The Golf Thread

Indifference71 said:

bootlegger10 said:

Indifference71 said:

The wife got me a new set of Callaway irons for father's day.  Gotta get to the range this week and test them out.  Has anyone had their clubs lengthened?  I think I may take mine in somewhere to see if I could use some longer clubs.  I'm around 6'2 and my last set of clubs felt a little short....they were a shitty set so I didn't bother putting any money into them.

Very cool.  Hopefully the wife lets you out of the house to play golf too!

I'm your height.  When I got my new set I got fitted and ended up getting a quarter inch longer than standard set.  

I'm not sure about the return policy on clubs so if you are thinking about getting a longer set you might hold off on trying the new set out.   The cool thing though about fittings is that they'll look at optimizing the type of shaft to use in the club as well.

I finally went for a custom fitting today at the PGA Tour superstore that is near me (check it out if there's a location near you....they do a custom fitting for no charge).  They told me that I needed extra-stiff shaft irons.  I was hitting the 7 iron they had me testing out around 200 yards.  But then I looked at prices for extra stiff iron sets....holy shit!  The set my wife bought me was a regular shaft so I exchanged those for a stiff shaft set.  I'll see how these go and if I struggle with them maybe I'll upgrade to an extra stiff shaft but I just can't be dropping over a grand on a set of irons right now.

Damn I would love to hit my 7 iron 200 yards. It would be worth the $1000 investment!  I played today at Seven Bridges (for any local Chicagoans). Real nice course. 

Nice start for Spieth.  Koepka too.  Conditions look pretty good so far today....supposed to be brutal weather the rest of the weekend with a lot of rain and wind.  Love this tournament.

Cliffy6745 said:

Indifference71 said:

Nice start for Spieth.  Koepka too.  Conditions look pretty good so far today....supposed to be brutal weather the rest of the weekend with a lot of rain and wind.  Love this tournament.

Yessir.  Love this.  This course is awesome too.  Looking forward tomorrow.  Off on vacation this week and came back from the beach a couple days early as the wife had to get back for work.  Heading out for a quick solo 18 shortly and watching tons of golf.

Players keep saying how much they love this and how fair it is, I don't disagree, but any doubt if this were a USGA set up they would find a way to bitch about this fescue?  Definitely more cuts, but still not far off the fairway

Nice timing with the week off.  The wife is going out of town for the weekend so it's just me and the baby...will be nice to turn on the TV when and watch major golf when he wakes up at 6am.

Oh for sure there would be bitching if it were the USGA.

Rory a real mess out there again...seems like another waste of a season for him.  Everyone was all over Fleetwood but he shot a +6.  Glad I laid off of him in the bets I placed.  I took Scott, Kuchar, Grace and Casey to finish top 10.  Also have action on Casey and Kuchar to win.  And did a huge bet on no hole in 1 for the whole tournament.  

Wow...Rory rallied on the back 9 and is only +1.  Was +6 at one point on the front....thought he was done for sure.

eddiec said:

Indifference71 said:

bootlegger10 said:

Indifference71 said:

The wife got me a new set of Callaway irons for father's day.  Gotta get to the range this week and test them out.  Has anyone had their clubs lengthened?  I think I may take mine in somewhere to see if I could use some longer clubs.  I'm around 6'2 and my last set of clubs felt a little short....they were a shitty set so I didn't bother putting any money into them.

Very cool.  Hopefully the wife lets you out of the house to play golf too!

I'm your height.  When I got my new set I got fitted and ended up getting a quarter inch longer than standard set.  

I'm not sure about the return policy on clubs so if you are thinking about getting a longer set you might hold off on trying the new set out.   The cool thing though about fittings is that they'll look at optimizing the type of shaft to use in the club as well.

I finally went for a custom fitting today at the PGA Tour superstore that is near me (check it out if there's a location near you....they do a custom fitting for no charge).  They told me that I needed extra-stiff shaft irons.  I was hitting the 7 iron they had me testing out around 200 yards.  But then I looked at prices for extra stiff iron sets....holy shit!  The set my wife bought me was a regular shaft so I exchanged those for a stiff shaft set.  I'll see how these go and if I struggle with them maybe I'll upgrade to an extra stiff shaft but I just can't be dropping over a grand on a set of irons right now.

Whoa. You must have some serious swing speed if you need extra stiff shafts.
What's your handicap?

I'm usually around the upper 90s when I play....not very good.  My swing is so inconsistent...not sure the investment in extra stiff shaft irons would be worth it at this point.  But every chart that I read says that I should have extra stiff shafts based on yardage.  I don't know what the hell to do.

The Juggler said:

Would love to see a replay from the British Open....but noooop, Golf Channel is showing LPGA instead. So annoying

Damn the man! Stream it. 
http://stream.golfchannel.com/index_golf-live-from.html?pid=33849

Indifference71 said:

Cliffy6745 said:

Indifference71 said:

Nice start for Spieth.  Koepka too.  Conditions look pretty good so far today....supposed to be brutal weather the rest of the weekend with a lot of rain and wind.  Love this tournament.

Yessir.  Love this.  This course is awesome too.  Looking forward tomorrow.  Off on vacation this week and came back from the beach a couple days early as the wife had to get back for work.  Heading out for a quick solo 18 shortly and watching tons of golf.

Players keep saying how much they love this and how fair it is, I don't disagree, but any doubt if this were a USGA set up they would find a way to bitch about this fescue?  Definitely more cuts, but still not far off the fairway

Nice timing with the week off.  The wife is going out of town for the weekend so it's just me and the baby...will be nice to turn on the TV when and watch major golf when he wakes up at 6am.

Oh for sure there would be bitching if it were the USGA.

Rory a real mess out there again...seems like another waste of a season for him.  Everyone was all over Fleetwood but he shot a +6.  Glad I laid off of him in the bets I placed.  I took Scott, Kuchar, Grace and Casey to finish top 10.  Also have action on Casey and Kuchar to win.  And did a huge bet on no hole in 1 for the whole tournament.  

Not sure I knew you had a kid. Congrats, man. Sounds like a solid weekend. 

I was loving Fleetwood too until the rest of the world did too. His odds and draft kings value were so bad.   

Kuchar always finishes top 10 and Casey has been awesome. Not bad bets

Kuchar in a real good spot going into the weekend.

a wee spot of rain, eh?

Wobbie said:

The Juggler said:

Anyone have a hard time convincing their father to hit off the senior tees? My dad's 67 and his arthritis is pretty bad. Can't hit it nearly as far as he used to and more often then not, stops playing after 12 or 13 holes now. I briefly brought up the senior tee last year and he quickly dismissed it. But I'm wanting to bring it up again because I feel bad for him and feel like this will prolong his playing golf as he gets older. Wish I got back into golf a lot longer than just a few years ago. Missed out on a lot of good times out there with him.



Wob---when did you make the decision to switch to the senior tees?

I think it was jack nicklaus (buckeye, BTW) who was part of the "play it forward" campaign. everyone should just hit from where they might realistically par the hole. working at a golf course, I see way to many hacks hitting shit shots from the blacks just because they want to be macho.

along those lines, I swear I waited 5 minutes for some dude to hit the other day. pratice swing times 3, stand over ball. back away, point club at hole, repeat 4 times....I wanted to say "JUST HIT THE FUCKING THING!!!!!!" so badly.

when he finally hit the ball, it wasn't for shit.

You know it's funny my dad actually beat me this week, first time since I became a halfway decent golfer. 92-96. His arthritis held up and I played absolute dog shit!