I had a similar occurence years ago, but with a sand wedge out on the course. Recovered the club head, never did find the ball.

FWIW, we had a noob sign up from Springfield today. Claims his occupation as "professional golfer".

Cool, huh?

whats in my bag is some pot

Take it to the golf store. They can stick the head back on.

Yep, they can although they will probably have to reshaft it so plan on paying for that since it is 16 years old.

I know how you feel Will my PW snap at the hossle 2 weeks ago in a tournament. Had a side hill lie and took too steep of swing and SNAP ball goes along with the head of the club good thing for me my playing partner was behind me and not where his is ball was.

There go my dreams of a new driver.

Oh, well. I'm such a shiot player anyway. Should prolly just tee off with the 3 wood.

I got some Jack stashed in mine!

PhilFree:arrow:

In honor of the dearly departed Hunter S. Thompson, I have a Rem 870 in mine!


[just kidding]

Mr. Magoo

I've had it with this sport.

I just started playing last year. Really, I was never really any good. I wasn't a complete mess out there. On occasion I could hit a decent tee shot. Plus, my 7 iron on down was pretty trustworthy.

For the past 2 months though, I can't hit shit. Nothing. I'm a lefty aall of a sudden every tee shot I hit goes directly right. Today, I almost hit some guys on a green that was directly to my right. The ball went over their heads (thank god, they never saw it. I never would have had time to warn them.) EVERY f'n iron I hit sprays off to the left. EVERY SINGLE F'N ONE !!! No matter what iron I hit.

I've played high school basketball, and Amercan Legion baseball. I was a pretty decent athlete. But JFC this game gets in your f'n head.

I came home from today from our usual Sunday round and threw my clubs in the front yard.

F' it.

I take it your wife isn't getting a new driver for mother's day?

The thought went through my mind. But I thought "Hold off, your playing crummy. Work on your swing. Then, after you correct some flaws, spend money on a driver."

Not now.

Today.... it wasn't fun anymore. It was like f'n work. I like leaving the golf course happy. I haven't done that in two months. PLus my brothers are just killin' me. And those bastards are just ribbin me no end. (OK, that part is fun.)

You'd have been proud of me today. I threw my 3 iron about 40 yards. Longest drive I had all month. Seriously.

Maybe it's the company. You and I should go out and hack up a local course someday. No expectations whatsoever. I don't think I've played since the last time you and I played.

you're trying too hard. you need to slow down your swing...you're turning your wrists and either opening or closing the club face upom impact.

go to the range and just practice, or do a nine hole par three with aseven iron and a putter.

you just want to beat the forty yard throw.

I'm kinda anxious to play again - as soon as I get the time. I've had lots of problems this spring. Couldn't put my finger on any one thing I was doing wrong. While on vacation, I read a bit out of Tiger Wood's book "How I play Golf". In it I realized that there isn't anything major that I'm doing wrong, but there are lots of little things. For instance, my chin is too low causing me to not be able to keep my head straight. My stance is a little off, and so on. I've been working on these things and am hitting the little plastic balls and my pitching wedge much better in the back yard and lot between the house and church.

There's no doubt I'm pressing.

I've been to the range and I'm doing it there. I hit a 100 balls on Friday and out of that 100, maybe a dozen or so didn't spray left.

And when I teed it up, they went waaaaaaaaaaay right. Or they skipped along the ground and died about 30 yards out.

it's just frustrating.

Sounds to me like you're standing too close to the ball after you hit it.

We'd prolly have to play a new scramble format.

You hit em into the woods, and I'll go find em.

ROFL

One last thing:

The funny thing is this. On a par 3 135 yd hole, I took my 8 iron, hit it right on the button and dropped the ball within 1.5 feet of the cup. Walked up, measure the putt... and.... gently pushed it right. But it caught the lip and rolled all the way around the cup before falling in.

Walked right over to the next tee and hit a 3 iron into the woods on the left about 50 yards in front of the tee.

F'n game.

Still, 350 in the woods is better than 35 in the woods. ;)

Right now I have a bag full of mish mash junk.

Changed over to Natural Golf last year and am saving my money to buy a custom set of Natural Clubs.

I used to have one hell of a slice till I changed to the Natural swing, now I can drop the ball where I want it about 90% of the time.

