Forum: General Golf Talk

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-2178126 lets be nice to the courses.

Hi All - relatively new here. I joined in 2009 but this past month is the first time I have really gone through the threads daily and I am loving this site. Anyways I have Golf rushing through my veins again and I can not get enough. I replaced my 10 year old sticks this year and I am always...

all my posts are stupid because i have no idea how to write. i'm kinda stupid too so i write stupid things. im sorry if im stupid anyway anyway...im trying to learn the classic swing, which is the old golf swing like sam snead and mike austin. the classic swing i heard gives you better...

ask any question and i will answer it. please be serious about it. anything about golf and how to improve. i'm a coach and i will help. the pervious posts i had written are to show you my philosophy on improvement. so if you want to improve, ask your questions please. and no insults, rudeness,...

The bain of my game. They go on too long, you just have to hit too many good shots in a row. I can't seem to keep the needle in the groove for the whole hole. My chances of having a good hole are better with 8i on a par 3 than sitting 100 yards out on a par 5. If you compared my stats...

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Hi Everyone. :) Hello and greetings from Australia, my name is Bob and I am Scottish and I am new to the Ottawa Golf Site and i wonder if anyone might be able to help me.I am currently collecting and Documenting the History of golf tournaments being played on Ice and in the Snow. The Dutch are...

Hi I golfed at Heritage yesterday (Sept 18th) and left a blue vest. If someone from Ottawa is going to Heritage in the near future it would be greatly appreciated and save me a trip if you can pick up my vest . Let me know and we can discuss details. Thanks Frank

Ok guys - does anyone know of a website which lists Canadian course with their slopes and ratings? I can't understand why courses don't include such info on their scorecards nor why the RCGA doesn't mandate such...however, many, many don't...and it drives me 'NUTS!' When I try to record such for...

We just took part in a Scramble event at the Marshes put on by the OLG Casino. A full field with a lot of non-golfers & random-drawn teams too. Expecting a 6 hour-hour for sure.:thumbsdow What they did was go with MAX-BOGEY per hole. We finished in just over 4 1/2 hours...JUST AMAZING!!!! ...

Just wondering what everyone thinks about the new Tee It Forward initiative being promoted. It focuses on people moving up a set of tees to make the game more enjoyable and help speed up play? Would you ever do this? I firmly believe you should be able to consistently shoot at least in the 70s...

Played Equinelle this morning and got my first hole in one on #8 :-) it was playing 154 yards into a strong breeze...hit my 27 degree hybrid...landed about 6 feet from the hole and rolled in. Only took me 16 years to get it :P. Couldn't focus afterwards but manage to shoot an 87 which is good...

Congrats to Denis on his 66 at Hautes Plaines today. Denis has figured out the secret to golf... swing like you don't give a **** http://golf.ubersense.com/video/view/yN5Sresm

Interesting......I'd try it once for fun :P http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1752658-the-golf-board-lets-you-travel-a-golf-course-like-a-snowboarder-or-surfer

Playing Nation this morning my buddy had his big drive just crunched by a suicidal chickadee (guessing, but very small bird). Just a big POOUUFF of feathers & we could see the head spinning down into the gully. We made him play it when we found it . No blood though...:-) Anybody ever lose a...

http://www.tsn.ca/golf/story/?id=429952 The story shows a picture with an R9 supertri, but he can't still be hitting that right? And regardless of the picture how does TM not have a rep with weight port covers on site?

As I am now in my 50th year which ends in June of next year I am wondering why there are so many differences in the 'Senior' age depending on where one plays. The Pro's who theoretically would be in better physical shape than your average amatuer have 50 as the Golden Age. Golf Quebec/Blue...

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https://vine.co/v/hAVXOiHgDOq Trick shot.

Just a little read on why I personally root for Phil. Hope you like http://www.tweetatmesports.com/a-vantage-point-from-a-huge-fan-of-lefty/.

What's the most coin you've won/lost in a match? One time I lost $22.

http://scoregolf.com/articles/news/2013/july/toronto-courses-flooded-by-record-storm Hopefully our friends in TO can get out and golf soon. Even Brampton was hit hard.

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How did everyone do this weekend for those of you who were qualifying? I'm not sure how many courses are doing it on the same weekend? We had our first two of three rounds. I played pretty decent on Saturday with a 77 and 31 Stableford Points with three 3-putts. Should have been around 74 I...

