The Good Morning Thread

[richk9holes]

Hello, party people. Happy Memorial Day weekend, hope everyone makes the most of it. I got 1:50pm tee time at Clearbrook GC, the 9 holes I played yesterday. Today I will play the alternate tees so I can enter the combined score in the VCT.

[GolfSpy_KFT]

Good morning Spies! Happy Memorial Day weekend, especially to those who have served and are currently actively serving. My family and I are very grateful for the sacrifices you make to provide us the life we live. 

Got myself and my uncle signed up yesterday for my clubs member guest invitational, which is a 54 hole event the weekend of July 8th and 9th. It also includes a whiskey and cigar bar, steak dinner and two brunches, tee gifts, raffle prizes, etc. I am really looking forward to it and my uncle plays to a 7 handicap, so we should have a chance to do pretty well as our group handicap will be higher because of my 26.3 . 

[BKervin]

Good Morning Spies, 

It's a beautiful sunny sky here in NW Pennsylvania.  Haven't made any plans yet as wasn't sure on Hubby's ticker. Still in rhythm!!  So I guess I need to put something together for the weekend. Probably means a trip for supplies for what ever that looks like.  The pool opened today at our club so maybe take the grandsons for a swim sometime this weekend. 

Have a safe Memorial Day weekend.   Don't forget to think of our veterans and service members!  They are why we live like we do!  I'm greatful to all our Service Spies (current and past)!

[Vegan_Golfer_PNW]

Good morning all. Relishing in the fun day yesterday with all my daughters preschool friends and their parents. Can’t believe year one is done. Also tournament day today. Tee off on a par three at 1:45 pacific today. Gonna be a beautiful 72 degrees and a lot of fun. 

[Randall Robbins]

Morning everyone!  Nice day today after playing in the rain yesterday!  Wanted to let you know that I posted an item in the equipment forum to get $10 off of Red Rooster gloves, since they are an item at the moment.  Have a good holiday weekend!

[scotter032]

Good morning!!! Hadn't posted in a while... Trying to get used to a new company and a new role so detached for a bit... Sounds like I have my priorities backwards and need to readjust! I hope you all get to hit the links and shoot well! 

[MacTourney]

39 minutes ago, BKervin said:

Have a safe Memorial Day weekend.   Don't forget to think of our veterans and service members!  They are why we live like we do!  I'm greatful to all our Service Spies (current and past)!

That's what it's all about.  Enjoy the baby back ribs this weekend girls and boys.

 

[JFish350]

3 hours ago, EasyPutter said:

Good morning MGSpies on this weekend that marks the "official start of Summer" in WNY that runs through to Labor Day weekend.  Brilliant sunshine already in the low 40s that is forecast to high 70s going up to the 80s through to next weekend.  Hot coffee  keeping the calm going while getting the enthusiasm engaged to get mulch from HD for in in-laws gardens and our own.  

Thankful for comments in Random Thread for yesterday's round "atrocity" of the random player who made my threesome into a foursome, on the 4th green approach, pulled my 6 iron from my bag to talk about it while I was chipping on with my 9 and later I discovered he had put it back where the 9 goes so pulling what I thought was the 6 for the par-3 6th hole, the cleanly hit shot splashed the sand bunker short of the elevated green, and my disappointment in my club became an internal outrage that the creep had caused the switched clubs and I chose to let the creep act that way alone.  I can read numbers and letters as easily forwards as backwards, upside down, and inverse so 9 and 6 are easily missed.  I believe someone doing something similar will not evoke unpleasantness from me because golf is my peaceful place and I refuse to let anything disturb my serenity.  I will never however extend anything more than a social greeting as 9 holes of association exceeded my tolerance.

Hope your day and those in it are agreeable and pleasant and hope golf is a part of your day 

 Sorry that happened. Hope the next 600 rounds go better. 

[cksurfdude]

23 hours ago, sirchunksalot said:

I want to avoid as many [bunkers] as possible. 

Hey my whole game plan is based around the "BAS" = Bunker Avoidance Strategy

 

haha Happy Saturday Morning!!

