Topic: Ask Bruce / Masters Form Guide

Thanks from me as well Bruce. Been waiting for this so i can sort out who to back.

Topic: Golf Equipment / Stand bag for going on holidays and how many clubs to take

Dave i’ve travelled a few times lately with the clubs. You can fit all your clubs, shoes, and whatever other clothes you can squeeze in a couple of bath towels and it will come in at 15kgs. I have a stand bag and put some clothes & golf shoes in the big pocket and wrap two bath towels around the club heads and into the top of the slots and put the rain hood on. I’ve had no damage to clubs or bag yet.

daacha

Topic: Sports Talk / How much am I bid ?

If it were me i’d let the first foal pass. There are plenty of well bred hacks out there.

Topic: Golf Talk / president's cup lost all cred?

Mike Weir has previous PC experience and this should count for a lot. He has been playing decent golf of late and his record in this contest is 8-6. I’d have chosen him over Ames as well. Tiprat what is the point of having the captains wildcards if he can’t pick whoever he wants. They may as well just take the top 12 players in the rankings then.

Topic: Golf Talk / president's cup lost all cred?

The guys busting their butts to get in should make the top ten if they want to get a spot and not rely on the two captains picks. He’s entitled to pick whoever he likes and maybe his logic is that playing in front of home crowds and with all the emotion involved in the contest, Mike Weir will lift. The only credibility lost here is with the topic starter.

Topic: ISG Feedback / Forum knobs n snobs.........

Where are you a member at Chachi?

Chachi is a member at Al’s and can sometimes be found at Cunningham’s Hardware.

Topic: Golf Talk / ISG British Open Tipping Comp

Great work Muntz,

Well done to JasonP also but how long is the honeymoon period on a broomstick putter?

Topic: Golf Talk / Playing a round with a lower marker - I always play better...strange

truce, iwill let it go mate but hey i’m not the only one here who has knocked you.

On the topic: Its not up to me to tell them that, they should be able to work it out, I just find something else to do while waiting, sometimes silence is actually a better of handling confronatations

silence even be more effective in my view, they then ask whats wrong because you havent spoken, then you can say, if you go in guns blazing people get defensive usually and do it more. This method gives the person doing a chance to solve it themselves.

Dave i note with interest your first post in this topic says when you play with 20+ markers you play crap and they take your money. In my experience playing for money slows down the round for everyone. You may find that if you take cash out of the equation your playing partners may putt quicker. Also you’ve said you are a 12 handicapper and if the 20+ markers are all higher than you, it is your responsibility as the low marker in the group to ensure the group keeps up with the pace of play.

daacha

Topic: Rules of Golf / Ball moved by another ball

Watching the PGA tour this morning, Bernard Langer teed off and his ball ended up in the first cut. The next person to tee off, Camillo Villegas hit his drive which hit Langers ball and moved it. Langer was required to drop his ball back to the point they believed it had been before being hit. I understand having to do this on the green but would have thought it was rub of the green and the ball would be played where it lied.

Topic: Golf Talk / National Old course super job on offer

ocat (I assume Leigh),

You could hold a competition like the Cashmores did – that seemed to work a treat.

Just make sure you’ve hired someone, then run the comp.

An oldie but a goodie Lizzie. Love your work.

Topic: Ask Bruce / Open form guide

Thanks bruce,

Still plenty of time for a quick read and a visit to the TAB.

Topic: Golf Talk / ISG British Open Tipping Comp

Allenby, Byrd, Choi

Topic: Ask Bruce / Open form guide

Hi Bruce,

I’ve had a good look around the main site but couldn’t see an Open form guide anywhere. Have you done one?

daacha

Topic: Golf Talk / whats with bullshit private membership prices ??

The annual subs is 12 months worth of green fees (unless you join Southern where it is another $1 per round) and your other annual costs.

Any member-based golf course that charges a green fee to members is a joke. Federal Dog track do that in Canberra. No wonder all of their members are leaving. Morons.

sms are you calling Federal a dog track because of the practice of charging members a green fee or is it a reference to the quality of the course. If the latter you’re mistaken because it’s anything but a dog track.

Topic: Golf Talk / The Open

Bruce can we expect a form guide?

Topic: Golf Equipment / Callaway FT-i Driver

Mate you guys have GolfMart down there? Haggle them for the best deal. Two mates got it for $650 here.

Topic: Golf Equipment / Callaway FT-i Driver

DarthWack,

Not sure where you are located but they can be had for under $700 in Sydney.

Topic: Golf Equipment / Golf Bags:

A realistic assessment of just how serious a golfer you are is the point. And attitude to weather will tell you the answer.

I can’t think of anything on the market other than a Staff Bag which has sufficient storage to carry everything you need if your temperament or the events you play don’t allow the choice to not play or to walk off if the weather turns pear shaped.

Lightweight bags have a lot going for them, and are doubtless better for the purpose of moving clubs around in. But. After the clubs, umberella, tees etc my standard bag load comprises: up to a dozen each of three different balls, wind jacket with removable sleeves, lightweight rain jacket, full rain gear, 6 gloves, 4 towels, plastic rain cover, microfibre neckerchief, bug spray, sunscreen, beanie, cap, floppy sun hat, brush, spike tool and spare spikes, bandaids, painkillers, shoelaces, leatherman…..

You can always repack for the conditions of the day, but personally I’d rather just leave it all in there.

Bit of overkill there mate. My stand bag carries all that i need regardless of the weather. Lightweight rain jacket & umbrella if it looks like rain, tees etc, one towel inside one outside, painkillers, sunblock etc and two or three sleeves of balls. I also have two 750ml bottles of water in there as well.

daacha

Topic: The Lounge / Jnr Nuts

Well done Peanuts.

Topic: Rules of Golf / NPR plus a full club length

Kerry,

It seems there is no minimum distance but only the maximum. If you were to drop the ball exactly on the point of nearest relief you would have to play it from there. The ball can be anywhere between the NPR and 1 club length from there.

Topic: Rules of Golf / NPR plus a full club length

I think Kerry is referring to the fact that he finds NPR and then has one club length in which to drop.

Topic: Sports Talk / anyone in sydney area ride dirtbikes

Plenty of trail bike riders around Heathcote rd from past Liverpool to near the Menai turnoff. There is a bike club down there near the big rock.

Topic: iseekgolf Golf Days / Monthly game on Sunday & a new track.

Sad news Cams but what a great innings.

daacha

Topic: ISG Feedback / The moral of the story

Is…

Don’t invite anyone around to show off the house until it is finished and you have moved in.

That’s all good in theory Firey but then we would have been left homeless in the interim. Where else would we have got out daily dose of madness?

Topic: Ask Bruce / US Open Formguide

Bruce,

Maybe you had to shorten your form guide to accomodate the new size of the adds? I’m one who would have liked to see the extended version because most of us have a go at the three balls for each round rather than trying to back the tournament winner.