Well... how about a great big f you to redbrian?

Just kidding. :)

Natural golf? WTF is that - eat a bunch of cabbage and fart the ball off the tee?

www.naturalgolf.com

It's a simplified swing, uses a baseball grip and is all upper body. The grip is a lot fatter with no tapper.

Yeah - I read a little of it. I'm guessing Penick is rolling over in his grave. Everything about it seems to go against everything I've learned about golf. Heh.

This was nowhere near as good as your last golf rant :shake:

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=98808

ROFL ROFL


But Will what it sounds like is what is said before. You are trying to hard. Heck those of us who have played awhile even goes through sperts like this. Don't press go out and not keep score just tee it up and enjoy the good shots. When those happen try to remember how you did it and try to repeat it.

Think of it this way if you hit everyball straight you don't get to practice those shots that legends are made of. Those 125 yard PW sliced under the tree, glancing off the bridge, over the pond onto the greem 10 feet from the hole.

Also if you hit in the fairway all the time you only see a minimum of the course being in the woods, traps, wading in the stream usally has better views of the surrounding areas. And atleast you feel you get your moneys worth.

:D

...and that's all it takes to keep you coming back.
:banghead: :cuss:


Yesterday, I played an uneven 18 without really keeping score, mainly just knocking the ball around with my family (probably shot around a 97 or so on a course I really should be getting sub-90s on). I did knock the shit out of a few drives. None were pretty draws or anything, but I'll take a 310 low controlled fade/slice ending up just right of the green on a short par 4 anyday. :) (Just about fell out of my shoes on that one!)

I get plenty of practice like that. I'd love to hit out of the fairway for a change.

Heck, I've grown to prefer the rough. I don't know how to hit the ball off the fairway anymore.

Yeah, but wouldn't it be nice to try once in a while?

I'll let you know if that ever happens to me.

I'll be back out there. But it's a much better game when you have a little confidence. Mine is shot.

As much time as I've spent off the fairway this season I could write articles for the Audubon Society.

I'm becoming quite the naturalist.

ROFL

Like Jack Lemmons in the end of "Legend of Bagger Vance"


"The trees, great, spend more time in there than the squirrels"

I do this regularly. Some of the most fun rounds are when I didnt keep score. Then there are times I start out fully intent on keeping score and after the 3rd hole, the scorecard is in the trash.

One thing I'd like to do this year is consistently break 90. I was on a streak of low-mid 80's a couple of years ago, but Ive gone back to 91-94 each time out. It's typically one blow up hole on each 9 that gets me.

SR,

Thanks for the advice. I've done exactly that over the last week. Slowed down the swing. Used just the SW, PW and 9 iron.
Concentrated on just making contact. Then moved to the longer irons. In a week I'm making better contact.

Today, I used that swing and brought out the 3 Wood and gave it some full swings. Drove the shiot out of the ball off the deck. Hit about 20 that went right down the pipe at about 180 - 200 with a touch of a fade. (Just like before.)

Confidence is coming back.

Thanks for the tip.

Well, William, don't go getting all encouraged. That's the way golf is. It lets you hit just enough good shots to keep you coming back. Then it all goes to hell again.

That has to be the truest statement ever.

I will not forget it.

Right on, man... :clap:

OK, continuing my swing re-hab today.

Hammered the 3 wood off the tee. This is amazing because I've got a very thin faced Orlimar trimetal that I could never hit straight. Today for the first 4 holes, I was hitting on the sweet spot and dropping it in the fairway.
Wedges were very good. Putting was ok. Front 9 was 46.

Then it happened.... (just like Skip said) I got a little tired I think and began rushing at the top of the backswing. On two consecutive par 3's on the back nine, (154 yds and 175 yds) I mangled tee shots and tripled bogeyed them both.
BUT, instead of giving up, I just played through it with a smile. Never lost confidence.

Finished at 96. (UGH) Should have been better. But I hit a ton of good shots and ton fewer of the crummy ones.

Re-hab is good.

96 sounds like a great score if you are working out things with your swing. A break here or there, a little more concentration on a few swings and you're under 90. Don't know what you're used to shooting, but that's a solid round in my book.

