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Old 08-28-2023, 09:59 PM   #4025
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Just got home from another pilgrimage to Pennsylvania this year. Apologies Kehlis.

I tried getting "not inviting kehlis to Oakmont" as a bannable offense but Steve wasn't buying it.

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Old 08-30-2023, 05:42 PM   #4026
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I must have driven by (through?) Oakmont a hundred times (along with millions of other people) and every time I am on that stretch of I76 I think to myself, I would love to pull over right now and hop over the fence with my sticks....

By the way, can you hear the highway from the course? I would imagine you would not be able to avoid it, but then, it is a fair amount above the road surface with high walls on either side of the highway in that stretch.
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Old 08-30-2023, 10:20 PM   #4027
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I tried getting "not inviting kehlis to Oakmont" as a bannable offense but Steve wasn't buying it.

The day I win the lottery, I'll be a member there, and you'll be high up on the list to bring out there. For now I just have to take advantage of work trips.


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By the way, can you hear the highway from the course? I would imagine you would not be able to avoid it, but then, it is a fair amount above the road surface with high walls on either side of the highway in that stretch.

To be honest, you don't notice it at all until you're walking across the overpass. Even on #1's green, you're far enough away, and the turnpike is so much lower that you literally don't hear anything until you're walking across heading to #2.
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Old 09-02-2023, 01:28 PM   #4028
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So I took my Dad to get a new driver the other day and I told him that he should have them just custom fit one for him. It's super cheap here ($50) and if you buy the club from them they put that $50 towards your purchase.

My dad is 72 and has 2 bad knees and lung issues so he tires quickly but the guy was great with him. I have been fitted before and had my wife fitted as well on her last set and it is always quite the fun and enlightening experience so I really wanted my Dad to have a chance at this.

Anyway, he goes in and hits his old driver which is way too much club for him as he has hit it for 15 years and his body and swing have changed a lot in that time. The guy goes through a bunch of shafts and driver heads and nothing is really working great. My Dad has a very inconsistent swing due to his knees and his launch angle ranges from 6 degrees to 17 degrees, with a 10 degree driver. Anyway, the guy is helping him out and then just leaves saying he will be right back. He brings in a set of Cobra's and pulls out the driver to let me Dad hit.

All of a sudden my Dad is crushing it down the middle, increasing his ball speed by 4 mph and his launch angle is much more consistent. It also helped that the guy suggested 2 easy changes in ball placement and a slight stance adjustment, but my Dad's face lit up when he saw how well he could hit this driver.

So the guy goes, well this driver comes as a full set, but what I will do for you, since you are hitting it so well, is that I will pull this driver from the set to sell to you and just put a new driver in this set and sell it like that. I was totally blown away by the fact that they would do that instead of trying to make him buy the full set.

I am just telling this story to emphasize the fact that if you are in the market for new clubs, save a little bit of extra money and go get yourself a fitting. It is such an amazing experience and you will have so much fun and even probably learn a few things about the game of golf.
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Would it be even worth it getting a fitting at a 28.8?


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Yes, probably even more so. I am in that same handicap ballpark, and I got fitted for irons early this season. It's helped immensely, and my index has improved.

I played a 9-hole golf outing on a par-3 course and was hitting my irons purer than I ever have. Ended up shooting a 29, just 2-over.

On other rounds at full-sized courses, I am hitting the ball closer to pins, cleaner off the turf, and have more confidence when playing. I think the fitting helped with that quite a bit.
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Old 09-08-2023, 12:53 AM   #4031
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I continued on my fall tour of golf this week. Just got home from a week back home in Wisconsin. We played some nice courses. I started with my home course I grew up on, and finished with the club I played a good bit when I was still in Wisconsin, fired 79’s at both, but I’m the middle we sprinkled in Whistling Straits and the River Course at Blackwolf Run.

What a delight both courses are. Ive played both a few times before, but everyone I played with was getting their first look at them, so that was fun to be a part of. My pops even got to play the River course with us. It was my first time playing them in five years so it was a nice refresher.

The Straits course continues to be a gritty, grotesque, yet elegant and beautiful test of golf. The wind off the lake will always dictate how your round goes. Plenty of pros have called it the most brutal walk on tour, and that she is. Always known as a physical test, having to manipulate shots, especially through the back nine, based on the wind was an incredible time. Fired an 84, which I will absolutely take on that track.

Now comes the mental test of the group. The River Course is a true thinking course. Beautiful and flawless, immaculate greens. The perfect counterpart to Straits. The River is in the top three most difficult courses I’ve ever played, and it’s well deserved. Pete Dye must have been pissed off when he designed this track. But what a test she is. I followed up my 84 at Straits with another 84 here, which I will absolutely take.

I can not recommend this complex enough. To me it’s the second best golf trip you can make in this country, only to Bandon. The courses offer such contrast to each other and are such different tests in different ways. Two absolute musts to check off for any golf nut.

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Old 09-08-2023, 03:10 PM   #4032
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I've played the Irish Course at Whistling Straits, which is such a distinctly different counterpart to it's more lakeside sister track. Someday I will play the Straits...

I am looking forward to doing a Sand Valley trip in 2025, and that resort will have 5 total courses at that time. The Lido and Sedge Valley look amazing.
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