Is anyone seriously into GOLF?

[Maxlove]

If any of you are serious or strong recreational players please let me know, I have some amazing sticks that I would like to talk about trading. Full set New Tommy Armour Blades with 5.0 Rifles and new grips in 3-9 pw.sw lw and 2 gap w's. never played at the course but it a few irons at the range. They are in perfect condition and feel great when it traps the ball. I will email photos to anyone who cares to see them.

I also have a used set of Wilson 69 Muscleback staffs with 6.0 Riflesafts 2-sw these have been played a lot but they are frequency matched and weighted flawlessly. I shot a 63 on Torrey South with these in 96 and enjoyed many a day at Rancho Santa Fe Farms playing with J. Schroeder. Those days are long gone.

If this is a bad post then do what you need to do...I don't want to break the rules!

PM me if anyone has interest in chatting.

After speaking to Admin...I apologize for this post. Delete the thread if necessary.

Additional Donation on the way for your trouble.

Maxlove

 

[brtelec]

Re: Is anyone seriously in GOLF?

This guy and his wife were playing a new course that had just opened. On one of the holes his drive ended up slicing terribly and was well out of the fairway in a short rough. Between where his ball was laying and the green there was an old barn in a sad state of repair.

As he began to pull an iron out of his bag, his wife asked him what he was doing. He told her he was going to chip it back onto the fairway and then continue on. His wife then pointed out that both doors of the barn were open and if he were to use a 3 wood and keep the ball low, he could hit straight through the barn and continue without having to lose a stroke.

Well this sounded like a good idea so he did as instructed and connected cleanly with the ball and it zipped through the open door of the barn and hit an overhead rafter, ricocheting almost straight back and hitting his wife in the head, killing her instantly.

Well a couple of weeks later he was playing this same course with a friend, and on the same hole he found himself with almost the exact same lie on his tee shot. As he was pulling his iron from his bag his friend made the same suggestion of hitting through the barn instead of going around.

The man looked his friend in the eye and very seriously told him, " There is no way I am going to ever do that again. Last time I tried that, I ended up with a seven on this hole!"

 

[daytona4me]

Re: Is anyone seriously in GOLF?

I dont have a clue what the hell you just said in your post..

All I know about golf is that they say I cant swing the club like a baseball bat.
I dont know why the hell not... also.. so long as I pick up the ball and toss it in the air at the same place you would put it on the tee,,, what is so wrong with that??

 

[Sylar]

Re: Is anyone seriously in GOLF?

Have not played in ages.

Now I dont like it. I get irritated trying to hit a ball that small.

Now baseball....thats a sport.... Play leagues in downtown chicago every Sunday. Tomorow should be intersted with the Taste going on right now.

 

[brtelec]

Re: Is anyone seriously in GOLF?

The golfers will get this. I have played golf for 36 years. You would think I would be better at it!

 

[ken72]

I am a golf nut. I am surprised there are not more on this board. I thought your story was very funny also. I have been playing for only about 10 years. I had a pretty good game at one time. got my handicap to a 10 and was trying to break under that. I quit playing for several years, and just recently picked it back up. It is definitely not like riding a bike. Sometimes I feel like a beginner again.

Funny thing is, while I was reading the story, I kept asking myself why in the hell would anyone shoot that shot with a 3 wood. I kept thinking I would have used a closed 3 iron instead or pulled the always unreliable 1 iron.

 

[brtelec]

I knew you would get it if you played golf. It has been a long time since I have seen a 1 iron, but I love my 2 iron. They say if you are caught in a lightning storm you should hold a 1 iron over your head for safety. They say even God can't hit a 1 iron!

 

[cybee]

I started playing at about the age of 8. Played in school on the teams, man those were some good days. We would go out in the afternoons and play until the sun went down. Mom and DAd lived on a golf course till my Dad passed away, good times spent enjoying the greatest game.

I still have the 1965 Wilson Dynapower irons I used in high school, remember those with the little rubber plugs in the hosel?
My cousin lives in Pebble Beach on the 17 mile Dr. and in the 1971 Crosby he carried the sign for the Nicklaus group, so I got to walk along with him and watch Jack shoot a 65 that day at Pebble, great memories. Lot of good times spent there playing golf. Best experience was when my cousin and I snuck on Cypress Point and played 15-16-17th holes, we had a blast running around the Del Monte Forest with a handful of clubs and playing a few holes on all the courses.

