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I think you guys are overreacting with Top Golf. It's fine for what it is and honestly it's pretty fun. I don't go there to practice regularly of course but it's fun to go with a couple of friends, drink some beer, eat decent food and play target practice.
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Bust out your own wedge and hit the same shot over and over into the center of one of the hole things and you’ll win by a poo poo ton
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Mar 23, 2021 21:10
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Kirios posted:I think you guys are overreacting with Top Golf. It's fine for what it is and honestly it's pretty fun. I don't go there to practice regularly of course but it's fun to go with a couple of friends, drink some beer, eat decent food and play target practice. I may have been overreacting slightly considering I had just paid $100 for the privilege of drinking bad beer and hitting balls into light up targets. I mean it was a $300 bill for 3 hours of TopGolf, and only one of us had food, that's crazy. I think if you treat it like a night out bowling, going to keep using that analogy because I find bowling intensely boring, then sure, it's a fun time. Edit: Oh, and the sensors on the targets worked about 70% of the time which is kinda frustrating.
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Mar 23, 2021 21:53
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We went to DriveShack in Orlando on the company dime today and yeah, it is that much better on company money. I think I had to hit about five balls at one point for it to register. Definitely the poor man’s TopGolf.
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Mar 24, 2021 02:24
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I’m finally launching my ballmarker business on Saturday but I figured I’d give y’all a sneak peek.  (This one always seems desaturated but it’s much brighter in person and on my phone)   The site is: https://villains.golf Instagram is: https://instagram.com/villains.golf?igshid=u453mhczfvph I’m very excited to get going. Gonna head out to the course tomorrow to take some more photos then launch at noon on Saturday. They turned out way better than I expected so I’m looking forward to getting some more designs going. Daric fucked around with this message at 15:57 on Mar 25, 2021 |
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Mar 25, 2021 03:52
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Daric posted:I’m finally launching my ballmarker business on Saturday but I figured I’d give y’all a sneak peek. Killer stuff. Although is there an obstacle to selling IP like this? I never thought about it when you were originally were posting.
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Mar 25, 2021 04:45
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We’ll find out. I only have 100 of each and I’m not making any more of each design so if I get a cease and desist I’m not out any significant amount of money. But if you look at Etsy there’s thousands of enamel pins for every character you can imagine so I don’t think they’re going after everyone, especially not in such limited quantities.
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Mar 25, 2021 04:48
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Daric posted:We’ll find out. I only have 100 of each and I’m not making any more of each design so if I get a cease and desist I’m not out any significant amount of money. Yeah, but man those look so good... that if things go well I'd look at expanding and getting some officially licensed poo poo! You have the resources and that could be a fun market to corner.
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Mar 25, 2021 04:59
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Yeah a huge portion of Etsy is listings of items like "British wizard fantasy high school prints" and "comic night vigilante in bat themed costume sculpture" I'd imagine you'll be fine
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Mar 25, 2021 12:26
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Daric posted:I’m finally launching my ballmarker business on Saturday but I figured I’d give y’all a sneak peek. How much does DC and Marvel charge for licensing of their IP for something like this?
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Mar 25, 2021 13:40
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daslog posted:How much does DC and Marvel charge for licensing of their IP for something like this? a lot
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Mar 25, 2021 13:54
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Yeah I'm just going to play this one by ear because my ideas are Villain themed, so if I was to get licensing for every character I want to do I would need Marvel, DC, Universal, Disney, Star Wars, etc. So we'll see. Hopefully I can fly under the radar. If not, I haven't spent very much money and I have a bunch of really good looking ballmarkers so I'll find something to do with them.
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Mar 25, 2021 15:39
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My buddy is a huge comic fan, will cop these for sure.
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Mar 25, 2021 17:22
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Getting a little twilight in tomorrow. Plus side, supposed to be about 80, downside, wind gusts up to 50mph lol.
