Anybody Play Golf?

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Shann

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I decided to start playing golf again after a couple years off. I suck at it, but for some reason I like it. Probably because most of my friends play.

I don't have any particular comment or question, just trying to figure out how many of us play. Although I got 5" of snow here Tuesday night, I figure the courses will be open by next week.
 
Yeah, I play.

[understatement] Badly. [/understatement]

I still have to break 150. :eek:
 
I play sometimes. Been playing off and on for most of my life. Never was great, but on a good day I can shoot around 80. That's a good day, assuming that I play more than once or twice in a year. Otherwise, it's low to mid 90s.
 
Dijos said:
A golf course is a waste of good pasture
-florida beef council.
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A favorite saying on a couple of firearms forums I am a member of is "A golf course is a waste of a good rifle range." ;)
 
Golf is just FLOG spelled backwards.

I took up the game about 5 years ago and STILL only shoot in the high 90s. My friend just calls the game Click-Phuck!! I feel and ressemble his pain. I've had lessons, bought the best clubs I could afford, played in freezing rain, sleet, and snow, practiced from sun-up to well past sun-down, used belly and chest putters, two ball putters, and the latest Mega-Boat 5.0-litre driver with a sweet spot as big as Tezas and still have the same results. I've been told I'm standing too close to the ball AFTER I hit it and no gimmick, prayer, amount of money, or holding my mouth a certain way can fix it. Frustration at $100 a round plus in Vegas that I can simulate if I poked both eyes with a pre-quench heat-treated blade while having a KMG snag my shorts and "EQUIPMENT" and then providing a complete path to ground for 220 VAC from surface grinder I reactively knocked over into the quench tank.....but it IS a quiter frustration.

I hate and love the game but still look forward to more self-abuse from either golf or bladesmithing...... :D





J
 
java said:
I hate and love the game but still look forward to more self-abuse from either golf or bladesmithing...... :D
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I hear that.....


I play pretty seriously now, but It's like I'm getting worse. Last/first of my 3 tournaments was 110(my first tourny), 111(pouring rain got stopped for a little bit for thunder/lightning, was miserable), 129 (after raining continuously for a month.)


My game sucks.... Before, I was shooting around 104 though. :confused:
 
Hey, Javaman. Come on over to the St. Louis area. It doesn't cost anywhere near that to play, unless you go to the fanciest course around. ;) :)
 
Have a love / hate relationship with the game but it better than being at work. :D
 
clarkjd said:
I shoot the same scores as Tiger...It just takes me half as many holes to do it in!:rolleyes: :D
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Sounds like me. I told somebody that I shot a 68 and they were like :eek: :eek: but then I said I didn't play the back nine.
 
While we're on the subject of golf, how many people here play the game using the same rules as the professionals? By this, I mean how many people play the ball EXACTLY as it lies? No moving it out of a divot, cleaning the mud off or improving the lie? How many people here don't take Mulligans? How many people sink EVERY put, no matter how close?

As a challenge, try playing the game by those rules sometime and see how truly frustrated and depressed you really can be. ;) :D

For the record, I rarely play that strict. :)
 
Danbo said:
While we're on the subject of golf, how many people here play the game using the same rules as the professionals? By this, I mean how many people play the ball EXACTLY as it lies? No moving it out of a divot, cleaning the mud off or improving the lie? How many people here don't take Mulligans? How many people sink EVERY put, no matter how close?

As a challenge, try playing the game by those rules sometime and see how truly frustrated and depressed you really can be. ;) :D

For the record, I rarely play that strict. :)
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I try to play it straight, although since we don't have a practice tee at my club, I don't mind the ocassional mulligan off the first tee! I hate those guys who turn the ball over to improve their lie every hole :grumpy: I've played with a lot of "80" shooters who couldn't break 100 with a hammer if they counted every shot. I'm ambivelent about putting out everything. When someone says "its good" and you want to putt out, you invariably end up hurrying and missing the putt. It also slows everything down when you have to putt out every ball.

