Year round almost everywhere

you have a couple options itp, but none of them seem really feasable if you're not looking to spend 25k+ up front and 1k/month or so in dues.

as others have said there are some awesome courses up in alpharetta/john's creek that have super low initiations or deferred notes right now.

I live in buckhead and make the trek up 4-5 days a week, just have to avoid the traffic times.

I work 8-6 so unfortunately the trek means I could only ever play on weekends as even going to the range would be 1.5 hrs of driving roundtrip. I did come to the same conclusion about not really having any good options at all though.

I'd heard they were opening up from being an all Jewish club. That's a sweet deal for that place.

Yeah I'll be one of the few without the last name Schwartz or Goldstein for the time being haha. Course is awesome though

Had an interesting situation come up today that I would like peoples' thoughts on. It might be in the rules of golf somewhere but yeah.

So on a fairly long par 3 I rip a 5 iron long and left. Have a line on it but am not entirely sure on what's over there. Provisional off the tee is hacked into a ditch maybe like 50 yards off the tee. In the interests of saving time, I dropped the provisional and played 5 from there on to the green. I then went over left to where I thought my original tee shot was and found it, next to a pond on some bare mud. Hit a real nice shot and then 2 putted for a 4.

Is what I did ok? If I had gone to look for my original tee shot after I hit my provisional, it would have been a 100 yard walk there and back had I not found it. This was not a competitive round either, and not played for money.

Personally, I see nothing different from what I did there to like taking a putt out of turn if your playing partner isn't ready. All about saving time and not having the group behind get up our ass.

My interpretation of the rule is you're good to go. Bolded seems pretty straight forward.

What you did is perfectly fine.

All 12 months, unfortunately.

Thanks guys.

Random side note about clubs and food minimums- yes it is an added cost but you get food in exchange for that money and it is often pretty good, so don't add the food minimum and view that as the cost of the membership to play golf. My food minimum equals one family dinner at the club/month and the kids love it as the staff know them and treat them awesome.

36 hole leader in the euro event was (T2 now) former Illinois golfer and euro tour rookie Thomas Pieters.

I watched him play in the 2012 US amateur at Cherry Hills and he beat Jordan Spieth in the round of 64. Pieters lost in the next round (to Canuck Albin Choi) but I saw him make a hole in one, his first ever. I had an awesome view as I was directly behind the pin.

I'm thinking I may play wearing pants instead of shorts this year. What is a light weight pant that is comfortable and not that hot? At this point I'm just trying to be best dressed.

I always wear pants, keeps the sun off. Men look a bit foolish in shorts in my opinion.

Haggar Cool 18s are awesome. Light, comfortable, look good and very reasonable.

I always want to wear white pants like these guys do but my 26 handicap won't allow me to finish the round with the pants still looking clean as ****. But if I was good at golf I'd dress really well.

ARC,

what is your handicap again?

Top secret golf forum info.

Depends on the man and the tan

In the "had to be there" department, I saw the craziest thing this weekend. Random old guy I'm playing with tees it up way high, and while teeing off on 15 the ball falls off the tee while he is 3/4 through his down swing, but he hits it before it hits the ground. Coolest thing was he hit his best drive of the day, straight down the middle. Haven't seen anything like it.

Ran into this while browsing my favorite state, some may appreciate it for other reasons.



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Looks like she dropped about 5-10 pounds. I kept waiting for a good look at DAT ASS but Jason never showed us. Wait, what?

I love how it looks like it took her 90 minutes to get ready and he spent 3 minutes then the other 87 asking her to hurry up she looks great.

I love her

Rory calls off engagement and breaks up with Caroline! Maybe this has been the cause of his erratic play this year?????

Sends out wedding invitations during the weekend and breaks up a few days later.

A bit of a sudden "OMG, WTF am I doing!?" reaction triggered on his way out of the post office there I guess.