Avalanche

1. 25, give or take. 2. NE, CA, VA, MD, DC, SD, IL 3. No collection. But I did pick up a few bad swing habits over the years.

Bought a Vokey 60 degree 260.06 wedge off eBay for $40 (incl shipping). It matches the Vokey 52 and 56 wedges I play with right now.

Yeah, something similar happened to me. For the past few years I've been driving the ball fairly consistently. Then last July my season ended due to a severe foot injury. (My foot never did recover completely. My left foot is a half size larger in shoe size now than it was before. lol) This spring, as I was starting to play again, I struggled mightily off the tee. No consistency at all. No rhyme or reason to my misses. I could hit a snap hook at one tee, and slice it into the woods on the next hole. And we all know how difficult it is to play a round if you can't hit a fairway. It really takes all the fun out of golf. So I started hitting the range, working solely on my driver. It took about 15 jumbo buckets over the course of a month, but I've finally grooved a tee shot that holds up during a round. I don't really have any swing thoughts or hand manipulations now, but I do pay more attention to setup/alignment and follow through. Good luck, man! I feel your pain.

I want to boost my game with Adipower Boost. Rory McIlroy -12 Danny Willett -12 Justin Thomas -12

Three pair. I alternate wearing two of them, a pair of Nikes and a pair of Footjoys. I swap them out every week or so to keep them from getting nasty. And I have a really old pair of Tommy Bahama golf shoes with a fancy woven leather pattern. Haven't worn the Tommy Bahamas much this season because the spikes, which are the old screw in type, are worn down to nothing. I ordered some spikes for them a couple weeks ago, but haven't gotten them yet.

If the Yahoo expert Ned Brown was in the TST pool he'd be in 8th place in the Summer segment right now with 873 pts. Just sayin...

Ha ha! I lived in Northern Virginia for quite a few years. Those storms just roll in off the Appalachians on a regular basis. That's why it's so green there. :-)

There's a 2 1/2 hour delay due to lightning and thunderstorms passing through. The 12:55 tee times are pushed out to 2:25pm. Might get pushed out again.

Yeah, I didn't know that either. Until I happened to wake up early this morning and checked my Yahoo fantasy team. My "C" starter Scott Piercy was MDF. So I switched to Tony Finau, who went on to post a -7 this morning. (I would've left Piercy as the starter if he hadn't got cut. lol) That's the fantasy league equivalent of boinking off a greenside sprinkler head and ending up three feet from the hole.

Been working on trying to hit higher trajectory tee shots to gain extra distance. Instead I topped the ball for a 25 yard drive. Failed to get it past the ladies tee box. /fortunately I was playing alone, with no one there to witness my shame.

Is it a Solstice Nextt like the pic below?? (Older models might not have had the black lines across the top.)

I smoke cigars and I play golf. Just not at the same time. If I did, I wouldn't lay my cigar on the grass. Wouldn't want the weed killer/grass chemicals--like was said above. But I see guys do it all the time. I would probably use something like Miguel Jimenez' cigar holder:

eBay. People sell boxes and sleeves of new balls all the time. You can price them at a Buy-It-Now price, or open the bidding and let the market decide what they're worth.

Yeah, you're right that divot is the proper term for the piece of turf and divot hole is proper for the resulting hole. But divot seems to be commonly used for the hole as well. LINK (Not that www.about.com is authoritative or anything.) It's usually easy to tell whether people are talking the hole or the turf based on the context.

Yahoo's Roster Deadlines just don't handle weather delays very well. The Roster Deadlines remain the same, even if the round is delayed due to weather. This causes problems when you have a guy on the cut line with a couple holes left to play in round two. You end up having to guess whether the guy will make the cut in order to make any roster adjustments before the weekend since the Roster Deadline isn't pushed out along with the weather delay. Oh well.

But is Referee the proper Royal and Ancient term? /jk. Referee is what I should have said.

Thanks guys. @wadesworld: Thanks for the correction. I typed up that account from memory (no replay yet), and hadn't realized that a rules official was there and told Jimenez to move his ball. I thought he (Jimenez) acted on the information from the cameraman, and then put his marker back down as the rules official was walking up to the scene.

Yeah, that seems fair. I mean, since he couldn't see his ball from the tee box he'd have to rely on what the cameraman told him. And if the rules official told him to replace his ball to the original spot, I guess that would be okay as well. But what about picking up his marker? When you've picked up your marker and you realize you shouldn't have, is it okay to put it back to the point where you think it should be? And just for the sake of completeness, if it had been Jimenez' ball that was moved by Daly's drive, would it be okay to drop your ball where it should have been? Or should he have placed it there? Thanks for the answers!

