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Race Bannon's OFFICIAL Golf Talk 2023-2024 Thread

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  • BleachedAnusDawg
    BleachedAnusDawg Member Posts: 13,160 Standard Supporter

    LIV is the senior tour for 40 somethings and injured 30 somethings

    54 holes. Sad

    But it has forced the PGA to make changes to how they do bidness.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,715 Founders Club
    You're not really trying to make the tour you want to crush stronger

    Norman chokes again
  • BennyBeaver
    BennyBeaver Member Posts: 13,346

    LIV is the senior tour for 40 somethings and injured 30 somethings

    54 holes. Sad

    But it has forced the PGA to make changes to how they do bidness.
    Like?
  • Bob_C
    Bob_C Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 12,634 Founders Club

    LIV is the senior tour for 40 somethings and injured 30 somethings

    54 holes. Sad

    But it has forced the PGA to make changes to how they do bidness.
    Like?
    The better players demanded more money as a %, and they got it. Bigger payday events will bring the best together more often.

    Now that we are through Rivera, the remaining courses for the year still fucking suck though.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,715 Founders Club
    The players have actually controlled the tour since Jack and Arnie took over in the 60s and broke it off

    Jack didn't like the all exempt tour but the players wanted a middle class and got a big one.

    LIV put the focus back on paying the top dogs so they don't leave

    The tour still has to control the stars of tomorrow

    The media blackout of LIV will kill them

    Remember Dustin Johnson? Me neither
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,715 Founders Club
    How about Brooksie?
  • Bob_C
    Bob_C Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 12,634 Founders Club
    edited February 2023
    Brooksie’s wife is pretty whoreish, but she isn’t going to hold up past 35. Paulina will look good forever.


  • BennyBeaver
    BennyBeaver Member Posts: 13,346
    These guys should proofread their tweets. And by “exiting” contracts I think they mean being cancelled or not renewed.

  • BleachedAnusDawg
    BleachedAnusDawg Member Posts: 13,160 Standard Supporter

    You're not really trying to make the tour you want to crush stronger

    Norman chokes again

    My point really isn't about LIV making the Tour better. I'm saying that Tour players should be thanking LIV for coming along and giving them some nice pay raises. LIV accelerated some changes that benefit those guys.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,715 Founders Club

    You're not really trying to make the tour you want to crush stronger

    Norman chokes again

    My point really isn't about LIV making the Tour better. I'm saying that Tour players should be thanking LIV for coming along and giving them some nice pay raises. LIV accelerated some changes that benefit those guys.
    Agree
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,214 Founders Club
    Should I learn to hit a driver in 2023? This is the question.
  • Fishpo31
    Fishpo31 Member Posts: 2,623

    Should I learn to hit a driver in 2023? This is the question.

    Go big or go home…make leverage your fren…
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,715 Founders Club
    If you want to make money chip and putt

    If you want to have fun hit the driver
  • BennyBeaver
    BennyBeaver Member Posts: 13,346
    I’m all for Norman choking, Phil DIAFF, and the tour players benefiting.

    Abundance.
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,214 Founders Club

    If you want to make money chip and putt

    If you want to have fun hit the driver

    5 iron is my driver. I'm decent with a wedge and a putter and our? greens are fucking brutal.
  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,015

    If you want to make money chip and putt

    If you want to have fun hit the driver

    You just described the Throbber's sex life.

  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,229 Founders Club

    If you want to make money chip and putt

    If you want to have fun hit the driver

    You just described the Throbber's sex life.

    You're a male prostitute?
  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,015

    If you want to make money chip and putt

    If you want to have fun hit the driver

    You just described the Throbber's sex life.

    You're a male prostitute?
    Bills gots to be paid.
  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,671 Swaye's Wigwam

    Should I learn to hit a driver in 2023? This is the question.

    Modern drivers are the easiest club in the bag to hit Yella. If my iron play, which I work on a lot, came close to my driving, which I never work on except during rounds, I'd be a scratch golfer.

    Get one and figure it out. I'd look for one of the previous year's Taylor Mades, M series or Sim, to avoid spending $400+ on a club that you don't think you can hit
  • Bob_C
    Bob_C Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 12,634 Founders Club
    chuck said:

    Should I learn to hit a driver in 2023? This is the question.

    Modern drivers are the easiest club in the bag to hit Yella. If my iron play, which I work on a lot, came close to my driving, which I never work on except during rounds, I'd be a scratch golfer.

    Get one and figure it out. I'd look for one of the previous year's Taylor Mades, M series or Sim, to avoid spending $400+ on a club that you don't think you can hit
    So true. Unless there's a crazy dogleg or a hazard that cuts through the fairway or something, I hit driver. Not because I've got a big dick or anything, but mostly because the sweet spot is so big now compared to a 3w or long iron. Better chance of hitting it straight and on the face than those other options.
  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,671 Swaye's Wigwam
    Bob_C said:

    chuck said:

    Should I learn to hit a driver in 2023? This is the question.

