golfmule

The five second penalty was crap. It was nothing to Verstappen. All that did was make sure he would win the race. It was kind of like the penalty Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh received from the Big Ten. It meant nothing.

Where I play ready golf is considered to be from tee to green everyone hits when they are ready, not waiting for anyone else to hit just because they are farther from the green. Once you are all on the green it goes back to who ever is farthest from the hole putts first, the next farthest from the hole putts second, etc.

I'd rather my opponent make the 10' birdie putt to win. I've always said I can live with loosing because someone played well and beat me but I have a real hard time loosing because I played like crap that day. Hell, to be honest, I'm miserable if I play like crap and I'm playing alone.

I can remember 2 outings that were the worst weather I've played in. They both were 4 man scrambles. The first was wet and windy. The rain quit falling but the wind got worse. It was bad enough when it was at 35 mph and gusting to 40-45 mph but then it got to 40 mph and was gusting to 52 mph. There were a couple of holes where we had to post one of our players at the green to mark the ball as soon as it hit because the wind would take it right back off the green. The second one was hot and humid and we all were sweating up a storm, literally. Midway through the back nine the clouds got very dark and the wind came up. All of a sudden the storm sirens went off and the rain came pouring down. We all headed for the clubhouse but few made it before the rain turned to hail. the hailstones were nickel to quarter size. They hurt when they hit you. We were almost at the clubhouse when lightning hit a tree we were passing under with our cart. The flash kind of blinded you for a moment and a limb fell off the tree about 30-35 feet from us. We finally made it into the clubhouse. We were soaking wet and feeling lucky that no one was injured or killed. Th storm came up so fast that we had no time to head in before it hit.

Not really. You would be playing different clubs going to the green. I play a club like that up here in SW MN and it's a fun course. If it were a little closer I join. As it is I pay there maybe once per month. Most of the courses up here are 9 holers. Most of the towns around here are small enough that they wouldn't be able to support an 18 hole course. The only 18 hole courses are about 45 minutes from me at least. I would say the deciding factor would likely be how well kept up is the course you're considering.

I had a custom golf shop for over 30 years and I used these shafts for beginners and higher handicap players with not a huge amount of swing speed or experience.. They seemed to be a pretty good shaft for those golfers. I never had a complaint and I had a golfer come in after a couple years of using custom clubs that I built for him who wanted some new clubs but insisted that I use those same shafts as I had used in the first set I sold him. They had helped him hit the ball higher than before and he loved them.

See if you can find the (Costco) Kirkland wedges. They get mostly very good reviews. I've seen them in the stores and they look good too. If I remember correctly they were priced at around $150 for all three in the set.

I've been a Srixon Soft Feel fan for around four years now. I've used them at least 80% of my rounds during that time. I don't see any lo9ss of distance with them but no, they don't check up as well on the green on approach shots. As has been stated, the price is hard to beat for a quite good ball. I also like the Maxfli Tour X but keep going back to the Soft Feel's because the Maxfli's didn't come in yellow or green which are easier for me to follow and find in the rough. I want to try the Q Star Tours but haven't yet.

I think I'd search for some original Callaway Big Bertha irons from around 1986. They were super forgiving and as long as anything. I'd probably have to change the shafts now though to something more up to date.

This sure worked for me. I was also 72 when I was looking for a new driver. I decided to try XXIO but didn't want to (wouldn't) pay the price for a new one. I decided that I wanted an XXIO Prime driver and found that the price for a new one at that time was $849. I started searching for one on line and found one that was described as used but in excellent shape and looked almost new. I actually found it on ebay and it was just $268. I decided to try buying it. It came directly from Japan and I was pleasantly surprised that it did indeed look almost new. The only scratches I found were to the bottom of the club and they were minor in nature. I headed to the course and soon found that the XXIO Prime driver was extremely easy to hit and not only did it give me back some height to my drives it also gave me back some of the yards I had lost, between 20 and 30 yards in fact. Two years later I bought a whole set of irons, hybrids and a 4 wood the same way and have never regretted buying XXIO's. By the way, if you don't want to spring for XXIO Prime, which can be very expensive if you buy new, you can buy XXIO 11 or XXIO 12 which cost less. They are excellent too but aren't quite as light in weight as the Prime version. I had switched to Sr. shafts in my clubs before this but if you want a comparable feel you should get R-flex in XXIO clubs as their shaft flex is lighter that our normal clubs. If you have a fairly smooth swing you will benefit for playing XXIO clubs. Another good club for us senior golfers is the Honma brand (also from Japan). I recently bought a Honma X-1 driver I have only hit it a couple of times yet, it could be a good option as well. So far I like my XXIO Prime better though.

I use a Datrek Lite Rider Pro bag like this one. I first started using Datrek bags because almost all of them have the individual full length club dividers. I liked them so well that I started selling them in my custom club shop. I sold them at discount to those who bought clubs from me and at a slight mark up to anyone.

I play XXIO golf clubs. For what they cost, you bet I have irons headcovers. Well honestly, I've used headcovers on my irons for many years and many sets of irons now. I always thought that those who didn't use headcovers were idiots or had so much money that they could change to new clubs whenever they wanted to have the newest version again. Even then, unless they found a place that would take theirs in trade it just made sense to me to keep them looking better so they could resell them. That doesn't even take into account the racket they make while crashing into each other as you're going down the fairway. Then there are those who complain that us clubhead cover users waste too much time taking the covers off and putting them back on. It slows us down too much, uh! I find that many of those complainers are the ones who mark their ball with a line that they can use to help them while putting. They waste much more time getting that line lined up perfectly, sometimes having to squat back down and adjust the way their ball line is pointing as many as two, three or four times.

