Thread: golf

I loved watching Tin Cup, saw it a couple years ago. great story.

Caddyshack is the greatest golf movie. Comedy genre I suppose. Tincup is also great and I have enjoyed watching it many times. Bagger Vance and Happy Gilmore should also be checked out imho.

PO

Danny Willet won his first major championship with a score of 283 (−5), three strokes ahead of runners-up Lee Westwood and last years Master's Champion Jordan Spieth..Jordan's demise started with sucking water in his last round with two consecutive pond shots..the beginning of his end.

That was a real shock to see Jordan Spieth have such a horrible hole. If only the golf balls could learn to swim. But it was a great Master's. Loved following it this year.

FS

so i am still into the golf, but i haven't had any chances to get back out there since our first range visit. for the last entire week it has been cloudy and overcast and raining a nice soft slow rain. that is very good and perfect timing as the moisture will set the grass for grazing and hay off as soon as the sun comes out and warms thing up and a few days later the crop guys can start putting the money in the ground bigtime with a chance of success. so this year is starting off great from my agriculture perspective.

but it sucks bigtime from my golf perspective. actually the sun came out yesterday and most of today and the whole entire prairie just lit up in 36 hours, green time, from grey to tan to sort of growing to a vibrant strong full of life total deep green as far as the eye can see, set against a brilliant blue sky and some puffy white clouds. that is beauty right there, what a wonderful planet we are so lucky to live on. off to the races, this is my favorite time of year.

unfortunately, wednesday yesterday is when the junior high golf team practices at the driving range. who plays school sports on wednesdays? no other sports do that, it is always catholic ccd day and no football or basketball or nothing. but them damn golf heathen apostates hit the course right after school on wednesdays and my kid refuses to shoot when the rich golf nerds are around. i don't blame him a bit. and also we can't golf on thursdays after work or school either because that is men's day when they just string kegs of beer all along the course and range and nobody under 21 can play.

so i hope to get out again for our 2nd driving range session tomorrow or on the weekend to practice my 4-club (3w, 5h, 6i, 9i) strategery. and then early next week to split a bucket of balls and work on chip shots and putting. then next weekend i want to play our first 9-hole round. i am so excited.

but the weather lately has been ticking me off. if i wanted perpetual grey gloom and misty drizzling raining drizzling misty doom, i would've just stayed in the specific northwest. i used to could handle that oppressive sky for 4 months november through march, but now a week of it makes me almost crazy. almost. but in the next few days we are going to go smack the **** out of some balls. yeah.

i wonder if tom has ever considered getting some golf balls made up with the tsptalk logo? i would definitely pick a sleeve of those over another coffee mug when i get lucky and win the monthly tracker or guess the pretend employment numbers.

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i love this game. today sucked, but that is how it goes sometimes. 20+ mph winds blowing straight in my face at the range today, wind and rain and maybe a last blast of snow predicted for the next few days. soon enough it will turn to warm and sun, but the wind will usually be around.

the running joke when a newbie to the region asks 'so does the wind always blow this way out here?', the response is 'naah, sometimes it blows the other way'. it takes a sick sense of humor to deal with the weather and live on the northern plains, but that is just the way we like it, it keeps the riff-raff out.

Hi Burro: I went out and hit the range on Friday. Spent about 2 hours out there driving, chipping and putting. The driving is giving me problems this week so I went to my 3 wood and put the driver back in the bag. Stinkin Driver....

Glad you went and had a good time..

FS

Funny, I took my daughter to her first golf lesson on Saturday.

Mostly practiced form and chipping? Is that what it's called? Don't know what's considered good for a 6 year old first timer but she never gave up trying and even laughed at herself a few times. I was so proud of her.

PGA instructor was pretty cool too. Even let her keep the club and a bucket of balls so she could practice during the week.

Afterwards, we went out for ice cream as promised.










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Originally Posted by jpcavin

PGA instructor was pretty cool too. Even let her keep the club and a bucket of balls so she could practice during the week.

Afterwards, we went out for ice cream as promised.

i'll have to remember that, i don't think my instructor would let me take the club and balls home. what kind of ice cream did he order?

all kidding aside, that is really cool jcpcavin. it looks like she is having fun too. i notice she is doing something deliberate on her swings, she is turning her body after the club swings through and following it around. you might have a natural there.