We played Spyglass Hill last summer, here are a few pics.

3rd green.

12th Hole

8th hole at Pebble. Remember that incident back in the late 60's when a golfer was playing in heavy fog and drove of the cliff in a cart and died...wow what a way to go.

 

[Maxlove]

Great Photos..Loved Spyglass but much prefer Spanish Bay.

If anyone is interested in a trade for some sticks just let me know.

Oh yeah the 69 Musclebacks come with a 1 iron.

 

[cybee]

Great Photos..Loved Spyglass but much prefer Spanish Bay.

no preference for me....each course offers a little something different and unique challenges. Tiger Woods says the only way
he will play in the AT and T is if they put Cypress back in the rotation, but that probably will not happen.

 

[Matt Watch]

Play every Sunday, it's Sunday here : ), your Saturday. Been playing about 5-years, picked it late. Lot's of golf corses on this little Island. Thanks for offer on clubs, but, like rep watches, have way to many now.

Matt

 

[cybee]

Re: Is anyone seriously in GOLF?

All I know about golf is that they say I cant swing the club like a baseball bat.
I dont know why the hell not...

actually one of the golf grips is called a "baseball grip." Bob Rosburg used a baseball grip. Most baseball players can hit the golf ball a mile but not always straight...there are many similarities between swinging a bat and a club. Shoulder rotation, wristbreak and lag...

 

[Maxlove]

By the grace of the Golfing Gods, I was able to walk Torrey ( I live 5 minutes away) and watch Tiger win his 14th Major. It was a totally different world. I was mesmerized.

I most likely didn't like Cypress because I didn't play well there. I played Spanish Bay with a caddie that really new the course and It was fantastic.

To me, it doesn't matter if you shoot 68 or 108 as long as you enjoy yourself and the surroundings. I love links style courses and next week at Royal Birkdale for the Open will see me glued to the TV.

Most casual golfers don't have any clue as to how good guys like Woods, Norman, Nicklaus, Trevino at al are at hitting that 1.6 ounce little white sphere or in the case of Paula Creamer who shot a 60 yesterday, Pink sphere.

Tiger is a +5 and kept it there for 20 years and if anyone has tried to get their handicap down to scratch then you know of what I speak. Truly amazing. Guys like Hogan and Snead and Jones were +1's at best.

Most non-golfers can't fathom what it's like to pure a blade 2 iron 230 yards with a 1 yard fade once, let alone 19 out of 20 times. I watched Greg Norman on the range at the Mercedes Championships at La Costa some years ago hit 7 iron after 7 iron maybe 25 times and land them in a space no larger than a hula hoop laying on the ground and then wince in anger when one of them landed a foot outside the target. The target was 187 yards away according to Tony Navarro his caddie at the time.

Like most lovers of the game, I will never know that ecstasy.

I applaud all of you that play this game, thanks for all the stories and comments. There is a reason that a 10 HDCP shot 114 on the US Open course.....because it's a bloody hard game.

We diehard golf fans are so lucky to be able to watch Tiger and Phil and rest of the great players that are in the game today. Something my son will tell his grandchildren about in 2050.

But give me the choice of meeting Tiger for dinner or someone giving me the Best Sub and I am afraid, I might just take the Sub. Say, who has the best Sub anyway? Probably one of the PGA pros that is sponsored by Rolex I would guess.

 

[Maxlove]

I knew you would get it if you played golf. It has been a long time since I have seen a 1 iron, but I love my 2 iron. They say if you are caught in a lightning storm you should hold a 1 iron over your head for safety. They say even God can't hit a 1 iron!

Only Lee Trevino can hit a 1 iron.

I carried a 1 iron for 20 years... stubborn fool that I am. I can count on my toes the number of times I hit it well. I have it in my front room and look at it longingly every single day.

 

[Klink]

golf?

is best way to spoil good walk..



(jokey)

Life is Good!

Klink

 

[Maxlove]

golf?

is best way to spoil good walk..



(jokey)

Life is Good!

Klink

Ahhhh..... the Twains finally met!

"Golf is good"