Car is great no complaints. No pics/vids on hand, but there’s not much to see. 100% stock. Black Sapphire Metallic with black leather and 6 speed manual. Love the sound of the v10 and has good power. I didn’t realize how rare the 6spd made the car until after I bought it.
Do us a video for the good old days. Full wot pulling away from the camera through the gears.
I raced an e60 550 tonight. Pulled pretty easy. Guy didn’t like it. Wasn’t a true race but he was passing someone and I was behind him, then when he went in the right lane, I just kept going and passed him and he kept it pinned to stop me from getting by. Didn’t work for him. As he was going wot earlier though I stuck right on him when he was in front of me and I had to hold back, so I knew I could get him.
Then another e60 550 was going a million so I just stuck on his bumper. What engine(s) was in the 550 for e60…? those 550 driving 45 year old love to haul ass lol
I still feel a bushnell device is pretty useful tool. When I’m really wanting to know numbers inside of 175 I’m always using my gun. The GPS is great though on doglegs or carrying things where a line of sight isnt as easy. I use the app some when I’m just goofing around and playing. But for numbers that are imperative, it’s always the gun.
The GPS is also nice since it’s kinda a cheaters means of giving you slope on a laser gun. Since it’s not calculating the hillside, it’s just calculating the lateral distance form point A to point B.
I used to play with a 2-iron all the time, and even a 1-iron for a while. But reality is, it’s not used much.
I go:
Diver, 17 degree hybrid, 3-pw, 52, 56, 60.
The hybrid for me is good for ~260 off the tee, and 245ish carry from fairway. So really I don’t see the need for anymore distance out of a 3 wood or 5wood, since I can carry and hold greens from 240 out and have the ball be within 10 ft of my ballmark with they hybrid.
I view the wedges as a much more critical aspect. accuracy inside 130 yards is where a lot of scoring can be made up for. You have that shot at least a half a dozen times a round. The times you’re trying to hit a 2-iron from 230-250 to get on a green in 2 happens maybe once 10+ rounds (I’m talking where the 2-iron is really THE club you’d want to hit, not just an option).
yeah, I may finally get a laser.
I just hope they’re better than they used to be. I have used them in the psat and lasered the wrong thing by accident annoyingly.
clochner is old school. Nice.
I used to use these Accuform PTM irons, talking about old school…this is the 2 iron I would hit 10 times per round off the tee
Davis Love played them for a while. Little Canadian company that went bankrupt. The set I had used to belong to George Knudson, who gave them to a friend’s dad who in turn gave them to me. I still have them in the house. The shaft snapped on the 2 iron and the head flew into a little pond in front of the 8th tee at Blue Springs in Ontario. Real bummer.
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I want to get back into a blade. After those PTMs I used Mizuno MP14 for a few years. Then I went to cavity clubs for better players (Titleist DCI, Callaway X16 pro, X20 Tour) but I want
a) less offset
b) more feedback (I think we’re getting lazy with the equipment and bringing MASSIVE variability into our games with all this forgiveness)
c) I want to get back to burning out the chrome sweet spot marks. On the MP14s, it would always freak high handicappers out.
WHAT’S HAPPENED TO YOUR CLUBS???!!!
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Frankly, you guys are far superior gofers than me. When I played competitively in high school, I medaled a few times and placed in a few weekend tournaments. Still, I was pretty much a low-80s player. College and law school corrupted me. It’s tragic. I now get out a few times/month AT MOST during the summer, and I have virtually no time to practice. So I’m pretty happy just to break 90 when I get out. Sometimes it’s worse - way worse. (Although I’ll never forget shooting an 80 the DAY AFTER taking the bar exam a few years ago :o)
But my love of the game never grows tired - it’s just one of those things I’m passionate about and would devote 100% of my time to… If I had the time. So sad.
In any event, going to a more blade style iron was actually part of a strategy on my part. I didn’t want the forgiveness that comes with full cavity-backed irons. I want to KNOW and FEEL when I hit a bad shot. It is my hope that doing so will help improve my swing (given my lack of practice). Who knows if it will be a successful strategy, but I have to try something. Also, in the few times I’ve gotten out this year, I have to say I’m feeling much more comfortable with the irons. And man do they feel good when I hit them correctly.
