Everything golf

Post by **MrKennethTKangaroo** » Sun Oct 06, 2024 12:31 pm

Fall golf is the best golf.

Post by **dodint** » Sun Oct 06, 2024 12:35 pm

I'm going to get out and play Glengarry tomorrow to formally kick off my vacation.

Post by **MalkinIsMyHomeboy** » Sun Oct 06, 2024 1:34 pm

MrKennethTKangaroo wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2024 12:31 pm Fall golf is the best golf.

it’s nice but also annoying as **** when you can’t find your ball among a **** ton of downed leaves

Post by **shafnutz05** » Sun Oct 06, 2024 5:33 pm

MalkinIsMyHomeboy wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2024 1:34 pm
MrKennethTKangaroo wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2024 12:31 pm Fall golf is the best golf.
it’s nice but also annoying as **** when you can’t find your ball among a **** ton of downed leaves

Won't help losing a ball but you don't have to take a stroke penalty. Relatively new rule, actually referred to as the "leaf rule".

Post by **dodint** » Sun Oct 06, 2024 5:42 pm

Is that true? I read that the other day and thought it was just a wishful rule change request.

Post by **willeyeam** » Sun Oct 06, 2024 5:47 pm

Sort of. It's a local rule with some gray area

But if you're playing with your buddies you should just play that

Post by **dodint** » Sun Oct 06, 2024 5:56 pm

Like finding a divot in the fairway?

Post by **willeyeam** » Sun Oct 06, 2024 6:01 pm

Right?

Post by **MalkinIsMyHomeboy** » Sun Oct 06, 2024 6:31 pm

you guys find the fairway?

Post by **LITT** » Mon Oct 07, 2024 10:58 am

MrKennethTKangaroo wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2024 12:31 pm Fall golf is the best golf.

amen

Post by **Troy Loney** » Mon Oct 07, 2024 11:41 am

Can someone explain how cart path relief works?

I just tried to read a summary, and it made 0 sense to me, want to figure out if I took an illegal drop this weekend.

This was on #11 at South Park and my drive was just right of the path and my stance was on the cart path. Where I was standing I had branches in my line, moving to the ball to right would be more blocked out, but a drop to the left of the path was less obstructed. Neither left or right of the path I think was closer to the hole, I took the drop just left of the path.

The explanation online said something about closest point or something, and that would determine which side of the path you have to drop on?

edit - watched a video, I believe that my drop was legal, so birdie stands.

If I am understanding it, as a right handed golfer, using driver as a point of relief, the closest point of relief is always going to be the side where the path is on the right side of the ball. You have to move the ball further away from the path to get your feet of the path then to move the ball to the left of the path.

Post by **willeyeam** » Mon Oct 07, 2024 11:51 am

You get a club length, but you don't get to pick where. It's the closest point from the path where you don't have interference from the path in regards to your stance and ball placement.

So in your case, if the closest point from where the ball is (right side of the path), is a club length from the right side of the path most likely, unless that takes it closer to the hole. Then it would be a club length from the left.

You don't have to drop it, so if you were going to move it right, then it's more blocked out, you can just play it as it lies. You don't really get a choice of where to drop it like most people think. But if it's not a serious round who cares imo

Post by **MrKennethTKangaroo** » Mon Oct 07, 2024 11:54 am

One of my dad’s golfing/pitt buddies is a rule official for either usga or wpial events described it the same way. He
Basically was like “yeah you are supposed to drop over by these bushes but during rounds like this everyone just moves it to a spot that doesn’t screw them but doesn’t give them some stupid advantage”

Post by **Troy Loney** » Mon Oct 07, 2024 11:58 am

I think the distances between the right and left relief options would have been very minimal (maybe a coin flip if i measured officially).

Post by **willeyeam** » Mon Oct 07, 2024 12:02 pm

Troy Loney wrote: ↑Mon Oct 07, 2024 11:41 am
If I am understanding it, as a right handed golfer, using driver as a point of relief, the closest point of relief is always going to be the side where the path is on the right side of the ball. You have to move the ball further away from the path to get your feet of the path then to move the ball to the left of the path.

Unless the green is on the left side, then you'd be moving it closer to the hole

Post by **Troy Loney** » Mon Oct 07, 2024 12:04 pm

willeyeam wrote: ↑Mon Oct 07, 2024 12:02 pm
Troy Loney wrote: ↑Mon Oct 07, 2024 11:41 am
If I am understanding it, as a right handed golfer, using driver as a point of relief, the closest point of relief is always going to be the side where the path is on the right side of the ball. You have to move the ball further away from the path to get your feet of the path then to move the ball to the left of the path.
Unless the green is on the left side, then you'd be moving it closer to the hole

Right, i think green side cart path situations are cut and dry

Post by **Orlando Penguin** » Mon Oct 07, 2024 1:07 pm

You could just make that Beau Hossler and say that the outhouse 200 yards away is in your way so you should get free line of sight and be able to drop it in the fairway.

Post by **shafnutz05** » Mon Oct 07, 2024 1:10 pm

Orlando Penguin wrote: ↑Mon Oct 07, 2024 1:07 pm You could just make that Beau Hossler and say that the outhouse 200 yards away is in your way so you should get free line of sight and be able to drop it in the fairway.

I saw that yesterday, what a clown. Tree right in front of him and he says the outhouse is in his way.

Post by **Troy Loney** » Mon Oct 14, 2024 8:15 pm

What on earth?

Post by **shafnutz05** » Mon Oct 14, 2024 8:19 pm

I've read about sand greens, a lot of them (or used to be) out in the Great Plains. I wouldn't mind trying it once

Post by **LITT** » Tue Oct 15, 2024 7:19 am

nice swings

Post by **iamjs** » Tue Oct 15, 2024 2:55 pm

Played what was probably my final round of the year over the weekend. Indian Lakes, Peninsula Course. First course designed by Arnold Palmer.

We got stuck behind a group that was playing at a 6 hr pace. We ended up skipping 7 so we could pass this group. Since we couldn't take a score on that hole, we decided to take the prior three holes, total the score and divide by 3. If you had a .3 in your averaged score, you were allowed to round down. And a .6 meant you had to count up. Example: if you had a 4-5-4, you averaged a 4.333 and were able to round down to a 4. Luckily I went 4-4-4. So I ended up going 41 on the front with the "par" on 7, which was by far the best score I had on a nine this year.

Unfortunately I didn't keep that pace on the back and went 7-8 on 10 and 11 and ruined any realistic chance of coming in under 90. Even with going par-birdie-par-birdie on the last four holes, that only got me in at 51 on the back and a total of 92 for the day.

Post by **shafnutz05** » Fri Oct 18, 2024 7:02 am

Insane. We paid $60 for the practice round and $250 each to go on Sunday in Rome last year. Hoping to go to Ireland in 2028.

Post by **Orlando Penguin** » Fri Oct 18, 2024 4:09 pm

May have a few things to say about that tomorrow on the radio show that I periodically make appearances on. The most I can remember paying for a ticket for any sport was splurging for a lower-level ticket for Pens-Lightning last year for $125. Problem was, it was the other Pens-Lightning game in Tampa and not the one where Jarry scored. I'd have been better off lighting that money on fire.

Post by **willeyeam** » Thu Nov 07, 2024 9:26 am

Nelly Korda in the swimsuit addition cc @LITT @MrKennethTKangaroo