these are all handicapped right? is it not just a bunch of sandbaggers every week?

It's flighted. No shots given inside the flight.

0-3.9
4-7.9
8-11.9
12-15.9
16-19.9
20+

They keep their own handicap system and they are quick to move people if your handicap is below what flight you are in. Anybody can go out and sandbag in their first tournament and win but you will be moved immediately. In my flight on my tour we have about 20 regulars and I am never worried about anybody being in the wrong flight.

lol, not one snap-call for a free lesson with a pga pro huh? you can literally do this with a cell phone.

offer stands till ryder cup finishes.

****, I'll take it. I'm in the US it would have to be an online lesson, but if nobody else closer wants it I'll go for it.

Playing a 3 club tournament tomorrow at the home club. Tees will be at 6,050 yards. Gonna use:

4 iron
9 iron
58*

I'm a 3.2 right now and I'm the highest handicap in my group. Should be fun.

pm me or post the name you will contact him under and i will send him the payment for the first lesson. you guys can work out the schedule from there

This would be interesting. I think I'd use something like 3 wood, 8 iron, 54* assuming I could reach all the par 3s with an 8 iron.

I think the distance of the par 3s is key. If they're really short I could even see a reason to bring driver, some sort of wedge, and a putter since Driver/wedge should be enough to reach the par 4s (I assume they top out under 400 at this yardage).

389 is the longest par 4. Par 3's are:

160
153
109
161

That's kinda why I have 9 iron in the bag. That should handle all of the par 3's for me. I could possibly go down to 8 but I like less than full shots better with the 9.

I'm a short hitter, so with that setup I'd be going with

4 hybrid
7 iron
PW

Or maybe 6i/9i.

I miss playing at a club that runs events like that.

There is no industry standard any more, but pretty much every stock driver will be between 45" and 45.5".

Here's something interesting though, if you take the exact same shaft and plug it into a Ping G400 Max, a Titleist TS2, a Callaway Rogue, and a TaylorMade M4, there will be .375" in difference between the shortest and longest club due to how the clubhead is constructed.

I had this bet with a bogey golfer buddy. I got 3 clubs and he got 14. Played even. Side bet that I couldn't break 80. I chose:

5i
9i
56*

Shot 78 and he was pissed.

Side note: I putt a lot with my 56* when just messing around and am pretty good at it. I'm interested to see how you score.

Nice. Our senior club champion (who is a 1.1) won the event with a gross 77. If he could have putted the ball any better he really woulda done well. He chose Driver, 8i and putter. He struggled around the greens a bit. He isn't a long hitter, maybe 240y off the tee or so max but never missed a fairway all day. He had to hit driver on 3 of our par 3's.

Terrible club selection. 77 with those 3 clubs is pretty solid IMO. Driver shouldn't even be in the equation even for short hitters.

in answer to something i was curious about earlier..

namely, how fast players fall in status when they don't do well on XXX tour

a local golfer qualified this year for web.com and then managed to play the whole year without too much success (1 or 2 top 25's was all it took to stay alive). 2 other golfers i follow closely played the whole year with almost zero succcess.

anyway, i see the local golfer teed it up last week in stage 1 of web.com qualifying... so it was a pretty big fall............ note: there is some chance he played voluntarily in hopes of having more choice on stage 2 but i'm guessing that's unlikely

Who the hell chooses a driver in a 3 club tourney?

definitely putter, 9 or 8 iron and then whatever you feel most comfortable with between LI, FW, hybrid (and needs to provide some serious distance)

would your answer depend on course? 6,000 yard vs 7,200 yard (which few of us play)?

i think 4 clubs gets fairly straight forward.......... i wonder how many strokes a PGA pro would accept to be restricted to 4 clubs. i'm thinking small number, like 4 strokes.

They came and took a survey while we were playing to see what everyone was using. There was 23 of us in the tourney and 6 people chose putter. Funny enough 3 of em were in my group. Maybe the lower the handicap the more apt you are to choosing putter.

What one guy in our group thought was if the longest par 4 is 380 yards then take your 190 club and you should be able to reach all of the par 4's (and par 5's and 3's for that matter) along with a 58* for when you miss the green and then putter.

(tl;dr) Tried something random after my round today.

I'm not fond of fairway woods but started carrying one this year to bridge the gap betwen driver and 21 degree hybrid. I pulled the 3 wood yesterday in favor of a 19 degree hybrid (set at 18.25). Hit it decent.

After the round I pulled the shaft out of it and swapped in a 3 wood shaft (same model as in my 21). Hit about two dozen shots with it and it felt great. Nice high trajectory. About 20 of 24 shots were good. Distance wasn't anything special, but pretty consistent and not more than 10-15 yards or so shorter than the fairway. Felt like the swingweight was up quite a bit, but otherwise all good.

Checked it against the shaft I bought the hyrbid with afterward and it was the same length. The one I bought was advertised (used -callaway preowned) as 1" over, I'm going to have to do a little research and measurement to see how different things are versus stock. I'd also like to find a 17 degree head for a better gap with the 21, but they appear to be rarer than unicorns.

Edit: I'm going to have to break out the tape measure to satisfy my curiosity. Stock 3w length is 43", stock 19 degree hybrid length is 40.5". Bought the 3 wood shaft off GolfWRX, wonder if it's shorter than standard.

usa#1, usa#1, usa#1...




...glad we didn't factor in the real life schmucks.

maybe i'm crazy but i'm not choosing putter on most courses. i'd probably make an exception for super fast greens. but a 3 club tournament on super fast greens would be a nightmare anyway.

i guess if the course is short enough i could go 3-wood, 52 degree, putter.

the amount of water hazards/deep bunkers/deep rough etc is also super relevant. the tougher the course, the less likely i am to have a putter in the bag.

These par 3s make it tough to not have a short iron. If the longest one was 135 I would just go with a wedge of some sort, but it might be giving up too much to try to hit a 50* or 54* wedge super thin and get it an extra 50 yards to the par 3s.

With the longest par 4 playing 389 I would be very tempted to take driver and blast it as close to the greens as possible. Especially considering that there are probably some in the 320 range if that's the longest. Also, if you have like Driver/8iron you might be able to get to the par 5s if they are shortened enough.

I'd want a putter if possible, but that's mainly bc I wouldnt trust myself to make anything over 5 feet without one and would be scared of 3 putting from anything outside of 20 feet even if it was pretty straightforward. If I spent a few hours practicing the week of the event I would feel comfortable gauging speed better with another club though.

Finally spending some time on my webstream and getting it up to par with some others in our group.

added 2x 120fps cams for replay analysis and then have also started using discord video chat for anyone in the foursome that has a cam setup.

The results are great...

3 live players along the bottom (2 in this case with cams) and then my shot data, live view and head/face replays after each shot.

i think you need a putter in a 3 club. i guess you can putt with 2 or 3 iron

and i think a driver is highly defendable. as mentioned, it really depends on the course. you could even hit driver off FW sometimes. ... i play anywhere from white to gold on many courses. completely changes up my game

just curious, what are people choosing with 3 clubs plus putter.... i'm thinking 5i, driver, 9i.... i guess it comes down to trade-off between the yardage gap vs. short game acumen.

so much depends on how good a player you are... i've caddied for top minor league golfers and they hit tons of greens so non-putter short game is not that important (relative to mid-handicappers).

I'd putt with whatever wedge I'm carrying

A 3-iron was good enough for any shot for Seve and it bloody well should be for all of ya'll too.