rsballer10

@Double Mocha Man too smoky IMO

I've seen the video referenced in quite a few articles, and they all wrote the story as if it were an organic interaction. My distrust of AI written articles exceeds your distrust of all humans.

https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/inner-harbor-van-body-missing-investigation-taxi-waldorf/ Correction - 2014 - 11 years missing. Stay classy Baltimore!

Fixed it! you're allowed to swim in the harbor now. Visitors welcome! Don't mind the taxi we pulled out of there with a missing person from 2018 🙂 TRUE STORY

Different state - but this morning I-70 was shutdown because a truck carrying 40,000lbs of watermelon caught on fire.

@ScooterMcTavish The mad tinkerer is back at it again! Good luck with your testing, I do find your golf ball testing to be quite detailed. I too am considering moving on from the Srixon XV. It was a great ball for me in the beginning of the year, but since adding about 10mph to my 7 iron speed I'm getting a lot of weird ball flights downwind. There was a very gentle breeze on Wednesday, which translated to my gap wedge flying 25 yards farther than anticipated, and a 200 yard 7 iron that was supposed to fly 180. Into the wind, the XV can't be touched though. Thinking about trying the standard Z-star or diamond. I do like the Srixon covers. They last a long time, but when they go the seam shows.

does he play left dot or left dash?

Indoors!? That's probably 8,000 of grass...

Did you hit a 200 yard thai spinnner off your back foot and ask where the Project X 7.0's are?

SHHHHHHH...what are you doing broadcasting Solomon's Island to the world!? We let the visitors explore Baltimore/DC/Annapolis/OCMD. We save the gems for ourselves!!! Not going to mention any of the others by name 🙂

I'm sure they'll grow out of it (your sons)

I interpret this as you sent them on a couple's retreat to re-kindle their relationship. Am I close?

assuming someone has the physical strength and coordination to manage that shaft length then yes. Most people see a point of diminished returns. is that a safe assumption? Shaft length/lie angle changes will affect setup and swing mechanics. Have you ever tried to swing a sand wedge as fast as your driver (without hurting yourself 🙂 ) are you referring to orbital angular velocity, or are you assuming angular velocity via a fixed point? A lot of bad assumptions have been made in golf instruction assuming the swing has a fixed center of the arc. Homer Kelley wrote a whole book on it. I think that's the problem with trying to isolate a single factor in the golf swing.

I haven't measured/calc'd golf club MOI in over a decade so others may chime in as well. IIRC the biggest driver of MOI about the grip was clubhead mass and club length. MOI generally increases throughout the set as the clubs get longer, unless they are intentionally MOI matched.

I think it's course dependent, but I mostly agree. Unless a public course has enough land to make a 7000+ yard track tipped (most don't) they tend to resort to alternative methods to make a course challenging. After reading the thread I'm pretty convinced that there aren't really significant 'errors' in course ratings. The way I'm reading the surveyor/course rater's description is that ratings are mostly quantitatively driven, so even if one course were to play 'easier' than it's rating, there's probably other courses that play 'harder' and it all offsets. Yep. The issue, at least anecdotally, seems to be certain courses seem inclined to "pinch" landing areas to negate the courses lack of length. Combined with standard men's tees that almost always seem to be up, you've got a combo that forces decent players to lay up excessively. Courses with much more consistent fairway widths seem much less sensitive to where the tee markers get placed that day. One absurd example - there was a 240 yard par 4. It's 'drive-able' per se, if you're tee shot holds the green. If not, hazards left/right/behind green. Creek @ ~130 because tees were up. The choices were (1) lay up with gap wedge or (2) attempt to drive the green, or put an iron near the front apron...but also it's not a straight shot to the green. I hit a 2 yard draw into the junk off the tee 🙂 the course map shows rough where there is actually just overgrown brush.