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Good morning all! IT'S MEMBER TESTING SEASON!!!!!!!!!

Mornin everyone! I stepped away for a couple of days and can't believe many pages I had to go through to catch up on this thread. Getting ready to head out for an 18hole net team scramble this morning. Weather is supposed to be low 80's, blue skies and light winds.

I missed the morning chat. Getting on here late because it was 53* and sunny. So guess where I was. Nothing like a tap in bird on hole number 1. Sorry you Northern guys. I had to do it.

What a great day for golf!! Well, except for the 4.5 hour round because it was the Men's Club Opening 2-person scramble tournament in front of us. The sun was out and after a 1.5 hour frost delay, it warmed up to 63º by the time we finished. For once I played a round and didn't feel chilled. Made 3 bogeys on the front nine to make the turn at 40. Had one bogey and one birdie on the back nine to shoot an EVEN par 35 and a total of 75. Shot my age again! I felt pretty good about today's score because the pins were tucked in some tough spots for the tournament. It was my best ball striking round, maybe ever!! Hit 12 GIR but only 9 fairways, which is low for me. However, the fairways missed were only just off and lies were decent. My only problem was that while I was on the greens in regulation, I had very long putts; except for the lone birdie...just not really makable.

Good morning all; it’s day something of some duration of time. Days seem to run together as they are all pretty much the same. get up, go to home office, work some, check forum, go do most wanted testing, go to bed….back to beginning. will be a tweaks to the schedule today since golf will be on at 10ish so the TV will be on in the background. Tomorrow will actually be different since I have to go to the office to teach a class…still tweaking the slide deck today.

Coming to you soon! I missed the good colors it came up so fast but still beautful

Good morning from a still dark WNY @Lacassem your photo is a nice preview to what is coming very soon as the terminator sweeps across our time zone. This middle of the week has a dentist appointment and Caz Park GC is open today for the one day hole in the weather and will fit nicely between appt and dinnertime. With the real prospect of outdoor golf on 3/22/2023 in Western NY, the hot mug of coffee and its on-deck thermos threesome is a great start to a day with golf in it

Morning all, workout done, dogs fed and the sunrise is coming up, gonna be a good color. Coffee is hot and the temperature will be T-shirt worthy. Gonna be a good day

OK then. Rain in the forecast. Went anyway. I mean, in the Phoenix area, 320 days of great golf weather a year so playing in the rain is bupkis if you want. Playing since 1981. I have had 3 albatross on par 5, to many eagles on par 4 and 5 to count made insurance money on 2 holes in one. My last goal in golf. Shoot my age. Yup, it happened today. I drink about once a quarter but I am sitting here drinking Drambuie out of my Viking mug. Oooo-rah. Sweet 70. 17 pars and a birdie. And before you say it, there were a couple of lucky shots but about time it swung my way. The rest was pretty golden. I've been swinging everyday out on my mat on the back porch and the swing is pretty damn good. CHEERS!

Starting to find my game or maybe just getting used to the new course. Still coming up a little short but I’m working on it. Chipping was very good leaving me with very reasonable putts. I was able to make two birdies, two bogies, and the rest were pars. It was nice to shoot even par. First solid round of the year. Got to shoot the breeze with the golf pro after my round and showed him pictures of the progress on the golf green. He offered up top dressing whenever I need it and also said they just got a new cup setting tool and said I can have one of the old ones. Boy this keeps getting better. He said he was also a licensed chemical sprayer and would come over and spray whatever product my green needs. Such nice people in my new area.

GM all, happy Saturday! So far, the snow storm is missing us, we are JUST skirting the outside of it. Had dinner up at the country club last night and ran into the assistant pro. Projected opening for the range is April 1st and course is April 8th! I of course have a work conference on the 1st, but I know exactly where I’ll be on the 2nd. For anyone interested, I am planning on starting a thread chronicling my 2023 golf season and journey towards lowering my handicap once the season opens. It’s already begun slowly with working on some changes to my swing. Early thanks to @chisag for giving me some extended feedback on my swing and drills to work on and also to @RickyBobby_PR for telling me about AMG golf on YouTube. Both have been big help in realizing what I was doing wrong early in my swing that I’d have not known otherwise!

