Dogwood, Highlands, Kingswood, BBC, Barksdale. I'm missing a few.

Living in Springfield my whole life I've never went and played golf down at Bella Vista. My dad poo pooed it when I was a kid so I never played there. :shrug:

I did play Deer Lake today though. It wasn't a great round but it was a round. I'm having trouble calculating my stats because I had border line situations. In the end I drove the ball very well hitting 10 drivers with 7 in the fairway. Two of the missed fairways were really well hit and in perfect position. One was hit really well but the way I play 15 at Deer Lake there's not much room for error. The ball had to be 12' from the ground and caught the last limb hanging out of the sinkhole and triple rickashade into the hazard. I smote every driver I hit.

Drive for show, putt for dough. I only hit 8 greens and I had 31 putts. I had one 2 chip and in that process also 2 chips that I putted. I missed what sould have been a gimmie on the first of the day and after I hit two 7 irons with in 10' of the hole I 2 putted both. Also Hit a 7 iron to 15' and missed it. My putting stats aren't reflective of how bad I putted.


In the end I left three birdies on the course and shot a 79. The way I drove the ball and the position I was in I ended up playing poorly.
The scoring shots of 150 yards in just were not good enough.

And that's today's golf.

I remember playing HS golf and my coach asking me what I shot. I said "79 coach!" He said "that's great." The next guy came in and coach said "what'd you shoot Mike?" He said "80". Coach said "that sucks!" LMAO

when I was young I looked a lot like Greg Norman except I had freckles. My cousin who I played with today said I look like Charlie Hoffman before he cut his hair. As I look at my old self I think I look closer to Miguel Angel Jimenez.LMAO I was thinking about doing an inpersonation of him just for fun. Today while waiting to play a shot I rolled me knees around and I can do it with no problem. Shit he's youger then me. But I look younger then him so I could pull off a Jimenez.

All this really isn't good.

This sucks.

I'm dying to play today, and my playing partner can't.

Such a waste of a beautiful day.

Rainy today here in KC. NO golf today

Even more reason I want to get out today - tomorrow is supposed to be beyond shitty. Calling for possible tornadoes.

Might have to suck it up and go out as a single and hope to get lucky when paired up.

Yeah, props to you. I can't do that. I can't play with people I don't know. Just doesn't work out and isn't enjoyable to me.

Just go play. When I had toddlers I'd get out occassionally and my friends never could go. I just called in to Golf courses and was placed with others for the round. 95% of the time they were cool guys and we have a lot of fun. Don't ever sit inside because you don't want to play with guys you don't know.

I've never done it, but have been on the other end many times. (a single joining our threesome)

We have shitty luck.

Though I will say the last few times there's only been two of us and we were paired with another twosome, things went really well.

I just don't like playing with people I don't know. It's pretty uppity of me, but I like playing with good players.

It's not fun to get paired with a guy throwing up a 100 to me.

Check now

Awesome outside

I should get out for at least half a round today :hmmm:

Glad I decided to play.

Shot 85, which is awesome for me.

Was +11 on four holes, +2 on the other 14.

Tell the dudes in the clubhouse you'll play for 5 bucks a hole. You'll get some competition

Anyone see the tour

"Soon-you'll-know" the Asian guy is bogey free

I've got out *not* as a single two times in the last two years.

It's actually one of the great things about golf. Most people are terribly boring, but they're interesting enough to carry on a conversation for a few hours. After that, you can go your separate ways without guilt.

Golfers are better single serving friends than the people you sit next to on flights.

Right on, Tyler.

A golf course full of onesomes. Seems kind of sad in a way.

I play a tournament with an 11:00 tee time with the storms and possible tornado to tee off at about noon. Wish me luck!

Why does my driver need to have adjustable weights? The ability to change the loft might come in handy someday but most likely would be a feature I would never use.

Does anyone actually get excited about these transformer golf club "innovations" ?

It can help. Pros have done similar things for years with hot-melts, but one is almost always better off with a dynamic fitting. There's also a reason why most pros still use stick and glue clubs--it reduces the overall weight.

We got it in with only one weather delay. I played poorly on a course I've play maybe a handful of times over many years. I hit only 9 GIR and had 35 putts. If you've never played Honey Creek then you wouldn't know about the smallest greens in the world on holes #6,7&8. Drivable par 4s that I was close to the green on all 3 yet I didn't hit a single green in regulation. I hit good little shots too.

