The Golf Thread

[Donuthole]

I knew about yellow stakes, only because my club has a hole that has yellow stakes.

41-48 on Pacific Dunes today. I'm hitting the ball as well as I have in a long time. I needed to make a few putts, I was leaving everything super short.

Must be the shoes.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

Must be the shoes.

My feet feel amazing!

[clackamascoug]

I knew about yellow stakes, only because my club has a hole that has yellow stakes.

41-48 on Pacific Dunes today. I'm hitting the ball as well as I have in a long time. I needed to make a few putts, I was leaving everything super short.

I'd be happy with an 89 at Pacific Dunes. I'd be happy with a 99 at Pacific Dunes. I'd be happy having lunch at Pacific Dunes.

[cougjunkie]

I would be happy if I could actually play golf. Snow ysterday and as I look out my office window it is snowing again.

[FN Phat]

I would be happy if I could actually play golf. Snow ysterday and as I look out my office window it is snowing again.

I'd be happy if I could afford to play golf. We had an awesome weekend for weather. In the 70s with no to little wind. Absolutely gorgeous.

[byu71]

We played The Chase at Coyote Springs yesterday. You drive to this desolate area of Nevada and even when you pull onto the course property your wonder how can a golf course exist here? You can't see the course from the trailer they use as a club house.

We ride the cart a ways and finally see the course. Amazing. Each hole has character and here is the amazing part. About every hole has water on it. Not drinking fountains, but small lakes. Wonderful, wonderful course.

Downside was the wind was howling at 30-50 miles an hour. I definitely want to go back. It was windy in Vegas, so I assume it was just a windy day and isn't always like that at this course.

[cougjunkie]

We played The Chase at Coyote Springs yesterday. You drive to this desolate area of Nevada and even when you pull onto the course property your wonder how can a golf course exist here? You can't see the course from the trailer they use as a club house.

We ride the cart a ways and finally see the course. Amazing. Each hole has character and here is the amazing part. About every hole has water on it. Not drinking fountains, but small lakes. Wonderful, wonderful course.

Downside was the wind was howling at 30-50 miles an hour. I definitely want to go back. It was windy in Vegas, so I assume it was just a windy day and isn't always like that at this course.

I played that course last year and it was one of my favorites. I felt the same way you did; on the way out there (we were coming from Mesquite) I was thinking where the hell are we going. We come up on those ugly brown trailers and I am getting pissed we drove all the way out here. Even after driving back to the practice facility and playing hole 1 I was still skeptical. Once you make the turn to hole 2 I was blown away and very impressed. When we played it was $100 and you could play all day. Unfortunately they had a small corporate tournament in front of us and all day meant barely getting in 18 holes before dark.

I am jonesing so bad to play I am considering a best ball tournament this weekend at Forelakes in Taylorsville. They have an executive course that is 3000 yards and a par 3 course. Par is only 58. The cost to play 18 is only $20 on a normal day, this tournament is $60 so I would suspect the payouts to be pretty high.

My partner from the Palisades tournament is begging me to play, at first I was a definite "no" but I am getting the itch again. The Ranches is also having a 4 man scramble over the weekend, I just hate scrambles that are not handicapped, you get a bunch of cheaters and liars out there or some team full of scratch golfers that throws up a -20.

[Donuthole]

We played The Chase at Coyote Springs yesterday. You drive to this desolate area of Nevada and even when you pull onto the course property your wonder how can a golf course exist here? You can't see the course from the trailer they use as a club house.

We ride the cart a ways and finally see the course. Amazing. Each hole has character and here is the amazing part. About every hole has water on it. Not drinking fountains, but small lakes. Wonderful, wonderful course.

Downside was the wind was howling at 30-50 miles an hour. I definitely want to go back. It was windy in Vegas, so I assume it was just a windy day and isn't always like that at this course.

Youch. What rotten luck that yesterday was your day to play Coyote Springs. I was actually staring out my window all morning wishing I was golfing (HFN taunting me from Bandon wasn't exactly helping) but when afternoon rolled around the wind really picked up. I actually thought to myself "Wow, glad I'm NOT golfing today." The wind blew down all sorts of trees around my neighborhood. Rotten luck.

I wish I had known you were playing CS. I would have told you the tip for the No. 3 handicap Hole #8. Some local told me before I played there the first time, and it's been magic every time. In the four times I've played the course it has lead to two pars and two birdies on that hole.

[byu71]

When we played it was $100 and you could play all day. Unfortunately they had a small corporate tournament in front of us and all day meant barely getting in 18 holes before dark.

