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Didn't know that. Am assuming there is no net at the back to prevent balls going too long which would explain this rule

I get that it is a short range and I assume a net at the back to prevent balls going further than 200. In any case, hitting a driver 200 yards is enough to give you an idea of ball flight and how you are hitting it. My logic is simply that if you are hitting a club well on the day, go ahead with it off the tee

I know you already played the hole, but my suggestion would have been get early to the course and hit a few balls on the range with Driver, 3W and 2i. See which club is performing best on the day and then hit with that and go ahead. Anyway, seeing your score of +2 and 5 people at -1 I can only assume you didn't make it through. Better luck for next time

We have different tee boxes you are allowed to play in according to age and gender. But everybody is eligible for the Closest to Pin from their respective tee boxes. For open and handicap titles you are only eligible if you play from the furthest tee boxes, except for women from their tee boxes

Welcome to TST. I am also a golf addict and have been one since my teens after my parents got us pro lessons around the age of 12. This is a great place to discuss and learn

Vitamin M determines this. A lot of times I am buying used balls and hence by default I am not brand loyal since I buy varied balls. I try to get as many ProV's in that as possible because they tend to perform better even when old. But that depends on what is available. When I buy new it mostly tends to be the Inesis Tour 900 of late, because it is the cheapest three piece urethane ball available in India

💩is an apt description of the new rule 🤣

This rule change is so stupid. It is not like the players have a time limit after finishing to submit their scorecard. You can take a few minutes to verify your scorecard and then submit it. IDIOTS

Our home course would be very interesting. It is short from the black tees (around 6000 yards) and very few holes are considered not reachable in GIR for golfers who drive max 250 off the tee. But there are two difficulties. Only 3 holes don't have an OB though admittedly in some cases it is just behind the green. The harder part is almost all the fairways slope away on both sides from the centre meaning if you hit a draw or fade, you are likely to wind up at the edge of the fairway or off into the rough if you bounce in the wrong place.

I assume the 3 iron in your iron set would do the job. If you don't have the club, you should be able to buy it as a single club

Essentially find the longest club you can hit straight and go with that off the tee. You want the shortest shot into the green for your second. If that is the hybrid or 7i or even PW, go with that. You lose a lot more by being OB and having to re-tee

Practice is the key to a repeatable swing. The more you practice the more muscle memory gets ingrained. I took lessons around 12 years old and have been playing ever since. Even now, if I take 6 months away from golf I still have a reasonably repeatable swing thanks to muscle memory

I know Dean Snell designed the original Pro V along with a couple of other brands tour balls. How exactly does the Snell ball have problems. Did he change something in the design or is a manufacturing error since he cannot afford the unlimited R&D budgets of the big manufacturers to iron out flaws

I had a 5 wood. Now have moved onto hybrids and have a 4 hybrid. As I get older a more lofted hybrid and/or 7 and 9 woods will come into my bag. I have learnt that as swing speed declines, loft is your friend

Well, I have a 2 hybrid, 4 hybrid and then play 6 iron onwards. My best clubs are probably the 4 hybrid and the PW. What I find is that loft is your friend in general which is why my 4 hybrid is so much better than my 2 hybrid. Definitely disproportionately more so than the 5 or so degrees of difference in loft. If you have hybrids, play them. And consider loft as your friend. Invariably you will get up to a loft where anything less will not get you more distance because of your club head speed. Essentially the faster you swing the less lofted a club you can hit effectively. For me it is probably a 4 hybrid and maybe a 7 iron though I could improve both with practice