I usually arrive 30-40 minutes before tee time. That gives me plenty of time to get my shoes on, load my cart, check in at the clubhouse, BS with the clubhouse attendant, do some loosening up and tee of.

Wow! I'm amazed at how many use green dots. I also use a green dot to the upper left of the number. I originally decided to use green because no one else at my course used green. There were plenty using black, blue or red. I've never played with anyone else using green. I've been doing it now for maybe 30 years.

Try Datrek. I know it's not the fanboy sexy pick right now but they are quality bags.

If you don't want to go as far south as Brainerd, MN take a look at Lakeview National at Two Harbors, MN. The course is just 30 minutes north of Duluth. I played a two day tournament there. Some of the holes offer a great view of Lake Superior as a bonus. It's not very expensive either. I believe it's $23 for 9 holes and $33 for 18, weekdays and weekends. You could catch 18 there either on your way to or back from Giants Ridge although I don't think there is a good direct route. Another nice course in that area is Superior National at Lutsen. If I recall correctly, it's about 90 miles up the north shore from Duluth. Although both of these courses are nice, I don't think they're quite in the same category as the Giants Ridge courses.

Take a look at The Cragun's Resort Legacy courses and Madden's Resort courses at Brainerd, MN. Cragun's Legacy courses are being renovated by Tom Lehman and his new Championship course will probably not be open yet this summer but they do have 36 holes open. Madden's Resort features The Classic, one of the top courses in the country. Just up the road a bit is Deacon's Lodge an Arnold Palmer course. There are other great courses in that area too, like The Pines and the Preserve. They are a part of the Grand View Lodge property. Then farther west is Thumper Pond at Ottertail, MN. Lots of trees right up to the fairways but a very nice course. All have stay and play packages. In ND, Bully Pulpit at Medora, ND is very nice.

A lot of companies call the gap wedge an approach wedge, or A wedge. If you're not comfortable calling it by the loft designation, "My 48° wedge", you could call one of them an approach wedge.

"Nobody (sells) clubs like we do... period."

The electric brake system on the E-Z-GO RXV's is both good and bad. I have a refurbished 2010 RZV and I like the fact that whenever you stop the cart, the brake automatically sets so your cart doesn't roll away if you are on a hill. I do have to agree with the guy in the video though about not being able to move the cart if the batteries die. My cart sat in my garage over the winter and the batteries died (they were about eight years old). I needed to get the cart to my dealer who was about 200 miles from me. Just to get my cart out of the back end of the garage I bought 4 car dollies, jacked the cart up, slid the dollies under the tires and pushed the cart out of the garage. The big problem then was to get the cart onto my trailer. All I had was a small come-a-long that I hooked to my trailer hitch on my SUV and winched the cart onto the trailer. This was no picnic because the dolly wheels wouldn't roll up the trailer ramp because there were spaces larger than the wheels that the wheels could fall through. I ended up winching the cart up the ramp onto the trailer by shear armstrong power with the cart tires dragging up the ramp. It was a big pain to do. When I got to the dealer, he had a power unit of two batteries and hooked them up much like the guy in the video did, which made taking it off the trailer and into the dealership for new batteries much easier. In addition, I did have the original electric brake go bad. It was getting to where it didn't like to release until you tried it 3-4 times so I called the dealer and asked about it. He advised me to bring the cart in and the brake needed to be replaced. I don't remember how much that cost me but it wasn't inexpensive. I suppose if I hadn't taken it into the dealership at that time it would have eventually died and I would have had to do the whole cart on dollies thing earlier than I did.

I'm a martini tee guy. I like the ones that have a shoulder that goes to the ground so you always get the same height and the wide top makes it easy to place the ball. I started using these several years ago when I was having a lot of back problems. I really hated to have to bend over to replace a ball that had fallen off the tee. Also, here in SW Minnesota the wind is always blowing so it's nice that the wind doesn't knock the ball off the tee as easily as the typical wooden tee. I seem to like the yellow Martini tees the best. They're easier to find when they come unstuck from the ground after a shot. I ended up having to purchase some regular Martini tees (without the shoulder) last winter. I couldn't put the ones with the shoulder far enough into the surface of the synthetic turf I use for my golf simulator.

I don't know if you've tried them but if you haven't, try the Spaulding SD Tour X. I bought a dozen of these and a couple dozen of the Maxfli Tour X this past summer and really liked both of them. What surprised me most was that the less expensive ball, the Spaulding SD Tour X gave me the best performance of any ball I've tried. They're longer than anything I've hit and around the green they seem to be as good as pro V1X's for me. The only detractor for me is that I'd like them to be a brighter white color. They're white but a not very bright white. If they were a little brighter I'd likely play them exclusively. For only $22 per dozen they're a great value.

If they're as good as the CBX Full Face wedges I can see why they're gone. I've got a 56° and a 60° and I love them.

Any idea what you want for your Skytrak?

If you've got a smooth swing with a smooth changeover at the top put them both on the shelf with an XXIO. I changed to an XXIO Prime 9 last year and gained 15-20 yards and more consistency than I had been getting. Try to find someplace that will let you hit them outside so you can actually see the ball fly through the air. I think Global Golf will let you hit one and return it. There are likely other companies that will do that as well. It was such a great feeling to see the ball fly past where I normally hit it and still be in the fairway. XXIO costs more but for me, it was worth it. I'm now contemplating getting a 3 wood and irons if I can get the shoulder that I messed up the rotator cuff repaired.