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Looking at getting back into golf after not playing in about 15 years. I never really had my own clubs and going to be building a bag from scratch. A buddy, who does play a lot of golf, told me about the Cobra One-Length iron sets. It looks like they just came out with the R9's and new R8's can be had for cheaper than used R8's. Seems like relearning one swing for a lot of clubs could be a good thing for me in my position. Does anyone here use the one-lengths? Are you happy with them? Not going to lie, I love technology stuff and the cobra connect system looks really neat too.
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Played my first 18 holes in 13 years today. Shot 114, but saw what I needed to work on more at the driving range. All and all, I did better than I expected.  Edit: also played with my own clubs for the first time ever, since I previously borrowed my dad’s. nerox fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Jul 25, 2019 |
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Jul 25, 2019 01:16
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I started back golf about a month ago and I've been playing with a buddy who is a scratch golfer and he has been coaching me the past few weeks. I broke 100 for the first time this morning. 
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Aug 11, 2019 16:43
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mattfl posted:Bryson looks so much less like a dbag when he's not wearing that stupid hat of his. It doesn't look like Brooks has that much size on Bryson although it's probably the looser fitting shirt Brooks is wearing I guess. You can't wait 3 minutes to take your swing in a fight though. 
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Aug 15, 2019 15:32
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mattfl posted:Guys, Phil's been all over social media this week. I thought his one was funny. 
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Aug 23, 2019 16:53
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I have started hitting my irons really well (even my 4 iron) and can't hit my fairway woods for poo poo all of a sudden. I played my first foursome on Saturday. I haven't ever played with 2 of the guys and we were talking prior to starting what we normally shoot (everyone around 95-100) and then my normal golf buddy shoots around 75. So we get to the first tee, a 325 yard par 4. The first two guys both slice far right. My buddy hits his right down the middle about 210. Then I hit a great 225 yard drive right down the middle. I was 100 yards out, which is 9i all day for me, I hit it right on line, but not enough power and left myself about 5 yards off the green, with another 10 to go to the hole. I grabbed my pitching wedge and did a perfect chip shot, the ball landed about 6 yards from the hole and kept rolling, straight in for my first ever chip in and first ever birdie. I think the 2 new guys thought I was sandbagging them until I did a double bogey on the par 5 right after this and then a triple bogey on the par 3 after that.
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Sep 11, 2019 15:43
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Anyone here use arccos and an Apple Watch? Have you had your watch app hang up on previous holes and not update yardage to green without reopening the app since the new updates this week?
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Sep 21, 2019 17:23
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As a bonus, you can now sit on the back porch of the clubhouse in a rocking chair and claim that rain is coming cause you can feel it in your ankle.
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Nov 7, 2019 16:47
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mattfl posted:Does anyone here use any of the stat trackers like the Arccos system? The wife wants some ideas for Xmas presents and I’d really love something that can track distances better while playing. When I started back playing golf a few months ago I got an arccos and really enjoyed the stats and it helped me get a feel for my distances for each club. The system itself works really well, I would say it would miss a few shots per round that i would have to manually put in later when I reviewed my round. That said, I bought a rangefinder about 2 weeks ago cause the watch app doesn't play nice with the newest apple os update and always seems to be bugging out and I haven't even bothered turning it on the last few rounds I played. tl;dr: I enjoy my Caddytek rangefinder I bought for $100 off ebay more than my $250 arccos at this point now that I know what distance I hit each club.
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Nov 18, 2019 22:52
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Phil Mickelson already won the presidents cup with his Instagram post and he’s not even there.
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Dec 12, 2019 03:44
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So I got fitted for irons today. I am a tall guy and have been playing with standard clubs for about 6 months now. The fitter noticed real quick that I was hitting everything on the heel of the club and I was a few degrees off on the lie. Turns out I need a 1” extension on the club and I started hitting the sweet spot consistently.
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Dec 29, 2019 00:28
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Anno posted:drat, +1” is a lot lol. Get ready to sail par 3s while you get used to the new gaps. Yeah, I spent about $150 on my current irons when I started playing, so I didn’t want to spend even more to extend and regrip them, so I got some Callaway rogues coming my way. They were out of stock so I had to order them. I am pretty pumped and going to have to relearn all my club distances.
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Dec 29, 2019 00:55
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What is the best "budget" solution to at home indoor golf that doesn't require silver tape on balls or putting any poo poo on your clubs?
