Konrad

Bottom line is that Pelzy is high on some gasoline fumes right now.

I wear a glove from 50 yards and out. I just like to have a secure hold on the club.

Pelz is wildy drunk.

Here are my predictions for the PGA. Be sure to add your own in the format that the staff use! Thoughts on the Course Medinah is a long, tight venue. I don't see a super low winning score, but the rough isn't very thick, so I could be wrong. I doubt that we will have a Tiger/Sergio type of duel this year. Winner and Score The smart money is on Tiger. I'm smart, so I pick Tiger Woods at -8. He has been the best player in the world for a decade, but for the past year and half, he hasn't been the hottest player. That, of course, was Phil Mickelson. He just has good vibes from this venue, and Phil's stuck in a rut right now. Tiger makes it boring down the strech, winning by two. Dark-Horse Winner I'm going to pick Trevor Immelman. He has enough length to play well around Medinah and he can get the putter hot. I'm going to make a future prediction and say he wins again before the end of '06. Biggest Disappointment Tiger misses the fairway on the first tee all four days. He then goes on to birdie it two out of four days. In terms of people, I'll go out on a wild limb and say that Colin Montgomrie, Sergio Garcia, and new Euro star Johan Edfors all miss the cut. Largest Surprise Several club pros qualify to play, and several of them make the cut. One gives a surge on the back nine to slide into the top 20.

I'm just saying that you have to think postitive. If you are laying up and wedging it on, or trying to hit the green, you have to think that you can accomplish your goal.

I've got a good story about eliminating the blow up hole. I was playing in the junior club championship at my course, and it was pretty much me against one other kid. We had seperated ourselves from the rest of the kids, and I was behind a stroke on the 17th hole of the second day. The 17th is a long par 5. We both drove it pretty far offline and we winded up right next to eachother. I pitched out to 200 yards, and the other kid pulled out a 3 wood and tried to get it close. He hit a tree, and probably advanced it 100 yards, with no chance anymore. I hit a 4 iron on the green, and two putted. He hacked it around to a 9 and I won the title. The point being that there's no shame in being smart. Don't put any pressure on yourself to hit the damn pin with your next shot. If you start thinking "I've got to hit this on the green or I'll make a double and ruin my round" then you're probably going to make a double. Just say "I can make this shot"

Utley. I agree with Pelz's ideas in all other aspects of the short game, but his straight back and straight through putting style is just wrong.

Another thing to note is that for some people, they don't face a lot of 200 yard shots that they expect to hit on the green. My point being, drop a 4 iron for example, and keep the 3 and 5. You're much better off wedging it close on short par 4's and par 5's you don't hit in two and making birdies than you are hitting a green once in a while from 200 yards.

I play 27 a day during the summer and 9 to 18 during the school season. I think I don't play enough... that guy is insane

This hole is amazing. You need major balls to play it. I hit a driver, 8 iron onto the green by the way of the island fairway one time, and the other was driver, 6 iron, wedge. I had birdies both times. One with high fives and screams. The other with a "nice putt" :) I'll take em both.

We have a sharp dogleg left hole at our course. Number 8. I hit the tee shot pretty well almost all the time. It's the damn second shot. I can never pull the right club. Always 10 yards short or past.

Mine is coming up in a couple of weeks. Then, after that, the Junior Club Champ. I hope to win both. :) I'm going to have to beat a lot of good players for the regular Club Champ. I need to beat the defending champ in the first round, and he's about a 6. So I have my work cut out for me.

One. I'm a poor kid.

I play on very small greens, and the biggest putts I have are usually if I hit one of our par 5's in two. I did have a tournament where I had a 120 foot putt on this long par... and I proceeded to almost hole it :)

My dad was playing this short par 4 about 3 weeks ago. He hit his drive about 20 yards, duffing it on the bottom of his club. He had a 7 wood in the green. He hit it over the green, hit a tree, hit another tree, and bounced 3 feet from the cup.... I hit a good drive, and flipped lob wedge to 5 ft and missed the putt. He made his. So much for justice.

I love watching Freddie Couples and other smooth swingers hit a golf ball. Anyone who can't see that and improve their tempo must be blind.

They do a lot of analysis of all the players in contention which is something that I wish the Golf Channel will do next year. Thanks for the link :)

That's why they get paid to play and we have to pay to play... :)

I'd say that I practice quite a bit, usually around the greens just dropping balls from different lies and places and trying to get them all up and down.

I love competing with my peers, and I don't play golf with anyone my age. Why? Because they're not my friends on the course. They're my competition.

Go to the other part of my post. Why does a male golfer who hasn't won a professional event not even make the top 100, but a female, regardless of age, or finishes in tournaments, makes second? If you don't win during the year in the male rankings, you drop like a fly in the world rankings. But Michelle Wie drops five? And this is only because of a, in my view, overdue tweak. Right. And neither has Michelle Wie. That's cool. But like Tiger says "It's all about the W's"

Not my thing. I just don't know any of the amateur golfers.

I just about always hit a bucket. I find it wrong that some courses do not have driving ranges. It helps me just see my ballflight. I don't like walking onto the first tee not knowing what the ball might do.

He needs to stop changing his game plan. He said that he was going to try to hit a carved hook during his interview, but during his swing they showed he was aimed for a small draw and he made a cut swing. I'm dissapointed in him.

Shot 78 today at a course I don't play often but and I hit the ball great. I hit the first hole, a short par 5 in two and four-putted. The green speed and pin cut locations were absolutley retarded. The guy said they had a tournament and he wanted to make it diffucult, but it was just flat out stupid. Every pin was in the back of the green and tucked behind a bunker. Needless to say, I won't be coming back for awhile.