DocWu1948

I hear you. Sometimes my round of golf costs more than what my father made in a week back in 1959. That would be $40 by the way. Of course, adjusted for inflation that's $315 today. However, $40 a week was still not much money back then and a Spaulding baseball glove still cost $5 then. Nonetheless, I can walk 18 for $20-24 on weekdays where I live. It's all about having fun, and if combined with work, golf is a great way to network. .

I got a 13. Just call me three putt (and pickup). I took it a second time just clicking randomly and got a 40. So putts don't break toward the water in general, and never uphill. Well, I learned something for tomorrow's round.

YE Yang, who won the 2009 PGA Championship at age 37, didn't really start golfing til he was out of the Korean Army at age 21. It took him 13 years before he had won enough to play in Europe and eventually the PGA. It's said he started as a heavy equipment operator, got hurt in accident, and wound up as ball picker at a driving range. Cool.

It's today's Reality TV plus nerves on the tee. Where's the drama if he puts the first shot onto the island? More fun to watch him be wet and talking to himself.Then they make up the "rules violation" that was rescinded. I hope he got better, but I know people who love the game, been playing for decades, and couldn't carry 130 yards anymore unless you gave them a wood and 3 tries..

It's your starter's fault. Every time I played with a kid from the local HS team that was good, we were told something like ..."So and so is on the XYZ high school squad. He's hitting from the blacks. Make sure he putts out everything or I'll get the Coach on his butt."

Whether Tiger's ball got stolen or is still up there in a tree, I was surprised to read in a golf magazine earlier this month that the ball-moves-after-address penalty still applies unless the wind did it. I thought they had "fixed" that rule, Then I chuckled when I see that Moore thought along the same lines and he thought he should have gotten a break when his putt moved. Alas, one stroke behind because gravity moved the ball. Now that's bad luck when it involve a half million dollars.

Nice work, Andrew. I like them. I've never been out on a course at dawn. It has to be magically different with the mist coming off the ponds, like when I hit a lake for fishing and watch the sun come up.

That would mean 8 over par for a 42 or 43, depending on which of their three 9's you played. That means that off the whites, you played to a 16 that day, according to my CDGA handicapper . Meanwhile, back at Foxford Hills from the blacks, you played to a 48 the first round and a 28 the second round. Could Maple Meadows be a links style course with few trees? Whatever, 42 is a nice score for 7 months of golf. Congrats! So if your first post had said ..."I'm a 16 handicap and play from the blacks, OK?", well maybe, but I'm gonna go with what that scratch golfer who saw your game suggested, to you. Move up.

I suppose if you weren't kidding about the family home, then your high school doesn't have a golf team. That would be the way to get more coaching and experience. What do I know about college golf, nothing, but it seems a 2.3 HDCP ought to get you a golf scholarship to a Division 2 or 3 school, where you could compete at golf. Meanwhile on the side get a degree in something that gets you a good job if golf doesn't pan out. Yadda yadda yadda, Or start a compelling blog and maybe enough people sign up that T/M and Nike buy ads. Who has come out of that school that has set the collegiate ranks on fire anyway?

Maybe thirty or forty bucks to have the two clubs changed out at a shop? Drawback is it's 2X to change back. So change one and see how you like it.

Removing the shaft so that it can be re-used requires a bit of skill, but that's the only way to get loose material out of a head. You have to apply heat to the hosel to break down the epoxy. Too much heat may break down the epoxy that binds the graphite in the shaft. It's a skill. Worse case is they have to replace the shaft, How expensive was it to replace the shaft originally? I've got some clubs that rattle like that. Not a big deal. It's just loose epoxy residue,

Would be nice to see the newbie Knost win this one. He's been on the fringe of the PGA thru his short career.

You can usually find something about any camera on Youtube. For example, Jump to the 3 minute mark to see it working outside. You might have to paint your club heads pink to see them on any video made with this, Not worth $50. Maybe $20.

The cited article tells what happened. Augusta officials noted who caught the ball and asked for a moment of his time as he prepared to leave. The guy was on his 5th visit to a Masters and only golfs once a month. I'm sure he got a reasonable trade. No one is saying what it was.

