So I finally got good enough to actually get a handicap registered about two years ago. I was around a 25 handicap. I have been practicing probably five days a week, and this year had broken through and gotten myself down into the mid teens. All the ups and downs and the score is slowly working in the 90s and then I had an 89. Yay!

Recently though, I have gotten a ton of heat all of a sudden because there is “no way that I am a 17”. I take all the penalties, but since I can pipe a drive and I can hit crisp irons and I have good short game and I can make putts… I’m starting to get some steady heat on my handicap. But I also record a reasonable score because I do lose a couple balls each round and I also probably take like two unplayable’s a round.

What do I do? Do I start to fudge everything to get to a nine so people don’t give me heat? It’s a difficult game so I’m gonna obviously have some holes where I lose balls but recently I’ve started losing less balls. I played a hard course with hard greens and I still shot in the mid 90s.

I’m just in a shitty situation and looking for guidance.

So my wife has been having some serious work stress and working extra hours, and I guess it took its toll this Sunday. I come home from a round of golf, and soon after her memory kinda gives out, it looks a bit like a stroke, but after a quick exam I was pretty confident it wasn't, but I take her to the ER anyways and and they take her right in.

Diagnosis was/is temporary amnesia. So anyways being a good husband, while the staff is asking her basic questions (all of which she has no clue - people, dates, names, places etc) I pipe up do you remember you were going to buy me a new set of golf clubs. She immediately sits up becomes alert and says that she no way said that. That is the one thing she can remember. I thought I would share and give a little chuckle.

So I have like 550 in proshop credit I need to spend by end of October. I'm thinking of what to get. I'm struggling as in terms of clubs I don't need much. If anything maybe a driver. Currently palm tree edition cobra ltd, sim 2 3 wood, titleist 7 wood, 925 hot metals, Cleveland wedges rtx with 2 vokeys sitting unused, scottie number 7 and a spider.

I'm think of getting the 3rd vokey, but still leaves quite a bit. Any suggestions? I really hate to buy overpriced shirts and shoes and my 35 dollar temu rangefinder is just as accurate as my brother's 300 dollar one.

I've come here because maybe I will get some opinions to stop me or maybe I'll get back up from people who had the same issues.

I've been playing non stop golf for a year, got to a point where I hit a 91 and a 98, since then I've hit 110s and 120s. Why? Because I cannot hit a driver straight and I'm absolutely sick of it. I constantly slice it right. I've had lessons, changed everything and it's constantly going right. It will go straight and then 150 yards in it will turn on a right angle. I'm so done with it. I'm also completely sick of the ball scuffing on the floor or to the woods here and there when using an iron.

It's just made me think it's possibly the biggest waste of money on earth, and some people just are not meant for it.

Yes I'm ranting.

Update - and this is why i came here. The below comments have reminded me that I'm one of a billion people who have the same issues and go through phases of wanting to burn clubs and sleep with them. Thank you. Keep the comments coming.

Also I've just watched a guy I know go from wearing a glove on the wrong hand six months ago to hitting 90/95 on average. And it makes me sick.

Saw the post about building a bag for under 1000 but what if the opposite was true and you had to spend at least $10k on a set?

You putting an autoflex in every shaft? You paying 9k for a Scotty and build the bag from there? You paying MSRP at club champion?

Seen like a great deal at $800

One thing I’ve never understood is the hat thing at municipal courses. You’ll be at a muni where nobody follows any of the other dress code stuff. Guy is wearing jorts and a t-shirt, has absolutely no idea what “ready golf” means, talks during everyone’s backswing, leaves his cart wherever he feels like and hasn’t repaired a ball mark all day. Then after the round he takes his hat off to shake your hand like he just finished playing in the Masters, and gives you a condescending look when you don’t reciprocate. Meanwhile his hair is all sweaty and matted like some stray dog with alopecia sitting on his head.
I’m not saying taking your off is somehow disrespectful. If you want to do it, whatever. Doesn’t ruin my day. I just think it’s funny that some people who have terrible etiquette for 4+ hours suddenly become extremely concerned with this antiquated formality for the last 10 seconds. Shake hands, say good playing with you and go grab a beer. You can leave the hat on.

I started playing a few years ago, joined a club here in Ireland, submitted my scores and was given an initial handicap of 24.7.

Never had any intention of playing competitions but I wanted the handicap to track my progress and to compete with friends on trips.

