Topic: Golf Equipment / Footjoy - which model?

I got the DryJoy PRO's for around A$130 shipped when I bought two pairs from a random US ebay shop last year. They're excellent. Very stable, light enough to walk 36 in a day and totally waterproof.

Topic: Golf Equipment / Titleist D1 & D2

I should check in here more often, this is great stuff.

Go Pete!

Topic: Golf Equipment / Hybrid clubs

Like Moe, I carry a 19 deg and it replaces both a 5 wood and 2/3 iron for me. I can get useful height with it and carry somewhere between 4 iron and 3 wood.

Topic: Golf Talk / Is your home course coping in this drought?

Has barely rained here in two years. I think the official drought figure is over 3 years now with less than 50mm. Almost everywhere, the grass is dead. Brookwater has a deal with the recycled water plant and is irrigated nightly. It's lush. I almost feel guilty... :wink:

Topic: Golf Talk / What age were you when u started and how well are you playing now?

started playing at about 16yo. First hcap was 17. Got down to around 7 within a year or so. Have hardly improved since then. Been as low as 4, but have drifted out to 6-7 again. I'm 33 now, so I guess I've been treading water for 16 years after the initial big improvement.

Topic: Golf Talk / Golf Academy In QLD

"A Game" is based at Brookwater. http://www.agame-int.com/

Ian Triggs and Tom Berndt are among the coaches. Not sure of pricing, but they pretty much cater to any standard. There are quite a few Japanese and Korean golfers based there full time who stay with local families as homestays. There is no accom at the club, yet...

Good luck.

Topic: The Lounge / Im A Dad!

Nice one Drew, congratulations! Glad mum and bub are healthy.

You better head over to Orion and buy some baby clothes!

Topic: Your Favourite Golf Courses / Weakest stretch of holes

coulda swore I saw a bunch of crows in that big tree on the 3rd last Thurs.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / 60m to 100m from the pin: which club?

QUOTE: Outcast @ Mar 16 2007, 07:03 PM

I too have dropped longer irons in favour of more wedges...

PW -46 deg 125m
GW -50 deg 115m
SW -54 deg 105m
LW -60 deg 80m

Yeah me too. Just ditched 3 iron and put a 50 in the bag. I use the following as a rough guide for fullish swings (10.30 in Pelz-speak)

PW -46 deg 125
GW -50 deg 110
SW -54 deg 95m
LW -58 deg 75m

Around the green I chip with my 50 when I want it to release and my Spin Milled 54 when I want to skip and check.

Topic: Your Favourite Golf Courses / Weakest stretch of holes

Haven't played many of these courses, but I'd agree with Moe's assessment of 8,9,10 as being the weakest holes at Brookwater. I enjoy 8 and 9, but they are weak and that was the topic.

At Barnbougle, the weakest stretch is 1,2,3, but 3 is a good hole. It's just that the rest are better! Watch out for the ball-stealing crows on 3...

Topic: Golf Equipment / Hybrid vs Fairway Wood? Which do you prefer?

I prefer a hybrid, as it is more accurate for me than a fairway wood.

Topic: Golf Talk / Your longest drive ever?

QUOTE: Moe @ Mar 14 2007, 07:57 PM

the one i hit on 13 was actually with your driver BrisVegas.

Yes mate, well aware of that. You flew it quite a bit further than me as I recall. But you're huge. I'm just a short knocker. Jamie came close to driving the 18th one day with my driver too... At least I know what potential my sticks have!

Topic: Golf Talk / Your longest drive ever?

hit a few of 280-295m drives last week at Barnbougle with a very nice 20 knott prevailing NWerly.. Managed to catch my drives well on holes 8,9,10,11,14! The wind and roll was worth around 50m as I typically only fly it 220-230m.

Like Moe, I've got a few out over 300m on the 13th at Brookwater.

Topic: Your Favourite Golf Courses / Northlakes?

QUOTE: Reactor @ Feb 28 2007, 12:48 PM

What does membership set you back at brookwater?

Everything is being "re-packaged" shortly, to open it up to non-residents. There's talk of the joining fee being slashed, but I'd expect the annual subs would be 2.5 -3k still. This would put it in line with Indro and RQ, but slightly higher than Brisbane GC.

Topic: Your Favourite Golf Courses / Northlakes?

Now you've been there once, you can save yourself the drive Drew... Join Brookwater instead.

Topic: Your Favourite Golf Courses / If you had a spare $15,000 cash to spend on golf club membership

I'd stay where I am at Brookwater, but I'd get a pimped out black cart with 15inch alloys!

Topic: Your Favourite Golf Courses / Brookwater experience

nice pics. The greens are smooth and fast again now after the coring. The fairways still have visible holes though, but the rain is helping...

Topic: The Lounge / Jaster Mereel

QUOTE: Schanck @ Dec 15 2006, 07:19 PM

Play in honour of

Jaster

this weekend ...

Yep, absolutely. It was a tough day on Friday at Leon's funeral, I don't think I've ever been sadder at such things. It's just an absolute tragedy. His wife Leah was a tower of strength for the kids and should be in our thoughts this Christmas. This could have happened to any of us.

Topic: Golf Equipment / Bag Boy Smoothy Buggy

QUOTE: Diddy @ Oct 21 2006, 08:20 PM

Couple of questions for current users:

- How do you find the overall quality of the Bag Boy?
- How does the seat hold up for bigger guys?

Cheers!

Quality seems good so far (3 months). I'm 100+ kgs and the seat copes fine.

I paid $150 new at Golfworks in Brisbane for the black enamel. Love it!

Topic: Your Favourite Golf Courses / Four Word Course Reviews

Barnbougle - Par four and half
Barnbougle - pray for a westerly!

Topic: Your Favourite Golf Courses / Barny Dunes

My wife's uncle lives in Launceston and he reckoned that Autumn was the best time to play it. I was there in late March and was blessed with sunshine for 2 days, but got different winds for each of 4 rounds. The 8th hole into a 2-3 club easterly was daunting. I think I laid up short of the neck with a longish iron!

Topic: The Lounge / The long and the short of things

QUOTE: Moe @ Oct 13 2006, 07:52 AM

this forum is full of bloody dwarfs

dwarfs & giants. People are either 5'6" or 6'2"+++ Where's jarro & Westy? Those two guys would give judge a run for his money...

For the record, I'm 188cm or around 6'2" and a svelte 100+ kgs...

Topic: Golf Classifieds / Cleveland - 'Designed by' Blade Putter - $150

these are great putters. If I had the money, I'd buy it off ya Moe.. But I got other priorities just at the moment..

Topic: Golf Equipment / 20 years on, the horror has returned...

I played with a guy in 1992 who had one of those. It was fairly new then, so they must have come out not long before. Very much and anti-slice clusb. Same vintage, but just as cool was the Wilson Ultra-Mid driver. It looked like wax/plastic. Have a feeling John Daly used one at some point...

Topic: Golf Equipment / Shaft options for Titleist 905S

Mine goes well with a Grafalloy Blue in it. My swingspeed is trypically 109-110 but I'm not really a "hitter". I am pretty handsy and flippy (think of Furyk & Couples). I've tried 905S's with Titleist Speeders, V2 and some weird KJ Choi proto shaft in it and I like mine the best.