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I've golfed off-and-on for years now, but this summer is the first time I've really made an effort to get out at least once a week and go to the range more often. I've been using some decade+ old hand-me-down irons, and they're starting to show their age. I could probably get them re-gripped, but I'd like to treat myself to a new Iron set. What is a reasonable amount for someone shooting in the 90s on muni courses? I'd like something that I'm going to get years of use out of, but I obviously don't need anything tailored to someone who takes golf more seriously than a hobby. A local pro shop has a new set of steel Cobras, regular flex, 3H/4H/5-PW for $350. Am I stupid for considering buying that?
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Aug 8, 2017 21:45
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Aggro posted:I've golfed off-and-on for years now, but this summer is the first time I've really made an effort to get out at least once a week and go to the range more often. I've been using some decade+ old hand-me-down irons, and they're starting to show their age. I could probably get them re-gripped, but I'd like to treat myself to a new Iron set. To a reasonable point, it's the golfer not the clubs. I think you should spend whatever your budget allows.
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Aug 8, 2017 21:52
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I hit 4 separate gorgeous 4 iron shots off the grass during my twilight round tonight, felt real loving good. I went 10 years in between having a 4 iron because I sucked so bad at hitting irons in general but after who knows how many lovely iron shots I've hit at the range this summer I've finally started hitting my long irons decently. I almost want to get a 3 iron and ditch my 5 wood now since its actually a club type I look forward to hitting now. Maybe next year...
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Aug 9, 2017 06:28
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daslog posted:Whoever said "Drive for Show, putt for Doe" wasn't hitting their tee shot into the woods 30% of the time. Putting means nothing if you can't hit off the tee. That statement mostly applies to high level players because when you reach a certain level, everyone can hit it well and it becomes a putting contest.
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Aug 9, 2017 07:08
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No it doesn't -- what separates pros is long distance / accuracy. Tournament to tournament the winners will have better putting strokes gained stats but that's because there's a huge element of luck in whether or not your putts drop, and the intrinsic standard deviation in your putting stats is way higher than the margin of victory.
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Aug 9, 2017 07:30
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sarehu posted:No it doesn't -- what separates pros is long distance / accuracy. Tournament to tournament the winners will have better putting strokes gained stats but that's because there's a huge element of luck in whether or not your putts drop, and the intrinsic standard deviation in your putting stats is way higher than the margin of victory. Gimme your lunch money, nerd
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Aug 9, 2017 16:36
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loving lol at the Spieth One how ugly https://underarmour.scene7.com/is/content/Underarmour/V6.5/360Videos/auto_dim7_1288574-101_640x480_1200K.mp4
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Aug 9, 2017 18:58
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It looks like an orthopedic shoe.
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Aug 9, 2017 20:07
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sarehu posted:Tournament to tournament the winners will have better putting strokes gained stats Glad we agree. I'm talking about what separates pros from other pros, not what separates pros from the rest of us (which is literally every aspect of the game).
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Aug 10, 2017 03:30
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ironlung posted:Glad we agree. And, putting doesn't separate them as much as the long game. It's hitting drives farther and straighter, hitting it closer to the hole from 210 yards out that separates the pros.
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Aug 10, 2017 05:03
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I had probably my best round of the year on Tuesday. Shot a pretty smooth 78, with two three putts, and two lip outs. Struck the ball just beautifully though. It's strange, I made a change in my grip earlier this year and I'm easily hitting the best iron shots of my life. At the same time, I'm giving up strokes on the green more than ever before and giving up a lot of strokes off the tee as well(missing way too many fairways). I end up having to punch out 1-3 time a round it seems and it's basically a stroke every time. I've been playing a lot at a course my parents joined this summer, and while it's nice, the course has completely dried out and is becoming a bit frustrating to play. I have had more fliers out of the rough there than I've ever seen. On hole number 1 I had 179 yards to the pin(middle pin), slightly uphill. I decided to club down 1.5 clubs, expecting a flier, so I hit 8 iron(my 165 club), and I flied it over the green like 20 yards past the pin. Did the same thing with a PW on the 5th hole. The greens are also getting really bumpy for some reason, way too many of my putts were bouncing all over the place. I need to find an affordable course around here that has fast smooth greens  .
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Aug 11, 2017 04:27
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DoctaFun posted:
Does not compute EDIT: alternatively, I'm sure there's a putt-putt place somewhere nearby 
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Aug 11, 2017 10:16
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Frustrating day yesterday. Good day on the range, comfortable. Then, 5 holes of hitting every shot thin. All bogeys because I was putting out of my mind. 6th hole, two good shots, 7, 8, 9 all thin, thin, thin. 8 over on the front. Thin tee shot, thin second, good shot into the green (par 5), two putt, yay, a par. Good tee shot, good second, two putt, yay, par. Thin drive, thin chip, two putt bogey. Great drive, thin chip, good chip, two putt bogey. Good drive, two putt par. Thin, bogey, and suddenly, it was over. Normal golf for the last three holes, all pars. Never figured out the issue, but after only 15 holes, it was gone. Must have dropped 5 or 6 putts of 10+ feet, and a couple of near 20.
