August 20, 20187 yr 41 minutes ago, DDD Dad said: I knew it! haha..I knew that would trigger you. and in record time! too easy.
August 20, 20187 yr On 8/19/2018 at 10:46 AM, HouTex said: The story I heard was he somehow improved his lie. when my buddies start improving their lie i don't say a word, i just flick a tee down by their ball. that usually results in some variation of "fuck you man!"
August 20, 20187 yr 8 hours ago, Longhornanth said: haha..I knew that would trigger you. and in record time! too easy.
August 24, 20187 yr I bought the Groupon for Lago Vista a couple months back (2 for 1 golf) that expires August 30th. I had forgotten about it and there's no way I'll be able to get out there before then. Anyone on here want it? Just giving it away - it's already paid for - would rather it be used than go to waste. And, yes, I'm aware you never lost the amount you paid but kind of defeats the purpose of the deal to go with that option. Let me know.
August 30, 20187 yr Got first lesson in 20 years this week. Mind blown. set up and ball placement was about 4-5 inches towards my back foot than where i should be. Adjusted club face to be straight rather than wide open. Previous swing was, in my mind, an attempt to trap the ball to hit it lower and further. Apparently that was the exact wrong thing to be doing. Fixed placement an immediately added 10 yards on irons and drastically changed ball flight on 3 wood and hybrid club. Driver added 10-20 yards just due to roll. Feel like a crackhead wanting to go play since I finally figured something out.
August 30, 20187 yr Dodged the rain and went down to Lake Jackson yesterday and played The Wilderness.....what an awesome golf course. Beautiful condition. And no one there....was very enjoyable, me an my bud played in 3 hours. It's way off the beaten path, but if you get a chance, I highly recommend it. I think it cost around $25 on a GN hotdeal, golf bargain of the century.
August 31, 20187 yr Got first lesson in 20 years this week. Mind blown. set up and ball placement was about 4-5 inches towards my back foot than where i should be. Adjusted club face to be straight rather than wide open. Previous swing was, in my mind, an attempt to trap the ball to hit it lower and further. Apparently that was the exact wrong thing to be doing. Fixed placement an immediately added 10 yards on irons and drastically changed ball flight on 3 wood and hybrid club. Driver added 10-20 yards just due to roll. Feel like a crackhead wanting to go play since I finally figured something out. Ask Cedric where my headcover is.
August 31, 20187 yr Dodged the rain and went down to Lake Jackson yesterday and played The Wilderness.....what an awesome golf course. Beautiful condition. And no one there....was very enjoyable, me an my bud played in 3 hours. It's way off the beaten path, but if you get a chance, I highly recommend it. I think it cost around $25 on a GN hotdeal, golf bargain of the century. If you can avoid the grackle sized mosquitos that’s a fun track.
August 31, 20187 yr Got first lesson in 20 years this week. Mind blown. set up and ball placement was about 4-5 inches towards my back foot than where i should be. Adjusted club face to be straight rather than wide open. Previous swing was, in my mind, an attempt to trap the ball to hit it lower and further. Apparently that was the exact wrong thing to be doing. Fixed placement an immediately added 10 yards on irons and drastically changed ball flight on 3 wood and hybrid club. Driver added 10-20 yards just due to roll. Feel like a crackhead wanting to go play since I finally figured something out. Well done. Get that index lower so i can have some candy next time we peg it. Did your teacher ask you for a cash advance in order to make rent too?
August 31, 20187 yr Well done. Get that index lower so i can have some candy next time we peg it. Did your teacher ask you for a cash advance in order to make rent too?Pegging?
September 3, 20187 yr Almost had my best front 9 in recent memory yesterday. Out at The Oaks in Tulsa. Was playing solid on the front, got to 8 and blasted a drive that must have hit a power alley (it was a little downhill but nothing ridiculous) and ended up about 105 out on a 410 par 4. That was with a 3 wood. I am not a big hitter but was swinging so easy yesterday that I was really on the sweet spot. Hit a 52 degree to about 20 feet and drained the putt. I was sitting at 39 going into the par 3 ninth. Triple bogey. 5 strokes to get down from about 15 feet off the green. Got drunk on the back. Finished with a 96.
September 3, 20187 yr Almost had my best front 9 in recent memory yesterday. Out at The Oaks in Tulsa. Was playing solid on the front, got to 8 and blasted a drive that must have hit a power alley (it was a little downhill but nothing ridiculous) and ended up about 105 out on a 410 par 4. That was with a 3 wood. I am not a big hitter but was swinging so easy yesterday that I was really on the sweet spot. Hit a 52 degree to about 20 feet and drained the putt. I was sitting at 39 going into the par 3 ninth. Triple bogey. 5 strokes to get down from about 15 feet off the green. Got drunk on the back. Finished with a 96.Happens to me all the time. At least you did the right thing and started drinking. My handicap has gone from a 12 to 15 in the last four months. Took a lesson on Saturday and shot a 41 on the front nine with a birdie and I missed three makable par putts.
