The Golf Thread

#5,578
#5,578
cotton said:
Played 9 with my wife and another couple yesterday evening. Par 3 7th, 154 yards, I hit an 8i right at the pin, but I couldn't see it once it got below the horizon. Walked up to the green and found this:




Nice to be in the club :rock:
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Very nice...congrats
 
#5,580
#5,580
Thanks to all. Here's your drink on me:

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#5,581
#5,581
congrats cotton. i've come close a couple of times, but never pulled it off. Never even seen one. You're in rare air. What did the wifey think?
 
#5,582
#5,582
congrats on the ace.

i've hit it within 3 feet a couple times, but that's as close as i've come. maybe one day...
 
#5,583
#5,583
volfanbill said:
congrats cotton. i've come close a couple of times, but never pulled it off. Never even seen one. You're in rare air. What did the wifey think?
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She made one about a month ago. She made one about 3 years ago on the same hole as I just did. She was happy, but I still don't have bragging rights.

She did think it was pretty cool that husband and wife had aces on the same course during the same season.
 
#5,587
#5,587
vol_in_il said:
36 in August heat is rough
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Honestly, I've never really had a burning desire to play 36 in any condition. There have been a couple of occasions when I've done it because I wanted to play a course and there were time constraints, but 18 is enough for me.
 
#5,588
#5,588
cotton said:
Honestly, I've never really had a burning desire to play 36 in any condition. There have been a couple of occasions when I've done it because I wanted to play a course and there were time constraints, but 18 is enough for me.
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I was exhausted by the end. 84 and a 73. My feet are still pretty tired.
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#5,589
#5,589
So...Juli Inkster is DQ'ed thanks to a sharp-eyed TV watcher. Nice. Almost as nice as Dustin Johnson missing a playoff at the PGA Championship for having grounded his club in the non-bunkerest bunker in the history of golf.

Mods, forgive me, but this is bull****. Plain and simple. Golf, specifically the PGA, has lost their collective mind.

Seriously...I can call in and report a PGA Tour Pro for an on-course infraction? And if I ground my club in a dirt hole that hasn't been raked in a month I lose two strokes? (and a million bucks, just to boot)

Crap. Pure, uncut crap. It's time for the PGA to wake up, grow up, and actually put some thought into some of their critical decisions. Especially those that take money out of a player's pocket. Spare me the rhetoric about how much money they make, or how sacred the "Rules of the Game" are. Both arguments have absolutely nothing to do with the fact that the PGA, much like Major League Baseball, is way behind the times.

MLB, for instance. A perfect game is lost...forever...by a bad call. One that the offical immediately acknowledged. And although MLB has limited instant replay, and the ability to reverse an on-the-field call for home runs...no such provision exists for a blown call when a perfect game is at stake.

Limited instant replay is like limited nuclear war. There's no such thing. You either have it, or you don't. MLB don't.

Back to golf. Whistling Straits...yet another Pete Dye concentration camp golf course...has over 900 bunkers. Over 900. Why? Because over 900 is more than any other course in the world. That's it. Plain and simple. "We're the #1 bunker course in the world". Good for you. But you build them, then you maintain them. If you call it a bunker, then you must treat it like a bunker, which includes maintaining it, and keeping the gallery away from it. If not, then it becomes a bare spot, and grounding your club in a bare spot, or ground under repair, is not rewarded with a two-stroke penalty, and essentially a seven digit fine.

Rick Reilly has a great article on ESPN.com about how f-ed up the PGA is. He said it much better than I can, but make no mistake, the PGA has it's head up it's butt, and recent decisions by PGA officials have relegated the mind-numbing calls of some MLB officials to the second page.

Given the PGA's recent knack for the ridiculous, I'm amazed that they haven't retroactively penalized Tiger two strokes for having used an Escalade to improve his lie when he was 1-down against Elin.....

I'm just sayin'.....
 
#5,590
#5,590
That's one rule that I've never understood. It seems archaic that you can swing two clubs to loosen up when the course is backed up, but a weighted doughnut is a no-no.
 
#5,591
#5,591
GAVol said:
That's one rule that I've never understood. It seems archaic that you can swing two clubs to loosen up when the course is backed up, but a weighted doughnut is a no-no.
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Exactly.

Take all the PED's you want...but you swing a donut, and you're history, pal.

Laughable.

Go Vols.
 
#5,592
#5,592
I've also never understood what goes through somebody's mind that compels them to e-mail or call in when they see a possible rules violation on TV.
 
#5,596
#5,596
Wife is in the match-play finals of the club championship again with some pretty stiff competition this time. Opponent is an ex-Murray St. golfer. Set for a Sunday afternoon showdown.

It is alot like Ali-Frazier 4, if either Ali or Frazier were women golfers.
 
#5,597
#5,597
cotton said:
Wife is in the match-play finals of the club championship again with some pretty stiff competition this time. Opponent is an ex-Murray St. golfer. Set for a Sunday afternoon showdown.

It is alot like Ali-Frazier 4, if either Ali or Frazier were women golfers.
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Can I get pics to see who I should root for?
 
#5,599
#5,599
Vols520 said:
Can I get pics to see who I should root for?
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If appearance is the deciding factor, you should support Mrs. Cotton. Ms. Murray is cute-ish but just a tad towards the thick side. Wife is hot, in my expert but admittedly biased opinion. I don't think you would find many that have met her that would disagree.
 
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