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This podcast does a mock pairing set up for the Ryder Cup - came up with some interesting matches I hope we get to see! http://18whiskeyshots.com/2012/09/23/the-bj-show-episode-4/

Got this sent from a friend of mine who knows a friend of one of the guys on the show - pretty funny stuff - can imagine what'd be like to be in their group of golf buddies - http://18whiskeyshots.com/2012/08/13/the-bj-show-episode-3/

i have a question for you guys - how does one go about finding the costs associated with joining clubs? Seems to me they keep it close to the vest, and you have to call or meet with them even to get a ball park, or rely on word of mouth. Maybe I'm too proud, but I'd hate to meet up with a membership person at the club to inquire about a membership, only for them to tell me there is a 50k initiation fee. Then what, just get up and leave? Be polite and stick around? Stick around and pretend to get turned off by something else?

Check out the book - Talent is Overrated - http://www.amazon.com/Talent-Overrat.../dp/1591842247 Its a great read, and the author takes a closer look at a lot of the myths that permeate western culture about child prodigies and "gifted" people. Mozart is an example he uses, as well as Tiger Woods. Both were perceived as being gifted beyond compare, but a closer look at their childhoods both include highly involved fathers that had the boys working on their crafts harder than just about any adult does, well before they turned 10 years old. As they grew into adults they became even more focused on effective and constant practice. I have not done the book justice in my above paragraph, I highly recommend the book, it is REALLY interesting and well written.

this is something I couldn't believe even two years ago, when I played very casually with my buddies, and the one serious golfer was about a 8 index. He seemed like the best golfer ever. To imagine a scratch golfer at that point led to images like I saw when I'd go to Tour events. I thought it must be almost identical. Maybe the pros were just a little better at putting, I thought. Then the past two years, I've had the pleasure of playing with a couple of honest scratch golfers several times. While their games are certainly impressive, it still didn't resemble the guys between the ropes I had watched up close. It was a real eye opener to me. It is a different level. The pro I took lessons from here in Nashville told me about a time when he was out on the range giving a lesson, and all the sudden he heard a noise that he never heard there before. Then he heard it again. He turned around and Brandt Snedeker was at the club hitting a bucket. About 50 feet away. The sound was so distinguishable that the pro realized it even in the middle of providing a lesson amongst 15 or 20 other people hitting balls.

for me, it tends to be the opposite. I've even talked to some low hdcp guys I play with about it. What I've guessed is the issue for me is that when I'm on a level surface, with a perfect lie, I let too many technical swing thoughts get in my head. On other approach shots, I may be in the rough, on a downhill lie etc - in those cases, it becomes more of an athletic endeavor for me, I just swing to try to make good contact with the back of the ball - I will say that while on average I end up with better results, the few longer "approach" shots that I have hit REALLY tight this season have been on par 3s.

I think it would be a nice touch if the rival was a loose cannon type too - like the stories I've heard about Walter Hagan, a little crass, womanizer, who didn't always say the right things - I doubt that type will ever emerge, because with all the sponsor money available a person would have to be a moron not to be to have a squeaky clean image - but it would be an awesome i've probably watched too many movies

another must make 20 footer for the tourney on 16, and he just crams it in the hole - it is cliche and boring on the surface, but just so incredible at the same time - its really, really unbeleivable -

I was looking forward to really getting into the tourney today, but this damn tennis match is going to leave me with nothing left in the tank! Imagine if Tiger and AK go to like 6 extra holes or something, could be an epic day in sports!

just checked the weather for DC (where I lived the first 29 years of my life)... and it looks miserable - rain all day starting at 5am thru the night - ugh - I hope its scattered enough that they can play a decent round

This might be the first chapter in what everyone in golf has been waiting for for a couple of years now - a young player who can look Tiger in the eye and not melt on a Sunday - not saying that AK is there yet - but I'll be pulling for him because I think if he holds Tiger off and wins tomorrow its going to be potentially a spring board for him, and could finally be a great rivalry for the upcoming years - I'm not sold that he can do it... but I'm hoping that he does - and I'm a Tiger fan!

no luck on finding a specific clip for you - but the show I think is still available on Golf Channel On Demand - also, to help your memory, there were times in the show when Hank would actually use a long shaft to pick the club up for Charles some times - he would stand facing him, and use the shaft to kinda of hook the shaft of barkleys club, lift it up as he started to swing and say 'turn!' once he lifted it -

that is awesome! congrats! It reminds me of last spring, I was playing with a guy who had taken a bunch of lessons, but had only played probably 8 rounds or so, and always was well over 110, and usually quit keeping score at some point - then all of the sudden he just went out and shot an honest 92. the course was no push over either, lots of trouble. He was so pumped that the next time we played he took 3 10's on the first three holes and quit keeping score - he still hasn't broken 100 yet - but he still has the memory

during my series of lessons, my pro teed a ball up just on the inside of my left heel and my right heel - the idea was that the ball teed up on the inside of my left heel should NOT get knocked off the tee, and the ball on the inside of my right foot SHOULD get knocked off the tee - good practice to make sure my weight was headed towards my target and not twisting around - before that drill, both my feet would spin out to a degree - he also told me that flaring out the front foot somewhat is helpful to less flexible golfers like myself, but urged me to keep my back foot at 90 degrees to keep me from getting too far back on my backswing

try to follow Steve Marino for a bit - I went to high school with him in the DC area, he is a few years younger than me and we didn't know each other, but I knew some of his friends well - in 2007 they made quite a scene on the course - they like to drink its a home event for him