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He made a really bad decision, sadly. No question there, and there are consequences that he’s facing now. Driving on expired registration, you can’t do that even if it’s not harming anyone. It is just…unwise. Not knowing reciprocity laws and the THC topic….I will stop as that’s impossible to discuss either without getting a vacation.

It really sucks. When he was at Ohio State he was supposed to come run practice at a camp my son went to for like 2 hours. They couldn’t get rid of him. He asked if he could stay overnight, then again a second night. He ran practice, played beach volleyball, ate with the kids, sang karaoke at night, everything, and this was at a camp with 150 kids from 4th to 8th grade. Fan for life after that. He goes back to Columbus and gets freaking shot, somehow got caught up in someone else’s car getting jacked. Very serious, nearly fatal. Recovers, learns to walk again, and incredibly, returns to wrestle in the Ohio State lineup a year+ later. He didn’t finish that, his final season. He is still very good at wrestling but said if he was not competitive for a national title he was not going to continue. He graduates, gets engaged, and gets hired as an assistant coach at Lehigh. In process of moving from Ohio back to PA he gets popped for expired OH registration. Ugh. Lacks concealed carry permit in PA, and has “THC” in the car….we know how progressive 🙄 PA is about such a life-threatening drug as THC so he has a problem now. Any good attorney should be able to plead that down, but in the meantime Lehigh fired him so he’s lost that opportunity to get started coaching at a program that should easily be top 20 this year. It really stinks.

Exactly. “…made in China = junk” is not only a myth, it goes further than that, and I will not continue down that path… There is a reason why China is the world’s primary workshop / factory. You can have anything made that you want, at any level of precision you require. I’m a lifelong Ping player. Ping is often referred to as a good ole American family business. It still is a family business, but they’ve been making their clubheads in China for a long time now and assembling them Stateside.

Thank you for bringing some sanity to this thread….that is where my head is as well. What I don’t believe: Ability to scale to ~400k units 15% adj. EBITDA, unless “adj.” is quite large …so I can’t squarely back into a $200M valuation. However, I am not, nor would I ever, fund or invest in anything in the business of golf.

My Grace putters here. Fat Lady Swings prototype Little Lady F22 broomstick or side saddle Fat Lady was in my bag for 15 years I bet. Made a lot of putts with her.

Rotating multiple gloves is annoying for me. I sweat like a ho in church….rain gloves are the best solution.

Sammy Sasso 🙁 got arrested in Nazareth PA and Lehigh let him go from the coaching staff. Man…that makes me 🙁 Bummer of a situation. Here’s my son getting in on Sammy’s leg at wrestling camp 4 years ago.

I have a prototype Fat Lady, very early model with no serial number or anything. I bought that thing new, and it was a serious chunk of change for a HS senior. Wish I’d had the sense to keep a cover on it but no one did in those days so it’s got some….patina. I’m a lifetime Ping devotee and Grace putters are the only other ones I like.

Our superintendent, greens committee chair, and someone from a fertilizer company are going to hold a seminar on golf course maintenance, turf grass, etc. open to any member who’s interested. I love the condition of our course, especially given the weather this summer and our decidedly limited budget. So, I’m looking forward to attending this and learning something, since it’s not a topic I know much about. It will also be cool to say thanks to our new super, who I think is doing a great job. Great idea.

The business of golf is just not a very good business when you have unlimited alternatives on where to invest. If I were the decision maker on the acquisition, I don’t touch that industry, period. I obviously have limited information here, so the only thing I can say factually is to be real happy for the founders, who just got Paid!

LAB is the one I don’t get. I know a little about business valuation, and I don’t have near enough facts to comment on the $200m. What I do know is on the PE side I would want nothing at all to do with the business of golf under any circumstance. I don’t ever root for failure, so I hope it works out for everyone.

Whoopi is cool. I’m not trying to date her, but I think she’s cool!

I did not know that, thank you! I know what I’ll be doing with my putter when the weather gets crappy here in Nov and I can’t play. 🙂

I am on the other side of this one. Parent your son, not someone else’s. My younger son is a pretty high level athlete in a very different sport. A parent does not talk to or engage with an opponent. Ever. No matter the stakes of the match. Parents get tossed immediately if they do that, no questions asked. The judgment call is whether to tell your son what you saw and advise him to watch closely. I would not do that during the round. On the drive home I’d ask him if he saw anything, then tell him what I saw, and let him decide how much focus to put on a fellow competitor when he is playing in the future. A youngster only has so much focus to give, and I’d rather him expend that on his own game.

