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xsf421 posted:Played the University of Michigan golf course today, Alister Mackenzie apparently didn't mess around with his green complexes. xsf421 posted:Yep. I landed on the front of the lower tier and the flag was back left. If I was braved I’d have chipped. gvibes fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Jun 10, 2023 |
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gvibes posted:Yeah, those greens were not designed for double digit stimps. What's the double-tired one? Six. Just dumb. I assume that's the one you are talking about Yep. I landed on the front of the lower tier and the flag was back left. If I was braved I’d have chipped.
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Jun 10, 2023 19:22
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What a putt
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Jun 12, 2023 00:37
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Wow Nick Taylor just sank the biggest balls putt I’ve ever seen
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Jun 12, 2023 00:38
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That was absolutely insane.
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Jun 12, 2023 00:47
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That putt was dead center too, holy moly. Fleetwood didnt even look mad.
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Jun 12, 2023 00:51
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https://twitter.com/thecriermedia/status/1668040829062074368?s=46&t=IW0MSOWK0Lh4VsB3wVLoOA
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Playing in a charity tournament in LA while all the pros are in town for the US Open and I'm wondering which one this "Adam Golfman" guy is...
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Jun 12, 2023 17:41
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I shot a 90 with 42 putts on Saturday, including a 4 putt on the first hole for a bogey. My career best is an 86 for reference.
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Jun 12, 2023 19:26
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86 putts is too many.
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Jun 12, 2023 19:38
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42 putts...man you're leaving like 10 strokes on the table with your putter alone. 90's still a good score though - congrats!
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Jun 12, 2023 20:08
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daslog posted:I shot a 90 with 42 putts on Saturday, including a 4 putt on the first hole for a bogey. 40 putts was pretty average for me back in the day. Regularly shooting low 90s with 40+ putts was my jam
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Jun 12, 2023 20:32
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The thing about putting is that while its not necessarily the thing that will lower your scores right away in terms of strokes gained, but it is the area of golf where pros and amateurs are the closest in terms of skill so theres not really much thats keeping you from being at least a serviceable putter other than not practicing.
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when i was a jr and struggling with putting a week before the club championship my dad took me out for a round and forbade me from aiming anywhere but the middle of the cup. just made me read everything front to back and concentrate on speed. didnt make a thing but almost every miss was within three feet. next weekend I won the cc going away by only three putting twice over two rounds. even if you badly misread a put left to right you're probably only missing by a foot or so unless you're at augusta. but it's way easier to miss a putt by an inch and roll it five feet by.
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Jun 13, 2023 00:26
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Yeah I completely agree, pace is way, way more important than whether you're on the right line or not. Reducing your 3 putts to 2 putts is what will shave the most strokes off your score if your handicap is 5-25.
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Jun 13, 2023 00:37
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My CaddyTek cart showed up today and hot dang I’m super happy with this bad boy 
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Heh the USGA have Adam Hadwin a safety vest and hard hat after the security incident at the Canadian Open. https://twitter.com/ahadwingolf/status/1668327242307616769?t=ZjWeBmY-CGTw7mieh4W6Sg&s=19 kirtar fucked around with this message at 15:12 on Jun 13, 2023 |
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I interrupt your regularly scheduled Saudi takeover chat to announce  The US Open thread is up! https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4034172
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kirtar posted:Heh the USGA have Adam Hadwin a safety vest and hard hat after the security incident at the Canadian Open. USGA has got some good memes going: 
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Jun 13, 2023 16:43
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Putting a longer line (it’s actually a T-shape) on my ball really helped with my putting last year, but then I got away from it and things deteriorated slowly until a month ago when I had a round where I shot an 87 with 43 putts. Some of those first putts were very long, but certainly not all of em. It felt like I sank a total of 18 ft of putts that day, it was bad, and those greens weren’t that tricky or anything. I’m back to the line now, I line up the putt with the line, then when I’m standing over it all I care about is speed. When I wasn’t using the line I found myself adjusting and readjusting over the ball, just too many different things going on in my head. The line also makes it apparent if an offline miss was a bad stroke or a missed read, which is very helpful, and it immediately brought me back below 40, and last round had 33 putts, including a couple of longer ones, on a course with some pretty tricky greens so I was pretty happy with that. TLDR - pick a line before you get over the ball and trust it.
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Jun 13, 2023 17:22
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My golf year really kicks off this week. Its been depressing how little I've played/practiced but the vacations are starting to come together. This weekend is 36holes Friday, LPGA event in Grand Rapids on Saturday, then 18more Sunday morning. Should be a blast.
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Jun 13, 2023 17:26
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Hadn't played golf in years. Went to Drive Shack this past weekend and was just crushing it with their lovely clubs. Guess this means its time to buy another set of clubs and go disappoint myself on a real course again! My own personal Michael Block timeline
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Jun 13, 2023 17:29
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First time doing the whole, 'got a golf trip at the end of the week, haven't played at all this year better so I should go to the range'. Proceed to hit 200 balls...surprisingly well, but also create and tear open a couple blisters. Real....dumb.
