Golf

[Powderfinger]

I haven't played in 8 years or so, though 3 times I've get to the driving range. I'm not saying I can play, but, I'm still pretty good.

I get Irons and Woods at the driving range...I don't have my own.

9 iron , about 115 metres

8 iron , about 130 metres

4 iron, about 160 metres...I hate the 4 iron.

3 iron, about 180 metres

Driver....I hit 4 - 230 metres straight drives, half were sliced and hooked, when I made allounces.

My brother in law was a Pro Golfer years ago, He never made it big, though, he got a albatross in a big tournament in Australia. What's a albatross? On a Par 5, he got it in the hole in 2 shots.

[stealthfighter077]

I can get a hole-in-one at golf land, if that counts...

[Nausicaä]

When I hear the word Golf:

http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2008/2/22/zzzzzzzzzzzz128481644684531250.jpg

Add crazy and I'm slightly more interested. ;)

[Powderfinger]

I can get a hole-in-one at golf land, if that counts...

Do mean putt putt Golf?

[rauldc14]

I love golf. I used to be pretty good but not anymore. I can't hit irons at all. So I basically use 3-4 clubs in my bag.

[The Rodent]

I don't play Golf.




I play Swishf**k!


Swish..."F**k!". Swish... "F**k!"

[Gabriella Lynn]

Do mean putt putt Golf?


Yeah he means putt putt golf lol.

[Gabriella Lynn]

I had golf lessons and played a bit when I was younger and home schooled. I liked it then. My grandparents favorite hobby together.

[mark f]

What you call an albatross is technically correct, I suppose. I've only ever heard it called a double eagle. If your lengths are accurate for the 9- and 8-iron, then you should hit the 4-iron much further. Have you tried the 5 or 6? Personally, I love the 4-iron and hate the 3.

[lundy1026]

i<3golf

[Powderfinger]

Yeah, I'm ***t at the 4 iron.

[gandalf26]

I haven't played in 8 years or so, though 3 times I've get to the driving range. I'm not saying I can play, but, I'm still pretty good.

I get Irons and Woods at the driving range...I don't have my own.

9 iron , about 115 metres

8 iron , about 130 metres

4 iron, about 160 metres...I hate the 4 iron.

3 iron, about 180 metres

Driver....I hit 4 - 230 metres straight drives, half were sliced and hooked, when I made allounces.

My brother in law was a Pro Golfer years ago, He never made it big, though, he got a albatross in a big tournament in Australia. What's a albatross? On a Par 5, he got it in the hole in 2 shots.

I'm a bit of a Golfer. Just a 10 handicap though, nothing special. Didn't join a club this year so havent played as much as I would like.

Did you see Louis Oosthuizen's "Albatross"( Double Eagle if your American) at the Masters this year? Amazing shot. Never been done on the second hole in 75 years of the Masters.

If you want to get good at Golf spend about 75% of your practice time practicing putting, chipping, bunker shots and short range pitches, 100 yards or less and 25% of your time hitting drives and long irons. Thats why the Pros are "Pro", cause they get themselves into the same trouble we do but they always save par.

Here is pretty much the "Ultimate Practice Routine". May take you like 6 hours the first few times you do it but watch the shots drop like flies from your scorecard.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/93/golf/ultimate-practice-routine-992787/

btw I hit a "hole in 1" when I was younger on a proper 200 yard par 3. Was a fluke though because it bounced off the slope of the bunker, smashed into the flagstick and disappeared.

[Powderfinger]

Did you see Louis Oosthuizen's "Albatross"( Double Eagle if your American) at the Masters this year? Amazing shot. Never been done on the second hole in 75 years of the Masters.

If you want to get good at Golf spend about 75% of your practice time practicing putting, chipping, bunker shots and short range pitches, 100 yards or less and 25% of your time hitting drives and long irons. Thats why the Pros are "Pro", cause they get themselves into the same trouble we do but they always save par.

Here is pretty much the "Ultimate Practice Routine". May take you like 6 hours the first few times you do it but watch the shots drop like flies from your scorecard.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/93/golf/ultimate-practice-routine-992787/

btw I hit a "hole in 1" when I was younger on a proper 200 yard par 3. Was a fluke though because it bounced off the slope of the bunker, smashed into the flagstick and disappeared.

No I didn't see the "Albatross".

Yes, my brother in law had a good short game, eventhough he got a Albatross....I believe it was a flute! ;)

On Monday I played and it was wet, its a bad course to play. There is no drainage....half on the fairways were under water :mad: Why did I play there? It's cheap to play there ;)

Hole in one is a big deal as to have probably told everyone ;) :)

My putting is good then it's ***t! ;)

10 handicap is good, really good.