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Jan 2, 2020 23:55
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Anno posted:drat, +1” is a lot lol. Get ready to sail par 3s while you get used to the new gaps. Trip report: I played on Saturday and Sunday this week after getting my clubs. I did a lot of physical work on Saturday morning and played Saturday afternoon and everything was a disaster, we didn't even bother keeping score cause I couldn't make contact to save my life. I was thinking I made a huge mistake. Sunday we go out rested up and I am hitting my balls high, long, and straight. The first par 3 we got to, I used to hit 5 iron on. I pulled my seven based on what I was hitting on the range and in the simulator and still sailed the pin by 20 yards. I had similar results every other par 3. Luckily my putting game was on point Sunday and I one or two putted all day long. Ended up shooting an 87, which is 2 strokes better than my previous best. The correct length irons seem to have introduced a slight draw to my game. My driver is still a wild slice, maybe I need to get that shaft extended too.
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Jan 7, 2020 15:00
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and an 8 iron that is still in the plastic and looks to have heavy use.  If it weren't for the fact he has a bizarre custom putter, I would think he just went to a pawn shop and bought a bag of clubs 10 minutes before he was supposed to be at the tournament.
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Feb 12, 2020 15:15
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D34THROW posted:Reptilechat! For your snake in #1, I gotta say it was a moccasin. I've never seen any other poisonous snake here in Georgia alter course to go after a "threat" to them. Hell a rattlesnake won't even strike at you unless you step on them or sit there and poke at it with a stick or something stupid. I have a local course that we see gators on pretty often. There is one par 3 that the green backs up onto a swamp area. I am waiting for the day that a gator is sunning itself on that green when I play.
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Mar 2, 2020 16:15
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With every sport being canceled, what the hell is ESPN going to talk about to kill all their airtime. Maybe they will go full "The Ocho" mode.
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Mar 13, 2020 14:13
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I just order AAAA rated golf balls online. Just bought 8 dozen ProV1x's for less than $1 a ball. I used to only play Wilson Zips which are like $20 for 2 dozen new, but I got a dozen ProV1x's for Christmas and really liked them. Even at 50% of the costs of new ProV's: Snell, Vice, etc. are still $2+ a ball.
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Mar 16, 2020 18:48
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Do any of you use the Kirkland golf gloves? They are $20 for a 4 pack, but I don't have a costco within 2 hours of me to go out and buy some.
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Mar 17, 2020 13:32
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I just don't trust my course enough that they are disinfecting the carts to go play. I live on the 15th Hole tee and saw a group of 8 people playing in the Tuesday night scramble and they were all standing next to each other on the tee box. I may end up going out and walking holes 13, 14, 15, and 16 a few times just to get my fix in. Not going to putt out and have to touch the cup. I pay a membership fee that lets me play all I want without green fees or cart fee, so they are not going to care if I do this, and from the 13th tee, I can see if anyone is on 11 and 12 that I would be in the way.
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Mar 27, 2020 14:01
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Played for the first time in a long time today. No range balls, just going out cold. Front 9: I was about +3, way above where I normally am. Had the best iron shot of my life, 163 out with a tree in the way. Hit the ball perfectly, cleared the tree by about 2 feet and hit the green. The back 9... we aren't going to talk about my back 9 
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May 2, 2020 19:02
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Peyton’s comments are the best part of this so far.
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May 24, 2020 22:01
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Tiger vs. Peyton.... but its an executive par 3 course.
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May 26, 2020 13:22
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Shrapnig posted:Honestly it’s consistency that makes you a good golfer. I’m not a consistent or good golfer but playing with those kind of players actually looks boring. We all want to play boring golf. Fairway, green, two putt par puts you in the 1% of golfers. Yeah it is kind of crazy to think about, but I have birdied every hole at my local course at this point. That means theoretically I can shoot a 54 on that course. However, I am so inconsistent I usually shoot high 80's low 90's
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Jun 8, 2020 20:30
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AndrewP posted:If I'm a bad golfer, will I be helped in any way by more expensive balls? Should I just get the cheapest I can find? I haven’t used them, but planning to order some Srixon Soft Feel. They are $20 a dozen, but buy one get one free right now at Srixon.con, which puts you under $1/ball.
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Jun 10, 2020 18:32
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Have you considered putting with a long iron and using the extra club slot for a 72 Degree Wedge?
