The Good Morning Thread

[rkj427]

Good morning Spies on a warmer and sunny Monday here.

Possible record high temperature for the day today, although I have other commitments to fulfill which make any golf activities a "no-go" until tomorrow.

@Preeway hope that things start to improve there, don't let all that is wrong negatively impact you no matter how frustrating it may be.

"When the going gets tough, the tough get going."

Hope all here have the best day they possibly can have, and that something fun or enjoyable is included in your plans. 

[Shrek74]

Good morning, Spies!! Happy Monday.

Got out yesterday for a round. Turned out to be an absolutely gorgeous day! The morning was a little chilly, but by about the 2rd or 3rd hole it was almost perfect. I felt like I could have worn short sleeves instead of my long sleeve cold gear base layer. But it worked out fine as I was never cold and my arms were protected from the sun. My play however, left much to be desired. Too many chunked or thinned or just bad wedge shots. I bet I added 10 shots to my score with extra wedge shots. These will not be in the bag next year, as I just don't feel comfortable with them at all. I did far better with my Sub70's the previous 2 seasons. So we'll see how my PXG SDii's do next season that I picked up during their "Prime Day" sale earlier this month. Otherwise, I'll need to think about something else.

Golf this next Sunday is looking positive. It'll be a bit cooler at 63* (estimate as of today), but it looks to be dry and playable. Hoping to get at least 1-2 more rounds in before the cold fully sets in. Highs below 55* are questionable, below 50* are a no go. So 63* is fine. The aforementioned UA Cold Gear fitted (not compression) base layer works great without being bulky. And as long as the sun is out, the temp feels that much better.

Anyway, enough rambling. Need some breakfast. Everyone have an awesome day!

[ILMgolfnut]

20 hours ago, Byrnzee said:

Good morning (afternoon) Spies! 

Checking in late this morning from Tobacco Road. Absolutely perfect weather and an unbelievable course. 

Hope everyone is having a great Sunday so far!

Those pics make me want to save up and play it!

[Erin B]

Good Monday morning spies! Barometric pressure is down and I can feel it in my back. There’s a front moving through, hopefully we’ll get some rain, but I doubt it. This is typical fall weather for Cheyenne but it’s painful for me. Hopefully I got two more spies signed up over the weekend. They’d be good additions to the spy community. No golf today, played yesterday and playing tomorrow. That’s about it. Hope you all have a wonderful day!!!

[ILMgolfnut]

58 minutes ago, ILMgolfnut said:

My schedule in Charlotte today has been altered because our nurse's flight in from Texas yesterday was cancelled. She'll get here this morning, but not until almost noon;

Nurse's flight is delayed further, our other nurse has to get out of town this afternoon, so it's looking like we won't have this visit at all today. I'm waiting for confirmation before I head for Toptracer. But at least I should get home before dark. I suspect my issues with driving at night (glare from headlights) are due to early-stage cataracts, which are confirmed. I'll have to get them fixed at some point. They already affect my golf game; I frequently lose sight of my tee shots in the air.

[tdroma98]

Good Monday Morning Spies! 

A beautiful 70 degrees & sunny this Monday morning.  No golf today, on 2nd cup of espresso.  Recovering from a weekend of birthday celebration.  My beautiful wife threw a small party on Saturday evening. It was nice, with a couple of friends & relatives coming in from out of town.  Sunday morning & afternoon we spent time with relatives from out of town, it was really nice.  Being of Italian descent, we like to eat, boy did we eat yesterday morning/afternoon. Food coma. Recovering today! LOL.   
Thank you for the birthday wishes! Very much appreciate it! 

Congratulations to @Swood1994 and his wife! Glad to read both mom & baby are well! 

@Byrnzee nice pictures of Tobacco Road! Looks beautiful! Glad you enjoyed it! 

Still awaiting delivery of the Newton Shafts. I plan on playing the next few days. Good time to test them. 

Have a Great Day Everyone & Hit'em Straight! 

[ejgaudette]

Good morning!

