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  1. 22 hours ago, dieucla98 said:

    He's had one good stint at TPC Sawgrass but otherwise, Spieth gets demolished on this course. Not getting the Spieth optimism.

    He's my pick for pretty much any major and he claims he's finally coming around to treating The Players as a major - miss in the right spots, take your medicine, avoid the big numbers. But until I see those changes actually happen, I have a hard time picking him to make the cut after the last few years he's had here, let alone post a good number.

     

    17 hours ago, Horn21 said:

    He hasn't played his best golf at Sawgrass, but let's not pretend that he's completely lost out there.

    I'd like to amend my position.  He's completely lost out there.

  2. 12 hours ago, markstanco said:

    I used to think this way.

    My last set was mizuno MP32's. 2I to PW. You absolutely knew the miss-hits.

    Got some cavity back Mizunos. I still know when I miss-hit and can adjust, but I just don't lose that 10% of distance any longer when it counts.

    Same.  I still have a good feel/feedback with the p790s, but I'm not killing myself with slight misses like I was with the 33s.  If I can ever get my HC down to ~2-3, I would love to put mizuno blades back into play.  Got a ways to go, though.

  3. 5 hours ago, dieucla98 said:

    He's had one good stint at TPC Sawgrass but otherwise, Spieth gets demolished on this course. Not getting the Spieth optimism.

    He's my pick for pretty much any major and he claims he's finally coming around to treating The Players as a major - miss in the right spots, take your medicine, avoid the big numbers. But until I see those changes actually happen, I have a hard time picking him to make the cut after the last few years he's had here, let alone post a good number.

    Demolished? I'm fairly certain he's been 1 or 2 back of the cut the last couple years.  Despite not playing Sawgrass at an expected Spieth-level, his worst round is 75.  Jason Day has an 81 non-weekend round out there within the last 2 years.  

    Looking closer at his last 6 rounds during the stretch of back-to-back-to-back missed cuts, he's gone 75-72-72-71-73-75. So, he's got 2 bad rounds and 4 decent rounds.  How many elite level guys on tour right now haven't had a Th/Fri round like that on this course over the last 3 years?  

    DJ's length off the tee aside, Jordan is the best tee-to-green player on tour.  He hasn't played his best golf at Sawgrass, but let's not pretend that he's completely lost out there.  If his putter is dialed in, we are talking about the best golfer on the planet.  That is why there is optimism.

  4. 51 minutes ago, AnonymousInternetPoster said:

    I considered PXG, but I'd be too afraid of them getting stolen.

    If you want a forged hollow club, the TM P790 is about half the cost of the comparable PXG irons.  I've been playing them for the last couple months after a failed M1 trial.  They are a great blend of distance/forgiveness and feel.  I've got an old set of Mizuno MP33s that I absolutely love from a look, feel, shot-playing standpoint.  But I lose 10-15 yards on a toed 6i shot with those, where I might lose 3-5 yards at most on the same miss with the P790s.

    Bob Parsons is actually in the middle of a long drawn out patent infringement with TM over the P790s.  He claims 11 infringements while TM claims 7 infringements against PXG in their counter-suit.

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  5. 1 hour ago, BTW said:

    Well, it's my favorite weekend of the year.  The Midland County Club "Classic" golf tourney.

    It's a 4-man three day tourney with the following formats:

    Friday) 2x two man scramble - scores are combined

    Saturday) 2x low scores out of the 4, play your own ball

    Sunday) 3x low scores shamble

    It's always a lot of fun and promises to deliver multiple hangovers as well as test the integrity of my marriage.

    Can't wait ...

    If the sort of company that you keep hasn't reduced your marriage to rubble by this point, I think you've somehow done something to convince her to stick around for the long haul.

    We probably need the Surly Oddsmaker to come up with some worthy extracurricular lines for the weekend.   BTW and I plan on going DEEP into the wallets of our victims over the next 96 hours.

  6. 2 hours ago, DDD Dad said:

    Agreed (on both points).

    We're doing LCC next, right boys?

