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I've heard they've got other facilities similar to the TMP but not "brand specific" perhaps they have one close to you?

Time to make a trip to Orlando! :)

Ugh, I feel your pain, I've been there.. It's almost as frustrating as driving multiple tee shots on the same hole in the drink...

He told me to try and hit a hook :) I'm a lefty, so he said imagine there's water ALL down the left side and try to hook the ball. It worked and I've been hitting some nice straight shots. The problem now is I'm actually beginning to hook sometimes, so now I've gotta back off a bit :) Yeah, it's not cheap, $400 bucks retail, If you're in Orlando, mention the blog and it'll be $200 bucks. I believe they are, compared to clubs from the 90's anyway. :) I believe that the new Burners are longer than today's standards too.

If you're looking for a really awesome evaluation of your swing, you should check these folks out. Last week, I went out to the TaylorMade Performance Lab out at Grand Cypress and had a two hour custom club fitting. It was ridiculous! You enter this vault type room, they strap on 26 sensors all over your body and every aspect of your swing is captured by nine high speed cameras. Anything you wanted to know about your swing will be discovered in the session. It was probably the coolest experience of my golfing life. Once the session is over, they combine all the data gathered and recommend a set of custom clubs, TaylorMade ofcourse.. :) What's really cool, is they give you all the custom stats, so that if you don't want to buy TM you can take it to a different company. They also give you a CD with all of your swings and the data they gathered so you can look at it again. It was too coooooool! Here's a link to some additional detail, pictures and a video of my hackerswing. TaylorMade Performance Lab at Grand Cypress If you live in central Florida and you're looking to have it done, mention me and they'll give you 50% off the fitting price. Has anyone else been to one of these sessions? I'm curious if everyone has the same experience?

I guess it's sort of off & on topic, but the grill room is a good place for it. Check out the link. Sports Genetic Testing for Children Personally, I think this is a bunch of crap and I don't like the concept of it, I'm interested in your opinions on the matter.

Please take a look below and if you can, help support this worthy organization! Odyssey Putter Auction to benefit ALS Research

Funny story about my first round with my dad. I think I was probably 10 or 11 and he let me drive the cart and hit some shots from the fairway. One hole he told me to drive close to the ball and he was going to lean out and pick it up. I did as instructed and as I neared the ball he started yelling, "slow down, slow down!" I depressed the brake pedal a little harder than I anticipated and my old man went tumbling forward out of the cart catching his tenders on the way out. :( I remember him yelling for me to get the hell out of the driver seat and help him up, I, of course was in stitches and needless to say, I wasn't allowed to drive the cart after that..

I'm with DrFro, I wish they'd ask. :) I tend to leave it to the fates as to whether I'm tipping someone or not. I treat it as a pregame warmup, When I arrive at a course, if the bag drop is manned by a bagboy, I'll park the car and walk my clubs up. If I get there and it's unattended, I'll drop my bags and if by chance, by the time I park and return someone is loading my bags on to the cart, I'll give them a tip, usually $5 bucks. Same thing applies to the club cleaners, I'll try to avoid them, but if I get tagged, I'll let them do their business and another $5 bucks. I'd rather not tip these guys, especially when I can do these things myself, but I'm not going to let something like that infuriate me. The game can be frustrating enough and you don't need to add fuel to that fire by getting bent out of shape over tipping guys trying to do you an honest service :)

I didn't achieve any scores really worth bragging about, but I've seen some significant improvement in my game this year, so I'm grateful for that :)

New set of TM Rescues..

Anyone know what the initial amount of the contract was for?

Check out this article. Looks like California will be getting taxed for golf. Tax on Golf

Ugh, I think I suffer from the malady as you gents. I think my average is 245-255 now, but I know that I CAN hit 280, so usually the round starts out, good drives at 245, than if I don't consciously remind myself to keep it slow and steady, I'll find my swing getting faster and faster and my balls start heading more left or more right and soon I've lost my swing for the round. So we must resign ourselves to our average drives until technology can help us carry more :)

Yup, I think Yoga is the ticket. I've started a program that I think is going to not only help get me in shape but improve my game. Check out the link: Yoga & Golf Seems like Golf & Yoga have a few common traits that once honed, can be beneficial to both activities.

What was your score for the round?

Almost brings a tear to the eye.... :)

Alright, now we're talking! Need more participants though..

We'll make a weekend out of it, it'll totally be worth the 5 hour haul :)

Guess not many are interested :)

Sunday would be fine, we can definately make that happen.

Haven't really decided yet, there's so many to choose from :) I guess it would all depend on the deals we get and how much everyone wants to pay. Dubsdread just re-opened today, it's relatively cheap and should be in good shape. Celebration, ChampionsGate, OCN, Falcons Fire, any of the Disney plots would probably work as well.

I'd like to see how many would be interested in playing in scramble tournament with only members of thesandtrap.com? I'm thinking it'd be a single day event, 18 holes and spend the evening on the 19th kicking back enjoying the Florida heat. If there's enough interest for it, I'll handle the planning of the event.

Has anyone else heard anything about this? Is there anyone using these shafts? The weight of the shaft increase the closer it gets to the club head. Here's a post about it. Ascending Weight in Steel Shafts I was pretty shocked to hear that 85% of the PGA tour uses a shaft that essentially hasn't changed in 28 years.

I was reading this thread I am FAT and it got me thinking. Has anyone who's either lost weight or gained weight noticed a difference in their golf game? Seems to me that if you lose weight and your used to swinging your club around (excuse the expression, no offense please) your beer gut, to have it gone would negatively affect your game and vice versa. haha, could be a great excuse NOT to lose weight :)