Golf stories?

[Buckeye_Nut]

Does anyone have any recent stories they'd like to share?

Did you make a career shot recently? Shoot the round of your life? Anything?


Anyone?

 

[highfigh]

I fixed my putting problems this year. At my worst, I shot 85 with 46 putts. I also straightened my drives consistently, which has made it possible for me to hit more fairways, stay on them and hit more greens in regulation than ever. I hit driver-1 iron to just past pin-high on a straight 578 yard Par 5, too. I think I'm enjoying this game more than ever and I usually enjoy it a lot, anyway.

 

[mtrycrafts]

Does anyone have any recent stories they'd like to share?

Did you make a career shot recently? Shoot the round of your life? Anything?


Anyone?

No, not at this time I'd have to start playing golf first

 

[highfigh]

No, not at this time I'd have to start playing golf first

Well, time's a-wastin'.

 

[adwilk]

I fixed my putting problems this year. At my worst, I shot 85 with 46 putts. I also straightened my drives consistently, which has made it possible for me to hit more fairways, stay on them and hit more greens in regulation than ever. I hit driver-1 iron to just past pin-high on a straight 578 yard Par 5, too. I think I'm enjoying this game more than ever and I usually enjoy it a lot, anyway.

46 Putts?! Good Lord! Thats awful, man. Thats a sickness. Glad you got that figured out.

Golf is probably the only hobby that grabs more of my time than audio garb.

I've got some exciting golf news, I guess. I've been working on a project for about the last 3 years or so and I should wrap it up sometime this winter. Its a comprehensive "how to be the absolute best you can be" type of program. Its a 10 "step" process that right now exists as about 1500 pages of notes or so and lots of video interviews. Its now matter of putting it all together. I'm also in the process of securing a location for a golf school of sorts. It should be a lot of fun. Its what I want to do.

Glad to see another golf thread buckeye.. somebody has the bug...

 

[highfigh]

46 Putts?! Good Lord! Thats awful, man. Thats a sickness. Glad you got that figured out.

Golf is probably the only hobby that grabs more of my time than audio garb.

I've got some exciting golf news, I guess. I've been working on a project for about the last 3 years or so and I should wrap it up sometime this winter. Its a comprehensive "how to be the absolute best you can be" type of program. Its a 10 "step" process that right now exists as about 1500 pages of notes or so and lots of video interviews. Its now matter of putting it all together. I'm also in the process of securing a location for a golf school of sorts. It should be a lot of fun. Its what I want to do.

Glad to see another golf thread buckeye.. somebody has the bug...

Yup- 46 putts. I was randomly putting to the right or left and couldn't tell why. I could three putt from 3' but in the same round, I nailed a 50 footer that broke 10', so I either read it correctly or jusst got lucky (I know it wasn't my reads because I could read putts for others and they made them). About that time, I had seen Bernhard Langer using a cross-handed grip, so I tried that until this year and it worked well, at first. Then, even that didn't work. I went to practice this spring and got so fed up that I just closed my eyes, gripped the putter and found a stance that felt right and tried it. Immediately, my putts were on-line and I always start with straight putts when I practice, so I can see if they're going where I want. My logic is that, if I can make straight putts consistently, I'm aiming correctly.

The day I had my "problem" and right after I made that long putt, I told my friend that I was going to make and sell a putter that has an irregularly shaped head, a convex face, no mark for alignment and the shaft would go in at a weird angle. I would call it 'Nemesis'.

 

[highfigh]

46 Putts?! Good Lord! Thats awful, man. Thats a sickness. Glad you got that figured out.

Golf is probably the only hobby that grabs more of my time than audio garb.

I've got some exciting golf news, I guess. I've been working on a project for about the last 3 years or so and I should wrap it up sometime this winter. Its a comprehensive "how to be the absolute best you can be" type of program. Its a 10 "step" process that right now exists as about 1500 pages of notes or so and lots of video interviews. Its now matter of putting it all together. I'm also in the process of securing a location for a golf school of sorts. It should be a lot of fun. Its what I want to do.

Glad to see another golf thread buckeye.. somebody has the bug...

I assume the golf school will have a bar, right?

The friend who was there when I melted down sent an e-mail with a list of ways to improve as a golfer and one of the tips was "Try to never think of more than 300 things on your backswing".

I'm actually surprised the game has survived this long. Considering the size of the ball & original club head and the fact that so many body parts can change their relative positions just on the back swing or down swing, it's a wonder we can hit the ball at all, let alone where we want it to go. Add the ability to shape shots and it's truly a marvel. "Intentionally" hitting through a small gap in a tree is just gravy on the icing.

Here it is:
http://ibuccaneer.com/GolfersCornerGolfThoughts.aspx

 

[aberkowitz]

I recently joined a golf-only club here in NJ. $1500 for all the golf I can play through December 2010. The club is open from March to December, so I can get a lot of golf in, and the course is in fantastic shape. I wouldn't compare it to Baltusrol, but it is certainly in the class of some of the higher end public courses.