    Modern drivers are the easiest club in the bag to hit Yella. If my iron play, which I work on a lot, came close to my driving, which I never work on except during rounds, I'd be a scratch golfer.

    Get one and figure it out. I'd look for one of the previous year's Taylor Mades, M series or Sim, to avoid spending $400+ on a club that you don't think you can hit
    So true. Unless there's a crazy dogleg or a hazard that cuts through the fairway or something, I hit driver. Not because I've got a big dick or anything, but mostly because the sweet spot is so big now compared to a 3w or long iron. Better chance of hitting it straight and on the face than those other options.
    I have a friend who can routinely crush it 300 yards but isn't consistently accurate. He's still usually in play and in wedge range though. What cracks me up is how he'll pick some odd hole to "play it safe" with his three iron. 81% of his iron tee shots are 100 yards shorter than his driver and in the rough, if he's lucky. It's comical.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,715 Founders Club
    So I flipped to the CW since the PGA Tour was nothing this week and thought I'd check out the LIV

    Wasn't on. It was on the guide but not the station

    But Laura Baugh's son almost won the Honda


  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,098

    Should I learn to hit a driver in 2023? This is the question.

    You aren't a beginner anymore
  • Fishpo31
    Fishpo31 Member Posts: 2,623
    chuck said:

    Bob_C said:

    chuck said:

    Should I learn to hit a driver in 2023? This is the question.

    Modern drivers are the easiest club in the bag to hit Yella. If my iron play, which I work on a lot, came close to my driving, which I never work on except during rounds, I'd be a scratch golfer.

    Get one and figure it out. I'd look for one of the previous year's Taylor Mades, M series or Sim, to avoid spending $400+ on a club that you don't think you can hit
    So true. Unless there's a crazy dogleg or a hazard that cuts through the fairway or something, I hit driver. Not because I've got a big dick or anything, but mostly because the sweet spot is so big now compared to a 3w or long iron. Better chance of hitting it straight and on the face than those other options.
    I have a friend who can routinely crush it 300 yards but isn't consistently accurate. He's still usually in play and in wedge range though. What cracks me up is how he'll pick some odd hole to "play it safe" with his three iron. 81% of his iron tee shots are 100 yards shorter than his driver and in the rough, if he's lucky. It's comical.
    Bomb and Gouge POTD!...
  • BennyBeaver
    BennyBeaver Member Posts: 13,346

    So I flipped to the CW since the PGA Tour was nothing this week and thought I'd check out the LIV

    Wasn't on. It was on the guide but not the station

    #metoo

    Great network deal there Greg.
  • whlinder
    whlinder Member Posts: 5,266

    Should I learn to hit a driver in 2023? This is the question.

    You got extra long clubs? My driver is off the shelf but have 1/2 inch longer irons. Need new stuff so considering going a full inch longer.

    Heh.
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,214 Founders Club
    whlinder said:

    Should I learn to hit a driver in 2023? This is the question.

    You got extra long clubs? My driver is off the shelf but have 1/2 inch longer irons. Need new stuff so considering going a full inch longer.

    Heh.
    I bought my first real set of irons last year and got fitted for plus 1.5 inch. Calloway Big Berthas. 5, 7, 9, PW and Putter.

    I'll get a driver this spring.
  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,214 Founders Club
    chuck said:

    Bob_C said:

    chuck said:

    Should I learn to hit a driver in 2023? This is the question.

    Modern drivers are the easiest club in the bag to hit Yella. If my iron play, which I work on a lot, came close to my driving, which I never work on except during rounds, I'd be a scratch golfer.

    Get one and figure it out. I'd look for one of the previous year's Taylor Mades, M series or Sim, to avoid spending $400+ on a club that you don't think you can hit
    So true. Unless there's a crazy dogleg or a hazard that cuts through the fairway or something, I hit driver. Not because I've got a big dick or anything, but mostly because the sweet spot is so big now compared to a 3w or long iron. Better chance of hitting it straight and on the face than those other options.
    I have a friend who can routinely crush it 300 yards but isn't consistently accurate. He's still usually in play and in wedge range though. What cracks me up is how he'll pick some odd hole to "play it safe" with his three iron. 81% of his iron tee shots are 100 yards shorter than his driver and in the rough, if he's lucky. It's comical.
    I don't disagree with the logic here. I need to buy a modern, forgiving driver and learn to hit it.

    But my 5 iron goes about 170 yds with an easy tall guy swing and generally hits the fairway. I'll take 170 in the fairway vs 240 in the rough every time.

    Also, the rough at my course is fucking brutal. Here's the 1st tee. @Tequilla can confirm.


  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,214 Founders Club
    Tequilla said:

    Should I learn to hit a driver in 2023? This is the question.

    You aren't a beginner anymore
    I took a lesson last summer.

    She was a lesbian @BleachedAnusDawg . Majority of the best NCAA woman's golfer are rug munchers.