Recent content by UlyssesSky

I actually prefer polyester shirts when it's hot. It's not just that they dry faster, the fabric typically also feels lighter und cooler.

The average number for greens in regulation on the PGA tour is just under 12 (65%). If those guys carried a HCP it would be around +6 or better. And yet that guy with his 7 handicap "hardly needs" chipping because he hits so many greens... :ROFLMAO:

I would bet many of those players who have "issues" at shorter shots and feel more comfortable with full shots are missjudging their abilities. If you let any of those players hit 10 shots from 50 yards and then ask them if they would take the result if the shot had been from 100 yards they...

^^This. I play every round as strokeplay/medal in my mind. So do most of the people I play with, regardless of the "official" scoring format on that day. Unless you get any blobs on your card, calculating your stableford points from your gross score doesn't require more than two braincells...

I think unless you know, what kind of cloud overshadowed him leaving his previous club, you need to give him the benefit of the doubt. Seeing his HCP at his old club was correct he probably didn't commit the same kind of cheating he pulled off in the new club. Then again you'd have to think it...

There's one point we're missing here that helps explain why some pros prefer to lay up instead of just trying to get as near to the green as possible (besides special situations like tucked pins that require a certain amount of spin): In order to get closer to the green, the lay-up shot has to...

The greens us mere mortals get to play on are neither as fast nor as hard as the greens the tour pros have to deal with every week. Tour pros may have to take that in consideration, for everyone else the overall inconsistency in the swing should absolutely override any inconsistencies in the...

Publishing some kind of RRP xould hardly be considered putting "unfair pressure" on pros, imho. I think it's just bad business practice. Knowing there isn't a even an RRP and pros get to set the price as they like acutally puts me off even more. If I was to buy a Set of Okra clubs I would have...

Putting info about the prices of a large number of shafts and grips on a website would acutally be much easier than providing them in a printed price list. Simply add a drop down menu for the shaft/grip options with the price of each option stated next to the item. If you want to earn some...

They could still simply put "from xxx GBP per club" on their website. Or give the price of a "typical" head/shaft/grip combo and explain that the final price may vary depending on the individual set-up. I don't like it when companies don't have public price lists for their products. Kind of...

The pin positions you described (on the crest of a hill on an undulation, or actually on the hill part of a 2 tiered green) are indeed dodgy, and by dodgy I mean they shouldn't exist if the greenkeeper were following the R&A's hole positon guidance. In section C the guidance explicitly states

Yep, that could acutally happen. I experienced something similar with the length of my irons. They were supposed to be 0.5" longer. When I went for a Putter Fitting at a fitter/club builder, he offered to check the specs of my irons for free. Most of the lofts were off, even though not that...

Got this from my teaching pro, who got it from a callaway rep: the manufacturing tolerance of all the big manufacturers is about 5-6%. So for iron lofts, this means you can easily have about 2° deviation from the stated specs.

He's not a tour pro. He is someone who would like to play on tour but until now was never good enough to qualify. Anybody who has ever been to a tour event can tell you that's definitely not the case. As do amateurs when playing on a dried out links course. For all other courses, see above...

+1 for that line-up If Stenson can't play it's either Knox or Casey.