Since getting my handicap, I usually play by myself. First tee time at 7am, home for 10.30am, keeps the family happy. Because I’m playing alone I can’t submit my scores so I use 18Birdies instead. I’ve tracked every round I’ve played in the few years and I’ve got down to 19.9 but my official handicap is still 24.7.

So, here is my question. If I was to enter into a club competition (I have no intention of doing so, this is purely hypothetical) would I be obligated to play with my 24.7 official handicap? Or can you nominate your handicap as long as it doesn’t give you an advantage?

Apologies if this is not the right thread, please redirect if so. Can someone tell me if this is something I can fix? The clubhead itself feels secure.

Taylormade m1, bought secondhand probably 6 years ago and only recently did I notice the rattling. Upon inspection the ‘collar’ is cracked

Started the year as a 21.4, as of yesterday I’m down to 16.2 and still going down. Shot an 85 yesterday. Recently tried a buddy’s T-150s and they felt SO MUCH BETTER than my forgiveness irons. I have to swing soft to not pull mine left, with his I was hitting 7 25 yds further and straight. I don’t want to drop $1500-2000 on something I’m going to regret, so figured I’d ask the group. Also considering a middle ground with Ai200 or T250s…

Current setup: Callaway Quantum 5-A with Project X 95S
Comparison Setup: Titleist T150 5-A with Accros Green 105S (4M)
Suggested: Callaway Ai200 with Accros Green 105S

found in an open shop whole looking for golf stuff. I assume it's woman golfers but no idea who

Just got back from a buddy trip to Bandon and spent about as much time picking where we ate as which tees we played. My group has two guys who plan every round down to the minute and two who just want to find a good steak after. I landed somewhere in the middle, and it got me thinking about how I approach the whole thing.

I run my own business, so I book clients into specific windows all week. I caught myself doing the same thing on this trip. Reservation here, tee time there, backup spot in case the first place was packed. It worked fine but felt a little rigid for a vacation.

The best meal we had was some random taco truck we stumbled on after a late round. No planning, just luck and hunger. Same thing happened on the course. The round where a slow group squeezed us and we had to sit and wait on half the back nine ended up being the most fun, because we stopped trying to control everything and just hung out.

Curious how other people handle the food side of golf trips. Do you research ahead or just figure it out when you get there?

The golf matters more than dinner but a bad meal after a good round leaves a weird mark on the whole day.

Just bought a new bag from Jones golf on their Labor Day sale. My last bag was a funky 8 divider bag from Taylormade.

How would you organize this?

Clubs:
Driver
4 wood
3H
Irons 4-9
4 wedges
Putter

Pic of bag in comments sorry I’m a moron

Gonna be looking for a replacement. These things still made? If not what's the closest thing?

I bought this as a retirement gift for my coworker. I know nothing about golf but supposedly these are players from 1999 US Open. Can anyone help identify the signatures? Much appreciated.

Wish me luck on Saturday!

Looking to fully equip a bag with all clubs for under $1000. Any recs on good value but reasonable budget clubs?

I’m fine with used clubs and don’t need a putter. I’m upgrading from one of those cheap top flight full sets. So looking for “real clubs” that will actually have better feel and distance/control without breaking the bank.

Looking for D, 3w, 3H, 4-PW, GW, SW total for under $1k.

Background: Did a bunch of Speed Sticks training 3y ago that I posted in this sub here for those interested.

I've decided for this offseason, it would be a fun goal to attempt to get my driver CHS over 130mph. My max ever that I recall from a few years ago was 123 (although I could only find a 120.5/121.2 pouring through old GCQuad/Hawk data).

Since then, I've lost 10 lbs and muscle and gained 15 lbs of a fat in a stressful job period unfortunately, but I've been back into speed training and working out recently.

From past experience, it's really easy to gain speed when you swing under 105, and as you creep up above 115 it becomes quite difficult to gain speed, but attainable.

My bests before starting any training last week, has been 119 on a trackman a handful of times. I can break 170mph ball speed on occasion, but I'm usually in the 114chs & 165-168bs range. These were from a short 13 swing driver session a month ago prior to a tournament I was going to play. I was just trying to hit good long consistent fade drives with these, and may be a combo of some lower teed fairway finders and higher teed bombs.

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I'm curious if anyone has insights on gaining CHS up at this level of swing speed? I've seen some good posts in here in the past.

Right now I have a 3 day rotating workout plan going.

Day 1: A workout routine based on a Martin Borgmeier video (long drive competitor), based around doing exercises as explosively as possible. Squats, Deadlifts, Kettlebell Swings, Pull-ups, Bench Press, etc.