Good Morning all! early weekend morning start for the me. I’m about an hour and a half I’ll be talking to 90 or so 3, 4, 5, and 6 year olds about the baseball season and introducing them to their teams and coaches!

Good morning all! Have nearly 7000 signups for the paradyms and the mod team has already started on the short list. With some new staff who haven't really gone though testing and such it's fun! So many good applications and will be excited to announce a week from Tuesday! Enjoy the weekend all and to all the new members be sure to check into this thread! It has quickly become a community favorite!

Well, the good news is, no blizzards in the forecast this week! The only golfing for me since November has been in my mancave with a launch monitor... That said, I took up bowling last year and found some more golfing partners to play with when our courses finally open (sometime next month, I HOPE!).

Morning everyone, up early this morning to get some grading done for the class I am teaching. Always feel great when I wake up and get the ball rolling like that for the day. Looking forward to the warm weather today. We tapped out maple tree and the sap is flowing like crazy with the weather. Got probably a gallon alone from yesterday, had to empty it yesterday afternoon and then again this morning. Won't amount to much but it is always fun to make a little of your own.

Morn all. Summertime change (DST) is next weekend, but already the sun's rising quite early—6am. Summer's coming!

GM, up early for coffee & breakfast. Working on tuning irrigation system this morning cleaning out grass/weeds and adjusting sprinkler heads. Neighbor down street in having entire yard resodded and I grabbed a little bit to fill in a couple bad spots in my yard.

Cleaned up all the sticks in the yard, blew the leaves off the patio, and did the dishes. Time to go reward myself with some new golf shoes before playing today

Good morning! My little sister is getting married today - pumped for the party!

I know I have gone over this somewhere, but worth repeating. It may be in the Want to be a tester thread, first post. Anyway we filter the applicants. Profile photos are a must, then we filter for roughly 20 posts and then we are left with maybe 5% and if we go to 50 or more posts it is 2% of the applications. Nearly 90% are one off or "tester only" applicants who only sign up for tests. All in all we create our short list which @GolfSpy_BOS transfers over, we all give our input and usually there is some overlap on who we like for a test and have a bit of discussion on who we want. Some cases we don't select someone because we feel they would be better for another test or they have tested irons recently etc. It seems like a lot and would take forever, but really we can have it all done in the span of a normal call which is about an hour.

Hey everyone, trying my first post here! Good morning!! What do you have planned for golf today, this weekend? My 14yo Son has HS golf tryouts tonight (in a dome because we still have like 8" snow on the ground), then we are heading to Birdi Golf tomorrow to play 9 (Bar with Sims). I'll post picks over the weekend!

Morning all! The rain has FINALLY called it quits here in SoCal, at least for the next 10 days or so, and I am a very grateful man. It's the wife's birthday today, so the morning was spent watching her "open" cards from the kids (with full explanation of what she was looking at as well as the VERY nitty details of how they were made by my 7-year old..."then I used the GREEN marker, here, here and HERE, to make grass!" (wife: "uh-huh....where's my coffee? I MEAN THEY'RE BEAUTIFUL!"). Really sweet. I managed to make her laugh with a romance novel, a bottle of her go-to Rye, a box of Fruity Pebbles (her favorite cereal as a kid), and a printout of the gift that was SUPPOSED to be here this past week, but is instead going to be 6 days late - but it's a killer painting that she's had her eye on for months, and I managed to surprise her, so ... bonus! She's off getting a birthday-tattoo to celebrate her mom (who passed several years back), which is pretty rad (both her honoring her mom and the tattoo itself), so it's quiet here without my "coworker." Managed to get through all 6 pages of comments on the Paradym testing thread - WOOHOO! It's so awesome to finally get to talk about the testing starting this year - you guys (and gals) are in for some really spectacular stuff, starting with this incredible testing opportunity. Alright - that's it! Happy Thursday (my Friday)!

Don't let this happen to you!

