Fifth Avenue Forum

I had to miss a work conference several years ago due to a family vacation, and I found out later that they played Sawgrass one day. I was very, very upset.

Oh no

My dad is getting to play Harbour Town next month and I'm super jealous

My dad is getting to play Harbour Town next month and I'm super jealous

Harbor Town is a beautiful golf course. Got to play it years ago the week before they shut it down for their tournament. Grand stands were up and everything.

I hit a 400+ yard drive yesterday. Woot woot. No wind behind me, nor hitting a cart path. Pure distance. Second time in my life I’ve gone 400+ with no help.

What mountain did you hit it off of?

Were you measuring from the base?

What mountain did you hit it off of?

Mountains... lol. I live in Oklahoma.

Watched the team behind us cheat in a scramble. It was a 530 yard par five. I almost bladed my second shot to about 40 to 50 yards from the middle of the green. I went to pick up my buddy’s shot that went right first, and I forgot to get mine. Saw the other guys behind us tee off, one had a decent drive that maybe went 320 yards. I realized I forgot my ball when we got to the green. So I started to walk back to it and I and my team watched them pick up their drive and use my ball as their drive (Mind you this would have been an almost 490 yard drive).

We were all like WTF? When they got to the other tee I said “I left my ball in the fairway and was coming back to get it, did you happen to see a Kirkland 4?” They were like... “ummm.... we... ahh.. picked it up... did you want it back?” I said “Sure. Hope you guys are playing well, We haven’t found a ball in the fairway to hit yet. Hopefully you’ll find some more.” Watched them cheat 3 more times off the tee. I love to play in scrambles, but these are the jackass teams I hate.

I'd shame the f out of those clowns and run them off the damn course. Golf is supposed to be an honorable game and if they're going to conduct those shenanigans, then they deserve to be yapped at.

I know I've told the story in here before, but we had a group claim a -23 in a scramble. A -23, or the equivalent of a 49 round. Half of these people couldn't keep the ball in their own fairway and had been going foot to the floor with beers even before tee time, and we're supposed to believe their were shooting -11 or -12 per 9 holes? As far a I know, there wasn't a buy a mulligan role either. Even if there was, it wouldn't have helped their game at all.

When they read it off afterwards, people were like "WTF" and weren't quiet about it either. The announcer was "well it's for charity and none of us are pros here, so it's nothing to worry about." There was a small prize that went with it. I want to say it was gift cards and a voucher for a round of 4, but it was trash how they just shrugged their shoulders at a score so absurd.

I've been invited to play that scramble one other time since, but obviously declined.

I've shot a 59 (-13) with a scramble and got called out for cheating. It was legit. I can only imagine if these people saw a 49 on the board.

A 49???? We couldn’t even get that score in Dart Golf. At that point, the announcer should have just been like, ‘yeah right, who’s the next best score?’

I was a part of a winning 59 in back to back years at our year-end scramble and it is pretty stressful when you have something going and you fail to make a birdie on a hole. Especially when you know 60-61 is often the winning score.

Saw the other guys behind us tee off, one had a decent drive that maybe went 320 yards.

a gr8 comment by grunty here. "decent" drive that went 320 yards?

I've been in one where -15 was announced and nobody said a thing. That group was all low single digit handicaps who everybody knew would either win or would be close. Two of the guys in that group I played hockey with, and I know one was a 2 or a 3. The best I was a part of was a -11, and aside from a few drives and one long putt, I was the dead weight on that team.

-23 is some Kim Jong-il type sh*t. Even you had one guy who could go 300-320 to the green with accuracy, I still don't see the magical combo that they used to claim their score.

https://oakdalegcc.org/course-hole-by-hole/

Saw the other guys behind us tee off, one had a decent drive that maybe went 320 yards.

a gr8 comment by grunty here. "decent" drive that went 320 yards?

Decent because of shot placement. Similar area where we played from just 20 yards further. You were effectively blocked from reaching the green by trees.

just out of curiosity, what is everybody's typical drive?

Wildly fluctuating between 260 and 290 depending on strike location and amount of slice. I'll have one drive that goes down the middle of the fairway but only 265 and then I'll hit one in the middle of the club face that goes 260 but 15 yards to the right of the fairway.

I've hit 300 once or twice by sheer luck.

I average about 305 currently. I use my 3-wood the most off the tee. Rather hit it 30 yards shorter on average, but in the fairway 80% of the time.

One reason why I love scrambles is I can swing away with my driver when someone puts a decent one in the fairway. Yesterday we were able to use 3 swing away drives that went 350+.

I'm around 270-290 lately. Depends if I can get the draw working or not. I've hit a little fade all my life but have been drawing it more lately and hitting it more towards 290 than 270. But yeah, just getting it out over 250 and not in trouble is such an improvement over a couple summers ago. I think I posted here but I had a really bad case of the yips. Could not get off the tee period

that's what I've been doing lately, sacrificing 20-30 yards off the tee for a solid fairway shot.

My fairway wood will get me about 200-220 and consistently in the fairway. My driver will go 230-250 with a normal swing or about 290 if I try to crush it and everything lines up perfectly. Problem is that more often than not I'm going 50 yards to the right, so I'll try to only bring out the driver on anything longer than 400.

https://www.pgatour.com/stats/stat.101.2019.html

good to know that grunty ranks in the top 25 in driving distance in the pga

https://www.pgatour.com/stats/stat.101.2019.html

good to know that grunty ranks in the top 25 in driving distance in the pga

Well I’m a 6’ 5” former athlete. Not surprising that I would be able to drive it far. Never said I was as good as those guys.

230-290 depending on how much I suck on a given day, but I'm pretty consistently out over 260.