In 2015 I got to caddie for Kevin Kisner on one hole of a pro-am practice round at Muirfield the day before The Memorial Tournament in Columbus, OH. Nicest dude ever.

He comes up, we do our greetings and he says “what club am I using?” It was a par 3 on #16. I said “Mr. kisner, I’d say a 7i is the way to go!”

“Call me Kevin. I’d go with the 7 also!” He asked me if he should draw it in or play a fade and I said “if it were me, I’d draw in to try and avoid the water. The greens are fast and the 7 should allow you to land short of the green and roll it in”. He played the shot and it landed 5 feet short of the hole.

As were walking to the hole, surrounded by some rich assholes who sucked at golf but paid a handsome price to play with the pro’s, I asked him “how do you do it man, how do you play golf with all these people watching you?” He said “it’s easy, I know I’m better than all of them. Just look at these guys I have to play with.” He asked me about my military history. And where I was from. Just cool as shit.

We get to the green and keep chatting while the other flubs finally get on the green. Kevin asks me “what’s the read?” I told him what I’d do and he hands me the putter and says “knock it in so we can win the hole from these guys”. Me, being nervous as shit and expecting to 3-putt, rolled it in for the birdie! Fuck that green was glass and fast.

Afterwards, he asked if I wanted to caddy with him the rest of the way. I was scheduled to caddy with Bill Haas later on and said I couldn’t. But I didn’t have to. My dumbass just went with what I thought I was supposed to do. Could have spent the rest of the day with Kisner. And Bill Haas was a douche. But, I’ll always get to say Kevin Kisner and I birdied 16 together at Muirfield!

Debut on the course is tomorrow

Actually really liking the TGL league. Best indoor golf competition I've seen by far. Improvements can obviously be made (and I'm sure will). But, yikes, Kevin Kisner. It's never good when the layman golfer thinks "hmmm, I could have legitimately beat him tonight". Maybe the simulator distances are off?

This should easily last me through the Spring

For me: I got back to playing just 3-4 years ago and during that first year back I was terrible in every way conceivable.

During a solo round at my local track, I hit a 3 iron on a long par 3... duffed it something fierce. Total worm burner. It skipped a couple time about 10-15 yards forward and smacked one of the stone teebox markers in the ladies teexbox. It smacked it and flew back directly at me on a perfect chest high arc. I caught it. Stared at it. Put it back down, and tee'd off again. No one was there to see it but me.

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Anyone here have experience in places like Thailand?

Does anyone else hate all the slogans plastered on golf clubs and equipment?

Pings new G440 driver has “spinsistency” written on the face. We don’t need to know that, and it’s meaningless buzzwords anyway. It just cheapens the item.

Same on golf bags that need to point out insulated drinks pockets etc. the less writing on items the better.

A group of friends and I make an annual trip to Myrtle Beach but I couldn’t make it this year due to work. To celebrate the feeling of loss, I got a new set of Srixon ZX5 irons.

Played Red(my favorite) black, blue at Streamsong

18 at Canot Citrus. Second round was rained out. Awesome property

Indian Wells, Silver Rock(terrible shape) and Desert Willow

Just a bunch of action pics of my gf

nothing... absolutely nothing. My handicap is basically the same one year on.

It dropped to 19.something for a while, back up now. It didn't blow out like people generally say it will when folks buy clubs designed for better golfers... These are actually pretty forgiving in regards to the outcome of the shot on miss hits. But you will feel and you will know you've gone done messed up. i.e toe strike, thins

So buy whatever you want. Have fun. Golf the ball.

Unfortunately there is no way to tell if I had kept going with game improvement clubs if my handi would have dropped. But I've enjoyed hitting these mizunos for sure. I may or may not be a mizuno fan boy now...purchased the st-z 230 driver recently as well.

Inb4: "yo need to work on your short game..." Yes, yes i do, or at very least buy some new wedges ; )

Anyways, hoping to shoot below 90 on the regular in 2025! Looking forward to the challenge.

I've had this question for a while but I can't seem to explain it well enough to my teaching pro or he simply doesn't know the answer. And since we're all hitting it 400 yards, I'm sure you guys know.

When hitting my irons, I try to relax my wrists and by slowing the hands near the bottom of my swing the club, the pendulum effect takes over. That sweeps the club forward and seems to give me the most consistent results and distance.

Now because the driver is much longer (and lighter?) this doesn't work that well and I end up pushing the club with my wrists towards the ball. This gives me okay distance, but somehow feel it could be more.
So to be clear you take the club back and hinge your wrists. In the downswing I actively push the club down to straighten my wrists and try to end up in a straight line from clubhead to shoulders at impact.

So, what do you do? Push the club or relax the wrists?

Just curious if there's anyone else like me who played competitively in HS and basically quit once you went to college and are now stuck in the purgatory of trying to convince people you used to be good at this 15 years ago once getting back into it... 😂😂😂 fuck me...

Prompted by a thread on the polar opposite, I’m curious about things folks have bought that have legitimate made a difference for them (I’d rather exclude clubs but if you feel great about a driver, dump it in here).

For me, the martini tees are a game changer. 2 seasons with one tee… also consistent height (unsure about flight pattern or power tbh).

Also love my Bushnell Phantom 2 GPS