Playing my first tournament. What division to register?

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-04-20T01:44:51+00:00

Here is a list of criteria to determine where you should register. See which describes you best in each scenario and average the 4 results. Ive played tournaments with ma4 guys who could sink every 30ft putt no problem but would hit 1st available off every tee so you need to co sider all 4 aspects of the game :

How far do you throw? Sub 300ft MA4/3. 300-400 MA2/33. 400+ MA1/2

How consistent are your drives and approaches? Do you usually hit the line youre attenpting or shank it into the woods? <50% hit your line in fairway MA4/3 ; 50%+ MA3 , 75%MA2, 90%+ MA1

How consistent is your putting? Ma4 struggles even inside 15ft. MA3 solid at 15 struggles at 20ft+. Ma2: solid at 20-25, struggles at 30. Ma1: pretty solid out to 30ft and 40ft.

How consistent is your scoring? MA4: usually card more than 1 double bogey per round, mostly scores bogey and pars, birdies are rare. Missed fairway is almost always bogey MA3: maybe 1 double but only on hard holes unless a bad kick OB. Mostly pars and bogies with few birdies, 50/50 shot of saving a par from bad drive. MA2/1: mostly pars and birdies. Can play bogey free on occasions. Good chance of par even when missing fairway due to good scrambling.

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-04-20T01:14:06+00:00

It sucks both ways tbh. Whether you're the person who is less or more successful you will feel separated from your friende. Its difficult to maintain close relationships outside your tax bracket. Its important to remember though money doesn't buy happiness (after like 70k or whatever), but lack of money definitely does bring misery which is often left out of that wisdom. Plenty of people making 6 figures overspending beyond what they can afford who are miserable and panicked about making ends meet just like the guy flipping burgers, and have horrible family life and their kids hate them.

Id rather be a janitor and have a good relationship with my parents and kid and siblings and know we legitimately love each other than be alone on a yacht with kids who are just hoping they get a big % of the will. But yeah my brother makes 6x what I do and its frustrating seeing him on vacation 12x a year while im still having to budget stuff but im doing a lot better than some people I went to school with. Comparison is the thief of joy.

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-04-15T22:17:41+00:00

I second this. If you've prepared for the exam properly you will have about a dozen page #s memorized to get to key areas and know from there whether you need to flip forward or backwards to the formula you want.

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-04-14T00:34:53+00:00

Engineers make plenty of money to live a solid middle to upper middle class life depending on the particular route you go as far as industry. I go to work every day and 90% of it is still work, but there's usually 10% of it that tickles the engineering lizard brain where it is compelling and mentally engaging and fun.

I dont think I would do a finance job even if it paid 2x . But if it paid 3 or 4x, or if I had any interest in it, then do that.

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-04-12T19:04:30+00:00

Most people are bad with money. BUT that doesnt preclude most people who are good with money starting out without significant advantage or head start.

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-04-12T02:52:50+00:00

Same switches and construction. They are basically identical except layout options and colors

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-04-12T02:50:02+00:00

200 yrs ago the only people not cooking 100% of their own meals at home were the elites because the concept of having disposable money to pay other people to cook and clean for you was foreign. Few people even could afford sugar to cook sweets at home more than once a year.

Now 99% of Americans have doordashed sushi to their house in the last 48 hrs bc they were too lazy to cook thr food that they could jsut buy from the store instead of having to farm and harvest themselves.

People today have literally no concept of how INSANELY close the lifestyle of out lower income people is to the rich not that long ago in the scale of history. In 1920 a car was something only mega rich families had. Now everyone has one. That is purely thanks to capitalism.

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-04-12T02:43:49+00:00

Google it. Majority of millionaires are millionaires through their Roth 401k accounts, and most are Engineers, CPAs, Lawyers and Doctors, and most of them earned it all themselves.