September 4, 20187 yr Almost had my best front 9 in recent memory yesterday. Out at The Oaks in Tulsa. Was playing solid on the front, got to 8 and blasted a drive that must have hit a power alley (it was a little downhill but nothing ridiculous) and ended up about 105 out on a 410 par 4. That was with a 3 wood. I am not a big hitter but was swinging so easy yesterday that I was really on the sweet spot. Hit a 52 degree to about 20 feet and drained the putt. I was sitting at 39 going into the par 3 ninth. Triple bogey. 5 strokes to get down from about 15 feet off the green. Got drunk on the back. Finished with a 96.Golf!
September 4, 20187 yr Played Lajitas over the weekend. Stunning course. It was 103° F. That's all I got.
September 5, 20187 yr Shot my lowest round since I started playing again last year, a 74 at my club which left me pissed off.Why would that piss me off when I am an 8 handicap? Because I have never shot even par, shot 73 a number of times but never got over he hump. I was 1 under going into 17 which is my favorite hole on the course. It’s a par three, 153 yards over a pond, pretty hole with large green. Pulled an 8 iron long and left and the pin was on the second level far right. Pitched to 6 feet and missed putt for bogey.Fine, still even with only 18 to go and wind behind me. It’s a 410 yard par four with pond on the right about 250 out. My miss is a hook and will end up in left rough about half the time and green is slightly elevated protected by bunkers.Out of nowhere I push my tee shot right and into the pond, anti hook swing. Drop about 150 out and completely bury my ball into front bunker. Hack it out to about 20 feet and two putt for a sweet double and a 74. Still no even par round. Biggest choke joke job since Linda Lovelace.
September 6, 20187 yr Just played the most boring round of golf. Hit 17 greens and made 18 pars. Highlighted by a 3 jack on 18 for par.
September 8, 20187 yr Club Championship starts today. Playing in gross flight again this year. Update?
September 8, 20187 yr Update?Turrible 83 yesterday. Had an 8 on 11 with my second shot bouncing off the green side bunker OB. Middle of pack. Today has been a washout playing in the rain. Shot 45 on the front with 3 doubles. Putts not falling. So far 9 lip outs though nearly 2 rounds. We go back out tomorrow at 10 to finish second round (I’m through 15) and then final rounds start at noon. If I par the last 3 holes I’ll shoot 85. Not good.
September 10, 20187 yr So I bogeyed 16 and 17 with decel putts from about 4 feet each to finish the second round with an 87. Not in DFL but at risk. Final round 77 gained back a little respectability. Left 4 or 5 shots out there but it felt good to get at least one round in the 70s.
September 10, 20187 yr New AP-3's should be arriving later this week. Hit them so well at the fitting last week. Can't wait.
September 10, 20187 yr 3 minutes ago, chitwood said: New AP-3's should be arriving later this week. Hit them so well at the fitting last week. Can't wait. That's the way it always works. They have special clubs they use for fittings when you are considering whether to buy a new set. Those clubs work perfectly. The real clubs you receive don't work as well. It has nothing to do with the player. It's the clubs.
September 10, 20187 yr 1 minute ago, HouTex said: That's the way it always works. They have special clubs they use for fittings when you are considering whether to buy a new set. Those clubs work perfectly. The real clubs you receive don't work as well. It has nothing to do with the player. It's the clubs. :). I tried about 5 different ones, and I definitely hit the AP3s better than the rest. That said, you are correct. The first mishit with the new ones will certainly be blamed on the clubs. Can't be my swing.
September 10, 20187 yr Got out again and am having so much inconsistency it isn't even funny. Shot a 49 on the back of a really tough course.... 10 - par 5 (hardest hole on the course) - 8 11 - Par 4 - 4 (FIR & GIR) 12 - Par 3 - 3 (chip on and 1 putt) 13 - Par 4 - 5 (scramble and 2 putt) 14 - Par 4 - 4 2 on 2 putt 15 - Par 3 - 6 (5 shots from 10 feet off the green, really bad lie over the green into bunker, 2 down from getting out of the trap) 16 - Par 4 - 7 (tee ball OB) 17 - Par 4 - 6 (all over the course) 18 Par 5 - 6 (easy coming home but made it as hard as possible. hit a great approach off a side hill) I've got 5 hours in the car on wednesday so I downloaded the Zen Golf book on itunes. I'll listen to it 4 times before the end of the week.
September 10, 20187 yr On 8/30/2018 at 9:15 PM, DDD Dad said: Ask Cedric where my headcover is. Poor Cedric.
September 10, 20187 yr 19 minutes ago, Horn21 said: Poor Cedric. Unjustly accused and no retraction yet. Very sad.