    Is LCC the place that's known for kids blaring all manner of music around the course, or nah?  I might be thinking of Brookhaven.  Definitely sounds like Brookhaven.

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  7. 2 hours ago, thrillhammer said:

    they only have two seatings for the chef's tasting, so they probably do have you on a schedule. i did the a la carte when i went and loved it but thought bullfight was a tad better.

    Their chef's tasting option is actually scheduled out the same as the a la carte option.  You just let them know which one you're doing.  They have reservations every 15/30 mins from 5-8:45p during the week and 5-10p on the weekend for both options.

    We've never been rushed there.  That's unfortunate that it happened to South Austin because it's the kind of place that makes for a really enjoyable 2-3 hour meal, and by and large the staff is aware of that.

    Pro move: Ask for the mini spatula for plate-cleaning purposes.

  8. If anyone in Austin is hard up for some Blanton’s, the liquor store on Riverside in front of Emo’s has 2 bottles behind the counter for $73 per. I love it, but I have a couple bottles, and that price tag is too rich for me.  

  9. I won’t rehash, but there are some great additions on this thread.

     

    Having lived here for 20 years, a great sandwich, imo, was few and far between. I mean, a truly amazing sandwich. For me, that changed with fricano’s.

     

    The Ainsworth was a sandwich that got me to enjoy ingredients that I swore I would never eat. And the surprise of it was like getting a grab bag at the baseball card shop as a kid.

     

    Paul’s Reuben and The Jonah also get a nod for me. Regardless of the specific sandwich, Fricano’s is on my personal iconic Austin list.

     

     

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  10. I can’t see an immediate run on McKenna because of this SF award. Sure, it may see an uptick in demand, but the people who follow the SF spirit awards most likely already knew that this was a great value bourbon. Until you start overhearing people at the gas station and grocery store talking about it, I wouldn’t be too concerned.

  11. Anyone been to Llano/Fredericksburg/Kingsland in the past week?  How are the wildflowers, have they started considerably dying off?  Planning on taking out of town visitors who've never been but I'm not sure if it'd be worth the trip for wildflowers.  Might just go to Fredericksberg for the day instead.


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  12. 1 hour ago, Bottlecap said:

    There will be the Real Ales and the Saint Arnold's who cast a pretty wide net over their states, but mostly, the future of beer is that of a really local, really fresh beer bar. Many will have food of some variety, whether its a kitchen or a truck, but their purpose will ultimately be to serve a very specific region, or be a part of a string of breweries similar to a Brewery Row or whatever you'd wanna call it.

    I didn't see this before my previous reply.

    I agree with you 100% on this.

  13. 2 hours ago, Bottlecap said:

    I'll say it again. Its nowhere near saturation point. Texas has one of the widest gaps of population-to-breweries. There's triple the number of breweries in places like CA, CO, and OR to name a few. What Texas lacks is QUALITY breweries. Also, so many new breweries opening up have this pipe dream of world dominance, and that just isn't going to be the case again until the next post-prohibition. Localized breweries with a small regional reach and decent taprooms are where it's at. A few new breweries will shut down, but probably not the good ones, and most definitely ones who've overextended their reach.

    Drink local.

    I think a lot of those cities with triple the number of breweries by population-to-breweries compared to Austin also have a much great population density surrounding those breweries.  I feel like the ease of public transportation obviously plays a big role as well.

    Austin isn't that difficult to get around, but the closer the breweries are to me and the closer they are to each other, the more likely I am to visit them with frequency.  I've been to Zilker and Lazarus more than I have Live Oak's new location, not because I think they're higher quality than LO, but because they're close to my house, close to each other, and close to other places I frequent.

    Assuming breweries in and around Austin grow in pockets, like they have with Burnet/Metric, East of downtown, and even out on Fitzhugh, then I do think Austin has some continued room to grow.  And I do agree with you that first and foremost, a brewery better produce quality beer.  However, with trips to the breweries being such a communal thing that people often do in groups, making it easy and fun for people to plan trips and bounce around from place to place is almost as important, if not more so, than the quality of the brewery for a lot of folks, IMO.

