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im home today after 7 straight days playing. I am absolutely unbearable to be around. Cranky. My wife told me to go play - I might get 18 in now but even now the sheet is full as its mens night. Withdrawal hurts. I am soothing it with very cold coors light . taking tomorrow off. tee times booked 4 of next 5 days. Monday will be hard not playing but maybe I squeak one in LOL
That's great Buckey! I may have played 50 rounds since Jan...shot 71 today with 5 birds and 4 bogies...3 bad drives and a 3 putt.
It's unbelievably hot here these days...we 3 seniors walked at 8:30 and I didn't take a leak today until 7pm, lol...
a little more on Moe - apparently did a bit of a show at my club - must of been in the 90s when I lived in another province. anyway the thread is about talk about your round. I live in Canada. I essentially have two gigs (jobs) which of my 43 rounds since april 24th would we discuss LOL. never struck the ball better in my life. cranky when I shoot 76
Hanging in there buddy...hope you are as well!
I'm playing about 3 times a week...and playing some goofy golf.
Shot a 40 on the back nine a few weeks ago...without a single par. An eagle, 2 birdies, 4 bogeys and 2 doubles...
Then I had a career back nine of 34...after a 46 on the front. Was +7 after 3 holes (ouch) and was 1 over for the next 15. Had 5 birdies on the back...stupid game!
Had an opportunity yesterday to go and assist with a course rating team for the USGA. Interesting process...had no idea what goes into figuring out the slope/rating for a given course...pretty involved!
Hope you guys are well!
That's for sure...especially since I'm walking and carrying my bag again at the ripe old age of...almost 62?...wow! How'd that happen so fast?
HiYa DC...hope you're doing well...........
Makes the bag a whole lot lighter! Howdy boys!
good ole MOE. one of my clubmates from my Junior and young adult days played 3 or 4 rounds with him on the CPGA 4 stop Florida circuit late 80s. I blew my low round of year chance yesterday with a double bogie on 18 from the 150 dot dead center of fairway. GOLF IS HARD lol.
I was always a bad ball striker and great short game to save the day. Now I strike it well. It never makes sense
Playing a fair amount. Qualified for and played in the NC senior Am in Wilmington....
I play about twice a week.
Almost a year ago I switched to the single plane a la Moe Norman...after almost a year it's really coming around and it's made quite a difference.
Right now I'm carrying a 3, but have had a few low scores..
Played in a 3 clubs and a putter tourney and shot 70, lol...and didn't win! I used 3 wood, 7 iron, SW and putter. Maybe we don't need all these clubs we carry around?
griff u playing much? I got 25 in so far. striking it well. scoring good but cant go low - I always find something to go askew on me.
Playing Cabot Cliffs in a few weeks. Google it. quite a bit of fanfare
YEPPER all over the news. we tried to sell our urban course about a decade ago.The city nixed it. we had a deal to turnkey to a new course.
our deal was worth $15 million
I played the abbey just the once. a drizzley day but had the course to myself playing with my bro.
but its reality
http://globalnews.ca/news/1692175/toronto-area-golf-club-to-sell-for-more-than-400-million/
One of the most important golf courses in Canada may someday cease to exist. Glen Abbey's parent company recently filed a proposal to redevelop the golf course's 230 acres into a residential and shopping area. The golf course has hosted the Canadian Open many times, and has been in operation for 40 years. It is an important part of the community in southern Ontario and the history of golf in Canada.
Canada's Globe and Mail reports that the parent company, ClubLink Corp., was not motivated by flagging profits in the golf industry or the lure of property developers' money. "This is just a very preliminary thing," CEO Rai Sahi told the paper. However, Glen Abbey occupies a very valuable slice of real estate, and another ClubLink course that closed last year may also be turned into an upscale neighborhood.
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2009 RBC Canadian Open
Glen Abbey was one of the first golf courses designed by Jack Nicklaus, who went on to design dozens of other courses. The 18th hole on the course is famous for the stunning shot Tiger Woods pulled off there at the Canadian Open in 2000.
Locals are not happy about the potential for construction on the course, or with the prospect of losing the prestige and publicity that come to the area because of Glen Abbey's place in the golf world. "Losing this site, which can never be replaced, would be a tragedy," one resident said.
next thing they will be thinking they can come in the 19th hole
The horror of it all
Wow, those must be nice courses....
