PSA - For your own sake, please don't...

[BIG STU]

1 hour ago, Micah T said:

1) Guys playing the wrong tees: dudes always want to play the tips but if your driver doesn’t carry 275 what are you doing back there?

2) People screaming for near misses: save your screams/yells for hole-outs: I’m teeing off 20 yards from you when your group erupts due to someone scaring the hole...

3) Not being ready to hit when it’s your turn

4) taking too much time to put: there better be at least $100 on this putt that you’ve backed off4 times while I wait in the fairway..

I do listen to music while I play, but always on headphones, and not so loud that I can’t converse with my playing partners.

 

 

Ok did I see that correctly in your equipment list? You carry 5 wedges?---- 

[Micah T]

1 minute ago, BIG STU said:

Ok did I see that correctly in your equipment list? You carry 5 wedges?---- 

I do: I like being able to make full swings 160 -90 yards in. I think I’m in the minority, but I’m in favor or another club in my bag that you almost always hit well as opposed to a club that I struggle with(3wood) that’s about as long as my 3 iron...

[BIG STU]

5 minutes ago, Micah T said:

I do: I like being able to make full swings 160 -90 yards in. I think I’m in the minority, but I’m in favor or another club in my bag that you almost always hit well as opposed to a club that I struggle with(3wood) that’s about as long as my 3 iron...

Ok cool by me--- I always say play what fits your game because there is no etched in stone proper way to play this game and that goes for equipment as well as the set up one has in their bag. I was curious as I read that and asked to make certain I was reading it correctly. You know I am getting older and have senior moments. And really if I was as long a you with a 3 iron I would not worry with a 3 wood if you can not hit or control it. I can still hit a blade 3 iron at 63 years of age but it only goes about 200 or so on a good day and about head high at that. Actually back in the day when I was young and strong in the summer I only carried a little old Northwestern 6 wood for a fairway but I could hit a variety of shots with it. I did carry a 1 iron and could also hit my 10.5* Power Bilt driver off the deck. 

Edited April 16, 2020 by BIG STU

[DiscipleofPenick]

1) Guys playing the wrong tees: dudes always want to play the tips but if your driver doesn’t carry 275 what are you doing back there?
2) People screaming for near misses: save your screams/yells for hole-outs: I’m teeing off 20 yards from you when your group erupts due to someone scaring the hole...
3) Not being ready to hit when it’s your turn
4) taking too much time to put: there better be at least $100 on this putt that you’ve backed off4 times while I wait in the fairway..
I do listen to music while I play, but always on headphones, and not so loud that I can’t converse with my playing partners.
 
 

I agree, and I'd like to add to point 1 because there's more to hitting it long to be playing the tips. I've played with plenty of guys that can hit it 300, but can't break 90. Sure you smoked a drive, but a chunked iron, bladed chip, and 3 putt later you still made 6 or 7. That took more time than being unable to carry the water and hitting 3. If you don't got game move up son.

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[BIG STU]

3 minutes ago, Tsmithjr9 said:

I agree, and I'd like to add to point 1 because there's more to hitting it long to be playing the tips. I've played with plenty of guys that can hit it 300, but can't break 90. Sure you smoked a drive, but a chunked iron, bladed chip, and 3 putt later you still made 6 or 7. That took more time than being unable to carry the water and hitting 3. If you don't got game move up son.

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Yeah I know lots of guys like that-------    one happens to be my partner in the weekly shootout.  Another guy I play with some that works at the course is the same way hits his 3 hybrid further than I do my driver and out drives me 100 yards with his 3 wood. He is wilder with the driver worse than I was in my young days. And to give him credit he does hit the hybrid and 3 wood pretty straight but that is it.

[Micah T]

2 minutes ago, Tsmithjr9 said:

I agree, and I'd like to add to point 1 because there's more to hitting it long to be playing the tips. I've played with plenty of guys that can hit it 300, but can't break 90. Sure you smoked a drive, but a chunked iron, bladed chip, and 3 putt later you still made 6 or 7. That took more time than being unable to carry the water and hitting 3. If you don't got game move up son.

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Agreed: having a minimum 250 carry is the first of a few requirements:  if you don’t usually break 80 you’re doing yourself no favors back there.  I play back tips at my 3 home muni’s because it makes the hazards unreachable for me: when I’m somewhere new it’s always the intermediate tees, as I’m a 7 and not a scratch...

[BIG STU]

Just now, Micah T said:

Agreed: having a minimum 250 carry is the first of a few requirements:  if you don’t usually break 80 you’re doing yourself no favors back there.  I play back tips at my 3 home muni’s because it makes the hazards unreachable for me: when I’m somewhere new it’s always the intermediate tees, as I’m a 7 and not a scratch...

