Sneakylong Wore shorts for the first time in awhile.
Same here. A LONG while.
How did you shoot today at Golf
MidwayJ DonM Too long. Today was 4 hrs 50 minutes. Its often 5.5 hours. I will probably skip most of the July and August tournaments because I can't stand waiting in the heat.
Yup… at our place it’s 6 hours. Scrambles are are to play in. It’s nice because it’s a charity but I just can’t do it.. Just because you may like golf doesn’t mean 6 hours of it.
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I had a "stopped on the way home from golf to buy a new putter" round today.
Put the new Vivid Golf wedges in play today. #1 - put a 3/4 56* shot 3 feet from the hole - birdie. #2 - put a 95 yard 52* to 10 feet - birdie. #3, after chunking a 7i approach, had a 30 yard chip with the 56*, put it to 2 feet. Yep, love the wedges.
Anyway, the fast start cooled a bit, but only because I missed 3 birdie putts under 15 feet. One bogey, back to -1. Then on #9 had a 10 footer for birdie, a I got one of those viral video moments where you hit the putt dead center, where it hits dead center back of the cup, hits the raised lip because the cup wasn't sunk low enough, and hops up in the air back out of the cup. My partners said to take it, but I felt odd, and was happy at -1 anyway. Although I could have easily been -4.
#10-#12, I missed birdie putts under 10 feet on all 3. Frustration set in and I fell apart. A few bogeys, and then a triple when a lake got me. Of course, after the triple I drill a 20 foot birdie on 17. And then on 18, 60 yards from the green in two, decide to try the 60* wedge and chunked it twice for a double bogey. Brutal last 6.
Funny thing was, I have lived here in SoCal for 27 years, but this was only the 2nd time I went to this course (Industry Hills). It is a nice 36 hole facility, but it is towards LA for me, so big traffic. 40 miles takes me 1:30 usually. Anyway, the 1st time I played, I got paired up with an Actor, Howard Lefstein. He was a prototypical SoCal surfer dude. I googled him after, and he had been in several movies, always credited as "stoner" or "Surfer dude". Really nice guy, we had a fun round. And this time, on my 2nd visit, I get paired up with.....an actor. Tommy Martinez. Just finished a 5 season run on Hulu's "Good Trouble", and his girlfriend is also an Actor - playing Kitana in the next Mortal Kombat 2 movie. Again, a very nice guy. Good place to go if you want to meet actors I guess.
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Finally!
11 greens, 2 sandies, 32 putts.
One birdie, no doubles.
Driver worked well. Short game was on 
Nice going Don.....what are the new driver specs?
rsvman2 I stopped taking it out due to laziness after COVID.....the pin will richichet balls away from the hole when off center....and I've had multiple putts richochet to the lip and out that would have been in..... no doubters. The two scenarios where I see it potentially help; a ball with speed that would have had no chance to go in but the pin gets in the way (dead center strike) or when I've power lipped one and yet the pin barely catches it just right and slows momentum and it goes in.....would that putt have stayed in without the pin in
. If I were playing for something that mattered the pin would be out!
ode Again, I find this fascinating. Data that I have seen have shown that balls that hit the pin and miss also miss with the pin out, and stay closer to the hole (thus making the next putt easier).
It amazes me that this question somehow hasn't yet been definitively answered. Give me a stimpmeter, a bunch of golf balls, and about a week and I could tell you everything there is to know about the subject. I would roll thousands of balls at just past the hole speed, two feet past the hole speed, five feet past the hole speed; I would roll them over the right third of the hole, the middle of the hole, and the left side of the hole. Uphillers, downhillers, left breakers and right breakers. I would calculate not just how many went in but the also what the leave was for the putts that missed.
I am inclined to think that leaving the pin in would overall be advantageous for virtually everybody. I think the pin saves people a lot more than it harms them.
Again, it astounds me that somebody hasn't already done an exhaustive study.
rsvman2 I am inclined to think that leaving the pin in would overall be advantageous for virtually everybody. I think the pin saves people a lot more than it harms them.
Again, it astounds me that somebody hasn't already done an exhaustive study.
I just read a report somewhere this week that described just such a test. And it concluded that your assumption is correct.....that leaving the pin in provides an advantage to golfers as opposed to removing it. I always feel like the pin is a backstop for putts.....Will see if I can find the article....
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For what it's worth, I almost always leave the flagstick in.
Here's an article from Inside Science that discusses this topic.
We've been leaving the pin in since the rule changed. Been doing it for so long now that it looks weird when the pin is out.