Hang in there William! Golf is fun...don't take it so seriously. I've got some serious swing problems at the moment too. Glad to hear that you're sticking with it.

I'm not really changing my swing or anything like that. Don't really know enough about the technical aspect of the game to do that. It was just really frustrating over the last month that I couldn't hit anything.

Then today .... I just mashed the ball off the tee for half a round.

I was overjoyed at the 96. My brother kept score but we didn't tally anything till the end. So I never really knew what I scored till the end.

Then I thought about those back to back triples and thought....UGH!

So true Greg. It's the funnest time I've ever had. being with my brothers every Sunday makes it even better.

Side note: I see that Orlimar has a new line of drivers out.

Have you demo'd one yet?

Outstanding...No I haven't checked them out yet...but I'll have to..

WARNING

My next post is a joke and might offend some small portion of the population.

You were warned....






A recent college graduate and golf enthusiast is required to move to an unfamiliar city for his first job. During the first weekend that the young man has free after unpacking he decides to head to the local golf course that is near his house. When he arrives at the course he notices how full the parking lot is and is a little disheartened about his chances of securing a tee time.

The young man inquires about available tee times once in the clubhouse. The attendant tells the man that it is very hard to get a tee time at this particular public course, but today must be his lucky day because a young woman is golfing by herself and is about to tee off on the front nine.

The young man heads to the first tee, clears his throat and sheepishly ask the stunningly beautiful woman if she would mind have a golfing partner for the afternoon. The woman says that it is not a problem and that she would be happy if he were to join her.

When they have finished their round, the woman says, “Well, I certainly had a nice time golfing with you this afternoon.” The man replies in kind.

Then the woman says, “I would be happy to golf with you any time. In fact I would very much enjoy going out with you sometime.”

WELL, this certainly has become a nice welcome to a new town for the young man. He is quite excited and asks her to go out with him that very evening.

She says, “Meet me at my place at 7:00.” and renders her address.

When the man arrives at the woman’s apartment, she quickly pulls him inside and says, “I don’t want to go out in public tonight. How about I just give you a blowjob and then you can be on your way. Then I won’t tie you down this evening. Finally, if you are free, we can golf together next Saturday.” Well that didn’t seem to crate a problem for the young man so he complied.

For the next six weeks, the same events transpire. The couple golfs, the man goes to the woman’s apartment, receives a blowjob, and leaves the apartment immediately afterwards.

Finally, the young man is dumbfounded. “Why don’t we ever go out together? I would love to buy you supper. You never let me have sex with you. Heck you never even kiss me, and you are so hot. I would love to kiss you all over.”

The young woman replies, “Well, I have been keeping a secret. I am not actually a woman. I have a penis, and I am simply a man dressed in woman’s clothing.”

The young man is extremely pissed off and shouts at her, “Why, you son of a bitch! You’ve been hitting from the red tees all this time!”

I need to re-tool badly so I'm looking at getting a set of these.

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4 Y 24° 60.0° 0.120" 38.25" 2°
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Alright. Well I'm into week 3 of total swing re-hab. Starting to hit a little better. My once famous slice is becoming a memory. Teeing off the deck with a 3W has seen me decrease the height, increase the distance and even show a bit of a draw on the ball.
So, I'm headed with my 6 brothers, 5 Brothers-in law and 10 other assorted maniacs to Bella Vista, Ark to play 7 rounds of golf and eat and be general hooligans on those fine courses built for really bad golfers(like me).
I'm taking only 7 total clubs. SW, PW, 9,8,7i's, and 3W. And my putter.

The other clubs have not been behaving well and after threatening them with being replaced by other clubs have still not shaped up. Therefore, they are being punished. NO TRIP FOR THEM!!!

That'll teach the little bastards....


Also I checked with Homeland Security. For you people in the Bella Vista area, they have upped the condition to to yellow. Be on the lookout for cells from Kansas, Colorado, and Texas moving your way. There are reports that they have several launching devices...Some of them left handed!!!!'They are considers dangerous. Do not try to stop them. Call the local authorities.

That is all....

Glad to hear that you are sticking with it. When are coming down this way?

Herzig...

