[Hands Down #1 Bucket List Golf Course]

Went to Ireland for our honeymoon.  We stayed at Ashford Castle for a few days and many other castles and manor houses all over the country.  My wife who hates golf, got me 18 holes at Old head and sat in the club house having tea and lunch while enjoying the views.  Old head is my favoriete!

 

[Hands Down #1 Bucket List Golf Course]

21 hours ago, Byrnzee said:

#1 for me right now probably has to be Old Head of Kinsale in County Cork, Ireland. We were able to visit the clubhouse and eat lunch there on a 2022 trip with my family. Unfortunately didn't get a chance to tee it up there, but I hope to in the next few years!

 

[Hands Down #1 Bucket List Golf Course]

On 8/9/2021 at 10:41 AM, Tiftaaft said:

Just an informal survey & comments:  

Do you use ball alignment marks (either manufactured or self inflicted) when putting?  

I prefer a clean ball and while I sometimes play a triple track Cally - I place my ball on the opposite side.  Maybe old school, but I find alignment marks distracting (tried to use it for a period of time, but didn't find my putting improved measurably using alignment... I can close pull my putter across the line as easily with or without the lines ;)). 

Just curious how many find the lines on balls advantageous to your success on the greens.

 

[Music on the Golf Course?]

On 7/9/2023 at 5:22 PM, Ron Folkinga said:

What are your thoughts about music while playing golf? I've played about four or five rounds with a guy I ran into last summer. He is a friend of a friend who I had met once before but didn't know at all. He insists on bringing a speaker and installing it on the cart and playing 70's rock all day long while playing. The first few times it didn't bother me too much but I still wasn't wild about it. The last couple of times it really started bugging me and affecting my game. For the record we're both in our 60's and I love music. I have a nice stereo set up at home and love listening to good music. I like a lot of different genres and I do listen to some oldies once in a while. But four and half hours of listening to 70's rock just doesn't do it for me. The last time we played we were on the first tee and on came Bob Segar's "Old Time Rock and Roll." I just couldn't take it any more and asked him politely if we could just cut the music this time. He seemed somewhat offended even though he insisted he wasn't. He replied that he would agree "this one time." He's never asked if music bothers anyone and if anyone so much as makes a peep while he's on the tee box he has no problem turning around and giving them a dirty look. 

What do you think, pro music or no music?

I found that music helps my game in the 80's while stationed at Schofiel Barracks Hi.  However I used a walkman so no one else had to hear it.  I now have an IPod Nano dedicated to music I love to listen to while practicing or plaing.  I have not been able to play for three years because of a back injury and 3 surgeries.  I hope to again.  Suggest to your friend an IPod or some other small MP 3 player that he can attach to his hat and use ear buds.  It works great!  I find a lot of music with a tempo helps my swing rythem.  Before my injury I shot in the low 80's to high 70's.  No one ever complaned about my music because only I could hear it!

[Tell Us Your Best Golf Story]

From 1980 to 1984 I was stationed at Schofield Barracks Hawaii.  I was a member of the Kalakua golf course on the post.  The golf course is no longer there.  My daughter who was stationed there in 2001, then deployed to Afghanistan, said it was now post housing.  On the back nine there was a long par five slight dog leg right that was bordered by pineapple fields on the right near the green.  The chain link fence separating the course from the fields was lined with Royal Palm trees that had been cut to about fifteen feet high.  I was about one hundred and ninety yards out laying two.  I hit my third shot to the green.  It was a terrible slice high and right.  It hit one of those sawed off trees, bounced to the green and in the hole.  My first ever eagle!  What luck!  You can see photos of the couse by Googling it.  It was beautiful.