WarrenB

I usually have a couple buckets full of pro v1 balls around

What field do you work in? I go to Dallas quite a bit. It is nice. We live in western Arkansas and love it. If you want to live on the golf course there are several you can choose. Danville Arkansas has a beautiful tough championship course that is affordable in a small town package. They have beautiful homes on the course starting at around 200 grand for a really nice home. The course was put in by the brothers-in-law of the owners of the Dallas Cowboys. Johnny Chambers. Who owns a bunch of banks. Course is special We live in Russellville Arkansas live on the course and the golf is really affordable if you use it. With fees and dinners we pay about $5000 a year but we eat at the club a lot

If you work in technology field Dallas is supposed to bypass Silicon Valley in the next couple years. Companies are moving out of California and down to Texas to get away from the wacko taxes in California. Also housing is cheaper int Texas

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Mine cost 10 bucks in a pawn shop 30 years ago ping pal 5

I was playing my normal bogey golf get to number 12 straight forward par 4 430 yards out of bounds left pond and ditch right about 245 from tee box. Big trees on left side of fairway with a road and power pole with phone wire hanging on bottom from pole to pole. Remember wire! Hit first shot ob left across road. Re tee hitting 3. Hit 3rd shot as a big pull ball takes off like a rocket skipping off the phone wiresideways and forward , Remember the wire? Anyway ball skips back to right and I end up center fairway 130 yards from flag. Hit 4th shot to 10 feet. Make putt for a bogeys 5. Best 5 I’ve ever made

Last time I ordered I think it was 13 grips for $90 bucks. The dritac grips come in individual wrapped sealed packages so they don’t dry out. I have a set of 70s blades I’m thinking about re gripping just to see how I got them

I have everything I need to do them it doesn’t take long and I like fresh grips. When I see them on sale or I have a little extra rat money I order and try to keep about 20 onhand I live across the street from the course. I play nine whenever the Weather is nice and we have a range plan $40 a year all the balls you can hit.

I switched to the Dritac multi compound. They are 50 grams and I like that they were lighter potentially making my swing weight just a tad heavier. Very tacky and I swap them out 2 times a year

I knocked my hat off twice and hit myself in the eye with my 64 degree It’s in the extra bag in the basement along with my 2 iron and 1 iron

I have large hands have used oversized grips for years with 3 tape wraps under. I can barely swing a regular grip it feels like a pencil

I actually enjoy giving them to juniors. I’ve had a lot of thanks from kids and I always tell them to do something nice for someone else to repay me. I wash all the balls and they get nice shiny balls lol

My buddy and I only get to play together a couple times a year. I’m thinking give him a hundred or so and then just wait awhile to tell him. He’s so cheap though I figure he will still play them and justify it. Lol. Last time he came to town he Found? A couple hundred balls in my garage. I was just going to help him! Que evil laughter!

I like to walk number nine across from my house for exercise. I like being in the woods and I carry. A five gallon bucket and pick up strays. The woods on nine are ob so I generally pick up 20-50 balls every 3-4 days. I generally clean them keep the pro v1 and give the rest to the juniors. I noticed the other day I had a significant number of balls that are a little lopsided here is my evil question. I throw those in a separate bucket when I clean them. Should I give those to my buddies who I play against just to watch the poor rolls on the greens?

My biggest swing flaw is swinging back too fast and never catching up. I have a fast strong tempo but I’m working on it. Lol

I broke the shaft in my G10 last summer and had a local shop reshaft it. I told him standard ! I realized yesterday that it was over 46” long. I cut it down to 44 1/2 “ and was worried that I’d lose distance. Through swing weight change. I just donated 20 shag balls to the river and then I crossed the street to play one hole course is closed. I actually gained yardage on the hole I was 20 yards past my usual spot. I suspect that I hit it on the screws! Any thoughts?

We bought a house in a bluff overlooking a river. Across the street is the county club. We were looking for a house with a pool but when we saw the view from our deck we fell in love. Our country club family is wonderful. We take the cart to dinner and my wife plays dominos with the women on Tuesday and Thursday. Poker us Thursday night. For me. We love the club. The cost is roughly what we would have spent on chemicals for a pool. My father and I could only talk through golf. He wasn’t very good dad. I took it up to get to know him. He would have been 84 yesterday

I generally get in my cart and cross the street. Play 9-18 then 8 back home. I find I can get 10 holes in after work

I want to make more shots like this also wanting to break 90 again on a consistent basis. I took 10 years off and my game shows it. Still remember my putting and short game. Irons were always my strength! If I can ever string together my different shots I’ll be awesome. Bogey golf right now with blow ups being a occasional double.

I forgot lie! I carry an old ping 53 degrees sand wedge with bounce on it and a Titleist 56 degree wedge with little bounce. The ping is my go to in grassy situations and the smaller bounce 56 is for anything else. If I don’t feel comfortable off say hardpan I might do a low runner with a 4-5 iron you have to experiment and learn shots.

I can control my distance through using same tempo but lengthening the back swing. It takes practice. Buy Dave Pelz short game bible and learn the distance on every wedge with a 6 9 12 o’clock back swing. And write the distance on your clubs with masking tape. It’s a huge boost when you can look at the club and see the yardage. Take a couple practice swings get the feel for the backswing and just execute. If I have a lot of run out or hard conditions I’ve hit 7 iron 1/4 from 100 yards just to see if I could run one up. Lol

You would have never survived my childhood

Buddy it was a different time and we weren’t a bunch of wimps. The young man in question thanked me! And his father is my best friend at the time I looked at him and said”Gary are you gonna handle this crap or am I. “ he just grinned and said be my guest. Yes I guess I’m a savage. But more butt whooping makes better behaved children. I never spanked my children without making them anticipate it. And having a talk before and hugs after. My children were very well behaved

I once played with. A friends 11 year old son who threw a club and started cussing like his grandma who taught him. I quietly told him. Casey I don’t want to ever see you do that again is that clear making eye contact the whole time. 3 holes later he throws his 5 iron and starts cussing I put the boy over my knee and wore his hide out with the 5 iron. His dad just watched. Years later we played and he made a point of thanking me for correcting his behavior and teaching him that he didn’t have to be a little jerk!! His words not mine. Lol

Watched a really good YouTube video the other day Place a shaft or club straight at the target. Place a shaft in front of the ball pointed right and one behind ball continuing the line inside. Start the drill by swinging forward from address. Along the front shaft. Then backswing back along the line. At top try to shadow the shafts on ground coming from inside. Go slow and try to grove it. It helps with the over the top move.