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Aug 11, 2017 18:30
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now 45 holes into scotland with at least another 36 to come  I'll have some more porn up for yall soon enough, including some google cardboard 360s of one of the courses if anyone's got a VR headset
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Aug 12, 2017 16:15
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My SoCal trip is winding down, I'm going to the airport in an hour or so to head home. I'm bringing lots of goodies back with me! The putter that I got hasn't been officially announced yet so we aren't allowed to post pics of them for a couple weeks. The rest of these clubs are being released in a month. The driver is very light and I was struggling to hit the sweet spot just like I used to with my current driver before I added some lead tape to the head. My best drive was actually a slight drop-kick which tells me this head spins way too much for me, it's geared more towards people who want maximum forgiveness. The rest of the clubs performed better for me. A custom wedge at Cleveland Srixon XXIO headquarters that I was tempted to steal:  The round that was included with the trip was at Pelican Hill which was very impressive. The combined value of the handful of valet parking spaces in front of the clubhouse was in the millions, and my entire clubhouse would have fit in the grill room where we ate lunch. Some views:   (I made that birdie putt from the fringe. The putter is by far my favorite club of the ones we received). And then four of us drove down towards San Diego yesterday:    There was an event taking place on the South course so we could only play the North but it was spectacular. The greens at Pelican were very slow but they have just redone the ones at Torrey North and they were very firm and very fast. I loved it and made several long putts. Shot an 82 which I'm very happy with.
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Aug 12, 2017 17:19
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God I fucking love Diablo 3 gold, it even paid for this shitty title
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yo that cleveland wedge loving rules holy poo poo
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Aug 12, 2017 18:14
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DJExile posted:yo that cleveland wedge loving rules holy poo poo Apparently there was a previous THP event called The Money Maker or something and the guys who went got those, they look gorgeous.
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Aug 12, 2017 18:19
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you can get those right from Cleveland under their "personalize" custom section. http://www.clevelandgolf.com/en/wed...BKS_shaft=Steel
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Aug 12, 2017 18:31
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Keyser_Soze posted:you can get those right from Cleveland under their "personalize" custom section. #1 this owns, but #2 i'm now super mad i can't put dickbutt on a wedge from the factory
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Aug 12, 2017 18:39
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When your net is +9 you had a hosed up round. I hit the ball decent on the front 9 only to three putt 6 loving HOLES IN A loving ROW. Naturally my ball striking went to poo poo on the back 9 as well. loving game.
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Aug 12, 2017 19:19
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Finally broke 90 at Castle Stuart!
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Aug 13, 2017 13:16
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time for some porn and scorecards, kids!         The joys of hitting into the wind vs. with it. Take a look at my tee clubs on Carnegie #15 on two different days. That's not a mistake. I'm dramatically reducing 3-putts and I'm very happy about that. Overall was pretty good off the tee. Carnegie is a very thin course so a lot of left and right 'misses' off the tee were just into the first cut and really not that bad to deal with. Their greens are rock loving hard and putt fast as all hell. It is super easy to burn a putt by the hole when you think you gave it decent pace. I had a brutal start to Castle Stuart today but rebounded really well on the front 9 and barely missed a few 1-putts that would have helped even more. Wind and rain picked up pretty well on the back but all in all I was very happy with things. My 54 and 58 degree lobs were spinning like all hell, and I was able to check up a number of lobs and pitches with them so I couldn't complain. Weather got to its worst on 18 and I was all over the hole, but finished up below 90 for the first time here so I'm not about to bitch about it. One more day of it tomorrow.
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Aug 13, 2017 17:27
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Color me jealous, that looks awesome.
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Aug 13, 2017 21:47
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oh man that looks like such a fun course and that nice cool weather is sublime. 
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Aug 13, 2017 22:20
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Yeah when it's like 62 with a light drizzle every once in a while you can just walk the course forever and it's great
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Aug 13, 2017 22:46
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My partner and I had both had our best rounds of the year in our Tuesday league last night, and it ended up being classified as a rain-out because some groups left when a thunderstorm moved through instead of waiting 15 minutes in the club house. Ugh.
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Aug 16, 2017 12:16
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Suprfli6 posted:My partner and I had both had our best rounds of the year in our Tuesday league last night, and it ended up being classified as a rain-out because some groups left when a thunderstorm moved through instead of waiting 15 minutes in the club house. Ugh. Shouldn't the guys who didn't finish just have to make up their round? That seems like a dumb rule. Any foursome that finishes in our league would just log their round.
