lumpuckeroo

I have a Clicgear, I prefer to push a cart. I carried for years but pushing is much easier on my body, IMHO.

I like them!

I kind of agree, in the long run, some of these surveys might actually help the community, but at the end of the day, I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other.

I find it helps me. I tend to play my best golf in the spring and early summer after taking a break (called winter). Kind of the way a round of golf goes for me also, I'm usually a fast starter and fade in the end.

3 Up Golf

3 up golf

I didn't take pictures of our round on Saturday, now wish I had, we played in the same fog, different course. We played at Leavenworth Country Club, started at 8am, fog stayed heavy until about 10:30 or 11, we couldn't see more than 100 yards ahead. It did stretch out our round about 30 minutes, we had to look for balls a lot more than normal, we only lost 2 balls and that was more about the leaves on the ground than the fog, we lost the same amount of balls the next day without the fog. I've played in fog, but never that thick and that long, the first 13 holes were pretty tough, it started to burn off when we played the 14th hole and by the time we got to 18 it was pretty much gone.

Same here, I like the 50's in the late fall, low compression and if I lose one among the leaves, no big deal.

Royals, because I live in KC and have been a fan all my life, well actually, all the Royals life. When I was little, I was a Cardinals fan, because my grandmother was and the Royals didn't exist, but once they came to town I switch my allegiance. Cheered for them through the glory years and still support them.

I too thought it was a testament to a VERY long round of golf, but I like the changing up a bit of playing to make it interesting. My brother and I from time to time look for a way to change things up, we play the same course all the time. We generally always get in one round for the most forward tees. Last year we played 4 round in 4 days, so we had a kind of best score skins and total score contest. So his best score of the 4 rounds on hole 1 vs. my best score of the 4 rounds on hole 1. Like in most skins, a bunch of pars with a birdie to win a majority of the holes, timing of the birdie is everything.

Completely agree, and you can throw in beginners. When I came back to the game I use to play on an executive course that was actually a regulation front 9, par 36 and a shorter back 9 with 3 par 4's and 6 par 3's. A lot of the time I would only play one 9 or the other, depending on what I wanted to work on. Especially if I wanted to work on my iron play, I would play the back 9, play 2 or 3 balls, would only take me 60-90 minutes to play. I could go play and be home in less than 2 hours, wife and kids never even missed me!

I would agree, chocking down might also create a slight counter balance to the head and that's also helping you to have a more controlled swing and better contact. Check out the pro's, they don't grip the club with the little finger off the end, they have the butt of the club showing.

To play, of course, to watch, not even close. Much rather watch college basketball (especially Kansas) and college football (kills me to watch Kansas but I do) then my home town pro teams (Royals and Chiefs) ahead of golf. And that being said, prefer other sports over everyday tournaments, the majors, Ryder Cup, Presidents Cup, I'll watch those pretty much from wire to wire.

I'm a wise elder?!?!?!?! If only my children then that..........

I'm with you all the way to that last game! Kansas City has been nuts over the Royals this year and the turn out at the wild card game is pretty good proof of just how nuts. There's not a ticket to be had for the two games at home, standing room only tickets are approaching $300, if you can even find one. Support for the team has been great, last night I took my wife to Walmart just as the game was starting, I've never seen a Walmart so empty, there were five times as many workers as shoppers, never been in and out of a Walmart so fast. At work, we get to wear jeans and Royals gear for every game they play, nothing better then casual for the next few days.

I picked birth, there's so much more to it that I can't explain, not that I can't write it down, but a feeling that's impossible to describe. I have no issue with Horschel's decision, but I know for my wife and I, nothing would have been bigger than being there for the birth of our first child.

My brother and I usually give it a go from the shortest tees once every summer, just to shake up playing the same course all the time. Best I've been able to muster is a 79, par is 71. However, this summer my 82 year old dad came to play and we played from the whites, which is around 5500 yds, and I shot a 73.

I agree with BuckeyeNut, if you like the irons and hit them well, don't change. I've been a big Mizuno homer for years and I kind of laugh as they bring out new irons, especially the blades, because I look at some of the "new" designs and they look so similar to the old ones!

The MP33 would be more forgiving, but there is nothing like hitting a Mizuno blade in the sweet spot! I've not owned those two sets, but I've had several Mizuno blade and cavity back sets, I prefer the blades. I don't have a measurable reason why I prefer the blades other then they just feel right. Don't get me wrong, if I couldn't play Mizuno blades, I'd be playing Mizuno cavity backs.

Totally agree, plus, you might make new golf buddies that like to play the same course and at the same time you like to!

Never, but we never compete against one another, we just compete against the old man.

That was my point, maybe not well stated, IMHO there are two aspects to ball striking, hitting it solid and hitting it on the intended line. You can have occasion were you score well, with only one or the other working, but to be a consistent ball striker and scorer, it takes both aspects.

I never push my cart onto a green and stay off the collar as well. I've heard, can't confirm, that the "footprint" of a push/pull cart is much less than a person, so I would consider it bad form to have a cart on a green, having it on a tee box is another story. The course I usually play has a couple of holes where the tee box is the only place you can leave your push cart without having a long walk to leave/retrieve it, so we pull our carts onto the tee box.

Everyone knows, the second golfer is a much better golfer!

My children are grown and out of the house, so I have time. Plus, I joined a "country club" (I use the term losely) and have unlimited golf. A family owned business in Kansas has been buying up country clubs that are either going bankrupt or are bankrupt and changing the business model. They charge a pretty low monthly fee that gets you unlimited golf (without a cart) and makes playing very reasonable. I pay $600 a year and this year will play close to 50 rounds, plus the course is close to my grandsons and my wife tags along and spends time with the little ones, so all's good.