My putting was so bad that saying I had 35 putts doesn't do it justice. A child could have made 6 of the putts I missed. I was unconvinced and uncommitted on every putt I hit. Just wishing at it. The Spider Mallet with the big counter balance grip is a big reason and of course the greens I'm not used to. But still that putting was awful. Unacceptable.

The Cleveland Classic III is going back in the bag. Anybody want to buy a Taylor Made putter?

As a person goes through a round of golf they should always recognize a shot of the day. Mine today was the second shot on #10. I drove in the left rough but after the storm we played lift clean and place through the green. This is a tough par 4 and my second shot was about 200 yards to the pin with 190 yard carry over water. It was into stiff gusty wind. I smote a slightly choked 2 iron to 25-30 foot of the hole. It was awesome and I two putted for a nice par.

I know you'all want me to go on but It's time for Game Of Thrones so you'll have to wait.:rolleyes:

The club can change with your game and your aging body.

The clubs I use are just new enough to not be adjustable. I need to be adjustable.

I play older equipment now a days. I bought a new driver once and regretted it when I tried to take it on the corse instead of the range. No more taylor made for me.

I know myself well enough that I would never actually try changing the club around. To me it is a waste of money and features. I have a few different drivers that I cycle in and out of the bag. Maybe I should get one of the new ones but I dislike the basketball head size of the drivers and definitely don't want to drop the money.

I'm sure better equipment could help my game but I don't play enough to actually take it very serious, I'm just not that good at it anymore. I do enjoy playing the game though :)

A side note about todays golf experience was the guy I played with. Carl. He was a good guy no doubt but all day long all I could think about was Rick on The Walking Dead saying "Carl" in his voice. "Carrrl"

Buy a $25 electric heat gun, some binary epoxy, and .335 and .350 ferrules. Then, you can switch shafts in your drive all you want. $40 startup cost absent the cost of the shaft itself.

If you're getting older, put a softer shaft in. If you like your current shaft and want to put a higher/lower lofted head in, buy the head only.

Dude, that's awesome. My last driver cost me about 40 bucks ROFL.

I usually buy the latest and greatest driver once it gets a few years old and tanks in price.

Good examples:

Graeme McDowell, Louis Oosthuizen, and Lee Westwood used the same drivers for 4-5 years. These guys have access to anything and everything they want. Truth is, there is very little difference in the heads of the 460 CC drivers made in the last half decade. Shafts matter, but even then, a lot of the shafts made in recent years are nearly identical in performance. It's about what's finding right for you.

Good example: I was looking for a shaft with similar performance to a Fubuki Tour, but didn't want to pay $100-150 bucks on eBay for a pull. I settled on a shaft with nearly identical performance, an Axivcore Green, for $60 bucks new and uncut. A few minutes with a small piece of sandpaper to prep the tip and a Dremel cut-off wheel to trim the butt to size and I had the same thing for significantly less.

Of course, I could have just ordered a new club from PingWRX with the shaft upgrade and dropped 500 bones, but that didn't seem like an overly responsible purchase.

That is bad ass. I need to be more informed on that type of shit. I just found a driver very similar to the one I play going for 40.00 right now on ebay ROFL

Titleist 983 E with the stiff speeder shaft. Head size is smaller. I didn't know if I would like the E so I hedged my bet and bought the 983K also. Big spender, with 2 new grips I got about 100.00 in my two drivers LMAO

EDIT... 30 bucks http://www.ebay.com/itm/Titleist-983...-/121322446132

LMAO :facepalm:

So yesterday I shot a 49 on the front with punched greens and heavy wind. I nutted up on the back and shot a 39 with an ecs of 86. After a disasterous front I shot under my handy. It was nice.

Well that was fun then. Were you high?


LOL :shrug:

Mr. Consistency

Holy shit I had another little breakthrough on the range today. Even though I've committed to the golf grip and with the help of Hamas Jenkins showing me the handshake follow through I still felt like I want hitting the ball all that well.

I have been making great contact but felt like I was not hitting the ball in tempo. Turns out I have never had the proper takeaway. Toda, iI practiced the handshake on the backswing and discovered that I have always failed to get any wrist cock or lag. Included in that is the tendency to "pick" the ball.

