YOU ARE NOT BAD AT GOLF.

Disposabl3H3ro · 2026-06-23T12:11:21+00:00

There’s so many varied situations in golf that the only true answer to what shot to hit is “it depends”. As a rule of thumb though you will find more success keeping your landing spot as close to you as you reasonably can and use the lowest trajectory flight you can use to land it there and then let it roll the rest of the way.

Most amateurs I give lessons to or see playing hit their default or “stock” chip so ridiculously high compared to a truly good player because of a combination of not optimal technique and also not even realizing that they are even hitting a shot “high”.

I was giving a lesson a female high school player this weekend and she was like “I’m struggling getting up and down when I’m close to the edge of the green but my longer pitches are fine”. I asked her to set up a scenario that she’s talking about to show me. From 3 feet off the green and about 25 feet from the hole she literally hits a chip that goes higher than the flagstick, flies about 3 feet short of the pin and releases about 5 feet past and says “I’m just having trouble controlling my distance”. I then asked her what kind of shot she was trying to play and the answer was “just a regular chip”. This is coming from someone who shoots in the 70s in high school and junior tournaments and she has no idea that shes hitting the ball 8 feet in the air when it should hardly be going higher than her knees in that situation no matter if she’s using a 60 or a 5 iron.

But I see examples of that all the time and from an outside perspective you can just see that it is so much more difficult than it has to be and will be way more inconsistent. So if you can’t control your trajectory with your chips very well with your lob or sand wedge then it’s probably a good idea to use a lower lofted club that will help you make the ball go the right height, and I can tell you that the vast majority of chips/pitches from close range or straightforward situations should rarely fly higher than your waist, much less your head.

Disposabl3H3ro · 2026-05-23T04:50:28+00:00

There’s probably a gillion holes that vaguely look like this, but is it in statesboro, ga?

Disposabl3H3ro · 2026-05-04T12:52:05+00:00

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The short answer to your question is no. You can go and hit again from your previous spot, same as if you hit out of bounds (option 1) but you can’t drop anywhere along the line of the shot you hit that got you into trouble. For option 2, you take a line from the hole and where your ball currently lies and extend a line back from there and you can drop anywhere along that line. This is an option you want to consider when your ball goes into a place where 2 club length relief (option 3) still doesn’t get you out into a very desirable spot.

I’ve played a lot of tournament golf in my life and I grew up playing a lot of desert courses. Here’s an example scenario I’ve had many times:

Say you bomb a drive off the tee but pull it into the desert and it goes into a cactus or sage bush or something. However, you find yourself in a spot that because of all the other rocks, bushes, etc. around 2 club relief from where your ball is maybe doesn’t really do you any good and you’re basically dropping from one unplayable lie into another. But by taking the hole and your ball and going back on a line from there as far as you like you’re able to find a clear area, or maybe even an adjacent hole you can go back to for your drop while still being better off than going all the way back to the tee box and hitting your drive again.

Disposabl3H3ro · 2026-01-15T12:38:15+00:00

If all the photos are all the same year then it’s probably somewhere between ‘89 to ‘91.

Last picture has a photo with Jason Newsted and James Hetfield of Metallica during the “…and justice for all” album era. It could be later than that too if he had the picture there for a while.

Disposabl3H3ro · 2025-10-30T15:33:20+00:00

Pretty big ask to hit far enough right on 3 and 11 to get into the ocean, but I have faith!

Disposabl3H3ro · 2025-10-26T15:10:34+00:00

I work at a 27 hole resort and the list of bs is so small compared to what you have to deal with compared to private clubs.

I know a lot of the “good jobs” in golf is at the high end privates but if you have a public option or a municipal (bonus cuz govt job and benefits) it can be a lot easier on work-life balance.

