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cutchemist42

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    So my old province and the one beside my current one announced golf will be opening for May 4th. The only restrictions will be raised cups and 1 person per cart. I emailed Sask Golf that they need to apply more pressure and paint the other provinces as an example. When the adjacent province is having little restrictions while we have 20 min tee times and no practise areas, I think we are the ones doing it wrong.
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    Well to be honest, I really dont know how 20 mins would effect the pace of play. I think it eliminates any time someone waited for a green to clear from 240 yards tho. Maybe more like 1.5 holes between groups? Also I dont know how this will be enforced at private clubs with no green fees? Will someone from the government be there enforcing the tee time spacing by handing out tickets? I still have a lot of questions
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    See the thing is, with the benefits the Canadian government has been giving out, I'm not sure if it might not make sense for some courses to open. City courses have already set their rates before this, and I'm not sure if they are allowed to adjust them as whole new green fees are likely needed to make 20 min tee times make economic sense. Semi privates might be able to accommodate it. I just dont get the difference between groups of 4 having maybe 150 yards of clearance vs 2-3 holes or clearance?
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    Province Announces Re-Open Saskatchewan Plan | News and Media | Government of Saskatchewan Today, Premier Scott Moe and Saskatchewan's Chief Medical Health... So here is a link to the PDF at the bottom of the page. There is a whole section on golf. I know Golf Saskatchewan lobbied for 20 mins between groups to be overkill, they landed at 20 minutes between tee times with this basically not allowing for singles. No practice area as well so this pretty much determines I wont buy a membership this year. I'm mostly a single golfer who had a twilight membership who would walk on to my course. Had no problem meeting people on the course but the 20 min tee time means I wont be able to book and wont be able to walk on. Even if golf opens May 15th, I likely wont be playing for a long time. Might try to post on reddit for any other single golfers in my area in a similar situation. I'm also expecting some big green fees if they need to cover 20 min tee times. Anyone else living with the 20 min tee time interval? I just personally feel 2-3 holes between groups isnt much different than 100-200 yards between groups with a slightly smaller interval.
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    Just announced golf will be allowed May 15th in Saskatchewan. Single cart and raised cups. I dont like them publicly gloating about doing this in time for May Long weekend. I think it creates too big a rush personally and I could see people playing loose with the rules on that type of weekend.
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    Golf Saskatchewan posted on FB about their annual meeting today. I guess they had a government official there and response was pretty good based on what they proposed combined with how well the province is doing handling the virus. It's still not warm enough to play but I think they are optimistic courses will be open when the weather actually permits, with stipulations.
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    Lost ball penalties....sorry. (unless of course there are the proper amount of marshals still allowed for watching too?)
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    Do you think a small amount gets lost? I mean, the players arent the same quality but with sparsely attended minor tours in Florida and Canada do you think that many balls get lost if 3 minutes is enforced? I've never been able to find broken down stats for the Mackenzie tour for something like that. I mean part of me thought PGA players would do fine. I didnt think otherwise until Brooke mentioned it and now I think it might be more than I would have predicted even before. I might even change my prediction of 1-2, and maybe 4-5.
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    Heard about Brooks points about possibly more lost balls on a tv segment. I never thought a lost ball problem would happen with no fans but I've been curious to see it. Maybe 1 or 2 per weekend if the 3 minute search is enforced?
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    Shoot I forgot to provide perspective as I forgot beer is sold in grocery stores in the States. Only Quebec really has widespread liquor sales in grocery and gas stations in Canada. In my 2 main provinces of residence (Manitoba and SK) liquor and cannabis stores are separate from grocery stores. I mean yeah I'm guilty of buying beer too for my quarantine life, but I've been in a liquor store and seen groups of 20 year olds who dont look related buying cases of beer for house parties. I know tickets can be given out for house parties but someone has to care enough to rat out a party. I just think liquor should be non essential as it's a good that still encourages social gatherings.
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    I think most of Canada is saying golf courses are non essential, and I usually hate what-aboutism arguments, but I really am bugged then by what's deemed non essential. Like I've been buying beer ever since I got the order to work from home while thinking I shouldn't be allowed to in this environment. The same goes for Cannabis or coffee shops.
