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ChiefMikeOfficer

 
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About ChiefMikeOfficer

  • Birthday 06/13/1984

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  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Madison, WI
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Player Profile

  • Age
    30-39
  • Swing Speed
    111+ mph
  • Handicap
    1.5
  • Frequency of Play/Practice
    Weekly
  • Player Type
    Competitive
  • Biggest Strength
    Approach
  • Biggest Weakness
    Putting
  • Fitted for Clubs
    Yes

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  1. I'm up to T57! But gonna have two MCs, so probably not going to be climbing much higher...
  2. This made me think of another Par 3 Pet Peeve, which happens surprisingly often: packed course, waiting for the green to clear, next tee not visible. It finally clears with perfect timing -- our first guy steps up to his shot, and the group behind rolls up to see us standing on the tee with an open hole. They then make a comment about our pace of play. Things like "come on guys", "do you mind if we play through?", or "is there anyone in front of you guys?" -- no buddy, there's nobody in front of us, we figured we'd just wait on the tee for 5 minutes so you can watch us hit.
  3. Oh no... long way to go, but took a couple risks again, and it currently puts me at T66 out of 68 (and 68th is a technicality, because they are absorbing a WD). At this point, I might just be playing each week so I don't get kicked out of the league / banned from future competition
  4. The Golfer's Journal recently published a good article related to the Swedish style too -- it's not the main focus, but a cool side plot of the story: https://www.golfersjournal.com/editorial/married-to-the-game/ (might need to be a member to read it -- I read it first in the print version).
  5. If you're into colored balls, the Pro seems to have some of the best options (and the most limited edition colors, when those are released) -- I typically go Pro Plus when buying Vice, but have bought a bunch of Pro because of the specific colors.
  6. Update on my bag...my dad decided he's 100% push cart now, so it's back in my hands. It's now my wife's bag, and working very well for her so far -- has a WAY better look than her last bag, combination of comfort and weight fits her well, etc. She doesn't play nearly as much or in the same ways as I do, so she doesn't lug around as much stuff, which makes this is a great upgrade for her (basically minimizes the things that didn't work for me with the bag).
  7. My mistake - somehow missed that. For some reason I had in my head that it was more gray.
  8. No E8??? While looking back on those to respond in this thread, I found one for $95, Ex condition, in the same specs as my old one -- aaand it's on the way to me now
  9. I had a 13 degree V Steel back in the day - absolutely loved it, still regret donating it... Bought the SIM later because it advertised "V Steel", but hated that thing. I've found fairways to be a complete wildcard, and I've churned through quite a few to find a good fit. The one I liked just as much as V Steel was the Exotics E8 Beta. I'm now on the Stealth 2, which is also great. In between those I had both the M1 17 (good) and SIM (hated), and before the Beta I used an awesome-looking but not so awesome-performing Cobra.
  10. Uh oh... toward the bottom of the leaderboard again, fueled by Tommy's 10:
  11. Always a glass (or three?) of red during the state of the union
  12. Sorry if this has been asked before... But where'd you get the glass??
  13. Well, contacted Tour Edge over the weekend, and they fixed it immediately - the replacement club arrived on Tuesday.
  14. Club hoes better be protecting those clubs! It was a hot market for a few years. Seems like it fizzled out a bit in the last year or two - still some action on certain designs / rare covers, but Swag (probably the most popular / highest value) bought another cover company and started "over-producing and diluting the market" (controversial among collectors and people trying to turn a profit, yet hilarious to watch from the sidelines). To be fair, I do have a lot of covers from a lot of companies including Swag, but for just about every one that I bought, I had some intention of using myself because I liked the design.
  15. Yea, on the "usually play better" commentary, it's front of mind because of an experience a couple years ago, which is still in my buddy's head to this day (I remember it well, but he still lets it bother him any time we play that course and can't stop talking about it -- which is a related, but different pet peeve ). Two of us joined up with two singles that day, and one of the singles, en route to a 110+ round, would not stop talking about the his shock about his poor play (ball striking and scoring), going out of his way on each hole to remind us of things like "I usually shoot 75" (bro, I'm a 2 and I don't "usually" shoot 75, not even close - I had more 18-hole rounds in 2023 at 80+ than I did at 75 or better). We actively, but politely, tried to shut down the conversation after the first few holes, but it wouldn't stop. The real point is... had he commented once about having an off day and just played his game and talked about other things, nobody would have cared how he was playing. My logic for which tees I play -- assuming a "bigger" / 7000+ yard course that has 5+ sets of tees, if the group wants to play either of the back 2 sets, that's where I play; if they want to play set 3, it depends on the course. Sometimes I'll do it, but only after factoring in how the yardage difference changes the course, and which course we're actually playing (on a once in a lifetime course, I'm staying back); if choosing not to play set 3, I'm most likely going back to the tips, because choosing set 2 instead of the tips could influence them to move back a set (a round at Sand Valley stands out in this way, where the guys we played with tried to keep up on set 2, and they had a miserable time for the first few holes - once our caddies convinced them to move up, they had a much better day; had we just chosen the tips instead of 1-up, they would've started on set 3).
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