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10 hours ago, FallenSaber said:
IPA and DIPAs
Sorry guys don't hate on me but I don't have to count calories...
Do, of course, have to be mindful of how much I eat per meal and not to overdo it multiple days in a row .. but overall I'm really lucky to still have a reasonably decent metabolism...
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On 4/11/2024 at 10:41 AM, GolfSpy_SHARK said:
Well I got onto the Bethpage Black waiting list....I was on and registering as soon as it opened and still got wait listed. CRAZY!
Lemme know if you do make it down to that - I'm less than a half hour from Bethpage Park!
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Not interested in a broomstick, at least at this time, but that was a great info-packed write up!!
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Good Saturday Morning, MGS Troops!! Get out there and conquer your weekend!!
Wife is busy with her hair then cooking and prepping for tonight's dinner .. so looks like plenty of time for me to go hit a few golf balls .. continue working on irons and short game...
Speaking of wives and golfing...
1 hour ago, Erin B said:... we can have moments like this:
@Erin B that *is* my wife!! She's somehow hit amazing shots out of deep greenside bunkers .. with spin and pretty close to the flag! .. and also chipped in a few times from some seemingly tough spots way off the green! (.. kills me
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Haha but seriously well wishes for your wife's health
Everyone have a great day today!!
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2 hours ago, sirchunksalot said:
The wife and I are planning on incorporating some exercise along with the eating habits we're working on.
That all sounds like a really great plan!!
Making new habits can be difficult but please get started and please stick with it - we need you in top shape in, what?, like 6 ½ weeks for the Kingsmill trip ...
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Not quite that level of OCD
but my Flat Coat would do that with his various rope toys ... when I met my wife they had a male Golden who did that with his fav plush Kung Fu Panda but he did bring it back at the end of the day.
But check out this Golden on Insta...
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4-6iNNu5rP/?igsh=M2p3bHYxdzVpeXVs
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3 hours ago, jbern said:
Practiced some tempo putting today. I set up a ruler with checkpoints at 5", 7", & 8" to ensure that when I take the club back farther the result is a putt that goes farther. Hit 50 putts. The tempo felt good, but there were about 10 mishits (maybe 12 even). I think my next putting practice is going to be a gate drill or something similar to reduce the mishits.
When you get the ExPutt set up, metrics include path and face at impact .. hopefully those can help you, too!!
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2 hours ago, StrokerAce said:
I love videos like this. I get stuck trying to "control" my swing instead of just swinging hard.
For me this also applies to iron swings; that is - I find myself screwing up a lot when I try to "control" my swing (eg 'baby' the shot or 'direct' the ball) vs just swing my swing.
Example - Par 3s where I will take an extra club but then not give it a full, committed swing .. and then end up short or right or short-right or anywhere other than on/near the green...
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2 hours ago, ZJeb67 said:I too saw a clip of the starters. Gary Player is in pretty darn good shape for someone pushing almost 90 years
Really is!! Along with all his successes I do respect that about him. If you've seen his "Game For Life" video, or read other articles about him, he has a crazy-for-an-old-dude daily exercise program in his home gym along with an over-the-top healthy eating regimen!
3 hours ago, Erin B said:Good morning MGS troops! Happy Friday! Headed back to Denver for imaging for the spousal unit!
Really hope trip goes well and the ultimate diagnosis is nothing too severe...
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Good Morning! all, if a bit later than typical for me .. wide awake in the middle of the night then out cold from just before my wife's alarm at 5am thru to 8am
So sipping my coffee, catching up here. Lots of good stuff going on, fellow Spies!
No outside golf for me today - we got pounded with crazy heavy bands of rain overnight along with some of those wild Wyo winds. Calmer now but you can see big puddling everywhere .. so the course needs a day to drain .. so will put in some indoor reps and putting later.
And a little house cleaning (oh yay
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OK well hope it's a real TGIF for you and you make it through your day unscathed, unharassed and ready for happy hour!!
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6 hours ago, ZoonORama said:
Today is also…. National Eight Track Tape Day
Wow who makes up this crazy calendar? Funny thing.. used to have an old Caddy convertible with an 8-track!! Still had two or three tapes, too, though I forget what they were... Prob some awful 70s disco
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@jbern enjoy the ExPutt!! It's a great practice tool!
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Successfully salvaged the other day's home improvement disaster (lost a thermostat wire in the wall)...
Thx again to those with the excellent responses - and the solution was probably in there - but I used my "Phone A Friend" lifeline
and he asked me, 'what's on the other side of the wall?'
Light bulb moment!
