A Good Walk Spoiled - The Golf Thread

[Hongbit]

40 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

I read good things about the Callaway pre-owned site.  I ordered a "like new" Paradym 7 wood from them and it came still in the shrink wrap with stickers/tags on the shaft like it was never used.  Not a single mark on the head, no scuff marks at all.  99% sure it was a brand new club.

They also offer a 15 day money back guarantee if you are unhappy with the condition.  You can just print up the return label from UPS and send it back.  It also has a manufacturer warranty good for a year I believe.

One very small downside is it comes with a generic "Paradym" head cover.  So if you order a driver and a few fairway woods they all look the same.  But you could come up with something fairly easy to help identify which club is which.  

I bought a year old Mavrik driver for half the retail price from them and had the same result.   Club was like new.  There was a tiny scratch on the shaft that was hardly noticeable.  

It came with a very basic Mavrik head cover which I have discarded.  

Will definitely be using them in the future for other purchases. 

[Deleterious]

Chi-Chi Rodriguez passed away today.

[CMRivdogs]

13 hours ago, Deleterious said:

Chi-Chi Rodriguez passed away today.

A real entertainer...

 

[Deleterious]

How to make the golf community hate you by Matt Kuchar.

[Deleterious]

Pricetag is $50m.

 

[Hongbit]

6 hours ago, Deleterious said:

How to make the golf community hate you by Matt Kuchar.

I am not a Kuch fan and those were typical jerk moves yesterday but….Aaron Rai is at another level of slow.  His putting routine is so long.   I can absolutely see how Kuch blew a gasket playing behind him even though it was the completely unprofessional thing to do.  

 I saw it speculated that Kuchar may have thought that if he didn’t finish they wouldn’t award the trophy until the next day and that would be his chance to make Rai wait.  He was obviously wrong.

[Shades of Deivi Cruz]

I am so ridiculously bad at golf, and it's making me crazy. I've been in a league with some friends the past couple of years, which is the first time in my 50+ years that I've played golf on a regular basis (or kept score). No one in the league cares that I'm bad, even my brother teammate, except for me. It's a beer cart league, and just out to have fun. Which it is, when I'm not doing the golf part.

I even took some lessons this summer, in an effort to moderately improve. Instead it has somehow made me worse. Now instead of being able to drive the ball (but not really know where it's going), I either pop it up straight in the air or top it. The only things that kinda improved is my chipping and putting. Irons are OK, but wildly inconsistent. At least there I know what I am trying to do, but I am completely lost in the tee box. 

[Hongbit]

On 8/14/2024 at 8:38 AM, Shades of Deivi Cruz said:

I am so ridiculously bad at golf, and it's making me crazy. I've been in a league with some friends the past couple of years, which is the first time in my 50+ years that I've played golf on a regular basis (or kept score). No one in the league cares that I'm bad, even my brother teammate, except for me. It's a beer cart league, and just out to have fun. Which it is, when I'm not doing the golf part.

I even took some lessons this summer, in an effort to moderately improve. Instead it has somehow made me worse. Now instead of being able to drive the ball (but not really know where it's going), I either pop it up straight in the air or top it. The only things that kinda improved is my chipping and putting. Irons are OK, but wildly inconsistent. At least there I know what I am trying to do, but I am completely lost in the tee box. 

If I had to rank which parts of the game are most important to master for a player trying to break 100 consistently it would be:

1. Irons from 120 to 150 yards

2. Chipping/short game around green

3. Putting

4. Driving 

Now, If I ranked which part of the game frustrates players the most, it would be the same list but in reverse.  

[Shades of Deivi Cruz]

Is that to break 100 over 9 holes or 18? 🤣

[Deleterious]

I love how fast we forget, especially when $$$ is involved.

The PGA Tour is meeting with the PIF.  The PIF is the Saudi Arabia Sovereign Wealth Fund, which is essentially the Royal Family. They are meeting on 9/11 in NYC.  

Sources: PGA Tour, PIF officials meeting in New York

[Hongbit]

On 9/11/2024 at 9:26 AM, Deleterious said:

I love how fast we forget, especially when $$$ is involved.

The PGA Tour is meeting with the PIF.  The PIF is the Saudi Arabia Sovereign Wealth Fund, which is essentially the Royal Family. They are meeting on 9/11 in NYC.  

Sources: PGA Tour, PIF officials meeting in New York

I’m at the point where I expect every move Jay Monahan makes is the wrong one and he rarely disappoints  

[Deleterious]

Another good experience with Callaway pre-owned. 

They ran a sale, buy one hybrid and the second one was 50% off. Ordered a 3 and a 5. Both delivered in shrink wrap and not a scratch on them.

[Deleterious]

Face value is $750 for a single Ryder Cup ticket.  

My dad went to the US Open in the 80's when it was at Oakland Hills, the year Andy North won.  I would love to know what those tickets cost.  

 

[CMRivdogs]

6 hours ago, Deleterious said:

Face value is $750 for a single Ryder Cup ticket.  

My dad went to the US Open in the 80's when it was at Oakland Hills, the year Andy North won.  I would love to know what those tickets cost.  

 

I tried searching for ticket prices for the 2004 event at Oakland Hills. We received a couple of freebies for the Sunday matches through my wife’s employer at the time.

That was one the US’s biggest disasters. Who ever thought pairing Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson would actually be a good thing

[Deleterious]

How do these no-name Youtubers get big name people on their channel?

I see Austin Reaves is on a channel called Tequila at the Turn, which has 25K subscribers.  How does a nothing channel like that get an NBA player like that?  And I get that Reaves isn't a huge name, but he is a starter for one of the most famous sports teams in the world.  That is a big name IMO.

I understand Good Good or even Grant Horvat getting big names.  Both of those channels have huge subscriber numbers.  But a starting Laker on a 25K subscriber channel?  

 

[Edman85]

 

[Deleterious]

[Deleterious]

Can I get a ruling on this?

 

[Hongbit]

18 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

Can I get a ruling on this?

 

Dog gets a red card and Bale gets to place the ball 3 feet from the hole.

[CMRivdogs]

4 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

Dog gets a red card and Bale gets to place the ball 3 feet from the hole.

Dog owner gets escorted off the golf course

[Edman85]

The JL Lewis segment on this morning's Shotgun Start Podcast was an all timer.

[Tiger337]

On 7/31/2024 at 11:27 AM, Hongbit said:

The YouTube channel was huge for him turning his image around from the uncool side of the Koepka feud to huge fan favorite despite being on LIV.    

I can’t imagine a worse person to play with than Trump.  Massive ego, will blatantly cheat whenever he can, and doesn’t think anything of the rules or etiquette of the game.  Not a chance of him actually paying you if he loses a bet.  None of that is political and pertains directly to what has been documented on his golf game.  

Someone wrote a whole book about how he cheats at golf!  He is probably a decent golfer because he plays so much, but we'll never know.  

[Deleterious]

Damn lucky he didn't kill that guy. 

Nasty brawl erupts on Canadian golf course after one group kept shooting balls at the other: video

[Deleterious]

 

[Edman85]

18 hours ago, Deleterious said:

 

For the better, imo.