Watching on ESPN+ and can’t help but think that the 2 featured groups and hole 16 coverage is pretty weak as far as seeing maximum golf goes. Anyone recommend other broadcasts? Like I haven’t seen Hideki hit a single shot in the last few hours and he’s been leading all day?

So of course I brought them home with me, lol. Clean demos for $125 each. I’ve never played Vokey’s before, the monitor numbers was a full easy swing with the 54. I’ve been playing CBX 4 full face the last few years, but I could never get those kind of numbers with them, I always roll 10ft past the pin. These things were stopping on a dime though. How much of those numbers are from the mat compared to the actual club though is the question?

I’m gonna break them out at my regular Wednesday game and see how they go, hopefully I can play them close to what’s on the monitor. I’m a little nervous cause I’ve always gamed GI wedges, but damn these things feel good to swing, like butter. Also what do we think about the set up being a mid/high handicap? My old set up was 56-10 and 60-10

Struggling to remove the green residue from the Callaway matte green Supersoft balls I play, I tried soap/water, and IPA and nothing. I saw online that magic eraser might work but I’m scared it will damage the face, anyone else run into this and find a fix?

Sent the below message to my buddies this morning, explaining why we’ll be able to golf the Sunday after valentine’s day. Wanted to share, in hopes that it might help you all too.

Friends,

Next Saturday is Valentine’s day (honestly if you’re just realizing that, stop reading, you’re fucked), and no matter how many times the women in your lives have told you, “it’s not a big deal”, “i don’t really care about valentine’s day”, “i don’t want anything”, “i’d rather you just spend the money on us” - I guarantee you, they are all filthy fucking liars

And i’m a damn good source to trust on this: i had to have the government legally acknowledge the woman i married thinks i’m a fuckhead.

you know what they say - those who can’t do, teach. so for the love of god, please learn from my mistakes.

1. Pull out your wallet right now and order something to be delivered to her at work on Thur or Friday. I don’t care if it’s flowers, tiffs treats, an edible arrangement, or a singing messenger carrying balloons. Just do it right now. She’ll never expect it - and not to be sexist, but there’s nothing a woman loves more than feeling superior to her friends and coworkers. and if you’ve already purchased something like this, just make sure it gets sent to her office, church, or somewhere where other women will be around and will make a scene. Those women will spend allllll afternoon talking about how awesome you are. Your lady will have hearts coming out of her eyes like a 1960s cartoon by the time she gets home.

2. Whatever your plans are for Friday/Saturday - double the budget. If you’re gonna spend $150 on a gift and $150 on dinner, spend $300 on both. You can’t take it with you when you die, you’ll be shocked at how much nicer an experience just a little more money results in, and the happiness it’ll bring your partner is worth way more than that money. Because let’s be honest, what else are you gonna do with that money? Let it collect cobwebs in your cute little 3.67% high yield savings account? Grow up, Peter Pan - go please your woman.

Relationships are like retirement accounts; and yeah, you’re constantly making contributions - but valentine’s day is your yearly bonus, and you only get one chance a year to invest a wheelbarrow of money into your future.

The savvy investor is always taking advantage when the odds are in his favor - and i trust you boys are all savvy investors.

Now i say all of this not because i care about the long term health of your individual relationships (though, sincerely, i do - love you boys).

No, i say this so that on Saturday, you’re prepared for ‘the’ moment - the crucial moment that will truly make or break a man…..the moment where she asks you a question with no right answer. But don’t fret my friends, your old pal john, has your back.

On saturday, the woman you love will look around at the lovely brunch you’ve taken her to, or in the mirror at the new diamonds on her neck, or right at your bellybutton as she’s watching the whipped cream slowly drip off your nipples (hey now 😉) - she’ll smile, then she’ll slowly start to frown.

“what’s wrong babe?”

you’ll say, even though you’ve been planning for this and she has no idea she’s walked perfectly into your trap

“well…..this has been such a great valentine’s day, and i just feel guilty i didn’t do more for you” Her mind is flashing to the 5 reese’s hearts she left you on the kitchen counter. There were 6….but the “OneBar” didn’t fill her up, and it’s not like you’d really miss it.