Had a nice weekend with a trip to a somewhat local simulator to compare the MLM2Pro to a GC Quad to test that accuracy. With more on that to come.

Beautiful weather all weekend meant we spent a lot of time outside with fires, playing some wiffle ball, and just generally soaking it in. My wife enjoyed it on a hike as well which meant I got to have some time to myself with the kids which is always fun.

@Northern Monkey Glad to hear the pup is doing better!

@Swood1994 Congrats and glad everyone is doing well!

@Preeway Hopefully the work day turns around.

Have a great Monday everyone!

[Swood1994]

Good morning Spies!

reporting in from the hospital on what we all hope is our last day. Everything is still going extremely well and mom and baby are crushing it. We are really pushing to get released today if the pediatrician will let us, fingers crossed on that!

outside of that it’s going to be adjusting over the coming weeks and settling in. We are very eager to get home and have our daughter meet her new sister!

Have a great day/week all and thank you everyone for the well wishes over that past few days, I appreciate it!

[slash25rc]

Good morning everyone!

Had a great weekend up in the mountains, was able to play the 7 open holes up at Linville GC twice. The course is closed for the winter but keep a hole cut on the open greens. Playing to the middle of the green with no pins to target was interesting--but end up being closer to the hole than you think when you finally get to the green. The weather was pretty warm for late October but was able to clip together some videos for the Galway Bay gear yesterday and hope to upload it this afternoon or tomorrow morning as YouTube put a verification tag on my account that takes ~24 hours according to them before I can upload it to the review. 

I have some things in mind for some rain testing, since there is none on the forecast for the foreseeable future. Beautiful week ahead before we drive down to Georgia for a wedding this weekend--no golf on the radar but hope to get some practice in this week. 

Have a great start to the week folks!

[EnderinAZ]

Good morning spies! Yes! Coyote is open today!!! We tee off at 12:30 but I am grabbing the shag bag and heading over to the short game practice area about 10 to get that part of my game aligned. I walked the course yesterday -sunny and warm out and the ebike wasn't charged- and checked my typical landing zones. As nice as the course looks I will be playing mud ball for a few weeks. Yuck. 

@rkj427 gorgeous pictures. Along the course down here the sycamore tree leaves turn from green to a very pale almost white green. When they fall off there are lots of them. Finding a ball in the rough among those leaves is difficult at best. 

@ILMgolfnut As a fellow non sleeper I have found certain sleep meditation techniques allow me to shut down the internal conversation and find a comfortable (non hurting) position in bed. Happier.com has a lot of focused sleep meditations. It might be worth looking there for better sleep. 

Finished up my pumpkin carving/painting so I can concentrate on golf. I went for the maniacal look on its face. The next project is singing Christmas trees for her Christmas decorations. I will mount them on a blue tooth speaker....

[Wheelieb]

Morning All,

Drill weekend was...it was a drill weekend. Too much work that had to be accomplished which had me disconnected from a few activities I was hoping to accomplish after work. I will put those off to next weekend, the main thing is replacing the garage door torsion spring on our other garage door. I feel like I probably should have replaced it when I did the other, I didn't. And 3 months later it broke.  Needless to say, I will be replacing that this coming weekend. Work today and club meeting tonight. Hope everyone has a good day.

[rkj427]

14 minutes ago, EnderinAZ said:

Good morning spies! Yes! Coyote is open today!!! We tee off at 12:30 but I am grabbing the shag bag and heading over to the short game practice area about 10 to get that part of my game aligned. I walked the course yesterday -sunny and warm out and the ebike wasn't charged- and checked my typical landing zones. As nice as the course looks I will be playing mud ball for a few weeks. Yuck. 

@rkj427 gorgeous pictures. Along the course down here the sycamore tree leaves turn from green to a very pale almost white green. When they fall off there are lots of them. Finding a ball in the rough among those leaves is difficult at best. 

