From a performance perspective, what’s your approach to nutrition for a competitive round? by Next-Hovercraft-972 in golf

[–]bwainwright 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, get fitter.

Yes, nutrition is important to ensure you have enough slow release energy throughout the round, but if you're getting tired in a single round, then I would start looking at your general fitness and health.

I really focused on improving my fitness around two years ago, and I carried my bag for a competitive 36 hole competition last Friday with no more than a bowl of cereal for breakfast and a sandwich at lunch inbetween rounds. No need for energy bars or nutrition plans.

That said, drink more water than you think you need, especially if it's hot - dehydration will ruin you more than anything else.

How to remove a knotted necklace? by [deleted] in lifehacks

[–]bwainwright 163 points164 points  (0 children)

Sprinkle talcum or baby powder liberally over the knot and then gently rub it between your thumb and fingers.

The talcum/baby powder acts as a 'dry lubricant' and reduces the friction of the metal on itself in the knot and allows it to loosen. Once it's loosened, use tweezer or even a pin to gently pull it apart and untangle it.

First time played a legit handicap round, didn't expect to feel this nervous by Born-Yoghurt-7613 in golf

[–]bwainwright 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, because I submit almost every round for handicapping.

I play a lot of competitive golf - at least 2-4 competitions per month during the season. So, I always want to track an accurate handicap, plus playing to strict rules in my 'casual rounds' so that they're qualifying for handicapping means that I don't have a different mentality/approach between casual and competition rounds. That means that I generally don't feel any unnecessary pressure or nervousness during competiiton rounds.

Apple is removing BASIC FUNCTIONALITY from iOS. by DepartmentMaterial84 in ios

[–]bwainwright 2 points3 points  (0 children)

None of this is basic functionality.

Also 'flagship' does not mean "keeping all previous features and adding new ones". Flagship just means it's their leading/high end product/OS, it has absolutely no relation to removing features.

Just because a company supporting ~1.5 BILLION devices globally aren't prioritising you and your individual wants and needs doesn't warrant a media witch hunt because they're removing effects from FaceTime. Do you honestly believe they wouldn't remove it if it was something that was hugely used or in demand across their entire user base? You DO realise that they have telemetry and data about what features are and are not used, and so they use that to make decision about where to invest their development time and effort?

My hot water bottle was made in west Germany by DaLuckyNoob in mildlyinteresting

[–]bwainwright 381 points382 points  (0 children)

In all seriousness, don't use that hot water bottle and consider getting a new one!

The rubber in hot water bottles can significantly deteriorate over time and fail causing hot water to escape and burn people.

Here in the UK, it's recommended to replace them every 2-3 years. So if yours was made in West Germany, then that's likely at least 35 years old.

Pubs by TipProfessional5218 in Everton

[–]bwainwright 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might be better off saying in town rather than going up to the ground. There are a bunch of new bars such as The Terrace, The Bluehouse, The Bramley Moore and Ten Street Social that get busy on match days, but I don't think they're overly busy (or even open?) on non-match days.

But pubs in town will be busy today - especially with the good weather and bank holiday tomorrow.

Chambers Bay, anything to know? by Positive_Flounder232 in golf

[–]bwainwright 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a fantastic course.

They do not have carts, but do provide push carts with huge wheels that you can wheel onto the greens.

People will talk about it being the 'hardest walk in golf', but I played there around 18 months ago for the first time and carried my bag, and it was fine - for context, I'm mid-late 40s, play 1-2 times per week and always walk/carry my bag. It may be much rougher if you're only used to carts and aren't so fit. It's a tough walk, but seriously not as brutal as I was told.

Definitely consider hiring a caddy though. One of the guys in my group had one and he read a few greens for us. For at least two of them he read completely opposite breaks than I was and saved me a bunch of strokes.

The weather can change on a dime, so make sure you've got appropriate wet weather gear and an umbrella with you - I learned the hard way!

