Yeah there's another pre-paid tee time tomorrow for 75% off. Can't play though but there are plenty of good deals on there.

I figured they were all pre-paid? Are some of the deals pay at the course?

Yea. The one I did yesterday was $1.99 place holder and then paid at course. I assume the hot deals are paid all up front but could be wrong.

Turned out to be like $12.50 in total.

dude you gotta just take ur medicine on this one and wait man. i broke my foot/ankle when i was in 7th or 8th grade and tried to get around wearing my boot and ended up having to get a hard cast and for the next ten 12 years playing bball that woudl always be the weak point...i cannot count how many times i sprained it. either way gl

arc, yes some are just place holders. in fact most if not all golfnows that are not hot deals you pay at course.

Anyone have the mobitee app? Just found it and it looks super sick. Probably not the most accurate wrt its range finder and stuff, but has a **** load of options including flyovers of each hole. It has a solid 4* out of 5* rating with >100k downloads, so thats promising.

Will give a little review after my round tomorrow.

nice

Top dressing, fertilizing, chemical applications. Extreme clean picking so they can mow it. Any number of things.

Literally the same exact thing happened to my friend except he didn't break his arm.. Only pelvis and shattered leg.. Cancun?

Any of you guys ever organize a ryder cup style golf outing between your friends? In thinking 2 teams of 6, playing 36 holes total each format getting 9 holes.. If anyone had ever done it and can offer advice that would be cool.. Was gonna possibly start a thread for ppl to discuss but not sure there would be enough interest

Anyone have any advice at all on setting up in line with what youre actually attempting to shoot at? I feel fine addressing most shots in the box or fairway, but once Im even on the edge of a fairway or trying to shoot at something tjat isnt completely in front of me I feel I make a lot of awful shots/swings.

Sometimes the ball goes pretty much dead straight... Only to find out I was aiming completely left (almost never right) of where i was shooting. Lots of squirmers off tge face left, too.

Very frustrating and not sure how to go about fixing this.

not sure if this answers your question, but i find it helpful to look for something on the ground a yard or so in front of me to use with alignment...a light piece of grass that stands out, a dark patch, a leaf, a stick, a divot, etc. if i'm teeing off i'll look for a tee that someone left in place or an existing divot and tee my ball up using that intermediate target for alignment. it really helps to use the same method on the range to work out the minor adjustments and become familiar with the feeling.

i completely understand how the line between fairway and first cut of rough can influence your alignment if you don't consciously try to find something else to use. it's similar to hitting off of the two piece mats at the range but trying to aim in a direction that is different from the line the mats are pointing towards. there is an urge for your swing to follow the dominant lines of the mat instead of the correct line of the shot.

Exactly. I can feel my swing being all loopy and have no idea how to correct it.

Will definately try your pick an intermediate spot theory.

not quite a 'theory'
http://www.golfdigest.com/golf-instr...-jack-nicklaus

I had no other word at the time. Routine i guess.

Thanks for the link though. Reading now...

Anyone else use a Texas wedge from jail regularly? (Punching out from under trees with putter). This is a fairly typical stroke for me to get back to the fairway if tree canopies are low. But I think I need a better execution. I basically just address my ball as if I were putting on the green, then take a bigger backswing and faster downswing to make sure I hit the ball hard enough to get through the grass/rough. Problem is sometimes this isn't enough to get out and other times it pops out and skips across the fairway to the other side.

Should I be hitting this shot more like a chip? Feet close, open stance, ball back in stance, and have more of a popping stroke down on the ball? I'm thinking this may help the ball check up a bit if it wants to scoot across the fairway. And the pop may help it traverse more of the grass rather than trudge through it.

Advice appreciated.

I've run this exact concept at my club two years in a row. Two teams of twelve, 3 nine hole matches Saturday (best ball, modified alt shot, scramble) and then eighteen hole singles matches Sunday.

What kind of questions do you have?

Never heard of using a putter. Sorry not to be helpful why not use 4/5 iron back in your stance you atleast get some loft but it is not high enough to normally hit branches? Just trying to understand the reasoning

Should you have a more closed club face with the ball back in stance or would that just be overkill?

Yeah, ARC, I would just try using a long iron on those shots. If you haven't tried it before, you'd be surprised how low the ball stays when you use it to punch the ball out of trouble. It will help you control the distance a lot better with your punch outs than your putter will.

Ok probably a really dumb question, but does par relate to how tough the course is? I played a par 70 this past weekend and it is the toughest course I've ever played. Very narrow, short only 5900 but narrow and rough was impossible to get out of. I told somebody it was par 70, and they said oh sounds like an easy course.

Using a hybrid to punch out (and potentially swinging it like a putter) can be a better option at times. It can also be useful around the green in the right circumstance.

Lol no that guy is mistaken. Par has absolutely nothing to do with how easy a course is. Par 70s tend to be a bit harder if anything because there are less par 5s which mean less scoring holes

is this a dick move?

I have a lot of credit at my dad's course, and I want a certain callaway wedge ( i gave him a vokey for fathers day and wants a callaway). The pro does not have any in stock....soooo what i am asking....for something not in stock is it ok to use pro shop credit won in a tourney ?

Not a dick move at all. Seems very very standard. In our shop we order tons of stuff that people use shop credit for. Quite often this will be the only time they order anything at all.

I'll try adding this one. I have a decent punch out shot that I hit with 2i-4i when I need to keep it low but can actually advance the ball 100+ yards up the fairway. But on the sideways punchouts I've always tried the lob wedge pitch (if I can keep it under tree canopies) or just putted it if the canopies are low. I'll try the long to mid iron next time and just try to pop it out. As I said, controlling distance through grass is not easy and this will probably help me.

You can open up the clubface a lot even if it's back in your stance. To counter this you open your stance. If you hood your chipping clubs and have an open stance then you'll always hit well left of your target.

Course rating and slope tells you more about how difficult the course is. Par means nothing and is completely arbitrary. They could call it a par 18 and man what an easy course!

And yeah as BYN said, par 70s aren't inherently easy, because scoring on 3s/4s/5s is not linear. All else equal, par 3s are harder to score on than par 5s. So a par 70 probably has 4 par 3s, 2 par 5s, and 12 par 4s.