Was up early with the very very insistent pooch that he get his breakfast promptly at 5am - even though I reminded him last night at bedtime that it's the weekend and he's allowed to sleep in as late as he wants... (..whaddya gonna do )

Now he gets a short walkies (pampered pooch!) before getting abandoned for a few hours (poor guy it's really torture for him to be alone!) while my honey and I get a little golf time in this afternoon.

Enjoy the day all!!

[JFish350]

32 minutes ago, Vegan_Golfer_PNW said:

Good morning all. Relishing in the fun day yesterday with all my daughters preschool friends and their parents. Can’t believe year one is done. Also tournament day today. Tee off on a par three at 1:45 pacific today. Gonna be a beautiful 72 degrees and a lot of fun. 

Where are you playing? 

No golf for me, but playing Heron Lakes tomorrow with the wife and her brothers. 

[Vegan_Golfer_PNW]

2 minutes ago, JFish350 said:

Where are you playing? 

No golf for me, but playing Heron Lakes tomorrow with the wife and her brothers. 

Chehalem Glenn in a NW golf guys event

[sirchunksalot]

3 minutes ago, cksurfdude said:

Hey my whole game plan is based around the "BAS" = Bunker Avoidance Strategy

We are so similar in that regard. I mean, I want to see how the Snakebite wedges work out of the bunker, but don't want to see how scoring will go out of there. I can always take a trip to Bear Trace and play around in the practice bunker there and avoid them Tuesday. 

[JFish350]

2 minutes ago, Vegan_Golfer_PNW said:

Chehalem Glenn in a NW golf guys event

AH yes, I didn't sign up with them this year. none of their dates worked for me.  I played 9 there Friday. The front is in pretty good shape. Although I don't think raking bunkers is a thing out there.

Have fun 

[Vegan_Golfer_PNW]

13 minutes ago, JFish350 said:

AH yes, I didn't sign up with them this year. none of their dates worked for me.  I played 9 there Friday. The front is in pretty good shape. Although I don't think raking bunkers is a thing out there.

Have fun 

Thanks. Looking to adopt @GolfSpy BOS BAS then. I planned all my tee shots out. It’s odd because I’m playing two tees up from normal(long hitter so I play tips and they have me on the whites). Tee off on #5. So frost two tee shots of the day are likely 7 irons. Lol

[JFish350]

12 minutes ago, Vegan_Golfer_PNW said:

Thanks. Looking to adopt @GolfSpy BOS BAS then. I planned all my tee shots out. It’s odd because I’m playing two tees up from normal(long hitter so I play tips and they have me on the whites). Tee off on #5. So frost two tee shots of the day are likely 7 irons. Lol

I had to hit a 5 iron from the white the other day. Wind was straight in the face. #6 oddly right is better than left. Sand and blocked out from the getting over the junk. 

 

Should be a great day.

[Vegan_Golfer_PNW]

3 minutes ago, JFish350 said:

I had to hit a 5 iron from the white the other day. Wind was straight in the face. #6 oddly right is better than left. Sand and blocked out from the getting over the junk. 

 

Should be a great day.

Thanks for the heads up on #5. I rechecked yardage yesterday and 7i seems the right play but if win and slightly uphill a 6 or 5 might be better

[JFish350]

1 minute ago, Vegan_Golfer_PNW said:

Thanks for the heads up on #5. I rechecked yardage yesterday and 7i seems the right play but if win and slightly uphill a 6 or 5 might be better

7 is the correct club for me as well on a non windy day. 

[BringerofRain]

May gray here in SD so no reason for anyone to spend any time at the beach. Best of luck staying dry today. 

[sirchunksalot]

56 minutes ago, Vegan_Golfer_PNW said:

Chehalem Glenn in a NW golf guys event

Good luck and have fun!

[BIG STU]

I went back to bed after the last post and slept to 9:00. We got up and had a hearty breakfast of sausage gravy and biscuits. It is sorta damp not really cold since we live 1/2 mile off the ocean as the crow flies plus we have a lake about 100 yards from the house. Yep it gets damp and a little wet chill so I fired off the wood stove with a small fire to take the damp chill off. Put on a second pot of coffee. Kinda adds to the ambience and coziness of the day. The Frenchie and my wife are curled up in her big recliner cuddled up and asleep. I may take another nap myself

[Randall Robbins]

Also, Red Rooster is offering 20% off right now on their website.