If you're in a match play match, which is what most people play casual rounds around here (read gambling), if someone gives you the putt, you "have" to take it. I think, though that you still have to enter your adjusted score for the purposes of a real handicap (i.e. if your opponent gives you a 20 footer because he's out of the hole, I think you are supposed to write down for handicap purposes what you most likely would have gotten on the hole)
 
Danbo said:
While we're on the subject of golf, how many people here play the game using the same rules as the professionals? By this, I mean how many people play the ball EXACTLY as it lies? No moving it out of a divot, cleaning the mud off or improving the lie? How many people here don't take Mulligans? How many people sink EVERY put, no matter how close?
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Me. No mulligans, no improvements, no cleaning, play it as it lies, count every single penalty stroke. That's why I haven't broken 150 for 18 holes yet. Penalty strokes kill me.

Wait a minute, I've taken one (really, only one) gimme putt once because I had been hacking it out on that hole for the last 10 minutes, and when my friends offered to let me have it I took it out of consideration for them. I didn't want to hold them up any more. I did add another stroke to my score though for that putt I didn't take.
 
Yup - pretty well play it by the book. Last couple of years have been tougher due to work schedules, but I'm usually in the mid 90's with the odd game creeping up over 100 or so. Usually, it's the putts:)

- gord
 
Danbo said:
While we're on the subject of golf, how many people here play the game using the same rules as the professionals? By this, I mean how many people play the ball EXACTLY as it lies? No moving it out of a divot, cleaning the mud off or improving the lie? How many people here don't take Mulligans? How many people sink EVERY put, no matter how close?

As a challenge, try playing the game by those rules sometime and see how truly frustrated and depressed you really can be. ;) :D

For the record, I rarely play that strict. :)
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I clean the mud off is when it's on the green and the marker's down. Only other time I clean or move a ball is for ground under repair or when I take a drop and a stroke for hitting into the really tall grass. I've played balls out of shallow water hazards and usually end up looking like I just finished a Louisianna motocross. However, I have taken a Gimme or two in Texas after the rains came and the cup was filled with crawdads.......but it was well within the leather!! Played Mulligans when I started but gave up when I discovered the second ball was merely a first ball follower.

Got the job at the Flight Test Center and as I remember Edwards AFB's course, I'll have a chance to play a sand bunker that is about 6,000 yeards at the tips. (At least I should be dry a dry dusty motocrosser when I finish playing there. ) :D

St Louis sounds pretty good. I play year round but not sure I'm any good golfing in the snow though. What the hell can't be any worse than my normally bad game. :D









J
 
If I'm playing with my friends I'll move my ball away from gravel, roots, etc; no point in damaging clubs in practice. But I'll count every penalty. I have to play strictly by the rules in tournment play.



Why is this in G&G? Well now we can make it stay here..... Any one use really, really big drivers? I hit a Hogan CS3, for fun my friend and I picked up some 540cc (uber illegal) knock off at walmart for about $45. It seemed really easy to hit, the face was deep as hell. :cool:
 
underaged! said:
If I'm playing with my friends I'll move my ball away from gravel, roots, etc; no point in damaging clubs in practice. But I'll count every penalty. I have to play strictly by the rules in tournment play.



Why is this in G&G? Well now we can make it stay here..... Any one use really, really big drivers? I hit a Hogan CS3, for fun my friend and I picked up some 540cc (uber illegal) knock off at walmart for about $45. It seemed really easy to hit, the face was deep as hell. :cool:
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I don't know why its in G&G I posted it in community, since I didn't want a discussion about the latest and greatest, just about golf. It shouldn't be here, but I guess so what.
 
I just got in from a round not more than 30 minutes ago. I'm one who plays strictly by the rules. At our club you only hurt yourself by taking liberties with the rules of golf and it isn't tolerated.

I'm a around a 8 or 9 handicap, but get beat soundly by by 16 year old son who has a 0 handicap. He's being watched already by several recruiters from different colleges and hopefully will get a "full ride" playing golf.
 
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