Today, just on a whim, I decided to consciously use the handshake in the backswing which forced me to turn the club in the backswing. Low and behold, I was coming down in the right plane and hitting the ball AND TAKING A REAL DIVOT. And I was smooth through the backswing. I added 10 yards to my 7i without even trying. I was at Smiley's golf complex so it was easy to measure.
Hamas, if it were socially acceptable I would let phillfree blow you in front a stadium full of people for helping me. Thanks for doing it phillfree. LMAO



If I can translate this to the course I'll be thrilled.

What you are doing is allowing the clubhead to turn in sync with the arc of your golf swing. A good drill for that feeling is to stand straight up and hold the club straight out with your arms fully extended, like you're hitting a baseball on a chest high tee. Then, swing it straight back behind you. You'll notice that your right arm naturally rolls over as your left arm folds. As you swing it back to where the ball is, your arms will naturally close the clubface, and if you follow through to completion the clubface will be completely shut. That's pretty much what a golf swing should be, just on a different plane (one that matches the angle of the shaft relative to the ground at address).

Today I only took 6 clubs with me (6,7,8,9, PW, SW, LW) and hit about 100 shots.

It was sooooo natural. AND more powerful as the clubhead came in contact with the ball first. I literally stood there, mouth agape as I chunked up a nice divot using my 8i. The first 20 were may usual "swing easy and try to contact the ball" of which I chunked about 8.

The following 80 I chunked maybe 10. Now, not all of them were on target (alignment issue) but all of them were exactly how it's supposed to feel to hit the ball first andf then the ground.

Can you use this same philosophy with the driver? I mean not exactly the same arc right? But the same principle?

Dude, I really owe you for this. I'll have to send you a sleeve of balls.

Or phillfree can cup yours! (J/K phill)

I thought I gave kudos to Hamas with the "Hamas Handshake". It seems to have helped you and that's all that matters. Since his advice is working for you maybe you should blow Hamas? :thumb:

My putting is atrocious

3 putts galore

Greens were a strange speed today though :shrug:

I just took a putter out of the basement and exchanged it with the one that was in my bag. If I didn't do it while I was thinking about it right now I would have forgotten. I should have never changed from the putter I just went back too. I was trying to find lightening in a bottle but I found poo instead. I just flushed it.

The biggest difference with your driver is your setup. Your trailing shoulder should be lower than the lead shoulder, whereas with other clubs they are even. This encourages a slightly upward blow. Otherwise, the swing is largely identical.

Here's the video I was referencing:

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Monte is the man. I'm hoping to get out to California and spend a few days with him late this fall or over the winter. The guys who have done it on GolfWrx say he's a freaking magician.

I've been doing the Joey D Golf for probably a month and a half now. I believe it's helping some. In the end the golf swing is the best exercise for the golf swing but these exercises are helping me. I believe they could help a lot of people.

There will be a point this season that I lay off the Joey D and in about 10 days of doing so I'll really see the benefits. Maybe a game will be afoot about then.

Hit the ball really well at the range tonight, focusing on holding the club as loosely as possible. I have a tendency to let too much tension creep into my swing. I still struggle far more than I should with pitches from 30-50 yards.

Those are left sided shots to me. You can't have locked or ridged elbows and play with feel. Your left wrist on the other hand needs to be firm and in control. You can't flop your wrist and be a good wedge player.

My dad & my new toy


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Where's the plow?

I'm coaching my daughters softball team, and swinging the old softball bat has killed my golf swing. I am pulling every shot with an iron/wedge and I can't get my driver off the ground.

I'm really working to keep my feet quite, and head down, but it's like I've had to rebuild my golf swing.

At the Players for Mothers Day!

Spieth and kaymer trading blows.

Big putts from Kaymer to stave off the collapse.

I gave up on waiting for play to resume. Assuming Kaymer held on?

With a 35 foot bender on 17. He was choking big time. Spieth was kicking himself. We took off before the storms and missed the crowd.

I played the my 2nd tournament this past Sunday at the Carthage GC and I played poorly. Well I putted so bad that it's inexplicable. I had 18 putts in the 1st 8 holes. I quit counting there because there is just no good reason to continue.

It's pretty disheartening to putt so poorly but my ball striking is decent so there is that. When I decided to get back to some competitive golf I figured I'd have some set backs but that doesn't make it any easier to stomach. I'll play another tournament in 3 weeks at Hidden Valley GC located near scenic Boaz, MO. Between now and then I need to relearn how to putt.

I've been having a lot of issues lately with keeping my right elbow pointed at the ground. I worked on it pretty heavily today and finally started seeing some positive results.