Just a small closet .. sooo... Cut a small hole just above the baseboard, found the wire!, taped it to my homemade "fish" and voilá...
..fish and hook coming down from hole behind old thermostat...
..and back on the hallway / thermostat side..
Put a few small nails into the wall stud on the right side of the hole to wrap over and hold the lower wire (fingers crossed
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..phew... OK moving on.........
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@EasyPutter they can get you near to, but not fully, 20/20.
@tony@CIC I hear ya on messing with the eyes!
So strangely enough, after all the testing and checking and analyzing - the doctor recommended NO surgery!
Said my vision - with my 4 or 5 year old glasses on - is near enough to 20/20something-ish to not take on the risk of surgery. Come back in a year for another check.
Gave me an updated eyeglass prescription so time for a new pair, I guess!!
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-50% off Mental Game training with David Mackenzie of Golf State of Mind
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I've attended one of his in person clinics - really helpful for me, and he's a really nice guy, too!
Here's the description...
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Below is copied in from a weekly newsletter from Jon Sherman of Practical Golf (and author of "The Four Foundations of Golf") - thought it was pretty interesting and send to dovetail in with this discussion.
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Recently, I have been reading and researching a lot about what makes humans happy. I want to learn as much as possible and apply it to golf (perhaps for a future project).
I was reading Arthur C. Brooks' book Build The Life You Want, and a topic came up that I have been thinking about lately.
Brooks states, "You can't choose your feelings, but you can choose your reaction to those feelings."
He goes on to explain a little about how our brains process information:
Detection: something happens (like hitting our drives into the trees), and before we are conscious of it, the image is processed by our retinas and sends the information to the visual cortex of our brains.
Reaction: Our amygdala receives this signal and processes an emotion. This happens in about 0.074 seconds! Then, our pituitary glands tell our adrenal glands to produce stress hormones, which can make our hearts start pounding.
Since this happens in the flash of a second, and our bodies are hardwired to do this to protect us (this exact situation could have you jump away from a speeding car immediately), there is no sense in fighting against it when it happens on the golf course.
But what comes next is more important...
The last piece of the puzzle is our decision. Our prefrontal cortex gets the signal of what just occurred, and now we have to decide how we react. Do you toss your golf club? Laugh? Or tell yourself it was a bad swing and move on?
Brooks writes, "Recognition of the feelings in your body caused by stress hormones can alter that decision."
We cannot prevent negative feelings from emerging. But we can train ourselves to understand them and, more importantly, use the rational part of our brains to replace them after the initial split-second reaction.
I often refer to a simple scenario where a golfer has a 100-yard shot. They are conditioned to believe this is a chance to hit it close to the hole and make a birdie.
Let's say they hit it to 25 feet on the green. Initially, they scoff at themselves and say it should have been closer. This happened to me yesterday on the golf course.
But as I put my club back in the bag, I quickly reminded myself that this was a perfectly acceptable outcome based on my skill level—studying stats from golfers of all levels helps with that reaction. I hit a green in regulation, increased my chances of making a stress-free par, and still had an opportunity to make a birdie. Not so bad!
Part of becoming a happier and better golfer is winning these small battles against our own brains. That is why I have always found this game so fascinating—golf is, in many ways, at odds with how our minds work.
But I think the important thing is to recognize that there is nothing wrong with getting anxious, angry, or frustrated when we see the golf ball doing what we don't want it to do. What comes next is more important, and we can get better at exerting our control there.
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Morning Gents, and any Ladies who may be present!!
Glad I got some range time and a few practice holes in yesterday, before a few wet and dreary days here (yes I prefer to be a fair weather golfer
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So this morning's adventure is an eval for cataract surgery...
Apparently it's so common now that there are clinics everywhere .. and they're busy!, booked a few weeks ago .. and apparently the surgery itself is very quick.
This came up recently after I went for an eval for LASIK, where the nice young lady did several tests and checks and measurements .. then explained carefully they couldn't do LASIK on me because of developing cataracts... Yep getting to be an oooold man
Would be nice to see more clearly! TBD.
K hope everybody's day goes well for them, and maybe see a few of you later on the MGS-CC!!
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ShotScope G5. G, not V, and .. yeah strange since I recently sold my X5 to another forum member!
The G is the GPS only version, no shot tracking so no game stats - and I know for only a few $ more you can get the V - but honestly I was not good about doing all the post-round editing, and without that you cannot be sure your stats are accurate...
