The Golf Shot Thread

Roomys_ZA said:
Does your work not offer unpaid leave? Or cant you swing it (hehe) as a sales trip?
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nope if i ask for a day of even if its unpaid to go play golf i will have to selll my soul...and PA's cant go on sales trip cause technically i dont have clients
 
Wenzdayz said:
nope if i ask for a day of even if its unpaid to go play golf i will have to selll my soul...and PA's cant go on sales trip cause technically i dont have clients
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ah right :(

Flirting with the right person never hurt, i haven't tried personally but i have heard it works wonders :D
 
Sometimes a person is blessed with good friends, and mine is treating me to a round of golf at Irene Golf Club tomorrow morning. Last time I played there, I may have broken a driver, but that bastard never caused a fade again...;)
 
DieGrootH@mmer said:
Sometimes a person is blessed with good friends, and mine is treating me to a round of golf at Irene Golf Club tomorrow morning. Last time I played there, I may have broken a driver, but that bastard never caused a fade again...;)
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Oh wow. Enjoy the time out on the course, Sir. Hope it clears up the cobwebs and produces awesome pars and birdies :)

Is it an 18 or 9 hole course? Never played it, so excuse my ignorance.

All credit to Henrik Stenson. A wire-to-wire win for the biggest prize money in golf – R110 million. Thats $ 10 million in bonus money for winning the FedExCup and $ 1.44 million for winning the TOUR Championship. Just think about that for a second… When he comes to South Africa to play in the SA Open and probably the Nedbank Golf Challenge he could use that money on a scouting trip to buy a small country in Africa.

Back to golf. He’s hit the most greens in regulation over the four FedEx Cup events. He’s won two of the four events. He’s the hottest golfer in the World and has been since the Open Championship. I say well-done Henrik – you’re a great champion.

Tiger Woods may not have had the best tournament but he still finished second on the Standings. He’s also got the points required to win the PGA of America's Player of the Year, and he’s won the PGA TOUR Money Title and the Vardon Trophy for the lowest scoring average.

How about Jordan Spieth. He’s the same age as Brandon Stone and in his first year he’s overlapped both Lee Trevino and Johnny Miller on the All-Time Money lists. Crazy isn’t it? Jordan certainly looks like a future world-beater. He has it all!

He started the year without status on any professional tour but then won the John Deer Classic and secured a two-year exemption on the PGA Tour. He finished seventh in the FedEx Cup standings and for that alone he won a bonus of $700,000 - not bad for your rookie year!
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http://www.dalehayesgolf.com/Pro/NewsletterArchive.aspx?id=dbee40a2-700b-49d8-93a3-6b426232b6b1

Click Here to view the final FedEx Cup Standings and here to view the Bonus Money Payout.
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Congratulations to Charl for a wonderful effort :)
 
McT said:
Oh wow. Enjoy the time out on the course, Sir. Hope it clears up the cobwebs and produces awesome pars and birdies :)

Is it an 18 or 9 hole course? Never played it, so excuse my ignorance.
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It's a full 18 hole course, in the heart of snobsville Pretoria...

I kid of course. It's still the course I've hit the biggest drive of my life. Hole 3 is a shortish par 4 with a dogleg left at around 220m. If you reach the dogleg you have an easy 140m or so to go straight to the green. That day I didn't have a hybrid in my bag, so I went for the turn with the driver. Luckily it caught the dogleg as it goes down the hill, and the ball stopped at the end about 20m or so from the green on the right. We measured it to be close to about 350m drive, albeit with only a 260m or so carry...but still, I felt like The Hulk!!
 
DieGrootH@mmer said:
It's a full 18 hole course, in the heart of snobsville Pretoria...

I kid of course. It's still the course I've hit the biggest drive of my life. Hole 3 is a shortish par 4 with a dogleg left at around 220m. If you reach the dogleg you have an easy 140m or so to go straight to the green. That day I didn't have a hybrid in my bag, so I went for the turn with the driver. Luckily it caught the dogleg as it goes down the hill, and the ball stopped at the end about 20m or so from the green on the right. We measured it to be close to about 350m drive, albeit with only a 260m or so carry...but still, I felt like The Hulk!!
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We all live moments like this. No matter how crap the rest of the game, this is the stuff the hauls us by the nose back to another round of golf. Enjoy your outing, esteemed sir :)
 
This from Dales Hayes' weekly newsletter about Golf Magazine's Top 100 Courses.

From the desk of Dale Hayes:

Golf Magazine has just released its Top 100 Golf Courses of the World. The top three are all American, with Pine Valley at Number 1; Cypress Point at Number 2 and Augusta National at Number 3. Only Durban Country Club got into the Top 100 and then literally, at Number 100!

Obviously all rankings are just a matter of opinion, but I have actually played more than half of the courses in the Top 100 and I would definitely add three more South African courses to that list. For me, Leopard Creek, Gary Player Country Club and Arabella actually rank ahead or alongside courses like Rye, Royal Adelaide and Swinley Forest. Also interesting is that Gary Player has designed over 300 golf courses and not one of them is in the Top 100. Between 1890 and 1940, 58 of the Top 100 courses were built. Since 1940 only 32
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Working on from the above post of top 100 courses, which are your top courses you have enjoyed and played? No particular order. As many or few as you can think of. Please note, this is the courses you have enjoyed playing (even if it was a "goat track" :D).

Mine would include the following:

Wild Coast GC
Glendower
Woodmead (Rocklands)
Victoria Country Club
Princes Grant
Southbroom GC
Sakabula GC
 
First Eagle for me last wednesday at Champagne Sports resort on a Par 5 :D Super Stoked.

2nd shot over water landed here :P

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Roomys said:
First Eagle for me last wednesday at Champagne Sports resort on a Par 5 :D Super Stoked.

2nd shot over water landed here :P

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Great shot, lad. I had a similar shot on Monday. First shot into the green. Hit the pin and landed a foot away for a tap-in birdie. Not sure which hole, but it was at the World of Golf at Woodmead.

TBlaar said:
Awesome shot!

I am playing again next Sunday for the first time in a year and a half... thank god!
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Enjoy the experience. Nothing like getting out after a long absence.
 
Yeah well, I did terribly.. much worse than before.

I think it's time I get back out on the course more often...
 
I just recently started playing golf and i love every second of it. even though i suck.

I don't even pack my woods cause otherwise i have no chance of not blacking out every hole.
 
Well i haven't played golf in 6 years and me and a friend want to get back into it casually and start playing again but i'll first have to step back to the drawing board and learn how to again i can't hit further than 150 atm but my swing is way off and to the left, so guess i will have to go for a few touch up lessens again :(
 
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