I also got some great advice from a friend that I had the horrible habit of lifting my left foot during my backswing. I've started to figure some things out and I've been hitting my driver and my irons better. If only I could figure out my hybrids again!

 

[highfigh]

If only I could figure out my hybrids again!

Have you tried lifting your left foot?

Signed,

that little voice of doubt in your head

 

[highfigh]

Footwork makes a huge difference. I noticed that my right foot was pointed out from my shoulder, instead of being more square. Being right-handed, it caused the direction of my drives to be inconsistent, although it didn't seem to bother my iron shots. As soon as I turned my foot, things changed for the better. If I pick my left heel up much, it gets ugly.

 

[Buckeye_Nut]

Tiger Woods golf shoes, anyone????? ....I figured these shoes alone might shave 2 strokes off my HC...HEH

I picked these beauties up last weekend. Unfortunately, the new shoes didn't improve my play during a recent corp golf outing..... With that said, they're pretty snazzy!! IMO


I played in a corp golf outing on monday. The plan was to put together a ringer team to win the event. It didn't quite go down as planned......My team consisted of a scratch golfer, a former club pro, and myself (3HC)....we had another scratch golfer lined up, but he had to bail at the last minute. We did find a last minute 4th player, but we didn't use a single shot of his so it might as well been a 3-man team....LOL

We only managed -12.........(third place) and it was a very disappointing result. I swear that every time we hit it remotely near the hole...we had a sidehill sloping putt with 90 degrees of break.....we couldn't catch a break.

Pity party, anyone? Considering the strong 3 man team we had assembled for the event....we stunk it up pretty bad....just sayin....

More golf stories, anyone?

PS....the winning team shot -17......IMO....something smells VERY FISHY.
LOL...I have played in lots of scrambles.......anyway, just saying. -17 reeks of fish.....

 

[adwilk]

Better Nike shoes than a Nike golf club!

 

[Buckeye_Nut]

I have nothing against NIKE forged irons......The new "V" irons look pretty sweet IMO...but I am not the blade kind of guy.


(forged is where it's at)....for feel/better players, etc...etc.. With that said, I play Mizuno forged MX-25 irons...... I love them. They are forged cavity back(for forgiveness).......and they provide great feel.

just sayin.....

I love my Mizuno's..

 

[adwilk]

While I do agree with you to some extent, the technology and materials available now in cast clubs trump the benefits of forged clubs IMO. The added forgiveness and consistency of the cast clubs are a no brainer for me. Even most the pros now play cast offerings. Shaft technology can provide a cast iron with as good a feel and workability than any forged iron. Blades only offer an aesthetic advantage over cast, perimeter weighted irons.

On the other hand, Mizuno makes the absolute best forged clubs available. (Retail, in the states).

 

[highfigh]

d'ja ever have one of those days when you knew where the putts were supposed to break and they just defied all logic? The place I played last weekend did that and I swear some putts broke uphill. Shot a 42 with 21 putts. Everything else was great, other than 3 pushed drives. What a fargin' game!

While I know that a cavity back iron is much more forgiving and it's still very possible to hit a bad shot with them (from experience, on both), I'd like to try some blade irons some time, just to find out what kind of difference they might make. That said, I'm a firm believer in the idea that if someone has a chronic problem with their game, it's far better to address that problem, instead of relying on equipment to solve everything. I have seen people complain until their eyes bled that they just can't hit a straight shot, so they turn the clubhead to some weird angle and line up at a 45 degree angle to the desired flight path, but they refuse to try something other than the baseball grip they use, with their thumbs at 10:00 and 2:00.

 

[adwilk]

d'ja ever have one of those days when you knew where the putts were supposed to break and they just defied all logic? The place I played last weekend did that and I swear some putts broke uphill. Shot a 42 with 21 putts. Everything else was great, other than 3 pushed drives. What a fargin' game!

While I know that a cavity back iron is much more forgiving and it's still very possible to hit a bad shot with them (from experience, on both), I'd like to try some blade irons some time, just to find out what kind of difference they might make. That said, I'm a firm believer in the idea that if someone has a chronic problem with their game, it's far better to address that problem, instead of relying on equipment to solve everything. I have seen people complain until their eyes bled that they just can't hit a straight shot, so they turn the clubhead to some weird angle and line up at a 45 degree angle to the desired flight path, but they refuse to try something other than the baseball grip they use, with their thumbs at 10:00 and 2:00.

Rarely rarely rarely will a blade actually improve shot results when desirable results aren't already being achieved.

The benefit of a blade only exists when a player is good enough to control the clubface on a consistent enough basis to impart the same velocity and spin on demand.