HTH did you get 1/2 million posts? LOL

It's funny actually. I suggested to Phobia that people should donate a penny per post to the site and all of sudden, I had over half a million posts. Bad idea! Really, I only have 2300+ posts. Eat your heart out Endelt!

ROFL

King Cobra SS 290 Driver
Macgregor 3 and 5 woods
Set of older Macgregor irons.
Spaulding SW (a real piece of crap)
Ping Anser Nickel metal putter (love the old thing)

I have been at the golf course since 6:30 AM. It has been awesome. I worked in the morning (at the course) and played in the afternoon mixed in with some time at the range. PBJ Perfect weather about 75 and sunny. Summer rocks!

I had forgotten about this thread. Got back from the 5 day golf vacation last week and forgot to give the details.

Day 1) Thursday PM. We always do a scramble on the first day so I was put in a group with 2 other lefties and my 17 y/o nephew who has never played, save for hitting the PW in his back yard.

We were.... well.... awful. Awful individually and awful as a team. We shot +12. AS A TEAM IN A SCRAMBLE FORMAT. ROFL When that round was over we all said "Thank you Lord."

Nobody else was more than +1.

DAY 2) Stroke play in AM at Dogwwod.

Before we go any further let me give you an example of how stupid I am when it comes to golf. My driver snapped off at the base. Now being the .... frugal.... SOB that I am, I figure I'll just tee off with the 3w until such time as I find a suitable replacement.

OK, as we're leaving KC for the trip, my oldest brothers' son wants me to take his Steehead Big Bertha. "You gotta try it!!!! It's awesome!!!" All that BS.

So, after 2 months of grueling work trying to to hit the 3 and having it finally pay off in the last two weeks before the vacation, I abandon the 3w and tee off with the unfamiliar driver.

It pays off with slices, pulls and popups for the 1st 2 rounds.

OK, back to day 2 AM: Play like dogcrap again at Berksdale course, mainly because I can't hit this frappin driver. I'm scrambling from the rough on every hole. Hitting the irons well enough that if I could hit a putt I'd have played near double bogey golf. However I was worse. Wore the pencil out with a 116. But I hit a ton of good iron shots so I was encouraged.

Day 2 PM. Scramble format. The borrowed driver goes not only out of the bag, but out of the car, the condo, and out of my mind.

Immediately I'm hitting 180-200 yds off the tee and more importantly into the fairway. Plus, my irons are tearing it up. On 4 consecutive holes I drop my ball within 6 feet of the pin anywhere from 110 to 150 yds. Just killin'. We fiish in 2nd place at even par.

More later....

Hehe .... Sandbagger :p


ROFL

Glad you had a good time, golf trips are a blast.

It was not an accident that they put you leftys in the same foursome. You are like lepers. Lefthanders are shitty golfers they just forgot to tell Mickelson. But I'd just forget the whole thing if I were you. You have no chance of improving. Try soccer or something.

Glad you had fun, best game there is for us average folks.
Hey, wish me luck on Wednesday night. Qualified in the top four of our three week stapleford system match. Lots of bragging rights and some money on the line. For those of you that do not know about the stapleford system it works like this for us:
Eagle 5 points
Birdie 3
Par 1
Bogie -1/2
Worse -1

__________________

That is the absolute dumbest way of scoring golf I have ever seen. And, By the way, it is Stableford, not Stapleford.

You are absolutely right old man, I just checked the email from the league. I learn so much hanging around my elders. ROFL

Lepers..heh heh...

It was kinda fun to golf with other lefties. All the RH'ers get to borrow clubs from each other. One of the lefties had a brand new Ping G2 driver and irons and Craz-E putter.

I got swing the that driver a few times. It didn't help. So you're right. I'm quitting today.

When is the next T Time?

I had the pleasure of playing golf in KC the past two days and it was a heater out! Played Winter Stone on Mon. and then played Shoal Creek in a 4 man scramble today. Hell we even won :) Winter Stone was nice but the back 9 is a little short and the greens were slow. I really liked Shoal Creek, it's a great facility and especially since it's owned by the city. The GPS system is "State Of The Art" too! The whole thing cost me $00.00 and I picked up a $100.00 gift certificate from the pro shop :clap: got a nice room at the Hampton Inn :clap: got fed including a nice evening of burgers and bratts on the patio last night along with all the beer and Crown one could handle :clap: and then today a box lunch before tee off and then more burgers, bratts and bbq chicken. Beens and tater salad as well :clap: :) It was a very good two days of golf :)

PhilFree:arrow:

you must have some good hook ups. how did you pull that one off? i want to be your friend.