[EasyPutter]

7 hours ago, Jnoble89 said:

Good morning Spies! Happy Memorial Day weekend, especially to those who have served and are currently actively serving. My family and I are very grateful for the sacrifices you make to provide us the life we live. 

Memorial Day in the US is Monday.  Please remember to be careful how you interact with Veterans and families of Veterans on this weekend and whenever the focus is on the Nation's Fallen and their families.  Any reference to a Gold Star family is national recognition of a family who lost one of their own in military service.

Memorial Day is to remember the service of those who paid the ultimate sacrifice to protect the freedoms of all Americans.  For those of us who have combat experience it is a day we remember those we served with who did not come home to family alive.

I had a well meaning acquaintance say "Congratulations!" at a Memorial Day parade as we were gathering to organize our Boy Scout Troop for marching.  It confused me and caused internal anger because it was the wrong thing to say. I had been a senior staff officer in a task force headquarters during the Iraq war and in the 5 months in that position took every opportunity to serve on Ramp Detail.

Ramp Detail happens between midnight and 3 AM on the airfield apron.  Participants are all volunteers to pay Honors and Respects as casket draped with flag is moved to an aircraft and carried inside to begin the final trip home for the fallen in the casket.  Participants then go into the aircraft and assemble around the casket along with the air crew and a Chaplain says a brief prayer service.  The moment it is complete, the airplane engines start, everyone not leaving departs the rear drop ramp, a pallet of gear is loaded and secured to the ramp as it lifts, and the aircraft buttons up as it turns onto the runway and is airborne before participants have time to walk off the apron back to duty.

I served on Ramp Detail for 20 of our fallen Task Force warriors.  The stories for a few I heard, they were in the wrong place at the wrong time tragedies.  There is no happy for me on a Memorial Day but there is peace.

The best wish for anyone in service on Memorial Day weekend and Memorial Day itself is, "Have a peaceful Memorial Day."

The friend's good intentions essentially congratulated me for living.  Those of us who come back when others didn't have some form of survivor guilt and Memorial Day is not for us, our day of recognition for our service is Veterans Day in November.

This is also a splendid thing to say Barb,

7 hours ago, BKervin said:

Have a safe Memorial Day weekend.   Don't forget to think of our veterans and service members!  They are why we live like we do!  I'm greatful to all our Service Spies (current and past)!

To serve is an honor and privilege.  God bless all our Veteran warriors past, present and future, God bless all of the fallen military people who sacrificed themselves from every nation for all time, and God bless America 

[FallenSaber]

From my morning round at Torrey Pines north. Absolutely love playing this hole!

[ParFore74x]

1 hour ago, FallenSaber said:

From my morning round at Torrey Pines north. Absolutely love playing this hole!

Such a spectacular view. 

[FallenSaber]

5 hours ago, EasyPutter said:

Memorial Day in the US is Monday.  Please remember to be careful how you interact with Veterans and families of Veterans on this weekend and whenever the focus is on the Nation's Fallen and their families.  Any reference to a Gold Star family is national recognition of a family who lost one of their own in military service.

Memorial Day is to remember the service of those who paid the ultimate sacrifice to protect the freedoms of all Americans.  For those of us who have combat experience it is a day we remember those we served with who did not come home to family alive.

I had a well meaning acquaintance say "Congratulations!" at a Memorial Day parade as we were gathering to organize our Boy Scout Troop for marching.  It confused me and caused internal anger because it was the wrong thing to say. I had been a senior staff officer in a task force headquarters during the Iraq war and in the 5 months in that position took every opportunity to serve on Ramp Detail.