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Jun 17, 2020 13:11
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mattfl posted:So uh, does anyone else think we might should start a Goon Golf discord incase this place goes tits up? Unfortunately, this thread is not super active and a goon golf discord might initially have some activity, but I am afraid it would slowly just die off as people stop looking at it and there not being any way to actually bring new people into the discord.
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Jun 24, 2020 14:36
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Buying million dollar hole in one contest insurance is cheap. I can't imagine how cheap the insurance on that gimmick is.
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Jul 1, 2020 22:11
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xsf421 posted:I got some Arccos sensors recently from their completion program (own a cobra club with a sensor, get the rest for free). I'll be trying them out on Monday, but it's kind of weird that they don't have any sort of club tracking for the driving range. Arccos works by simply making a gps read when you make a shot. Then it goes back and fills in the information for that shot when you make your next swing.
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Jul 4, 2020 19:50
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Arccos knows which club you are using cause each sensor is tied to a specific club. I have arccos and to be honest I never bother with it anymore. I loved it when I first got it, but there was an Apple iOS system update a few months later and it’s never quite worked right since and I end up having to go in and manually add back strokes. I emailed support about it and the workaround was like to restart the app every time the app got hung up. I should try it again soon to see if they ever Fixed the bugs.
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Jul 4, 2020 20:50
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Kirios posted:I will pay you cost plus shipping and a little extra to ship the Mario bad markers to me  I assume this is in Japan, how much is it to ship something to Georgia?
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Apr 5, 2021 16:36
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harperdc posted:Give me a week or so to pick them up and send, I can PM each of you later with costs. But shouldn’t be too bad, letter-packs being sent overseas usually aren’t more than $8 or so. That would be awesome, I really want the goomba and didn’t find it anywhere.
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Apr 6, 2021 01:47
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mattfl posted:Apparently his new Cobra driver was just added to the conforming list yesterday so he's probably breaking it in lol It's apparently a training exercise where is his literally just trying to get his club head speed as fast as he can and hitting balls rapid fire. It reminds me a lot of this goodgood video where Berkshire is working with Bryson to get speed up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pibACnhf1Hc&t=2s
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Apr 6, 2021 14:41
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Lincoln posted:Hey hey hey here's the view from my new backyard: You will get balls. I live on a tee box and someone literally has to hit the ball 90 degrees off line to make it inside my fence from the back tees, from the front tees I don’t think it’s possible. I still get a ball or so a week. Of course it’s always a pinnacle.
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Apr 7, 2021 19:33
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Just had a google notification that “Morikawa wins Memorial Tournament”
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Jun 6, 2021 23:38
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shyduck posted:I don't use the 2-ball but I love the White Hot insert Queue my wife saying "loving idiots" when we are sitting on our back porch and watching golfers tee off on #15 behind our house when its thundering all around us.
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Jun 10, 2021 18:45
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Lincoln posted:My wife and I both refer to this as our retirement home, but with a different emphasis. Her because she's going to retire here. Me because the house has replaced my retirement. They are always Pinnacles, Nitros, or Noodles.
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Jun 16, 2021 15:57
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mattfl posted:poo poo you just reminded me I lost mine recently and need to pick up a new one. I have a caddytek v2 that has slope and has the plates to where it can be a non-slope version that tourney legal or whatever. They are always like $99 on ebay and never had a problem with it. So its an under $100 range finder with slope that gets a goon seal of approval. I also have a friend who makes too much money that uses a Garmin Z82 which is $600 and has a hud that shows you an overview on the left side, which while cool is not worth it. Also, I can't recommend "Frogger Golf Rangefinder Latch-It Golf Cart Attachment" on amazon enough to strap your rangefinder to the cart, I've never managed to accidently dislodge my rangefinder from the cart, yet its easy to pull it off to shoot a flag. nerox fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Jun 22, 2021 |
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Jun 22, 2021 21:57
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daslog posted:Next week, we can discuss why I carry a 7 wood instead of a 3 hybrid (try it, it's amazing) I have a friend with an old rear end 9 wood, the face looks like a wedge and it is amazing to hit. Meanwhile, today I could not stop slicing the hell out of my driver, so I said gently caress it and hit 3h off tee the entire round other than par 3’s. Which in most cases left me with a 3h for my second shot, meaning I used my 3h, 56 degree, or putter for almost my entire round. nerox fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Jul 4, 2021 |
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Jul 4, 2021 22:10
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They should replace Rodgers with John Daly.
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