September 28, 20187 yr Playing in my club championship this weekend and I’m getting nervous. Played for four days in Hot Springs Village last week. Drove the ball great but those greens are impossible to read on the side of those big hills.I don’t think I had a single level lie, every shot is from an uneven lie
October 1, 20187 yr Played pretty average in the club champ this weekend. Saturday was one of the craziest rounds ever. 77 with 13 pars and 5 bogeys. 12/14 fairways and 14/18 greens. One of the best balls striking days ever for me and yet not one freaking birdie. I average two a round on our course. Had 3 freaking 3 putts! I never 3 putt, missed four very makable birdie putts. Just a waste of a round, as some guys say on tour, that was the worst score I could have posted hitting it like that. One three putt was on the easy first where i scooped up the ball with my putter 4 inches from the hole forgetting we have to putt out. Furk! Sunday I scraped it around, terrible ball striking with two doubles and only one birdie for an 81. No 3 putts and unreal scrambling just to get that score. Stupid golf. Only hit about 8 greens, hooking everything. It was my first singles tourney and had a blast, learned a lot. Putting out makes a huge difference. Saw tons of missed 3 footers that are gimmies normally.
October 1, 20187 yr Played pretty average in the club champ this weekend. Saturday was one of the craziest rounds ever. 77 with 13 pars and 5 bogeys. 12/14 fairways and 14/18 greens. One of the best balls striking days ever for me and yet not one freaking birdie. I average two a round on our course. Had 3 freaking 3 putts! I never 3 putt, missed four very makable birdie putts. Just a waste of a round, as some guys say on tour, that was the worst score I could have posted hitting it like that. One three putt was on the easy first where i scooped up the ball with my putter 4 inches from the hole forgetting we have to putt out. Furk! Sunday I scraped it around, terrible ball striking with two doubles and only one birdie for an 81. No 3 putts and unreal scrambling just to get that score. Stupid golf. Only hit about 8 greens, hooking everything. It was my first singles tourney and had a blast, learned a lot. Putting out makes a huge difference. Saw tons of missed 3 footers that are gimmies normally. And it's contagious. I've played in medal play events with no gimmies and when one player misses a 12-18 inch putt it's amazing how everyone else begins to miss them.
October 1, 20187 yr Anyone play Flintrock Hills recently? How is it? Decent shape? Might play Friday.
October 2, 20187 yr 27 minutes ago, Mileslong said: In Dallas where’s the best place to get Club fitted champions or golftec? Club Champion ... or the Preston Rd. PGA Tour Superstore What are you interested in getting?
October 3, 20187 yr I really want to get fitted for shafts, not really looking to change clubs but would consider it.I play a Callaway Epic driver, TM M2 3 wood, Callaway Apex Irons, Callaway forged PM Grind SW, Ping Eye2 lob and Scotty Newport 2 putter. Thanks for the recommendation!
October 3, 20187 yr 3 hours ago, hacker said: played La Cantera - Palmer course yesterday. Fuck those blind tee shots. I had a similar feeling after playing there. Of course I also sprayed all over creation...
October 3, 20187 yr Ha! That’s where I shot my career low 76 in a tourney. I finished the day 10 strokes ahead of 2nd place out of 20+ guys. Given 100 more chances I couldn’t do that again. Was such an odd course to go low on.
October 3, 20187 yr I hit it like ass but the few times I thought I pounded it down the middle, I ended up 5 yards in the rough. Thankfully, it was a scramble.
October 3, 20187 yr 2 hours ago, hacker said: I hit it like ass but the few times I thought I pounded it down the middle, I ended up 5 yards in the rough. Thankfully, it was a scramble. User name checks out.
October 4, 20187 yr I've been swinging so easy lately that i'm just murdering the ball. I haven't hit my 3 wood shorter than 270 off the tee for 4 rounds now and my wedges are really in tune. I'm just having trouble with alignment it seems because my scores aren't dropping and I'm not hitting greens with any iron above a 9. Aside from just laying down a stick and getting your feet right, have any of you done something that really turned the switch on your mind's eye about how to approach the ball so you are on target? I hit about a 5 yard draw with most irons. It gets straighter with 3-4-5. Thanks for any direction/help you can give.
October 4, 20187 yr Do you find a spot ~2’ in front of the ball and use that to visually draw the line you’re setting up parallel to? I also work on locking in the way the target flag looks vs my left shoulder. To me, the shoulder is pointing about 5 yards left of a target when I’m square. I sometimes intentionally open and close it to extremes on the range to see the ball flight impact which allows me to fine tune the correct position. Ball position is key, too. Not only making sure it is correct, but also not opening when ball is forward w longer clubs. ETA: I’ve been told repeatedly not to consider feet in alignment, but rather knees, hips and shoulders. Feet are misleading.
October 4, 20187 yr On 10/3/2018 at 7:18 AM, hacker said: played La Cantera - Palmer course yesterday. Fuck those blind tee shots. Know that feeling. In mid 90's played Robert Trent Jones course in Hoover, Al and hated it because of blind approach shots. If I am paying a fair amount to play I want to see where I have to hit it.
October 10, 20187 yr A few days ago I mentioned getting fitted for clubs. I know Champions is good but they are twice as expensive as Golftec, are they really that much better? Also according to their website, PGA Superstore offers free club fitting, how can they do this??
October 10, 20187 yr Has anyone played Pine Dunes Resort and Golf Club In Frankston, TX??One of the best I have ever played and definitely the best value. Played it on a weekday and it was wiiiiide open which I also love.
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