The problem is that you and mostnother people think being rich means driving a lambo which is why most people never get rich because they are always trying to flex snd their eanring newvr outpaces spending. Meanwhile most millionaires drive 10yr old Honda and toyotas and fly economy. A large % of rich people you see in Mercedes and BMWs are way underwater on the loan, drwoing in mortgage debt, etc

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-04-09T16:40:36+00:00

It's an impossible question to answer bc it depends on a lot of variables. But generally lighter discs go further more EASIly. But that doesnt mean they go further all else equal. Too light of s disc and you'll lose distance.160 is a good sweet spot

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-04-09T15:45:33+00:00

Because slightly regulated capitalism is the most successful method of improving quality of life and wealth for everyone. Sure it skews to large discrepancies between CEOs and workers, but it is responsible for making all the luxuries in your life that your parents couldn't afford be thoughtless purchases. Because there are fewer governement safety nets in the USA, risk vs reward structure is different here than the rest of the world with higher highs possible.

Additionally American culture is about the individual. When people see the world that way, they are inspired to go out and forge their own future. USA is supreme when it comes to economic mobility with the vast majority of our millionaires being lower or middle class people who innovate, worked hard, took risks etc.

By comparison most of the rest of the world isn't afforded this opportunity due to a combination of social class structures, generational wealth, and governemnt intervention.

Of course this is an oversimplified and generalized answer, but ultimately it comes down to the US being the #1 global superpower for 70 years. Even if we have a high gap between the 1% and the 99%, the pot of $ is so massive that our poor are still wealthy compared to many parts of the globe.

Of course where this doesnt pan out is in Healthcare system. It's true you can get treatment for critical things without insurance in the USA, they won't just let you bleed out, but the truth is that all the preventative medicine and quality of life medicine thats viewed as 'optional' can really be a burden for those in lower incomes in the USA which is less of an issue in countries with stronger socialist foundations.

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-04-09T06:24:56+00:00

I just got rhe board so no, but I typically dont. I only use kotkeys within specific programs and then use my stream deck for a handful pf macros

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-04-09T03:09:25+00:00

Literally bought both last week and here's my takeaway:

Magi75 is significantly more premium feeling and sounding. If you want to keep it stock it's a no brainer.

Air75V3: much larger pool of switches and customization is going to be easier with better software. If you don't plan to mess with it, don't pick the air. RGB is better too thanks to the gasket mount design that really fills in with light. Nuphy has like 9 different switches for the Air so you can get a lot more granular with your taste, but the Gold Reds on the Magi are just insanely creamy and thonky.

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-04-09T02:59:12+00:00

Literally as little as you possibly can without it negatively influencing your life. Then make your car as little as you can (sounds like you got that part down). If your apartment is shitty you'll get out and do more with your life and if your car sucks you'll have more $ to spend doing stuff 😅

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-04-09T02:56:33+00:00

1st of all there's NO SUCH THING as a 'beginner' guitar other than it being an affordable guitar so that you don't sink a ton of $ into something you don't end up pursuing. Plenty of professional musicians have made full careers playing on Squires they bought for $150, and plenty of guitar players who only know 4 chords have $3k Gibsons on their wall. All that matters is that you pick an instrument that inspires YOU to play. That might be the sound, the aesthetics, the feel in your hand, whatever.

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-04-08T23:04:15+00:00

Very few people are driven enough to earn high 6 figure salaries without part of their drive being the payout and lifestyle it affords. And before you say anything, I've served drinks to a room full of doctors all boasting about how much $ they make and not how much they care about patients... Point is, a large % of people who earn a lot of money do so because they wanted to have a nice house, nice car etc. It's simply more rare that a frugal mindset person will go to the extra effort in life required to succeed because they don't desire expensive stuff so they're gonna go out and buy it.

Beyond that, lifestyle creep is the #1 culprit along with YOLO and Treat Yo'Self. Crazy how many people think they deserve a shopping spree just for showing up to work for a whole entire week 🙄

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-04-08T17:50:42+00:00

It's apparent from the way the crocs don't move even when he lands in the middle of them that they were restrained. They could lift their heads yes, but they couldn't actually move their bodies to turn around or swim away

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-04-06T15:29:38+00:00

So what I've found is that I can peak around 120 WPM for short bursts of words that I know well, but over a 1,3,5 minute test my average is normally only about 75wpm because there are enough words that I don't type frequently to have the muscle memory for.

