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DiscipleofPenick

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  1. On 4/5/2024 at 11:54 AM, ElmoGolfs said:

    Hey All! New Member here located in Columbus area. Just started playing last summer, but I play  about 2-3 times a week and am swinging a club one way or another  when I don't play. Shoot around  mid 90s most round now, but feel like I am improving at a good speed. Down to meetup for some rounds if anyone is nearby!

    We are meeting at Deer Ridge in Bellville on May 5th

  2. Ok so we are trying to go to Deer Ridge in Bellville (between Mansfield & Columbus) on May 5th. I'm pretty sure we have one 4some so far. I need to get a head count of anyone else interested because I'd like to set up tee times this week. I am thinking something late morning like 10:30-11 start as it'll probably still be cool out.

  3. Played a very mushy 18 yesterday morning with @MaxEntropy and two other buddies. It was a course I play several times a year, and we had a lot of rain, even some snow, and heavy frost this week. So it was CPO, with a 30 minute frost delay. As it was a sub-par day I didn't keep score, but I hit some really nice shots, especially the driver, and felt like I played the front 9 pretty well with quite a few pars. Things did not go as well on the back, as I had at least 2, maybe 3, doubles. Also, the whole course really slowed down on the back and it took nearly 3 hours to finish up that 9, 4:45 total time on course + the delay. Still typical for early Ohio golf, and I only lost 1 ball to the conditions. Just great to be back at it.

  4. For Cleveland, I'll stick to the public courses.

    Sleepy Hollow & Manakiki are considered two of the best munis in the US and designed by Stanley Thompson & Donald Ross respectively. 

    Boulder Creek is one of the toughest and nicest courses around. The Quarry, Shale Creek, Grey Hawk, and Little Mountain are other highly rated modern courses. We also have Pete Dye's Fowler's Mill & Fazio's Sawmill Creek. To go a little further out, Youngstown has Mill Creek - 36 holes of original Donald Ross & Toledo has the Arthur Hills golf trail.

    For those of you who like the history of the game,  we have access to that as well. Highland Park Blue and Tanglewood hosted PGA events. Avalon Lakes out by Youngstown hosted LPGA. And most impressive is Clearview in Canton, which is on the historical register as the first African American designed and owned course in the country.

    All of this and I didn't even mention some of my favorite courses - Sugar Bush, Windmill Lakes, Chardon Lakes, and Pleasant Valley.

  5. 3 hours ago, ElmoGolfs said:

    Hey All! New Member here located in Columbus area. Just started playing last summer, but I play  about 2-3 times a week and am swinging a club one way or another  when I don't play. Shoot around  mid 90s most round now, but feel like I am improving at a good speed. Down to meetup for some rounds if anyone is nearby!

    Welcome! There are quite a few Columbus guys on here and I am one of the CLE spies. We are planning a meetup at Deer Ridge in Bellville on May 5th. If you are interested let us know.

  6. 2 hours ago, MattF said:

    Had another pair of the pants in black delivered yesterday.

    I also got 5 pairs of the shorts version in black, grey, khaki and 2 different blues. These are for transitioning out of cargo shorts when we go out during the summer...I'm getting older.

    I may need to check these out for the price. Though I've not gotten older, just rounder.

  7. You could just play as GUR until the trap situation is fixed. Drop one club length from the back edge of the bunker keeping the bunker between player and target. If courses don't maintain their bunkers and use the correct sand, they should just be removed from the course IMO.

  8. Dunlop=Srixon...change my mind. Dunlop, the tire company got bought up by Goodyear and Sumitomo rubber. The golf patents all went to Sumitomo in the sale, and they are the parent manufacturer of Srixon/Cleveland.

    I'll add SeeMore putters, PowerBilt, and Alien (lol)

     

  9. I'll put another vote in for night golf, that would be a blast to do as a semi-regular thing. 

    I wish there was a local collective that all the courses would sign up to (more than just USGA or something) where all courses would operate more or less under the same rules. This isn't more for course conditions, but for operations one could expect when playing the course. They could train the counter staff, starters, and rangers to actually be efficient and consistent. And all the courses would have the same tee time schedule (every 8-10 min), all refuse walk up play at these same times etc.

  10. Music doesn't bother me as long as it's not too loud. I play with @MattF a lot and he usually has a speaker on his bag, but I can only hear it when I'm walking next to him down the fairway. (which isn't often) If I can hear it across the course it's too loud, but I think this has only happened once. I've tried it but it's not for me. I like to disconnect from technology on the course so, I prefer the natural sounds of the course.

  11. 10 minutes ago, tobybtlr said:

    Haven’t played deer ridge in years.   Would love to play it.   Might drag along someone else with me who’s always talking about playing it.  

    Same, I've been trying to get down there for years and need an excuse.

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