I just played my usual dogtrack today. I got a new 2 day a week job at a real nice private club, but they were closed all summer changing the greens over to bermudagrass and reopened Sep 1st. I've been there this week makes 4 weeks and haven't been able to get on it yet to play. Doesn't help that Mondays are booked up for outings, I work 1-close Tue and Wed..Fri -Sun is a madhouse and so fat Thur afternoons have been taken. They are cramming in every CC, mem-guest, senior this, ladies that that were all missed in the summer before the grass goes dormant.
The wife stuff is pretty funny...mine just goes once in a whil and rides in a cart. She says come cooler weather (it's almost here), she'll walk 18 with me. Shouldn't be a problem since she likes to hike anyway.
Played 2 top 100 in Canada in last week.
http://scoregolf.com/the100/2014-top-100-ranking/
#40 and 70
playing #2 in next 2 weeks.
Today I played with my non golfer wife. Not too bad first few holes. 5th hole she clanks the clubs in my back swing so I bogie to go one over. I par 6. 7 I put drive in absolute position A on left side taking bunker out of play. Her cell phone beeps in my address. I was 118 in on a 390 yd par 4. Bogie. she is missing shots every hole. on 11th hole she is shitter. door slams on her way out In my backswing again - bogie to go 3 over. I birdie 12.
Then I get a beer from cart girl who doesn't even need to ask my acct # lol. MY wife asked how I paid. I slipped out of that one.
I am being so patient with her I don't do wife golf well. She then exclaims " I just need to play more"
I then pipe up "NOOOOOOOOOOO - more golf bad". We will do it again next year - ONCE
I played a Golf Digest top 100 course today...I say it's a gimmick course but it was beautiful. Too many blind shots...off the tee and often to the greens. 3 holes had 14 foot flagpoles so you could see them from the fairway.
I shot 73 (2 over) with 2 birdies....rating was 70.8 with a 142 slope from the 6300 yard tees.
Playing in a stableford even there Wed...practice round today was $35 on a $130 course.....
Here's a flyover:
http://tobaccoroadgolf.com/flyovertour.cfm
Driving has always been my weakness. People say I am a great scrambler - beacuse i have to be when im off the fairway all the time. They say i have a great short game. Yeah. Cus I miss a lot greens. I grind hard for my bogies lol. But to your comment on playing more I layed today. Ok. 7 over
Well, play more! Your season will be over before you know it.
I've been playing better lately. Actually was disappointed with a 72 the other day, lol.
As always, the key to my scoring is the driver...if I keep it between the trees I'm under par, if I'm hammering it straight, I'm well under par. If I start swinging too fast at it, ...well nobody can score from the trees.
Lotsa fun lately.
Playing in a stableford Wed at a weird course called Tobbaco Road...look it up, it's actually famous, heh.
On topic. I suck. Had a good CC. But playing less. Short ga,me sucks
ah - twice in 3 weeks and especially this one hurts. Day deserved the win. Hearn will win. many times
I hope Hearn can hang in there the last 3 holes...I gotta leave and can't watch the finish.
He'll be a national hero...........
Whatever u r doing is working lol. I would of like to have met Moe. I have recently met our Canadian golfer weir, deleat, Hearn and hadwin
They gave him the 5k a month, yes...he wore a Titleist visor for years but it was basically a charity move by Wally Uhelein because of who he was.
They took that "natural golf" concept from him and started teaching it, and later signed him on and used him to sell lessons, clubs, training equip, etc. Moe wasnt the only one who ever used a single plane swing, but he perfected it and was the best at it.
I used parts of it myself when I was young, never heard of him at the time, just was doing what made sense to me at the time making the left arm an extension of the shaft from both views. I never got the grip to match it right though till I read/saw it recently.
At some point in my mid 20's a teaching pro told me I was too far from the ball and my arms should hang down and so I tried to do that for the next 35 years.
I swear this is the easiest swing to execute and if I don't move on it, it always goes right where I'm looking. So the grip was the key for me.
good ole MOE.
They figure he actually had aspergers syndrome.
Great unknown story about Moe - possibly fiction is in his poverty in later years Titliest approached him and for no reason of any substance started giving him $5,000 a month. Just because he was Moe - no endorsements - NOTHING. Just because of his contribution to golf.
wasnt that "natural swing" concept developed and then supposedly afterwards the guys who developed it saw an old clip of his swing and realized it was his swing.
Old roommate of mine caddied a few times in his grouping in late 80s on some sort of Canadian based mini tour that was actually 6 stops in Florida before Canadian tour started.
all 3 of above comments/stories may have errors as my memory not good - matter of fact I can only remember the 14 holes I played today where I was 3 under par. cant recall the other 4 ( they weren't bogies LOL)
Well it's gone now...played today and shot my normal 3 over....4 birdies and 7 bogies.......