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    Handicap season starts in 6 days in SK but no golf will be happening. I dont think any courses qould have opened till the 30th because of weather anyway. I do think the government maybe should relax it as it's the Prairies that are dealing with this the best so far. Seems like harder-hit states are allowing golf.
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    Just came across this now....thanks a lot for doing these.
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    Speaking of Covid....I think the Golf Channel has been handling this worse than the other sport channels I have in Canada. I know they are likely trying to appease sponsors but I like the other sport channels showing cool retro games. I would love to see more retro rounds be shown.
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    In Sask and still dont know with the handicap season being about 20 days away. There is a muni course that always let's people walk on free and shoot at temp greens in the time between the show melt and official opening so I will have that at least.
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    Still dont know how courses will be impacted in Saskatchewan but any indoor hitting areas are closed so no practise for probably the next 2-3 weeks...
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    Came across this randomly when searching about Sweetens Cove. I can appreciate that a hole and tee position have a likely optimal path for amateurs who are rolling the ball into greens sometimes. Also might depend on how firm a course plays. At the same time, I'm choosing my teeclub based on my best balance of distance vs dispersion to avoid a lost ball penalty. On any given hole I will just acknowledge that my shot dispersion will lead to the best spot or worst spot sometimes and I know holes at my course where that shot distribution screws me haha. Dont think many have a shot dispersion with a driver that is so tight that they can pick their spots. That being said, width and angles actually applies to the golf game I'm currently into, TGC2019. The fandom does complain that ball spin on landing is not accurate and even wedges have an inaccurate roll distance to account for. On long irons you do have to account for 10-17 yards of roll. However, dispersion with the clubs is pretty tight so it's very easy to apply the strategy in the game. So it's weird but I appreciate width and angles more in a video game than I do in real life.
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    So let's say the driver is going up at impact but travelling out to in with the forward tee, does that mean the ball should be teed up more on the heel of the driver as it would also be travelling slightly inward on the loop?
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    Forgot the trainers name but he was recently on The Fried Egg podcast. He said golf is a very rotational sport that has many attributes related to the sports you always see players from on Pro Ams. Basically hockey players, baseball pitchers, and tennis players. Personally a lot of my friends were good regional hockey players and not one of them is under 270 for drives without much practise. The dispersion might be higher hut the natural rotational strength is there.
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    For anyone that has the Doak books, do alot of the courses listed overlap with top100 courses website as I often check that site out.
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    My regular game irons are still the Lynx Parallax my dad let me use as he no longer plays golf. As I understand they are about 30 years old at this point but I love the look of them. A bit similar to Eye 2s. I dont see a reason to change to another iron set. I have some old Ben Hogan Persimmons acting as nice looking wall items also from my grandpa's old set. They look nice but I was afraid of hitting them because of what was mentioned above about urethane covers.
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    Went to Minneapolis for a bachelor party in the Summer. The group might have gone with this course but the price scared us off after currency conversion and how expensive the trip already was planned to be. We ended up playing Keller and still loved our pick.
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    Not necessarily trying to argue the point with you but related.....the recent distance report already said a lot of amateurs are driving it around 210. Gamegolf data says the same too. If I dial back to my mini driver at 240 or even hybrid at 220, arent I keeping up with most of the golfing world anyway? Also to add....before I fell down a staircase last summer and ruined my golf season I was hitting my approach shots at the same level as a 10hi and even had a round that approached a 5hi level according to gamegolf. I actually think avoiding the penalties while keeping my approach shots as is would lower my score. I'm still 2 months away from testing that theory though...
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    So my 2nd farthest was 52 yards offline from the centre of my aim point. So I'm saying my dispersion is 104 yards at 268 total distance off my 1 test. Thus that pretty much takes my driver out of my hands until I improve my swing which I cant right now dur to money issues the past few months. Like I posted I will try this again with more lofted clubs to see what my next usuable club might be without penalties. I would guess your dispersion would mean you're not losing many shots to OB and lost ball penalties?
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    Technically as I understand it, it was illegal in the sense the rule says "no technology" to be used for sign stealing. Sign stealing is not illegal as long as it's done through in game and naturally. Its using outside factors of the field to gain an advantage that is the problem. So yeah, not much really close in golf as this activity was prolonged. So for prolonged cheating.....how possible would it be to play with an illegal club or ball without being caught?
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