What the G offers that I'm looking for is an easy way to get a shot distance.. so I can get a general idea of what the clubs are doing; plus recently they added hole layout overviews .. really helpful when playing new courses. Also has the OG buttons, vs the touchscreen, for us OG dudes
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11 hours ago, EasyPutter said:Or run tie a fishing weight on a string and lower it through the hole until it comes visible in the basement, pull the wire out in the basement and attach the end to the string (minus the weight) and pull the wire back up to where it was before. It might take some fishing to get that weight on the string to find the passageway to the basement and that might be aided by pulling the wire down. If all fails, get a wire snake and feed it up from the basement until it appears in the thermostat opening, or do it the other way around depending on how big the hole is for access in the wall. Just ideas to add to what you're faced with Chuck.
Less than 50 days now until we slip the frustrations of home for the fairways of VA
11 hours ago, Rob Person said:If it fell all the way down, do like @EasyPutter said and fish a line to the basement. 2 things to be mindful of. Depending on how old the wire is, it can become very brittle, and break apart very easily! The second is it may be piggy backed (split from) and onto the other thermostat wiring. If this is the case don't pull on it or you may end up in deeper doodoo!
Checks to see how many sets of wires are running from the basement or attic.
10 hours ago, MN_Hacker said:Fish tape and run a brand new wire?
9 hours ago, EnderinAZ said:It is very unlikely that the wire fell any further than the bottom of the floor plate. Depending on the size of the hole where the thermostat is mounted and the height of the hole you may be able to fish the wire out yourself. If the hold is an inch around get some duct tape and an old fishing rod. Put a wad of the tape on the end of the rod sticky side out. Run it down the wall and dab gently. You don't want to grab more than the end of the wire and just pull it back out. Might take a few tries.
Or measure how high your receptacle outlets are from the floor. At that height cut a hole in the sheetrock that a blank outlet plate will cover. Remove the thermostat drop a string down the hole and pull it out the new hold in the wall. Get a hanger and use it to fish the wire out of the new hole. Tie the string to the wire and pull it out of the thermostat hole. Get a short piece of 1x1. Cut it so it is 2 inches or so longer than the hole in the wall. Put a wood screw through the wall plate into the center of the 1x1, Make sure the wood screw is long enough to allow you to slide the 1x1 into the hole and move it around until the plate covers the hole and the 1x1 grabs the edges of the hole above and below the hole. Tighten the wood screw gently until the plate is solid on the wall. When you get in the home improvement mode later you can put a proper patch on the wall.
Good morning Spies! More short game practice today basking in the 84-degree temperatures we will have later today. Oh I love the heat!
All great ideas, thx guys!!
So the upstairs thermostat is not directly above the downstairs one nor the boiler in the basement .. the wire must make a few turns from one corner of the house towards the opposite one... We also have two zones, upstairs and downstairs, so there are two sets of wires coming off the controller board. And a finished basement so a lot of the wire runs are hidden...
Was thinking maybe try to - carefully! - pry back the baseboard. And yeah one ultimate solution may be to run a new wire dripping from from the attic.
Bottom line? ..I literally need professional (hahaha) help!!
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So been working out, exercising, walking building up the calves, going to the range, playing practice and real rounds .. and do I even have to say? .. happy hour'ing
Getting ready boys!!!
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On 4/8/2024 at 7:57 PM, cksurfdude said:
Practiced at the range Saturday, walked 9 Sunday, pushed a manual lawn aerator around my front and back yards today .. getting my leg work in!
Followed that up yesterday with a walk to acupuncture and back with a bag of food - yes waaaay less than 450#
- and today some swing practice and walking a few holes for irons practice.
Building up the calves (iykyk).
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Why... The 19th, of course!
haha not sure the hole # but one that's always intrigued me is the one that doglegs left - where some people end up in the pines / pine straw - then goes downhill and across a section of the creek to that very sloped green.
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Good Morning!
Had a bit of a home improvement attempt that yep turned into a bigger homeowner hassle...
.. was trying to upgrade the upstairs thermostat (had done the downstairs one several weeks ago) and there's two sets of wires in the wall with one coming down from the attic for the A/C and one coming up from the basement for the heat...
.. well the one coming -up- inside the wall apparently was not secured to the wall stud and it disappeared on me......
D'OH!
So now have to get an electrician over to try and fish it out, if possible, or else I guess we tear the house apart...
Well at least I have 5 or 6 months until we need the heat upstairs again...
Anyhow hope the rest of you have a home/car/health/family or personal or work, too I guess, disaster-free day!!!
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Losing your groove in a round after a delay
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If there's a delay during the front or back 9, I do one or more of...
If there's a lineup / delay at the turn I'll take the glove off and...
So in either case it's all about keeping yourself "busy" / engaged with something else .. distracted from / not stressing about the delay!!