MISC/RANDOM/BS Golf Chatter Thread

[UCBananaboy]

I can't believe a golf club was broken during the melee. Seems almost like it wasn't intentionally broken to used to stab -- otherwise wouldn't you just swing a golf club in a fight?

[NegativeZero]

Originally Posted by prohornblower

This Lara Baldasarra woman on the Grey Goose 19th hole show is severely irritating with the mannerisms, voice, and giant yellow dress.

Blame the War of 1812.

[Your Boss]

Originally Posted by UCBananaboy

Golfers break out in fight in Dallas after a 3-some isn't allowed to play through the group ahead: http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/02...-mountain.html

I was playing in a club two man tournament when I was like 14 or 15 with my dad. One of the guys on the team we were playing with was really really slow. On the 12th hole some guys from 11 FW starting jawing at him to speed up, then someone on 12 tee yelled at him too. He hopped in the cart and drove back to the tee and tried to tackle whoever yelled at him. I had no idea what to do so we just kept playing. He and his partner rolled up in their cart after we hit our tee shots on 13, with the one guy bloodied up a bit. Just finished the round like normal.

[CheckRaise]

Originally Posted by tuq

wtf: http://deals.woot.com/

Is there any reason to NOT buy a couple of dozen of those? Anyone have any experience buying "refinished" or whatever they're called?

Thanks for any input but knowing me I'll wait too long and they'll be gone...

looks like a good deal imo...i started buying used balls online last year (now i can't remember the website) and they seemed to perform fine. i usually stuck with the highest grade so i wasn't getting scuffed cut up balls but the price was great for someone like me who wants to play a quality ball but not give a **** if i lose 4 or 5 in a round

i have a set of irons that are too long for me (+1.5 inches), can i cut an inch off the butt end of the shaft when i regrip them or will that throw off the balance/swing weight? i hit them fine if i choke down so that an inch or so off the butt end is showing when i take my grip but since i need to regrip them i'd figure it'd be easy to take that extra stuff off

[schu_22]

CheckRaise, It would throw the weight off a bit I think, but I took an inch off my friend's set of irons (this was 6 years ago in high school) and it didn't seem to have any major adverse effect. But you may be more exacting than my friend.

Fairly easy to do, we did it with like a 2-dollar shaft cutter

[schu_22]

Now that football is over I have started working out again, purely for golf purposes. Hopefully the motivation lasts for a few months, because we just got 13 inches of snow dumped on us Saturday and golf weather is still 2 months off.

[UCBananaboy]

Are your workouts specifically tailored for the golf game? I'd be curious to hear what types of things you are doing.

I've been working more on flexibility but would love to add a routine or two.

[prohornblower]

They showed Mark Wilson doing workouts the other day and I must say I was pretty impressed. Seems like he puts a lot of work into it and was doing specific drills catered toward a right-handed golf swing.

[LFC]

Few weeks ago I've done FMS test, lateralization of my core is amazing.

I'm also doing researches for my master degree about lumbar spine. range of my right rotation in lumbar spine is almost twice as big as left rotation

I need to work on my both side but I guess that with golf there is not much you can do

[sippin_criss]

Originally Posted by UCBananaboy

Are your workouts specifically tailored for the golf game? I'd be curious to hear what types of things you are doing.

I've been working more on flexibility but would love to add a routine or two.

I always wonder about golf fitness as well. I've been on some TPI programs and they seemed to not do a whole lot.

I've recently starting doing Starting Strength which is just squats, deadlifts, press, and bench press mostly. I'm keeping up with foam rolling and mobility so I am rarely stiff and just started working on some active release treatment with a chiropractor that should be good as well.

I'm not lifting heavy enough yet to notice any real strength differences with my swing/distance, but I figure it's going to be more productive than doing resistance training with tubing, etc.

[schu_22]

Don't ask me for workout advice. Mainly Im just doing stretching/abs/core stuff from P90X, as well as some arm/chest/shoulder dumbbell lifting at home. I want to work some leg stuff in, but I don't have the equipment (or time/money for gym) but I'm trying to figure something out.

I am skinny as ****, but very tall, so I have zero problems hitting the ball a mile. I mainly want to increase my stability and flexibility, and get back into reasonable shape. I am in the worst shape Ive been in since before high school probably. And when I get out of shape, I'm one of the lucky ones who doesnt gain any weight. In fact, Ive lost about 10 pounds of muscle since summer. 4 months of beer + couch (aka football season) will do that. I want to add that muscle and strength back, because for the last couple months I have felt like complete dog**** as a whole.

Hopefully I will get a nice head start physically for when the ground thaws out in 6-8 weeks.

[LFC]

June gonna be so epic
Euro2012 this year is in Poland&Ukraine.
Got tickets for all the games I wanted: 3x Poland in group stage, ESP-ITA, 2x quaterfinals, 1x semifnal.

All games are in Warsaw, Gdansk, Wroclaw and all got nice golf courses, especially waiting to play Sierra GC near Gdansk.
Traveling with my friend (online team PokerStars Pro btw) who is also playing golf so it's gonna be good
hope the weather will be fine
can't way anyway

[UCBananaboy]

Originally Posted by schu_22

Don't ask me for workout advice. Mainly Im just doing stretching/abs/core stuff from P90X, as well as some arm/chest/shoulder dumbbell lifting at home. I want to work some leg stuff in, but I don't have the equipment (or time/money for gym) but I'm trying to figure something out.

I am skinny as ****, but very tall, so I have zero problems hitting the ball a mile. I mainly want to increase my stability and flexibility, and get back into reasonable shape. I am in the worst shape Ive been in since before high school probably. And when I get out of shape, I'm one of the lucky ones who doesnt gain any weight. In fact, Ive lost about 10 pounds of muscle since summer. 4 months of beer + couch (aka football season) will do that. I want to add that muscle and strength back, because for the last couple months I have felt like complete dog**** as a whole.

Hopefully I will get a nice head start physically for when the ground thaws out in 6-8 weeks.

Mind sharing what type of core / abs stuff you're doing?

Sorry, I'm about a level .01/10 when it comes to knowledge on working out. I just do what I see in Gatorade commercials.

[CheckRaise]

local golf dome where i hit balls during the winter just had a fire and is probably closed for the rest of the year, fffuuuuuuu

[g-bebe]

funny, would have thought this was more likely to happen: