Blackjack Don
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Hurts like hell, second only to a cracked rib, in my experience. Pulled a groin playing volleyball. I had to reach down and pick up my foot by my pants leg to walk up stairs. Had a standard xmission and couldn't use my right foot on the brake pedal. Not a fun injury, and nothing I could do but go on the DL. Feel for ya, man.
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"It's not the heat, it's the humidity." But, it's the heat. Out here where it's dry, it's experienced differently. We sweat as much, if not more, but because of the dryness, sweat evaporates of us so fast we often don't feel it. If there is a breeze, we might even feel good. But on days above a hundred, I use two gloves. When it's above a hundred and the monsoon moisture creeps in, with no wind, I've had a stream of sweat splashing onto my ball. I doubt I sweat more, no matter the humidity nor breeze, when it's a hundred and five, which is about as hot as it can get without moisture in the air. As the moisture increases, the air can't absorb it and stay as hot. In the summer, we get the max awful heat. It just doesn't last as long as the cold did in Minn, Chicago and New England. You don't have to shovel sunshine, but it still wears you out. Plus, we have thin blood. We're used to it. You ought to hear us complain when it's forty.
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That bears repeating. They work very hard. They have put in countless hours, even when they didn't want to. The dedication and mental toughness it takes to get to the tour alone leaves me amazed. Of course they are whiners. We all are whiners, excuse makers, and have a randomness of narcissism. They are not machines. Well, except DJ and Koepka. Imagine a tour of copies of them. Crash.
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Do you think the golf fan and the NASCAR fan are the same guy? (You know we're talking guys here, right?) Do we want them to be the same guy? I hate the noise on a golf tournament. It's stupid to yell before you know where the ball is going. Hooked out of bounds: "Great shot! It's in the hole!" Tonight is Friday night, amateur night at the casino, and there will be one or two drunken idiots who absolutely have to get the attention of everyone they can. Or just an idiot who thinks he's being funny. Or an idiot who doesn't realize how stupid his behavior actually makes him look. It's always the same guys.
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We are hardly in disagreement. And about .0001% of the population is going alone with us. I have a lazy gene, and a Type 2 gene. I love chocolate and good TV. I'm past the age where Mother Nature has any use for me as a breeder, so she's turned on the aging switch and turned off all the switches that make life easy. I combat that with awareness practice and some semblance of yoga, too. Still, I am a silverback, and that's reality, for me. My focus in life is a dharma practice. I spend twenty minutes a day doing vipassana, and about 20 minutes doing yoga. I've started to lose weight slowly. I figure I put it on an oz at a time, so why not be patient with taking it off. I am far less sore than I was a year ago. Have a little more energy, and a lot more happiness. Meditation is something more people would be successful doing than dieting, but that's not happening for many more people than ones who are taking care of their bodies. If they won't exercise their minds, not likely are they to feed their bodies right, either. According to the latest science I'm aware of, consciousness is about 70,000 years old. Agriculture is about 12,000 years old. Recorded history began approximately 8,000 years ago. Not sure where you got this figure, but cave paintings are newer than 100,000 years. So, according to your figure, agriculture began before this basic of social culture began? Doesn't matter to the discussion, and not worth pursuing, but if this figure were accurate, human history would be very different. Just sayin'. This is a cool topic of interest to me, personally. All I am contributing is an awareness of the natural struggle we all have as modern human beings in an ancient form. It's an uphill struggle, for sure, but we're living longer--again, a debatable issue regarding quality vs time, but I digress, again. We know more, but that doesn't make it easier. I realized not long ago that at 63, I will never "be in shape" again. I will be unlikely to "feel good." I can only do the best I can, within reason, and keep trying to do better. Time for me to go sit on my cushion. Be well.
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Has everything to do with it. What an ex of mine called "the fat gene." She was talking about her granddaughter. Sure, it is, but understanding natural selection's properties is hard. We are hard-wired to put on weight. It's a survival thing. Takes an awful lot of discipline (and good genes) to not gain weight as we age. I'm in much better shape for 62 than average, but still fighting the silverback belly. Old dude, and there isn't much I can do about that. Doing 20 minutes of meditation a day is even better. This didn't get posted yesterday, but I stand by it. I don't disagree at all with those who say "Get off your ass!" My point is any program of fitness in the modern age is competing with millions of years of evolution. We are built from DNA and everything we do is either in favor of it or pushing against it. Humans don't do personal sacrifice very well. But the point is don't give up just because it's hard. You knew it was going to be hard. Just do it. Today. And tomorrow.
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Longest unit of time in golf?
