Recent content by cliveb

Mine was £5 from eBay. A Ping G10 (but green dot - completely wrong lie angle for me 🤣)

Have just arrived in Hong Kong for the start of an extended trip around the far east. When booking it over a year ago there was an option to have a stop over in Doha, but we decided to pay a little bit more to fly direct. Thank God we did that. The flight path had to go through a narrow gap...

This is precisely why I carry a left handed 7 iron. Can't hit it properly, of course, but can dolly the ball out to a better place than a penalty drop would get me.

Your comment illustrates the difference between men and women. When we put something pointed in a pocket, there are more important things to worry about puncturing than a finger 😵‍💫

Not just music. Environmental sounds are also mixed way too loud. I have a theory about what's going on. Once you know what is being said (after several rewinds and re-listens), it's completely obvious and intelligible. Perhaps those who mix the sound know the dialogue and are oblivious to the...

Used to play golf with a guy who was the CEO of an NHS trust - so presumably loaded. Tightest bloke ever. Never bought a round of drinks. When he had a hole in one, rather than celebrate, the look on his face when he realised it was going to cost him in the bar was priceless :LOL:

There's a difference between obsessions and habits. Obsessions can get in the way of functioning normally. One thing I do that some people might consider mild OCD is that square coasters need to be aligned square on the table. If they aren't, it's not the end of the world. I will straighten...

The amazingly rapid increase in petrol and diesel prices at the pump. Yes, I know that crude oil has increased dramatically, but surely there's no way that the new expensive oil has made its way to the refineries, been turned into petrol, and delivered to forecourts that quickly. Can anyone with...

I'm in the "buy a 1 or 2 year old car and keep it for 10 years" camp. Let someone else take the initial big depreciation hit. But something insidious is happening that may change things... More and more modern cars are becoming extraordinarily expensive to fix if anything goes wrong. It seems...

Several hours away from the forum only to discover on my return that I now need to consider trying out a type of footwear that I'd always considered utterly naff.

I was just about to reply to your previous post about the Nirvana riff that things could be worse: he could be playing Smoke on the Water 🤣

Yes, but temp greens are a lottery to putt on (at my course, and I guess many others). On one temp green your 6 foot putt bobbles about, misses the hole and races way past. On the next temp, you hit a 6 foot putt the same pace and it stops 2 feet short. Then when you go to tap that in, the ball...

Measuring stuff and plugging the figures into a formula is certainly objective. However, you have to acknowledge that: a) The powers that be who decided which features need to be measured must have done so somewhat subjectively b) The creation of the formula that assigns importance to the...

Except that this is what D-S said about the course: That sounds to me as if he's saying it's a difficult course.

Maybe, but in this case you say that this course has lots of hazardous features. If they were being taken properly into account, you'd expect that to increase the CR. And yet this course has a lower CR than you'd expect based only on the length. The only explanation which seems to make sense is...