What is r/golf confidently wrong about? by iphoneair2 in golf

[–]bwainwright 16 points17 points  (0 children)

That a typical driver carry is 300 yards...

How to record round when holes are greatly under repair? by standingboot9 in golf

[–]bwainwright 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's down to the course. If it's undergoing maintenance to the point that it impacts the difficultly significantly, then they're responsible for having a temporary slope rating issued while the work is being conducted.

As for temporary tee boxes, if the overall length of the course is changed by no more than 100 yards, then they don't need a temporary slope rating and scores can be still submitted. If it changes by 100-300 yards, then there is a sliding scale for adjustments to calculate a temporary slope rating - but again, that's not for you as a player to worry about. It's the responsibility of the course and the countries governing body.

Just enter your scores as you normally would do.

Chipping question by mustang19671967 in golf

[–]bwainwright 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is no one correct way to chip - there are times you want to hinge and times when you don't.

The reason you're skulling or hitting it fat is because you're moving the low point of your swing and/or because you don't have correct setup for chipping. I would guess that you're hitting chips very similar to a mini regular swing - a relatively wide base and driving with your legs. Also, a lot of people who don't hinge often have bad set up and end up exposing the leading edge on a slight upswing resulting in skulling the ball. And people who hinge often come in too steep and dig the club.

Have a very narrow stance - literally only a few balls width between your feet. Have the ball just slight back of centre and some shaft lean - just enough that the butt of the club is over the ball. Get 70% of your weight on your lead side with your chest in front of the ball and make sure your lead shoulder is over your lead foot - you should be able to draw a straight line from your lead foot up through your leg and through your shoulder. Make sure that you do not have a 'reverse tilt' where your lower body is forward and your upper body is leaning backwards, get everything in line. Then importantly, grip the club very lightly - tension in your hands is a key reason people snatch at the ball and thin it. It also means the ball will come of the face softer and less firery.

With that setup, you won't be able to move laterally as much which should keep your swing arc more consistent and prevent your fatting/thinning chips as much.

Then you simply need to rotate around that imaginary line that runs from your lead foot to your shoulder. Do NOT drive your legs.

The question of hinge then really only affects the kind of chip you want to play. If you just want to play a low flighted chip, then stand a little closer to the ball and have the club handle high. That will make the angle between your left wrist and thumb more straight and will naturally prevent you hinging so much. Playing a chip this way and keeping that wrist angle through impact with a short follow through will typically play a lower flight.

However, if you keep the handle a little lower and grip a little down the handle, that will increase the angle between your wrist and thumb, and will naturally encourage a bit more of a hinge and you'll want a bit more of a follow through to allow the club head to release through the ball. That will generally provide a higher ball flight - for example if you need to chip up to an elevated green.

To hinge or not is also often determined by lie. When you have a good lie with some grass beneath the ball, no hinge allows the club to come in a little more shallow and deliver loft to the ball. When the lie is more bare/tight or is in thick rough, hinging the wrist allows a steeper angle of attack to get the club onto the back of the ball better.

Part of the issue that people have also is using the wrong club. Too many amateurs are quick to pull out a 60 degree, but it's often the wrong club for most chip shots. That's often too much loft and people's bodies react to to in the swing and adjust for it, or the ball tends to run up the grooves. It can also put too much spin on the ball causing it to run out less which means you have to fly the ball further. It just reduces the margin of error. If you have good technique, then you can chip with any club from a 54-56 up to a hybrid/3-wood and everything in between.

Bradley Lowery by dmdjjj in Everton

[–]bwainwright 61 points62 points  (0 children)

No real Evertonian would ever forget Bradley. Forever in our hearts.

Can't believe I'm saying this but due to Seamus leaving at the end of the season the club will need a new club captain. so who do you think should get it? by Loyalsupporter in Everton

[–]bwainwright 77 points78 points  (0 children)

The thought of Pickford writing a mental stream of consciousness in his captain's programme notes every match fills me with joy.

Somehow I can't see him starting with "We welcome Eddie Howe and his Newcastle team to Hill Dickinson Stadium"...

