Definitely try out the Srixon Z-Star XV. GolfWRX has great ball reviews, like this one. You can just click around the reviews for other balls. http://www.golfwrx.com/238731/review-srixon-z-star-and-z-star-xv-golf-balls/
Playing around in the yard with my driver, and decided to record my swing. It's probably not an accurate portrayal without a ball, but it seems like at my point of contact, my clubface is still open. That would make sense because I have a slice that is guaranteed to hit a house at least once per round. Spoiler
seems ridiculous, but he lost it cause he only played 13 events this year, and next year he can play a max of 12... doesn't look like it will change his schedule very much
If you win the Players and the US open in the same year, you shouldn't be in jeopardy of losing your card 1 year later He should be able to play any tourment he wants (even though I'm sure he'll be able to anyway)
he didn't really lose his card. He just didn't play enough so can only play 12 next year and has full exemption in 2017.
so Tiger gave CBS higher ratings yesterday than the British and PGA Opens...imagine what this number would have been without the triple on 11 CBS owes Tiger a big thank-you for these ridiculous TV ratings By Alex Myers Share this story: No offense to the Wyndham Championship, but it's pretty much a space filler on the PGA Tour's schedule these days. Despite all of the event's history, it's become that tournament that's played the week after the year's final major and the week before the FedEx Cup Playoffs. That is, until Tiger Woods showed up. RELATED: 7 photos that prove Tigermania is still alive and well Woods played in the event for the first time this past week and the difference in atmosphere and crowd size was obvious. Apparently, people were crowded into their living rooms to watch as well. Weekend TV ratings have come out and they're pretty eye-popping: That's a 220-percent increase on Saturday from the 2014 Wyndham and a 160-percent bump on Sunday with a 3.9 rating that would have been a lot higher if not for Woods' triple bogey on the 11th hole that all but ended his chances of a first win since 2013. It was also the highest non-major broadcast since Woods won the Players in 2013. It gets crazier when you compare these numbers to the TV numbers of this year's four major championships. The Masters is in its own league, but you'd be amazed at how the Wyndham -- again, the Wyndham -- stacks up. That 3.2 Saturday rating matched the PGA Championship's third-round number when Jordan Spieth and Jason Day were battling at Whistling Straits. And it tops both the Saturday ratings for the U.S. Open and British Open. RELATED: 15 signs you watch too much golf on TV That's right, more people tuned into see if Tiger Woods could win in Greensboro than they did to see if Jordan Spieth could keep his Grand Slam hopes alive at St. Andrews. Woods is scheduled to play next at the Frys.com Open in October. Think Golf Channel, which has full TV coverage of the event, is hoping for him to play his way into contention on the weekend?
Handicap ballooned this year. Just posted scores for my club's Ryder Cup tourney tomorrow. Went from an 11.2 to 18.4. Gimme dem pops!
The app shows what you're trending towards. Played your course last Monday for a fundraiser - holy fuck was it wet out!
It does but trending is not official. He said his tourney started tomorrow which is before the end of the month obviously so that why I mentioned it. Anyway... Yes, we've had no shortage of rain this summer. Courses in Nebraska are in such great shape overall. Also, one of these years maybe you'll grow a pair and join too!
Only in Tim Finchem's mind does that make any sense. What ever happened to the 5 year exemption for winning a major?
I posted that after just getting an alert on my phone saying he lost it without reading any article. He can only play in 12 PGA events next year since he played so few this year.. still stupid though
Went out and played a quick round today on an "extended lunch." First round with the new Scotty Cameron. Thoroughly impressed! Felt so much more comfortable from ~8ft and in. Longer puts were right around the hole and ended up making 3 putts ~15ft that definitely helped the score. Went 41-39. Left a 7ft birdie putt on 18 about 2in SHORT to beat my buddy . Brutal way to finish but a great first round with the putter.
