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Farking Bastage posted:Going to brag a little because it’s a big deal to me Hell, yeah. Golf, the answer to and cause of life's problems.
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Nov 11, 2022 23:48
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I nearly drank and ate myself to death in 2020. Ended up in the hospital in my early 40’s with blood pressure at 220/130. I weighed 250 pounds on a 5’6” frame. 
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Infomaniac posted:Hell, yeah. Speaking of... I just had a 41 putt round. 
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Nov 12, 2022 00:55
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I joined another country club in Cashiers, NC. I’m in love. 
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Nov 12, 2022 04:38
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Old Edwards by any chance? If so, the Bryan Bros just filmed a bunch of videos there and the course looks absurd. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8lsJez8Oj4
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Omerta posted:I joined another country club in Cashiers, NC. I’m in love. My mom lives up in Blowing Rock and sometimes I take the rural route up there and there’s tons of these just frickin’ gorgeous little mountain courses nestled everywhere. I keep meaning to come back to them.
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Walked into Edwin watts. Walked out with an Odyssey blade and a set of Callaway Apex irons to replace the pings I was fit for when i was fat.  edit:    My hands peel this time of year. The Floridian climate is turning me into a literal reptile. Farking Bastage fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Nov 13, 2022 |
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Nov 12, 2022 20:25
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Farking Bastage posted:Speaking of... I just had a 41 putt round. Wow! I hope that's a new Personal Worst. Can you at least blame recovery conditions for this?
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Shrapnig posted:Old Edwards by any chance? Very close! Country Club of Sapphire Valley. I played close to all of the courses in the Cashiers area (including Wade Hampton) and CCSV was by far the favorite for me and the missus.
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Had the entire course to myself yesterday and shot an 81 that I was very happy with. I’m discovering that my best golf comes in lovely weather, in this case a clear day but at 33 degrees with wind chills in the high 20s. Wore a pair of rain gloves on each hand and for whatever reason that had me holding the clubs a lot lighter and everything felt smoother in my swing. The new PXG 3W felt a lot better the couple times I used it as well. I’m sure I’ll forget all of this when spring arrives but hey
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Nov 14, 2022 12:36
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I had the same revelation. Cold weather gloves and a ten finger grip and it felt really solid
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Nov 14, 2022 13:59
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I worry that I may not be cut out for playing anything resembling competitive. I can't help myself from adjusting something after every miss. By the end of the round my swing is unrecognizable and im reverting hard back to my old swing. gently caress 
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I had planned a final season round on Saturday with three other dudes and somehow managed to get a Yes from everyone which is impossible. Booked a tee time a week out, called mid-week to confirm and got confirmation that my tee time was booked, and then we all showed up to the course where the gate was closed, chained, and locked and a recorded message on the phone stating that the course was closed for the season starting today. Thanks dude! Called another course 30 minutes away and they were open and the dude was super nice and no one was there so we had a nice cold afternoon golfing in light snow flurries there instead.
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T-Square posted:
 As much as Florida sucks, I was golfing in my normal summer attire and sweating out a round at noon yesterday lol
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mattfl posted:
I had thermal leggings and jeans, a thermal undershirt, t-shirt, hoodie, and light winter jacket on. Plus a hat and mittens in the cart with hand warmers stashed in them to wear between shots lol
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I feel a little better now. Had the range to myself for an hour in a light rain and got my tempo back. My God it is so easy to revert to over the top.
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T-Square posted:I had thermal leggings and jeans, a thermal undershirt, t-shirt, hoodie, and light winter jacket on. Plus a hat and mittens in the cart with hand warmers stashed in them to wear between shots lol I’m golfing on Saturday and it’s supposed to be upper 30s/lower 40s. Wooooo.
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Played today where it felt like 32 degrees with the wind chill. Was bundled up accordingly though so it wasn’t too bad. My golf game on the other hand was too bad.
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Nov 17, 2022 21:31
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I have a heated jacket, and it makes all the difference. I play through 30s through-out the winter. On mid temp days, I use a vest with a chemical hand warmer on the interior pocket and it's enough.
