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MustardFacial posted:I've got a box of Srixon Distance, and AD333 on clearance. So far the AD333 are my favourite, but they seem to be really hard to find so I'll definitely check out the Soft Feel and Q-Star's as well. I think the AD333 is what the Srixon Q Star is called in Europe/UK or they're at least analogous.
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Prurient Squid posted:Yeah, I think you'd be feeling the pinch if you were two strokes from the cut and you were on the second round. Whether that kind of pressure would improve your performance or just stress you out too much I don't know. If you want to see guys under pressure a lot of the majors are putting the entire final round broadcasts on Youtube. The Masters in particular has almost all of them. Some of them have hour long films about the entire tournament as well. Great to throw on and zone out to. If you want recommendations: Tiger-centric 97 Masters 00 US Open 00 British 00 Bridgestone Invitational (not a major but you'll see why) 00 PGA (Hard to overstate how dominant Tiger was at his peak, even if you know he wins he's awesome to watch) 05 Masters 08 US Open 19 Masters Non Tiger: 77 British Open 82 US Open 96 Masters 99 US Open 99 British Open Definitely forgetting a bunch but it's a good start.
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Thanks a lot. I'm not going to run out of footage of the 149th Open anytime soon though!
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Shrapnig posted:I think the AD333 is what the Srixon Q Star is called in Europe/UK or they're at least analogous. That would explain why I've only ever seen them in one store here in Canada. And even then they don't seem to have too many.
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Man there's nothing worse than playing with someone who's throwing clubs from the second hole. It's my opponent in our league so I can't just drive off and play with someone else. Just don't understand the point of paying  or so to play 9 holes on a nice sunny afternoon and be that mad about it.
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mattfl posted:Only took a few pics Yeah, the green tees are fun to play every now and then but don’t make for a great round. It’s a much better course from the golds or blacks.
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MustardFacial posted:I have given away the 14 Kirkland balls in my bag, and returned the 3 boxes back to Costco after 2 years of playing with them and push slicing every tee shot thinking the problem was my swing when it was actually because the Kirkland balls spin like a motherfucker and if your face:club is even a bit off they're gone. I play 2nd hand Titleist pro v1's from (choose your favorite golf ball reseller). When you hit them solid they just fly. Plus, it's only $2/ball instead of $4/ball, and if I lose a ball or two, that's just part of doing business on the golf course.
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I usually grab a couple $0.75 used balls from the fishbowl at the pro shop at my local muni. Of the selection, I tend to pick any V1s or Vice balls I find. Probably due to a small sample size, but I like the Vices a lot, they tend to last me longer before I lose them than the Titleists, but who knows
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I find Maxfli Softfli to be a pretty good budget golf ball.
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Tp5s when they are on sale - pro v1 when they aren't. The more expensive balls make a huge difference, as much as it pains me to say.
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You can always tell when it's links golf because of the commentators anecdotes about seaguls. edit: Also, I think the slogan of the 150th Open "everything has lead to this" is a funny choice because that almost suggests that everything that happened over the last century and a half is less important than what's about to happen. Really that's the opposite message. Prurient Squid fucked around with this message at 12:04 on Jun 1, 2022 |
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I like to sit on the toilet and take a poo poo, and think, everything that has ever happened in the universe has lead to this
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There is only this moment. It's like zen, but more porcelain.
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Today's range session compared to last week's, courtesy of the R10: My slice on the Driver wasn't nearly as bad; of the 23 shots I took this morning, five went more than 10 yards right. Unfortunately, ten of the 23 went more than ten yards LEFT, which is new. They weren't necessarily hooks either, but came off straight to the left. I did hit my longest drive ever, 230 yards. With my 5W, everything was left. It's like whatever adjustment I've made to fix my slice has led me to push everything far to the left. I also crushed (for me) a 7i 165 yards.
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You're probably unconsciously or consciously aiming left to counter the slice so straight shots are going left of target. A 165 yard 7 iron "equates" to about a 270 yard drive so yeah, you definitely have some driver gremlins.
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Wow, I didn't realise it was so mathematical. Maybe my maths degree will finally come in useful for something.