Ramp Detail happens between midnight and 3 AM on the airfield apron.  Participants are all volunteers to pay Honors and Respects as casket draped with flag is moved to an aircraft and carried inside to begin the final trip home for the fallen in the casket.  Participants then go into the aircraft and assemble around the casket along with the air crew and a Chaplain says a brief prayer service.  The moment it is complete, the airplane engines start, everyone not leaving departs the rear drop ramp, a pallet of gear is loaded and secured to the ramp as it lifts, and the aircraft buttons up as it turns onto the runway and is airborne before participants have time to walk off the apron back to duty.

I served on Ramp Detail for 20 of our fallen Task Force warriors.  The stories for a few I heard, they were in the wrong place at the wrong time tragedies.  There is no happy for me on a Memorial Day but there is peace.

The best wish for anyone in service on Memorial Day weekend and Memorial Day itself is, "Have a peaceful Memorial Day."

The friend's good intentions essentially congratulated me for living.  Those of us who come back when others didn't have some form of survivor guilt and Memorial Day is not for us, our day of recognition for our service is Veterans Day in November.

This is also a splendid thing to say Barb,

To serve is an honor and privilege.  God bless all our Veteran warriors past, present and future, God bless all of the fallen military people who sacrificed themselves from every nation for all time, and God bless America 

@EasyPutter Thank you for this message and your thoughts on this. Also, thank you for your service and volunteering to serve Ramp Detail. I am a Gold Star brother. My brother, LCpl James W. Higgins Jr. was killed in action in AL Anbar Province, Iraq on 27 July 2006. As a Gold Star brother, I truly appreciate you and your dedication to honor our fallen heroes. That dedication is one few would truly understand. To know our loved ones were honored and cared for by those who respected their sacrifice. Thank you.

Memorial day brings mixed feelings for me. It's one that many Americans truly do not understand. They mix up who they're supposed to honor. At the same time, I do not like the post and message, "... and you thought this weekend was about BBQs and cookouts." I believe we shouldn't condem people for enjoying the weekend. They gave their lives to help preserve the American way of life and so that we all can enjoy life in peace. However, as you very clearly stated, many Americans lack and understanding or consideration for what this weekend means to Gold star and our Veterans. I would almost argue, this weekend is harder for Veterans who lost their brothers in arms than Gold Star families. In many ways, the guys who served with my brother were closer to him than I was. It truly is "brothers in arms." I've had many conversations with them over the years. It doesn't lower my relationship with my brother, it's just a different kind of brotherhood and where I lost 1 brother, during the deployment my brother was killed, they lost 11.

Much of my life in the past 17 years has been dedicated or impacted by serving my brother's memory. My username, FallenSaber is in his honor. His units callsign in Iraq was Saber. I use it for almost everything. I've worn his dog tag which was struck by the bullet for the past 16.5 years, a memorial bracelet and a tattoo on my left arm. I run the San Diego Rock-n-Roll Marathon and half marathon carrying the flag in his memory. I also have been running races this year in honor of the 10 others who gave their lives during his deployment.  It's a hard burden to carry, being a Gold Star brother but one where I'm proud to carry on his memory.

Thank you again for your message and your service.

[Rickp]

GM & Happy Sunday.  Hope everyone had a great Saturday.  Another semi easy day today mostly yard work & weeding.  Shrubs need a little love we had some rain past week so everything shoots up overnight especially weeds.  
Have a great Sunday everyone

[ParFore74x]

Morning all. Cloudy and mid 50s here in Iowa. Perfect for a 18 hole walk and then home to mow some grass. 

[EasyPutter]

Good morning MGSpies on a beautiful last Sunday in May in WNY, perfect for a second day of mulching, this time my own gardens having completed the in-law's gardens yesterday.  Hot coffee is already making it a better day  and seeing the Clicgear 4.0 push cart test announced, what could make it even better?!  Maybe someone else to do the mulching haha hope golf is a part of your day 

[GolfSpy_SHARK]

Morning all. Going to be a beautiful 85 degree day today. Have a graduation party for my wife’s brother at the house today. Happy to have a 3 day weekend!

[Placasse61]

Good Morning

Beautiful upper 80's day on tap here in Eastern MA. Nass then annual flower shopping and planting. Finish off the day at Kelly's brothers house for dinner and cigars!!!! Happy Memorial Day Weekend