FoosIason

Yeah well how many people listen to indie as opposed to Rap and Pop? It's horrible. When it comes to musicians having talent and being able to play their instruments any form of progressive metal, hell metal beats anything else my generation can throw at them.

I'm glad you said something about that. I was playing someone once who normally took practice swings next to his ball but while I was playing him for a spot on varsity in high school he managed hit his ball into some high grass and took some practice swings behind his ball. (taking out all the grass behind the ball) Giving him a nice lie and a nice shot. I never did speak up about it. It would have been a charlie foxtrot of a situation.

I'm sure we're all aware of that Leek.

You're good to go with a Sand Wedge (56 degrees) You don't need a lob wedge.

hahahaha that's hilarious.

Yeah good luck with that in my neck of the woods. That shot would be just as hard, if not harder than the flop-shot. It's such a finesse shot. Now depending on how deep into the rough you are, you could use the toe of your putter if it's a blade style. But more times than not using a iron, wedge, or even a fairway wood or hybrid will be the better bet.

Eh none of you are going to believe it, but I'm going to tell you anyway. I didn't actually see it, but it happened during a members tournament a few years back. My cousin who happened to be 17 at the time ripped a drive on a par 4 at the club I play for. It's 444 yards long, flat, and straight I kid you not his drive rolled up on the front of the green and interrupted one of the members that was putting. Now that 444 is measured from the tees to the middle of the green, so I would give him approximately a 430 yard drive. He did have a slight breeze behind him that obviously assisted him a bit. But he hits the ball farther than anyone I have ever seen. He is 6'5 and a solid 250 pounds. He has drove all of the par 4's but two at this course. One is a 430 yard par 4 up hill with trees that you have to cut, and the other is a 450 yard par 4 that will for ever be impossible to drive because you have to hit a cut due to the monstrous sycamore trees that line the fairway. He has in fact won a few long drive competitions in our area with a standard length driver. If he had a average short game he could be a + golfer. But he's stuck at a 2.

Bravo to you. That's fantastic.

Hit a worm burner at your attacker. They'll think twice. Hell throw a ball down and hit driver off the deck at them. I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of that.

I'll second that. I forgot to mention to practice the shot over and over until you get bored with it. It'll save your butt when you have to get the ball up and down very quickly. Good luck.

Alright we're going to talk computers here. To be more specific operating systems. Which one are you? The whole Microsoft thing? Mac OSX? Linux platform?

Music. Who doesn't enjoy music? I'm 19 and my parents have influenced my taste in music. I listen to a lot of Zeppelin, Hendrix, the WHO, The Rolling Stones, The Doors, The Misfits, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Ramones. Just to name a few. But I listen to a lot of music from my generation as well. I like the whole Soundgarden and Audioslave alternative thing from the 90's. But lately (within the last 4 years) I have listened to a lot of metal/ death metal. I swear when my madre hears the death metal she cries herself to sleep at night. But the music is phenomenal. The skill level at which these musicians can play is amazing. Most of you are going to knock the whole metal scene, I expect that. It's the best thing my generation has to offer. Honestly look and listen around. Guys wearing girls pants. Odd. I can't even imagine how uncomfortable that is. Guys singing in falsetto like girls. Horrible talentless pop and rap artists. The quality of music just keeps going down the drain.

Of course I take divots. Not with the driver or 3-wood though. But I hit down on the ball, and if I don't take a divot it was probably a poor swing. I don't take a divot with the 3-wood because it's more of a long sweeping swing. This is on purpose. This allows me to obtain maximum distance while having control. It's un-natural, but it works for me. I shouldn't have to explain why I don't take a divot with the driver.

Hmmm I have the same problem you do. I haven't golfed in 5 months but I have a abnormally high ball-flight. I generate a lot of spin. I was using the ProV1s but recently switched to the ProV1x. That helped a little bit. But I'm not satisfied. I still hit my 19 degree 2 iron higher than most people hit a wedge. This is frustrating. But I'll be honest with you, when I was using the regular 1's I hit my 2-iron about 220, and when I switched to the X's I hit it about 235+. But 2 and 3 iron were the clubs that had the most drastic change with the change of ball. Generally when I hit my clubs I have almost a balloon effect. Yes shallowing your swing will help you bring your ball flight down, but you may be in the same boat as me. I'm 6'0 tall and I have monkey arms. I have almost a 6'5 reach, this makes having a shallow swing an impossible feat. My natural swing is very steep. All I can say is good luck to you. Please let me know if you find something that works for you. I'm very interested in a solution to this high ball flight problem.

This is funny. When I was about 8, I was playing in a junior league with a bunch of 10-13 year olds and generally I could hold my own, but on one particular day things were just not going the way I wanted them to go. After waiting for the group in front of us (because of my abnormal length off the tee at the ripe age of 8) there was a group waiting on us before I had even teed off. Well I happened to roll my drive. That was embarrassing, but the group behind me just made it worse. Laughing and making fun of me (because I was at least 2 years younger than them). I then proceeded to address the ball and take a hack at it. Missed. Tried again, missed. Again, missed. It was horrible. They were counting strikes, ex. strike one!, strike 2, strike 3. Well after I got out, I proceeded to take the stroke limit and walk to the next hole. Remember it was a junior league so there was a legitimate stroke limit in place. I believe of 8. But I over came that and proceeded to hit a beautiful drive down the right side of the next hole. They never bothered me again.