mohearn

Thanks for posting the videos, oh my gosh that's a tired looking swing of mine! Was great fun, weather perfect and the courses were all very different than each other, each challenging and interesting in different ways. Learned alot, ready for the next one.. Mike

No issues here, Flip away, or change it up, no problem, I appreciate your coordinating efforts. Too bad we can't find other central NY/Albany TST members! C'mon folks :-).

I can make that work. If I drove up there for Friday at Sullivan, and Saturday afternoon for Hiawatha, I might see if I can fit in 9 or 18 at En-joie in Endicott on Saturday morning. .En-joie hosted a PGA Tour Champions event won by Padraig Harrington earlier this year. Supposedly the course is in great shape, but I've never played there. En-joie is about 10 minutes from Hiawatha. It'd be a long day but it's golf! Open to anyone else joining for En-joie too, if it sounds appealing.

I will be there. Play 18 at Sullivan from the "white/blue" tees? I looked at the scorecard and looks like they have different tees for front 9 and back 9. Could decide later, no worries, just thinking out loud. I'd like to walk or pushcart at Sullivan. Hiawaha sounds good, never played there, so looking forward to it.

That'd be great. I saw they got quite a bit of rain with this last storm, but seem to be handling it and it's still a month out.. Green fees aren't bad at all, Sullivan county after all. Walk/ride... I'm easy either way, if I walk I usually cut down to 9 clubs and a light carry bag, but again, easy either way,.

I'm in Poughkeepsie. Hiawatha is about 3 hours, probably my limit. Makes for a long day to turn it around in a day. I have half a thought of driving early Friday and playing Tom Coyne's (Paper Tiger author) course in Liberty (Sullivan County GC) and then overnighting in Binghampton. Fairly flexible, too bad we can't entice another foursome, I hear it's going to be great. Mike

I can probably make it, I'm about 4 hours east (hudson valley). Willing to car pool (ride/drive) if makes sense for anyone.

With the WHS the best 8 of the last 20 rounds are averaged. In talking to folks where I play, many sorta assume its an average of all, and that one bad score will raise an HCP index. It won't, only the the best 8 of last 20 are averaged. You're right 54 is high. In the league I play in the highest we have is index of 49, and he's 86 years old, so I don't think you see too many at the extreme end. In general, from my (admittedly narrow) experience it works pretty good as long as the differences aren't too great. And at the extremes, both plus HCPs and really high HCPs it maybe falls off a bit, but those are really thin slices of the golfing population. I actually like it, and think it does a good job all-in-all allowing folks of various abilities to have adequately competive matches. Anecdotally, I lost match play last night giving up 6 strokes to my opponent, he won by one hole on the last hole, par vs bogey. And I won the net score by one, so it really was close!

Yeah, it's on my list too. I'm hitting similar vintage 2014 SLDR fairways, 3w and 5w. I don't get your distance though, I can only wring about 200 yds from my 5w.

Nice. Where would you use it, in what situations? 2nd shot par 5's? Most important, how does it compare to what you have now?

If you can get set up with a good sports medicine program, that would be great. I had surgery 25 years ago and went through 9 months intensive sport medicine program. Get as strong as you can, but with guidance so you're going about it the right way. I'd be careful of cortisone, not sure that's a long term positive other than relieving some pain.

Yeah, I hear you there. I can't avoid it in league, but it affects calcutta bets, so that's something I have to be careful with.

This exact thing happened to me, a 7 HCP shoots a -1 to beat me. Of course I know it's possible, still was annoying. I've never understood folks who want a higher handicap and argue for it. Oh I get that there is money involved sometime, sure, but works both ways. I lost tonight, (won the gross, lost the net, giving up 3 strokes). Oh well, should I have argued to raise my handicap? The only time I really care if if the winner (due to handicap) wants to brag about it.

Do you have any of the NYS Park Courses near you? I pay $23 walking on weekdays for 18 at one course, and $20 walking 18 at the other. Nice courses, prices up 10% from last year, but they are plenty busy so caan't fault them I guess.

Baird had been refurishing bunnkers on front, with concrete liners. I applaud the effort, but hopefully they put in enough sand to take the concrete out of play.