@ILMgolfnut As a fellow non sleeper I have found certain sleep meditation techniques allow me to shut down the internal conversation and find a comfortable (non hurting) position in bed. Happier.com has a lot of focused sleep meditations. It might be worth looking there for better sleep. 

Finished up my pumpkin carving/painting so I can concentrate on golf. I went for the maniacal look on its face. The next project is singing Christmas trees for her Christmas decorations. I will mount them on a blue tooth speaker....

@EnderinAZ awesome work on the pumpkin! 

[Rob Person]

@Swood1994ccongratulations!  Hopefully you all can get home and start the new adjustments!

@Northern Monkey ummm...  good luck with blue!   

Good morning spies!

I've been out doing yard work, trimming hedges, limbing trees lining the driveway, and leaf pickup,  etc.

Supposed to meet a friend to play later at the par3, if his wife allows it!  

Other than that, taking a quick break to catch up here before finishing the honey do list!

Have a great day spies!

 

[William P]

4 hours ago, Cfhandyman said:

A fine good morning to all. Loving this extended fall weather in late October. Played yesterday in short sleeves and in glorious sunshine.  Didn’t even mind that it was a 5 hour round.  Maybe it was the mindset, I knew it was going to be a very slow round, it was late October, the weather was beautiful and I was playing golf, not bundled up like Frosty the snowman.  Today’s job, is to cleanup the basement after renovations to turn it into an art gallery for my artist wife. Quite proud of her.  Below is a collage of some her watercolours.

Such a talented wife! Beautiful as always!

[Shankster]

Good morning -  I’m going to enter a tournament next month to see how I do in a real competitive environment.  I used to play horseshoes “professionally” and I alway played better with something on the line.  For now, coffee, work , then range work.  Playing 9 on Friday.

[William P]

Good Monday morning All!

Little late to the party this morning as I had tournament duty early which means up and out the door at 4am returning to the house around 9-10am. When we got the group on their way I decided to take the opportunity to get a range session in which proved fruitful. Believe I finally have settled on a driver setup that is producing consistent shots with mid-high penetrating trajectory. Also produces a baby draw so I can live with that as well. 

Glad to hear everyone is doing well @Swood1994 and hope you get them home soon.

@Cfhandyman your wife never ceases to impress with her talent.

More beautiful pictures Rob, @rkj427!

Hope the day's events improve quickly Chris, @Preeway.

Love the pumpkin @EnderinAZ.

Everyone have a great day and start to the week.

Edited yesterday at 04:45 PM by William P

[RichL85]

Good morning all. I'm going to need some much stronger coffee to get through the day. It's a quiet day at work, so nothing particularly exciting to keep my attention either, and I can only stare at process diagrams so much before things start to swirl around in front of me. Feels like a day where I'm going to be taking a lot of short breaks just to move around. I should really ask my boss for a standing desk for the office, maybe I can get that put into my office supply budget. Aside from that, the evening is going to be busy with a few errands to run, laundry to finish up, and dinner to cook. 

My landlord came by over the weekend to take a look at the water sprinklers and change the timers. He saw a few of my old golf clubs hanging out in the garage so I got to find out he's a bit of a golfer too. We've lived here 5 years and I never knew that. Funny enough he mentioned just having bought a new Titleist driver after trying, "way too many" as he worded it. So many that he wasn't even sure exactly which one he ended up with. 

[KC Golf]

Good Morning!  A little late with the update.

Believe or not, we are expecting our first big snowfall of the Fall season.  Should be  a good amount of white stuff and it will likely stick around.

Hope everyone had a great weekend.  Went to an Alumni homecoming on the weekend. So starting the weekend a little more tired than usual but it was a lot of fun.

Plan to  hit a SIM this week, since golf outdoors is just a dream sadly…

Have a great week everyone!

Edited 18 hours ago by KC Golf

[RickM71]

We are fortunate to have some nice weather near Chicago for this late in the year. We do seem to always manage to have rain or snow on Halloween though. 