interesting article in Golf Digest about how to make the playoffs more interesting: Spoiler Let’s ask the unanswerable question: How do you invent a postseason in golf that actually matters? The easiest part of the exercise is naming the obstacles. For one thing, the four majors have been established for decades as the biggest tournaments in the sport, and that’s not changing anytime soon. Their rule is ironclad, and anyone attempting to conceive of a successful playoff system should realize that the battle for relevance will be long, arduous and, very possibly, a failure. Which doesn’t mean that the PGA Tour should concede to the forces of history and give up. The early dream that the Players Championship might become a major has long since faded, and playoffs are the Tour’s last chance to aspire to something of that magnitude. And who wouldn’t want an entertaining postseason? Imagine, for a hypothetical moment, that a playoff system took root among the fans and generated real enthusiasm. Golf would have a legitimate season-ending championship, and it would carry a huge amount of prestige. The second problem -- and the one with an actual, achievable solution -- is that playoffs in American sports are predicated on drama, and that drama is predicated on a tried-and-true format: A single game or a single series between two opponents. The fact is, you need that simplicity, one-on-one, or the whole thing just becomes convoluted and dull. It’s not that regular seasons don’t matter elsewhere. In baseball, basketball, and football, each team’s regular season performance comes with benefits that carry over to the playoffs—a higher seed, home-field advantage, maybe even a bye through the early rounds. But once these advantages have been established, the game must be played, and the results are wonderfully unpredictable. In the 2008 Super Bowl, the New England Patriots came in as an undefeated juggernaut with a chance to make history by finishing 19-0. They faced the New York Giants, a team that went 10-6 in the regular season and survived each round of the playoffs by the skin of their teeth. As it happened, the Giants won, and although nobody would ever argue that they were the better team throughout the season, everybody recognized them as champions. NFL fans and pundits and governing bodies respected the final result. Golf fans and pundits and governing bodies do not respect head-to-head match-ups, and it’s an enormous problem. Nobody seems to mind a small sample size at the majors, but when it comes to playoffs, the mere suggestion of an entire season boiling down to a final tournament sets an entire faction of the establishment up in arms. The championship, the thinking goes, should reward the best player for an entire year, not just the tail end. It makes no difference to these sticks-in-the-mud that every other American sport emphasizes the conclusion of a season—conservatism abounds in golf, and it’s this brand of backward thinking that continues to stymie the PGA Tour. The current format is highly dubious. The FedExCup playoffs are a series of four events—the Barclays, the Deutsche Bank, the BMW Championship, and the Tour Championship—where the “points” a player can earn are jacked up far beyond the regular season. It’s a compromise, of sorts—each player carries his regular season points over, which theoretically rewards good play from October through August—but the playoff events matter more. In 2014, each player earned 2,500 points for a FedEx Cup playoff win, compared to an average of 500 points for a regular season win. That disparity is designed to lend the playoffs a sense of drama, but it only succeeds at introducing chaotic volatility. Let’s take 2014. Billy Horschel won the big prize, which is about as arbitrary as you can get, considering the guy had exactly zero top-5 finishes prior to the playoffs. His late surge proved that the attempt to balance the regular season with the playoffs is a bad joke, because the guy who had a mediocre year still caught fire and stole the championship…just like any other playoff system! The only difference is the lack of excitement; the Tour forces its fans to follow a complex mathematical formula and a byzantine list of potential outcomes, which is analogous to hearing a dull lecture on the joys of human reproduction rather than experiencing the thing itself. To be fair, the PGA Tour does a better job than the European Tour, whose “Race to Dubai Final Series” isn’t very much like a playoff at all—in 2014, Rory McIlroy clinched the whole thing before the last event, and he didn’t even show up to the first three. That victory was made possible when the European Tour caved to pressure from the players a year earlier and reversed a rule mandating that the champion had to play in at least two of the events in order to qualify for the title—a capitulation that essentially undermined the entire format, and turned the so-called “Final Series” into nothing more than a jumped-up MVP award. Then again, it’s no surprise, because Europeans don’t value playoffs the same way that Americans do—the top honor in their domestic soccer leagues, for instance, is still a regular season title. The PGA Tour, too, deferred to the critics when they made the choice to reduce the winning points from 2,500 to 2,000 last December, ahead of the 2015 season. This puts more emphasis back on the regular season, and lowers the status of the playoffs. You’d be justified in calling this a huge step backward, if everything wasn’t already screwed up beyond belief. Through the minor tweaks and adjustments, the PGA Tour manages to miss the greater point—the winner of the playoffs will always be the golfer who gets hot late, and the crucial element of drama is still missing. In place of logic or fun, the Tour throws money at the problem, awarding the gaudy sum of $10 million to the winner. Unfortunately, money alone can’t buy prestige, and when players like Bill Haas or Brandt Snedeker back in to a title by winning the Tour Championship and not much else, it’s not exactly compelling. The truth is, these are not real playoffs—they are regular season events on steroids, wearing a flimsy playoff