Sak - still analyzing that awesome post. Sure there is something I can translate from that to my own game.
Go Tiger ;D
Saki:
Lasers have gotten a lot better. Bushnell now has the “pin seeker” technology pretty good. I still shoot everything 2-3 times though. But that still takes significantly less time than using any golf app.
Also, I feel ya about the love for the pure blades, but really have no desire to have them in my bag. You just need to be SO good to really get a beit from them, otherwise your costing yourself at least a stroke or two on a good day (speaking for a 0-8 handicap). I see a lot of the mini tour and college players and they rarely have a “true blade” in their bag.
I really enjoy my muzino’s though. Minimal offset, very soft face for high feedback, and still allow you to work the ball a lot (as well as screw up some lol).
Clocher:
You’d really be surprised how easy it is to get to a 10-12 handicap if you work on some of the proper things and have time a couple times a month. If you used to play at all, it’s very surprising how fast it comes back. Course management is so so so crucial for higher handicappers trying to get better. Playing to specific yardages you like and getting very good at those will make a world of difference (105,115,130).
I RARELY practice, just not my thing, but I still keep my game together just from previous work I’ve put in years ago. I could probably shave a couple more strokes off if I did practice, but then if be setting my expectations even higher, which this game is frustrating enough without trying to get too much out of it. Really I play about 3-4 times a month. And I usually hang up the sticks over the winter (remember, I’m in TN, we can play golf all year round, but sub 50 and I’m out lol).
Anyhow. Working on a couple specific aspects would take ya a long way and wouldn’t require too much time. But I certainly understand sometimes there’s time for leisure activities like golf, and sometimes there just isn’t. Best of luck to ya either way.
The lasers are super expensive. I was surprised.
My favourite is a book. I used to have loads but they get tattered/lost. I had a book from my course that Chris dimarco gave me after the Canadian open (I was his group’s walking scorer… Him and Brett quigley on Sunday in 2004)
It was awesome. Gorjus George used to do them for every tour event. All hand drawn. Every tour player and caddie gets one before every tournament.
The second hole at glen abbey is a 420 yard par 4 with a fairway that ends at 140. Then there’s a drop down twenty feet to deep ass rough. So everyone lays up to 150 or so.
So the sprinklers from 200-140 (fairway) are marked on the book and with front yardage. It doesn’t show thek ones in that low area on the diagram, but there’s a little box where it says JICYFU and in that box it shows those yardages from the low area in the deep rough short of the green.
I will buy a coke for anyone who can tell me what ‘JICYFU’ stands for.
^^ just in case you fuck up? I haven’t googled that, but I know I can’t prove it.
Hahaha yeah you got it. Makes me laugh everytime
Got out to play today. After two holes I 86’d my driver. 20 year old 5 wood for all of my tee shots for the remainder of the round. So goddamn frustrating. I couldn’t hit a drive for the life of me. I’d prefer to just play a whole round with my irons and 40 year old Tom Watson lob wedge. I never miss a shot with that club. It’s amazing.
I just love this game so much.
the juxtaposition of those two statements is staggering. Typical golf. Love hate for sure.
Ya that really is what makes golf the most compelling sport. You will always love the game as much as you hate playing it on certain rounds. I just can’t wait to get to a point in my career where 4-5/rounds per week is possible. May be a long time away though… 
give big ben a call, he may be able to get you a deal with all his laser forum contacts
People say it’s the thrill of hitting a great shot that brings you back, but I’m convinced it is battling your mental demons out there that is far more compelling.
My friend is a 8-9 handicapper and on a very hard course, on the 17th tee, i noticed he was pacing about like a panther in a small zoo enclosure. I asked him what the fuck he was doing and he just had this nervous smile / look of fear on his face and said “nothing” . That could mean only one thing…He had a low round going lol.
Then I mentally added up his score and realised he was only 2 over…and he was beating me by 2 shots (he had never ever beaten me. He calls me golf dad because I helped him go from being a 20 in 2006 to, at that point, 8-9 in 2010) .
