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 GET HYPE Y'ALL IT'S THE DJEXILE REVIEW OF CARNEGIE CLUB AT SKIBO CASTLE  In my experience, it's rare that a course on the grounds of a hotel/resort is truly challenging. This is definitely one of them. The course itself is a bit narrower than I've found some links courses to be, and the greens are rock hard. Nothing is going to check up. Still, it plays fair and 100% requires that you manage it well. This is a course meant to punish the greedy, especially off the tee.  I really can't stress the value of a good caddie enough. Good ones will not only tell you just how bad/good the wind is (4 club differences in some cases, I poo poo you not), but will also let you know when to swing away off the tee, and more importantly, tell you when not to be a hero. Playing safely off the tee in order to give yourself a better angle on some holes is a hard habit to get into for me, I'm still at the point where I just want to mash the drat thing as best I can sometimes. Today's caddie saved me at least 6-7 strokes by keeping me safe off the tee, where I would have been tempted to grab driver/4W and mash one off into the water or high grass.  The weather. Oh good lord, the weather. The weather in Scotland (and Ireland and Northern Ireland, in my previous experiences) is honestly your biggest opponent. Keeping focus with a 40MPH wind and rain in your face is not easy to do. Your shots will drop straight dead down 100 yards before you expect them to in some cases. Putting on several holes demands you bring wind into account. You will change into and out of a vest or jacket at least 5-6 times. It's really something.  The halfway house has a large couple of pegboards where members and guests have left bag tags from other courses as mementos. Very neat. I recognized a few places.     PRACTICE ROUND  For being completely exhausted from about 24 hours worth of travel, and walking out there with little more than a guidebook and push cart, I was pretty thrilled with this. Couple rough holes where I got shoved around by the wind but all in all I'll rarely bitch about a 44. FULL ROUND  Had a rough start then rallied to keep it at 44. I was really happy to keep out of the bunkers on the front because some of them are basically meteor craters. The back 9 largely had us going right into the teeth of a 30-40MPH wind and that makes life miserable. I also lost the service of my 20 degree hybrid when I felt something wiggle loose in it, which sucks, but whatcha gonna do? Overall i was pretty pleased with my putting, and barely missed a couple 1-putt opportunities, so I'm glad that's getting dialed in. Couple lost balls didn't help matters but all in all I was happy to be under 100. Castle Stuart happens tomorrow oh gently caress yes 
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Someone set off an air cannon in Zach Johnson's putt backswing. You have to hear it to appreciate how loving loud it was.
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Jul 12, 2015 22:11
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http://www.pgatour.com/video/2015/0...pIS1ZHwr8EKKdOt Video of the incident. I always wondered if people would go to these lengths if Tiger were coming down the stretch of his 18th major to tie Nicklaus...or the 19th to beat him. Edit - Faherty said the boat people were repeat offenders. Kameh fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Jul 13, 2015 |
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DJExile posted:
This is awesome, keep them coming! My round from yesterday:  Can I get a putting lesson Kameh? I realised that I had never actually designated clubs in Golfshot. You can see I almost prefer my 2i over the driver. Halo14 fucked around with this message at 07:39 on Jul 13, 2015 |
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Jul 13, 2015 07:36
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British Open thread is up! http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3730868
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Halo14 posted:This is awesome, keep them coming! Holy hell dude that's a quality round. Castle Stuart owned holy gently caress everyone needs to go play this course if you're ever in Scotland. Review coming soon.
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Halo14 posted:This is awesome, keep them coming! I use my driver for a single hole at my course, everything else gets the 3W treatment. I always find it amusing how often people, especially new players, are told to rush out and drop $200+ on a brand new driver not realizing its the hardest club to master outside the putter. 
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Girlfriend won right to buy Masters tickets... but for Monday only  Would it even be worth traveling from Philly to go? I'm thinking not, but I really had my hopes up for a second
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If it's a pair of tickets, and she doesn't want them, I'll gladly purchase them, especially for a Monday round.
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shyduck posted:Girlfriend won right to buy Masters tickets... but for Monday only
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shyduck posted:Girlfriend won right to buy Masters tickets... but for Monday only The practice rounds own. Go.