Good morning and glad to see you chose the Good Morning Thread to join in our friendly group. I think you will find this a worthwhile addition to your day and find the people who contribute here and throughout the MGS forum to be the kind of people who you would choose to have as friends. That is why I am involved here. Welcome in

Good Thursday morning everyone! I'm waking up, drinking coffee, and getting maintenance scheduled for my car. I feel fairly productive for 4 in the morning. Hopefully I can get my PTO approved for it, my supervisor isn't the best at getting in a hurry about approval. I found out yesterday we have to work Saturday. I've been volunteering the last few, but knowing we have to produce instead of helping finish is a bummer. It's still going to be a good day today. I'm looking forward to the community call this evening.

Morning! Late this morning - been a busy document-heavy morning here at work, but the day got off to a lovely start - coffee, kids in funny, weird mood, and then sunshine poked through as we walked out to the car to head to school, and this guy showed up. Super fleeting, happy to have seen it, and it feels like it bodes well for the rest of the week (wife's bday is tomorrow, snip-snip healing well, golf soon, etc.). Happy Wednesday, folks!

Happy Hump Day Spies!

GM Y'all!!! HAPPY DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! The weather is still kinda dreary(drizzly/foggy-at least the winds not blowing) and we're heading to the tee times on the weekend!!!!! The greens should be REALLY receptive. Hope those that are getting out and enjoying better weather have amazing rounds

Morning all, last day of the weekend for me. Going to change the oil in the commuter car, get the motorcycle uncovered and put the battery back in, and get the snowblower put away for the year. But first some coffee and eggs to start the day. Hope it’s a great day for everyone

Good morning everyone! We've made it to the halfway point of most of our work weeks. There's a light sprinkle going on right now with forecasted rain for the rest of the day. My coffee is nice and warm as I'm sitting here working on my morning motivation. I hope all of you have a wonderful day.

Happy Tuesday, GM thread, my order of priorities today is 1)coffee 2)catch up on stock market madness 3)grooming At some point I'll venture out to buy some essentials that are low. Having a 3:50pm tee time I have time to find a spot to fuel up with a solid meal, something I rarely do before golfing. I may leave early to explore the area around the course, as I've rarely driven 1 hour NW from my house.

Morning, I had a nice phone call with my bank this morning to stop some fraudulent charges on my debit card, so now that's canceled and I'm waiting on a new card to show up in the mail, so I have that going for me... Today will be a rough enough one as is. C'mon universe, help a brother out.

Good Morning (Ok... it's late morning but I'm still drinking my coffee so it counts)! Actually in the office today, which is probably good for actually getting stuff done today. A lot going on outside of work with exciting forum stuff coming up and baseball starting soon for the kids. I can just feel the Spring time coming!

Good Morning from the big apple! Central Park is as close I get everyday to seeing a golf course this time of year. Bethpage is out there somewhere...

Still getting out to the garage 2-3 times per week to hit balls, but had been struggling recently. The weather is so close to changing for the better, which means I'm getting the itch to be outside on the range rather than indoors. I find my temperament starts to get worse this time of year in regards to my practice and I get frustrated all too easily. That being said, yesterday was one of the best sessions I've had in probably over a month. Lots of good swings, lot less draw than I had been seeing for the past few weeks. Still working heavily on setup, but also focusing on the backswing turn and ensuring I don't get the club trapped behind me. Finished the session with some off-the-deck shots with my fairway and was happy with the flight and club/ball speeds. Topped out around 111 MPH club and 162 MPH ball, so that's promising. Stack work has been paying dividends. Supposed to be 40-50 degrees almost all week so the snow should be gone. Might be able to start putting outdoors next week, depending on when the practice facility decides to open. If we can stay dry the range might open in two weeks and my course won't be too far behind. About a month out hopefully.

Guess I should move to a different part of Wisconsin (or much farther south). The Milwaukee area isn't so lucky this morning. Winter storm warning until 4pm. 5-9" of snow with winds gusting to 35mph. Happy spring everyone!

Good morning from a rainy Tennessee! I woke up this morning to howling winds and sideways rain and thought the drive to work might be sketchy. Fortunately, it slacked off for the drive in. I'm now just sitting here taking some time to enjoy the morning cup of Joe.

