2nd impeachment

I took lessons from a pga pro. Best advise he gave me? Take up sailing.

Ok. That was funny shit there.

“ I'm taking lessons from a pga pro and he says your head ....”

I took lessons from a pga pro. Best advise he gave me? Take up sailing.

We belong to two courses and I play 3-4 times a week in the summer Wife just started three years ago and 12 year old plays all the time We absolutely love it. I'm taking lessons from a pga pro and he says your head dose t need to be locked down to create the optimal swing your head needs to turn as you come through the strike

All this talk of golf is just white privilege at it's best. Smh

Sapp.....nice to see you read essays on other things besides how sorry and racist Republicans are. I am actually shocked but it's nice to know

I like to golf as long as nobody is playing seriously. My buddies and i play 3-4 times a year none of care a single bit about the game. For us its about drinking beer, talking trash and running around in the carts. Hell id even guess that we dont bother to keep score after about the 5th hole.

We usually throw out some oddball rule each time like (if you drive it on the green from the t it's a hole in 1) or some such thing.

John Updike is great in his essays about golf in "Golf Dreams."

He has a theory that if your conscience is troubling you for some good reason, it will show up in your golf game....to its detriment. I agree.

He writes too about what he calls that "peccant" or "fallen" self, which gives into that terrible temptation to look up.

Don't look up! It's probably the first commandment of golf for the player. But it's so hard to obey it.

One of his funniest novels involves a group of Catholic priests who have committed various sins and have been removed from their diocese and sent to something like a priest reform school in the Southwest where they play golf.....and reflect more about the sins or mistakes of their golf game than their violations of God's Word as priests.

. Arnold Haultain has a great opening paragraph in his "Mystery of Golf." First, you need to know he is Scottish (and that golf was invented there).

He says the Germans have explained the mystery of metaphysics, and the French have explained the mystery of love, but it has been left to him, as a Scots man, to explain the mystery of golf. He does the best job of it in my opinion.

I am starting to really hate you guys a bunch more . . .

I am gonna have to go play on the 9 hole pitch and putt some time next week!

Assholes!!!!

:)

When I was working, my job required me to play a scramble almost weekly from April till about October they are not good for my game but it sure beats working lol

That is one of the major problems with golf in general. It takes too long to play. I play 9 hole more often, rather than 18. Main reason is time.

Scrambles are fun but the last tournament I played in took 6-1/2 hours for 18 holes. Ugh.

“ I love playing Scramble golf, ....”

I hate scrambles. I (me personally) pick up way to many bad habits that are hard to break once you start.

I tend to play out of my normal game. And I hate to be the teammate that keeps saying let me hit first and put a safe shot out there. Then you guys can go for broke.

Still beats a day at the office.

@2much, those jobs are great if you don't need the money but wanna meet some cool people and play amazing courses. Good for you

I probably have around 200 golf clubs between my garage and shed. It's kind of a problem.

When I retired the first time in 2008 my buddy was the rep for a major golf club company. I had a gig with him for a couple of years doing demo days from Santa Cruz to Palm Springs and everywhere in between. I got to play a lot of nice courses but the two that really stand out were Monterey Peninsula Country Club and The Preserve in Carmel.

Once sold a guy three identical full sets of clubs at a demo day at Quail Lodge. One to keep at each of his houses.

@ea, anytime you come to Charleston, let me know. I'll bring you out to my course. Drinks on me ! (After the round lol)

@Sapp the course I was talking about here is Glen Annie. I think it is the 14th hole. Since 2003, I have played 3 times and it all ended in 2004/5 timeframe. I played a course in Calabassas, which the scramble was at. It was an OLD traditional course. They didn't like that I had metal spikes and made me buy plastic spikes. It was the kind where all the locker room guys were black and the guests were all white. I then played Glen Annie and then Sandpiper, next to the Baccarra. That's been it.

I started with putt putt golf when I was 6. Not the bullshit hit a ball through a clowns mouth, but actual putting. We moved from North Miami to Hialeah and there was a Putt Putt about a mile south of where I lived. I would ride my bike there and play. Hell, I think I had my 8th birthday party there. We then moved to Alabama and they had a state tournament that I won in the 10 and under category. These courses iirc were par 36ish. You needed the ability to understand billiards to bounce of walls but the deft of control for the speed on the putter.

There is a pitch and putt 9 hole course that is near my office. That is why I brought the clubs there. I may go out and see how terrible I am :)

I'm up for a round if you guys are as well.

@one, I have vaped (weed) on the course a couples times when my back was hurting more than usual. It helps but I felt like my head wasn't in it as much so I stopped doing it.