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Furnaceface posted:I use my driver for a single hole at my course, everything else gets the 3W treatment. I always find it amusing how often people, especially new players, are told to rush out and drop $200+ on a brand new driver not realizing its the hardest club to master outside the putter. See, I feel differently. A 3 wood has a lot of technology that drivers have, but if you're a new golfer, you're PROBABLY going to mishit the 3 wood as often as you mishit the driver. But, all other things being equal, you're gonna be 20+ yards ahead with a driver mishit compared to a mishit with a 3w. Article I read a while back that sort of solidified this nebulous notion of mine that driver off tee is better than 3 wood - http://www.golfdigest.com/golf-equipment/2007-10/golftechdriver Mike Stachura posted:"My driver is far more accurate than my 3-wood." [Kim, Christina] Personally, a bad swing is a bad swing, but unless there's trouble at the end of the fairway or a driver will leave me with a wonky yardage, I'm pulling driver every time.
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Yeah, I hit driver whenever possible. Laying up is for pussies. 
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Played this course called Country Club of Sapphire Valley this weekend and had my best round in a while. I shot 70 with EIGHT birdies (two stupid doubles stopped me from going real low) from 6750. Three of them were gimme range, the rest were 10-20 footers. Real quality ballstriking but left a few strokes out there for sure. I semi-chunked two chips and badly misplayed another. The course was really cool. It had some monster par 4s and one big par 5 (610), but the other par 5s were easily reachable in 2. I had an eagle putt on 18 to shoot 69 but had an egregious lip out. It was dying on the high side and made drat close to a 270 degree turn.
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 HOLY BALLS YOU GUYS IT'S THE DJEXILE REVIEW OF CASTLE STUART GOLF LINKS! Oh my sweet gently caress I missed this place so much. It's barely 10 years old and next year it'll already host its third Scottish Open. This is without a doubt my favorite course in the world. Spectacular views of the Moray Firth and Inverness. I could explain a lot of the unique aspects of the course but here are a few videos that explain it much better than I can.. Staff is excellent and go far out of their way to make sure you've enjoyed yourself. We were incredibly lucky to have a dry day with almost no wind, which is seriously rare. Stuart plays wider and, at first glance, more forgiving than Carnegie Club, but it's deceiving. Fairways are wider but have loads of undulations (rumple, they call it) that can make second shots a genuine challenge as they will play hell with your stances, launch angles, etc. Greens are firm and incredibly consistent, easily the best I've played all year. They are quick but not impossibly so, and you must have very good control of your pace, as the greens can have several tiers in some cases and you may be putting on from 40-50 yards off the green as well. You can get balls to check up but not by much so you really have to know what angle you're coming in at, and you'd be well served to learn punch shots and bump-and-runs instead of pitches and lobs. Many of your close pitches/chips/punches will have to take a ridge or two into account. The facilities are first rate. You can choose a locker and take the key with you out onto the course so you know your gear is pretty secure. Locker room looks over a gigantic practice green and the Firth, a spectacular view. PICTURE DUMP!     Yes, this is the practice green, it is enormous. There are no flags in the cups, which I honestly like. I think it's a more natural look and doesn't disrupt your eyes from looking out over the Firth because goddamn that view come on.      This is #18. It is a loooooonnnnnnnng par 5 that is, shockingly, reachable in 2 if you are aggressive. I laid up.  Because if you are short along the right hand side, you go here:    I had a rough start but loved how I finished the last 2. I could not keep myself out of trouble off the tee, and quickly learned about getting out of tall grass and other assorted poo poo to relative success.This was not my best round, but easily my most fun. I cannot encourage you enough to go if you have the chance. Look at the website linked above, their pictures are far better than mine. Tomorrow! We tackle the monster that is Royal Dornoch! Golf owns!
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Kameh posted:See, I feel differently. A 3 wood has a lot of technology that drivers have, but if you're a new golfer, you're PROBABLY going to mishit the 3 wood as often as you mishit the driver. But, all other things being equal, you're gonna be 20+ yards ahead with a driver mishit compared to a mishit with a 3w. Last year I went through a phase where I completely abandoned my driver and just used 3w. But then I cut my driver down to 44.5 inches and changed my setup and now I can't remember the last time I hit my 3 off the tee (and I almost never use it from the fairway either but that's mostly because my home course doesn't really call for it). I do need to start practicing with my 3w though because there's a dogleg par 4 that you can drive if you hit a fairly high tee shot, but my driver tends to actually go over the green lately. Once you groove a decent swing with a driver you should feel pretty confident hitting it, and honestly my mishits with a 3w are worse than with my driver anyway since it's a much shallower face. I suppose that isn't true for everyone though.
