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I nice intro. I think paying extra is only the beginning because of the supply chain challenges of this. As I mentioned the only market today for 3D metal printing is very high quality metals. Space grade rockets mostly. Once the supply chain gets geared towards making irons I think the price may even come down a little. There is also limitations on how many you can make. The printers themselves cost nearly a million dollars and you could probably make one set per day...maybe a bit more. Maybe 2-3 sets a day, the printing process takes time. Once there are more companies doing it everything might shift a little.

When I lived in Oregon my friend had a rule. It could only be 2 of the following 3 items for us to play. If all 3 we’d skip. 1. Windy (20+) 2. Rainy (needs to be steady, rain in Oregon is pretty common) 3. Cold (less than a high of 50) This was a pretty solid rule.

I searched around but didn’t see any other threads on this so I’ll put it here. I work in the laser industry and one of the applications has been additive manufacturing. The main market for the past 10 years has been SpaceX and the space industry and some medical applications. The new one I saw this week is 3D printing irons. Cobra and the company that they are using is marketing these irons pretty aggressively. In talking with the folks in the booth at the trade show, the claim is that they can gain strength but reduce the weight to put it exactly where they want. The print of the iron is very cool. Mostly everything behind the face is a thin metal lattice and then in the heal and toe is a block of tungsten for weight. I am old enough to remember the arguments about forged versus cast irons. I wonder if folks here will pay a bit more to get 3D printed irons. They have a booth here where you can hit them but I hate lines and the line to do it is always long. I go again tomorrow, and if the line isn’t too long I’ll give it a try and report back.

I found this app while searching for something else. I am wondering if anyone has any experience with it. It seems like a poor man's version of Decade or Lowest Score Wins. I like the concept but currently I am not playing enough golf to warrant the cost. Hopefully soon. Here is a screenshot from the app.

Typically less than 50. I find this can be affected by the "CART" signs on a given course. I don't like taking my rangefinder out of the cart and carrying it around to the green. I am very fearful I will leave it somewhere.

TEMU is owned by the same company as TikTok. ByteDance. Definitely will share your data. They also spent so much money on those Super Bowl ads and they were terrible.

Fair point. My only counter would be that Barry was very close to Walter Payton's career rushing record. It would have only taken a similar year to 98 to accomplish it. For many it was unexplainable. I guess with the now return maybe Michael Jordan 93 retirement would be a better comparison? However, there he explained at least a little bit his motivation. With AK is was truly a disappearance without explanation, just rumors. Pat Tillman comes to mind, but he was not the star that AK was.

Hmm, I'd argue his story is more like Barry Sanders than a lost airplane.

We all know Tiger is the best golfer to play the game, ever. There are numerous records that will take years to break if anyone ever does. His fist pump transformed the game. He brought an energy that made people come to watch golf who probably never would have. But, Tiger has a weakness. I think he has two. 1. He is really bad at high fives. I mean really bad. This video is a pretty good summary of numerous bad high fives. To support those of you who think he is awful at high fives I present a couple of photos. 2. He is also not very good at logo design. His TGR logo is strange, and I admit I have no idea what he was going for. His new Sun Day Red logo looks like he made a prehistoric version of the Slazenger logo. I don't think it is a good look to have a dinosaur Slazenger on an aging golfer, but that's just me. Here are the exhibits for the case against Tiger's logo design being his biggest weakness.

His singles record was 4-2-2. Pretty good but not stellar. In socializing this with friends this is one of the best explanations I’ve heard. I’ve heard the bad partner stuff but his Four Ball record is 5-10, yes you have a partner in four ball but if you play lights out you could still win. But certainly we’ve played with guys who make many birdies and win skins even though their score wasn’t very good. Tiger was more steady, avoiding the big mistakes.

Interesting trivia question. Don’t Google before answering. Does Tiger Woods have more major titles or Ryder Cup point won? To help you Tiger has played in 8 Ryder Cups.

