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Daric posted:Hope you got to play Gus before it started raining yesterday I did not. Tour 18 was pretty great, shot 95 (21 handicap). I loved the bit of GC of Houston I got to play, but it was hard to stay warmed up and in rhythm at 20-30 minutes per hole. I'll be back next winter to play a few other courses, and likely Tour 18 again.
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xsf421 posted:I did not. Tour 18 was pretty great, shot 95 (21 handicap). I loved the bit of GC of Houston I got to play, but it was hard to stay warmed up and in rhythm at 20-30 minutes per hole. I'll be back next winter to play a few other courses, and likely Tour 18 again. drat, sorry about that. If you swing back through next winter, reach out to me via DM!
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We could do a Houston goon meetup. I'm south of Houston (Pearland), but I'll play anywhere.
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My Garmin R10 arrives today. I can write up a review with pictures if people are interested.
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Kameh posted:We could do a Houston goon meetup. I'm south of Houston (Pearland), but I'll play anywhere. I'm down, I'll take a little road trip to MegaCity 4
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daslog posted:My Garmin R10 arrives today. I can write up a review with pictures if people are interested. Do the firmware updates as soon as you get it. One of the more recent updates changed how ball spin was calculated depending on if you are indoors or outdoors. It's made outdoor shots far more accurate and it should pickup the indoor shots more reliably. https://support.garmin.com/en-CA/?faq=kj37CgzvwM98hC9WPrIQm5
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daslog posted:My Garmin R10 arrives today. I can write up a review with pictures if people are interested. Enjoy! I’ve had my R10 for about five months now and it’s been the best gold purchase I’ve ever made.
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FYI for anyone interested - Garmin R10 now supports TGC 2019!
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Hi thread, I started golfing early last summer and played a ton of games on the Par 3 muni course down the street and a handful of regular courses towards the end of summer and fall, and enjoyed it a ton. Our county’s recreation catalogue came in the mail yesterday so long story short I’m joining two casual recreational golf leagues this spring and summer and I’m super hyped
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What Niemann did yesterday and today at Riviera is insane. Really thought he was going to tie the course record yesterday. I spent the morning yesterday following Spieth / Scheffler / Rahm and then the afternoon mostly following This is going to be the first year in my memory where the pros don't get any rain at all at Riv and it's warmer than usual for February, so conditions are ideal for the winner to get to something ridiculous.
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So I did a thing in my backyard https://imgur.com/a/jMni33N We turfed about 75% of my backyard because my large rear end dogs were just tearing up any grass we had back there. Plus we figured we aren't selling this house probably forever(lol house prices) so we might as well make it exactly what we want. Figured I might as well add a small putting green as it didn't really add to the overall cost of the project, lol $$$$$ Longest putt is about 14' and there are undulations and an uphill/downhill slope to it as well. You can see my coaches watching me practice at night. It rolls fast, probably 10 or 11 on the stimp scale o great practice for most of the courses around me.
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Feb 18, 2022 22:04
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That whole yard looks ace. We were looking into a similar project last year and lol that poo poo ain’t cheap! But whoever did it did a nice job.
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mattfl posted:You can see my coaches watching me practice at night. It rolls fast, probably 10 or 11 on the stimp scale o great practice for most of the courses around me. Every loving green around me, on a good day can't be more than a 5 to 7. You fucker.
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Anno posted:That whole yard looks ace. We were looking into a similar project last year and lol that poo poo ain’t cheap! But whoever did it did a nice job. It was def not cheap, nope not at all lol The company we used does a lot of high end commercial jobs, they did a lot of work at Daytona International Speedway and does a lot of schools/daycares. He basically told me the first day on site he strives for perfection and won't leave the job until he gets it. We are completely satisfied with his work even though it may have cost more than someone else could have done it. The dogs love it, the wife loves it because the dogs are bringing in dirt anymore and our backyard is now a nice chill place to hangout so wins all around lol
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D34THROW posted:Every loving green around me, on a good day can't be more than a 5 to 7. You fucker. Oh I can certainly find those around me, I just choose not to play them when there are so many good courses around me lol
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2 weeks away from a weekend of fun in Duval including Dyes Valley.
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N: Phil is a loving moron. V: can’t tell who he’s apologizing to? The saudis or his peers? He might have committed career suicide here. Bye bye any chance of a Ryder Cup captaincy.
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I think he's properly hosed. Like you can't say this and not expect to be banished, right?quote:...all of that unwound last week when comments from a conversation Mickelson had with Shipnuck were released. Mickelson called the folks funding the Super Golf League, "scary motherf---ers to get involved with," according to Shipnuck. He added: "We know they killed [Washington Post reporter and U.S. resident Jamal] Khashoggi and have a horrible record on human rights. They execute people over there for being gay. Knowing all of this, why would I even consider it? Because this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reshape how the PGA Tour operates." And there's, like, a lot of stuff like this.
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He’s also accusing the PGA of hoarding 20-30 billion dollars LOL. BILLION. Dude is burning every bridge to the point there was an all hands players meeting with the heads of the PGA Tour today.
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First sponsor to cut ties https://ftw.usatoday.com/lists/phil-mickelson-kpmg-sponsorship-ends-saudi-league-comments-reaction-pga-golf
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That’s his biggest one aside from Callaway. RIP Phil.
