Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Drop Kicking My Drives

You are hitting from the top using your hands and not letting your lower body do the trick mate…Swing the club “easy”, it does help…

Topic: Golf Talk / Daly...shirtless and shoeless

Come on Simon. Enter the party mate. My guess is that when big John made his world debut back at the PGA and won, you would of been watching and thinking, this guy is a freak?

Topic: Golf Equipment / Nickent Pipe Putter

You will not find these putters at golf mart. If you seek a great putter, try a scotty camo or a few ping models…

Topic: Golf Talk / My game fell apart!!!!!

iseekgolfguru…

Can you tell me and the forum what it takes to get to +2/+1… How does one do it?
Be Cool…...

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Golf Ball Spin Rate

I am waiting for these stats as well guru….

Topic: Golf Talk / Slow Play and other things

Okay boys… my return….. to my original post…..

Do we have a jihad (nothing against muslims) against the committees who think and like to think they run the golf course as they have left their career as a lawyer or a business behind that is not golf related…. etc… at age 55-65 and the golf club is their life and they think they have the skills in this day and age to bring it on? Perhaps they need to book a flight to Phuket, play some golf, drink many beers and have a nice time with a massage between rounds of golf, try to have a good round of golf the next day? Perhaps all clubs in Aussie should send their committee members each year to Thailand for golf and business?

Slow play? It is painful….....

Topic: Golf Talk / My game fell apart!!!!!

Pom…

Why is this a sillllllly….post…... silly? No need to be an A grader POM..

Lee Trevino is a legend…..

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Golf Ball Spin Rate

My question to you is why are you using all the Titleist products? Nice product… but you are playing to an 11 handicap?. A Graf Blue Stiff is a rather stiff shaft in your driver and it is a 9.5 deg as your signature says. 100mph on a swing doing it hard?
I reckon a shaft change will make the difference for you. You cannot practice golf ball spin rate my friend unless you can spin a ball on the face of a club like Henry Epstein. Shit, he is a freak with golf tricks…Go King Henry…...that is a plug okay.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / One Plane Swing

The most important aspect of the swing is to have solid contact with the ball at impact with the club head square… The ball should go straight but a straight shot is tough to replicate all the time. A good player will either hit it left/right…work it if you like. I would love to be able to hit the ball straight as all golfers would but it is impossible. Hitting a curve ball is golf. Being on/off plane, we all have that problem but it is what your hands do at impact in relation to the club face as well. You can swing it like a fish hook but at impact, everything comes back to the golfing world impact zone.

Topic: Golf Talk / My game fell apart!!!!!

Gribbles…..There is a song called, “waiting on the world to change” by John Mayer. Have a listen to it and think about your golf and your life mate as it may be. It may not be a golf tip but the words in the song are great mate. It is inspiring and golf is about inspiration.

I should be headless when I have 3/4/5 over par but I am not mate. To play to my handicap is to have 2 under par for the CCR on the day. I play 2 rounds of golf a week, am at the range before and after work depending on dawn and dusk 5 days a week, i work at a golf course which is a bonus but that is also a negative due to long hours but I find the time.

IBF, great player and who cares about him having a brain snap and losing the plot. Not many people really know the reasons why it happened. He is a great bloke, a champion and a gentleman.

Small steps can be great as guru has said but take a back seat, knock your head gently against a wall and think what you are trying to achieve mate. Golf is a tough game mate, it also brings everyone back to earth all the time. I have played in events where I shot 75/77 one week and then had 65/66 the next week? Call that a brain snap or too many umpires to the left or right, tree murdering or scuba diving. It happens mate. You learn hopefully, get over it and life goes on mate.

My fix for you Gribbles? take a break mate and if you have a mate that is a low..low marker..have a chat to him and pick his brain.

All the best,

doggystyle….......

Topic: Golf Equipment / A few new sticks for a tightarse - how does this sound?

Give us a break Aussie Bomber or other people on this forum? Bang drivers go longer? Square heads do have accuracy if you have a swing that is on “song” and apart from that, people will still cut the head off a duck near a lake and re-create gum tree’s to carve out a potential fairway at times with any driver in their hand?
Go and use or buy a Square driver if it helps you…For a player that can work it and go long, why?
Work on your swing….....any decent driver will work? A shaft option may help as more than one may think….Grip it, rip it….....

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Sweet spot and Setup

iseekgolfguru, can you please place a video of your swing from behind and from side on. Still pictures are okay. With these shots/stills, you will be able to explain so many things with comments and pictures. I will wait and will love to see them. Hey, i just work at a golf club guru. It will be interesting to see.. Take is easy mate.

