Groucho Valentine

Dude.. you don't know WTF you're talking about.... Just stop. Stop. Read the F1's GD report...

K... believe whatever you want... Maybe your friend will put me and F1 investigators in jail to boot! 😄

It certainly did. But it also probably saved his life. F1's initial findings say the top of halo device wedged itself between a gap in the guardrail and instantly stopped the front end of the car. That 50 or so G of force ripped the back end off as its momentum continued and ignited an explosion in the exposed fuel lines going to the engine compartment. Without the halo, Grosjean could have sustained massive head injuries or worse, but the car most likley wouldn't have exploded.

A sand wedge...

Hmmm.. rare to find F1 threads on a non racing forum... Grosjean really was lucky. The accident could have been fatal without the halo device on the cars, which most drivers hated when it came 2 years ago. But the but the dramatic optics of the accident made it look worse than it appeared. The car did its job exactly like it was supposed to aside from the fuel line bursting. They're designed to disintergrate on impact. Initial investigation suggest the halo In grosjeans case actually escalated the indecent by turning the drivers tub of the car basically into a spear. The front of the car wedged itself into the guardrail and the back end ripped off from sudden stoppage at the front. So it made the accident worse but but likely saved his life at the same time. Without the halo, the car most likely would have stayed intact and just bounced off the retaining rails, but it also could have knocked him unconscious or worse. It's impossible to know if the car would have still exploded if the engine housing didn't become severed. On track fires like that in F1 cars are extraordinarily rare. A car hasn't exploded as a result of an impact since the 1980s. F1 stopped in race refueling of the cars over 10 years ago so pit lane fires are a thing of the past.

We don't do breakfast balls. But the other two @woodzie264 described are pretty much winter rules. I used to play a lot of tournament golf, so im just conditioned to play the game under those circumstances, even when im playing a game with a group where they are different rules agreed to. But the rule I and my regular group let slide most often is re-teeing or replaying after a lost ball or OB. We just agree on a general place to play the next from with whatever penalty the shot usually is. Speeds things along and doesn't really effect the outcome of our money games too much.

It seems about right to me. Courses mostly go dormant in the northeast around November. You're getting crappy lies in the fairway, losing balls under dead leaves, etc. Stuff that doesn't happen in the spring and summer.

90%? No. I generally select a club 50 yards and in based on the combination of the lie and the trajectory of the shot i want to hit. That could be anything from my 58 SW to a 9i. But if i have a gnarly lie, ill usually always go for the 58 so i can get some help from the bounce. For a typical 15-30 foot green side chip from a clean lie i usually use a PW or 9i.

The nightmare before Christmas soundtrack. Over and over and over again.....and over... Whats this? Whats this? Lets listen to this again!

Ive seen more and more people doing it over the years. Its never bothered me at alll. Unless its country music...get that nonsense outta here.. Sudden sounds is what bothers me on the course, not really consistent noise.

If a par 4 is longer than 450 I just say "to hell with this" and move up a tee.

At my peak I played +3 golf (I play to around a 1 or 2 these days) and had plenty of people ask me how I got there. Ive never really had a good answer for them other than trust yourself. Theres no formulaic process I took to get there. It just sort of happened. I had priliminary instruction, but hitting a golf ball has been mostly instinct for me. I cant really fully explain it, but I can feel that 6 inch area around the ball through to club and into my hands. I came to golf from baseball so I had good athletic gifts. Maybe that had something to do with it. I did practice a lot. I think the adage of practicing with a purpose is very true. Things that were particular to me. Self Identifying issues with can be a big advantage in growing your game. I have a habit of aligning my body too far right and I do that I block and push fade the ball. I made sure I always practiced with a club or stick on the ground to help curb that. I practiced bad lie shots a lot when I had access to grass hitting areas so that I had some baseline of what the ball would do out on the course in those situations so I made better course management decisions. But ive met plenty of players though who get more joy out of shooting 90 than a better player does out of shooting 68. So scratch isn't everything, either.