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Yea your score will be getting pretty high so it helps to be able to add all those big numbers together.
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Wow, Morikawa did an amazing putt! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IBjUlYcSvU&t=40021s
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DJ and Gooch going for that Saudi bag https://twitter.com/Daniel_Rapaport/status/1531793152213925888?s=20&t=0Il1kmfpGL1pOnFih28DDw
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Totally fine never seeing another one of those players again. Not because they'll end up headless in a suitcase or anything, but whatever. Liv Golf, Bonesaw Is Ready!
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Wait are they leaving the PGA tour? Or are they just playing in one tournament over there?
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RCarr posted:Wait are they leaving the PGA tour? Or are they just playing in one tournament over there? They're out as far as I can tell. DJ's agent: "Dustin has been contemplating the opportunity off-and-on for the past couple of years," Winkle wrote. "Ultimately, he decided it was in his and his family's best interest to pursue it. Dustin has never had an issue with the PGA Tour and is grateful for all it has given him, but in the end, felt this was too compelling to pass up." They're also losing sponsors left, right, and center. RBC dropped DJ and GMac, UPS dropped Westwood.
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"As communicated to our membership on May 10, PGA Tour members have not been authorized to participate in the Saudi Golf League's London event, under PGA Tour regulations," the statement read. "Members who violate the tournament regulations are subject to disciplinary action." It's unclear what this disciplinary action might be, but it is presumed that a suspension or possible ban would be applied to anyone who chooses to go through with playing in the London event. Committed players will need to be all-in regardless of what the PGA Tour decides because their sponsors will be dropping them for joining a league backed by the Saudi Arabian government. Shortly after it was disclosed that Johnson was headed to the LIV Golf event, long-time sponsor RBC decided to cut ties with him. Doubly embarrassing for everyone involved is that the RBC Canadian Open, an event in which D.J. normally plays, will take place the week of the first LIV Golf event in London. "RBC is a proud partner of the PGA Tour. Our partnership is anchored with two world-class golf tournaments -- the RBC Heritage and the RBC Canadian Open. The PGA Tour has been clear about its intentions in accordance with its tournament regulations should a golfer choose to play in a tournament outside the Tour, including the LIV Golf Invitational series," the RBC said Tuesday. "We were recently made aware that Dustin Johnson made the decision to play the LIV Golf Invitational series opener. D.J. has been a valued RBC team member since 2019. While we are extremely disappointed in his decision, we wish him well." The RBC provided a more definitive statement Wednesday, officially cutting ties with Johnson and Graeme McDowell. "As a result of the decisions made by professional golfers Dustin Johnson and Graeme McDowell to play the LIV Golf Invitational Series opener, RBC is terminating its sponsorship agreement with both players," the company said in a statement. "We wish them well in their future endeavors." https://www.cbssports.com/golf/news/pga-tour-responds-to-players-joining-liv-golf-as-disappointed-rbc-drops-dustin-johnson-graeme-mcdowell/ Unknown, but would not be surprised.
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I think the tour thing is going to come down to lawsuits. PGA Tour will likely tell ‘em they’re done and then some antitrust suits will be filed and who knows from there.
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DJ kinda surprises me since the guy should already have gently caress you money. He's made $75m on the course so probably double that if not more in sponsorship money. He and his wife did have that pretty expensive habit for a while though...
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They needed a headline player, because good lord look at the rest of this field. Wouldn’t be surprised if they paid him some astronomical amount to take the deal. Especially since it was just a few months ago that he publicly committed to the PGA. My only real surprise is that headline player isn’t Bryson, and a little bit that Gooch took it. He seemed like he had a ton of tour winnings in his future.
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Yeah, I guess if they gave him Mickelson's bag that'd be a pretty good motivator. Phil got $30m up front and I want to say his all in number was between $150-250m.
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Anno posted:They needed a headline player, because good lord look at the rest of this field. Wouldn’t be surprised if they paid him some astronomical amount to take the deal. Especially since it was just a few months ago that he publicly committed to the PGA. Rumor is the amateurs got $6m upfront and $250k for every tournament they play in, plus whatever they win. DJ had to be $30m+.