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What a dummy, managed to alienate all sides at once which is kinda impressive
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I am buddies with one of Shipnuck's coworkers at the Fire Pit Collective (it's loving Laz, wish it was Monday Q) and he can't say much but there's probably some much bigger stuff going on with Phil than just these comments. I wouldn't be surprised if it came out that he has some very large gambling debts and was trying to leverage this situation to pay them off.
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quote:'They killed [Washington Post reporter and U.S. resident Jamal] Khashoggi and have a horrible record on human rights,' Mickelson told the author in an interview, per ESPN. 'They execute people over there for being gay. Knowing all of this, why would I even consider it? Because this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reshape how the PGA Tour operates.' It might just be me, but it's pretty hard to come back from a statement like that.
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I'm not sure what he was thinking (if he was thinking at all). Is his sense of self-importance so inflated that he just thought everyone was going to nod along, saying "yes, quite so. We shall give that dastardly PGA the old what-for", and then follow him to the Saudi tour like he was the Pied Piper?
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Phil's in trouble for telling the truth about the Saudi's more than supporting the dumb SUPER GOLF LEAGUE. 
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Keyser_Soze posted:Phil's in trouble for telling the truth about the Saudi's more than supporting the dumb SUPER GOLF LEAGUE. Facts, you think KPMG gives a gently caress about the PGA Tour vs Super Golf League? They're the KSA's accounting firm.
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KPMG just cares about him being marketable and since he's likely silently suspended from the PGA and the SGL is probably dead in the water they've cut anchor dont say the quiet part loud rich people
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https://www.golfdigest.com/story/mi...gOVTABOTdvUgR50 Callaway “pauses” their relationship and Workday straight up dropped him. Does he have any sponsors left?
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Pro golfers are some of the most well paid athletes in the world and I've never actually seen any concrete allegations about the PGA that didn't boil down to "the PGA is hoarding money" with no evidence to back it up. The problem with pro golf at the moment though is that nobody is dominating it which makes it poo poo boring to watch. Phil and Tiger were so great back in the day, especially alongside characters like Singh, Daly, Jimenez etc, because they gave everyone clear players to root for and follow for drama. The Honda Classic was actually really interesting golf to watch, and the final day was full of drama, but...who the gently caress are all these guys? As someone that watches golf a bit, at least the highlights, I'm familiar with the guys on the leaderboard but they aren't "water cooler" names. This is the danger of other leagues like the SGL (lol), if they ever actually take off and poach a bunch of the actual named players people will tune in to watch people they know.
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Shouldn't it really have been "Golf Super League" instead of "SUPER! Golf League" anyways?
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If anybody needs protection, it's all the golfers toiling in golf's version of the minor leagues. gently caress the members of the PGA.
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abigserve posted:Pro golfers are some of the most well paid athletes in the world Is this true though? It's the only professional sport where you can show up, play, and walk away without making a dime if you had a "bad game." The monetarily best years golfers have ever had, excluding end of season bonuses like the FedEx Cup/Race to Dubai, is like role player NBA money. Yes it looks wild when a guy takes home a check for $1m on Sunday but that only happens ~40 times a year and rarely more than once for the same guy. The cost of being on the PGA Tour is significantly higher since you're on the hook for all of your own expenses. I think DeChambeau said it costs at minimum about $500k a year to play a full schedule with travel, etc. Obviously that cost probably gets mostly picked up in sponsorships but it's money that an NBA player doesn't have to spend.
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They don't make NBA type money but that doesn't mean they're not very well paid, the 120th ranked player in last year's money list made over a million bucks before any sponsorships. Compare that to, say, tennis, where the 120th ranked male made like $120k - PGA also has a pretty solid pension as well as an entire tour just for their retirees and a whole exemption process for once-good players who fall off Someone like Bryson is gonna spend a ton more money on travel expenses than the 100th ranked guy since he travels in private jets and rents huge mansions for his entire team of trainers, psychologists, coaches, chefs, fancy gadgets, etc etc etc Phil's whole beef is that the top guys aren't getting enough of the pie (which from a pure value standpoint is probably true, people aren't tuning in to watch whoever Matt Wallace is, but he still made almost 20% of what Rahm did last year), not that the PGA isn't protecting the Korn Ferry guys enough. Also Phil is making numbers up wyoak fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Mar 1, 2022 |
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NBA's also an unrealistic comparison because they make by far the most money in all American sports. A more accurate comparison would be MLB.
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wyoak posted:They don't make NBA type money but that doesn't mean they're not very well paid, the 120th ranked player in last year's money list made over a million bucks before any sponsorships. Compare that to, say, tennis, where the 120th ranked male made like $120k - PGA also has a pretty solid pension as well as an entire tour just for their retirees and a whole exemption process for once-good players who fall off The 120th highest paid player in the NBA is Luka Doncic. Irrelevant, I just thought it was funny. Kirios posted:NBA's also an unrealistic comparison because they make by far the most money in all American sports. A more accurate comparison would be MLB. Edit: I only picked NBA because it's the most comparable player pool size. Either way, the 120th highest paid player in MLB makes $9.5m a year, Doncic above makes $10.1m. Just to throw it in there, 120th NFL - $13.5m, NHL - $6m Shrapnig fucked around with this message at 21:01 on Mar 1, 2022 |
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You get $10k for playing in the Masters even if you miss the cut.
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