 yds.

Yes we were and you did a great job by posting.