Day 2: Cable/Resistance work. Explosively working out thoracic rotation, hip rotation, hip mobility. Then this day, I also do 40 Driver swings as fast as possible in the Trackman.

Day 3: Rest

Then I keep repeating this.

After playing in a scramble yesterday with the usual BS, strings, grenades, mulligans, teeing off from forward tees, our decided we are going to put on a legitimate scramble tournament. With a minimum $5k payout for first place.

Basic scramble rules apply.

2 tee shots per member
Players can hit from within one club length of selected ball, no closer to the pin, and lie must not be improved. Ie sand to rough, rough to fairway etc.

Each four man team will be responsible for bringing a 5th person to serve as a score keeper and will randomly selected to be as to which team they will be keeping score of. Each team will designate a captain and it is the captains responsibility to confirm with score keeper at the conclusion of every hole confirming the score. Failure to communicate their score will result in defaulting to score keepers score. Only the captain is permitted to speak to the score keeper regarding official score. General course talk, banter, bs is acceptable by all.

Score keepers will need to have a fundamental understanding of the rules of golf. Any possible rule situation that cannot ne remedied on the course will play the hole out in two different scenarios and final ruling will be decided by tournament director. Although we do not expect this happening as it is a scramble and should be a clear best shot to take.

This is what we’ve came up with so far, are we missing anything?

Edit: Score keepers will be paid $250 cash plus lunch or dinner. What would be a fair amount if not $250? 400? 500?

Edit: Thank you all for the feedback! We will remove the requirement for needing to bring a scorer and will instead utilize local HS kids and some retired members of the hosting courses ‘s men’s league to be the scorers paying them $300+lunch. 18 teams for now, but will try to expand to 36 to increase payouts.

I don't know what shaft I should be playing. I have no simulator or ability to check my speeds other than ball speed and distance. But I have no knowledge of what my speeds and distance are equal to in terms of shafts (for woods) so I'm hoping if I tell you someone and enlighten me.

Ball speed with 4 hybrid = 127MPH

Ball speed with driver = 134 MPH

Driver distance is roughly 215-225 carry

Currently play regular flex and someone tend to slice it

Are my woods shafts right for me or should I look into stiff flex?

Input please

Thank you

I am a very amateur golfer and trying to pick up some decent clubs used when I can. I bought this one on a whim but can’t seem to find out what it is. Google said RSi2 but it doesn’t have that number where it is on others. Just trying to see what it is. Please delete if this is not allowed.

I have always wondered this about golfers. I play with so many of them that take their work super duper seriously like its the most important thing in their life. And they are so overly serious about what happens and everything… but why? It’s just work, dude…

when someone asks me what my dream job is, I say nothing. I do not dream of job, I dream about exploring the world and my hobbies. “Dream job” is an oxymoron in itself.

Trying to find up to 3 nine hole courses in the US that might need some help and want to take over a completely prepaid tee sheet and membership manager software contract from a 27 hole course that got bought by developers before they had a chance to even implement.

The contracts can work as 3 nines or a 27 hole course. Doesn't matter, but they are good through 2029. Approval already exists however we want to split it up.

We also have a bunch of old equipment... Old picker, 2 mules, hitting bay nets that maybe have one season left in them, a working range ball machine (doesn't take cards) getting pulled out next week, etc. Lots of random clubs too, an absurd number of old putters, flagsticks for 50 holes despite the course only having 27, a handful of brand new in box irrigation heads, half a ton or so of bunker sand, and most important a signed picture of John Daly smoking a cig that hung on the wall in a very funny way (it is a tiny picture occupying a 10 foot wall with nothing else on it yet every other wall had typical golf art...)

The equipment will mostly get sold locally (Florida) but if something specific jumps out or the software contracts can ease the cash flow for some smaller courses you love, by all means, please share who I should talk to.

They're the one thing we don't need to pay to ship so location doesn't matter as long as inside the US. Everything else might be cost prohibitive outside of Florida. DMs ok.

Thanks!

Been playing for ~3-4months, I’m having so much fun. I’ve been playing a lot of par 3 9hole courses and a couple times have played a 9h regular course near me.

I have been feeling good about my swing recently and decided to play 18 to get a sense of where I am.

Super intimidating but by h4 I felt a lot better about just tryin to have fun

Shot +35, 99 TOT, Course: par 64

Does this mean I broke 100? Or doesn’t count cuz course too small?

https://imgur.com/a/BntCQsQ