This is where my brother in law got the Albatross.

http://blog.gmedical.com/Portals/61098/images//NewSouthWalesGolfCourse-resized-600.jpg

http://www.nswgolfclub.com.au/welcome/index.mhtml

[Gabriella Lynn]

My favorite golf courses were when we went to Maui, Hawaii. I never got to play but they are super beautiful!

[Powderfinger]

http://s68847.gridserver.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/hawaii-golf-courses-cam.jpg

[mark f]

The Carmel/Monterey Coast in "Central" California (where Clint Eastwood lives) is known for the most awesome golf courses in the world: Pebble Beach, Spyglass Hill, Cypress Point. I visited all of those, but I never played them because they were so expensive. However, I played at some beautiful courses nearby including Aptos and Pacific Grove. Heck, even Santa Cruz C.C. was awesome.

http://www.golfdigest.com/images/courses/2008/08/cosl01_pebblebeach.jpg
http://www.golfuniverse.com/images/bow_spyglass.jpg
http://img1.findthebest.com/sites/default/files/356/media/images/Cypress_Point_Club_in_Pebble_Beach_California.jpg

[Powderfinger]

The world's top ten golf courses
There we were thinking it was all about bunkers, birdies and bogeys, when in fact golf is a game of emerald-swathed mountains, distant islands and dazzling cliff-top views. From New Zealand to California, Canouan and Corsica, we tee off.



1. Cape Kidnappers, New Zealand
This course, on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island, comes top of our list for its dramatic location. Built on what was a 5,000-acre sheep station, its fairways play out along a series of jagged ridges that jut out like fingers into the Pacific before plunging down to the rocks below. From the time of being struck, misdirected balls will take a full 10 seconds to reach the water. Designed by the American architect Tom Doak, Cape Kidnappers has none of the sandy dunes that characterise true links courses – but the harsh landscape is in keeping with the game. Players must contend with fearsome ravines, contoured fairways and fast, tilted greens. The coastal holes are the best, and the 15th (Pirate’s Plank) is my favourite. Arrowing inexorably down one of the narrow promontories, the final shot to the green feels as if it is bound for the end of the earth.
The Lodge at Cape Kidnappers (00 64 6 875 1900, www.capekidnappers.com) has hilltop suites from £249 per person, per night. Green fees start at £115 per round.

2. Royal County Down, Northern Ireland
Tom Watson, the former world number one, said the first nine holes of this coastal course are the best he has ever played. Designed by Tom Morris, the links hug the coastline near the small town of Newcastle. Among the course’s many challenges, the seventh (a par three) and the 12th (a sharp dog-leg) stand out. However, the feature hole has to be the fourth – a 217-yard par four. From a dramatically elevated tee, players must clear a sea of gorse to a heavily bunkered green surrounded by trees and tall grasses. Views stretch to the Morne Mountains while, behind you, wind-whipped dunes rise high above the Irish Sea.
Green fees at Royal County Down (028 4372 3314, www.royalcountydown.org) start at £65 per round. Two nights at the Slieve Donard hotel (028 4372 1066, www.hastingshotels.com) start at £150 per person, half-board.

3. Pebble Beach, United States
Most of America’s finest courses (think Augusta, Pine Valley and Whistling Straits) are closed to all but a handful of wealthy Ivy League members. Pebble Beach in California is the exception, being open to all who pay the green fee. Jack Nicklaus said that if he had only one more round to play in his life, he would play it here. Designed by Jack Neville and Douglas Grant nearly 90 years ago, the course hugs the Pacific coast and features narrow fairways, sloping greens and panoramic ocean views. The most famous closing two holes in golf were played here (Tom Watson’s chip-in during the 1982 US Open and Jack Nicklaus’s unerringly accurate one iron a decade earlier); however, it is holes five to eight, with their water hazards, that propel this course to the top of anyone’s wish list.
The Lodge at Pebble Beach (001 866 226 5442, www.pebblebeach.com) offers three nights from £2,198 per couple, including three rounds of golf.

4. Leopard Creek, South Africa
Being a bit wild off the tee takes on a new meaning here, since some of the water hazards are moving ones – from “the Big Five” to more than 200 species of bird, plus baboons, crocodiles, giraffes and warthogs that come to drink in the streams of Leopard Creek, on the edge of the Kruger National Park. The pick of the holes are two par fives: the fourth, more than 600 yards long, sits 100ft above the edge of Crocodile River and is a popular resting point for both elephants and errant drives. The dramatic final hole has an island green that seems to shrink as the crowds gather with their sundowners to watch.
Leopard Creek can only be played by guests of the Malelane Sun Intercontinental Resort . Ascot Golf Tours (00 27 21 701 1201, www.ascottours.co.za) is offering five nights from £506 per person, excluding flights. The price includes b&b accommodation, car hire, an evening game drive in the Kruger park and three rounds of golf.