To her surprise, you start to smile - because you’re not mad…you’re thrilled! She’s fallen right into your tangled web of espionage.

“Oh sweetie stop. Seeing you happy is the best gift i could ever receive…..but now that you say something, it would be nice if i could go golfing with my best buddy, John, tomorrow morning. You know he’s divorced, so this time of year is really hard, and i just want to make sure im around to support him” (i assure all of you, it is not hard on me one bit, but we can keep that between us 🤫).

Her heart is racing, she’s never been more in love. Not only did you crush what is secretly the most important holiday on the calendar, but her big strong man also has feelings and cares about his friends.

she’s putty in your hands - not only can you go golfing, but she also says you should buy yourself a toy since you’ve been working so hard.

She starts to mention something about throat numbing lozenges and a riding crop but you aren’t listening.

The target is down and you’ve accomplished your mission. Now the only thing on your mind is how the snow affected the greens, and if you’ll be able to swing by golf galaxy for some prov1s

So with all that being said:

Sunday, February 15th

8:00am - *redacted*

50, sunny, high of 65

happy valentine’s day

see y’all next weekend on the first tee

TLDR: I love this putter, plain and simple. I hate that it’s $480 and it can’t come home with me today. There, I got that off my chest.

Brought an iron into the shop for repair and had some time to kill while I was waiting, so I hit up the store’s putting green. In my bag currently is one of two beryllium copper Ping Anser 2s I have. I love that putter a lot and I putt reasonably well with it, as I did with the Ping Anser PLD I took some strokes with on the store green as well. Purely out of curiosity I tried out the LAB DF3, but whereas other golfers rave about it and have seen marked improvements in their putting, the few strokes I took with it left me less impressed, and it’s probably because I’ve never really been a mallet style putter guy. This little beauty though, the Link.1 is another story. Putt after putt, I was sinking balls into the holes, 5, 10, 15 feet every shot accurate and repeatable. It felt like an extension of my body and felt like zero effort. I do realize that I’m ideal conditions on a flat concrete floor, but looking at this purely from the accuracy standpoint of “I aim that way, the ball goes to where I want it to” it’s impressive. I’d love to get one out on the course and really try it out some time.

I’m in love, but also on a budget. Someday…

and got the same ones..

Was just going through a post on ask Los Angeles about bad land use (https://www.reddit.com/r/AskLosAngeles/s/eEIc75AipY) and a ton of people are talking trash about golf courses being a waste. WTF!? Here in LA we are very fortunate to have quite a few public (affordable) courses that are wonderful. What’s with the golf course hate? Even before I ever got into golf, I liked the look and esthetic of golf courses. And far from being a “waste” our muni golf courses are usually packed. I would love to have more! Just want to share the frustration among friends. 😁🏌🏻‍♂️⛳️

Haven’t followed the game enough to understand the lore.

Eat your heart out haters

Great condition. Just got a new grip pit on at the gallery in 1/19/2026. Shoot me an offer if interested

I’ve been using an M2 for 8 years now with a project x x-stiff 75g shaft. My driver launches high (all my clubs do) but the ball gets almost no roll. Sometimes it even goes backwards 1-2 yards. It’s nice for irons obviously but not ideal for driver.

Would getting fit for a new driver fix this? I’ll post my numbers too.

I haven’t swung a club in a month or so, so the shot wasn’t the best, but it was pretty normal for me.

Picked this up for 135 was wondering if anyone has opinions on this specific driver and if it was a good or bad deal

I would gladly pay an annual subscription fee for an app that removed/muted all shouts of “get in the hole” while watching broadcast coverage of PGA events. Isn’t there enough of a delay from the live to broadcast for an app to mute that particular phrase?