Say hello to my new little shiny friends...I've wanted a set of these for a loooong time...well they are now in the bag.

:)

Latest Herzig Bag update

Cobra 400 SZ Driver 9* Alidila HM Tour Stiff shaft
Cobra SZ 3 wood 15.5 *Alidila HM Tour Stiff shaft
Cobra Baffler SZ Hybrid Utility 18* Aldila HL Stiff
Cobra Baffler SZ Hybrid Utility 20* Aldila HL Stiff
Mizuno MX-23 4-PW Irons S300 Dynalite Golf Stiff shafts
Cleveland CG 52* Gap Wedge
Cleveland Gunmetal 56* Sand Wedge
Odyssey 2 Ball Center shaft Putter Tour Filled and Trilined 35"

How do you like your MX-23's? Mizuno makes some really nice irons.

Just got them. They are still "virgins"....brand spankin new...I don't usually buy "New" clubs, but I got a good deal on these. I will deflower them tomorrow. I have hit some with the same specs a buddy of mine owns at the range and they were like butter.

Go to this page and scroll down to the "9 iron 360 degree" view and click on it. They also have one for a 3 iron. Pretty cool.

http://www.mizunousa.com/equipment.n...?opendocument#

i just bought a 40$ golden bear driver :-)

Those are some great looking irons. I imagine the ball action/spin is much better than your I3's. Id love to hear a follow-up when you get some rounds on them.

I was really close to picking up some MP-30's about a year ago but decided to stick with my more forgiving ISI's since I dont get to play all that often. I definity regret that decesion whenever im striking the ball well.

Will do. Those MP 30's are sweet too. I wonder if Philfree ever got those Mizuno MP 32's he was talking about..

They are coming out with the MP 60 cut muscle irons soon.

Sorry, but that subject line reminds me of a story. I'm a female, but I'll TRY to keep it short. I volunteer at our company's Relay For Life team's annual golf tourney each year. This past year, one of our VP's was stuffing a bunch of balls into his golf bag before we got started. He said, "Man, I'll be carrying like 20 lbs worth of balls today." I replied, "Dream on." We both laughed. Another employee that was there said, "I can't believe you just said that to him!" He said, "I can." Outside of work, this particular VP is only 29 or 30 years old and a likable guy. Different story at work usually, but he knows when to have a sense of humor. Okay, end of story. It would be funnier if you had been there.

Dang Herzig can I crawl in your bag? You have everything!!! And I mean golf all.....

I can see where that would be funny. The game of golf is full of sexual inuendos(shafts, grips, pulled it, balls, etc) Reminds me of golfing with my cousin and 87 year old Grandfather this summer. A neighbor of his that had taken up golf in 80's then quit playing, unfortunately had passed away. His widow gave my Grandpa all of his old equipment including these 25 year old Maxfli DDH balls. So, he keeps telling us how old these balls are...and my cousin nicknamed him "Old Balls" for the entire round. Couldn't help but laugh.. Kind of fit dontcha think?

There's a joke here teed up for me but I'll leave it alone. I have more than the average/most golfers for sure, but I try to sell my "older" clubs while they still have value. Most of time, I get good deals, so the drop off when I sell them is very little if anything at all. At times I make money, but most of the time I lose a little.

ROFL I play golf just for the jokes. That's great.

I'm a club ho....but I've only purchased one new club in the past year...I bought my putter last week. I played an Oddyssey White Hot 2ball before it and could never get the distance down pat.

Titleist 983K 9.5 deg. w/ stiff 652 Speeder shaft
Cleveland Launcher 3 wood w/ dynamic gold s300 shaft (steel)
Acer 2001 5 wood graphite head and graphite shaft (I keep it cuz I like the big head)
Nike Blades 3-PW
Nike Forged SW 53 deg.
Titleist Vokey LW 60 deg.
Scotty Cameron Studio Style Newport 2
ProV1x balls.