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Jun 13, 2023 17:39
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Update for the Michigan dudes, I played the front 9 of warren valley on Saturday. Greens have all been resodded and are drat near perfect (and were rolling at 11.5). They haven’t done much to the fairways yet except cut, water, fertilize, and try to fill in the really bad spots. Still a very playable course, especially for the price ($24 waking $44 cart for 18 on a weekend). My 28 handicapper friend has learned the joys of Donald Ross course design too, plateau greens everywhere. I imagine in a couple years this is going to be a great course. Only the west course is open for now, and they said they’ll have the driving range open at the end of the month.
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Jun 13, 2023 18:37
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wyoak posted:Putting a longer line (it’s actually a T-shape) on my ball really helped with my putting last year, but then I got away from it and things deteriorated slowly until a month ago when I had a round where I shot an 87 with 43 putts. Some of those first putts were very long, but certainly not all of em. It felt like I sank a total of 18 ft of putts that day, it was bad, and those greens weren’t that tricky or anything. Yes, and yes. But I hate having a line drawn on the ball. I turn it so even the numbers/brand are not in sight so I have a blank ball.
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In completely innocuous and not at all indication that the Saudis have outsourced their thuggery to Russia, the PGA tour commissioner had a sudden medical emergency shortly after signing the merger with LIV. https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/37849868/pga-tour-commissioner-jay-monahan-recovering-medical-situation "He shouldn't have ordered the Polonium Soup"
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I'd put equal money he's just trying to play up pity while bowing out of public view
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Jun 14, 2023 05:24
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I’m having a panic attack over everyone getting mad that I sold golf to the 911 guys
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i am a moron posted:I’m having a panic attack over everyone getting mad that I sold golf to the 911 guys The actual guy that sold golf to the 9/11 guys should have died in 9/11 but he skipped work to play golf that day instead of riding the 104th floor down with 70 of his colleagues.
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Man, keeping track of stats make me sad. 89 (par 72) - pretty good for me! Like a 73/135 course. Fairways hit: 3/14! Greens in regulation: 4/18! Putts: 32 I guess that probably tells a story of barely missing quite a few greens Two of the fairways I hit were smoked like 290+ though, so I will be playing again.
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Week 2 of league and once again I, playing for 2.5 years with several golf lessons paid for, have lost to my friend with a god awful swing who just picked up some random clubs and started playing a few months ago. Sure, he’ll totally whiff the ball on the tee, but when he connects with it he’ll drive it straight down the middle of the fairway 250 yards while I’m once again suddenly incapable of hitting anything longer than my 7i. Strongly re-considering an iron fitting and just buying a lovely used set for the lovely golfer that I am!
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Jun 15, 2023 16:56
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You’re penalizing him for swinging and missing, right? Rules are rules and if you want to win…
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God I fucking love Diablo 3 gold, it even paid for this shitty title
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I can't stress this enough: Fittings aren't just for good golfers I had a consistent slice/fade with clubs that some straight to consumer golf clubs that were supposedly fit for me using their chart. Went to get an actual fitting, they decided the 1/4 inch short was good, but I needed 3 degrees upright. Lo and behold, I started hitting it straight without changing my swing at all.
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Shot a two over 38 on 9 holes today, my best nine ever, and that included a double bogey on the first hole. One of the easier courses in the area but still, felt really good about how I was playing Woulda been interesting to see if I coulda kept it up on 18 (no, I couldn't have)
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My partner and I didn’t play all that great in our skins league last night, we birdied a drivable par 4 and the two par 5s but nothing else. On the ninth hole we were waiting so long that the 3 teams behind us caught up so we just all played it together to get done sooner. 205 yards from the blue tees into a bit of wind and I stuck my hybrid to 8 feet with about 15 people watching (shared tee box with hole 2). Nobody else even hit the green and none of them came close to chipping in, and I buried the putt. We split the pot with one other team and cashed for the third week in a row. Overall I’ve been playing really well lately except for one round last weekend where I topped my driver 5 times in a row. The rest of the round I moved the ball back to the middle of my stance just to hit the face and then the next time I played I went back to my normal ball position and drove it just fine. I’m still not sure exactly what was going on since it was just a casual round with a couple other guys and I wasn’t trying to swing out of my shoes or anything.
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I'm far too inconsistent with my driver (G425 SRT)....but I'm just dialed in with my G710 irons. Actually been favoring my irons off the tee on Par 4s recently. Wondering if anyone has any experience with a driving iron.
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General US Open ticketing question. I'm looking at tix for next year's Open since it's in my neck of the woods but the cheapest they offer is $850 for the full week (mon-sun) gallery experience. Will they eventually open up single day or weekend only gallery passes?
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Yes, sometime in Oct/Nov.
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drat, how much do single day grounds tickets go for at a major? At $850 for a week seems like they are probably well over $100 per day.
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Weekend days will probably be $100-150, yeah. Think I paid $125 for my Sunday ticket to the PGA when I went and that was in 2016.
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