With the one group I play with all of us are senior players. In fact 2 of them are #1 and #2 in the CGA Amateur super senior rankings. On some courses we play mixed tees because from the senior tees there are a couple of holes we can get into trouble with a driver and it leaves too long of an approach shot to the green. One hole if we play from the senior tees and hit like say a 3 or 4 wood we have a long approach shot over water to an extremely elevated green. If we hit the driver we can hit another water hazard. So on that one we play the mid tees. Remember we are senior players and can not elevate the ball as high as we used to. 

[DiscipleofPenick]

Agreed: having a minimum 250 carry is the first of a few requirements:  if you don’t usually break 80 you’re doing yourself no favors back there.  I play back tips at my 3 home muni’s because it makes the hazards unreachable for me: when I’m somewhere new it’s always the intermediate tees, as I’m a 7 and not a scratch...

I am a 7 as well. My home course is 6615 from the tips. In Cleveland Ohio area, there are less than a dozen public courses that touch 7000 (one is supposedly 7400 but I never see the tees set that far back). I still don't move to the back tees until the weather breaks or I'm familiar with the course. I can get around just fine on 66-6800, but unless I'm feeling it those wayyy back tees feel like punishment.

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[Shankster]

This (besides testing op threads) has to be one of the quicker to 150+ posts. Well done!

[GolfSpy BOS]

I am a 7 as well. My home course is 6615 from the tips. In Cleveland Ohio area, there are less than a dozen public courses that touch 7000 (one is supposedly 7400 but I never see the tees set that far back). I still don't move to the back tees until the weather breaks or I'm familiar with the course. I can get around just fine on 66-6800, but unless I'm feeling it those wayyy back tees feel like punishment.

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I’m an 8 and would say I like courses that are in that 6700-6800 range too. It allows me to hit driver on most par 4s. Our league plays from the white tees which is only about 5700 yards and on the front 9 there are only 2 or 3 holes that I can really hit driver. Sad part is it doesn’t help my scoring much either because we’re hitting to dog-legs or forced layups so the second shot isn’t really any shorter.


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[GolfSpy BOS]

This (besides testing op threads) has to be one of the quicker to 150+ posts. Well done!

This one took on a life of its own! It’s been fun to follow along and get some not so serious discussions going amid all the COVID-19 seriousness.


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[DiscipleofPenick]

I’m an 8 and would say I like courses that are in that 6700-6800 range too. It allows me to hit driver on most par 4s. Our league plays from the white tees which is only about 5700 yards and on the front 9 there are only 2 or 3 holes that I can really hit driver. Sad part is it doesn’t help my scoring much either because we’re hitting to dog-legs or forced layups so the second shot isn’t really any shorter.


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Sometimes it's fun to go to those short courses. Leave the driver in the bag and work on iron play.

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[GolfSpy BOS]

2 minutes ago, Tsmithjr9 said:

Sometimes it's fun to go to those short courses. Leave the driver in the bag and work on iron play.

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Oh you get your work hitting into those greens!  There’s 7 of 8 multitiered greens there, and the ones that aren’t are usually still pretty sloped and some tough shapes.

[Jmikecpa]

I am a 7 as well. My home course is 6615 from the tips. In Cleveland Ohio area, there are less than a dozen public courses that touch 7000 (one is supposedly 7400 but I never see the tees set that far back). I still don't move to the back tees until the weather breaks or I'm familiar with the course. I can get around just fine on 66-6800, but unless I'm feeling it those wayyy back tees feel like punishment.

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Wrong tees are exactly why Bethpage Black is a 6+ hour round on a great day. Way too many guys decide to play it at 7400 yards and have no prayer before they put their shoes on. They usually figure out on 3 when they are hopping on a driver to get it to the front of the green on the par 3. I get asked all the time how often I play the Black with it in my backyard and the sad answer is maybe once a year. I don’t have the patience for it.


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[GolfSpy BOS]

Wrong tees are exactly why Bethpage Black is a 6+ hour round on a great day. Way too many guys decide to play it at 7400 yards and have no prayer before they put their shoes on. They usually figure out on 3 when they are hopping on a driver to get it to the front of the green on the par 3. I get asked all the time how often I play the Black with it in my backyard and the sad answer is maybe once a year. I don’t have the patience for it.


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Yikes! I can imagine that would turn you away from the course.
Although I can see why people get pulled into that. I want to play a course in “Tour Conditions” from where they play.... ok maybe the normal tips instead of the tour tips... just to see what its like for them. I’d bet there’s a lot more thinking like that at such a prestigious tour location like Bathpage, Sawgrass, and Pebble.


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[Jmikecpa]

Yikes! I can imagine that would turn you away from the course.
Although I can see why people get pulled into that. I want to play a course in “Tour Conditions” from where they play.... ok maybe the normal tips instead of the tour tips... just to see what its like for them. I’d bet there’s a lot more thinking like that at such a prestigious tour location like Bathpage, Sawgrass, and Pebble.


