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Patriot Golf used to be Warrior Golf.  They changed names.  There were something else before changing to Warrior Golf.  Once you make contact with them you will receive a never ending supply of email and snail mail for everything under the sun they offer.  I bought a hybrid and got a free 60* wedge.  Wedge was great but the hybrid sucked.  Six months of trying to return or get credit or anything only resulted in more mail to buy something else.  I never did get nay response about the hybrid and ended up trashing it.  
Stay away from them.

Amen to that!!!  👍

And don't lose sight of we are helping directly fund this at the pump when gas prices go up every time Saudi Arabia cuts oil production like they will be doing in July by a million barrels per day to keep their income up.  They buy in to golf then make us fund it further in order to drive.

Morning all!  Took a couple days off to be seeing eye dog for my wife's eye surgery.  I'm not a doc but what she had done sounds like an oil change to me (changed the fluid in her eye).  Weather in western Washington has been in high 70's with some low 80's lately but today is not supposed to break 60 with a little rain.  No wild fire smoke but there are some really bad fires just north of us in Canada with a huge new one.  A weather shift and we'll have the smoke, too.  Despite all that I think I'll sneak out for a quick nine.  Supposed to watch my wife but things are going good.  I'll tell her I've been sitting on her right (surgery) side and been there all along!🤪 
No, the patch comes off this morning and all will be good.  So nine today and an 18 over the weekend. 
Hope everyone has a good/bad/indifferent round in them this weekend!  All of them are good and end with a beer!

Good morning Spurs,
Cool and cloudy this morning. The coffee is hitting just right. Awoke to an email from the forum to yet another testing opportunity. The MGS Forum Administrators are absolutely killing it with opportunities. So cool to see as it really helps build this great community. I’d encourage everyone to get involved.
So proud of SWMBO, she finished 3rd among the women in the Aqua Bike race yesterday. She was absolutely beaming. 🤩 My son starts his final term of nursing school this week and was informed that he qualified for membership in Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing.
Rain is in forecast off and on during the week, hopefully I can fit in some golf between the drops.
Hope all have a great one. If you’re golfing today wishing all find fairways & greens.

Good morning from a rainy Tennessee! Like a lot of others, it's good to see a little water come down from the skies this morning. 
I'm just getting out of bed and settling down with a cup of coffee and enjoying some time with the dogs. 
I hope y'all have a good start to your morning and that the Pinehurst crew gets good weather to enjoy their day. 

Good morning Spies from a much needed rainy Sunday in Michigan. After 21 days without any rain, hoping we get a measurable amount of rain so that the farmers and orchards in my area do not have to worry about any potential crop issues.
Make your day the best it can be, no matter what you may be doing.

Good morning from the western part of Virginia in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley!  It is a bright, crisp morning and I am playing a round of golf a little later this morning with friends!

Good morning Spies!
We are getting some much needed rain today in Central Indiana.  Still, it likely will screw up my afternoon game today.  I am really looking forward to it.  Fingers crossed for both rain and a clear golf window. 
 
I hope you all have a nice Sunday!

And don't lose sight of we are helping directly fund this at the pump when gas prices go up every time Saudi Arabia cuts oil production like they will be doing in July by a million barrels per day to keep their income up.  They buy in to golf then make us fund it further in order to drive.

Rewatching 1883 and first two seasons of 1923.  Excellent!  Never watched and don't want to watch Yellowstone but these series that prequel it are amazing if just for the history.

Good morning all! I am sitting at work this Saturday morning as I volunteered to come in to help finish today. Finish Saturdays are a lot more relaxed than production days, so it's not that bad. Not to mention we have a three day weekend coming up next weekend.
I hope those of you that are on the Pinehurst trip have safe travels and a wonderful time. I hate that I couldn't make it this year, but sometimes life gets in the way. I hope y'all hit them well and enjoy each other's company. 
I hope everyone else has a great start to your weekend!

I have a few more tied for places 2 - 5! 

I skipped a line reading this, thought it read "just reading the paper getting crazy" 
People who like to get crazy, obviously 

Morning MGS, and TGIF. I slept 3 hours, woke up with a headache, went back to sleep for 7 hours and now I feel great. Must have needed the rest.
It's great to see so much activity on the forum. I had so many pages to catch up on this thread!

GM Y'all- I hope everyone is havin a great day and hopefully things will get less hazy for those affected by the Canuck smoke. Things have been crazy at work lately- end of Fiscal year and departments are busy trying to justify their budgets (to be read: spending like crazy). I'm seeing a new putter in the bag coming soon. Then I'm sure I'll be able to figure out if it's the archer or the arrow😆. According to the testing I did- the new one is MUCH more accurate. Anyways, hope that golf involved in your day and know that I'm  jealous(although I might get a range session in tonight ahead of my round tomorrow). Nothin but F&Gs and NO 3-putts. 