@sapp, I'm with you. Golf is good no matter what. I tried a few times as a kid but didn't have the temperament for it. Started playing at 34 cause I wanted to spend more quality time with my dad. He can't play anymore unfortunately but we still talk about it. He shot 68 on his 75th birthday and then 2 days later had a bad stroke. Came back to play short term which was amazing but when my mom died he got depression and anxiety so no more.

"I don't think I've ever played an honest game in my life.”

It’s looking obvious that Democrats don’t play honest too !

@ea, don't do it. Stay away from golf, it's for your own good. Or at least your mental well being. Tough game if you don't play a lot.

ps. "Tin Cup," is ok with Kevin Costner. "Bull Durham" with Coster is probably my favorite sports movie. Bill Murray can make every comedy good, and "Groundhog Day" is great. We need a movie: "Caddyshack" meets "Groundhog Day." Groundhog day is golf and vice versa.

Erotic Amazon,

I love playing Scramble golf, and I need to play with you in one as putting is the worst part of my game. Sometimes, somehow, it works, and that is of course when I've had my lowest scores.

Keep the old clubs. I still sometimes play with a set of old clubs that are like what I first began play golf with as a young kid in the early 1960s. The woods are real woods. Even in the set I include now, I keep an old putter and two wood shafted clubs, including one that I call a New Jersey wedge that was manufactured in New Jersey.

I started up sometimes playing with the old set of clubs as part of an argument with my favorite and regular partners (my brother in law and a couple he's long been friends with). My argument: it's not the clubs, but the swing (and the mental and emotional aspects of the game that make for good golf).

I played as a kid, and worked at a golf course in the summers in college and played a lot then. But then stopped in my early 20s (as I gave time to another passion--playing soccer). In my early fifties, some students invited me to play, and when I hit my first shot, I felt myself falling in love with the game, and it's been that way ever since. I stopped for a time as one of the regulars I played with moved away and the other died of AIDs. But then I remarried, and took on a brother in law who loved golf, and that got me playing again.

So here's what we do, I propose. Keep with your old clubs or get new ones. We meet with 2muchfunclub somewhere between Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo to play. I've exchanged with him about playing the course in Avila Beach, which I've looked at longly several times when vacationing or escaping for romantic long weekend in Pismo Beach and Avila Beach with dinner at a good Italian restaurant: Giuseppe's.

Someday I also want to try La Purisima in Lompoc.

I've stopped playing since Covid, but I'm longing to return to the game. Updike's "Golf Dreams" and Haultain's "The Mystery of Golf" are great for thinking and feeling about golf.

No matter how bad I've played, golf is always ultimately fun and joy for me.

"One of the beauties of golf is you cannot lie about your game."

That is fairly accurate. When I lived in Florida, if I played 3 times a month I was about a 10 handicap. My strength was always putting. When I played once every month or so, I'd drop to a 20. When we moved here, I got invited to a golf tournament that my lawyers put on. It was a scramble. They asked me my handicap. I told them, "It's been about 5 years since I played." I then told them the story above and told them, I have NO idea. They put me down for a 25.

We get no warmup. It was a best ball scramble and you could not use the drive of the same person twice in a row. We get to the hole, it was 210 yards to the pin. I am in my mid-30s and playing with guys in their mid 50s to 60s. I pull out my four iron. Whack. The ball stops 5' from the hole. As it is stopping, the 3 other guys look at me and go, "A fucking 25?" I told them, "Can I just go home now! I doubt I will do that again." We wound up winning the tournament. We used my drive on about 6 of the holes, but relied on my putting. My medium game was where I completely lost it.

I am now going on about 13 years since I last played. I still have 2 sets of clubs that I store at my office. The other day I looked at them and considered selling them.

I grew up playing the course in Caddyshack. It was the only course in Broward County that had any sort of elevation change of significance. I come here and holy shit, there is some serious elevation change. You buttheads have me wanting to see if I can still do this one shot at the local course. There is a very elevated dogleg left. If you can hit the ball far, you can carry the corner and place the ball 50 yards from the green. I had never played there before and was with a friend. I said, "Where the hell is the green?" He said you had to drop the ball at the end, at the turn. I said can it be carried? He said maybe, but would need some serious power. I said ok, give me 3 attempts to carry it? He said, "You carry it, and that is your first shot!" First shot, boooooom. I didn't carry it. It went into the abyss. The second shot, boooooooooooom. I carried it. He jumped and freaked out. Holy crap, it was far and hard to do.

Now you guys have me wanting to sell my Pings that I got in 93 and get some new clubs and start playing again. I hate you guys!!!!! :)

Flip, you smoke when you’re playing?

“ Golf is a remarkable game in how it makes not just physical demands but both emotional and mental ones on the golfer.”

Emotional and mental. That is the difference between a scratch golfer and being on tour.