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  1. Harvey Penick has been completely ruined by the foot golfers.  Tried to get in a round there Sunday morning and at one point there were 4 groups totaling about 12 people on one hole.  Since there are two or sometimes three foot golf holes per golf hole, you can basically never hit your tee shot until they are all well clear.  Total waste of time and money now.

  2. I scrambled like a madman yesterday. Only hit five greens but was sitting -1 in the middle of the 18th fairway. Ended up putting two in the water from there and taking a quintuple bogey 9. Six months ago I was racking up 80s and 81s and couldn't bust through to the 70s. Now I am knocking on the door of even par rounds every few times out. It'll happen. I just need to learn how to close.

    Man I would’ve hung myself if I had a chance for par or under and ended up with an 80...

    I had my own chance at breaking 80 today. Needed a 4 on the last par 5, which if you’ve played Riverside you know 18 has no business being a par 5. Had just come off a birdie so was feeling myself. Hit a great drive to 135 out, then proceeded to take 5 more from there...
  3. It’s not looking good for our trip to Estes Park, obviously. They have shut it down to visitors for the time being. So, is there somewhere within reasonable driving distance of Denver that would be a good alternative for the first week of November? Mostly looking to do some hiking and scenic drives without too much smoke affecting us...would Breckenridge be a good spot? Or somewhere near Colorado Springs?

  4. 1 hour ago, Gen. Applewhite said:

    This was me at the start of the year. My grip had gotten very weak, which led to an open-face/hosel-first delivery at impact. The good news is I embarked on a total swing rebuild, starting with strengthening my grip, which made me feel like I had never swung a club at first, but quickly turned into tight baby draws all day long once I got my swing back on plane. It derailed my plan to focus practice time on short game in the first half of the year, but since May I have been playing the best golf of my life. The hard part was paying $12 for a big bucket to just go hit nothing but smothered pull hooks. Felt like a waste, but I was putting in the work and it paid off.

    Yeah thankfully I was able to correct it with the help of a friend/former college golfer.  Mostly it just got in my head, but I didn't hit any shanks on Sunday so crisis averted (for now)

  5. Went to the range, hit some warm up wedge shots and decided to “play” a course in my head. Instead of just hitting one club for a bunch of shots in a row I would hit the tee shot for hole one, then approach and on and on.

    Was going well until I pulled a wedge for one of my “approach” shots. Complete shank. Ok, it happens. Try it again, same thing. I suddenly could not hit the ball...everything was a thinned shank. Try as I might I only sort of figured it out before running out of balls. Has me shook.

    I don’t know how you can go from making good contact to feeling like you’ve never swung a club before in the span of 30 minutes but here I am. Hopefully I can put it past me on sundays round

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  6. How is Riverside in Austin? Never played - it's a new course, right? 
    Pretty good rates that I'm looking at online. 

    No it’s been around forever. Used to be Austin Country Club in the days of Harvey Penick.

    I play there a lot. It’s fine. Nothing special. Worth it for the price. Has some good downtown views on the front nine. Lots of duffers out there and the staff is exceedingly lax so pace of play can be a problem.
  7. Olympic swimming is stupid.  Why have 4 different ways of doing the same thing?  It should be whoever does that distance the fastest, by whichever stroke you can do fastest.  We don't have the backwards running 100m, the skipping on one leg 100m.  Why do we have the stupid ass backstroke?  

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  8. 1 hour ago, Lobo said:

    Our bank just went off Windows XP less than two years ago after running the same software for over 15 years.  both my OCC and FDIC regulators told me we had to make the switch for security reasons as we embarked on some Fintech ventures and they didn't care what it cost us.  I guess I'm glad we did it.  Of course we're still running FiServe Precision as our core processor, which itself is run in Milwaukee on Windows XP.  

    People think bringing down our financial system happens through shitty loans or a bad week on Wall Street or crippling our electrical grid.  One well placed virus inside of FiServ and Jack Henry software systems and every bank transaction in this country is locked out, including every digital payment, credit card, debit card, auto-draft, settling of every public markets transaction to cash, even the inter-bank activity all the way up to the Federal Reserve system.  Those two companies handle the movement of a couple trillion dollars a day and while the Federal Reserve bank system is the most buttoned-up security system in the world...FiServ and Jack Henry can be broken into by a bored Chinese teenager  with an Apple Newton.  

    This is only true for institutions using a service bureau, not for those that host in-house.  Now, for many in-house they are not exactly operating at the cutting edge of security best practices...

  9. So I’m pretty sold on the new mizuno JPX hot metal irons. Does anyone play them ? Their hot metal line out sells all mizuno irons combined.  5% of the iron market. I found that note interesting.
     I’ll do the mizuno swing analyzer and see what it says. My titleist ap2 irons have been damn good clubs. Titleist makes a great iron and wedges. They still make the best golf ball too 

    I have the hot metal 919s. I love them. Buttery feel and the best looking game improvement irons on the market imo. Everything mizuno makes is beautiful.
  10. 17 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

    What are the upkeep costs on that kind of land, if you don't mind me asking? Not the actual money as much as what kind of things cost money annually that makes it a money suck?

    Well, the biggest expense is paying the ranch manager, as well as his utilities/internet.  Then costs on the cattle themselves, winter feed, vaccinations, etc. They've had to dig new wells for cattle tanks, fences always need repair.  And there is always stuff breaking on a 60 year old ranch house that doesn't get lived in 3/4 of the time.  Plus one-time expenses like getting a new ranger and new ranch truck. 

     

  11. Got back from the NM ranch sunday. It cooled off just in time for us, days where in the mid 70s, nights in the high 50s.  Absolutely perfect.  

    Been dry out that way lately, monsoon hasn't really been as good as they need so the grass is a bit bare.  
    Most of the landscape shots are from when we took the Ranger up into the Cibola National Forest which abuts the ranch.  On the high elevation parts the Very Large Array (VLA) is off in the distance. Didn't see as many elk this time, only saw a few females and babies run across the vega.  Did see some mule deer like the one in the pic.

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  12. I was pissed to hear about Bluebonnet closing.  There's not enough cheapo goat tracks around any more.  Sometimes I just wanna go play a $20 round.  Every course doesn't need to be "the finest golfing experience in the Hill Country".  Sometimes I just want a laid back 18 sticks in the ground

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  13. Not sure if this has been covered, but what does a hospitalization count as?  If somebody goes to the ER and says I think I have COVID, then gets tested and recommended to just go home and isolate, does that count?  Or is it only if they are being admitted due to severe enough symptoms to require staying?

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