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I’m quitting my league I recently joined. Their format is not fun for me. They hole out everything no exceptions and in addition to the pressure of making 3 footers that all have enough break or grain to pull it out of the hole, it makes the play so painfully slow. I was even par first 5 holes with 1 GIR, not missing by much but making very good pitch shots. I got to hole 5 and the 4 easily over 400 pounders each in the next group had us waiting every shot while they each 3-putted then slowly waddled off the green. I started to tighten up and pulled a par 5 tee shot into an oak tree limb that sticks out, made two great recovery shots to be 20’ from the hole. My third putt broke at a right angle when the speed dropped and rimmed itself out. So now I’m freezing, I’m too mad to swing properly, and I’m still waiting on these folks every shot. It was 45 degrees wet and windy as hell. I left at the turn. I’m out here walking it to get fit and it just really really irked me to see those folks trundling around like a turtle taking a poo poo  e: I slept on this and realized what that league is. Miserable old fuckers that only have a chance in a putting contest which is what that game is. They don't use GHIN and freeze everyone 3 games. The highest points of the three is your number forever. After being -12 -15 -19 and -11 they won't adjust me so gently caress them. Never again in a league like that. Farking Bastage fucked around with this message at 15:26 on Nov 21, 2022 |
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Nov 21, 2022 03:21
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I was right. Played in a different group today that's not quite so serious and didn't need to take any gimmies. Played outta my mind. Made 6 putts from outside of 10 feet for pars. 100% in my head with that other bunch. My little fades are turning more and more into really pretty draws, enough to have me a little uneasy in my alignment. Especially at my tight rear end course  My favorite dispensary is next to the third fairway. Maybe that's helping 
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Farking Bastage posted:I was right. Played in a different group today that's not quite so serious and didn't need to take any gimmies. Played outta my mind. Made 6 putts from outside of 10 feet for pars. 100% in my head with that other bunch. My little fades are turning more and more into really pretty draws, enough to have me a little uneasy in my alignment. Especially at my tight rear end course Game improves mightily when the gummy kicks in.
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Pasting from mobile Am I the only one who thinks this is toxic? I played my rear end off today and was -10 Their punctuation, not mine They loving stupid points too, 1 for double 2 for bogey 3 for par 5 for birdie and so no. Everything about this game screams to me Old Boomer's putting contest. code:Farking Bastage fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Nov 28, 2022 |
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What part is toxic?
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I got a couple lucky birdies and they set me at 41 points. I played WELL today and was -9. My previous scores have been -19 -11 -13 and no one seems to think my handicap might be off. The pace of play is maddening because there are no gimmies, not even 6". 5 hour round every time.
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Farking Bastage posted:Pasting from mobile gently caress all this poo poo, dude.
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Nov 28, 2022 02:12
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That doesn’t sound toxic but it sounds very tiring to deal with
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Farking Bastage posted:I got a couple lucky birdies and they set me at 41 points. I played WELL today and was -9. My previous scores have been -19 -11 -13 and no one seems to think my handicap might be off. The pace of play is maddening because there are no gimmies, not even 6". 5 hour round every time. Have you considered that you just don't like golf? Every post you make here is so overwhelmingly negative, I can't see how you're actually enjoying being on the golf course.
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Honestly that game and its members remove all fun for me. I’m about about $150 into this between annual dues (60) and 10/game to be grossly mis-handicapped and play in that format when the greens are stimping at 14 and grainy as gently caress. I am not capable of making anything inside 2 feet under pressure unless it’s just piss luck. Golf’s not a lot of fun when you’re donating to an elderly putt putt Ponzi scheme. I’ll shut up now
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Farking Bastage posted:Honestly that game and its members remove all fun for me. I’m about about $150 into this between annual dues (60) and 10/game to be grossly mis-handicapped and play in that format when the greens are stimping at 14 and grainy as gently caress. I am not capable of making anything inside 2 feet under pressure unless it’s just piss luck. It seems like an easy solution to just stop playing that game then.  Or practice putting more and stop getting beat by some old men.
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Seriously FB I would get well clear of that because it's clearly driving you nuts and you're just going to hate golf more for it write off the $150 and wash your hands of it. you'll feel a lot better in the long run.
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Find a new club or group. I bailed mine this season (after 10) since they refuse to not tee off at 1pm (under the guise of price) in the loving summer here when it's 90+ and blazing out between May and October (inland NorCal). Plus they play the same dumb resort courses over and over again since they are easy to get tourneys at (especially at 1pm in the summer). 
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No gimmies is pretty common if you've got multiple groups playing in the same competition, it prevents collusion, even if the collusion is unintentional. I don't think you're outright trying to cheat but if you've got one group doing gimmies at 2 feet or in and another group doing them at 36 inches and another group is all drinking buddies and they're just eyeballing things it'd be a pretty uneven competition. and that scoring is standard stableford it sounds like? can't speak to the handicapping. but yeah biggest thing is if you're not enjoying how they do things, don't do things with them
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Don't play "competitive" golf unless it's basically straight USGA rules. The in-crowd will always have a way to tilt matches, and if you're TRYING to win, TRYING to shoot low and it matters to you, it's not fun. Our club in Virginia had a bunch of tournaments thru the year. Red white and blue (6 holes from each tee box, your choice), that kind of thing. But, the baseline was 80% of your handicap. So, a 10 handicapper got 8 strokes, losing 2, but a 20 handicapper got 16 strokes, losing 4. Low handicappers always won. I stopped keeping an official handicap when they changed the rule to require every round be attested. I play solo, so that requires you to get strangers to "sign your card" and it wasn't worth it. Since then, my handicap has dropped a couple of strokes from about 9 to about 7 (I generally track my scores and occasionally take a look where I'd be) because I don't care anymore. I still putt out (but if my group kicks back my 2 footer, it's not a big deal anymore), i accurately count penalties, I don't do mulligans. I also have a much, much better time now.
