Recent content by Mandofred

I am literally in the deciding process......I'm a member at 3 courses. Going down to 2...possibly just 1 club. Distance driving.....practice ground......happy people.....it all goes into the calculation. Ain't a right answer for everybody.

An hours drive?.....never. I don't care if they are offering free beer......30 min is the absolute max for me.

Nope....I always leave it in. Cue another argument about in/out.

As far as putting speed.....I do understand the "never up never in" thinking. I think this also can come back to the testing on whether you should leave the flag in or not. Bashing the putt aggressively at the hole might work for the professional....a 2-3 foot putt coming back doesn't mean much...

The course to the North of me is usually really good about putting out early course status. Not today however....I drive 25 min to get there at about 8:30 and they had JUST made the decision to only play 1+11-18. I went home. What a waste of time. Took my name off on another course for Saturday...

I got down to my lowest of 4.6 this last summer.....a terrible Fall has me back up to 7.8. Back to around 6 is fine with me. My short chipping is horrendous and always has been. One good shot, one crap shot. I've also gone with a new driver up at 12 degrees which seems to suit my slower swing...

Oh well.....medal for tomorrow delayed for 2 weeks. Can understand....going to be a bit cold and windy tomorrow.

Either of my mats stays put. If you hit a cheapie mat a mile.....you are hitting a really fat shot. I don't know how many people I've heard then complain....."damn mat" for a crap shot. But yes....if you hit a really bad, fat shot...the Spurk stays in place better. Although not today....you...

I still say.....if you hit the ball decently it doesn't matter what kind of mat you have. The Spurk is prettier though.......

I've actually gone back to the cheapie mat from the Spurk. The only advantage for ME with the Spurk is on fat shots.....the mat doesn't give as much. Although on a day like today you would have had trouble getting a Spurk to work on the frozen ground.....everybody in our 4 ball were using...

Played 18 holes with temp greens on Saturday. I wouldn't mind very much, but at least make a "little" bit of effort to get them decent. Cold stretch coming, so quite a few temp greens days on the way......

Just saw this. K is a perfectly pleasant parkland course to play. Not very hilly....just one decent climb on 13. I've just jumped back into two rollup groups I used to play with so I know most of them already. I was hoping to start practicing more this year and K has the biggest practice area of...

I'm not actually knocking you on this....but this is to me kind of why people can't agree on politics/religion etc. The same people may look at the same info and come to different conclusions....just the way each person looks at something. You see someone double checking yardage as a waste of...

Another switch of clubs this year. Going back to my original club....and maybe keeping my second club. Oakdale is getting cut out. Knaresborough has a large practice ground.

What is the "right way" to book tee times? Is using this magic program against the rules? If not, then it is ok to use it. Do I like it?....not particularly. But then again, I have a decent list of things with golf that I would change if I could.....but a lot of other people wouldn't agree...