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Mar 26, 2021 01:42
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That’ll obviously suck for most of the round until you get to a par 5 down wind
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Mar 26, 2021 04:15
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Daric posted:That’ll obviously suck for most of the round until you get to a par 5 down wind It did suck, but not in a bad way if that makes sense. We (3 of us) decided to play a scramble because the wind was that crazy. Ended up shooting -3 which isn't great but not bad considering every hole was a 3+ club wind in either direction. I walked and my legs are so much more tired than they usually are just from fighting the wind most holes. Felt like 14 of the 18 holes were against the wind.
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Mar 27, 2021 01:19
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holy fuckin poo poo Sergio https://twitter.com/theScore/status/1375567880113299459 ESPN posted:AUSTIN, Texas -- Sergio Garcia advanced in a sudden-death playoff with a hole-in-one on the fourth extra hole of the Dell Technologies Match Play on Friday.
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Mar 27, 2021 01:35
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DJExile posted:holy fuckin poo poo Sergio Calm down Kameh, oh wait lol That's incredible.
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Mar 27, 2021 01:46
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Daric posted:That’ll obviously suck for most of the round until you get to a par 5 down wind I'm going to circle back to this for a second... I actually really liked playing in crazy wind because it made you think about hitting a shot instead of hitting a spot if that makes any sense. It wasn't aim at the flag because that's what you're supposed to aim at right? It was, ok, I need to aim this 30 yards right because if I hit a five yard draw it should drop right at the flag. Next hole, ok if I hit a five yard draw I need to aim 20 yards left because the wind will push it back. It was a lot of fun trying to shape shots into bonkers wind.
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Mar 27, 2021 02:09
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The thing about wind that I never really thought about or realized until I got older is that the wind doesn’t help nearly as much on downwind holes as it hurts on up wind holes. Especially if you’re playing somewhere with small greens, or greens that you can’t run the ball onto, it’s just hard to stop the ball down wind. So while it’s great that you can hit a 7 iron instead of a 5 iron, but there’s so many courses where long is just dead ya know?
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Mar 27, 2021 17:28
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I don’t want to self promote too much but I launched my site at 12 and immediately got 11 orders. It’s a very exciting day for me.
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Mar 27, 2021 18:27
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DoctaFun posted:The thing about wind that I never really thought about or realized until I got older is that the wind doesn’t help nearly as much on downwind holes as it hurts on up wind holes. Yeah, I hit a 3 iron 300 yards with a 38 mph tailwind. Sitting at 100 yards to the green, I sailed it into a back bunker. But I still love high wind play, because it does force a more thinking approach even to a very familiar course.
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Mar 27, 2021 18:39
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Daric posted:I don’t want to self promote too much but I launched my site at 12 and immediately got 11 orders. It’s a very exciting day for me. Just bought all 3!
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BonoMan posted:Just bought all 3! Awesome! Thank you so much. I honestly wasn't expecting to sell anything so this is crazy.
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Mar 27, 2021 18:51
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"Dan, you played with Sergio at the Open when he was just SIXTEEN!" "Wow." "Did you know, then, that he might be something special?" "No." ...
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DoctaFun posted:The thing about wind that I never really thought about or realized until I got older is that the wind doesn’t help nearly as much on downwind holes as it hurts on up wind holes. This 100%. My 100 and in game was totally on fire yesterday, except for the wind pushing all of my touch shots 15 yards long. It was very frustrating. Perfect feeling shots flying right over the flagstick. Daric posted:Awesome! Thank you so much. That's awesome dude. Hopefully you can keep selling at a level where the Mouse doesn't notice but you get some fat stacks.
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Mar 27, 2021 21:39
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Anybody used Sugar golf balls before? TXG just reviewed them and they are basically ProV1 clones for ~30% of the price or so. I ordered a couple boxes just to try them since I don't have a huge stockpile right now.