Topic: Golf Talk / Sanding divots in the rough

HIt a snapper or a mega cut, bad luck or was it due to a rank swing?

Topic: Golf Talk / Slow Play and other things

36 for men? That is trouble…....

Topic: Golf Equipment / Best Wedges out there

Selling hype like when they say, “Worlds number 1 Driver” as well.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / The Biggest Cut

Hi Nigel,
What does this golfguy33 play off? If he does not know what your face looks like, I will assume your name and play against him at the Glades for you and take a cut of the $20 a hole skins. I am off +2 Nigel and because you are a member at Gailes, a former club of mine from many years ago, glad to help out a Gailes Golf Club boy. How is the condition of the course there thesedays?

Topic: Golf Equipment / Golf Club Warranty Model Out of Production

A place I used to work at has CCTV on a few holes. A certain member known for his temper and purchasing power but being a tightarse as well once bought a driver, brought it back a week later with a caved in face. It was replaced with another driver of the same value as he didn’t want the 1st one again. No problems. He then brings back his 2nd driver a few weeks later with a crack in the crown. We sent it off to the manufacturer and it was replaced. No problems. Again, he brings back his 3rd driver to the pro-shop, blows up thinking the pro is a shonky dude as the driver was “caved in”. After showing this customer the CCTV footage from a tee-off area, there was a problem this time. We never saw this member again (he left the club) and he did not get another driver. 3rd time un-rucky or un-lucky…......

Topic: Golf Talk / Slow Play and other things

racinfarmer, committee’s are always going to be at a course. Form one about it or a-boot it. I’d like for some to be booted personally but not were I work, just from previous places of work.

golfinator, slow players do have as much right to be on a golf course but they need to learn a few things like consideration for players behind them. Yes, there are also faster players who get pissed off and these players need to consider the slow players in-front as they were once slow players or beginners. What is the limits for being a certified hacker if I may question? Which handicap makes you a certified hacker?

Topic: Golf Equipment / What Driver to get???

Janjuc,

Off the top of my head, I could name many brands (drivers) that will crack under 12 months. These are um..quality mate that go for prices between $50-$200. They crack on the crown and also near the heel and not from having a dummy spit on a concrete tee block.

Topic: Golf Talk / Slow Play and other things

Hi guys, i work at a course and one of my “jobs” is to start/call the members comps. It is a large club with huge fields on a Saturday, sometimes up to 320 players. (more than an 18 hole operation).
1. At times, it will be a +5 hour round for some groups mainly when it is a monthly medal or a “major”. Members complain to the hilt at times and from what I find, it is the same group of members week in week out.
2. It also happens to be that these members spend their time in the bar 1 minute before they tee off, forget to pay their comp fee say 15 minutes in advance, they hit the ball on the head for the first few holes and many other things.
3. There is also no shows in every comp which pisses off other members as they wanted to get a start.
4. Another great thing is they dislike having to play behind social players say on a Sunday when the comp will start at 10am. The thing is, social players are a major source of income on a public members course and without social players, not many clubs could survive. I would never say it to a member but feel like saying, “either play at a private course and pay shitloads or just be content paying $1000/year rather than shitloads more at a private course?”
5. Members or members guests who forget their goflink number/card/do not write it down and then complain why their score has not been recorded is another good one. FFS, write your golflink number on you scorecard. It is not hard to do.
6. Fill out your score card correctly, sign it, use a calculator if you have to and remember to put your gross/nett score in the area on the card. Also write in what club you may be a visitor from. This saves shitloads of time for the person doing hundreds of scorecards. DQ’ing members is not what we do unless they are a cheat or a suss person. Golf is supposed to be a nice day out, yes?
7. Pick up if your are going to have a 9 nett 8 in a 4b, if you hit your ball in a lake and it has gone to atlantis, just drop another one and let the ball live its death in peace.

So guys, slow play is the result of many variables out on the course. It sure is not the fault of the starter or the ranger, the scorekeeper etc. You could say I am having a bitch but I am not. I just hope this post makes many golfers think about what they do on a course. Calling through groups, do not mark your card on the green, do not talk about knitting, do not leave your cart/buggy in-front of the green….. It would be interesting to have comments from other people here who may do the same job or from you, the Saturday member playing in a comp.
Take it easy….........doggystyle

Topic: Golf Talk / Daly...shirtless and shoeless

I agree but he has had 5 wifes hasn’t he and drinks 16 diet cokes a day supposedly replacing his thirst for scotch or whatever he used to prefer. Not sure he would rival the wood cutter though.