Fantastic. something about .0001% of amateur golfers ever do.
hit funnest golf shot of my life today and had 14 holes of amazing everything. 2 of the other 4 holes were X and X
That one will never be posted!
When I first saw the single plae swing, parts of it brought back a lot of memories of how I did it back in my teens and 20's....but the thought of the clubshaft being on the same plane as your RIGHT arm at impact never entered my mind, I was always so left focused.
It's made a huge difference.
There are a bunch of Youtube videos on this...watch Moe Norman...he doesn't explain it that was..(I think he might have been somewhat autistic), but he does it the best and others explain it well.
Sweet! Congrats!!! Want to see that score posted to GHIN soon! lol
It's funny, I never really heard of the one plane swing but I've been using it for the last few months. Found that if I moved my hands further away from my body I'd make much better contact. Need to look into it further...thanks Griffy!
shhhh (don't tell anyone, but.....)
Out of the blue today I beat my career low.. at 60 years old no less!). Six birdies and an eagle. No bogies. Missed only 3 greens (all easy pars though), and hit all the fairways. It's been a really long while since I shot several under.
Left the 63 on the last green dead in 1 inch short .....
That was fun!
I've gone to a 1 plane swing (no teacher) about 2 months ago and now it's really starting to click. After trying it, I think everyone should play that way...it's really simple. Some say the knock on it is you can't be as long but I haven't noticed any difference...but it's a helluva lot more accurate...
Nice comeback....mine is hanging at around 3.5-3.8 these days.
Sometimes I putt with my eyes closed...especially if I really need to make one, lol.
If I can get out there by 8-8:30 it's not that bad. The humidity starts getting up some by around 11:30 though.
I have moved out to the sticks (Sanford, NC) and there are 2 courses here that I can walk weekdays for 12 bucks, lol. Walking helps physically since I haven't been running any this year.
Check out my GHIN:
Games coming around finally...I'll be down to a 8.5 at the next revision.
Biggest change was my putting. It was sooo bad a couple of months ago I went to looking at the hole instead of the ball (ala Jordan Spieth). Huge improvement! 5-6 strokes saved would be my guess. Making a lot more birdies now as a result. Had 4 a couple of days ago (shot a 79) and 5 a couple of weeks back (shot a 74).
Isn't it a little hot to carry?
Doood, I was just wondering about you the other day. Good to hear from ya!
Only once a week huh?.....I might get out twice, but I'm back to walking and carrying the bag.
I think I'm normally hitting mine about 260...but once in a whil I tag one. Wed I measured one at 3.09 (lasered the guys standing on the tee back there)...first time I've ever reached that par 5 in two from there.
Now I'm wondering if they make irons like that, heh.
Check out this hole. It's a course called Farm Links in Sylacauga, AL...about a 3 hour drive from here but a really great course.
This is a par 3 that has a 170 foot drop from tee to green. They have a sign on the tee that tells you the effective yardage. When we played it the marker said 220 but the effective yardage was only 145...pretty cool looking hole!
Howdy boys!
I bought an adjustable driver a few months back as well...Cobra Fly-Z. Been going back and forth from 10.5 to 11.5. Has a regular flex shaft...guess I'm getting old! Hitting it around 245-250.
Can only play once a week now since I started working...kind of sucks! lol
Hearn almost took it, I was pulling for him in the playoff.
Bought a driver 2 weeks ago off a guy for 100 bucks and was shocked to find it gave me 25 yards...SLDR 9.5 degree set to 10.5. First adjustable I've ever hit. My ping was just going too high and I wanted something to have my momentum going forward instead of up. These are made to have low spin so the same loft goes noticeably lower and runs like crazy. I think it carries the same distance as my Ping but gets a lot of roll off the momentum.
I can't curve it though..I guess it's the low spin.
Give one a try if you get a chance.....
getting a lot of birds these days but having those bad holes. watching web.com which is a local course. I will attend tomorrow where Tom Watson will play in an event with Canucks like Mike Weir, Deleat and David Hearn who is actually in the hunt on PGA today
about 4 weeks ago we still had some ice piles in a back parking lot of one of my properties.
Golf. this week is first morning golf I have played and I played well. Ive been out about 8 times. some courses only opened in last 2 weeks. many had significant greens damage. we were very fortunate to be playing over a month now.
we are still cheating LOL ( rolling the ball) greens punched 2 weeks ago now great.
Did your snow ever go away? We have 100+ here all week, next few days a cool down to 95...