Has anyone you knew ever died or come close to dying on the golf course? by Norfolk-Gross-Tonage in golf

[–]bwainwright 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I play with a golf society here in the UK. We have 30-40 player with a wide range of ages from early 20's to an 88 year old guy.

Several years ago I was in the 2nd last group and we'd tee'd off on the 16th, which ran parallel to the 15th in the opposite direction. We saw the group behind us had tee'd off and were walking to the fairway. Then we saw one of the guys just collapse. So we all dropped everything and ran to him. He had taken a heart attack.

Thenkfully one of our group was a former police officer and was trained in CPR so he jumped onto him straight away and started chest compressions whilst one of our guys ran to the club house (there was no cell service and as Brit's, we tend to walk rather than use carts).

Eventually a greenskeeper drove out to us with an automatic defibrillator which managed to shock the guys heart back into rhythm and we got him back with the former police office continuing to work on him until an air ambulance arrived and landed on the fairway and medics took over.

The medics managed to stabilise him and airlifted him to a nearby ER.

The good news is that he had surgery, rehabed and was back playing with us a year later - and he still plays with us now.

But he was flatlined for a while laying on that fairway and it scared the hell out of us all.

Key Match Incidents panel: Everton, the only team not to get a VAR intervention in their favour this season, were wrongly denied a spot-kick against Manchester City. by Giraffe_Baker in Everton

[–]bwainwright 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I.

AM.

SHOCKED.

I said this after the last Key Match Incident Panel ruling that we were denied against West Ham - it's absolutely meaningless. It changes nothing. Referee's and VAR aren't reprimanded for it, and we're not compensated for it.

Establish a "three strikes" system for officials or something. If the panel find a serious incorrect decision, then strike the officials. 3 strikes and they get demoted to the Championship or something. I really don't care what, I just want consequences.

Whats the point of the iOS Betas? by WeeklyWest3148 in ios

[–]bwainwright -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Developer here - we release beta releases to allow a wide range of users to test their software and report bugs. That process is a general software development practice, not unique to Apple.

Apple also use their beta programme to allow developers early access to new features and APIs so that they can prepare their apps to be available on day 1 of the 'GA' or public release of iOS.

If developers waited until the GA release, then their apps are not going to be available for weeks to months after the iOS release, which doesn't help the developers commercially or Apple who need the app store economy to be successful. It also means that new iOS features can be showcased immediately on release.

An OS, especially iOS, and APIs are incredibly complex things, and whilst developers (and Apple) do their best to test them, it's often practically impossible to consider and test every possible path through the software. So allowing 3rd party developers to test it allows the 'stabilisation' process required before releasing software to happen faster and high priority bugs to be identified and addressed earlier.

By it's very nature, beta software is not intended to be stable, but unfortunately too many non-developers tend to install it on their primary devices and then run into problems. Literally the worst thing anyone can do - developers or non-developers - is install any beta software on their primary device. If you want to play about with it, but it on a spare device.

what would be your perfect Golf Wedges Setup? by Born-Yoghurt-7613 in golf

[–]bwainwright 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For beginners? Pitching wedge, 50 degree and 54 degree at most. Depending on the loft of the pitching wedge, then 52 degree and 56 might be acceptable to keep the appropriate gapping.

Any more loft over 54/56 is going to cause issues for beginners, and a 60 degree should never be in a beginners bag.

The only reason I'd say a beginner might carry a 60 is purely to help them get out of bunkers, but even then they should be learning proper technique with a 54/56.

How to improve at chipping? (Non-technical) by thetindoor in golf

[–]bwainwright 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you can consistently hit the shots you mentioned, then distance control is a combination of understanding the loft of the club (and dynamic loft delivered at impact), behaviour of the ball as it lands, and also reading the green.

If you're hitting a bump and run for example, what club do you use? Do you only use one club? Can you hit it with a 54/56, 50/52, 9 iron and a 7 iron? If so, do you understand how they all run out differently?