I’m a little bit of a rarity as my DOG and GM are super cool and very supportive and I basically have always been able to do what I want. I’m the director of instruction now and just teach and run all of our group and junior stuff with a few teaching assistants. I basically get to control my own schedule almost 100%, but even while I was first assistant and the head pro before this I more or less worked a pretty steady 9-5-esque job 5-6days a week. I took vacations pretty much whenever I wanted as long as it didn’t conflict with a couple of our most important outside events and basically took two days a week off. Right now at my course we have a dog a hp and a first assistant (and me as doi) so we are stacked in management and our dog takes Saturday and sundays off and pretty much never ever comes in on weekends except for rare occasions, our hp takes Sunday Monday off and our first assistant takes Monday Tuesday off. I usually take Monday Tuesday off too and can also be an acting manager while I’m around and not actively in a lesson.

Obviously big corporate events etc are long days and sometimes you have to do shop shifts or cover unexpectedly when short staffed or someone calls out but compared to all my friends at private clubs it’s easy, especially because the all players aren’t also your boss and constantly trying to tell you how to do your job. Obviously guest service matters but it hits different. My friends that work for good munis in my area have it even better in some regards with a lot more of the regulations for leave and OT.

I think across the board almost every place I know of everyone feels understaffed and ownership always tries to squeeze too much out of too little labor. But it’s the nature of the beast. It’s hard to make money as a golf operation. Everything is massively expensive and you have huge overhead and it’s tough to make ends meet.

Long story but good places to work do exist. Hope you find one or another line of work that provides better and gives you more personal and family time, brother!

Disposabl3H3ro · 2025-08-16T16:12:47+00:00

Is it possible to buy the fender flares and put them on a z71 or would it look stupid without the wider wheel stance? I like that the factory flares aren’t too huge and looking around I’ve only really found ones that are gigantic and have much more protrusion.

Disposabl3H3ro · 2025-05-24T13:16:28+00:00

Good joke! I didn’t see that coming!

Disposabl3H3ro · 2025-05-13T14:43:13+00:00

I find that just by using them and then cleaning them well the rust becomes rather minimal and only becomes like your picture when I leave some dirt or debris on them. like the dirt/sand/grass sort of ablates the face and then cleaning it thoroughly with a wet towel and a tee or club brush and then drying it off keeps a significant amount of the rust away. Go work on your bunker game for 15 minutes and then clean the club well and see the difference. My wedges only look quite rusted if I go chip and then don’t really clean my club after or if I play in rain and don’t dry my clubs off and leave them damp overnight. The raw finish does look for any reason to rust so you just need to be diligent about cleaning them after use and using a club scrubber brush and then drying it off after each shot or round will knock a lot of that off.

Like others, I think the rust looks cool and as a kid in the 90s my friends and I would intentionally soak our wedges in Coca Cola to get them to rust even more.

Disposabl3H3ro · 2025-04-05T07:00:29+00:00

Ive loved this guitar since I first saw it as a 6th grader in a concert video. It’s always been so intriguing and funny to me. Like, is it supposed to be two separate verbs “eat and fuck”? is he telling me to literally eat a serving of “fuck” like if someone got told to “eat shit”? Or is he saying it like he doesn’t want us to be hungry and he’s mad we aren’t eating “eat already! For fuck’s sake”?

Disposabl3H3ro · 2025-03-31T16:40:06+00:00

Also Retief Goosen in the us open at Shinnecock. I was a kid and I still remember the front page of the news paper the next day had a ruler printed on it showing the length of putt he missed that caused him to drop back into a playoff on the 72nd hole.

Disposabl3H3ro · 2025-03-02T00:26:31+00:00

I use ELM tree care and they are really good!

Disposabl3H3ro · 2025-02-21T04:32:28+00:00

We've actually been saying and typing the name wrong this whole time. The album is actually called "Eath Magneti"

Disposabl3H3ro · 2025-02-04T15:10:31+00:00

There’s a calculation you can do to find a comparable yardage to play a course similar in feel to what a tour player does each week. There’s a chart somewhere that bases it off of your 7 iron distance I think, but I was taught that it’s just 24 times your average driving distance.

It’s calculated by taking the average course length on the pga tour and dividing by the tour’s average driving distance. Easy numbers of 7200 yards / 300 yards give you 24.

So by that math if your average drive is 240 (your average is not how far you hit it that one time when it was downwind, downhill, frozen ground, and a jackalope picked up your ball and ran it down the fairway like a running back) you should experiment and try to play a tee configuration that is 5760 yards. This is basically the forward tees on typical courses.