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Oh man this is golf porn, awesome stuff. Any tips for playing in the wind? I turn into a spastic and all my shots balloon up and just die.
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Halo14 posted:Oh man this is golf porn, awesome stuff. Any tips for playing in the wind? I turn into a spastic and all my shots balloon up and just die. If playing into the wind, grip down an inch on one iron longer (e.g. 6i instead of 7i) and swing *smoothly*. I don't advocate a 3/4 swing, because you'll lose more yardage than necessary. Think more about your "layup swing;" you know, the one where you pure it every time but never actually attempt off the tee box. If you're privy to wind speed before the round, you can look forward to using 1 more club for every 10mph of wind. If playing with the wind, and you want to maximize yardage off the tee, swing HARDER. This will generate more backspin, allowing the ball to climb higher and ride the wind. In a strong wind, your ball can be knocked down before it's had a chance to carry its full length. For crosswind shots, http://golf-info-guide.com/golf-tips/playing-conditions/tips-for-handling-a-heavy-crosswind-part-i-golf-tip/ for pretty diagrams.
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Kameh posted:See, I feel differently. A 3 wood has a lot of technology that drivers have, but if you're a new golfer, you're PROBABLY going to mishit the 3 wood as often as you mishit the driver. But, all other things being equal, you're gonna be 20+ yards ahead with a driver mishit compared to a mishit with a 3w. This is pretty good info. Once I get more consistent off the tee I will probably club up, but right now that extra 20 yards would typically put me in a worse spot (usually in the deep rough/OB) so I dont mind being 20 yards shorter if it means my follow up shot is easier. 
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Kameh posted:If playing into the wind, grip down an inch on one iron longer (e.g. 6i instead of 7i) and swing *smoothly*. I don't advocate a 3/4 swing, because you'll lose more yardage than necessary. Think more about your "layup swing;" you know, the one where you pure it every time but never actually attempt off the tee box. If you're privy to wind speed before the round, you can look forward to using 1 more club for every 10mph of wind. Good stuff, thank you. A couple of months back I was playing match play for my club and we went up against a coastal golf club. I was dominating with something like 3 up after 9 holes on his home course in the morning calm. Made the turn and the wind started picking up, I lost like 5 holes in a row as the wind got progressively stronger - something like 50km/h. My opponent plays this course all the time so he knew the conditions well. Was a monumental crash from me and I ended up losing. Will use these tips in the future.
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Kameh posted:If playing into the wind, grip down an inch on one iron longer (e.g. 6i instead of 7i) and swing *smoothly*. I don't advocate a 3/4 swing, because you'll lose more yardage than necessary. Think more about your "layup swing;" you know, the one where you pure it every time but never actually attempt off the tee box. If you're privy to wind speed before the round, you can look forward to using 1 more club for every 10mph of wind. This is all really good advice. "When it's breezy, swing it easy" is a phrase I hear a lot and they're right. It's really just telling yourself not to try to kill the ball, and playing according to what the course/wind is giving you.
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Kameh posted:See, I feel differently. A 3 wood has a lot of technology that drivers have, but if you're a new golfer, you're PROBABLY going to mishit the 3 wood as often as you mishit the driver. But, all other things being equal, you're gonna be 20+ yards ahead with a driver mishit compared to a mishit with a 3w. People that hit their 3-wood consistently much better off the tee than their driver are probably hitting a driver with too little loft for their swing speed and the angle at which they impact that ball. And their driver is also probably way too long for them. EnsGDT fucked around with this message at 08:31 on Jul 14, 2015 |
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I hit my 3-wood better than the driver because I don't try to kill the ball.
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Never understood why you'd take 3 wood off the tee instead of driver unless you'll run into a hazard or leave a really awkward distance in. The sweet spot on a driver is HUGE. I've experimented with being more conservative off the tee and all it did was cap me at one or two birdies a round. IMO, the better play is to tee it up lower or choke up on the driver (or both) if you want to take some distance off your tee shot. I tend to save my 3 wood for when I need to keep it very low or if driver leaves me with a bad approach distance. Re: wind. I've always played a very high ball, so I tend to struggle in wind. I can hit knockdown shots, but they tend to move a good 10-15 yards left to right. Definitely something I need to work on.