I managed to play the local par 3 with the wife and kids yesterday which was nice. I need to learn to both lighten up and be more diplomatic in explaining course etiquette, such as being quiet when others are hitting, and keeping up pace of play without walking ahead of whoever's turn it is. 

I feel like any chances to get on a course this late in the season is a bonus. We are hoping to get to the driving range tonight. 

[snoopy79]

Happy Monday MGS forum!

Had a nice relaxing weekend and weather has been super nice. Cool in the morning and pleasant and sunny in day/evenings. Dogs are loving it. No golf on tap, just the usual bowling league stuff and work. Need to take advantage of this weather and get some swings in at the range. Might get one more round in with @ZoonORama before long.

Enjoy the week everyone!

Funny for the week:

[sirchunksalot]

Recently got my wife's computer back after two months because it keeps crashing and we sent it back for repair. They ran test after test (so they said) and said it was the motherboard and replaced it. 

Well, it crashed again last night. I've been busy bombing the CLX Gaming social media sites with negativity while my wife has emailed them after they sent an email asking how it's going. 

I'm about 16 levels of mad right now because this thing has been a piece of junk for the last year and it aggravates me we haven't gotten a positive resolution and they previously told her they would replace every part before sending another one. 

I'm planning on reporting them to the BBB if we don't hear something soon. 

[Purdyd]

Usually I have been cursing the yellow range balls and the debris field they leave on my iron faces but today…it gave an indication.

 I think the swing is coming back.

 

[poprocksncoke]

Mornin all (afternoon?) 

Played in a scramble tournament this weekend.  Our team had the lowest gross score, unfortunately it was a Peoria tournament and weren't even close to placing   

Oh well, was a fun day anyways. 

[ILMgolfnut]

Got out for another session for the Newton test today in the Charlotte 'burbs, about 50 balls at a club range equipped with Toptracer. My back was a little stiff from yesterday's session, which affected my results, but really carry, launch angle and total distance were pretty similar to yesterday, except my miss yesterday tended to be left and today was to the right.

Toptracer gave me some garbage numbers too, just like my R10 did yesterday. Case in point: My aiming point today was at an orange-striped post 246 yards out. Midway through the session (I think it was when I had the 3 dot shaft on, but not sure), I absolutely crushed one (for me). Little draw, pretty much straight at the orange post. looked like it landed somewhere around 205-210 and definitely bounced past the post. Toptracer said total distance was 195ish. I was rather perturbed that it missed 50 yards or so.

[sirchunksalot]

I hated being all negative in the previous post but I needed to rant. We got a call from a supervisor or manager and they're expediting picking her computer up again in the morning to try and fix it again. He promised more oversight and communication this time and offered another three months of warranty. 

I still don't trust them to actually fix it, but I hope they prove me wrong. 

@Cfhandyman those watercolors your wife did are amazing!

[Cfhandyman]

Below is a collage of some her watercolours.

@William P, @sirchunksalot and others, thank you for the very kind words regarding my wife’s art.  It is appreciated and I have passed on your comments. 

[Josh Parker]

5 minutes ago, Cfhandyman said:

Below is a collage of some her watercolours.

@William P, @sirchunksalot and others, thank you for the very kind words regarding my wife’s art.  It is appreciated and I have passed on your comments. 

Incredible work!

[Josh Parker]

2 hours ago, Purdyd said:

Usually I have been cursing the yellow range balls and the debris field they leave on my iron faces but today…it gave an indication.

 I think the swing is coming back.

 

That is some clean strikes! Well done!

[Javs]

26 minutes ago, Cfhandyman said:

Below is a collage of some her watercolours.

@William P, @sirchunksalot and others, thank you for the very kind words regarding my wife’s art.  It is appreciated and I have passed on your comments. 

Awesome works!

[BIG STU]

13 hours ago, David Leighton Reid said:

Good morning, golfers!  It is warm and dry here in the Ozarks.  The weatherman said it has been 27 days since we have had significant rain.  
 

 

25 days for us now. None since we caught the outskirts of Helene