Recent content by The Squirrel

For those of you with military connections - teeth really can change the fate of nations: Teeth were actually the great debilitator of the WW1 Tommy in the trenches and a huge cause of putting soldiers out of action. Ultra-high sugar diet and little dental care in that era. Look closely at...

Thought I’d settle down to watch Leeds vs Wakey live on iPlayer tonight …. …. and after 6 minutes the floodlights have packed in 🤣.

Dentists should all do more NHS work! Except...... The NHS total dental budget is capped by the government both at the total level and for every individual surgery. A dentist cannot just choose to do more NHS work even if they want to (which, to be fair, most don't want, as the terms are so...

We owe them an even deeper debt of gratitude. The reason I’m not scared every day that my kids will be shot up at school is in no small part because of the bereaved relatives strength and determination in fighting for and pushing through tighter legislation on handguns and reloading weapons.

Thanks for the clarification - appreciated - as I stated right up top I'm a rules newb so was hoping that by posting someone would challenge and I'd learn something. Of course none of rule 14 applies if the ball doesn't roll off your correctly placed as intended to be used (so as near...

I can think of a couple of fairly steep uphill golf holes where if you teed off and had to stamp the mat in to be precisely in alignment with the ground (not that this is actually even possible unless the ground is all uniformly on the exact same slope - which it isn't in the real world) then...

I work on a helpline as a volunteer. One common phenomenon we encounter is that callers will phone repeatedly asking the same question when the answer they got the first time was not the one they wanted to hear. They don’t want the actual answer; they want someone to tell them they were right...

That does appear to answer the depth of field issue though; seems they have realised that small no-cut fields are not the way to go. Quite right too. Aside from the greater opportunities for more players this brings, a big name or two close to the cut line adds interest and drama...

Not really. This entire thread (both of them) seems to be you unhappy that there is clearly absolutely no rule prohibiting placing a mat not entirely flush/parallel with the ground (placing a mat exactly flush isn’t even possible unless the ground is perfectly level to the molecular level)...

This made me ponder two things. Although pros say they’re playing at 80%, that’s a feel. I’d bet that in terms of actual measurable speed and muscular effort they’re over 90% of their full-out effort. The feeling of drop in effort when dropping from 100 to 95% will feel large while the...

May not be as much of an issue as we think. If you call an event a “signature” event next year but don’t change the field depth vs how it is currently then it hasn’t made the opportunity issue you describe any worse. As ever, we will have to wait for the actual detail before deciding if any...

I’d agree with Ori. There is nothing in any rule quoted by anyone so far saying that the mat must be exactly parallel to the ground. I’m going to take it from that that no such rule exists, unless someone can produce one that says exactly that, in which case I’ll accept it. Attempting to...

I’d agree that the signature events would only gain from deepening the field. There are currently 3 that do have a cut - if they’re going to add more then they should all be of the larger field with a cut variety. If they’re double them then does get to the point where everything in the main...

To be fair, if he's working on a significant change of some kind that the pro' has suggested it would be totally normal and expected for his scores to get worse initially. Nobody ever perfected a swing change overnight.

I I ended up with loads of these when somewhere was selling 2 ball samplers for £1 or something (it was mentioned here) and really like them - just seem a nice balance of characteristics without being extreme in anything. Not run out yet but will get more when I do if they stay at this price.