It's been a while since we had one of these, and based on my round from Wednesday, let's start another. Started the night badly with a triple on the first that included a whiffed (or fully chunked depending on how you look at it) chip shot, followed by a normal chunked chip. Yeah! Rode the...

Heading to Tremblant the July 1st weekend and looking to play some golf. Which of these courses would you recommend and why? Thanks!!!

The swing analyzers that are coming on the market (swingbyte and skypro) now look amazing. They track club head speed, face angle etc. very accurately. Has anyone asked the question or heard talk of them replacing the likes of Optishot or P3Proswing to track the club and then send that data...

Yesterday, after holing my tee shot with a 4 hybrid on the 180 yard par 3 fourth on Greensmere Legacy for my 5th hole-in-one, my fellow competitor hit an iron on the 9th that rolled just short of the hole but dead on line. Tap in 2 Later, Gerry hit his iron on the par 3 seventeenth and yelled...

Well, after many years I finally shot my first round under par today! I was one over on the front, one bogey and 8 pars. Birdied 11 and started to think even or better was in reach. Bogey on 14 followed by birdie on 15 means I am standing on 16 even par. 16 at RideauView is a long par 5 and I...

http://www.golfworks.ca/article.asp?ai=928&eid=haneyBT&lm=golf Grand Prize: the following prize will be awarded: Trip for one (1) to Phoenix, Arizona October 25th-27th, 2013, to participate in a private clinic with Hank Haney and PURE grips. Prize includes the following: Roundtrip...

Looking to get out for a round on the way home from Syracuse this Sunday. Looking for a decent course, doesn't have to be hard or expensive but would like conditions that makes it worth not just driving straight home. Anyone have any recommendations for a course not too far out of the way,...

Am I the only one who has been noticing the obnoxious galleries lately? I have been watching Travellers for the last couple of days, and people are shouting such ridiculous and moronic things on the tees. I just watched Justin Rose tee off and they were yelling during his downswing. Bubba's...

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Awesome idea! If something similar is launched in Canada, I'll be a staunch supporter :thumbsup Check out the videos as well, really funny stuff. http://www.compleatgolfer.co.za/blogs/news/usgas-while-young-campaign/

Is there a place in the city, that has a good selection of drivers that can be hit out to a range without using those annoying rubber tees!!?? I'm in the market for a new driver, and I have hit the same one totally different with the same swing depending on which sim I am in at GT. Not being able...

Help! I am having some distance control problems with my short irons and wedges. Two or three times a round I will have a shot flagged or so I think, only to watch in horror as it flies the target distance by 10-15 yards. My irons have the Nippon N.S. Pro 105T shafts and I am having a devil of a...

This is a little tour, a little rules and a little curiosity. Today Tiger left his putt on the green because they stopped play due to darkness at the US Open. How do they spot his ball on the green in the morning? If they don't cut or roll the greens overnight there is no issue with his ball...

Just wanted to report on a positive experience my brother and I had... Played Loch March last Saturday afternoon with my brother. The starter saw that we were carting, as well as the twosome ahead of us, and advised that there were two threesome's ahead of both of our groups...and they were...

Does anyone else have trouble accessing this page frequently? It seems like the SQL timeout gets met fairly frequently causing you to have to log back in and try again. Right now I've been trying to enter a round for over 20 minutes :rolleyes Sounds like you need to add some database...

Hi Everyone, I'm not trying to be a dick and tell people what they should or shouldn't do, but I implore you to please wear sunscreen, or some sort of UV protection, when you're doing outdoor activities such as golf. A friend at work passed away this morning from skin cancer (malignant...

Is a lot different than here. http://monocle.com/film/Affairs/korean-golf/

I would like to know if anyone has to make changes in their swing when they are at the driving range hitting off a mat vs. Hitting off real grass ?

This blows my mind. (Lyrics in song playing are NSFW) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-m5yqL_M-c&feature=player_embedded

I played golf barefoot for the first time since I was a kid last Monday at Montebello, this wasn't planned. I was on the 8th hole, I think it's called The Brook, I overcooked my drive and my ball looked to have bounced into the Brook. We drive down there and look for my ball beside the Brook then I...

..strokes do you think you lose in a round, if any, from not knowing the exact yardage to the pin? Obviously it's impossible to get an exact figure for this question, but we could estimate how many times you are playing a round without range finder or gps, and you end up either short of the...

Hey,last week I played and walked 36 holes of golf at 2 courses,played Casselview at 630 am and teed off at Gatineau at 130 pm...has anyone else ever done something like this or am I the crazy one here...:-)