Going to try and calculate my strokes gained during my round today for the first time.

Is all I need to do on the course just note the distance and surface of each shot and then plug that info into the calculator afterwards? Anything else I need to do while actually playing?

That's it.

Cool thanks.

I'm practicing my putting on the practice green at a nice public course, and there are some kids minding their own business and practicing nearby. Some ******* smoking a cigar starts practicing in the center of the green, blowing his acrid smoke into everybody's faces...and spitting tobacco juice all over the green. How ****ing rude is that?

I know there are a few guys sort of in the Cleveland area and this is a bit last minute but I need one person for a 3 man scramble at Dorlon on Saturday morning. The course really isn't great but it is only $100 a team plus optional skins ect. and it will be played as 6 somes which will make things a bit slower but there won't be any cheating issues like most scrambles. It is my uncle with me who isn't great but mostly because he plays 4 times a year. I am decent. Just a shot in the dark in case anyone has nothing better to do Saturday. $2 beers that day as well.

Not even joking, if I didn't have to work that evening I would be there in a heartbeat. I really want to play golf with that famous guy from YouTube. We'll have to play sometime when I get get up there. I'm in Columbus.

I am always down to play let me know, probably some good courses in between Cleveland and Columbus.

Yeah, and I'm weird and don't mind driving 2 hours to do someplace, so there's that too. Good luck Saturday.

Played Glen Abbey today.. meh. Green were super tough to hold, course was in good shape but nothing super exciting about it. Certainly not worth the price, but still cool to play after having been there for a few Canadian Opens live.

Shot a 3-over 74 (+4 on the front, -1 on the back)...just put the info into the strokes gained calc

Tee shots: -2.46

Approaches: -1.62

Short game: 0.68

Putting: -0.64

Makes sense for this round at least as I've attributed most of my fall from a +1.3 to about a 1 this season to poor driving.

Gonna try and keep track of this each round the rest of the season and see where I average out

Obv the larger the sample the more accurate it is. I've been doing it all season and it shines a light on my weaknesses. Not that we all don't know intuitively but it is a great tool to really hone in on specifics IMO.

GLGL

I'm probably gonna try to upgrade my calculator website this winter so that you can log in and save your data.

This would be great...i'd even make a nominal donation via go fund me or something like that if you want.

Question-do the Tour average benchmarks get updated frequently? I understand the sample as far as data points is huge so it probably doesn't move a ton but is it like a rolling sample (ie 2015 replaces 2005 or something like that)?

Yeah...I haven't put in the research to hotels yet. I asked my brother in law who played the British Am like 8 years in a row, but he's the type of guy who stays at the motel 6 in vegas so I kind of ignored him.
Thanks. Stuff like that is awesome to know. I had no idea the Old Course Hotel is away from the heart of the city, and it's good to know I'm not too far off base w/costs.

Interested to know how the BNBs go. I've heard they can be awesome or you can have a really bad experience. Just kind of random.

I think it depends on what average means. I think if you want to play up north where there is a really short golf season, there are some pretty bad female golfers who are technically D1.

Also I think there is vast difference in size/strength of female golfers. I remember caddying for my wife in the Texas Women's Open and she played with a chick who was like 6'2" 225 and hit it like 295. And the course is 6,400 yards with 4 reachable (for her) par 5s. My wife is hitting fairway woods into a lot of the par 4s and this chick is hitting sand wedge.

My wife hits it like 240 off the tee & is 2 clubs shorter than me. So 7 iron 130-135, 6 iron 140-145, etc. Her short game is way better than all of ours and she can walk out there after not having played in 3 years and probably shoot right around 80. She won our state tournament twice in highschool and shot 71-70 (-1) her junior year. So, she's pretty good! She was like no. 3 or 4 I'd say on her college team or so...a mid-major who won their conference every year. I'm a 3 handicap and I'm pretty sure I'm better right this minute, but it'd probably take her like an hour on the range to figure out how to beat me easily again.


I would say your neighbor's daughter is better than decent...

So I'm taking a two-week driving trip with the family starting next Sunday (9/13). I am looking for a few courses that I should play somewhere near our route. Are there any courses that I definitely shouldn't miss if I'm in these areas? Affordability helps, for sure, but if there are bucket list courses that I need to see I'll spring for them.

If anyone wants to make a two-some with me along the following approximate itinerary, let me know!

9/13-9/15 Cleveland
9/15-18 Ohio, then central Pennsylvania on the way to Boston.
9/18-9/22 Rhode Island and Massachusetts seaboard
9/23-25 Upstate New York, Niagara Falls.
9/26-27 Across Canada, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee

Appreciate any advice.

Yeah strokes gained is awesome way to do it, I think I have the numbers from my last 15-20 rounds since I started doing it and really start to get a good picture of your game especially if you can break it down by distance and clubs as well.

Just want to say that I think it's awesome they pair scrambles together. MUCH MUCH better than the average setup.

Only reason I am playing really. The last group who turns in their card magically having shooting 1 lower than the leader gets old pretty quick, well worth the extra 45 mins it will take to play the round.

Scalp, I've only played 2 of these but when I drive by the others I always want to play em.

http://www.bouldercreekohio.com/ About half way between Cleveland and Y'town just off the Pike (I-80)

http://eaglecrestresort.com/#1 In Ypsi off I-94. I've played this one and it's fantastic. UCBananaboy has played it also.

These are a little more out of the way but I'll throw em out there

http://www.bellavistagolf.org/ Off I-69 Just before you get into Indiana. Lots of public access lakes in the area so if wife/kids non golfers want something to do.

http://cobblestonegc.com/cobblestone/ Further south on I-69 to US 6 then west to Kendallville

Boulder Creek is on my list of wanting to play one of these days, pictures on the website look really nice. That and Sleepy Hollow

Anyone have opinions on the R15 vs the G25/30? Is it really just 6 of one and half dozen of the other? I would like to get the more forgiving of the two.

Pretty sweet Twitter troll between lol Mark Lye and lol Brandel. Worth a look.

Amazingly, Mark Lye might be the bigger tool of the two.

No clue who Mark Lye is but glad I read it so I could see someone responding to Brandel saying there is no such thing as a "stuck" position on the basis that as long as you know what to do "post impact". Pure gold

I Googled this and there's no great answer and I don't see any threads about it. I'm wondering do free internet golf training sights and videos help a lot? Or are real payment required golf lessons online even way better? Any recommendation of what site I should join or pay for?

This is odd to me. I've never played in a team tourney where you weren't playing along with another team. Seems obvious why that is a must. In fact if there is an dd number of teams then there will be one goup of 3 teams.