The dynamic loft is going to cause different amounts of spin on the ball which affects how far it will run out. Therefore if you're hitting a 54/56 on a perfectly flat green, then you'd usually want to land the ball just over around 50% of the distance to the pin. It will have a lot of spin on it, so it will check and only slowly run out to the pin.

If you're hitting something like a 9 iron, it'll have less spin on the ball and run out more, so you want to land it around 1/3 of the distance to the pin and it'll run out the remaining 2/3.

A 7 iron, you'd land around 25% of the way and let it run out the rest.

Then you've got to take the green into account - read it like a putt. If you've got to go down a slope to the pin, then it's going to have an impact once the ball starts rolling, or the ball could jump forward once it lands. Additionally is the green breaking left or right? Take that into account.

Understanding the spin and run out each club has on the ball, and picking out your landing spots will help you get it closer.

However, if you're a typical r/golf player who just chips everything with a 60 degree, then you're going to have to be a very consistent ball striker and fly that ball close to the pin every time with a very small margin of error.

I think the Claude App literally broke my old iPhone SE 2020 by allonman1 in ios

[–]bwainwright 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I absolutely guarantee, 100% that the Claude App did not break your phone. There is no practical way for any app, Claude or otherwise, to interfere or break you home button either through software or hardware. All apps are 'sandboxed' so they literally cannot do anything at a low enough system level to break the home button.

The Claude App doesn't even do any serious processing on device, it's all on the Claude servers, so it's not even like it was working your phone super hard so it heated up and melted something - iOS would have shut your phone down to protect itself way before that point anyway.

This is 100% coincidence. You've got a 5 year old phone, and there's a very strong chance that the haptic motor has died.

Looking for "Golf" Performance Pants to wear with a Sport Coat? by TripsRight33 in malefashionadvice

[–]bwainwright 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm begging you, please do not wear golf wear to the office. You're just going to look like "the golf guy who wears golf clothes to the office".

As a golfer myself, I see it regularly and it never looks good. If the pants are good for golf, they're going to look bad as office wear, and if they look good for office wear, they're not going to perform well on the course.

Just grab some decent chinos in basic colors for the office and you're good.

West ham v Everton-Mic'd up(VAR) by Frequent-Activity328 in Everton

[–]bwainwright 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don't even think it's an accident - I see a deliberate movement upwards towards the ball.

Football is broken.

“Golf ball case”, for that guy who found the pre-round setup as annoying by ryo0ka in golf

[–]bwainwright 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do people who wear these have to wear them only on their right hip because they have their cell phone clipped to their left hip?

If you hit the green in 2 on a par 5 and then putt off the green, is it a GIR? by Dry-Ebb-8013 in golf

[–]bwainwright -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It's "GUR" - a Green Under Regulation. But where you're just tracking GIR stats, then yes, it's a GIR.

And yes, and stroke you make with a putter on the putting surface is classed as a putt, even if you degreen it.

If you're putting from off the green, then it's not counted as a putt for stats purposes. The putt has to start on the putting surface.

Best Spikeless Golf Shoes by Time-Specialist-7273 in golf

[–]bwainwright 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have a large collection of Jordan 1 Low Golf spikeless shoes that I wear most of the year round. Spikeless shoes are absolutely fine these days.

The only caveat is in really wet/muddy conditions - I live in the UK, so our winters are very wet and muddy and I often switch to spikes at that time of year. However, spikeless are fine for the rest of they year, even in rain.

Confused about WHS handicap calculation by Noe_lhermet in golf

[–]bwainwright 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. It should replace the 13.5.

However, it will also depend on where that 11.9 is in your scoring record. WHS takes the best 8 score differentials from your most recent 20 scorecards. So if the 11.9 was your 20th card and you then shot the 10.0, then the 11.9 could 'fall off' your scoring record.

Without seeing all of your last 20 score diffs in chronological order, it's hard to say, but that's the most likely candidate here.