This morning on the first hole of the Open Championship's second day, Miguel Jimenez, Jason Dufner and John Daly all hit their ball to about the same spot in the fairway. So they were all hitting their second from about the same spot. (Like a shamble.) Then confusion occurred. Dufner and Jimenez had teed off first, and their respective balls ended up a few inches apart, side by side, in the fairway. Daly teed off and his ball hit Dufner's ball, moving it forward about three feet. After all three had teed off we had Jimenez' ball closest to the tee where it was originally hit, then Daly's ball about 18 inches ahead of Jimenez' ball and a few inches to the left, and Dufner's ball about three feet ahead of Jimenez' ball where it stopped after being hit by Daly's ball. I'm not sure whether the golfers knew that Daly's ball had hit another ball, or a cameraman told them about it as they walked up the fairway. But when they approached the balls the threesome began discussing their lies with the cameraman and how to reposition the balls. (Actually, Jimenez was doing most of the talking. Dufner was waiting patiently. Daly stood to the side with a scowl on his face waiting to hit his second.) The conversation sounded like the Abbott and Costello "Who's on First?" routine: Which ball hit the other? Whose ball got hit? Where did it end up? So Daly's ball hit this ball? Whose ball got hit? After a few minutes of confused discussion by his partners, Daly's impatience got the best of him. He stepped up, announced that his ball was in play where it lay, and hit his second shot (even though it lay forward of Jimenez' ball). After hitting, Daly walked up towards the green and was out of the picture. Then Jimenez, with an incorrect understanding of what happened, marked his ball and dropped it where he thought it should be. (This was wrong.) He had picked up his ball marker and was addressing the ball to hit his second when the booth announcers called down to the cameraman and had them tell Jimenez that he'd incorrectly dropped his ball. At about this time a rules official showed up. (I'm assuming it was a rules official authorized to make a ruling.) The rules official, the cameraman, Jimenez and Dufner discussed the situation for a couple more minutes. (Meanwhile Daly was up by the green, probly halfway through his second cigarette by then.) After hearing and understanding the correct explanation from the cameraman, Jimenez replaced his ball to the spot of his mark (which he had taken out of his pocket and put back on the fairway when the booth called down and suggested that he not hit his second yet). Then Dufner moved his ball to the correct position. Finally, after several minutes of delay, Jimenez and Dufner hit their second shots. This raises several rules questions for me. First, I think Daly and Dufner are in the clear. Sure, Daly played out of turn, but there's no penalty in that. And Dufner waited until he understood the situation before moving his ball to the correct spot. (He moved it, rather than dropping it, which I believe is the correct procedure.) Jimenez, on the other hand, has a couple of issues going on. 1) Should Jimenez be penalized for moving his ball back two feet? (His ball was not hit by Daly's drive. It lay where he hit it.) 2) Does it matter that Jimenez acted upon the information provided by the cameraman? (Apparently the cameraman got it wrong. He *should* have told the threesome that Dufner's ball was the one that got moved.) 3) Does it matter that Jimenez dropped his ball instead of repositioning? (I'm assuming that it's correct to reposition the ball rather than drop it.) 4) Is some sort of penalty assessed to Jimenez for replacing his ball marker after he'd picked it up and put it in his pocket? (I don't think the rules official saw him replace the ball marker) 5) Was the rules official correct in having Jimenez move his ball back to it's original position (as indicated by the ball marker which Jimenez put back) from where Jimenez had improperly dropped it? Or was Jimenez' ball in play where he dropped it, perhaps with penalty strokes assessed? ================================= I apologize in advance for the rather long post and multiple questions. But the Jimenez-Dufner-Daly shamble was just a total clusterf**k, giving rise to a number of rules questions.

I play alone about 50% of the time. I play in a weekly league, so there's at least one night I play with buddies. But I generally play at least once per week alone as well. There are advantages and disadvantages for both. Playing with others sometimes allows you to get a good read on putts. Plus, I'd hate to be playing alone if I hit a hole-in-one. OTOH, it's very peaceful when playing alone, and you don't have wait to hit or waste time looking for some other guy's ball.

Impossible to predict with accuracy at this point. I voted Spieth since he might be a little bit ahead right now, given he has two majors at age 21.

Congrats CRIM on winning the Spring segment! With Bruce's Army nipping at his heels a mere 7 pts behind, and the ever present GoGolfing lurking in 3rd.

What should you do? Negotiate the price down another $20 for the blemish. That nick won't affect the play at all. But it would affect the price he could get on eBay.

Yes. Has there been a recent U.S. Open where the pros didn't complain?

Decided to swing in and play a quick nine at the course where I play. But didn't have a collared shirt on, as required. So, rather than make a trip home and back, I picked up a collared Under Armor shirt in the pro shop for $30.