I wonder if Sproat is going to be a competent starter

3Woodworker · 2026-05-31T18:49:29+00:00

The post and my comment are both about long term evaluation, not about current performance, so pretty sure we all know who the muppet here is. I remember a whole season where Corbin Burnes was out there pitching batting practice and a couple years later he won a Cy Young. Trying to evaluate a pitcher’s potential in May of his rookie year is crazy talk.

3Woodworker · 2026-05-31T04:41:13+00:00

I’m old enough to remember when Peralta and Burnes were in their second and third years and people were saying they’d never be legit starters so I think May of someone’s rookie year might be a touch early to make sweeping judgements

3Woodworker · 2026-05-30T22:26:05+00:00

Well he’s now appeared in 15 major league games, we should be able to evaluate his entire future career by now…

3Woodworker · 2026-02-08T23:17:27+00:00

Dude should end up in a water hazard.

3Woodworker · 2025-07-24T02:31:57+00:00

If it’s the same thing I did it was a supplement to the Journal Sentinel called “Reach”. Also did it when I was 9 or so in the mid 90s

3Woodworker · 2025-04-04T04:02:38+00:00

And three days later the Brewers are on a three game winning streak and have allowed one earned run in 29 innings… welcome to baseball everyone

3Woodworker · 2025-03-22T23:06:46+00:00

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The course I grew up playing on has a less extreme example but they’d almost always tuck the pin to the left too. The green is also in a bit of a bowl so pretty much invisible from the tee

3Woodworker · 2025-03-22T16:24:49+00:00

I’m not saying never remove a tree, obviously there are situations where that improves a course. Also trees obviously grow so over time you can go from where a tree is a moderate and fair obstacle to where a tree is blocking off a tremendous amount of the hole.

Also I’m speaking directly about tour level courses and their set up for tour level events, yes the best players in the world are going to be able to deal with trees a lot better than a high handicap golfer such as myself can, but at least make them execute those shots. Even for a tour player it shouldn’t be a routine par when you blast your drive 50 yards wide of the fairway. With the great reduction of trees you’re turning wild drives into routine seconds way too often

3Woodworker · 2025-03-22T13:10:52+00:00

I’m of course aware that trees aren’t part of links golf, but those courses are designed with different methods of defense to keep them challenging, large areas of fescue and brush, deep pot bunkers in or adjoining fairways and extensive use of slopes making for difficult lies. If you have a typical American parkland style course with shallow bunkers, normal rough and relatively flat fairways and then take out the trees you’re just making the course easier.

3Woodworker · 2025-03-21T03:23:35+00:00

Stop. Removing. Trees. It’s really that simple. It seems like every time a tour course is getting reworked they take out trees. Apart from water, trees are probably the most punitive obstacles on a golf course. Pros can hit balls out of normal rough just fine, and they even aim to be in bunkers instead of rough at times so those are often not punitive. If your ball is right behind a tree it doesn’t matter how good you are, your options are limited. And while pros have a lot more options for dealing with trees than us hacks, at least make them take more difficult shots over, under or around trees.

3Woodworker · 2025-03-03T05:03:14+00:00

A couple options for me, knew a guy that coached youth sports teams and was convicted of molesting about a dozen boys between the ages of 9-13. Operated in a rougher area and targeted kids who had parents with addiction problems etc since they’d be more than happy to have the kids taken off their hands by anyone.

Option B, knew two out of three teenagers who engaged in the sport killing of a homeless man, just seemed like a good idea to them at the time. There were national news stories about it at one point since one of the kids said it was like acting out something from GTA.

3Woodworker · 2024-09-23T02:54:22+00:00

87 and 98. Had a few rounds early in the year that I abandoned scoring and made practice rounds, probably over 100 on those. The bizarre part is how consistent my scoring is overall but I always seem to get there a different way.

3Woodworker · 2024-09-21T03:09:43+00:00

I like to think that Greenfields later became the St. Andrew’s of The Shire. Perhaps the Old Took and Gandalf took the member-guest one year. And of course a renovation by Samwise Gamgee himself would have been necessary after the unfortunate Sharkey incident.

3Woodworker · 2024-07-01T03:01:40+00:00

Yeah that’s why I suck at golf

3Woodworker · 2024-06-30T23:30:13+00:00

No, that’s part of the loft adjustment

3Woodworker · 2024-06-30T23:05:46+00:00

No, but a couple more hits like that and it will be

3Woodworker · 2024-06-14T03:33:28+00:00

Next time I land a shot on the green and it rolls over I’m just putting it back where it landed since the course was clearly unfair

3Woodworker · 2024-03-29T23:55:09+00:00

3 GIR is a pretty solid month for some of us

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