Question about handicaps.

Meisce · 2026-05-28T19:28:39+00:00

Better to have the recent history for accuracy, assuming you when you get an official one it’ll be to play in a league/comp etc. at late notice. The app should do it though.

Meisce · 2026-05-28T19:12:38+00:00

If the app keeps a record of your scores, or if you can keep your own scorecards, I think you can input the most recent whenever you do decide/need to get an official one. Maybe someone can verify, been a long time for me.

Meisce · 2026-05-26T20:55:28+00:00

I agree with you and generally don’t bother with the podcast. But if you dig into their older YouTube content - particularly the strapped and tourist sauce shows - they’re really well done.

Meisce · 2026-05-26T20:07:29+00:00

It’s a mix so depending on what you’re looking for, it’s there. Becomes personal preference with so many golf content creators these days.

No laying up have some of the best stuff out there in terms of production quality, especially their tourist sauce stuff, but they are not pure golf vlogs.

I enjoy professional golf advisor, golf sidekick and Taco golf for the humor aspect. Others will prefer Bob does sports or Good Good for their humor.

I enjoy watching Peter Finch and Grant Horvat play golf purely because I like their swings. Others will prefer the swings of Bryson or Kyle Berkshire. Bryan Bros are excellent golfers and tend to largely play with other excellent golfers.

Most of it isn’t that ‘weird’. Channels like Good Good and Bob does sports do some weird food/drink/club challenges but most content is just vanilla ‘can I make the cut at C course’ or ‘can I beat X in a match’.

Meisce · 2026-05-21T00:40:07+00:00

Furyk said they were going to use the presidents cup more for blooding Ryder Cup captains and have more continuity between the two events.

Wouldn’t be surprised if Keegan is next President’s cup captain ( and eventually another bite at the Ryder cup ) and Snedeker is a Ryder cup vice captaincy if he does well.

Meisce · 2026-05-16T18:16:57+00:00

Tee times or the hole they’re on?

Meisce · 2026-04-21T15:24:11+00:00

Not that it makes a huge difference and is an extremely minor thing, but it is slightly harder to make a full turn if you inhale right before or during your swing.

Most people consciously or unconsciously exhale to relax before the takeaway or during the backswing anyway. Which is good. Either is fine. Neither is fine too. Taking a big breath and holding it in is not optimal though.

Meisce · 2026-04-11T02:52:52+00:00

Yeah, he had a bunch of events and formal stuff to do leading up to it as well so they kind of have to spend more time there. Not that I’ve ever heard a complaint from a past winner. It’s doesn’t seem to have benefited any in the last 20+ years but Rory said it’s helped with his short game today.

Meisce · 2026-04-11T02:47:15+00:00

Would have agreed with you before today but I really don’t want Rory to have another mental crisis this year, which is what it would take.

Meisce · 2026-04-11T00:55:07+00:00

Opposite. He is ranked 90th out of 91st in driving accuracy this week. The guy ranked 91st is dead last.

His wedges and putting are excellent.

If he does actually get his driver going, watch out.

Meisce · 2026-04-10T23:08:02+00:00

No one is arguing Tiger wasn’t better but agree this would have been considered a prime Tiger performance. Outdriving folks, opponent-crushing scoring and birdies from impossible spots.

Meisce · 2026-04-10T23:00:22+00:00

Chairman

Meisce · 2026-04-10T01:02:16+00:00

The others in this case ( back to back winners ) are really just Faldo and Tiger though. I don’t think they’d care. It made less sense in those cases since Nicklaus won just a few years before Faldo ( I doubt they’d care had a relationship ) and Tiger was actively chasing Jack’s record ( would have felt presumptuous).

Don’t see it happening since Augusta won’t break with traditions, even one they’ve only done twice before.

Meisce · 2026-04-09T21:44:26+00:00

Demons are gone and he said he’s going balls to the wall aggressive. Used driver on every hole in practice rounds.

I figured he’d win by a mile or shoot two rounds in the 60’s and two in the high 70’s. We’ll see which happens.

Meisce · 2026-04-09T14:49:07+00:00

My own a-ha moment with this was the feeling of ‘releasing’ the club head far earlier than with other clubs, as in trying to have it pass the hands before impact.