One of SC I own is a x-prototype #6 given to me by a lower tour player (think it was nationwide tour back then) The head cover has these fruit loop things on it and is apparently worth 4 figures to some people. No plans to part with that one though. The few others I have are just pro platinum era putters with the head covers that came with the putter as new. One of them is pretty faded because it was my gamer for years. But If I sell any ill jump on here and PM you.

I have a few late 90s-early 2000's Scotty Cameron putters. But I wouldn't call myself an enthusiast. Ive considered selling the head covers because they're apparently more valuable than the putters themselves...

Anyone else make the joke of DJ serving cocaine and hash browies at his masters dinner yet?

My first new unused set of irons where actually this model. I learned how to play on the DCI model before these. I don't particularly have nostalgic memories of them. The longer irons where not very forgiving from what I remember and where difficult sometimes to get in the air out of the rough. But I used them up until around the time the 735 CM came out. The 735 cm is the model of iron I used in all three of the USGA am events ive qualified for, so those are kind of the nostalgic ones for me.

Ive heard theres some validity to that. My brother in law is one of those strongest man contest guys and he uses a CPAP machine when he sleeps even though he doesnt have sleep apnea. Sleep and oxyengation is apparently a important part of building muscle mass. I always figured rumors around Beefcake Byrson and steroids was going to be a thing eventually. Just took him winning a major to bring it out of the closest more. If Bryson were any other athlete in another sport the suspicions would be through the roof after putting on much mass as he has - as quickly as he did. But It seems like he's largely avoided any critical quesitons about it to this point.

Ive actually eaten the stuff I go out to eat at about the same rate as I usually would. Just take out now. But the first stop I'm making after this is over is this all you can eat sushi joint in Princeton NJ. I f**king love sushi...

People comparing the Covid to the flu are in essence making a political statement. Politics is the root of that entire debate of the seriousness of the virus. Cant really have this discussion and create a pink elephant out of the political angle.

Golf slow rolled reopening in Jersey yesterday. Im sure that's been posted already. Two-somes only 16 minutes apart, prepaid tee times. No walk ups. I wasn't able to get a time anywhere close this weekend but ive heard about some chaos. People just walking up without a time anyway. Two-somes blending into foursomes a few holes in. Crap the course staff had to take time to police. If dipshits like that keep pushing everyones luck with that type of behavior the courses will just get shut down again.

I think its silly, too. The leading cause of both deaths and hospitalizations in the United States since march 1 has been COVID-19. The flu never reached such lofty levels, even in the same time frame. If allowed to run through the American population (like say the seasonal flu) the results could have been catastrophic. Its obviously something different. To be blunt - denying the seriousness of the virus and relating the precautions taken as some kind of liberal hyped conspiracy isn't going to save Trumps presidency. That IMO is where those sentiments are coming from. Some of colleges and friends of mine are just completely suspending logic and reasoning out of fear they might lose their presidency to "the liberals" because of this.

Is ESPN producing Tigers 30 for 30 special yet? Im running out of TV to watch.

Ive been a ProV1x player forever, but I started playing the Snell MTB-X last summer and doubt Im going back. I don't notice any difference between the balls on full shots, but the Snell is nearly half the price. 50 yards and in though the ProV1 is a slightly better ball. So on a firm course in competition play, I might skate back to the Prov1x. But for rec play I'm done with titleist balls.

Sometimes new clubs are better. Shafts matter more. Ive found the lowest performance/investment return you get is on drivers. I basically hit the driver with all the new tech bells and whistles about the same as I did the Titleist 905R I played like 10 years ago. Ive found the best return I get is on wedges. For me, a new wedge is like a race car getting new tires on it during a race.

Ive never had a set pre-round routine. For recreational rounds I pretty much just go strait out to the first tee from the parking lot. Maybe hit a few chips and putts if the practice green is near the first tee. Sometimes I may hit 5-10 balls if I see some laying around on the practice tee. Competitive rounds I'll hit a bag of balls and loosen up a little more.