He promptly drilled his drive down the left edge of the fairway on the 560 yard 17th. I was shocked and getting a little worried lol. I was convinced it would end up on the soy farm to our left, or the forest to our right. Not that he was not a good solid player… But just because he was miles outside his comfort zone and was already freaking out before he hit the shot.
I hit a good one down the right side, and while walking up I texted my friend Greg who also helped tom improve. I wrote something like “tommy is 2 over through 16 at heron and he looks like he’s going to vomit on himself!”.
Sure enough he fucked up his layup, his third and his chip, then barely 2 putted for bogey. 3 over now though and 17 is one of the hardest holes on the course. I parked it
18 is a bit of a nightmare. Almost too cruel when you have a good round going. I will just show a photo:
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Sure enough he blocked it a little and found the water. The carry gets longer the farther right you go. I made par and shot 75 and he made double there and shot 76, which is amazing and is still the best round of his life to this day, but he sure wishes it was 73 or 74.
That fucking 18 is a tough finish. I was even through 17 holes there the first time I played heron in 1998. To that point my lowest round ever was like 78. So i was freaking out lol. It was back in the 2 iron days, and I should have hit driver but instead I just pulled my 2 iron and blocked it a little like tom. It landed on the bank, rolled back down, into the hazard. But because I crossed up there I could drop on the other side at least. I then hit it short in one of the bunkers, hit that to twenty feet and made double bogey. After a day of striping it, I lost everything at that moment.
To me that is far more exciting… Trying to overcome that comfort zone barrier.
Thanks, man. I have no doubt that my game would come back to me if I played more often. It’s hard to focus on even one aspect of your game when you play less than ten rounds per year. I’ve had a grand total of 6 tee times this summer - one of which I had to cancel, and another was rained out. So I’ve actually played just 72 holes since September 2012 (excluding 18 holes of simulated golf).
When I played last Saturday, I had no feel for anything. The worst seems to be my short game. The amount of strokes I lose within 30 yards of the green is just shameful.
I generally agree. Hitting a great shot is awesome, but being able to keep your composure is probably even more satisfying. That story of your friend pretty much sums up the real difficulty of golf. You can shoot 16 awesome holes and then realize that you’re on pace to set a personal record. That’s when your mind plays tricks on you and you wind up choking going into the clubhouse. It’s happened to me so often before. And it regularly happens to the unknowns on Tour who shoot lights-out on Thursday/Friday and are nowhere to be found on Sunday night.
That tee shot of 18 at Heron looks intimidating as hell. I’d slice it into the right water 8 times out of 10 lol.
Question to all of our scratch golfers on here: is it true that a fade necessary produces a longer ball flight than a draw? My natural swing, when I hit solidly, is always a right-to-left action. I’ve never been able to produce a true fade - only thing close is a standard fare slice.
I’ve been thinking about developing a fade swing lately - given the supposed gains in distance and the fact that most Tour guys hit one as well.
I don’t know, just bouncing around ideas.
I’m no scratch golfer, but I was under impression a draw yields more distance vs a fade. Kind of like topspin vs side or almost back. The fwd kick I get when I hit my draw solid almost always ends up further down the fairway than a cut/fade.
This is all just personal experience and certainly not from a scratch golfer or teaching pro. I thought many tour players play the fade because it is an easier ball flight and swing to control?
I am having a serious case of tendonitis the last month or so and was really starting to enjoy the game again after 18 months to a couple years off. Got sick of the game and put the clubs away for a bit. Of course now that I’m enjoying it I get injured. Getting old sucks!
Yes happy has it right
A fade, or a cut, or a slice, for a right handed golfer produces a left to right ball flight that lands softly. A draw, or hook produces a right to left flight that lands and tends to run a bit off the driver.
Worrying about your ball flight shape as a ten plus capper is probably a waste of time. It will take you thirty times more work than sharpening up your short game to yield the same gains.
A good theory is to work from the hole back to the tee, with respect to where to spend your time. Putting, chipping, half wedges, wedges, short irons, mid irons, long irons, woods and the driver, in that order. Guys who crush the driver feel cool but if you care about your score, it’s the last thing to worry about as a medium to high capper.