lamebums

If I can't find it I either a) play it as if it were a lateral if it were woods or b) drop a ball where I thought it went, take my penalty stroke, and move on. No point in holding up the foursome behind you on what is already probably a really long day.

It's one of my life goals to retire early with 500+ acres in the middle of nowhere, Kentucky. And I'd put up a nine hole course (18 if finances allow). Nothing too drastically expensive, but a local track with good placement of sand traps and reasonably fast greens. I'd say tees from 2,500 to 3,500 yards (red, white and blue). Lots of risk-reward situations but nothing completely impossible or unreasonable. I'd want to it be tough but fair. Oh, did I mention a set of MP-67's, 2-PW, with Project Rifle X 6.0 shafts?

1) Yes. The layout is difficult but not impossible - a winning score of -1 and the player's aren't complaining too much. An excellent balance. And it's the US Open. Our Open. And I like the 18 hole playoff much, much more than any of the other tournaments. 2) I wanted to see Rocco win, but to watch Tiger win with a busted knee is pretty impressive, regardless of whether you like the guy or not. 3) Pelz - Can't say as much about him as I'd like. He's got some good research into the short game though. 4) Harmon - Playing it safe isn't Phil's game. He flies by the seat of his pants and to make him hit 3 wood or less off every tee and play it safe will result in a 78 or higher every time. 5) With Tiger out for the rest of the season it'll give someone in the rest of the field an excellent opportunity to step up to the plate. There's the British and than the PGA later this year, if someone takes those up then we could have a serious challenge in 2009. I'd certainly like to see it. "Tiger, tiger, tiger." is getting old fast.

I also ditto that. Besides, that's an extra 50 pounds you're not hauling around on a daily basis, which saves gas.

Never up, never in. (That also applies to another fact of life...)

I voted Vice City Stories, but I have a better idea. Buy a case of beer.

I'm jumping in on this a bit late, but here goes. I think they were in the wrong at first, especially by playing slowly and not having the decent etiquette to let the faster player through (skill is irrelevant--I've seen bad slow golfers and good slow golfers, and vice versa). You were in the wrong to simply launch one over their heads - did you ask them if you could play through? If they refused then I say fire away, because they're just being complete jerks. (That statement is only assuming that the course has a pussified ranger who's more like a public relations guy. Or no ranger at all.) I have no sympathy for someone who's deliberately playing slow and refuses to let anyone through out of sheer arrogance. I don't think you'd be responsible even if you hit him, unless it was clear you did it intentionally. When a guy gets on the golf course he takes the risk of getting hit by a ball into his own hands. And it would have been your word against his-- not that I advise doing this! but he'd have a hard time saying you hit him intentionally. Especially on a golf course, where golf balls are flying all over the place...

I selected "Driving" and "Long irons" because my favorite shot (read: one I screw up the least on) is a 2 iron off the tee, especially on a tight driving hole when a longer club could go God knows where into some serious trouble. The driver itself, while there's nothing quite like hitting a ball 300+ down the middle with a little draw, there's also nothing quite like ruining your entire day, score-wise, before you even get a ball in play. And I don't trust the 2 iron off the grass. Just off the tee for me.

I'd love it if a course got everybody's butt in a cart. As in, a cart for every golfer. Consider this: After getting the tee time, you wait 20-30 minutes for your turn to tee off with three or four groups ahead. You and I are in a cart, and two of our buddies are in another. You pull-hook one about 310 down the left, and I hit a weak slice about 200 into the garbage on the right. (Or vice-versa.) Meanwhile, the other two guys in our foursome have done the same thing. So all day long we're driving zigzags across the entire course chasing down each other's golf balls, and in the time it takes to do that we've lost track of where we hit the others, ready golf is completely abandoned, and it becomes a 5+ hour round. I'd say four decent players could get around in the course in three hours or less, even while taking their time. Increasing the number of golfers on the course (by speeding up play!) would easily offset the increased fuel cost and maintenance a golf course would incur by putting more carts out there.

I wouldn't say "hate" but Tiger's caddy has a serious attitude problem. In fact, so does Tiger. As someone said before golf is about entertainment, not letting out a string of words that would make even me proud while on camera (he leads the tour in fines for dropping the F-bomb on live TV). Everyone gets mad at themselves about the game and we all have the same problem, but keep a lid on it. After all you're on national TV.