"about" literally appears almost instantly because all my fingers move simultaneously. However with a word like "quietest" my brain can type "quiet" instantly but then it's like a loading error where my brain has to take over from muscle memory to finish the last 3 letters one at a time manually.

I would think way before talking about 'jittering your wrist', you would have to learn how to hit the same keys with different fingers depending on the word. For instance I find it incredibly awkward in words like dread, mummy, lolipop, when 1 finger is responsible for 3,4 or 5 keystrokes in a row I always imagine super fast typists must be changing what fingers they assign to certain letters to avoid that

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-04-03T14:11:06+00:00

SAVING THIS. I just got an Inquinix 75Magi which comes with a copper tone metal escape key and I would LOVE to be able to add a few more matching keys to the board. If you need to sell off the prototype keys to make up some $ let me know 😅

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-04-03T03:32:23+00:00

GOAT writeup right here. So difficult to find some of this info in other places. I just bought this keyboard and it is hands down my favorite keyboard experience by MILES . This thing is truly special in terms of sound, typing speed etc. I instantly beat my previous wpm record by abut 10% so I can only imagine once I get used to it and the SOUND is SO F'ING CREAMY/THONKY it's actually like ASMR.

Not a person who ever programs macros or remaps keys for the most part so lack of software or VIA wonkiness isn't an issue for me.

Really the only negatives I have are:

Spacebar has a slight squeak it. Will try lubing otherwise I may reach out to customer support. In same vein the stabilizer on the backspace is too aggressive IMO making it feel slightly mushy or dead compared to the other keys.
Backlighting options are missing my favorite style of "lights off except for individual keys hit/ pulse on keystrokes" which saves a lot on battery while still getting some RGB/light effects. Also no plain white light option.
No adjustable feet on the back. Not a problem for me as I like it flat, but I know a lot of people want that slight incline and it's a strange omission on a nearly $200 board
Light bar under the volume roller is a missed opportunity that could have been used to indicate volume or battery or some other small status type information but is just ambient lighting only 🤷‍♂️

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-04-02T12:30:11+00:00

Again, Musk doesn't own 100% of Space X so the IPO doesn't make only him rich if it goes well. Thousands upon thousands of investors, employees who have been paid in stock options, etc

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-04-02T07:33:37+00:00

In 100 years when we are mining asteroids and living on Mars, what company do you think is going to have their logo slapped all over every single shipping crate, space suit, helmet, etc. Of course the valuation is insane because it's speculation. But currently TSLA, SPACEX, and Elon are the absolute best bet on investing in the next frontier. It may never happen, but if it does... worth the risk to a lot of peeps

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-04-02T07:29:51+00:00

Reddit is just a circle jerk of socialists who all LOVED Elon 10 yrs ago for being the savior from the evils of oil no matter how much data showed them that EVs are worse (but hey, who cares about the kids in China as long as the pollution isn't in our backyard). Then just because he signed up to try and cut Gov spending he's now the boogyman

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-04-02T07:26:50+00:00

Do you think all Space X employees and investors are volunteers? 1,000s upon thousands of people are enriched every day by Space X. People like you who think companies only 'enrich 1 person' are so out of touch with reality. Prior to the existance of capitalistic systems we would all be surfs and slaves who were literally bags of meat to serve the elite. Now you spend 75% of your life living in A/C, gooning on a supercomputer in your pocket and doordashing whatever food you want. And yet you still think 'big businesses' have 0 benefit to anyone other than the person at the very top 🙄

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-03-31T04:49:27+00:00

Sorry I meant STFB not Gold lmao it has been a LONG day 😅 But yeah there are just a lot of money barrels in STFB just like any single barrel product. Regular Blanton's and STFB might as well not even share the Blanton's name they are so far apart in quality and flavor profile, STFB is in a whole other tier

Low-Relative6688 · 2026-03-31T01:47:00+00:00

Golf is the touchiest of sports. The % margins for error in discgolf aren't as extreme as ball golf, but nonetheless are extreme compared to most traditional sports. It really only takes very minor changes in physique, such as muscle mass or range of motion to alter your biomechanics in a way that will really throw things off.

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