I don’t think it’s unpopular at all. As you say the PGA Tour gets really rich off this event, why not share it with the players. It is billed as an exhibition but players should get something. I’d vote to pay them based on whether they were on the winning team and their record in the event. A nice motivation for winning. If you go 0-4-0 and your on the losing team they don’t pay you much. I think it is fair to say he should decline the invitation but he might feel the only way to change it is by protesting at the event. To be fair it is a minor protest to not wear a hat. It’s not like he’s kneeling during the national anthem or anything. The truth is probably somewhere in between. He might want to be paid and it might be he didn’t like how the hat sat on his head and it was distracting him and there was no protest.

Done this many times (not a hole in one, but my best golf). In fact I might qualify for the Pepsi Tour if it were played on a practice round. 🙂 Scheffler is a fantastic match play golfer. I know he's been struggling but an event like this might be just what the doctor ordered. Patrick Cantlay is also quite a good match play golfer. With that said I think Luke Donald was very smart to make the opening round Foursomes. Takes away the US's match play record strength. I think we will see a 2-2 or 3-1 to the Euros after the opening round.

I think Salas might be hurt. It doesn’t seem she’s played since the US Open. But even before that her form wasn’t very strong. She has a great record though, hard to argue with that part. If 100% healthy I would agree. Beyond D. Kang you are going pretty far down the CME rankings to players with no Solheim cup experience. I think I’d rather have Lexi over them.

This is something we wholeheartedly agree on. Truly awful. Even the interviews were terrible. I also agree with giving the captain more picks. I’m interested to know who you would have picked instead of Lexi and Danielle Kang.

Good suggestion on the profile update. And yes, I had wanted to get to a place where I could play year round golf.

Interesting to think about this. Lexi is the US’s most experienced player and doesn’t have a bad singles record also. After the win she is 2-1-2. On form she hasn’t been very good but Ian Poulter plays like a god in these things so form isn’t always a good indicator. I don’t mind that pick. Nelly is the US’s best player by rankings and was 2-0-0 in singles going into that match. I think team line up decisions earlier on in the match are more suspect those final two choices.

I have a life update to post here, not sure this is the best place but seems decent enough. I haven't posting as much as in the past. Mainly because my old job blocked me from pursuing the sight during my lunch hour. 😀 But in the last few months our family has moved from the Pacific Northwest down to the San Diego area. We are in @mvmac's old neighborhood in Rancho Bernardo. I am hoping the increased golf season will allow me to play a bit more than I have in the past few months. My daughter is a pretty serious soccer player so our weekends are driving around to her game. Now that I am down here I plan on playing a bit more and start getting to the range for recording sessions.

Most likely not a priority piece, so keep focused on that, but something I notice, I guess because it is a big fault in my own swing, is the right shoulder position at P6. His shoulder and rear arm are much more in front of his body. Whereas you and I are sort of stuck behind ourselves. His back is so much more rounded near the neck than ours. I think it kinda causes a "tip out" of sorts to get the club down to the ball. At the very least a ton of right arm straightening. Again, just a thought. And I want to reinforce this is not a critique as I have the same problem, actually even worse than you because I have rate of closure issues thrown in as well. Your exit is high but your face isn't closing anywhere near as fast as mine. Maybe someone smarter than me will chime in.

Un-golf-like. Whatever that means.

I can just imagine the "brainstorming" meeting where they all got together and said "what is our motivation for LIV, its the money, but we can't say that, so ..... growing the game. Yeah, yeah, lets go with that." I felt DJ on Full Swing was the most honest. He basically said it was the money. He tried to tie it up in some, work less, get paid more nonsense, but it was basically the money.

I recommend you take some videos in slow motion to better help analyze the swing. It is nice to have the full speed video, but essential to have the slow motion version. Almost all of the phones nowadays have slow motion option. It helps with face angles. Also don't wear black, hard to see body positions. First thing is the posture. The weight is too far back. I recommend reading this thread. Then this one. Second thing is he flips the face open REALLY early in the swing. He cups his left wrist and now he is going to battle an open clubface throughout his swing. Ideally the face would match closer to his forward tilt (the green line). Pretty open here and there will need to be compensations for that. Just a few things to work on to start.

I like the new logo much better than the old one.

Yes, this is a big challenge. Social media has really been great for coaching but has certainly has created some man hole size rabbit holes for us golfers to fall into.