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Oh there is and you always have the ability to move up if you would like. 95% of the golfing public has zero shot in getting to 15 in two from the plaques and that would be with a career drive and 3 wood approach.


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[DiscipleofPenick]

Wrong tees are exactly why Bethpage Black is a 6+ hour round on a great day. Way too many guys decide to play it at 7400 yards and have no prayer before they put their shoes on. They usually figure out on 3 when they are hopping on a driver to get it to the front of the green on the par 3. I get asked all the time how often I play the Black with it in my backyard and the sad answer is maybe once a year. I don’t have the patience for it.


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Nah forgot that. If I'm going to drop the cash and take the trip I'm going to enjoy myself and play the right tees

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[GolfSpy BOS]

#2 for your entertainment.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_D3paYlOFz/?igshid=1raudkgyyr9e4

This is gotta be my favorite. Probably how many of my twirls look.

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[Purple-Eagle]

Please don't...Pick your club, line up the shot, address the ball...and then realize you forgot to put on your glove like you do after every hole.

[Sean!]

I use irons covers and I am not afraid to admit it. Mine are different. They are clear, so it doesn't matter which one goes on which club. I really do not need that confusion in my life. I walk a lot and carry them and hate the sound of them clanking against each other. My 60 & 56 do not have covers, because everything around them does. 

[BIG STU]

23 hours ago, B.Boston said:

This one took on a life of its own! It’s been fun to follow along and get some not so serious discussions going amid all the COVID-19 seriousness.


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I will say it is a very interesting thread. And if you read closely you can see how different folks play the game

[BIG STU]

3 hours ago, Sean! said:

I use irons covers and I am not afraid to admit it. Mine are different. They are clear, so it doesn't matter which one goes on which club. I really do not need that confusion in my life. I walk a lot and carry them and hate the sound of them clanking against each other. My 60 & 56 do not have covers, because everything around them does. 

Well that is cool if that is what you want to do. Now one of my buds on WRX posted a shot of his clear covers one night. Some of the guys were calling them the Prophylactic covers. 2 reasons he did this--- One he had a beautiful set of Miura blades and he wanted to protect them rightfully so and the second one was to show them off. Since you are new I will explain myself to you I am the rat rod type I ran black primer Ratty Harleys long before they came to be somewhat popular and I have had my share of rat rods long before they became cool. On the other hand I am as laid back as there are and have no problem with someone spit and polish. In fact one of my dog fight partners uses iron covers on his call away irons

[yungkory]

Please dont post a WITB thread without pictures. Yes, I know what 99% of what you're describing looks like, doesn't mean I don't want to SEE them.

/endrant

[GolfSpy BOS]

Please dont post a WITB thread without pictures. Yes, I know what 99% of what you're describing looks like, doesn't mean I don't want to SEE them.
/endrant

I’m working in mine now! Fret not mine will include copious amount of pictures


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[Retrop]

Please, please, please, don't take 6 practice swings, stand over the ball for 10 seconds, and top it 20 yards (or throw a dart to 6 feet). 

No problem if you top it 20 yards, just hit, learn, and hit again--while we're young. 

[Striker]

On 4/13/2020 at 3:25 PM, zrumble said:

Please don’t take 15 minutes and look from 6 angles while reading a putt then blow it 5 feet past the hole and do it again. 

YES!!! I played behind a group last month that one guy did that every hole like he was trying to win the masters. It was just killing me. 

[Ced]

Please don’t make a living counting and dealing with number and consistently miscount your strokes. 

[viking]

On 4/13/2020 at 5:23 PM, Shankster said:

I’ll use iron headcovers if I choose. I still don’t get the hatred towards this.

You spend 1000+ on a set of clubs to ride in a cart with someone that jumps over bunkers and dents the crap out of them...

Yep.

Totally agree been using them since 1985 and my clubs from them look like brand new. But I did lose one last fall, was wearing out a little so it got loose and ripped, kept finding it for a few rounds and black duct taping it but it fell off anyway and lost it.

These definitely are required for Ping G700 and G70 and likely all black clubs.

Edited April 20, 2020 by viking

[viking]

On 4/17/2020 at 1:02 PM, Sean! said:

I use irons covers and I am not afraid to admit it. Mine are different. They are clear, so it doesn't matter which one goes on which club. I really do not need that confusion in my life. I walk a lot and carry them and hate the sound of them clanking against each other. My 60 & 56 do not have covers, because everything around them does. 

Are they trojans?

[viking]

On 4/17/2020 at 12:26 PM, Purple-Eagle said:

Please don't...Pick your club, line up the shot, address the ball...and then realize you forgot to put on your glove like you do after every hole.

I never remove my glove. No glove no love and I love golf.