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Thanks guys. I’ve had some mental health challenges and my barometer for what is and is not a bad situation has never been accurate.
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There's nothing I hate more than house rules. This isn't loving monopoly. Breakfast balls are for bullshit games with your wife and hung over best friend. If there's money or pride on the line, by god, we're going to play the ball where it lies.
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Yeah I completely agree. Conversely, if there's nothing on the line, then do whatever the hell you want who cares.
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Farking Bastage posted:Thanks guys. I’ve had some mental health challenges and my barometer for what is and is not a bad situation has never been accurate. It's all good dude. For what it's worth, I genuinely enjoy following your (and everyone else here's) journey in this stupid game, so I appreciate you posting your ups and downs because we've all been through similar poo poo at one point or another. The last 12 months have been by far the most "successful" in my golfing career, in terms of winning tournaments, skins money, getting my handicap down to a +1 for the first time, ...etc. and I've had at least 2 moments during that time where I legitimately wanted to quit forever because I had a stretch of lovely rounds or forgot how to putt or whatever... It happens. My one piece of advice for you though is that if you do want to play any kind of competitive golf, even if it's just a relatively casual beer league, you're going to have to get over the whole not putting out thing. Any golf competition that allows gimmies and isn't match play that's contained to only your foursome is bullshit and is going to result in 1000x more cheating than anything you think is going on with the rules you posted here.
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Sort of a brain dump, but I can't stop analyzing where I went so wrong to score that badly. 1. P4 317 hit fairway a bit longer than intended between wedges missed right two putts. bogey 2. P4 391(and 25 feet uphill) hit fairway but 20 yards short 185 approach into bunker out and in. par 3. P5 510 hit fairway shanked layup, overcooked punch, miss pitch right, chip to two feet, in. bogey 4. P4 285 water in front perfect tee shot to 100y approach rolled off back of green, chip to 18" in. par 5. P3 161 couple yards short of the green, chip inside 24" and in. par 6. P5 469 dogleg right hit fairway but short of corner, punched to 200 yards, landed front fringe, chip close and in. par 7. P4 325 severe dogleg left, tee shot center cut, lie is sharply downhill pulled wedge left, chipped close, 3 putts. double 8. P3 135 short, chipped close and missed. bogey 9. p4 dogleg left huge hill, missed fairway left, made a beautiful recovery shot to the front fringe, chipped to 3-4 feet three putts. double 10p4 308 tee shot to 100y stuck it 10 feet lagged it to 6". par 11 P4 389(into 20 kt wind)dogleg left lined with trees hit fairway short of corner, recovery shot to front chip and 3 putts. double 12 P3 121 over water missed left chip fairly close 3 putts. double 13 P5 475 uphill dogleg left bomb tee shot, bomb second shot, approach on wrong tier, pin on a severe slope 4 putts. double 14 P4 360 downhill dogleg right(slicer's dream) tried to lay up short to a flat lie, hosed that up, attempted to hit elevated green sand in front water behind from 175 yards, missed to front slope chip and 3 putts. double 15 P4 294 uphill houses left water right sloped elevated green tee shot too long into a 20kt wind approach hit false front 5' from pin and rolled 20 feet down an embankment, hit a miracle flop to fringe way above my head 8' from hole 3 putted. double 16 P5 494 perfect tee shot, perfect second shot, wind stopped approach short to wrong tier of the green chip and 3 putts. double 17 P3 205 narrow as gently caress into 25 knot wind missed short pitched on 2 putts. bogey 18 P4 348 lined with oaks green surrounded by oaks including two in front tee shot too long stuck in front of left oak punched out pitched on lagged 10" and in. bogey I missed two fairways on a course that gives you about this much room to fit a 250 yard shot(looking back at the #6 tee box)  Every putt I mark, align and hit, no skipped steps. I can't make anything under pressure. One miss was 12". I put the ball down, aligned the left edge of the cup because it was breaking hit my line and it hits the left edge and spits the ball out 3 feet away. Am I hosed in the head for feeling like a complete choke artist? The more it happens the madder I get until my hands are physically shaking on the course. This can't be right to feel like that. Farking Bastage fucked around with this message at 02:08 on Nov 29, 2022 |
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Farking Bastage posted:Thanks guys. I’ve had some mental health challenges and my barometer for what is and is not a bad situation has never been accurate. If it doesn’t make you happy or doesn’t make you money don’t gently caress around with it. Day one of Arizona golf trip: shot a 93 on the Boulders South course. What i get for only playing 7 rounds this year. Playing the North course tomorrow, hopefully I can keep it in the fairway because i was bombing the poo poo out of everything in the bag.
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