DiscipleofPenick

Had to get some new pants to start the year- Got Puma in black & red, and a pair of Adidas in royal blue.

Every golf course should have dogs

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)

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.

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.

I see no reason I couldn't do May 5th. Sounds like we got our first foursome

2 kids, full time job, and it's at least a 25 min drive to the closest range.

Short game, I can get up and down from anywhere.

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

Hi all, there's plenty of us in Ohio and some new members so I wanted to create a new thread for this season to keep everyone in the loop on where the action is. I'll tag those of you I know are active, but please feel free to add anyone you're thinking of. @MattF @MaxEntropy @Mr_Theoo @tony@CIC @Bohnson @tobybtlr @snoopy79 @Rhys @brutal brutus @GolfSpy_BEN @Siamese Moose With that out of the way, who wants to meet at Deer Ridge near Mansfield sometime in May?

Hi all, I talked to the mods and I'm going to start a new thread for 2024 meetups. Get some new eyes on this.

Where in Ohio do you play out of? I'm Cleveland west, and there's a few Akron/Canton guys, and we'll meet up with a few Columbus guys. If you're in any of those areas, let me know and I'll be sure to include you when we plan meet ups.

Temu is pretty janky knock off stuff. This would be incredibly surprising if the USGA even knows about the existence of this ball, let alone being conforming.

SeeMore Putters. They had a surge years ago, but they are still around. I put one in the bag two years ago and I don't know if it's ever coming out.

This is correct, but it's nothing new. Same stuff that's been said for 100 years.

For public golf I don't think it really matters. My biggest concern is the people who just hear they need cleats/spikes to play and show up in baseball or football cleats...yes this happens. I don't care about t-shirts, tanks, short shorts, tennis shoes whatever. Like I've said before, and others have mentioned, just get done in 4-4 1/2 hours and don't trash the course.

A solid 9 iron gets me there.

It's an hour 15 for me from west CLE suburbs, 71 the whole way. A few of us played Ashland CC last year and I really liked it. That's just under an hour, so I'd be up for meeting there anytime, doesn't have to be a thing.

I know the 3 of us in CLE ( @MattF & @MaxEntropy ) also want to get down to Cbus for one, or at least meet at Deer Ridge.

Nothing scheduled yet just ideas. Also NOGA is holding one of their stroke players tournaments at CIC this year. I'm planning on playing that

Yes! I'll be adding more posts and try to set up 3-4 of these throughout the summer. There's a few of us in Cleveland and a few more in Columbus that try to play

I think the 'average' golfer should be estatic with those numbers. Remember 8 foot is the 50% mark for the best in the world. So if you are draining 35% from that distance you are still an amazing putter. I am a 5 hcp and my numbers aren't that good, so I don't know where they got the data from.

Thanks everyone. Excited to test these. I did try a sleeve last year and was pleasantly surprised by how they performed.

I've been saying this for a long time. I don't care if I'm in the fairway. The public courses I play don't have long rough so there's no penalty for missing a fairway. Some courses have fescue if you get really wild though. But 150 from center line or the rough doesn't make a difference to me. Also, there could be advantages to missing the fairway. During the dry months you'll get quite a bit more rollout on certain courses. Older courses with single line irrigation aren't going to water their rough. So you get more roll and find fliers.

Hi Spies! It's ya boi the Disciple back at it with another test. For those who are new, I've been on the forum for 7 years now and I've been lucky to a have had a few testing opportunities with MGS, but this will be my first time testing balls. So some of this will be the same to the OGs, but the newer members will be able to get to know me. My name is Tom, I am 39 and play out of Cleveland, Ohio. I grew up on the east side in Geauga county, but now live on the west side suburbs and we just moved from Fairview Park to North Olmsted. So the new place is only about 2 miles from the old one, which is great because it doesn't change any of my golfing options and places to meet with my buddies. We needed to move to a new place as last summer we had an addition to the family, our second daughter Isobel was born in June. Here she is chilling with our hound dog Reggie. We did have two dogs, but our Berner Otis, we had to put down the day after Thanksgiving, Of course with two kids, I'm not golfing the 2-3 times a week like I was before 2019, but I still get out about 6 times a month. So my handicap has gone from a 3 to a 5 (sometimes as high as 7) over the last few years. And I know that's a bit of a 'first world problem' but I know my game can get better than it is. My biggest strength is short game, then irons and driver are pretty close as either can be #2 or #3 depending on the day, and putting is the worst. I don't feel like a terrible putter but I don't ever seem to make anything over 8 feet and Arccos can confirm that. Last year I got to test the MacGregor irons and I'm keeping those in the bag so I think with a full season my iron play will get better. My current gamer is the Srixon Z-Star, and it's been my ball for several years. I was a Titleist guy playing the NXT Tour and ProV1 forever until I switched about 6 years ago or so. The Z-Star was longer off the driver and performed identically through the rest of the bag for me compared to the ProV1. This is when the ProV first went to $50 a dozen so and I was finding Z-Stars for around $30 so it was a no brainer to switch. I've been told in the past that I should play the X balls, and I definetly have the swing speed to do so, but I do not like the way they perform around the green, I've tried, ProV1x, Z-Star XV, TP5x, and Tour BX. I get inconsistent iron spin and too much roll on my chips with any of these X balls. I already hit the ball high so I don't need help there and I generally play for the front of greens as Northern Ohio has mostly old style courses with greens titled back to front. So balls that suck back some of the time are no bueno for me either. With the regular ProV or Z, I get the one hop stop as the ball is generally within 5 feet of the pitch mark on a well struck shot. Basically I want to get the same performance out of a TP5 that I am used to getting out of a Z-Star. I am expecting roughly the same distance off the driver, the same one hop stop on iron shots, and the same type of grab on chips, pitches, and bump and runs. For putting it's just the sound and feel, so if that's similar and not clicky, we'll be good. This offseason I also bought 2 dozen of the Snell MTB Prime on their $20 sale. So I will also be comparing that ball. Now, as the TP5 has been around for awhile, I've had a sleeve of them here and there and overall I do like the way it performs, but again like the ProV1, the $55 price tag has me looking for other options. These are supposed to arrive any day now, but courses in CLE aren't quite open yet and there's been snow on the ground 2 of the last 5 mornings so it could be another week or so before I get out. I am playing on Good Friday the 29th as that is traditonally opening day for the season. Current forecast is 48 and sunny so I hope that holds so I can play. If I have to hold of on going to the course because of weather, I can at least put them through the paces of the short game with my Birdie Ball mat and some chipping around the back yard. If nothing else that should give me a good idea of the durability of the ball. See how many wedge shots it takes to put some fuzz or a scuff on the ball. But that's the basic rundown and I'd like to thank MGS for the opportunity to be part of the test group for this. I'm an open book and I'll give you my opinion on anything so if anyone has any questions, please fire away. Looking forward to good testing and a start to the season with all the spies. First Impressions: Well after some unexplained delays, the balls were delivered yesterday. Rather than photos, I did a little unboxing video. Sorry if it's a little shakey as I had to hold the phone. I will not apologize for the bright color of the balls though. 20240501_123419.mp4