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My struggle in the wind isn't that I hit the ball high, but at times I hit a pretty significant draw with my irons. If there's a right to left wind or if I'm going straight into the wind it can result in some pretty weird shots. I agree with Kameh that 3 wood isn't any more forgiving than driver. I'd much rather be 110 from the pin in the rough than 140 from the pin and in the rough  . My problem with 3 woods is I on occasion sky them. Most of that is my swing, but some of it is the design of modern 3 woods. Some are very shallow faced, which makes them easier to hit off the turf, while others are pretty deep, making them easier to hit off the tee. I refuse to carry a 3 wood that I can only hit off a tee but not off the turf, so I carry a shallower faced 3 wood, which I in turn sky on occasion. Again, a lot of that is my swing, but compare the face height of my 3 wood to my driver and it's a huge difference.
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I hit my 3w/5w straight as poo poo and can swing as hard as I want with them even when I have a glorious 2 way miss going on with my various driver/shaft combo's.  150 yds out, center cut vs 130 yds out.......in a trench behind a tree and various rocks/boulders in 12 inch weeds hitting 4 since my first tee shot completed its mission to be 100yds offline and went O.B. already? I also play from under 6,500 yd tees so there are many par 4's and even par 5's where you have to keep your drive under 250 and also take into account rock hard drought fairways. Keyser_Soze fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Jul 14, 2015 |
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Keyser S0ze posted:I also play from under 6,500 yd tees so there are many par 4's and even par 5's where you have to keep your drive under 250 and also take into account rock hard drought fairways. This makes a big difference, I either play from ~6700 or 7000 at my course, both of which has very few 'lay-up' holes. The holes that don't require driver I normally hit a hybrid. But from the back tees I think there's only 1 or 2 par 4's that I ever consider hitting 'not driver'.
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I mean, it's just course management. If you think of it as yardages and shot shapes, sometimes you need a 3W, or sometimes your driver is the tool for the job. Not all courses require every kind of shot. poo poo, the last few weeks, I can count on one hand the number of times I've hit my 3W or 2H. That's only because I've played the same course, and it doesn't require it.
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DoctaFun posted:This makes a big difference, I either play from ~6700 or 7000 at my course, both of which has very few 'lay-up' holes. The holes that don't require driver I normally hit a hybrid. But from the back tees I think there's only 1 or 2 par 4's that I ever consider hitting 'not driver'. most of these course out here between Sacramento, CA and Lake Tahoe also can have 130 slope at 6300 yds with tons of jail, forced carries and 12 foot slopes in greens. We play here often from just the blues and it will still kick your teeth in. I had my best round there (80) after a huge winter rain and the place was soft and mushy, usually it's rock hard and everything will run off the fairways/greens.  You first view from the 1st tee is this:   and then approach and of course "an invisible from the tee" trench that probably ate your tee shot (or your second shot if you even think about duffing):  Short Par 4 #2 is straight uphill with nowhere to hit anything more than a perfectly placed 200 yd tee shot to the left of the middle bunker, anything else just rolls into them or off into the weeds/trees. The green slopes front to back is rock hard and if you don't place it properly and bank it off the top rough over the green and have it roll back down, you can 4 putt it just like I did last week.  it's hard to see the actual elevation but I assume Bubba/Rory could hit a 350 yd drive up the hill and land it soft on the right side.   Par 5 4th........have to either hit a driver up the left side and hope it doesn't kick too hard right down towards the jail (it will) or just hit 3 wood short of the bunker and hope it doesn't kick too hard to the right as well (it still might). The actual tee boxes are way to the left and back of this pic so you don't have this angle at all from them.  very short Par 3 6th........don't go long.......or short.  Par 4 10th......you have to hit your tee shot into the right rough near that bunker so it hopefully just trickles out else it will just roll hard left into the other bunkers or weeds. There is room over all that stuff if you hit it 300+ but even then it will roll into a trench/weeds if not tossed way out right. And even then you'll have a massively downhill/sidehill lie.  Some of our courses are just hole after hole of this.............. Here is my last round there on July 3..........my back was totally locked up before I even showed up and despite all the carnage on the front - I was playing hard and not giving up and I had to wait for the Vicodin and Lagunitas IPA to kick in on hole 11 before I got things sort of worked out - couldn't walk at all the next day and am still wonky. meh 
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That course looks gorgeous and I would like to know more E: Also oh man I had my best round of the trip at Royal Dornoch today and could have broken 90 if not for a few silly mistakes. Report soon. DJExile fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Jul 14, 2015 |
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def check it out if going between SF and Tahoe........under $65 too. Are you going to roll through Castle Stuart again? I would think the second time through would be easier.