I've had a couple days to let everything soak in and my current mood is unchanged: **** the PGA Tour.
That said, I'm curious what the long-term ramifications are of this assuming it isn't stopped by antitrust actions. It seems to be an inherently risky proposition for the purse not just of the PGAT but of most professional golf to be in the hands of one sovereign investment fund. Obviously, the Saudis have a long-term plan to try and improve their image around the world and one way they're doing that is through sportswashing. The PIF is an enormous fund. However, I have some questions.
What happens if there is a regime change in SA? What if they don't support the sportswashing efforts?
Will the PIF still be equally financially supportive if there is a global recession that results in depressed asset valuations around the world? 
While this is a long way off, what happens if oil becomes a far less profitable global commodity? Or if Saudi oil resources start drying up?
 
I know a lot of these questions are unanswerable but there are some real long-term risks that I fear can't be addressed with words on a piece of paper that we call a contract. The amount of concentration risk that professional golf is going take on is massive. This won't be an issue anytime soon but what about 20, 40, or even 60 years from now?
What happens if SA has another human rights/ethics blunder?
What happens if SA is put on the OFAC list?
 
These aren't unimaginable risks. The United States was days away from defaulting on its own debt. While very unlikely that congress would fail to kick the can down the road, the risk was present. 
I know this will sound cliche, but I have friends from SA that I met in college. Great guys. I have no ill feelings for the regular people of SA. My biggest qualms with the PIF taking over the professional golf is that 1) professional golf is no longer an organic self-supporting organization. I know some will try arguing that it's better for the players but I don't care. It's an unnatural organization. 2) This goes beyond professional golf. The SA PIF has been taking large stakes in other sports and many private/public companies. On top of the PIF's ownership in U.S. entities, they are a major purchaser for the American defense sector. I'm not against foreign investment in the U.S. However, this isn't a Russian billionaire looking for to diversify their wealth, this is a sovereign country directly buying influence in America and around the world. I know someone will say "bla bla bla, it's what the U.S.A. has been doing forever". Don't care.
The most concerning thing about all of it is that it seems we're just rolling over and taking it without a care in the world. It feels lazy.
It feels corrupt. 

... Good post! As always the answer is pretty simple:

Can’t argue with that list, maybe one more.

Morning all!  Took a couple days off to be seeing eye dog for my wife's eye surgery.  I'm not a doc but what she had done sounds like an oil change to me (changed the fluid in her eye).  Weather in western Washington has been in high 70's with some low 80's lately but today is not supposed to break 60 with a little rain.  No wild fire smoke but there are some really bad fires just north of us in Canada with a huge new one.  A weather shift and we'll have the smoke, too.  Despite all that I think I'll sneak out for a quick nine.  Supposed to watch my wife but things are going good.  I'll tell her I've been sitting on her right (surgery) side and been there all along!🤪 
No, the patch comes off this morning and all will be good.  So nine today and an 18 over the weekend. 
Hope everyone has a good/bad/indifferent round in them this weekend!  All of them are good and end with a beer!

They learn so quickly!!

That folks, is how you work the system. 😂

Morning all!  Took a couple days off to be seeing eye dog for my wife's eye surgery.  I'm not a doc but what she had done sounds like an oil change to me (changed the fluid in her eye).  Weather in western Washington has been in high 70's with some low 80's lately but today is not supposed to break 60 with a little rain.  No wild fire smoke but there are some really bad fires just north of us in Canada with a huge new one.  A weather shift and we'll have the smoke, too.  Despite all that I think I'll sneak out for a quick nine.  Supposed to watch my wife but things are going good.  I'll tell her I've been sitting on her right (surgery) side and been there all along!🤪 
No, the patch comes off this morning and all will be good.  So nine today and an 18 over the weekend. 
Hope everyone has a good/bad/indifferent round in them this weekend!  All of them are good and end with a beer!

Morning all!  Took a couple days off to be seeing eye dog for my wife's eye surgery.  I'm not a doc but what she had done sounds like an oil change to me (changed the fluid in her eye).  Weather in western Washington has been in high 70's with some low 80's lately but today is not supposed to break 60 with a little rain.  No wild fire smoke but there are some really bad fires just north of us in Canada with a huge new one.  A weather shift and we'll have the smoke, too.  Despite all that I think I'll sneak out for a quick nine.  Supposed to watch my wife but things are going good.  I'll tell her I've been sitting on her right (surgery) side and been there all along!🤪 
No, the patch comes off this morning and all will be good.  So nine today and an 18 over the weekend. 
Hope everyone has a good/bad/indifferent round in them this weekend!  All of them are good and end with a beer!