The problem we had was with touristo's. On the practice green we talked to some folks from Chicago. Play was so slow that we joined the couple in front of us who were from Lake Tahoe. The group in front of them must have been a corporate deal because on 18 there were 6 carts waiting for them.

The twosome we started out behind were the slowest. Finally on I think number 8, the very long par 3 with water all way down the right, one guy was figuring out how he wanted to hit a shot out of the bush. The other guy was over shooting the crap with the maintenance guy. After standing on the tee box for 5 minutes, no exaggeration, I yelled louly, "what the shit are you guys doing". One guy looked back and motioned to the guy talking to the maintence guy to hit his ball. 5 minutes later they were done.

What happened next was sweet. They took a wrong turn and instead of going to number 9, they went to number 4 which they had played. We saw them behind us 20 minutes later. I guess they finally figured it out.

I hate scrambles too.

[Art Vandelay]

has anyone tried the stack and tilt method? It seemed to be the rage a few years ago, but I haven't seen or heard much about it since then. I am so frustrated with my inconsistency from, not only round to round, but tee box to tee box. Yesterday I either hit a nice high draw 260-275, or I absolutely pull-hooked the ball OB. I play at a course that is mainly frequented by retirees, some of them have terrible very non-traditional swings, but are <5 handicaps. At this stage of life, all I want is a repeatable swing, especially a 125 yards in.

I'm naturally a very armsy swinger with quick hips (that's what she said ), which sometimes results in good lag and distance, but leads to inconsistent ball striking. I've been doing a lot of research over the winter and wondering if a one plane swing (Kuchar, Jacobson) or the more drastic stack and tilt would give me better consistency. I'm loathe to start over with my swing, but having 20 shot differences in my score from one round to the next, is turning me into a headcase.

[cougjunkie]

has anyone tried the stack and tilt method? It seemed to be the rage a few years ago, but I haven't seen or heard much about since then. I am so frustrated with my inconsistency from not only round to round, but tee box to tee box. Yesterday I either hit a nice high draw 260-275, or I absolutely pull hooked the ball OB. I play at a course that is mainly frequented by retirees, some of them have terrible very non-traditional swings, but are <5 handicaps. At this stage of life, all I want is a repeatable swing, especially a 125 yards in.

I'm naturally a very armsy swinger with quick hips (that's what she said ), which sometimes results in good lag and distance, but leads to inconsistent ball striking. I've been doing a lot of research over the winter and wondering if a one plane swing (Kuchar, Jacobson) or the more drastic stack and tilt would give me better consistency. I'm loathe to start over with my swing, but having 20 shot differences in my score from one round to the next, is turning me into a headcase.

Espn the mag just had an article on all of Tigers awing changes and they mentioned quite a few interesting facts about the stack and tilt. I would reccomend picking up a copy. It is the issue with Kaepernick on the cover, The Perfect Issue.

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[Donuthole]

I don't know much about the Stack and Tilt. But here's what I do know:

Aaron Baddeley was one of golf's rising stars before he adopted the S&T. it pretty much ruined his game. He dropped it, and improved almost immediately. Also, Dean Wilson was regularly making the cut on the PGA tour until he adopted the S&T. He's no longer on the Tour.

Of course there are plenty of other factors, but I wanted to share those anecdotes with you as inspiration.

[Indy Coug]

I don't know much about the Stack and Tilt. But here's what I do know:

Aaron Baddeley was one of golf's rising stars before he adopted the S&T. it pretty much ruined his game. He dropped it, and improved almost immediately. Also, Dean Wilson was regularly making the cut on the PGA tour until he adopted the S&T. He's no longer on the Tour.

Of course there are plenty of other factors, but I wanted to share those anecdotes with you as inspiration.

That's not what this Youtube clip claims. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4_YepJ3wSs

[Art Vandelay]

Espn the mag just had an article on all of Tigers awing changes and they mentioned quite a few interesting facts about the stack and tilt. I would reccomend picking up a copy. It is the issue with Kaepernick on the cover, The Perfect Issue.

A very interesting article, thanks for pointing me to it. More for the armchair psychoanalysis of Tiger, than for any great insights about swing changes. As I already knew, there is no magic panacea, but like Hogan said, "the secret is in the dirt" e.g. hitting ball, after ball, after ball...

http://espn.go.com/golf/story/_/id/8...-espn-magazine

[Y84it]

I have a Golf question. What is your swear word ratio on the Golf course vs everyday swear word. so 1 being low amount of cussing 10 being very high Example-


Golf Course = 9
Everyday = 2

Glad my wife isn't there to hear me.