Scholarship table
might as well start our favorite slow play grievances...one of my big ones is the guy about 280 out on a par 5, waiting for the group to leave the green because "if he hits on the screws, i might hit them"
LOL. This is my favorite, as it's usually followed by a fat or thin shot because he's swinging out of his shoes.About a month ago I was 245 out on a par 5, a little uphill. If I really hit it clean, I hit my 3 wood 215-220 max. The ground was hard so I hesitated for a minute, before thinking "don't be that guy, you're not gonna get it there." So I hit, and sure as crap it rolled up to the front right part of the green while they were putting. I felt like a total ass.
I don’t mind it when guys have pre shot routines, but I hate it when the guy who’s five yards ahead of you on the other side of the fairway doesn’t think he can shoot the distance and select his club until after you hit.
Guy who marks a putt inside 3 feet needs to be shot into the sun.
Yeah, just give it to him ya scumbag. Unless the pins on a slope, then I’m fine with a mark.
Koepka with another jab at Bryson. What are the odds these two duke it out sometime? Would be seriously fun to see them in the final group of a major. And there is a tiny part of me that thinks Bryson roided up just so Koepka wouldn't intimidate him anymore.
Harding Park looks like a stunning track
For the first time in the 25-30 years I’ve been playing golf since I was a young kid, I had a proper fitting today. Driver, woods, and putter only (waiting on irons to see my soon to be golf pro brother in law in Dallas to be fitted and use his Titelist connections and discount). Went to a good friend of his at the Glen View Club near Old Orchard. I don’t think I’ve ever hit that many driver shots in one afternoon in my life. But awesome experience. Set myself up with a Ping G410. Came down to that and the Callaway Mavrick but I had more consistency with the Ping hitting around 285 and we agreed that was more important than hitting 290 with the Mavrik.Putter fitting was great too. I’ve been playing with a Dunlop mallet putter I’ve had since I was 15. Tried an Odyssey 2 ball about a decade ago but never liked it and went back to the $40 club I’d used forever. Turns out I line up/pull left with the mallets. I prefer a softer face which is why I hadnt liked blade putters, though I liked the look when lining up. Actually hit a Scotty fairly well, but the Odyssey Stroke Lab Double Wide was a match made in heaven. Everytime id hit a new putter, he’d take it back after a shot or two cause he said it didn’t compare to my stroke with the Odyssey. Can’t wait to hit the course with it.
Friend of mine is a member at Glen Oak, he said Els played there today and shot a course record 61 (he bogeyed 18). Ernie is playing a charity event at Rich Harvest tomorrow.
I spent a summer on Long Island when I was in college for an internship. The owner of the startup I was working at was a auto leasing billionaire who built, at the time, the most expensive private golf club in the country in the Hamptons. It’s called Sebonac, and they designed it to be quite challenging. It was the first summer it was open when I was there and he invited my friend and I to go stay and play one weekend. Just so happened Ernie Els was visiting and played a few rounds. Ran into him in the clubhouse at one point, he’s as tall as you’d image but quite nice. One of the cart guys said he casually shot 63 that morning. But what was significant was Ernie was staying in one of the luxury cottages there and called the clubhouse at like 1AM the night before needing to be brought back from Southampton cause he was obliterated
I liked this story, Wags, but I have to admit that one thing that made me scratch my head was you saying Els is “tall ... but quite nice.”Has it been your experience that tall people aren’t usually nice?