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I'm so tempted to move somewhere where I can get the giga stuff but I really don't want to live in a large city again, and the smaller cities that currently have it aren't particularly appealing either. Sucks...

Ballstriking, easily.

Kinda depends for me. Maybe weekly on average during the summer, not really at all during the winter.

Depends on the amount of money, no? I bet Aroid sleeps good at night.

The guy sounds like a monstrous douche. Those kinds of people are looking for a reaction so ignoring them drives them batshit crazy. I would have ignored him.

Could you post a link to this website? I'd be curious to use something like that next year assuming I don't go the official route.

I wish I would have started playing sooner. I mostly didn't start sooner because I couldn't afford it though so I don't really consider that a legitimate regret.

The 2005 Woods chip is the sickest thing I've seen.

My season pass ends October 31 so however many rounds I can play before then. I can use it to get a discounted rate between the 31st and whenever it starts snowing but it would have to be an exceptionally nice day for me to do that since I've mostly had my fill for the year.

I've never had a ball wear out before I lost it.

I do. But I'm not fat and I don't live where it's humid.

You're really just better off getting some 6 foot stilts and hitting the ball with a club that's 10 feet long.

Haha, I've done that while walking. The thing that made it embarrassing for me is I did it 2 or 3 times in the same round before I finally started catching myself.

I think there's a large old thread exactly like this already actually, just need to dig it up. Anyway, weirdest I've encountered was people rolling a cart. I've also hit 2 geese myself (both with drives).

A few weeks ago I stumbled across something that seems to have helped me a great deal. Towards the end of a round I was fatigued and playing kinda sloppy and when addressing a ball my left leg popped into a locked straight position and I said screw it and swung away. I ended up smoking the ball crisp and straight. I tried it off and on several times during my next round and had similar great results. Now I've been doing it all the time and it seems to be a genuinely good thing. I did a internet search of locked legs when I got home from playing today and all the links seemed to refer to locking the back leg and implied it was generally a bad thing. There didn't seem to be any mention of locking the front leg. This makes me think I might be teaching myself something unnatural and bad. I pretty sure I'm maintaining the locked leg (back leg stays loose) all the way through the swing but I'd need to make a video to know for sure. Anyway, my question is... does anyone else do this? If not then does it sound like something that would be considered bad golf posture?

I usually won't request a refund or rain check for stuff, I usually just don't go back. I don't think the OP was out of line though, especially since the pro shop admitted the course was in rough shape.

Technique will easily make the biggest difference imo. A couple big things that helped me were learning to stand tall and keep my arms extended during all parts of the swing. It's easy to slouch or let your arms fold during the swing and that really trashes distance (plus you'll probably hit it fat or slice it too).

Yeah, you were being a d-bag imo. The foursome in front of the two-some was the problem and even then it probably wasn't even a problem unless that group was on pace to finish in >4 hours. Playing through is a courtesy, not a rule. Just because you want to get done quicker doesn't mean you can harass other groups.

I ordered a TV tuner card and antenna for my desktop yesterday. I tried asking around if anyone used this stuff before but couldn't really find anyone, and internet reviews seemed mixed. I guess we'll see how it goes, I'm mostly just getting it so I can catch an NFL game here and there.

I don't know if the climate is changing but I wouldn't be surprised. The spin of the planet is slowing, the moon is drifting away from the Earth, and the sun is expected to burn out eventually. Why wouldn't the weather change too? My single biggest complaint with the climate change dilemma is how the possibility that a warming planet might end up benefiting us is absolutely 100% ignored. The only end I see discussed is disaster, every single time. It would be one thing if there were legitimate reasons (perhaps a small scale example) to believe only bad things would happen but there's not even that, it's just a foregone conclusion that everything and everyone will die and that's it. I know humans are fearful of change and will kill just about anything that is foreign to them first and ask questions later but it seems to have gone to a whole new level with the climate nonsense. In fact, I don't even pay much attention to the climate debate because of the human fear factor and because it's so poorly argued all around. You've got a group of people looking at a couple hundred years of climate records for a planet that is supposedly billions of years old crying the sky is falling, and you've got another group of people burying their head in the sand with regard to the matter, and then you have the possibility of a warmer planet benefiting us being completely ignored. All this tells me is that nobody knows what the hell is going on. If folks want to continue investigating it then that's fine but until the consequences of a changing climate become clear, and they will given enough time, I don't plan to spend a lot of time and energy thinking about it.

Is there a way to automatically opt-out of all e-mail updates for every thread? I don't mind getting a few updates but I'd like to have to opt-in first to do so. Any info would be appreciated.

Trying to make the first putt automatically avoids the 3...

I try to be relatively serious when I play and it's definitely easier to do when playing a solo round. But even then I can't get too angry about poor play since I'm not aspiring to play professionally. Anyway, if I was the OP I'd simply chalk it up to a learning experience and expect future rounds with the neighbor to be more social than serious.

Banshee. I watched a few episodes of Justified and was pretty disappointed; I thought there would be a lot more action. Plus the best actor in the show wasn't even the star, it was the guy who played Boyd imo. I'd like to find another action-y show like that to watch though. Preferably something not "dumb".

The unsolicited advice thing is funny because I just had someone do that to me during my last round. In fact, I've had that happen so rarely I forgot people even do it but man was it irritating. Anyway, I caught up to a twosome on 18 and they asked me to play in with them. 18 is a par 5. My drive was excellent, I pushed my second shot into some trees trying to be aggressive, wasted the third shot getting out of the trees, and 4th shot was just short of the green... I was tired and hungry and wanted to go home and relax so I figured I'd putt from the fringe and 1 putt for a bogey and get out of there. Hit too strong of a putt and rolled several feet past the hole so now I was looking at a likely double bogey. 2-putted for the double bogey and then one of the guys in the twosome starts lecturing me on how I'm flicking my wrists when I putt.. which I know I do NOT do. I was putting uphill over 2 feet of fringe and simply misjudged how hard to hit the ball. Anyway I tried to be nice and humor the guy but the whole time I'm thinking "Man, those guys weren't joking when they say how annoying this is..." haha