MacTourney

That was basically my point, it's bull droppings to have to search around for some holes on this station, some holes on this platform, different times on different platforms, different days, different schedules and show times, it's all just bull crap. It's our National Open for pete's sake, let's act like it is! I just cut the cord a while back to antenna television, and still trying to determine what I can get online and apps and such. SWMBO has a smart tv so maybe I missed an opportunity there but did get the ESPN downloaded today to her televison. I guess if I was in charge of USGA our championship would be on one of the old school broadcast networks, all 72 holes. Vote me in and I'll have it done by next summer, book it. Back to reality now and watching Wheel of Fortune...

Help me off the rant ledge, I'm not one to rant, but the ledge is near. I was thinking today that all persons in these United States should have free access to live, as it happens, US Open golf tournament coverage for all 4 rounds whether it be antenna television, streaming, cable, apps, Ouija boards, etc. This is our national open championship, everyone deserves to see it live and USGA needs to get off its butt and make sure it happens. I'm confident I missed a bunch of extenuating variables but the game needs to be continually grown and what better way than having the USGA lead the way and putting our national open out there for all to see, right here, right now!

1955 US Open rough and Hogan having a rough time in it. Always love looking at this contemplative picture this time of year.

Powerful little toys they are, we had Ford, Massey, Deere and Belarus with Ford doing the most work. I'm sure you have lots of great stories. When time was short we sometimes took off the outside 2 gangs and did both at same time- pull a wide deck mower behind and the ball picker in front. Miss those days too.

Spent many a day and night on a picker- 7 gang pinned to a farm tractor. Knowing my target status with the young punks I turned their actions into my benefit. I would make a large elliptical orbit about 200+ yards out and it was amusing watching a bunch of folks repositioning themselves on the tee for target practice. Velocities are a little lower out there and even though the tractor got plunked a few times there were so many balls collecting in one area by their misses it made my job easier timewise, so thanks guys! I probably learned more about golf swings and their flights riding a tractor than being on a tee. Only once really startled me when ball got through a tiny opening down low near my feet that it would be a one in several million chance of sneaking through- it did, no pain, but ball bounced around inside cage like a pinball. Fun times, and you get used to the clang noise and after a while you don't even notice it much.

From how far, or what circumstances, and are you having trouble getting the ball airborne?

Playing weighted or off-weighted gear will generally reduce to preference for the most part, nothing wrong with that. I still play blades and even with my speed loss a knock on the middle door is very gratifying, and I like the immediate feedback which feels more pronounced to me. Last couple times out I've been living toward the toe side of center just enough to rattle my cage and the carbons are telling me to have a look. Here's a tournament level perspective-quote from Nick Price some may enjoy, courtesy of Bradley Hughes. “With perimeter weighted clubs, considering my shots on a scale from 1 to 10, I know I wouldn’t hit a shot worse than a 6, but because of the club’s resistance to subtle influences I may want to impart, my best shots wouldn’t be better than an 8 or 9. With blades, my bad shot might be as bad as a 3, but my best shots would be 10’s, and the difference between 8 and 9’s and a 10 at the top end of the scale is the difference between winning and losing a major championship”

Not me. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

No worries, but seems almost same from my end with the exception that Forum Staff tab has been replaced by menu_item_138. I'll try looking in tomorrow, thank you.

Good idea, but not seeing an Events tab. What's my error?

Ride 'em hard, no oats at the turn, and never put 'em away wet.

You bet, the typewriter tap dance will be in full bloom for a long spell. Don't follow this topic closely enough but my spidey-sense is vivid with images of a Trojan horse.

Monahan's skill in the world of argle-bargle is impressive.

Nice. Whiskey for the sorrows and duct tape for the scratches, and right back up on the horse. Someone's got to play those nines, it might as well be you.

...and real bush hogs, not wanna be bush hogs, have chains. PTO and chains, works every time, mean combination. No thorn bushes allowed...

I haven't followed much of the silliness but it wouldn't surprise me if negotiations on merging have been behind the scenes and ongoing since well before Cupcake won the PGA Championship. A little Cuban Missile Crisis on the links...

The PGA Tour blinked...

It could be this, it could be that, it would be this if it wasn't that, so it should be this but it could be that, so put up a video, it's as simple as that. That's that.

Love no rain and baked out conditions, old style golf, and carrying less clubs while still covering the gaps. We got a stretch here last week and next being dry as a bone so loaded up and ready to go if the temps stay manageable. Brown is the new green.

Price and purchase frequency wasn't a biggie to Byron, but it caught Louise's attention. ''I had played poorly in the 1935 U.S. Open,'' Byron says, ''and my driving was terrible. I'd bought four drivers, which was much more than I could afford. As a matter of fact, we had so little money, we were living in the basement of a parsonage. Well, one evening after dinner Louise was doing her needlepoint, and I told her I needed to buy another driver. She didn't say anything for a while, but finally she put her needlepoint down. "'Byron, we've been married for over a year, and during that time I haven't bought a new dress or a new pair of shoes. But you've bought four new drivers, and you're not happy with any of them. One of two things: Either you don't know what kind of driver you want or you don't know how to drive.'''

I run market rate pricing through an extensive cost-benefit analysis. If the play club costs $500 it had better deliver 500 yards of distance or.....no deal.

No, no difference whatsoever. <sarc>

Treating the flagstick like it's an uninvited guest in its own home usually doesn't work out so well. Zinger has some ideas on this too using the home's host as an assist to stop steering, guiding, fitting into, etc.

That's what it's all about. Enjoy the baby back ribs this weekend girls and boys.

Not if you pivot correctly, and believe it or not the closer you get to the ball the easier pivoting can become. Bobby Jones said, and CB agrees, you cannot stand too close to the ball and they're both on the money. Try the drill, it may give you the awareness being closer is an advantage in the long run, and not an insurmountable task. Don't know if you've heard the expression shanks are pretty close to perfect strikes, they are. Live dangerously! No human knows where the club is while fully striking and the moment you think you do it's no longer there, so that's not the reason for a poor shot. About the only privilege we have is knowing where we are in 3D space and is what we attend to, unless you live in Kansas.