The 2015 U.S. Open pool is now open for business!!!
need picks by 7am thursday
The 115th edition is open to a field of 156 players. As of now, 148 golfers have qualified. The rest of the field will be filled by the top 60 in world on June 15 and from an alternate list from qualifying.
http://investorshub.advfn.com/Golfs-Major-Championships-2442/
1. You pick 5 players for the tournament. You can only pick 1 player from the top 5 in the world ranking. The top 5 are McIlroy, Spieth, Furyk, B.Watson, Rose.
You must also pick a tie breaker total score...even par for the 4 rounds is 280.
2. Teams must be submitted prior to the first group teeing off on Thursday June 18th.
3. Must have fun.
4. The winner will be the team with the highest dollar total at the end of the Tournament.
5. Points will be deducted for spelling mistakes and poor punctuation.
6. All of Fred's decisions are final.
7. No gimmees or mulligans allowed.
8. Void where prohibited.
9. Late entries will be allowed but you can only pick from players that have not teed off.
May 15th opening for us and manyothers. that is 3-4 weeks later than most. we had to snowblow the greens just to get the thawing started. set blades high so as not to rip covers.
That's no fun!...maybe by June?
we had flurries last 2 days and very cold. no courses open. lakes stil frozen
Had a beaut of a par today..par3, 178, creek just in front of the green, and slight mishit and you're in it...which I did with a 6 iron. Decided to play from the tee again just for the practice, bit a beautiful high shot right at the pin, watched it trickle in from the tee for a par! My buddy thought it was a hole in one, I had to remind him of the first tee ball
.....but to him it was still an ace, lol.
Too bad about that first ball, would have been my 5th ace and first in about 14 years.
Bogied the last 2 to shoot 3 over...my best round of the year so far. Game is slow coming around as I am playing less than once a week and can't keep the driver between the trees most days.
The 2015 Masters Pool is now open for business!!!
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=112428259
Link to the FIELD is in the stickies---the scorecard in the IBOX also has links to the FIELD, ODDS, etc..
1. You pick 5 players for the tournament. You can only pick 1 player from the top 5 in the world ranking. The top 5 are McIlroy, Stenson, Watson, Spieth, and Day.
You must also pick a tie breaker total score...even par for the 4 rounds is 288.
2. Teams must be submitted prior to the first group teeing off on Thursday April 9th.
3. Must have fun.
4. The winner will be the team with the highest total dollar total at the end of the Tournament.
5. Points will be deducted for spelling mistakes and poor punctuation.
6. All of Fred's decisions are final.
7. No gimmees or mulligans allowed.
8. Void where prohibited.
9. Late entries will be allowed but you can only pick from players that have not teed off.
WELL WENT second low round of year today. hd a bit of a weak run home after a few weeks in florida. Get this. Missed every fairway on front including 2 hit with 3 woods. even and bad hole was a par 3 double with a 5 iron.
Back 9 hit all 7 fairways - even
so shot even and grazed her on 18 for 1 under - no way I was leaving that puppy short - 8 feet by but was easy back in
DIEHARD CONTEST OPEN FOR BUSINESS!!
Die Hard Golf Contest
This contest consists of the 16 Fedex tournaments starting with the CIMB Classic Oct 30th 2014 and running thru the Shell Houston Open April 2nd 2015 (week before the Masters)...
Pick one player per tournament each week...
You may use any player a maximum of 2 times throughout the contest...
Scoring done by Fedex points...most points win
Any ties will be broken by most 1st places followed by points scored in individual tournaments starting with the Shell Houston Open and working back until any ties are broken...
Entry field each week will be provided as a link in the header of the scoresheet in the IBOX and also as a stickie post...
Good luck smile
"DIE HARD GOLF CONTEST"....COMING SOON....
http://investorshub.advfn.com/Golfs-Major-Championships-GMC-2442/
WOW that sure is a pretty golf course
and windy too
get a bushnell and you'll never need another yardage book. I could not play without mine now after 4 years using it. ...you can measure not only to the pin, but how far a bunker is from the tee...how far the carry over water is, how far to the front edge, or over a greenside bunker, etc.
Get the actual laser, NOT the gps type that you have to load the courses in to and they still aren't accurate...like the ones built into in the carts where you park beside the other cart in your group and one says 155 to the hole and the other says 159.....
This is aboard to talk about your rounds...brag about your most recent 18, bitch about it or provide play-by-play...even cursing the Golf Gods is allowed!
Feel free to post pictures of your local course...but let's keep to talking about our game.
Enjoy and have fun!
Golf Majors Pool:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/board.aspx?board_id=2442
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