mask. The only solution—and maybe you’ve already guessed it—is match play. It doesn’t take a genius to see that golf's most controversial format is tailor-made to generate the head-to-head postseason tension we love in team sports. The excitement is practically built in to the format, and it would create a true playoff system capable of determining a true champion. And it would be dead easy: Let the players duke it out in stroke play over the first three events of the FedEx Cup, reduced the field from 30 to 16 after the first two days of the Tour Championship, and then institute a single elimination match play bracket to be played out on Saturday and Sunday. Voila—a compelling final, complete with the guarantee of excellent draws (which is the missing element everybody kvetches about during the Match Play Championship). By trying to placate both sides, though, the Tour has walked down the middle path and created something that feels mildly interesting at best, and tepid at worst. The fact that they’ve now retreated even from a watered-down version demonstrates the inherent weakness of the format. If a match play system were implemented, the players would probably stage a mutiny, because there are very few groups of human beings on the planet are more entitled and short-sighted than professional golfers. They consider match play unfair and arbitrary—and they have a point. But the reality is that playoffs are unfair and arbitrary, which is part of what makes them so entertaining. And, as we've seen, the current format has only managed to rid itself of the "entertainment" half of that equation, while failing to eradicate the so-called injustice. Imagine, if you can, the aftermath of the Patriots-Giants Super Bowl. Imagine all the Patriots players stood in front of the cameras and complained. Imagine they said that a single game was no kind of way to determine a champion, because anything could happen in the span of 60 minutes, and sometimes the best team would lose. Imagine they argued that the only reasonable way to determine a champion was to look at the results of an entire season, and evaluate the strengths and merits of a team from that broad perspective. Imagine they insisted that if the two teams played ten games, the Patriots would seven or eight, and that any unbiased observer would have to agree. They’d be right. But they’d also be whiners, and if anybody listened to them, we wouldn’t have a Super Bowl.
Shot 44 today, but made my first ever eagle... driver 310, 5 iron 210 to within ~10 ft, drained the putt. Of course I followed it up with double, triple on the next 2 holes, which was pretty frustrating.
GF's parents - if the relationship goes the distance (which it should) then I'll probably end up there. Whatever part of town I move to next year will also play a part.
was at barclays today. It was awesome seeing these guys up close. spoilered for size. Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler
Anyone have experience with the Taylormade 360 irons? It's a bit of an older club but from the reviews I have read it sounds like it would be a good club for me. I just started playing a couple months ago and am a high 20's handicap. Most the reviews talk about it being very forgiving and adding good distance. Found some on craigslist for under $100 which seems like a really good deal so I think I am going to get them regardless.
Played on Monday and shot 84. Until a month ago, my best score this year was 92, and I hadn't broken 90 in almost a decade. My last three rounds have been 80, 85, and 84. All three have been on courses I'm not familiar with, meaning it could have been better with course knowledge. There were plenty of solid strikes that missed the green due to the yardage being off or blind tee shots that landed in trouble I didn't see. I give a lot of credit to hitting Almost Golf balls in the back yard. I've used those for full swings and practiced short game with real balls. In a matter of weeks, I've lowered my handicap by 10. I am no longer surprised by good shots, but rather bad ones. I virtually don't hit the ball fat anymore, which was costing me big time earlier in the year. This is especially true in the short game. Also, listened to Harvey Penick's Little Red Book on Audible while on the road. I highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it. Does a great job of simplifying things for all golfers and giving good practice tips you can do inside your home. I'm really enjoying the game so much more now, and I hope that the 20 handicappers in this thread will try the Almost Golf Balls. I swear I'm not a salesman for them, but they have really worked for me.
No further than 150, and thats with driver. The good thing is they arent going to hurt or break anything. Wedges only travel 60 yards. 8 iron is about 80-90 yards. The best thing about them is that the ball flight mimicks a real golf ball, hook, slice, draw, fade, etc
Appr. 110 yards wide. Made up of three lots in the neighborhood. Very fortunate to find our house while we were in the market. When I hit driver I fly it into the neighbor's yard. They dont care.
I'll second the Almost Golf Balls. They fly about 60% the distance of a regular ball I believe, and the flight is true to the way you hit the ball.
Finally got fitted for clubs: Ping G25 (White dot) with stiff shafts. 4 through gap wedge. Also picked up the G25 driver, can't wait to get them next week. It was quite astonishing how much knee flex I had with my short irons and how screwed up my swing was a result. As soon as I got in the right posture, I was hitting the ball with a slight draw consistently with the simulator.
The first picture of him he actually hit into the rough. The other picture he was chipping a bunch of shots over that ridge onto the 18th green. The groups would play the holes to finish and then they'd all drop like 5 balls and putt all over the greens and take some chips. There is a 601 yard par 5 and Dustin Johnson was on the green in 2 shots. He absolutely crushed his drive, it passed fowlers drive by about 40 yards.
Maybe too far? Seems that I may be getting off plane. Or my downswing is steeper than my backswing (out to in)?