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Keyser S0ze posted:def check it out if going between SF and Tahoe........under $65 too. We might but I'm not sure yet. We were gifted with an insanely calm day weather-wise and even knowing the course more now that I've played it 3 times (I played it twice when I was here 3 years ago), the weather is such a wild card that there's no guarantee I'd do any better. E: I may also sign up for some lessons while I'm here at Carnegie because their pro is very good and it'd be hard to argue with getting my game cleaned up while I'm here, then get some more rounds in at Carnegie since I have unlimited ones. DJExile fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Jul 14, 2015 |
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I played my first irons only round in...maybe ever? Left my driver, 3 wood, and hybrids in the car. Carried 3-PW, 50*, 58*, and putter. I don't normally even carry a 3i, and in fact, I didn't even hit this 3i on the course until yesterday. I've left it in the closet for easier to hit hybrids. Shot 81 with 4 doubles, two bogeys, and one birdie. I really wanted to keep it under 80, but man, a blade 3i is tough to hit! A large part of it is psychological ("butter knives belong in a drawer, not a golf bag"), but it leaves no room for error. A good swing is rewarded, and a bad swing is punished. Even when I flushed it off the tee, I'm looking at a maximum of 230 yards (carry + roll). I didn't lose a ball, but more to the point I made earlier about driver vs. shorter clubs off the tee, I didn't hit more fairways by playing conservatively. I've averaged 10+ fairways in my last 10 rounds, but I only hit I can't lay all the blame on my 3i though. For the times I did find the fairway, I didn't always hit very crisp iron shots, and my short game REALLY let me down. I've been sharp for the last few weeks, but I must have left my short game in the car along with my driver. For one, I wasn't landing my pitches where I needed. The first hole was straightforward enough - 3i off the tee, 8i in from 150. I left my approach just short of pin high but on 3 feet of fringe. 15 yards to the pin, plenty of green to work with, and the fringe was perfect to chip from. I'm looking for a kick-in par, if I don't just hole the thing. Instead, I powered a chip 15 feet past the hole and 3 putted for a double. Very discouraging start. In the last two weeks, I once went 73 holes without a 3-putt. I've had 3 3-putts in my last 126 holes. I'm no pro, but that ain't bad. Today, I had 4 3-putts. Tomorrow, I hope to put driver back in the bag, do a little bit of work on the range and around the greens, and see if I can get back to par or better. Edit - Cannot count. Kameh fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Jul 14, 2015 |
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I'm playing here http://www.twisteddune.com/ Monday for the second time. It's a really cool course, it was the dumping ground for all the land dug up for the Atlantic City casinos but what I really like is that it's in a bowl so you don't see anything other than golf course for the entire 18 holes which is kind of rare in New Jersey.
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DJExile posted:The practice rounds own. Go.
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Playing the new PGA Tour game, and some rear end in a top hat just yelled BABABOOEY on my drive  Edit: if you're so bored that watching fake computer golf sounds like a good idea, [url] UnionCarbide fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Jul 14, 2015 |
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UnionCarbide posted:Playing the new PGA Tour game, and some rear end in a top hat just yelled BABABOOEY on my drive Looks good, even if the reviews say otherwise. PS4 or XBox? Have mine preordered to pick up after work.
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KDdidit posted:Looks good, even if the reviews say otherwise. PS4 or XBox? Have mine preordered to pick up after work. XBone. MonkeyBunker is my gamertag for anyone interested in golf shenanigans. Heh. Just finished day 3 of a tournament with Sergio Garcia at the top of the leaderboard. Day 4 starts, it says "Simulating based on abilities" or whatever, leaderboard comes up, and Garcia's completely collapsed and isn't on the first page of the leaderboard anymore 
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