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Mar 27, 2021 23:47
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God I fucking love Diablo 3 gold, it even paid for this shitty title
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Suprfli6 posted:Anybody used Sugar golf balls before? TXG just reviewed them and they are basically ProV1 clones for ~30% of the price or so. I ordered a couple boxes just to try them since I don't have a huge stockpile right now. Interesting. Let us know how they perform. All these boutique balls appearing that are "ProV1" clones has me wondering if there's one factory pumping them all out and just branding them with whoever is paying for them at the time. Vice/Sugar/Snell/Kirkland/Cut
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mattfl posted:Interesting. Let us know how they perform. Yeah the original Kirkland balls came from a South Korean factory and were legit, the current models aren't as good though. Vice and Cut have each put out some really good balls that stand up to any of the top tier premium balls imo. I've been a fan of the MG C4 balls for a while too and they are always available for $20/dozen.
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Anyone have experience with the Samsung active 2 golf edition? I have a garmin s2 that constantly loses satellite. I'm hesitant to spend more with Garmin, despite their reputation, and looking for alternatives. I don't care much for club predictions or goofy addons- just accurate gps and shot recording.
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Suprfli6 posted:Yeah the original Kirkland balls came from a South Korean factory and were legit, the current models aren't as good though. Vice and Cut have each put out some really good balls that stand up to any of the top tier premium balls imo. I've been a fan of the MG C4 balls for a while too and they are always available for $20/dozen. I was going to say, I thought I had recently read a review of the Kirkland balls saying they were a big step down in quality now.
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Petey posted:I was going to say, I thought I had recently read a review of the Kirkland balls saying they were a big step down in quality now. I think that's probably due to the lawsuit Acushnet brought against them because Kirklands were a little too similar to Titleists so they had to change them.
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I'm so fed up with hybrid woods that this year I purchased a (relatively) cheap 2 iron, a good mid-sized grip, and a nice shaft for it, and figure if I can spend $120-150 on this experiment to go back to my roots and rid myself of the evils of hating my long-range-mid-game, then so be it.
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Mar 28, 2021 17:39
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2 irons are great but so are 5 woods
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Mar 28, 2021 17:45
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Josh Lyman posted:2 irons are great but so are 5 woods I would LOVE to think so but I just can't hit a shillelagh off the deck to save my drat life, and I never could, even when I was a DECENT golfer  I grew up hitting irons in those spots (my granpa was particularly gifted and played a 1 iron, and I even learned to hit THAT occasionally!!), hitting a rescue wood frightens and confuses me and I always float the drat thing and top the ball. It's a terrible habit.
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Big Beef City posted:I would LOVE to think so but I just can't hit a shillelagh off the deck to save my drat life, and I never could, even when I was a DECENT golfer
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What I was really hoping for was that one of the 2020/21 "Extreme game improvement Irons" series from various manufacturers, or even just "game improvement" iron sets would feature a 2 Iron, and none do. None offer a 'single club' purchase option above a 4 iron, expecting the modern player to be loaded with hybrids. I had to turn to ye olde cavity backs of ill repute and trudge through some stuff. You can get 2's of various major manufacturers if you want to get ice-cold blades as part of a set, but good luck if you're interested in a particular maker's set of irons of any sort, sub $2k, even offering a 2, let alone selling it as a single. So. Into the great wide open... e: anyway it was a Lazrus 2 Iron KBS Tour 90 Iron shaft Golf Pride MCC Plus4 grip Big Beef City fucked around with this message at 18:12 on Mar 28, 2021 |
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Mar 28, 2021 18:09
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Is it possible to get oversized grips for all my clubs? I have big rear end hands and the oversized grip for my putter is so much more comfortable than the normal grips on all my clubs. I feel like I would have much more control with grips that fit my hands better on all my clubs.
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Mar 28, 2021 18:37
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You can do whatever you want, provided it doesn't conform to your hands (like gripping a pistol or game controller, aside from a putter) and doesn't exceed 1.75 inches. For putters, the grip can include pistol grips and all kinds of weird poo poo, as long as it isn't outside that 1.75 boundary. You can have a 5 iron with a grip of two pieces of toast, you'd be fine. No butter or jelly though, that's a foreign substance.
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What about the Titleist U500/U510 or TaylorMade UDI?
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