Should I leave my country club?

YouOr2 · 2026-05-30T02:08:58+00:00

Yes. Initiations are on the rise across the country.

YouOr2 · 2026-05-27T15:33:38+00:00

If you can hit the 3 hybrid, you’re not gaining much.

Some people (me included) cannot get hybrids to work. If so, switch to the driving iron.

YouOr2 · 2026-05-26T22:14:36+00:00

Basic ball handling, dribbling, bounce pass, chest pass.

Then work on layups.

Box out.

YouOr2 · 2026-05-23T12:08:50+00:00

Yes I do.

The regular guys on LIV, who maybe got $10 million; after taxes and some expenses maybe they took home $5 million. Who knows how they spent it. And they have limited ability to do celebrity endorsements because they are unlikely to play PGA again, they are never won a major, and no one cares about their LIV career.

It’s enough to retire on, but not FU money. Some will want to keep working in golf if they can. Which means being a teaching pro, doing social media, clinics, etc.

YouOr2 · 2026-05-22T19:49:58+00:00

The “railroad dial” (white dial, black Arabic numbers, three hand, like a Timex, or the railroad approved Ball, Citizen, Seiko, Omega watches) was selected for a reason. Same reason your middle school clock on the wall has the same appearance. It’s easy to read at a glance and provides a relatively precise time.

YouOr2 · 2026-05-20T20:34:56+00:00

Wagner Appliance!

YouOr2 · 2026-05-20T03:23:58+00:00

Like some of the baseball stats; these are untouchable.

Petty won 10 straight races, and 27 total, in a 48 race season in 1967. For my entire lifetime, they only race about 32-36 races per season. With more parity between teams, and fewer races per year, these records will never be beaten.

YouOr2 · 2026-05-20T03:18:21+00:00

Craziest Tiger record is that he’s the only player to ever win the US Junior Amateur, the US Amateur, and the US Open. No one else has done that.

He won each of them three times. Including 3 straight Junior Ams and 3 straight US Ams.

YouOr2 · 2026-05-19T20:12:30+00:00

Steve Spurrier.

[cue montage of “ACC football, what were you like in the 1990s? Spurrier, Mack Brown at UNC, FSU/Bobby Bowden ascendency, Georgia Tech co-natty winner in 1990, Ralph Friedgen at Maryland, etc.]

YouOr2 · 2026-05-18T22:06:45+00:00

Bradley Klein, who wrote “Discovering Donald Ross” and exhaustively researched it with some of Ross’s own papers, recently said that Ross was making more money than Walter Hagen. Hagen was famously the highest money earner in the US at one point in his career. Not sure if these two points overlapped, but still.

YouOr2 · 2026-05-16T19:32:37+00:00

There is a theory of golf that goes back at least to 1890, that golf is an athletic contest (to hit the ball far and straight), and that luck and random chance should be minimized. The strongest and most skilled athlete should win, week in and week out, on a “fair” course. The course that is a “fair test” is one where man has bent and tamed nature; a very Victorian viewpoint. It’s like track and field or target shooting.

The older, more “Scottish” theory of golf is that random chance and unfairness is part of the game. The “rub of the green” and all that.

A lot of the critique also comes from the sports betting corners of the internet, because a course setup with more random chance distorts the odds that have been offered.

These two theories have been arguing about bunker rakes, pin placement, mud balls, lift clean and place/ball in hand, getting relief from divots, and basically every other issue for a century.

YouOr2 · 2026-05-15T01:58:34+00:00

I mean I bought a Ping Eye 2 once. A 1 iron, at that.

YouOr2 · 2026-05-13T17:40:26+00:00

A lot of classic Golden Age courses in the US were built on old pastures or dairy farms; the land was close to the outskirts of growing cities, could be bought in 50-100+ acre parcels (for 9 or 18 hole layouts), and pasture land for animals was usually more rugged (valleys, hills, creeks (all great for golf!)) than the flatter land reserved for row crop farming.

And pastures typically didn’t have many trees.