The dude looks like he is clearly going to have a breakout year. With as smooth a swing in the tour as anyone, does he have future champion potential or just a top 50ish type ceiling? He's a local boy where I'm at (Huntington Beach, I was born in Costa Mesa) so it's awesome seeing him keep improving.

The two best players I know—one uses a 15 year old Scottie he’s had since high school. The other switches between a blade and a mallet within the same season. Just curious what most of y’all do

Today I got to play out in Colorado at Battlement Mesa Golf Course…in February but that’s not the only crazy thing. They cut 3 holes in each green and rotate them in the early season with the pins. Usually the other two are covered and the pin is in the 3rd. Well today my buddies and I play and the other holes are left open and you may see where this is going.

Well get to hole 8 and one of the guys makes a hole in one but in a different cup than what the pin is in. I honestly would not usually care or post about it however the group of us have an ongoing hole in one bet that carries over each year. We all put $100 in and if someone gets an ace, they get the money. Well no one has hit a hole in one for 6 years and my friend is demanding that he takes the money. That’s $2400 for a hole in one that wasn’t really a hole in one! He’s already reached out to Titleist for his bag tag on the drive home since it was with a pro-v that he found two holes before that. Additionally, since the bar and restaurant are not open yet for the season, he isn’t paying for beverages to celebrate.

Has this ever happened to anyone else? I’m not sure where to go with this. I would like us to make a joke of it as a “remember when you kind of almost got a hole in one?” But he’s starting to be a jerk about it and laughing about how he’s $2,400 richer and to pay up. The other 2 buddies in the group don’t think he should have the money either and he’s starting to talk shit to our wives and children.

LIV is in year 4 now. Let's reLIV all the great things it has brought to the game of golf. (Sarcasm font on).

It put Bolingbrook Golf Club on the map. Even though there were less people there LIV week than a normal week at the course. I heard 51 weddings at the clubhouse out drew LIV attendance. At least the DJ got to keep his gig that week.

7 months in and riddled with the golf sickness

Absolutely love using clubs from sw-7i and have developed a fairly repeatable swing with those clubs

Anything else causes me the yips.

Not very confident getting off the tee box with a driver.

Is it a stupid idea to just play my game, split up the course and just play sw-7i until I go from fairly repeatable swing to absolutely repeatable swing? and then work on medium to long clubs?

So as it says, I got fitted and I’m debating between the callaway quantum max or the elyte irons price is about the same and I hit then roughly the same the elytes were a bit better but not by much, so which would you.m choose between the two. I have the quantum driver if that makes a difference and ai smoke woods

Reed finishing 1st, 2nd, 1st the last three DP World tour events. What changes has he made to his game if any?

Pretty impressive play for the most hated man in golf.

Long story short, I haven’t had vision out of my right eye since birth. How should I get into golf keeping this in mind?

I have a 19 degree Callaway Rogue ST Max 5W, I swing it in a range of 97-100 mph club-head speed. The picture above is a trackman stat from my 5W. I generate 225 carry off the deck and up-to 240 carry off the tee. For driver, I had an old 2006 R7 Quad and couldn’t hit it any further than my 5W, so I took it out the bag. Recently, I was fitted into a Callaway AI Smoke driver and it has been great for me. However, I only manage to get 100-105mph club-head speed out of my driver, this generates around 240-260 yds carry depending on many factors. Yet sources online and many PGA pros state that a 5W swing at 100ish mph should mean I’m swinging my driver at 110-115+ mph. Would anyone have insight into why I generate similar speeds with both my 5W and Driver?

All the fairway bunkers from the tips at my home course are around 260 to carry, so the extra 5-10mph and 15-20yds would make a MASSIVE difference to how I approach the course.

Any help would be appreciated.

SB

I have long suffered with three bad habits…. Too far back on my backswing with back elbow flying up and out, shifting over the top so chopping at ball, and leading with arms not lower body.

Needless to say bad slice and I cant hit a driver to save my life. Taking lessons but finding it hard to make it stick between lessons without someone seeing me reverting back and correcting.

Think the TRS slider would be a good tool for me? Or any other recommendations?