Read last night that Mike Whan is going to be named executive director of the USGA today. If true that's a home run hire.

Ship getting a little love for using data to change the approach at Riv #10

I find NLU to be such an odd group of guys. They clearly don't know much about golf and seem to cling to old tropes, etc.

Fantasy Golf Degenerates
Tyler Tamboline is solid and Kenny Kim can be entertaining.


Bogey Free
Matt Jones is good. I followed his work on Twitter before realizing he had a podcast. Evan is awful.


Tour Junkies
With NFL over, I had more free time. I gave them up during quarantine.



None of these guys compare to the Fantasy Golf Bag crew (now FTN golf). Redkacheek (Drew Matthews), Axis, and Sky were awesome. JKRay (I think) would join for a Wednesday night twitch show with projected ownership.

If I wasn't a cheap bastard, I'd join FTN for the golf and give up everything else. I still might do that.

interesting. i haven't listened to their podcast, but based on their YT vids they are near the top of my list of folks i'd like to go on a golf trip with (separating the people from the places they go, which are great).

Hit a personal best ballspeed of 167.9 on the Trackman today. What's weird for me is whether I swing normal or try to swing out of my shoes my clubhead speed doesn't change that much. I hit a ton that were in the 164-166 range. This is up from an average of ~160 last year. My goal is to get it to a steady 170.

I know trackman reads differently than GC Quad but 1.51 is theoretically impossible to achieve. A perfect hit should be 1.50 and I'm not sure if tour pros can do that.

Nice. What are you doing to help increase your speed?

Tbf most of my consumption of their product is through various Twitter beefs that they consistently seem to be in the wrong side of. Then when they are presented evidence that their stance/statement is factually incorrect they seem incapable of accepting it

I'm not sure about this and other people on here probably understand it a lot better than I do, but I've heard that drivers can get hotter over time as they are hit more. My driver head is from 2017 so I suspect it's become more springy.

Speed sticks every day is the main thing. Plus a mix of stretching, rehab type exercises for an elbow and shoulder I've injured a few times, and some CrossFit and BJJ for strength.

I just finished this. Yeah, it didn't provide that much "new" information, but it interesting to see it all laid out. Definitely interested in what they paid people....some people, like Stevie, it makes sense why they'd do it. Others, e.g., O'Meara's neice....I have to think it would take some decent incentive to get on camera and talk about stuff like that, even if she hasn't talked to Tiger in years. Sounds like they were very close.

Overall, I thought it portrayed Tiger as a tragic figure of sorts, at least in my eyes. That level of compartmentalization is insane, and I'm 95% blaming Earl.

Also, I'm guess Rachel DIDN'T sign the NDA she talks about in the film? Otherwise, what's she doing there?

Just back on the topic of golf podcasts (and I guess other mediums like YouTube or Instagram), I've been watching NLU YouTube videos lately and gotten into them.

I think the Good Good stuff, that essentially spawned from GM Golf and all of his buddies making their own channels, then pairing up with Kyle Berkshire, gets a bit tired. But agreed that is what sells now it seems.

NLU is catering to the more enthusiast crowd though, and definitely an older demographic. But the quality of the Tourist Sauce and Strapped videos don't really have much equal.

I'll watch a bit of Golf Sidekick, and can really identify with him as I have a strong South African group of friends who really got me into golf in the first place. But his videos are a bit too repetitive.

Nice keep at it. I’m only doing Speed sticks 1x/week ATM. Might increase


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Ummmm

https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id...-rudy-giuliani

All 6 foot of Wie needs to just kick his ass.

Back on the sauce? When I watched that I thought his face looked kind of fat. Odd since he's usually really lean. Maybe he'll eventually become the fat Elvis of golf?

Sub Par is great. Colt Knost and Drew something are the hosts. They have great guests and shoot the **** about alot of stuff that most typical golf podcasts probably don't get into (gambling, drinking, etc). As someone already mentioned, Joel Dahmen is great. He was probably the best guest that they've had. Barkley and Johnny Manziel were also pretty good. Harry Higgs was pretty funny too. Those are the best off the top of my head, but they are all pretty good.

Still unconfirmed at this point but down thread says he may have broken legs??



Best I can tell OP is an actual reporter FWIW

Edit: LA Sherrifs have confirmed he was in an accident but not extent of injuries

"Suffered multiple leg injuries." That ain't good.

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I can only hit balls once a week this time of year...so gonna wait til work slows a bit in April then get after the speed sticks more

Can you do the speed sticks at home? I think they help whether you are able to hit balls or not. Of course, I've gone through stretches of doing a lot of them and not hitting balls, then it takes me a little bit of time to find the clubface again.

damn

Prob...always leave them at the club but maybe I'll throw them in the trunk so I always have them.

Certainly doesn't seem so