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Daric posted:Rumor is the amateurs got $6m upfront and $250k for every tournament they play in, plus whatever they win. DJ had to be $30m+. I can't find the tweet rn but I believe the rumor is something like 60 million this year and 75 the next (or vice versa) The other one that stuck out at me was Kevin Na but apparently he's been wearing their logo for a bit so maybe I just missed it
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Yeah I think Na has been rumored to be into this thing from the jump. No Bubba, who also was, though. But a lot of these players have been basically confirmed for months now.
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So capitalism and dictatorships ruining everything. Figures.
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And just like that like, DJ joins Phil in the, gently caress my legacy pay me club. You think Wayne would have talked to him about this.
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NLU and Reddit or all places made a good observation; there are some straight out of college players in there and that's what the PGA tour has to worry about. Losing Phil is a bit of a who cares scenario, but losing the literal next generation of players is a much bigger problem
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Shrapnig posted:You're probably unconsciously or consciously aiming left to counter the slice so straight shots are going left of target. Yeah I thought of that, it’s likely I’m closing the club face too much trying to get it straight vs the slice, and hitting it pure to the left instead. It’s really only a problem on my driver and 5W. Everything else is pretty straight unless it’s a total shank
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MustardFacial posted:I have given away the 14 Kirkland balls in my bag, and returned the 3 boxes back to Costco after 2 years of playing with them and push slicing every tee shot thinking the problem was my swing when it was actually because the Kirkland balls spin like a motherfucker and if your face:club is even a bit off they're gone. Meant to ask earlier: How do you do with range balls? Same slice, same push?
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abigserve posted:NLU and Reddit or all places made a good observation; there are some straight out of college players in there and that's what the PGA tour has to worry about. Losing Phil is a bit of a who cares scenario, but losing the literal next generation of players is a much bigger problem I get a college player basically giving up ever playing on the PGA tour for guaranteed money. Although, the PGA tour is gonna be around a lot longer than the LIV tour so is it really worth giving up your chance of ever playing on The Tour for some quick cash?
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mattfl posted:I get a college player basically giving up ever playing on the PGA tour for guaranteed money. Although, the PGA tour is gonna be around a lot longer than the LIV tour so is it really worth giving up your chance of ever playing on The Tour for some quick cash? Are they seriously going to permanently black-ball anyone who plays on the LIV for the rest of their careers? What are they gonna do, strip their Q-cards? Also is there a way to stream The Match later through TNT if I don't have cable? I mean I'm ok with STREAMS if that's ok to ask about, but if there's a way to essentially just PPV it reasonably I could do that too.
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I think they've basically said they would do just that. Even for people without tour status now. What actually happens, now or in the (very likely) coming lawsuits, who knows.
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abigserve posted:NLU and Reddit or all places made a good observation; there are some straight out of college players in there and that's what the PGA tour has to worry about. Losing Phil is a bit of a who cares scenario, but losing the literal next generation of players is a much bigger problem The Tour is made out of an outstanding player base that has the age span of what, 20-30 years? I don't see LIV being around that long, and even then, they would have to have 60+ mill fronting nobodies for 10 years? Don't think so, but who knows.
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The PGA Tour constantly does some mind-bogglingly stupid things, but actually black-listing players who play in the LIV at all would be an all-timer even for them. They have no choice at all right now but to publicly play hardball as much as possible as a means to mitigate the damage from their players jumping ship and to preserve their reputation, but they aren't actually going to tell someone like DJ or the college kid who turns out to be the next Justin Thomas that they can't play on the tour ever because they took $6M to play on the LIV for a year straight out of college. Doing that would be the quickest way to make sure the LIV sticks around as long as possible. Let these guys make their money playing in watered down events to crowds that will surely dwindle over time and then welcome them back to the "real" professional golf tour where it will just boost the poo poo out of their ratings. Best case scenario is that this whole thing just boosts overall interest in golf and gets the PGA Tour to step up their game when it comes to how they manage their talent, TV deals & coverage, prize pools, ...etc.
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