5. Green Monkey, Barbados
Not many things can stir people from their Bajan sunlounger, but a round at Sandy Lane’s new course might. Designed by Tom Fazio, it zigzags 7,400 yards across a tabletop landscape – but its first few holes are anti-climactic. It is only after the ninth, a par five plunging 100ft into a quarry, that players realise what all the fuss and finance was about. Dropping down through towering walls of rock, it is 635 yards long – but the signature hole is the 16th. From an elevated tee, you stare down at a green 225 yards away, protected by a giant bunker where your only salvation is a grassy island carved in the shape of... a green monkey.
Supertravel (020 7459 2984, www.supertravel.co.uk) is offering seven-night packages at Sandy Lane from £1,799 per person, including return flights and four rounds of golf.

6. Turnberry, Scotland
You can debate which is Scotland’s finest course into the wee hours. Kingsbarns or St Andrews? Loch Lomond, Prestwick or Troon? I have gone for Turnberry in Ayrshire – the venue for next year’s Open, with its two championship courses, Ailsa and Kintyre. The former, redesigned by Mackenzie Ross after it was flattened for use as a World War Two airfield, is my pick. The 18th hole may now be named “Duel in the Sun”, after Tom Watson’s epic victory over Jack Nicklaus by a single stroke 31 years ago, but the ninth – on a cliff edge – blows the mind. As golf writer Henry Longhurst observed: “You find yourself lingering on the tee, gazing down on the waves as they break on the rocks and reflecting how good it is to be alive”.
The Westin Turnberry Resort (01655 333991, www.turnberry.co.uk) is offering two nights, half-board, from £550 per person. The price includes rounds of golf on both the Ailsa and Kintyre courses.

7. Domaine de Sperone, Corsica
Located on the southern point of the island, near Bonifacio, this course (designed by Robert Trent Jones) is a unique mix of nine inland holes and nine played on coastal links and craggy rocks where ravines plunge to the Mediterranean. The 15th offers superb views of the islands of Cavallo and Lavezzi, but the signature hole is the 16th. Considered one of the finest par fives in the world, it requires a daring drive across the cliffs – which brings out the Tiger in even the diffident.
Domaine de Sperone (00 33 4 95 73 17 13, www.sperone.com) has a week in a four-bedroom villa from £1,879; a round of golf starts at £49.

8. Canouan, The Grenadines
Designed by Jim Fazio, this tropical island course rises dramatically from sea level to the 840ft rim of an extinct volcano. Rich green fairways and hibiscus-lined borders contrast vividly with the cliffs, turquoise waters and talcum-white sands below. Dog-legs and tricky tee-offs make the opening holes difficult, but the back nine are the most dramatic. The 11th (a par four) forces you to drive over a deep ravine on to an angled fairway, but the 13th is more dramatic still. Occupying the highest point on the course, it offers views of Mustique to the north and Mayreau to the south.
Raffles Canouan Island (00 1 784 458 8000, www.canouan.raffles.com) has five nights in a garden view room from £2,707 for two, including a round of golf, breakfast, two dinners and internal flights.

9. Doonbeg, Ireland
The rolling green hills and windswept headlands of south-west Ireland are perfect for golf courses, hence classics such as Lahinch and Ballybunion. Doonbeg, designed by Greg Norman, is barely six years old – but from the first hole, you feel it has been there for centuries. The fairways follow the natural contours of the terrain, so holes range from a clifftop par three of 100 yards to a 600-yard par five flanking a mile or so of golden sand.
The Lodge at Doonbeg (00 353 65 905560, www.doonbeggolfclub.com) has two nights in a suite from £599 per person , half-board, including a round of golf, a massage and green fees.

10. Royal Melbourne, Australia
The East and West courses are said to be the finest in the southern hemisphere. Designed 80 years ago by the legendary Dr Alister MacKenzie, the fairways and greens are not as benign as they look. Strategically placed bunkers and fast, contoured greens mean only the best achieve a good score. Flanked by deep bunkers, the green at the fifth hole on the West course looks inviting – but its tilt from back to front means any hit short of the flag races back down the glassy surface.

[Powderfinger]

It's half yearly sales at the moment and businesses are going broke...so I pick up a set of Golf Clubs 50% off. They're that great, though I hadn't had set for ages!

[HitchFan97]

I've really began to love golf recently. My mom is great at it, so now she's got me hooked. I'll fall asleep if I try to watch it on TV though :D

[Powderfinger]

Don't get to addicted because some people are..lol! ;) It makes you concentrate, that's my belief anyway.

