Running 2024 golf thread

1. 84 is a save the scorecard round for me, not mediocre, so feel free to ignore this.
2. If the ball's sitting up in the rough, I'll make a putting motion with a 7-8 iron. It has helped. Maybe it doesn't get close, but if one remembers to follow through, no shanks or chili dips.

 

I've fallen in love with hitting a 6 iron with putting stroke from the fringe/collar. Just enough loft to carry it over thicker stuff and drops and rolls like a putt. Sort of of the same as using a hybrid.

 

I'll be the first to type it: Quit.

 

This is what I'm going with:

What's funny is that some of the tips that I have been given (even ones from my pro last year) are opposite:

take club back to the outside and up, come down inside (keeping face open);
keep forward press and hands locked and simply turn;
longer stance and put ball to right of back foot;​

Could be a game changer. Fingers crossed.

 

Won't overload you, but the best chipping tip I ever got was from a caddy at a media event ahead of a major: All left hand. (if you're a righty). The right hand is along for the ride. As @playthrough said, it'll get you on the green.

 

U.S. dominant on Day 1 of the Solheim Cup, up 6-2. Just came back from watching Coughlin birdie 16 to claim the final point of the day. I'm exhausted after walking 10-plus miles, but that was super fun. Let's do it again tomorrow.

 

Not sure if this is news any more, but Tiger Woods had back surgery.

Tiger Woods Undergoes Another Back Surgery

 

I was not since I had media satellite lot parking and our shuttles ran fine. But I heard plenty of warranted griping on the ground when I was walking the course. Grandstand at the first tee was only three quarters full when Nelly Korda and Allisen Corpuz teed off, so something was definitely off. Biggest issue was that the volunteers were in the same parking lot as the general public, and they kept getting to jump the line to get there first. One of my co-workers found a lot about a mile away and just hoofed it. LPGA apologized and has supposedly rectified the situation, but yes, awful look. Once the place was full in the afternoon, the energy was fantastic.

 

One of my best friends is a +point something at our local club. He always says that full shots you play off your front foot…..short ones off your back foot. But the hands always have to be ahead.
He’s shot a 58 and two 59’s…….and just won our huge Labor Day individual tournament shooting 62-66 a couple weekends ago. I think he might know a thing or two.