MISC/RANDOM/BS Golf Chatter Thread

[wiper]

just shot 46/45 on the same course i shot 41/42 on 2 days ago.

also, i had a 4 putt.

from 6 feet. yeaaah.

and 3 penalty strokes.

i just found oobgolf and those are the only two rounds i have in there, gonna start tracking fairways, greens and putts (and penalties i guess).

finally, just bought an r11 a couple weeks back after hitting the same offset king cobra for 5 years. i hit it a couple times a couple days after i got it, set it the way i want it (slight hook i think, 10.5) and yday hit it 40ish times at the range and by the end was smoking it straight down the middle.

used it the first nine today and went back to my old driver for the second. it just seems less forgiving than my KC. i probably should just leave the KC at home and have a trial by fire, but the extra 20 yards or so still is losing out to hitting damn fairways in my head.

buddy is going to pick up his girl and we're going another nine, i'm probably gonna stick with my old driver today, and hit the range a ton in the next few days.

putting was ****. 37 putts (vs 32 two days ago) ugh. that wouldn't be so bad if i was hitting some ****ing greens.

[ReidLockhart]

Originally Posted by UCBananaboy

Here's the exact Tweet:

Me: Breaking news, 4 handicap defies odds and repeats as our Club Champion. In other news, golfers submit their own scores to set their hcp

Him: @alexjhuang Golf is a game of integrity, every club in America has players post their own scores. It's called peer review. #nocapsincc

Things like this make me feel retarded. I spent like 10 minutes trying to figure out how his hashtag was relevant at all and the best I could come up with was that you were wrong to capitalize "Club Champion", hence, no caps in club champion. I never connected "caps" to handicaps. I should just hang myself really.

[bonds]

lol'd.

The club really ought to post tournament scores. Mine used to do that, then for some reason they randomly stopped posting them. No idea why. If there was a guy like the "4 hcp" at my club who didn't post tournament scores I'd probably be asking who the club's handicap chair is and having a few polite words with him or her.

[Your Boss]

UC, here's the takeaway from me. If the club is serious enough to have events like cc and member member then it is certainly serious enough to have a handicap committee. I chair mine at my club and it's not that big of a deal, but it gives a simple method of dealing with stuff like this.

What I would do at my club in a situation like this is post the cc scores along with penalty scores.

[wiper]

Originally Posted by wiper

just shot 46/45 on the same course i shot 41/42 on 2 days ago.

also, i had a 4 putt.

from 6 feet. yeaaah.

and 3 penalty strokes.

i just found oobgolf and those are the only two rounds i have in there, gonna start tracking fairways, greens and putts (and penalties i guess).

finally, just bought an r11 a couple weeks back after hitting the same offset king cobra for 5 years. i hit it a couple times a couple days after i got it, set it the way i want it (slight hook i think, 10.5) and yday hit it 40ish times at the range and by the end was smoking it straight down the middle.

used it the first nine today and went back to my old driver for the second. it just seems less forgiving than my KC. i probably should just leave the KC at home and have a trial by fire, but the extra 20 yards or so still is losing out to hitting damn fairways in my head.

buddy is going to pick up his girl and we're going another nine, i'm probably gonna stick with my old driver today, and hit the range a ton in the next few days.

putting was ****. 37 putts (vs 32 two days ago) ugh. that wouldn't be so bad if i was hitting some ****ing greens.

aaaaand, 39. got completely smashed on the course. used the old driver and game was easy. 3 over is something i would take again and again and again.

1 birdie, 4 pars, 4 bogies. yespls!

[UCBananaboy]

Originally Posted by Your Boss

UC, here's the takeaway from me. If the club is serious enough to have events like cc and member member then it is certainly serious enough to have a handicap committee. I chair mine at my club and it's not that big of a deal, but it gives a simple method of dealing with stuff like this.

What I would do at my club in a situation like this is post the cc scores along with penalty scores.

Could you expand on "penalty scores"?

Also -- major lol @ reid

On another note -- Anyone here gone up to Kohler to play at the Whistling Straits resort? Thinking of getting a few buddies to do a weekender up there, maybe one night and two rounds or something.

[Your Boss]

You should read through the usga handicap manual and take some recommendations to your pro.

But a penalty score is a score entered by the handicap committee when a player doesn't enter their scores themselves. The penalty score is equal to the players low score in the system. So basically in your situation if the guy shot 70 three times but didn't post them, and 70 is his lowest score in the system,then you would post those three 70's he actually shot along with three penalty scores of 70. If he has a 68 in there, then the penalty scores would be 68.

[UCBananaboy]

lol six round of 70s would be amazing. He'd **** a brick at the next revision

[Your Boss]

And theoretically if you knew of, say, 10 scores he hadn't posted, then the committee could post penalty scores of 70 for each of those.

[ReidLockhart]

Originally Posted by Your Boss

What I would do at my club in a situation like this is post the cc scores along with penalty scores.

What do you mean, penalty scores?

[UCBananaboy]

Reid doesn't read other posts apparently...

BTW, my head pro is DFL by a big margin now. Might shoot 100 today

[ReidLockhart]

Originally Posted by UCBananaboy

Reid doesn't read other posts apparently...

BTW, my head pro is DFL by a big margin now. Might shoot 100 today

I thought I was at the end of the thread at the end of the page again. Dammit. I suck at teh internets.

[KenoVictoryLap]

Question: as reported in my thread earlier this summer, I got new irons and a new 3w that I hit off the tee. I am used to them and am hitting them preety well. My distances are def. different than my old set, but I am still a little uncertain how far I am hitting each club. The range I usually go to doesn't have good markings; what's my best way to determine how far I am hitting all of my clubs?

[NxtWrldChamp]

Originally Posted by KenoVictoryLap

Question: as reported in my thread earlier this summer, I got new irons and a new 3w that I hit off the tee. I am used to them and am hitting them preety well. My distances are def. different than my old set, but I am still a little uncertain how far I am hitting each club. The range I usually go to doesn't have good markings; what's my best way to determine how far I am hitting all of my clubs?

Go to course late in evening. Find any empty hole, hit 10 shots with each club and average them out.

[Palo]

Originally Posted by KenoVictoryLap

Question: as reported in my thread earlier this summer, I got new irons and a new 3w that I hit off the tee. I am used to them and am hitting them preety well. My distances are def. different than my old set, but I am still a little uncertain how far I am hitting each club. The range I usually go to doesn't have good markings; what's my best way to determine how far I am hitting all of my clubs?

Buy or borrow a laser range finder.