2018 Golf Thread

[Papelbon's Poutine]

Generally top 2 or 3 rated public course in Maine. It’s awesome.

http://www.belgradelakesgolf.com

Edit: looks like they made the most recent top 100.

 

[FL4WL3SS]

Looks pretty dope. Anytime you can get on a top 100 course for 100-150, gotta do it.

From the pictures, looks like there's some Pete Dye influence.

 

[Phragle]

Anyone want to hit up the Clubhouse in Middleton?

I'd hit the clubhouse. Good spot.

Yeah I’m in.

Can we get a fourth before I open up a group chat?

CC @Koufax, @Comfortably Lomb, @Papelbon's Poutine

 

[Papelbon's Poutine]

When? My schedule is a mess right now, just took a 9-5 and still finishing up notice at the bar 3 nights a week until they can replace me.

 

[Comfortably Lomb]

Can we get a fourth before I open up a group chat?

CC @Koufax, @Comfortably Lomb, @Papelbon's Poutine

A bit of a ride for me. Might be in for hitting the real links once the weather (eventually?!?) warms up and courses open.

 

[Phragle]

When? My schedule is a mess right now, just took a 9-5 and still finishing up notice at the bar 3 nights a week until they can replace me.

Just gauging interest RN, but I think it'd be on a weekend.

A bit of a ride for me. Might be in for hitting the real links once the weather (eventually?!?) warms up and courses open.

For sure

 

[Byrdbrain]

If you need a 4th for Middleton I'd be interested, especially since it looks like we won't be outside for quite a while now.

 

[Papelbon's Poutine]

Just gauging interest RN, but I think it'd be on a weekend.

I wouldn’t count on me. For the next month or so I’m working 9-5 five days a week and then T/F/S on the bar. The woman would probably kill me in my sleep if I ran off for indoor golf right now, as much as I’d love to.

 

[Koufax]

I'm waiting for the snow melt. When there's real grass, I'd be happy to join a foursome on the North Shore, NH or just about anywhere in New England, for that matter. Winter is for making money; summer is for spending it.

 

[Phragle]

If you need a 4th for Middleton I'd be interested, especially since it looks like we won't be outside for quite a while now.

Yeah I guess I'm the only one that's seen outside recently

I wouldn’t count on me. For the next month or so I’m working 9-5 five days a week and then T/F/S on the bar. The woman would probably kill me in my sleep if I ran off for indoor golf right now, as much as I’d love to.

Sounds good

I'm waiting for the snow melt. When there's real grass, I'd be happy to join a foursome on the North Shore, NH or just about anywhere in New England, for that matter. Winter is for making money; summer is for spending it.

Keep waiting. Saw Harvey Leonard cumming himself about some new storm yesterday

 

[FL4WL3SS]

I've hit balls for a combined 5 hours over the last two days with my new clubs. Loving the irons, but the driver is kind of iffy. Might have to go back and get refit. Luckily they guarantee the fittings.

 

[Papelbon's Poutine]

I forget who asked, but for them and everyone really - I just got the email for the ProV promotion, buy 3, 1 free with free personalization and custom numbers for a small upcharge.

 

[Phragle]

You guys ever sell anything on golf wrx? Found someone that wants a vokey 58. It doesn't seem like something to worry about but I don't know.

 

[jercra]

I've never sold anything on there but it's about as reputable a place as you'll find in the golf world. They have a whole commercial arm so letting it become a ripoff site would directly hurt them so I suspect they're pretty serious about protecting their image.

 

[Papelbon's Poutine]

I've never sold anything on there but it's about as reputable a place as you'll find in the golf world. They have a whole commercial arm so letting it become a ripoff site would directly hurt them so I suspect they're pretty serious about protecting their image.

This.

I wouldn't worry about it too much. I've never bought or sold there but I have done their product raffles and won a couple that they did send the demo.

 

[Papelbon's Poutine]

If they were supposed to cut the shaft and set the driver at a certain swing weight it sounds like the shop should be making sure you end up at the right swing weight after the cut-down. But yes, cutting down will reduce swing weight.

Yeah, as noted above I barely trust this shop to do what I ask, I’m not giving them enough credit to pull that off. I ended up calling Ping directly today, gave them the serial number and new length and they walked me through it. Cutting down dropped me from a D3 to a D0; each point is worth 2 grams; the stock weight in mine was 7g. So I needed to make up 6g. My kit only had even numbers, so I put in a 14g and will test it out; I can switch to 12g if need be. I’ll worry more about it when I get to actually use the friggin thing.

 

[TFP]

My irons came in today. Now I just stare at them longingly and cry when I look at the weather forecasts.

 

[FL4WL3SS]

So I should or should not keep sending you my on course updates?

 

[Light-Tower-Power]

I'm glad I got to play a round right at the end of February while it was still nice. This March has been bullshit.

 

[TFP]

So I should or should not keep sending you my on course updates?

If you keep putting up 45 on the front, sure.

 

[southshoresoxfan]

I’m honestly teetering. Work has been a Bear, my new club setup is staring me in the face, I’m sick and tired of removing snow, and to make matters worse my custom Prov1s came in today.

I’m about two weeks away from divorcing my wife, quitting my job and moving to Arizona.

 

[FL4WL3SS]

If you keep putting up 45 on the front, sure.

Which made the 38 on the back so much sweeter!

 

[jercra]

I know how you guys feel. We got 6" of snow here in Denver last night which made golf today impossible. It's not going to be gone until probably tomorrow and I haven't golfed since yesterday morning (a similar shit round as Flawl3ss 42/37) and now I'm not going to get to play again until Thursday or Friday.

 

[Papelbon's Poutine]

I know how you guys feel. We got 6" of snow here in Denver last night which made golf today impossible. It's not going to be gone until probably tomorrow and I haven't golfed since yesterday morning (a similar shit round as Flawl3ss 42/37) and now I'm not going to get to play again until Thursday or Friday.

I haven’t played since October. You’ll find no sympathy here good sir!

 

[jercra]

I haven’t played since October. You’ll find no sympathy here good sir!

Yeah, I was being a dick. I don't know how you guys do it. October? I've been out west long enough to not even remember what courses closing for the season even means.

 

[FL4WL3SS]

I thought the line about the snow being gone tomorrow was a clear indicator you were being a dick. I laughed.

 

[Papelbon's Poutine]

Oh, I laughed too. I am always on board with some good ball busting.

 

[southshoresoxfan]

I hate you both. I’ve played 18 holes since December 7th. Not counting hours and hours on the sim.

 

[Conigliaro's Potential]

Well, I haven't played since September even though my home course in Scotland has been mostly fine for most of the winter - too many work trips away. But then, I've become soft in my old age...the prospect of playing in low 40s temperatures and stiff winds no longer floats my boat.

Incidentally, I'm very seriously considering digging up the boggy and horrible lawn in my backyard, replacing it with 12mm artificial grass, and getting some golf holes cut into the corners so I can practice my putting outside all year round. Has anyone else done this or seen someone else's yard where this has been done?

 

[FL4WL3SS]

https://southwestgreens.com/contact/locations

 

[Saints Rest]

Back to the rules changes: No penalty for hitting the pin in the hole when putting. Does that mean that you have the option to leave the pin in the hole as you would when you are off the green?

 

[Conigliaro's Potential]

Back to the rules changes: No penalty for hitting the pin in the hole when putting. Does that mean that you have the option to leave the pin in the hole as you would when you are off the green?

I believe that's correct, yes.

 

[Conigliaro's Potential]

So...why is one's first round after a long break often so good? I played a loop of eight holes on my home course today, my first golf since September, and I had one birdie, one bogey and six pars. I didn't hit the ball great, but nearly all of my misses were good, and my putting was surprisingly excellent. If I could putt and score like this when in midseason form, I'd be overjoyed.

 

[Saints Rest]

So...why is one's first round after a long break often so good? I played a loop of eight holes on my home course today, my first golf since September, and I had one birdie, one bogey and six pars. I didn't hit the ball great, but nearly all of my misses were good, and my putting was surprisingly excellent. If I could putt and score like this when in midseason form, I'd be overjoyed.

Because your muscles are smarter than your brain. You probably didn't do a lot of self-analysis during the round; always a better result.