For example, a 177 yard seven iron shot with a 6 yard draw "should" be identical with a blade provided it was executed identically. With a cast club it might be 176 one time 179 another and a variance in movement can exist as well. If the shot is missed however, the cast club will produce a shot closer to the intended result, by more than marginal numbers over the course of a round.

 

[Davemcc]

I golfed last Sunday for the first time in 25 years. My most notable achievement was whacking my head off the roof of the golf cart getting in. I have a nice 4 inch scab down the side of my head from that one.

 

[billy p]

A couple of golf jokes...

A young woman dressed in shorts had been taking golf lessons. She had just started playing her first round of golf when she suffered a wasp sting. Her pain was so intense that she decided to return to the clubhouse for help and to complain.
Her golf pro saw her come into the clubhouse and asked "Why are you back in so early? What's wrong?"

"I was stung by a wasp!"- she said.

"Where?" he asked.

"Between the first and second hole," she replied.

He nodded knowingly and said, "Then your stance is too wide."


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Two friends were playing golf when one pulled out a cigar. He didn't have a lighter, so he asked his friend if he had one. 'I sure do,' he replied while he reached into his golf bag and pulled out a 12-inch Bic lighter.

'Wow!' said his friend, 'Where did you get that monster lighter?'

'I got it from my genie.'

'You have a genie?'

'Yes, right here in my golf bag.'

'Could I see him?'

He opens his golf bag and out pops a genie. The friend asks the genie, 'Since, I'm a good friend of your master, will you grant me one wish?'

'Yes I will'' the genie replies.

The friend asks the genie for a million bucks. The genie hops back into the golf bag and leaves him standing there, waiting for his million bucks. Suddenly, the sky begins to darken and the sound of a million ducks flying overhead is heard.

The friend tells his golfing partner, 'I asked for a million bucks, not a million ducks!'

He answers,'I forgot to tell you that the genie is hard of hearing. Do you really think I asked him for a 12 inch Bic?'

I know there is a joke thread but they're golf related jokes afterall...

 

[highfigh]

For example, a 177 yard seven iron shot with a 6 yard draw "should" be identical with a blade provided it was executed identically. With a cast club it might be 176 one time 179 another and a variance in movement can exist as well. If the shot is missed however, the cast club will produce a shot closer to the intended result, by more than marginal numbers over the course of a round.

"Executed identically"- Iron Byron is the only thing that can do that, AFAIK. Even Tigger can't do that.

Forging allows slightly more density for a given volume of material and different physical characteristics, which can mean more clubhead speed and more distance but with perimeter weighting, the sweet spot is so large that "missing the shot" isn't as much of a problem. Missing a shot on a club with a small sweet spot sure can be spectacular, though.

I haven't kept up on club technology in a long time (I had a friend who worked at a local store at the time) but one thing that really annoys the he!! out of me is selling based on buzzwords. I see drivers and people on the Golf Channel talking about a club being better because it has higher MOI, but I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be able to give a good description of what it is, or why it matters.

 

[adwilk]

"Executed identically"- Iron Byron is the only thing that can do that, AFAIK. Even Tigger can't do that.

Forging allows slightly more density for a given volume of material and different physical characteristics, which can mean more clubhead speed and more distance but with perimeter weighting, the sweet spot is so large that "missing the shot" isn't as much of a problem. Missing a shot on a club with a small sweet spot sure can be spectacular, though.

I haven't kept up on club technology in a long time (I had a friend who worked at a local store at the time) but one thing that really annoys the he!! out of me is selling based on buzzwords. I see drivers and people on the Golf Channel talking about a club being better because it has higher MOI, but I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be able to give a good description of what it is, or why it matters.

The added weight of a forged club would completely negate any additional ball speed. You're also forgetting about the trampoline effect of perimeter weighting. Your point of iron byron is exactly right and why forged clubs are a little over rated. The point is, the advantage of a forged club only exists with a perfectly repeatable swing..

MOI or moment of inertia is a clubs resistance to twisting. An off center hit causes a club to twist resulting in a loss of energy and direction. With bulge and roll in a driver, it can also cause some nasty spin. The higher the MOI, the straighter and longer a driver should be on off center hits.

The catch, to achieve a high MOI, the center of gravity has to be fairly high in the club head. (above the equator) This seriously jacks with overall launch parameters and limits ball speed. Since they no longer use COR (coefficient of restitution) testing to determine a clubs conformity, they can't maximize ball speed due to the limited effect COG has on the new CT testing. High MOI drivers tend to have low launch, high spin in their highest ball speed ratings which is the opposite of optimum. They are straight though. The drivers on the market with a nice happy medium of COG and MOI is best. For good players, MOI limits workability and these players should select a head with a low center of gravity and minimal MOI to achieve high launch low spin for moderate workability and maximum ball speed. If you really need to shape a tee shot, thats why you have a three wood. BTW, there is no CT or COR limits on three woods. There are no conformity rules beyond 13 degrees.