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I think it if got to the point where people were stealing my balls off of my fairway, I would immediately switch to pink or yellow balls.

Yeah. I don't have any problems admitting to that.

I care what my driver sounds like. I had the Cleveland Car Crash driver and never liked hitting it because of the sound. I'm one of the guys that loves the sound of sports though, especially golf. The sound of a well struck shot is almost as good as making the shot itself. So hitting a well struck tee shot that sounds like crap doesn't give me very much satisfaction.

I always try to warm up before a round. I spend most of the time on the range hitting a small bucket so I can get a good feel for my swing. I'll hit some putts too to get a feel for the greens. Sometimes I'll practice chipping. I should probably practice chipping more than I do. When I don't warm up, I usually have a poor front 9.

Now that's taking it to another level. ... I'll have to try that.

If you leave the club face open, how do you prevent the ball from going off to the right? (or left, if you're left-handed)

I only drink water on the course. Never had a problem feeling tired or light headed. When I'm doing any sort of physical activity the only thing I want to drink is water. I will drink other stuff afterwards for recovery (like chocolate milk) if it's particularily strenuous.

Easy does it.

I don't know. He shouldn't. That's the point I was trying to make in my previous post.

Go for it.

If you cut them down and then grow a couple more inches, can't you just get another inch added to the clubs? Not everyone who gets fitted for clubs has to have them cut.

That's awesome. I really wish my girlfriend liked golfing so we could go out together. I've played with her a couple of times on a 9-hole executive course, and she did pretty well for her first time. But she didn't really take a liking to the game.

This is a good idea for people who have been playing a while, but he said he's just starting out and has only rented and borrowed clubs. I doubt he gets enough consistency to be able to judge if their machine is wonky.

As long as you're trying different clubs out on the same machine the fact that the results are skewed or not doesn't matter. Considering this is your first set of clubs you don't really have any game experience to base it off of. If you hit one club 20 yards further than you would in real life, you're going to hit every club 20 yards further than you would in real life. The method of measurement is the same throughout the testing, whether flawed or not. The skewed machine comes into play when people are trying out a new set of clubs and they are basing their decision by comparing it to how they hit the clubs they already have. Take whichever one feels the best and you hit the best according to their machine.

Haha! Nice.

I keep my clubs in my car at work regularily. But I have darkly tinted windows on the back, so you can't really see into the car unless you really look hard.

Holy shit! A hole in one by Lehman!

Nice to see Dustin Johnson doing well today. Hopefully he can keep it up.

How did he get the nickname "Bubba"? He really doesn't look like a Bubba. Every time the announcers say "And now we'll head over to Bubba Watson on the 7th green..." I keep thinking I'm going to see some huge linebacker guy, not a tall thin guy.

What did he do?

I never thought I'd see the day where Rickie Fowler is the conservatively dressed one. Also, I pick Graeme McDowell to win this one. Tiger is going to have another horrible tournament due to him spraying the ball all over the place off the tee. Phil and Ernie are both going to choke on Sunday. Phil might choke the whole tournament.

True, but when you don't know the players it's little things that make you decide who to cheer for.

I'm pretty lucky in that there is a course 10 minutes from my house that has a fairly large practice green with a lot of area around it to practice chipping, as well as a practice bunker. It also has another chipping/pitching specific green with another practice bunker. It's probably the best place to pratice your short game in the city. The course itself isn't very good though. Oh well.

I use the Stan Utley grip too. Except I don't overlap my right hand pinky finger.

Yeah, me neither. It made it hard to cheer for him.