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Where do you clip your Link during cold weather? I usually wear mine on my belt, but in the cold it gets covered up by my jacket and doesn't pick up shots. I tried one time to clip it on the bottom of my pocket, but it actually unclipped itself on a bush while I was trying to find an errant shot. Fortunately managed to find it after the round was over, but I won't be clipping it in that style again.

Thanks for the birthday wishes everyone! Don't think I'll be getting out and golfing though, the forecast is calling for 4.5" of rain over the weekend - maybe just setting up some new shafts for my driver and 5 wood in the garage!

80 rounds in 100°+ is crazy, that durability is impressive. I think I would look worse than that glove does by the end of that!

Been crazy busy at work since I got back from vacation so haven't been on here much, but did get two rounds in while away. First round was at Gamble Sands, which I think takes top spot for favorite course in Washington for me away from Wine Valley. The course design fits the landscape perfectly, it's a great combination of forgiving for shots that are slightly bad, and punishing for shots that are very bad. Also one of those courses that I think I could play much better the second time around knowing how the slopes will play around the greens. Driver hasn't been working for me lately, and that continued through the first few holes, but I turned things around after a hot dog at the turn and played the final 7 holes at even par to finish with an 81. Second round was at Desert Canyon, which couldn't have been more different than Gamble Sands. GS felt like a natural course, while everything at Desert Canyon felt artificial. It was very well maintained, but the layout felt contrived and the course felt out of place. Didn't help that I was playing poorly (perhaps due to fatigue from a fairly active vacation). Still, a week with two rounds of golf is a good one for me!

Re: the sizing, we were told that they have recently moved all manufacturing to a new plant, but that some of the gloves in circulation are still from the old plants so there may be some slight differences in sizing.

No maps available on the Apple Watch app, just front/middle/back distances and scorecard adjustments.

Better understanding the Strokes Gained concept has also helped my mental game and approach to golfing as well. Yes, a 3-putt is frustrating, and can cost you as much as 1 stroke, but you can make that up in the aggregate with other putts that happen to drop (for example, over my last 10 rounds I average 3.5 3-putts per round, but am at -0.5 SG Putting compared to a 10-handicap). Losing 2.1 strokes due to penalties off the tee though is what really kills me - I can have a subpar day putting, or chipping, or with my irons, and still score well if the rest of my game is decent, but if I can't get the ball in play off the tee then I need to play out of my mind in the rest of my game to have a chance to go low. Of course, these are all the ramblings of a 12-handicap who hasn't yet broken 80, so take everything I say with a grain of salt.

Local course pro shop has some screaming deals. The course is too far away for me to arrange a sale for someone interested (90 minute drive one-way), but perhaps you know someone who lives closer than I do that can make it happen. The set of Aerojet irons for $299 stands out to me!

Seemed to perform well in the YouTube comparison tests - The Aerojet LS came 2nd in the TXG/Club Champion 2023 driver bracket.

Cobra also has the Aerojet line drivers (including the limited edition colorways) for $249 on their website. https://www.cobragolf.com/collections/aerojet

https://golfweek.usatoday.com/2024/09/04/pga-tour-rory-mcilroy-scottie-scheffler-liv-golf-bryson-dechambeau-brooks-koepka-match-las-vegas/ Sounds like the next edition of The Match will be PGA vs LIV, should be interesting. Saw some stuff elsewhere that the PGA Tour wasn't aware of the event, will have to see what comes out yet.

I won't make day-to-day adjustments, but will make changes if I notice consistent changes in my ball flight or swing over a longer time period (eg, loft up or down, or adjust lie).

Out for a late afternoon 9 with my dad and brother. Played just irons for the whole round, except for 2 tee shots where I used 3-wood (one of which I topped), and shot 6-over, right at my handicap. I was stroking irons fairly well, but struggled with my putter, with 2 3-putts. Heading out to Eastern Washington in 2 weeks, and will be playing Gamble Sands and Desert Canyon while there, so I will need to get some range time in before then to get everything dialed.

A lot of hockey players are trained to have their dominant hand on the top of the stick for more control, so right-handed people will often learn to play hockey left-handed. Interestingly enough this isn't the case in British Columbia, where the ratio of left-handed hockey players is much lower than the rest of the country.

After watching three guys go down the 10 fairway in the Creator Classic, I think it was the right move, not even for player safety reasons as much as for pace of play. Agree though that they should have considered that before doing the redesign, didn't they chop down a bunch of trees that would have prevented that? The issue is even if they bring in trees now, it will take a while for them to get up to the height necessary to not have the internal OB.