I'm just going to quote this so it shows up twice and maybe folks will see it better. Yes, we love testing too! I hope that everyone who wants to test will be able to some day. It's not difficult to get involved here as the community really sucks you in once you start poking around and getting involved on threads. Welcome to all the new members we will soon have and make sure you get involved if you want to be a tester!

As we have launched our first test I implore all new members and guests to check this test out. It should help nearly all your questions about how and who we select for testing. Important to note. These are NOT contests to be won, but reviews that come with the expectation of a full review, thorough participation, updates and communication with the community throughout the test. They are also grade and those grades help or hurt future chances with testing opportunities. Also as we have seen for this most recent test. Multiple entries = automatic no selection. Again they are not contests, they are work and there is a commitment to the community that comes with being selected. We hand select each tester for each test. Sometimes we have to pass on very good candidates, but maybe we are saving them for another test or maybe we just need to see a little more!

A lot more than just testing but its definitely fun to test! Hope to see ya on some of the threads (this one is very popular right now).

Finally! it’s been hard to stay quiet the past couple weeks. Super excited to kick off Member Testing 2023!! oh, and good morning y’all! Time for coffee.

Morn all — caught something from a loved one. Pass the vitamin C!

Morning all, back to work today. 50 right now with some drizzle. Have an eye doctor appointment down in the city during work to finally hopefully update my contact lens prescription so I can ditch these glasses! Hope it’s a great day for everyone!

First real round of the year. Shot a 95 where I was hoping for a 90. Oh well. A lot of stupid mistakes and triple putts where I felt I could have done better but was rushing myself in the moment. Only 1 birdie on the day, 15th hole Par 4 landed it here off the tee… then proceeded to 2 putt it in. Felt like my driver was the only thing working well for me today, putting was terrible and my iron choices were either wayyy long or short. Plenty more to improve on now that we are seeing temps in the 60’s briefly in the afternoons for the foreseeable future! Hoping to come back and play the other 18 holes here at Lyman’s next Tuesday

Good morning all. Nice mild 30 degree morning here in Wisconsin leading to a high of...wait for it...MID 50s!! I saw a facebook post that a golf course in the Madison area, about an hour from where I live, was opening today. Home course won't be opening for I would say at least another three weeks with some large swaths of snow still covering areas that don't see much sun, but we are getting there. Yesterday was a beautiful, sunny day as well. The spring program at my son's school was really enjoyable. He goes to a K-8 catholic elementary school, so while the singing isn't always exceptional, the music teacher does a great job with the kids and you can tell they really have fun with it. I am a self admitted sap ever since my boys were born, and there was a song that tugged on my heart strings a little bit yesterday. I may have shamelessly shed a tear. The song was called If This Is The Last Time by LANY. Had never heard of it until yesterday, but something about a gym full of kids singing this song directed at all the parents got me. Linked in the post here if you're an emotional music listener like me Have a great day everyone!

Thanks, she had an evaluation yesterday and Doc said that everything was progressing OK.

On a buddies trip to Myrtle Beach. My first round of golf since November. The driver was a slice-o-palooza. I made the switch to my 3 wood and started finding fairways. We play the West Course at Myrtle Beach National. The greens were fast and the flags were on some nasty slopes. If you were above the hole, putting was treacherous. Oh and it was 42 degrees at tee time. (My inner dialogue was, “I left Syracuse for this? )

Good Morning and Happy Spring everyone! Here's to hoping all of us in cooler climates will be breaking out the clubs with regularity soon!

Good morning everyone! It's the start of the work week and I'm sitting in the car drinking coffee getting motivated to walk in on a chilly 28 degree morning. I hope all you have a great start to the week.

11 FW, 10 GIR, 36 putts 42/42:84 Chilly and windy to start but overall I felt like I hit the ball pretty well; better than the score reflects. Distance is way down; I guess due to the cold temps...high today was 45 and before we started my fingers were pretty cold. Short game wasn't great and when I hit the green I seemed to be in a really bad spot which resulted in 5 3-putts.