The rating and slope attempt to take care of that. If the course has a low slope, the calculated differential (which is your handicap) come out higher. And the converse is true. At some point, the math has to fall apart for the really short courses, but even the local 9 hole par 3 nearest me has a rating/slope and it can be played with a 9 iron, wedge, and putter. When my HDCP starts again, I will have to plug in some numbers for it and see what comes out.

I believe your Burmer, if it's a 2009-2010 model, is an inch or more longer than the Callaway. I own a 10.5 degree Burner with a standard shaft. It's light and the shaft is too long for me at 5' 7". If I grip down on it and slow my swing down, I hit it well at the range. I usually forget at the course. When I recently regripped it, I took an inch off the butt end. Very unscientific and anti-club fitter, but seems to work better for me.

I didn't but then I did. Two Chip Chen, double hit a wedge out of the rough, took an 8 and lost the US Open by one stroke. He did get one PGA win though. Makes him a legit golfer. I always thought Rich Beem was in the one win category, but he has two others besides his major, just like Ben Curtis, Shaun Micheel only has one win, but all three of these guys have made close to $10M each in career earnings, and Jason Dufner, who has not won yet, has $8M.

I believe he has 14 clubs, as he listed his three long range fairway clubs and then named them which had me double counting them too.

My first eagle happened when I holed out with an 8 iron from 120 yards out after a 200 yard drive on a short par 4 That was maybe six years ago and I didn't even realize it was a Big Thing until my friends said I should buy a pitcher. I have holed out from over 100 yards only two other times, once for bogey and the other an ace. Just shows that if you play enough, the ball sometimes goes in the hole. However four rounds this year already and I have yet to hit a driver even close to 200 yards and haven't gotten any irons in the air at all. Just fat chunks. Must go to the range. Must go tomorrow.

Organize an afternoon outing at a par 3 and get your boss to approve it as a training/teamwork session. That's how I got into golf 11 years ago when our whole group went out and half of us were hacks. We did have to pay our own green fees and buy our own refreshments.

At the amateur level, there's a huge variation in the quality and consistency of swings. Many amateurs with slower swing speeds can't launch a long iron and find hybrids much easier to hit. Then as you get to the Pro level, where the swings are true and accurate, you will find many Pro's also using hybrids because they work for their needs. For example, Y.E. Yang clinched his win over Tiger in the 2010 US Open with a beautiful hybrid shot to the green. I guess that if you know how to hit a long iron well, you don't need to experiment with hybrids. There does seem to be disagreement over how to hit hybrids. Some say you swing them down like irons. Others say you swing them like woods, It probably also matters what kind of hybrids you own. Some are like fat irons on steroids. Others look like little woods. Anyway, I think Harmon isn't wrong.

A bit windy today at 15-20 mph, but I wanted to play. I called around and the courses were closed because the ground is too wet. Ah heck. it's 56F on the last day in January in Chicago and too wet to golf. Oh well, my front yard is also squishy and I'm glad they are watching out for the grass vs grabbing a few dollars.

Betcha it goes back on sale at next year's auction ... as "the car owned by Bubba:".Looks like a full roll cage in there and cars like that are just not comfortable on the street, especially when your passengers conk their heads getting in and out.That's the right car for jumping hills and filming the TV show, but a copy with just the paint and a rumbling VB is what you want for the drive-in burger stops.

Second round of the month today.. One place had the carts out. What the well appointed golf cart has in Chicago during January; Side covers and 4500 BTU of heat. One of these balls was probably mine.

Normally, first round here here outside Chicago is around March, but with the warm spell, I played twice last week. The local course had staying open (weather permitting) and a few others sent out emails announcing special openings. Air temperature in the high 40's, but sunny and no wind. I've been colder in October. The ground is still frozen though, which makes it hard to stick a tee into it. Don't hit fat, as there's no divot and it hurts. Water balls sit out there on the ice laughing at you. On the other hand, there's great bounce and roll.