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Aug 16, 2017 13:57
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Oh hey thanks Golfnow for calling me on a friday at 3:45 to tell me you hosed up my reservation that I made Monday at 7:30 for tomorrow and I don't actually have a tee time. gently caress YOU. Supposed to play The Ritz Carlton tomorrow in Orlando and they call and say whoops we hosed something up the earliest we can get you out is 11:40. Yeah if I wanted to play at 11:40 I would've loving booked 11:40. drat near impossible to find an early tee time on a friday afternoon now at a good course. I guarantee what happened is a guest at the resort wanted to play tomorrow morning and they looked at the golfnow booking and said gently caress them and cancelled it. Fuuuuuck I hate golfnow
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Aug 18, 2017 21:01
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Oh that's some weak poo poo. Plus 11:40 in Orlando in August sounds just miserable 
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Aug 18, 2017 21:12
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DJExile posted:Oh that's some weak poo poo. Ya, we would've never taken that time. Luckily I was able to find us a time at a very good course nearer to us for 7:40. But it's a course we play a lot and none of us had played the Ritz before.
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Aug 18, 2017 21:16
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mattfl posted:Ya, we would've never taken that time. Luckily I was able to find us a time at a very good course nearer to us for 7:40. But it's a course we play a lot and none of us had played the Ritz before. This has kinda happened to me before. GolfNow advertises times that are sometimes not available at the course, but GN never calls to verify, and the course rarely checks ahead of time. MOST of the time, the course just grumbles about it to me (as if I'm the problem) and lets me go off as close to that time as possible. The one time that the course stood firm, I showed them I had pre-paid, and they issued me a full rain check, and then I called GolfNow to bitch about it and they comped me a hot deal round for the price.
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Aug 18, 2017 22:16
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Kameh posted:This has kinda happened to me before. GolfNow advertises times that are sometimes not available at the course, but GN never calls to verify, and the course rarely checks ahead of time. MOST of the time, the course just grumbles about it to me (as if I'm the problem) and lets me go off as close to that time as possible. The one time that the course stood firm, I showed them I had pre-paid, and they issued me a full rain check, and then I called GolfNow to bitch about it and they comped me a hot deal round for the price. I could understand if I booked the time yesterday or today, but I booked that poo poo at the beginning of the week when the courses whole schedule was open. It wasn't like this was a hot deal time either, regular morning tee time on a saturday.
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Aug 18, 2017 23:10
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I had a lesson this morning, followed immediately by the lowest round I have shot in 5 years. Feels good man. When I took a 2 year Hiatus, I apparently forgot that I have something called a lower body and that it is the base of your swing. The pro's analogy for the proper motion and weight transfer was spot on. He likened it to throwing a baseball sidearm. Immediate 1.5 clubs of distance with 1/4 the effort. 
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Aug 19, 2017 22:01
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Farking Bastage posted:I had a lesson this morning, followed immediately by the lowest round I have shot in 5 years. Feels good man. When I took a 2 year Hiatus, I apparently forgot that I have something called a lower body and that it is the base of your swing. The pro's analogy for the proper motion and weight transfer was spot on. He likened it to throwing a baseball sidearm. Immediate 1.5 clubs of distance with 1/4 the effort. Too right. During lessons I'd hit what I thought was a great shot and the pro teaching me shows the DTL recording and it's all upper body. The hips would turn through AFTER the impact making it look real nice. All just for show haha. Correct transition process now is get to the top of the swing (pretty much spot on back swing at the moment so that's easy) and then hold that position while the hips and back foot turn and push forward. That movement is what starts the turning of the upper body - not the shoulders or arms. Then I have to imagine pushing my body through and past a wall. Halo14 fucked around with this message at 12:31 on Aug 20, 2017 |
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Aug 20, 2017 12:26
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I remembered the most important rule of scrambles yesterday... turn your card in last. -9 was the lowest round turned in, the two last groups out both came up with -10, and then I turned in our -13 for the win. We won two of the five skins too so it was basically a free round, can't beat that. The last two years my team has taken second place in this same tournament because a construction company team always finished after everyone else and somehow managed to beat us by a stroke or two. Not this time! Suprfli6 fucked around with this message at 16:08 on Aug 20, 2017 |
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Aug 20, 2017 16:06
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They just showed Juli Inkster at the Solheim Cup holding a styrofoam cup with "Vodka Tonic" written on the side of it. She's the Captain lol.
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Aug 20, 2017 20:28
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Shrapnig posted:They just showed Juli Inkster at the Solheim Cup holding a styrofoam cup with "Vodka Tonic" written on the side of it. Nothing wrong with this. The matches at the Solheim have been pretty good this week actually.
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Aug 20, 2017 21:38
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https://twitter.com/Skratch/status/899384942962003968 Sweet Jesus.
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Aug 20, 2017 23:33
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holy poo poo what is he hitting there? some long iron?
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DJExile posted:holy poo poo  Sure looks like a 341 yard And then he stuck his approach to less than 2 feet. Kameh fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Aug 21, 2017 |
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