 

[jercra]

Yep. You're not fighting anything. Like, you haven't been missing all of your putts to the right, or hooking the ball off the tee or whatever. You're just happy to be out there and almost watching your own game more than participating in it. In sports like golf, I think it's helpful to be either insanely mindful of your game or insanely oblivious. If you can shut your brain down all the time when playing you'd probably be a lot better.

 

[Conigliaro's Potential]

I know - it was (mostly) a rhetorical question. But it does make me think I'd be better off playing no more than once every two weeks, and probably less often.

 

[Saints Rest]

This guy has written a series of books on the "inner game" of various sports that addresses this very fact. It basically posits that the most important skill one can bring to his/her own game is the ability to turn your brain off so the body can do what it knows how to do.

Think about some sports cliches and you can see how many of those cliches are basically other ways of saying the same thing:

• He was in the zone
• She was just unconscious out there
• Throw the ball, don't steer it.

Interesting maybe only to me, but I was first introduced to this series of books as part of an acting class where the teacher used to urge us all to rid ourselves of the little guy on our shoulders who is always criticizing everything we do.

 

[Conigliaro's Potential]

Funnily enough, I feel the same way about playing the piano. I'm not a great technical pianist, but with great effort I can teach myself to play the likes of Debussy's Clair de Lune or a movement from Bach's French Suites, etc. At a certain point, my fingers will know pretty much what to do, but then I have to get out of my own way to play a piece as well as I can play it - like, literally daydreaming as I play often produces the best music, and certainly on average better than when I'm concentrating on where my fingers are supposed to move. And sometimes I'll be playing through a piece and I'll know I'm playing it well, and then I'll tense up and expect a mistake which inevitably comes and often leads to further mistakes...which all too often is exactly what happens on the golf course.

 

[Koufax]

You are a man of many talents.

 

[southshoresoxfan]

Got in 9 today and have a tee time for 18 on Saturday.

We did it boys. Golf season is back.

 

[TFP]

Got in 9 today and have a tee time for 18 on Saturday.

We did it boys. Golf season is back.

Where?

 

[southshoresoxfan]

Norton CC

 

[TFP]

Any good?

We're dying for places to play on Friday next week. Preferably close to Central MA. Pine Hills is open, but that's a hefty drive. Anyone know of anything else open?

 

[southshoresoxfan]

I’m a member there. Love it. Not long (6300 from the blues) but a 72/134 rating/slope. Tight holes, fun greens. Nice walking course fairly flat/tee boxes right next to greens.

 

[Dogman]

Are you still talking about golf?

 

[FL4WL3SS]

Are you still talking about golf?

That's funny.

P.S. Streamsong is fucking dope!

 

[Bob Montgomerys Helmet Hat]

I was just invited to play in the Member/Guest at Desert Mountain in Scottsdale at the end of April. I've never played in a member guest, because I'm not a member anywhere, and I have no idea why anyone would invite me to be their guest. In truth, the guy who usually plays with my friend the member had to back out. It's a first class club with fantastic courses and I have to imagine this will be a terrific event. I haven't touched a club since October, so I need to try to shake some rust off, but I can't fucking wait.

 

[Papelbon's Poutine]

Why someone would invite you is a mix of friendship and having a high handicap, to get into a lower flight.

Have fun, desert golf is great.

 

[jercra]

I was just invited to play in the Member/Guest at Desert Mountain in Scottsdale at the end of April. I've never played in a member guest, because I'm not a member anywhere, and I have no idea why anyone would invite me to be their guest. In truth, the guy who usually plays with my friend the member had to back out. It's a first class club with fantastic courses and I have to imagine this will be a terrific event. I haven't touched a club since October, so I need to try to shake some rust off, but I can't fucking wait.

Member guest tourneys are usually the best tourneys of the year. I hope you get to play outlaw and I hope your buddy is paying.

 

[Bob Montgomerys Helmet Hat]

Member guest tourneys are usually the best tourneys of the year. I hope you get to play outlaw and I hope your buddy is paying.

My buddy is paying. Literally all I have to do is get there. It truly was an offer I couldn't refuse.
I've played Outlaw--I've played all 6 courses--but the tournament is a 3 day event at Apache, Geronimo, and Chiricahua.