Kolek planning to go pro
Personal pet peeve today. Playing another course new to me. Early on the back 9, I caught up to two foursomes of retirees. Back to back par 3's, I watched all 8 of them hit their tee shots. 20 minutes each hole standing on the tee box. They did not offer me to play through. Two holes later, standing on another par 3, one guy in the second foursome says 'Sorry, buddy." As I watched the second foursome hit their shots, one of them hit a shank and muttered something about how having to wait runs his game. At that point, I skipped two holes ahead, as I could feel my restraint and calm slipping away. Maddening. I don't care if somebody plays slow. Just recognize it and allow faster groups to play through, like it says on the scorecard. So, old guys who aren't very good at what they are doing, but who ignore the rules of common sense and etiquette, holding up the progress of everyone behind them, but who get upset when their failing are pointed out because it is all about them. A metaphor or something...
Think the investment for next year is gonna be a new set of wedges. Any recommendations?
Get fit. I am looking at doing a wedge fitting in the next month or so either at Club Champion or Mistwood. Each place is $150 but they'll fit all your wedges for you on grid, bounce and gap distance. To me it's worth it.
And the shafts. Never realized how much they affect your swing. One little change, a gram or so and consider the shaft “PUREing process”. Yes it adds to the cost by a few dollars but depends on how far ya want to go. As I age, I want to get everything I can out of my swing. The best fit club to my swing without trying to change too much at this point. Btw, shot an 85 at coyote lakes Az. Short but narrow challenging course. Just coming out of over seedinghttps://pluggedingolf.com/does-pureing-a-shaft-improve-performance-golf-myths-unplugged/
I don't by into pureing. Too many other variables at play when you're talking about someone's swing. Now, demonstrate this to me with a swing robot and maybe I'm in. That said, I did not get mine pured with my new bag from club champion https://www.milesofgolf.com/testing-performance-drivers-with-pured-shafts/
Ended up with Tuesday practice round tickets. Disappointed, but will be there for matches over the weekend.
This was great technology for 2002. WTF was this? At least I can hit up the Michelob Ultra brand team for tickets. They should have just done the lottery like The Masters does (or they have for past US based Ryder Cups). Whomever sold them on this system should be fired.
No surprise here. A premiere event and somehow - whoops! - all the tickets are sold out.Concert venues have been doing this for years. Give away a ton to corporate sponsors. Whatever is left gets sold to ticket vendors on a mark-up who then "resale" to the public for an even higher mark-up.Ticket sales have been horrible toward consumers for a while.I know at least a dozen people (not including those here) who got codes and were in the lobby at 10AM. No one got a chance at match day or weekend tickets.What a joke.