Irish-Assassin

That’s the Golf Spy Spirit OZ. A lot can happen in three weeks, good luck, hope you get a chance to play in Italy. Gioca a golf e colpisci quel fairway

Recover well OZ, that would have been a great golf course to play. Myself with that opportunity, injection, Vodka and Whiskey chaser and grit the teeth. But this is not a medical suggestion and if you choose this avenue I cannot be held responsible for your actions.

Happy Birthday Golf Spy People.

I turn up most times an hour before my tee time, start with hitting a 5 iron so I stretch out a little being a longer club and will not go to other clubs until I hit it flush. Then I’ll go through evens or odds with my irons, my routine is pick a target and hit three shots in a row, they need to be accurate until I move on to next club. If I hit one or two or three and one is so far off I’ll start again until three dead on in a row. Then check score card for hole one and look at the flyover and play that with my clubs on the range. If that goes well play number two on the range: Do some putting for green speed and then hit the range again with balls left in basket for a quick warm up so I’m stretched out again. If I do this I can eliminate excuses for bad play due to no warm up.

Congrats on your first tee-time of the year, hope you have a good morning at the course. Yes Sunrise golf is perfect, cool breeze, fresh fairways and greens.

Happy to hear upping your club made your best score, I have a buddy that will not do this and complains about his round, I’ve told him to take extra club but he still thinks he in his early 30s. I told him extra club, swing easy, better results will happen. It works, it’s all about numbers. Most courses set up would be 6 middle, 6 left and 6 right on the greens. So at least 6 middle of green could be closer than most would think, plus middle of the green would result with either a 6 - 30 ft putt right or left. Of course some greens are bigger than 60 ft wide but not many.

Back in the day in Europe they did a test on amateur golfers. Don’t know the whole field in numbers but I’m sure it was enough to grade the results. Play 18 holes and submit your score. Easy enough, now with hole locations moved play the same 18 with no flags. When some asked how do we play they were told, aim for the center of the green and putt out like normal. Result, without flags scored better due to not knowing where the flag was taking away pressure and not trying to attack a pin even professionals wouldn’t go after. Good advice and yes sometimes I ignore it and kick myself, always walking off thinking, middle of the green, stupid.

The thing with testing is I don’t go for everything on offer. Some things interest me and some, not so much. Sometimes I like to read other views on items that I don’t throw my hat into the ring for. I’ve purchased many things from reviews on Golf Spy and will always be thankful we have a balanced testing pool.

And that’s the thing for me, I hate what LIV the Devils Golf did by offering so much temptation money that players couldn’t resist. And we are not talking players that couldn’t be in the hunt on the pga tour. Right now most on the World rankings in the top twenty either play on LIV not getting points and rightly so or they are playing like shower heads. ( Hot and Cold ) The chasing pack are not same level anymore, only people that could put up some kind of game are to inconsistent, Rory, Xander, Wyndham, Morikawa and Homa, maybe add Harmon. I can see Scotty being numbers one for years, he doesn’t have any real challenge unless one of those has a coming to Jesus moment or goes to the crossroads and signs on the dotted line.

The question asked is a good question and it’s a hard answer because out of the pack no one is as consistent as Scotty. So let’s add to the question, would Scotty be number 1 if all the players on the LIV tour still played on the PGA tour?

Happy Birthday from myself and Clyde.

Cut +4 Amateur. De La Fuente

Happy Birthday Spy’s.

Many thanks, as an Irishman it’s the day after St Patrick’s day and my mother was in labor on St Patrick’s day. Let me just say, my father was not to happy that I didn’t come out and I had to hear about it every year

Well Rome wasn’t built in a day, RTJ Alabama at least started the revolution.

Yes love that, wish it’s was universal. Thank god Alabama are smarter than a fifth grader.

I’m not one to call people out to much but when you’re stuck behind groups that are playing from the back tees and clearly you can see that no one can drive the ball more than 160 - 200 yards it’s a little frustrating as you know they are playing from the wrong tees. Of course once in a while someone gets the Happy Gilmore drive and then has to talk to everyone about it in his group and the other group on the other fairway. I get it, let’s play the big tees and get drunk, it will be fun. Not for the group behind you watching you putt out each hole for 7s - 10s and above. I’ve said for years, I wish golf courses had something in writing on each tee saying for handicaps 1-6, 7-12, 13-20, 21 and above or something like that.

Great Sunday morning here in Dallas. Company asked me to come out here for two weeks so one week left. I had a Homer Simpson moment, Should have bought my clubs, so essentially when I get back to Arizona I would not have hit a golf ball for over two weeks. Just so I’m clear, you swing the bat and hit the puck, right?

I have an annual golf tournament hosted by yours truly and this year we are hitting Vegas for our sixth year. Anyone out there know of some decent golf courses that are not crippling on the pocket but good to the eye? On another not as this isn’t until Oct, does anyone know if courses close for reseeding? Any help would be appreciated.

The rules of golf are the rules, yes some may say it’s not right to expect mere mortals to have to play the same standards as the professional but you can also learn from the professionals out there. What I mean by this and let’s be 100% honest here. How many mere mortals actually practice this shot, I for one will go find some divot’s or make some on the practice facility and hit different shots to learn how to do this. That’s your advantage over everyone else that decides not to. It’s worth it to see the faces of your playing foursome when you hit a guided missile on to the green. It’s even better when playing match play, just watch your opponent crumble after you do this.

Shot of the day. Jameson’s followed up by a Cinnamon Whiskey, hole, around the facial area. Always makes every golf shot wonderful!

Let’s start with, what is a putter? I’m told it’s meant to put the ball in the hole. Really ? So why does mine go on vacation at the wrong moments, we have a little divorce, I then hit the dating game with several cute putters and pick one, then like a bad penny and after money spent and time put into the new putter romance my original always seems to come back from vacation looking awesome and new. So quick divorce from new flame as it’s being naughty and back to the old flame. My Scotty Cameron Studio Five smoke finish.

At one stage in my life I had a 0.02 handicap, this was more in my younger days. Now being in my 50s I still carry a single digit handicap, Just! I have good days and bad depending if I have some form of over the counter medication. So yes golf has fun and not so fun days, but this also depends on who you’re playing with, some friends are chill and like to, let me say this. Liquid assistance, normally a fun day no matter what. Some are a nightmare and you need to be a shrink when you play with them, not so fun. I will round this up, I love the game, even if Im playing golf like a one legged pirate, that chance of a hole in one, albatross or eagle is still out there, somewhere!