It's boring to watch on tv, though when Tiger and the Aussies are going well, I'll watch it then.

[Devils Angel]

Me and Golf are a lethal combination. I actually managed to swing the club, miss the ball, near take my ex out and hit myself on the head with it. Safe to say I never tried to play again after that little episode.

[Powderfinger]

Me and Golf are a lethal combination.

A lot of people think the same thing, though they still play..lol! :D

[hoggy20]

I am awful at golf, so bad that I will never play again!! i do love watching it though, I was at the Irish open for the 4 days at Royal Portrush. 10 miles down the road from where I live.

Although I watch all sports except for gaelic, softball, lacrosse and aussie rules. (sorry powderfinger, I just dont "get it"! :D)

[Powderfinger]

aussie rules. (sorry powderfinger, I just dont "get it"! :D)

That's alright because I follow Rubgy League rather then airiel (I can't spell it) ping pong!

Rubgy League

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gwZPzvkTLNI/TGW6LYYjxmI/AAAAAAAACKw/VWdSHWHM0q0/s1600/420_proctor-420x0.jpg
http://sydney.diarystar.com.au/userimages/user1078_1147053601.jpg

Aussie Rules

http://memberfiles.freewebs.com/20/59/44395920/photos/Inspiring-Images/Ball_Smakc_In_The_Face[2].jpg
http://www.thebestodds.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/hawks.jpg

[hoggy20]

ah yes, rugby league, now that's a sport! I much prefer it to Union.

[Powderfinger]

Yeah, my old Man (father) played Union and what does he watch now? Rubgy League..lol! ;) One of my brothers loved Soccer (football) and he was pretty good, then he had to do Rubgy League...he was s***! lol! One of my brothers was pretty good, though he don't admit it, he was soft! He couldn't take the punishment. What I heard, my Father was a pretty Union player. Though my Pop on my Mother's side, he played for South Sydney after the War. He was a winger. He's dead now.

[gandalf26]

Any Golf fans on here? The GOAT has returned to Augusta, gonna be a n epic weekend!

[ynwtf]

lol

Not really a fan. Might be if I ever played though. When I was 13 or so, my dad bought be a club set. I'm a lefty so that was a novelty. He golfed. Enjoyed it. Figured he'd take me one Saturday to use my clubs. For context, I had never played before that day nor did I have any interest in it before that day. My parents were divorced, so I guess this was his attempt at bonding (something he was never good at). Anyway. So we go golfing and rent a cart. At some point during the day he says he's going to walk on ahead to the green, leaving me with the cart halfway through the fairway struggling to move the ball just a few yards at a time. At some point I look up and see dad waving me up. I can tell he's saying something to me, but he was too quiet for me to make it out. So of course I shout back, "WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU? WHAAAAT???" At that point he just turns around and begins to ignore me. I get my club bagged and hop into the cart to drive over to him. As I'm driving I'm trying to get his attention because obviously he didn't hear me earlier. "HEY DAD! WHAT DID YOU SAY? I COULDN'T HEAR YOU! TOO FAR AWAY!!!"

By the time I pulled in to pick him up he was pissed. Like I knew golf etiquette! He was a perfectionist but really sucked as a teacher and lacked patience. As it turned out, there was a group on the tee waiting for us to clear out. He just wanted me off the fairway to let them play through. My yelling embarrassed him.

So yeah. I've not played since.

[hell_storm2004]

Paint drying, water boiling, grass growing > Golf.

Football (the real one), Rugby, Tennis. Indoors, Bridge!

[I. Rex]

I'll watch if Tiger is on the leader board on Sunday. Otherwise no chance.

[mark f]

Certainly I will watch in between everything else I'm doing.

[Dani8]

Certainly I will watch in between everything else I'm doing.

Same. I'll haveit on in the background just for some 'voice noise' if I feel like it. I dont play golf or know the rules of the game, but there's something comforting for me about the greenery and the commentary even if I'm not paying attention.

[gandalf26]

Augusta is special, easily the most beautiful course in the World, and probably one of the most beautiful places on Earth too.

[Dani8]

Augusta is special, easily the most beautiful course in the World, and probably on Earth too.

I just googled. Wow. Looks pretty schmick. I think that gets used for location shots a bit just from a very quick glance?

Really pretty.

[hell_storm2004]

Augusta is pretty for sure.

Talking about pretty, I just found this last week. Nice little place.

https://youtu.be/EGRB8Zcw7SI

[Dani8]

I hope this works. My favourite course

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=darjeeling+golf+course&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjzooaNvaTaAhXEEbwKHd4aBvcQ_AUICygC&biw=1366&bih=662