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Zwylde

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  1. 9 hours ago, YGIFS said:

    Was that the one that had like an almost iPhone keypad and you'd slide the cards into it to play different games?  Or was that Calico?  A neighbor had one of 'em and we rocked the baseball game for hours on end during the Winter.  

    My SiL just gave my girls her old Nintendo Wii.  And I worried, and they will might, they'd it boring and too antiquated.  But for peak hot summer afternoons, we thought it'd be fun for them have one hour per day of bowling/tennis/etc.  And it's weird to watch because it was like peak gaming technology just a decade ago.  And now it's like playing Atari 5200.  But they don't know that, they think it was invented just recently.  But reminds me of our Pong game and then we got an Atari 2600 and then an NES.  And it was like watching the future unfurl before your very brain as a kid.  I haven't even looked at a video game in several years.  But there was something about wiping off the McDonald's grease from your hands to enter the cheat code for Contra on NES.  Now every game console has a controller with 37 buttons.  To a simpler time, I suppose...

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  2. On 5/7/2024 at 1:44 PM, 4th and 5 said:

    What has helped me out is pick one wedge and use it for everything. Learn to pitch regular, flop with it, and deloft/punch. I use a 52 degree for everything inside of 75 yards. I practice on the pitching green at every 10 yards with 15-20 balls and hit balls 1/3 normal, flop and punch then move on to the next distance. You have to develop that feel

    Agree 100%.  That wedge posted above played any shot within 115 yards.  Full, punch, flop, fluffy rough, high and soft with an open clubface, quick short runner with lots of roll to the pin, bladed just like a putt, etc.  All about hand position and clubface control.

    One time after getting frustrated with the putter that summer I played a whole round putting with that wedge and had 28 putts.

  3. On 4/15/2024 at 7:39 PM, markstanco said:

    Back in the late 80s I had a set of Ben hogan blade equalizer irons. Liked them but I sold them.

    They now have a wedge set that is classic looking and overall sweet lines. Any of yall have them?

    https://www.benhogangolf.com/equalizer-ii-wedge-head-only/?sku=US-VTBGW-0602_H&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwoPOwBhAeEiwAJuXRh96ZehWgknQTZCFsjlayJ2Enta8u6QWwK5fT0fQQUzJaw6YQnVEt9BoCqEQQAvD_BwE

    Here was my favorite.  Played with it for about 25 years.  
     

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  4. 5 minutes ago, Wally Fairway said:

    Was that your only ticket?

    Or only the most disappointing?

    I had two other small ones $25 on Hideki and Adam Scott.

  5. On 2/22/2024 at 9:55 AM, SurlyBDR said:

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     Holy shit, we had these exact ones sitting on our toilet tank in the mud bathroom in the house I grew up in.  Need to forward this to my mom and see if she remembers.

     

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  6. Ludvig was +2000 before he teed off on Friday and he’s gonna get beat by a fucking 60 from Whyndam on a storm shortened 54 holer.  Tough break.

     

    Gotta give Whyndam credit though, that could have easily been a 58 from him with a couple of more rotations on 16 and 17.

  7. Parking lots, lots and lots of parking lots.  Asphalt paving crew, crack fill, striping, installing car stops in asphalt and concrete - in concrete being the worst due to having to drill holes in the concrete for the pins to fit down into, sealcoating (damn the chemical burns on exposed skin), busting out old concrete with jackhammers to clean out for a new slab, and many other parking lot related adventures.  High school and college summers in Houston where it was always nice and cool. 

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