Much of it goes back to playing with a shut face for years. Too high of a right elbow+ a shut face is a prescription for shanks without good timing. I'm sick of the shit, and I'm finally starting to notice a difference.

I've developed a case of the hooks and it's starting to piss me off.

I should go play golf now

I got a membership to my local course this year for the first time in like 5 years. Played 4-5 times then I got sick. Just now getting over it and eager to get back out.

Speed you're body up. Likely you're stopping the turn and quitting on it allowing your hands and arms to turn over to quick.

Could also be alignment. Make sure that's on par (athankyou) and try hitting balls and feel like getting your chest to te target through impact (or hips)

I fired an 83 last night at my Club. Best round of the year by 5 strokes for me. I need to play more, or at least hit the range more.

NCAA Golf
 

Today we get a special treat. NCAA championship golf from Hutchinson KS. 3:00 EST on the Golf Channel.

Been waiting a long time to see some college golf. And why is that? They show all the other sports. Why don't they cover more college golf?

I love it.

I've played Hidden Valley many times. My in-laws live in Springfield...Never shot better than a 86...Maybe beer had something to do with that.
always wondered why a nice course like that was in the middle of nowhere.
Its like a scene from Deliverance driving out there..

Rory dumps Caroline, starts playing good golf again.

Watching NCAA tourney. Stanford is tough but can be beat.

Just picked up a used RBZ 5 wood. I'm relatively new to golf, but it's probably a bad thing that I hit that further than my Burner driver?

Dicks has brand new Taylormade RBZ drivers and fairway woods on sale for $100 apiece. I think here in a week or two I'm going to purchase a similar driver and 3 wood. I absolutely crush that 5 wood.

Also, anybody played Firekeeper @ Prairie Band? Treating my dad to a round there for fathers day soon.

People generally really liked the RBZ fairways, but the drivers had more mixed reviews. Try before you buy.

Had a few buddies buy that RBZ driver when they went to $99.99 and they love it

The 3 wood is a must. I could hit a shovel better than I hit my shitty old Callaway Big Bertha.

Bama still #1. Watch out for that rookie Shelton. He's the next big thing. 64!

Everyone collapsing at the memorial

A score posted hours ago will probably win the tourney LMAO

I don't know who to root for now.

Tomorrow I play at Osage National in scrambles but it's a business outing. Should be a fun day none the less.

So I played at Osage National in a 4 man scramble. Two of the guys hit shots so sideways it was unreal. Those guys did make a few putts though so....We shot a 64 :shrug: I drove the ball well and hit several Wedges and 9 irons tight. My putting was OK too. Beautiful course and the greens were nice. Not to fast but consistent.

I love Osage national. finally planned that STL golf trip, Playing Tapawingo on Saturday. Woodlands/Meramec.
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So just got invited to an annual golf trip with some friends.

This year we're going to Memphis for 4 days. Playing TPC Southwind, Mirimichi (x2) and Spring Creek Ranch.

Should be an awesome weekend.

We're looking for next year, any of you guys ever played Bandon Dunes? Is it worth the price?

No

How could it not?

I watched some of the Top Of The Rock Legends early today and now I'm watching the Curtis Cup. I vote Curtis Cup. Sexy!

Anybody play much golf in the St. Louis area. I'm set up to play several courses in that area and just wanted to know if they were as good as they look on the websites.

Here's a list.

Pevely Farms. I'm pretty sure it's awesome.
The Falls GC, Ofallon, MO.
Gateway National GC, Madison Ill. I assume that's just across the river.
Stonewolf GC, Fairview Heights, Ill. See above.
Aberdeen GC, Eureka, MO.


Anybody know anything about these courses.

Pevely Farms is not worth the money, IMO. Condition has gone downhill for a $70 track.

Gateway National, on the other hand is a must play.

The Falls is a waste of your time.

Personally, I'd scrap three of those courses and play Gateway, Aberdeen, Tapawingo, Missouri Bluffs and Annbriar, which is in Waterloo, IL.

Those are the ones on the schedule.http://www.golfweekamateurtour.com/o...es/default.asp

I was just trying to decide if it's worth driving up and staying the night to play these courses. So what's wrong with the Falls?

Not a fan of the layout, the conditioning isn't up to par with other local courses charging similar fees and no practice facility.

I live 40 minutes from there and won't play it - I sure as hell wouldn't drive several hours.