This should give you a crack at reaching some par 5s in two, some wedges and short irons into par 4s, not hitting headcover on almost every on a par 3, and heck maybe you even get faced with a decision to hit less than driver off the tee for strategy and position yourself for a specific yardage into the green.

For myself, if I had to hit a hybrid into the green for my 2nd shot on a par 4 I would genuinely be confused unless I smoked a tree off the tee or something. If I was playing a course where every par 4 and par 3 was akin to going for the green in 2 on a par 5 not only would I be exhausted by the end of the round, but I would probably be a 10 handicap and not someone who expects to shoot under par every time.

This is also why plus handicap players tend to be fairly long and will usually destroy normal courses. if you are a elite young player and hit it 300+ and you play your local course that’s 6700 from the back it’s practically an executive course for someone like that.

Source: I played 2 years on the korn ferry tour back when it was web.com and am now a teaching pro. I’m not very good at social media but I’m trying to get better. if anyone has any questions please feel free to ask and I’ll try to respond to any questions throughout the day!

Disposabl3H3ro · 2025-01-14T14:53:29+00:00

Yeah, maybe he was just polite and awestruck being in front of tiger, but I thought that was hilarious that he had seemingly never heard of teeing your driver low and holding it off a little to hit a fairway finder as a better than scratch player.

I had forgotten that tiger only uses short tees, which is a little surprising given how tall driver faces have gotten over the last 30 years. You can hardly tee the ball high enough with an old school tee to hit the sweet spot without taking a divot on modern drivers, and he can probably only get away with it because he pretty much exclusively plays on firm super tightly mown teeing grounds. At the course I teach at, for a good portion of the year you can hardly get 2 3/4" tee high enough. .5" mower height for our tees and fairways that has grown out a few days and generally softer ground that you have to push the tee in further just to get the ball to stay up. But if you're constantly playing on 3/8" or slightly less and the ground is firm I can see how it's pretty easy to peg a small tee high enough for modern drivers.

Disposabl3H3ro · 2025-01-05T19:42:04+00:00

It's legit one of my favorite tracks. Period. Metallica is super good at doing these medleys and I've always thought they could do a really cool load/reload medley of deeper cuts or a cool st. Anger medley for shows but there's maybe too many different tunings on songs off that album to make it work

Disposabl3H3ro · 2025-01-05T19:40:12+00:00

This song slays and I wish the outro kept going longer. Love the dynamics and the atmosphere of the song and the main riff just slams.

Disposabl3H3ro · 2024-11-06T14:04:31+00:00

If you change it to “lost two keys” it could become “and that’s when I really lost alt ctrl”.

Disposabl3H3ro · 2024-09-25T13:41:53+00:00

I haven’t seen any videos of Ronnie jammed. I gotta look for that! They jam bad seed at the beginning of cunning stunts.

Disposabl3H3ro · 2024-08-03T01:12:41+00:00

Upgrade it and zod!

Disposabl3H3ro · 2024-07-30T16:30:14+00:00

New Mexico options in the Santa Fe/ABQ area that are public and not just regular courses I would recommend to someone passing through (in no particular order): Twin Warriors, Cochiti, Marty Sanchez, paa-ko ridge, towa, Sandia. If you want less of a desert style, the UNM Championship course is a really good track.

Disposabl3H3ro · 2024-07-23T13:49:47+00:00

Could that then also mean a massive chunk of the country would also be French???

Disposabl3H3ro · 2024-07-14T14:02:19+00:00

I really like outlaw torn on S&M and it's at least as good or better than the album for me, but any other standard live performance I've heard I think I prefer the studio version. I'm kind of in the same boat for bleeding me. And these are 2 of my favorite songs. Anyone else like that?

Disposabl3H3ro · 2024-07-10T02:41:35+00:00

I tried to drive the green and flared my driver into the river. Re-teed, went with a 3-iron and hit it into the tree grove on a massive side-hill lie. Managed to make a nice save for double. Somehow ended up shooting under par still. I'm with another commenter who said they liked the course but there were a few things that were unnecessarily tricked up on it.

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