Missed that this was in LBC. Yeah, I wouldn’t be a cop there. Or anywhere, but that’s another topic.

Similar here. I have less speed than I used to, so I’ve gone: D, 5w, 7w G425 Max 9w G430 6h G440 7i - 56* G440 With 13 clubs I have no gaps, and I can’t say I ever face a shot where I wish I had a 60*, so I’m good with this setup for a good while.

Three police cars responding to a golf fight? That’s a little aggressive. Must have been a slow day.

Illegal Tuesday Night Men’s League!

The polymer those grips use also deadens things. I hate that. A putter that “feels soft” has somehow been interpreted as “better” and that simply does not work for me. I like rubber grips, as firm as possible. Rock hard even better. I’ll take tacky or rough, either one, since I’m not a big practicer tearing my hands up is not really a concern. My long putter is a Bobby Grace F22 — the gold standard for side saddle putting. I like it, and I’d love it if I could make two changes: No insert. Bobby would throw up all over this since his insert material is pretty cool and unique, but I’d select a flat metal surface every day. Rubber grips instead of polymer. This can be done by hacking it like Langer does. I wish someone other than Winn was making split grips for long putters, since I just don’t like the Winn feel at all.

Lol I am not just a great instructor in much of anything, and I’d be too much of a wise guy in golf Let’s consider this. Ok. Have you ever seen a good player stand / hold / swing that way? No. 🤔 Think there might be something to that? My primary problem would be lack of repeat clients.

For sure. Your lenses are of quite an accomplished player over a significant time and as an instructor. My lens is as someone who used to be able to play a little bit, and spent just as much time on a bag as I did playing. What we see as players are other fairly serious players getting a little out of sorts, trying to self diagnose, and coming off the rails. What I mean are some of the delusions I saw as a caddie. Some are hard to believe. Player I looped for all the time, about a 15 index. Could not have a stronger grip. It was so strong, forget seeing four knuckles on the L hand, I bet he could see the heel of his L hand at address, and his R hand was so far under the club I bet he could almost see the knuckles on his right hand! His hands were easily 24” in front of the ball at address. Also had really strong leg drive (wonder why?) and for the entire time I caddied for him he never carried a driver, because he couldn’t elevate anything beyond 3w. Think the grip might have something to do with this? “Oh no, no way, I can’t change my grip, I’ll slice it if I do that.” Arighty then, carry on! Or the guy I got paired with once. Never seen anything like it, and I play with one arm! He had a cross handed FULL SWING and honest truth, I’d be shocked if he broke 100 on the front nine. I gently asks him at the turn about the cross handed swing and he says “yeah, I came up with this about 2 or 3 years ago….I just can’t hit the ball at all unless I grip it this way.” Ummm….reckon golf just might not be your game, but I didn’t say so and sort of awkwardly changed the subject. I guess fooling yourself is a mighty strong instinct, but I’ve just never seen such nonsense in other sports I played.

🤣🤣🤣, yes, 100%. What is it about this game that makes some players think that some weird, manufactured, contrived, crazy move is what he should be doing? “Yeah, it works for me though. I just can’t hit the ball at all the ‘regular’ way.” ”Ah, I see that. What did you shoot today?” ”98!” 🙄 Working real well, huh?

LMAO no kidding. If your swing sucks and you just make it suck faster, your thin shot sizzles straight through the bush behind the green instead of lodging it it, the divot you take with the driver is now 2” deep, not a measly inch, and the miss into the lake is now where the water is 22’ deep, not 4’. 🤣 I also misinterpreted @betarhoalphadelta’s point. Didn’t realize you were referring to things like speed sticks and gym time dedicated to increasing speed. I thought about it like @Nard_S, that ball speed is a pretty decent indicator of how good the swing and the sequencing was that generated the speed, so of course you should work on speed training. But that seems to be not what @betarhoalphadelta meant. My bad.

That is great. Ben Hogan did a lot of things that worked rather well for Ben Hogan. I am not Ben Hogan.