Blackjack Don replied to RayG's topic in Clubs, Grips, Shafts, Fitting
The longest time in my golf experience has been the time a birdie putt from 30 feet drops in the cup until the crowd roars. All these others eventually end. I'm still waiting. Second place goes to the time from the last putt until the next drive. My goal is to shorten it as much as possible. Slow play is like the weather. Everybody talks about it, but nobody does anything about it. Golf is like sailing. Not for Type A personalities, or perfect for those of us who are trying to treat our Type A so it doesn't get out of hand as often. With sailing, you get there when you get there. A bad day fishing is better than a good day at work. I'll wait for that next good shot, the next good putt, as long as it takes. -
Has everything to do with it. What an ex of mine called "the fat gene." She was talking about her granddaughter. Sure, it is, but understanding natural selection's properties is hard. We are hard-wired to put on weight. It's a survival thing. Takes an awful lot of discipline (and good genes) to not gain weight as we age. I'm in much better shape for 62 than average, but still fighting the silverback belly. Old dude, and there isn't much I can do about that. Doing 20 minutes of meditation a day is even better.
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"The fun of golf is figuring things out." There is a reason why Jack is in my personal Hall of Fame. Tiger, Ben, Jones, and everyone else is a nominee. Those guys had a passion for figuring it out. All of the guys who get to the Hall of Very Good, the rest of us golf nuts who pause as the funeral procession goes by, we just want to figure it out. Nice segment to open my US Open Day, my Father's Day gift. Happy Father's Day to all of you, esp the granddads and great granddads. Best wishes. Do the microphones make the crowd seem close to out of control? Holding back the outbursts? It's like a competition for who can make himself heard over the herd. Or am I yelling at the kids to get off the lawn?
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The ball didn't HIT 18 feet away. The ball didn't stop, 18 feet away. It rocked and slowly turned, and rolled faster into the bunker. A bunch have done this. They don't stop rolling, until they are off the green. Saw someone miss a putt and it finished off the green down the hill.
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It would be funny if somebody at +8 shoots a four under early and wins it. +8 was the cut line, that Jordan gacked, and is now tied for 17th. That's pretty much what Berger and Finau did. I don't know, unprecedented?
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18 feet from the hole is usually good enough.
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Now, it's gone too far. Koepka hit a good shot onto the green and it rolls into a bunker? Slowly, rolls off the green. That seems a bit unfair.
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Correction: It was Zinger who said it. He's the funny one.
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Curtis Strange on Justin Rose. "He couldn't hit a green if you dropped him out of a helicopter."
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Everybody is looking for it.
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Did anyone else hear it said thirty people were looking for Dustin's ball, yesterday. What does it mean, "losing the golf course?" How is a golf course "gone?"
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I think back in the old days they called it "slamming the trunk." I think Phil was done with it. He'd had enough. I think he's going to regret this, a lot.
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You're right! Usually people who do this--almost always a frat boy-stereotype--who has to have been born on third base to be this dumb and can afford tickets to every single golf tournament--and this is my grandkids. I have no idea what the Seventies generation annoyed our parents with. If anything at golf tournaments. Now they have microphones that pick up everything. Nudge, wink. Does the apparently unfair golf course make you want to keep watching or stop watching?
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I have figured out what "dilly dilly" actually means. Trust fund.
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Fox Sports
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Dear Professionals, we sympathize with you. This is what golf looks like to us.
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I immediately flashed back to Jimmy Conors, playing on a clay court where calls can be checked. He was his usual self with the crowd, a clown or an a jerk depending on your reaction to him. A close call, and before the chair umpire could climb down to look closely, Connors runs around the net and rubs it out with his shoe. Bedlam erupted. Connors thought he was being cute. Some thought it was funny. Others wanted him tarred and feathered. At least suspended. It just wasn't that funny. Phil was trying to be funny and flopped. Dustin didn't get the joke, either. I'm kidding!
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Eric, we have different points of view about golf. I see it as a game, a recreational sport, a fun thing to do more than anything else. I think you see it as a competitive sport, where everyone plays by the rules. This would lead us into vastly different ideas about everything. Rather than penalizing a player for improving is lie, I'd encourage it. It makes the game easier. This would be a terrible thing for players who are competing, whether against others or against par. Put $$$ on it and it brings it to a whole new level. I know. I see it every day at work. People who are normally very nice people become something different when they lose and losing money makes it worse. So I can see why a person who cheats at golf should be burned at the stake. But not the guys who are trying to make the game easier and more fun and GROW the game. To increase anything, it must be more inclusive. The name calling here--that never seems to get called out--is the exact opposite of that. Protect the integrity of the competitive game is fine and actually very good, but perhaps some moderation might work better. It's obvious, to me anyway, that we both love the game of golf. We just see things from a very different point of view. It's okay by me. I hope a differing opinion is okay with you, too.
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I merely posted a quotation from a national golf writer, which presented an opposite point of view. I did not endorse it. I was careful, because I knew this is exactly how these conversations take off. Let loose the attack dogs. Recreational. Right. I don't get involved with millionaires, and poor things trying to feed their family. Recreational golfer here. I do not play for trophies or tournaments. So why attack me because I don't care? Open your minds, people. Do you really think I don't understand your point of view? You've shown you don't understand anyone but your own, which I suppose is why you think no one else does. As for coming to my blackjack table, fine. If you're too dumb to know the game is rigged and you're going to lose, fine by me. Isn't that what you're arguing here? That you don't want the game rigged?