  14. 55 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

    Ill say it: I think the Texas market is saturated with craft beer

    .....

    I know most on here wont agree, but just wanted to throw my opinion out there to start a discussion... if anyone else is so inclined

    I don't know what the current supply/demand numbers say, but from a personal anecdotally-speaking POV, it became pretty saturated about ~2 years ago for me in Austin.

    Between brewing my own beer, tracking down the latest happenings/distribution of out-of-state unicorns, and watching new local breweries open and flourish between 2005-2015ish, it finally became too much to stay on top of for me.  I'm certainly not at the level of you and BC, but I do consider myself someone who has had a high level interest in beer culture and all that it entails.  However, it reached a point about 2 years ago where I found myself defaulting to some really great local beers that are readily available and that I know and love.  Seeking out the new latest and greatest just fell of my radar, almost overnight it seems.

    I don't know if this is the type of saturation you speak of, but personally, I'm now at a place of being okay with staying in my comfortable corner of ABW and H&G with a dose of other local standbys here and there.  A few years ago I would have been counting down the days for a new brewery in the works, and now I'm good if I check out a new place within its first year of operation. 

  15. Today was my first trip to the Flag Store in about a year. $7.50 singles of KBS and 4-pack of Backwoods for $14. I would have bought them out 5 years ago. Today it was a pass for me.

  16. 34 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

    Probably the type who would carry coffee and banana bread into the sanctuary for to their sister's child's baptism.

    Now you're just taking unnecessary shots at PR and making him out to be a monster. 

    That bread would have been inhaled before the receipt for it was even printed.

  17. 2 minutes ago, heso said:

    There are many different types of assholes. The cunty, steal from your teammates type of asshole seems to get pushed out pretty quickly around here (excluding the cloakroom where it’s celebrated).

    No doubt.  I got grief from a couple buddies last year for being in the "fuck PR" camp because of that stuff.  They thought I was nuts for hating on Captain America.

    I just don't buy the sob story coming from his parents and sister.

  18. 30 minutes ago, llanoflash said:

    never cared enough about Reed to know about this family crap. From what was posted, it appears his wife and her family are where this split comes from. Not talking to you kid sister because your svengali wife wont allow it is seriously fucked up. Having your kid sister esorted off the course is fucked up.

     

    starting to think he might be an asshole.  

    This isn't an either/or situation. There is more than enough room in the asshole universe for all of them to be assholes.  His sister is in her 20s, I believe.  She's old enough to be an asshole all on her own.  And of course, there is plenty of room for Patrick Reed to be an asshole, which he certainly appears to be.

    Having said that, and as Shane Ryan pointed out, it's pretty rare for a person to sever familial ties for no reason.  And the current narrative is being shaped largely by Patrick's parents, as their side is the only one speaking publicly.  

    IMO, I think the most likely reality is that Patrick Reed is an asshole, with an asshole sister, both being raised by assholes and he happened to marry an asshole.

    Sounds like the entire lot of them would fit right in around here.

  19. 17 hours ago, JimmyHoffa said:

    Not many on the tour are fans of FIGJAM.

    That seems to be an accurate statement regarding the established guys on tour when Phil was the cocky young guy coming up. 

    I think the current tour guys really like Phil quite a bit. I think that is partly because a lot of the young guys grew up as fans of his and partly because Phil has grown up and isn't the same guy he was 20 years ago.

    I have no doubt that the Ryder and Presidents Cup guys are huge fans.

  20. 6 minutes ago, chitwood said:
    56 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

    Played Saturday in the cold here in Dallas with @Horn21.  It wasn't too bad walking once you got your blood flowing.  Won a little $ but had to post a score that will hurt me on the next GHIN update.

    As my friend said the other day, "you'd better make some money when your index is on the way down because you most certainly will have to pay when it is on the way up."

    I am living that now as my index continues to skyrocket.

    (Raises hand)  Wedges and putter have added 2 strokes to my index since early March.  I have won zero monies on the way up.

    Saturday was a blast despite 40 degrees in April.  It was an enjoyable walk around the course, and the 3 Frozen Deep Eddys post-round were the big prize.

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