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I don't care what I wear. As long as it isn't too constricting. Most often it's just a t-shirt with shorts, jeans and a wind breaker if it's cold outside. In other words, the same way the $20 hack weekend golfer looks like. I've found that nine out of ten guys who look really good, professionally dressed with shiny new clubs and balls can't golf worth a ****. They'll act like a big shot, try to give me all sorts of pointers and stuff, then challenge me to a bet, and I'll make a lot of money. I don't look good on paper but I'd probably take down 95 out of 100 people who play out there without a struggle. (I hope I didn't sound cocky that way...heh... but it's sadly true. And I'm not even good.)

44 on nine holes, with a big fat nine on the last hole, a par 5.

I'm not 100% on this, but I believe the Tour only measures driving distance on two or three holes a round. And if they hit an iron off the tee, that's counted in the driving distance.

I get one of those holes every so often, especially if I'm cruising right along with a string of pars. It'll often happen so quickly that I don't even have a chance to even go into damage limitation. Usually where I play, that means shanking a ball into the woods, or a huge slice (or duck-hook) off the tee which goes OB or hopelessly gone in the woods. Thing is, once I'm racking up a big number, my heart's no longer in for the hole. I just want to get out of there, since it's going to be an ESC 7 anyway. (This is a major problem I have, because bad play then spills over to the next hole, and the next, until my day's ruined.)

Lowest 9: 37 (+1) on what had to be the toughest nine holes in all of Northern Kentucky. (Back nine of Willows, any local guys?) Lowest 18: 81, again on Willows. Couple 83's, an 84, and four or five 85's.

I went from a cheap blade to what I have now. It's probably 5 times heavier than my old putter. I can sink anything within five feet on any given day. Distance control on long lags is shaky, there's on days and off days, but I probably saved five to ten strokes with switching putters.

I believe that number, regardless of what the USGA says about the average handicap being a 14 or whatever they say it is. It may be among handicap card-holders, but that is a tiny fraction of the people who play at local muni's and public courses. The average score is probably 110 if they all played honestly, 100% by the rules. I play with all sorts of people. And they might card in 90-something, 80-something, but it's with an unbelievable amount of gimmies, mulligans and preferred lies.

Joke. No par 3 - let alone the 17th at Sawgrass - should ever be a sudden-death playoff. On a par 4 or longer hole you make multiple shots to get to a green and can try to salvage if you've screwed up. On a par 3 however you have one shot, and even if you hit it perfectly, you're SOL if the wind catches it and knocks it sideways. Too much luck involved. (I think a good playoff is like the US Open, where 18 holes are played. It's the fairest method possible.)

I also agree. My biggest numbers usually come when I'm cruising along with pars, and then inexplicably I hit two balls out of bounds on a par 5 for a big fat 10, or something. Perhaps a good revision would be triple bogey for 10-19, quad for 20-29, and so on?

It's a shame all that happened to you, but unfortunately there's always going to be *******s out on the golf course. We've all met them sooner or later. I get a lot of crap from older guys for clearly being under 30 (or under 60 for that matter!) and sometimes they'll deliberately take their time when I get behind them and not let me enough, or worse, they'll hit into me (with their fourth shots...) I try not to get into pissing contests, but if provoked I'd go to war. Just don't back down, and they'll get the idea. (Unless they're drunk...)

I agree. Use the washing machine, but don't do more than a couple hundred at a time (overload and destabilize the machine if you do). Sort out all the Titleist, Callaway, Nike, and other top-line balls, pawn those off by the dozen. The rest, box up and sell in bulk to whoever pays the most.

Mitt Romney--a severe pull-slice. Started way left and somehow ended up way right.

I registered as a Republican last year to vote for the governor of Kentucky (Ernie Fletcher lost by 40 points). And now I'm so sickened by John McCain and the winner-take-all rules in states that Republicans would never win anyway (California, New York, New Jersey) that I'm going to vote Democrat just to send a message to their establishment. Nothing pisses me off more than the scum traitor he is peddling his amnesty bill with Teddy Kennedy and how he is now baldly lying about his "conservative principles". I'm another conservative who will probably end up voting for Hillary because she's smarter than John McCain, she knows when she's been caught lying, and most importantly she is more conservative than John McCain. [/political rant]

Depends where your game has problems. If your problem is the tee ball or distance, then move up to cut yourself a break. If your problem isn't distance, then feel free to move back. As to me, I don't care where I play. I prefer courses that are 6500-7000 long, although I'll play anywhere. Just as long as I'm out there playing, is all, really.