Recent content by Elbow Jobertski

Just dropping in to note that after repeatedly teasing the owner of the first course in this thread they now have an accurate scorecard.

The last several years I've had the hazy goal of getting under 10.0. I was a 17.5, got down to I think 11.7 and stalled out there. Equipment changes, practice, losing weight, etc. This year I tried another strategy. I'm accepting my game is what it is.. No more "if I just did this" thinking...

I think it was my last driver where it had I think a one and ten gram weight for the toe and heel. It was a taylormade and I bought the weights meant to be used in the putters and put a 20 and 14 gram in the heel and toe. Gained like 30 yards overnight. Right now all my irons and wedges 4-LW...

The thing about the PGA tour is that it isn't really a third party entity. It isn't like James Dolan or Dan Snyder owns it and is doing stupid crap or colluding with other owners to underpay players out of greed. It has always been the case that the biggest names on tour are going to be in some...

Because people who benefit from tradition get testy about that being challenged and usually act to preserve their position? It's a universal in sports. Whenever an athlete realizes the status quo does not serve their financial interests and pursues alternatives there will be a narrative about...

Framing this as "stealing" or "poaching" is dehumanizing to the workers/contractors at issue. It implies a property interest. It is both morally dubious as well as interferes with an efficient labor market. It's bad for everyone without an interest in allowing capital to collude. Employers...

I'm in WV but a mite north of Charleston. A mite north of Wheeling, really. I lived in/around Charleston for a long time and that was a small part of the reason I didn't play for a decade. Charleston is a public golf dead zone. I mean, depending on how you feel about Cato Park.

As close to I get to a regret is that back 30-40 years ago I followed the then common wisdom that heavy lifting is bad for golf. Just amazingly stupid and given my injury history during HS and college it would made a huge difference. Once I started lifting heavy I never had another golf injury...

There is a par-3 here that is 230 often into the wind and I'll hit driver. I birdied it on Sunday for the first time since I started golfing again... I use a punch driver every now and then on shorter holes when I need a fade into a bit of wind.

I got into far better shape and found about 8mph of clubhead speed. Which is the main thing I take from the year. I lost about seventy pounds and added some muscle so my body is significantly different than it was in May, and my whole swing just feels disjointed. Even putting and chipping...

"I play better than this but I never do." Being what we are is hard to take.

I'm mostly the second but not a fanatic about it. Given the choice I'll usually play a harder course and the furthest back tees within reason but sometimes it's nice to feed the ego with a low score.

So when you need loft near the green in a way where the ball doesn't touch the face? Which is pretty consistent... What I mean is that I'm not going to have a yardage where I hit a full lob unless I'm having the sort of day where I want to be really mad about something.

I'd always taken it as it is a bad idea for most of us to use the 60+ for full/nearly full swings because the ball can slip up the face and make distance control a problem. I only use it when I absolutely need the loft near the green. I don't use mine much, but more than I would if I replaced...

All existence is pain and detachment from frivolous material desires reduces that pain. No, pretty much by definition it does seeing that it is done with the fingers. I should introduce you to my friend. He makes it look like someone trying to disassemble and reassemble an m-16 in a sack...