Topic: Golf Talk / Help!

I play off 19, have just had a three week break from playing and have come back with a serious case of the shanks. I hit about 80 balls last night and its fair to say my confidence is shot. Any suggestions out there?

Topic: Golf Talk / Eastlake GC - Sydney

The days of frogger are gone..The bridge across Wentworth avenue opened on Wednesday!!

Topic: Golf Classifieds / LH Bridgestone GC Mid iron set $220 free registered post

Lefty are they standard lie and length?

Topic: Golf Classifieds / WTB: L handed 60 wedge with 6-8 degrees bounce

Looking for a low bounce lob wedge, used is fine. L handed any out there???

Topic: Golf Equipment / Shipping From the States ?

Mr. C, which site did you pick up the bag from. i am in the market for one at the moment?

Topic: Golf Equipment / Burton Hybrid Stand CXS Bag

Has anyone had any experience with this bag? They look great with plenty of storage and come with a three year warranty. Any feedback would be great..

Topic: Golf Equipment / what irons are you lefties playing?

currently use x-18’s. easy to hit, forgiving, not super long but good for my level 20 hcp. Have cut handicap down 3-4 shots in last few months and not sure what I will upgrade too next.

Topic: Golf Equipment / what irons are you lefties playing?

Titleist PM731 2 iron in L hand…Can’t hit the bloody thing..

Topic: Golf Talk / BUNDY CLOCK

I have to disagree. 4 3/4 hours is totally unacceptable, except maybe during a stroke club champ round. If a group is taking that long on average they should be broken up or at the end of the field IMO.

Topic: Golf Talk / BUNDY CLOCK

My club in Sydney runs off a bundy clock. The lowest marker in the group has to Bundy his card off at the end of the round with the guidelines that you must finish no more than 10mins behind the group in front. If you are later you get a letter from the GM as a initial warning. If you are in between 3.5 and 4 hrs they tend not to send you a letter.

I think the system works well because it certainly hangs over your head thru the round, and makes you get a move on, especially if you start to lose contact with the group in front.

Topic: Golf Equipment / Ogio Golf Bags

No I didnt realise that..

Topic: Golf Equipment / Ogio Golf Bags

Does anyone know who stocks these bags in Sydney?

Topic: Golf Equipment / Golf bag recommendations

Does anyone know who stocks ogio bags in Sydney?

Topic: Golf Classifieds / Taylor Made LH r7425 $150 - r7Ti 3 wood $130

lefty,

have you got photos? Can you email them to me at kjjc@hotmail.com

Topic: Golf Equipment / Ball advice needed

I agree Chris, I am not a good enough golfer to worry about how the damn ball will check, more worried about hitting it in the general direction of the hole. I tried the AD333 and found it not very durable (read this i bust them up by sculling shots) or long. I will stick with the extreme for now i think…they are good value as I seem to donate a lot to Royal Eastlake..

Topic: Golf Equipment / Ball advice needed

Well, I gave the new NXT extreme a run this morning. It was a club and a half longer than the hx Tour but landed like a golf ball hitting an ice rink. Great distance however so I think I will persist and maybe give the NXT tour a run.

Topic: Golf Talk / Eastlake GC - Sydney

The bridge is up!!!!!!!!!!!

Topic: Your Favourite Golf Courses / Your First Course

the beachside 9 holes at Mollymook, very straight forward and a great place for a 9 y o to learn the game

Topic: Golf Talk / How to lower your handicap..Leave your tip

don’t have 12 beers the night before…

Topic: Golf Talk / Grooves

DETROIT: Two former players disagree over whether this week’s announced rule change restricting the use of square-grooved irons will have much impact on the professional game.

Kiwi Frank Nobilo believes the change is huge, while Australian Ian Baker-Finch thinks it will have only a marginal effect.

Golf’s two ruling bodies, the United States Golf Association and the Royal & Ancient, have announced that, starting in 2010, five irons through wedges must have smaller, less sharply edged grooves. This should make it more difficult to obtain backspin out of the rough, which should subsequently put more emphasis on driving accuracy, because the penalty for finding the rough should become more severe.

“Getting out of the rough was a skill in days gone by,” Nobilo said. “I think it will bring a lot more skill back into the game.

“I don’t think it necessarily will affect the top five or six players in the world. If anything, they’re going to win tournaments differently. You’re going to see tournaments lost the way they used to be, by [a player] hitting a flyer down the stretch.

“All you need is one flyer and in the back of his mind he’s going to be frightened.”

By “flyer”, Nobilo was referring to a shot from the rough that flies much further than usual because grass or water gets between the ball and the clubface. Such “flyers” have become few and far between in the modern square groove era.

Nobilo thinks the rule change will coax players to gravitate to balls with a higher spin rate, even though such balls do not fly as far. Recently, most have preferred balls with a low spin rate, in the search for driving distance, but once square grooves are restricted, Nobilo believes balls with a high spin rate will come back into vogue, even at the expense of distance, and thereby eliminate the need to continually build longer courses.

“The trade-off is you’re going to have a groove that spins less, so to get the same control, you’re going to have to revamp the ball to spin more, which Tiger already uses,” he said, invoking a tennis analogy.

“The big racquet was designed for the average player and then the professionals got hold of it and it just became a how-hard-can-you-serve-it game. That’s the way golf’s morphed into the last 10 or 15 years.”

But Baker-Finch, the 1991 British Open champion, is not as convinced as Nobilo that the rule change would make much difference. “I think some of the guys who have trouble spinning the ball [out of the rough] may go to a ball that spins a little more, but I don’t think it will make a huge difference,” he said. “I do agree it’s a good move, though.”

Topic: Golf Equipment / Adams Pro hybrids

They have just released Adams idea pro gold models as well….

Topic: Golf Equipment / Adams Pro hybrids

Chris,
Is it the adams idea pro hybrids? Also where did you get them?

Topic: Golf Equipment / Golf Ball Website in AU

Yeah i have found the same problem with the 333’s, my Vokey spin milled wedge shreds them up..

Topic: Golf Equipment / what irons are you lefties playing?

X-18’s for me, looking to upgrade though..

Topic: Golf Equipment / Nickent hybrids

Has anyone got any experience with the Nickent 3dx Hybrids..they are dirt cheap on rbg at present.