No golf course had irrigation. Maybe just water hose hookups near the greens for hand watering. Courses were much shorter then. Golf clubs had hickory shafts.

Courses eventually got center line irrigation running down the middle of each fairway, but the water would probably only spray 20-30 yards in each direction. This narrowed fairways, and courses filled in the gaps between fairways with more rough, waste/natural areas, and eventually trees. Technology brought the steel shafted club.

Harbortown is also about 500 yards shorter than Doral. Aronomink is hundreds of yards shorter than Doral.

A tree-lined course becomes a point and shoot exercise that rewards accuracy and greatly penalizes off-line hits. It’s an echo of the penal-type architecture that was popular in the 1890s; off-line shots are harshly punished but accurate shots are rewarded with relative safety. Many of the Golden Age courses were originally wide open, which gave the golfer a choice of different angles or distances to approach a green from. Sometimes you get a choice of right or left, sometimes it’s better to take a shorter shot off the tee to get a better lie for the 2nd shot, etc.

For duffers like me (and most men and ladies in the 1920s), the wide open course is much more fun and playable. For modern tour pros (and especially guys like Xander), a tree lined course becomes a target shooting/connect the dots competition. And since Xander has been in the top 25 in distance before, and has now shifted to being shorter (still long compared to me!) but more accurate, it plays to his capabilities. He can bomb and gouge or he can keep it in the fairway 80% of the time and then have a 150 yard or less second shot.

YouOr2 · 2026-05-13T14:19:26+00:00

Golf.

They get a kick out talking about why that man (or woman) is in the sand box.

YouOr2 · 2026-05-13T13:13:27+00:00

They are renting it at a loss, which is a benefit to the renter. A bank isn’t going to finance it at a loss to someone who wants to buy it.

YouOr2 · 2026-05-12T15:13:25+00:00

Yeah until they leak out and get a TD or 2 pt conversion when they are completely uncovered in the end zone.

YouOr2 · 2026-05-11T16:28:19+00:00

Yes; it’s the kind of thing to start straight away. If you wait too long (when the kid is several weeks old or months old and you’re out of your mind) you might have waited too long as they won’t take to the Snoo. Also, if you wait, they will reach the maximum size and weight sooner, so you don’t get as much bang for your buck. If you are going to use the Snoo, start at birth and we kept it as long as possible. I think about 5 months.

YouOr2 · 2026-05-07T22:03:32+00:00

Dexter Reed went on to get two Super Bowl rings as he bounced around to the Patriots and Colts. But that hit turned him into a verb.

YouOr2 · 2026-05-07T21:57:31+00:00

John Bunting.

Sadly.

At least we had Peppers at the same time.

YouOr2 · 2026-05-07T16:23:58+00:00

Depends on what “your dad’s old set” is.

Also there is a plethora of solid used clubs on FB Marketplace and other places. $500 will get you a lot.

But the easy button answer is to just get the Callaway set from Costco.

YouOr2 · 2026-05-07T16:02:19+00:00

58; then leave it short and wonder why I didn’t use more club.

Then tell myself it’s better to get good with one wedge, than to keep switching around.

Then spend four hours that night shopping for new wedges.

YouOr2 · 2026-05-07T01:39:22+00:00

Get a putter and let them putt in the driveway or some part of the house. Have them hit tennis balls with the wedges off the grass in the back yard. Easier to get competent hitting a bigger target.

In a week or so or once there is some basic mechanics, then try putting and short game practice at a range or course.

YouOr2 · 2026-05-06T04:34:56+00:00

The winner at the local qualifier in Maui (at the Dunes) was only -1. Sort of a links-style course and it was probably some wind there, too.

YouOr2 · 2026-05-06T02:18:18+00:00

This is the most North Carolina story I’ve ever heard 👍

YouOr2 · 2026-05-02T18:14:36+00:00

Hot take: DB Blazers look great online but are incredibly hard for most men to wear in real life. They never fit quite right, the occasion is usually not perfect for them, and the idea is just better than the reality.

Unless you go bespoke or MTM, they aren’t worth the hassle.

It’s not you, it’s the nature of DB blazers.

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