rdwoody

I play pretty much every round with high handicappers these days. I've been playing for around 10 years now and my partners have been playing only about a year. They're my college roommates that recently got into golf. We usually just play 9 holes together and sometimes they'll shoot in the 60's or 70's and sometimes they'll shoot in the 40's (and sometimes it seems like I'm trying my hardest to accomplish the former ) but, either way, I always have a blast with those guys.

Rhett Woody. I see Kyle made it, too.

I used a set of Henry Griffitts blades in high school. I've since gone back to full cavity backs. I was a wild free-swinger in high school and I could crush a ball if I made good contact. I got HUGE distance out of the blades. Problem is, I rarely made good contact with those.

Henderson? Me too! Small world... What is your name?

Awesome! I've always thought it would be so cool to play four holes that are inside the Brickyard.

I think you should keep going on the 60°. I think Fowler's wedges look pretty cool.

Larry Mize's celebration when he made the "playoff pitch" was pretty funny. He had a couple small jumps followed by random prancing and kisses to the sky.

I hit one about 425-430 in a high school match my sophomore year. Of course, the hole I was playing had a little road running right along the left side of the fairway and I hooked it just enough to run it down the road and then back into play. Not nearly as impressive as your shot! I would like to have seen that one.

Don't get me wrong! I love fishing! Almost as much as I love golf. My hobbies generally go in this order: 1. Golf 2. Fishing 3. Playing bass The way I see it, professional golfers probably don't go out and drink during their non-tour practice rounds and I highly doubt professional fishermen do either. With that said, golf courses are public places that I feel should be devoid of drunks. Public lakes, rivers, and other waterways should be the same way. But, if you want to go get drunk outdoors, head to the farm pond and spare others from dealing with you. Also, I say fishing because I really doubt most people have a golf course on the farm

It's also worth mentioning that a 10.5° driver definitely isn't helping reduce backspin at all. It may be beneficial for you to switch to a 9.5° or even an 8.5°.

It could be somebody that ran across the irons on one of those websites that sell the copies like Golf Wholesale Seller or whatever it is and either realized they were fake after getting them or knew they were fake and are trying to rip people off. Either way, it's pretty dirty to try to sell fake clubs like that. I don't have a problem with "exact" copies, but people need to be upfront and list them as so.

Not a good teacher? HMPH! You don't need to be a good teacher to be a club pro! I know this from experience with some of my local "pros" Nah, those guys are alright. But, really, they're not very good teachers. You could just adopt the "watch me and then swing like this" philosophy of teaching.

I don't understand the infatuation with getting drunk on the golf course. I don't have a problem with drinking, but golf is a gentleman's game and it should be played and treated as such. If you want to go outdoors and get drunk with your buddies, take up fishing. There's my rant. But, really, I'm an extremely competitive person and I'm looking to have the best round of my life every time I go out there. I have more fun competing with my personal best than playing against others and being drunk would really hinder that. I just don't really understand.

At the very same course where the guy I played with took the huge chunk out of the green, something like this happened shortly thereafter. I think it was a group of people on ATVs. The course is part of Chickasaw State Park, so they were most likely trail riding and found their way onto the course. Instead of turning around and heading back, they thought it would be clever to rut up all the greens on the back 9 and do some damage to the fairways as well. I believe is was something like $100,000 in damage and the people ended up getting caught in the end. That course used to be so nice. It was the cream of the crop in my area. But, it was losing money due to its remote location and high prices and ended up being bought by the state of Tennessee. It shortly went downhill. It surely wasn't helped by the ATV fiasco, the maintenance manager who killed all the greens one year, the fungus the greens got the year before that, and the bugs that ate the greens the year before that. I actually played there yesterday afternoon and it was only $10. I figured out why in a hurry. There is literally no grass on the greens. Could this whole string of events been started by my buddy that dug a chunk out of the green? Nah. Probably not, but, there is that chance... Maybe you guys are right. Maybe I should have killed him right then and there

Actually, I rarely hit a really great shot. My normal shots are good, in my opinion, and my bad shots are usually still OK. Every once in a while I do hit a REALLY bad shot. That happens more often than the great shots for me. All in all, I'm consistently decent. The one thing I've always said since I started playing golf is, "the only thing keeping me from being on the PGA Tour is lack of consistency." Just as everyone else has already said. Anybody can luck up and pull a great shot or two every once in a while. I got a guy into playing just a few weeks ago and in his first round on the first hole, he hit one of the most gorgeous pitch shots I've ever seen that stuck about a foot from the hole. After that, he went on to shoot something like a 15 on the second hole with hardly a shot that left the ground. The ability to hit those gorgeous shots whenever and wherever they want is what separates the professionals from the weekend guys.

That Mothers Mag Polish will really polish anything. If you can't get it shiny with that stuff, it ain't gonna happen. I literally polished the finish completely off a gun barrel with the stuff. (I did that on purpose, just in case anybody reads the above comment and thinks I'm an idiot.)

THIS! I know you said you don't like the squared heads, but I golf with this guy pretty much every time I'm out there and this club made a 100% improvement in his driving game. He's been playing for a touch over a year now, and I've been playing for ten years. Since getting his Dymo, he drives the ball as well as I do. Very impressive, indeed.

Congratulations! I'm still in the hunt for that. That is my #1 goal for the year. I've come so close so many times, it is bound to happen soon.

I know the type of people who do that. I used to play with a guy in high school that had quite the temper. I recall seeing him toss an iron in a creek and throw a putter and almost hit a guy in the teeth. However, I played with him recently and he missed a putt from about a foot out and took a large backswing right over the hole. Of course he hit the edge of the cup and peeled about 7 square inches of green up. I'll never let him live that down.

1. Hit my driver with more consistency. 2. Play a round in which I shoot even par or better on either the front or back.

I played 9 holes yesterday at a small local course with a couple of my buddies who have just recently taken up golf. I made a pre-round tweak to my swing off the tee box and ended up shooting a 3-over 39 thanks to an approach mishap on hole number 8. Overall, I was very pleased with my round.

My best shot of the week is really three shots and all three came in yesterday's round. I'd been having a little trouble hitting my driver consistently so I hit the range before the round to tweak my swing. I was very happy with the results. I drove the green on three of the five par 4's on the front nine.

I'm an engineering student, but I'm currently working as a co-op engineer at a company that manufactures pipe hangers.