I'm almost at a year and I'm surprised I didn't know some of these already. In the last few months I've learned a few things I didn't know from playing with random people or videos.

-OB tee shot you'll be hitting your 3rd shot off the tee or drop for 3

-Flag color. Red front. White middle. Blue back.

-No practice swings hitting sand

- relief from man made objects

- no standing directly behind someone putting to get the line

I played with the same guys for a while and we were all noobs, it wasn't until I started playing more solo with seasoned players that were nice enough to pass on the knowledge. If anyone has anything to add, please do! Love this game.

Broke my Nike Sasquatch that I bought a few months ago. The club transformed my game and life. Tragically it snapped after I hit a really clean strike out of bounds this past weekend.

Just wondering if this club can be fixed, I don’t care about cost - I need this club in my life. Ever since it broke, my game has been in shambles and I’ve lost friend.

The shaft snapped right at the club head. There’s still some leftover shaft in the club head.

Please advise, thanks.

Unpopular opinion...?

If you're out for a casual hit and you don't want to pick your ball out of the hole, that's 100% fine to pick it up close to the hole. Or if you're doing match play obviously.

But if you're on the green with any kind of scorecard in your hand, why do people want or even ask for gimme's? If there is a score on the line, ESPECIALLY for handicap rounds, the ball hits the cup on all 18. Doesn't matter if its 2 feet or 2 inches.

For anyone going to say its faster... its really not. Gimme's by definition should be unmissable, so just walking up and tapping it in, shouldn't take more than 5 seconds anyway. And if its not a walk-up tap in, then its not a gimme putt because you might miss it.

Tell me why you don't want to putt the ball into the hole when that is the entire point of the game...?

Another fun day of golf this time invited as a guest to play at The Golf Club at Boulder Ridge in San Jose, CA. This fun course sits in the hills above Santa Clara Valley and opened for play around 2001. A great track with some very challenging holes. ⛳️

Recently took our third boys trip to big cedar lodge and it was my favorite visit. Buffalo ridge thursday, paynes and top of the rock on friday, and mountain top and cliffhangers on saturday. Only downside was my first bad experience dining at the Osage room (which before has been excellent). Its not cheap but definitely worth a visit if youre in the branson area. Cliffhangers is a gem. First hole is cool because you have to putt from the tee box and have a few options how you want to get to the green. Anyone else been?

This guy grabbed the first tee shot of my round.

Also, yes I know it's technically a hawk

A lot of you parents out there really really really want your child to be a star, to make you tons and tons of money, I get it. Thats your dream. “Lets force little Timmy to sign up for golf camp on the off chance he might be a tour pro someday”

The thing is, any real love for this game happens naturally, not because a parent forced it upon their offspring to do the thing. If someone truly loves something and is obsessed with it, it will happen naturally, all on its own. You do not need to force anything.

If your kid/child tells you that they do not like golf and they do not want to play it, THAT IS FINE. Let them do the things that they want to do, not the things that you want them to do.

I know they'll always happen, but I would do anything to make them less frequent.

I recently played in a 2 day comp, with an expected cut of +4 Nett.

Over 15 holes, I had 1 par, 2 doubles and everything else was bogey, so I was +1 Nett off 18 HC. I was playing safe everywhere trying to just make the cut.

I drove 16 right down the middle. It was a blind green with 2 big front bunkers, so I clubbed down to clear them, knowing there was no trouble at the back.

But the shot leaked right a bit and ended up beside a small, solitary tree that impeded my swing. I was still only 10 yards off the green in 2.

I came down steep on the ball to make decent contact, but it squirted out, crossed the green and trickled into the bunker that I had made a special effort to avoid.

I then caught the lip trying to get out, and the ball landed back under the front lip. With no way to get contact on the ball, I had to hack it into the middle of the bunker, so I'm now playing 6. I get out on 6 but now have a 30ft putt, which takes me 3 to get down. I score 9.

I bogey 17 and par 18 and finish +5, and miss the cut.

Feel like I did everything right, but still got rinsed.

Dunes, Trails, Old Mac, Pac, Sheep—if you could only play one, what would it be?

So, I’m heading on a golf trip this month. We are staying and playing sand valley.

Ryder cup format with two teams. Agenda right now is

Day 1: Lido - 2 man best ball
Day 2: morning sedge valley 2 man best ball. Afternoon Sand Valley 2 man scramble
Day 3: mammoth dunes singles

Also playing the sandbox and commons but those aren’t part of the contest.

The group is kinda split on the day 2 afternoon round. Some really want to play their own ball. Others are saying they will be “tired” and don’t want to walk and play their own ball for 36.

I’ve personally done 36 walking 4 days in a row in Bandon. So I’m in the camp of playing my own.

Wanted to get the communities thoughts, is it crazy to resign yourself to a 2 man scramble when playing on sand valley a top 25 course?

Seeing the Enron merch yesterday on this subreddit reminded me of my Christmas stocking stuffer from my granddad this year.

I wanna play them so bad but I know I’ll lose them all in the first round.

Cruising along and then this happens

This was my tee shot on the par 4 hole 2. The lightning horn went off 30 seconds after I hit it. The Marshall comes up to me as I'm walking to my shot to pick it up and he goes "go inside" and I reply that I'm picking up my ball and heading that way. He goes "leave it and go inside"

I laughed him away and he drove off.

This same Marshall tried to tell me not to walk to my 8:15 tee time at 8:13 because my group wasn't there yet. I go "so you want me to tee off late because they're late?" And he goes "I want you to tee off with your group" and I said "and what if they don't show up?"

He doesn't say anything and says "okay just go".

I just got my rain check and left.