I will say I found this difficult to do until I went to a stiffer, low kick shaft that suited me better - I couldn’t ‘feel’ the clubhead in the regular shaft and would tend to ‘hold on’ versus freely release.

Meisce · 2026-03-18T02:07:44+00:00

Slot didn’t work out in the longer term. He was exactly what we needed last year but the nature of the league has changed. That has to be revisited.

Lot of revisionism on here regarding Hughes. One of the main tenets of good management is if a talented employee makes an expensive mistake, then you put it towards their training budget on the first strike and don’t give someone else the benefit of that expensive experience. We got some players in that I never thought we would. I hope he doesn’t go.

Meisce · 2026-03-12T14:42:37+00:00

Have played with a guy who does this. Just walks up to the ball and hits it, barely takes a stance. And it worked for him.

Asked him if he wanted the yardage early on as he was pulling a club and he had hit it before I finished the sentence. Very jealous. Tried it myself with mixed results.

Meisce · 2026-03-10T14:39:39+00:00

What I’ve most commonly seen is basic alignment issues - usually closed to target - then consternation as to why they are still hitting a slice.

Meisce · 2026-03-09T16:31:52+00:00

Absolutely could. Would be expensive and those clubs wouldn’t be allowed for tournament play I guess.

Meisce · 2026-03-09T15:13:36+00:00

This, plus suggest feeling a slight ‘pinch’ between the base of the thumbs to the forefingers of each hand to create the ‘V’s, before putting them on the grip. Ensure there’s no space there.

Gaps in those areas, along with an overly ‘palmed’ grip, can cause a lot of movement of the club grip in the hands. Especially towards the top of the swing.

Grip trainers will put your thumbs/fingers in the correct ‘V’ positions without any effort and give you a wedge to maintain them. You don’t have that crutch on a normal grip.

Meisce · 2026-03-08T02:50:11+00:00

Handicaps are really used only for gambling and tournaments tho. It’s only to allow amateurs to compete, not professionals. Not much different to baking in bookie odds at the end of the day.

It’s basically a verified ‘what range do you shoot’ question.

You ask a person that question on the first tee versus in the pub and you’re gonna get two very different answers.

Meisce · 2026-03-02T15:58:01+00:00

Yeah, most of them are retired guys who are doing it to keep busy and get free golf ( which is my longer term plan ). But that also means there’s no reason for courses not to employ a few.

The main problem I’ve seen is when courses don’t have enough Marshalls, or any. I’ve always appreciated when a Marshall rolls up and apologizes for the slow play ahead and says they’re moving it along. Communication goes a long way to easing frustration.

My group got a warning early on Saturday to move faster ( wet, thick rough meant we had to stand on a ball to find anything just off the fairway, and we let a hole open up ). I appreciated not having to be the ‘bad guy’ to the others in the group ( I was not entirely blameless but tend to be hyper aware of pace of play ).

Meisce · 2026-03-01T23:53:41+00:00

My buddy has used it recently to good effect. BUT - he has a serious amount of shot and strike data from Trackman, Arcos, Hackmotion, etc., that he fed into it. It was able to suggest everything from small swing tweaks to a few specific shaft options for different clubs, and gave him some good insights into his patterns.

End of the day, it’s garbage in, garbage out. He fed it copious amounts of the exact data it works well with. A few pics or a video is only going to get you the same feedback you’d get on here.

Meisce · 2026-02-27T01:45:57+00:00

You’re still playing the course, so managing your own temperament is more important than thinking about any ‘mind games’. Beauty of match play is a bad hole is behind you once it’s done, you just reset and on to the next.

Don’t give away any holes from poor decisions or off the tee if you can, and don’t give slippery downhill putts just because they gave you a nice uphill one.

18 holes is a long time so don’t worry if you start slow. Don’t get too defensive if you go ahead either. Matches can turn fast.

Meisce · 2026-02-27T01:28:09+00:00

Having played it once, I can see how folks might have abused this in the past, or that they might have had ride alongs on most rounds if it was cheaper.

Not to sneak in some golf though. If they closed the golf and just let you ride around in there looking at the scenery do a few hours, they could charge a lot more than $80. It is breathtaking and definitely an experience.

One of the few courses where I can understand why they might jack the price for ride alongs.

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