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Any NS peeps serious about golf?

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skia4life89
Posts: 2400 - Karma: 172
Skiing is my life during the winter, but when the snow melts and most kayak and hike, I find myself at the golf course just about everyday. Anyone else the same way? If so,Whats your handicap? Clubs you use?



I have a 12 handicap.
Taylormade Burner 2.0 Driver, Dunlap 3,5 wood, Dunlap wedges, Taylormade Burner 2.0 4-PW irons.
Jul 6 2012 9:40AM
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cmleibold
Posts: 21 - Karma: 10
I just got back into golf recently after about 8 years off. Many of my old clubs are still good, I just need a new driver. Is there any that you guys can recommend for me? Price range is under 300 dollars, and if there's one that control slice more than others that's be nice
Jul 6 2012 10:28PM
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An10a_Eng
Posts: 2505 - Karma: 26
Yeah, I never got good enough to shape the shot very well. I prefer the forgiveness of a cavity back. i was a golf salesmen in high school and a nice used pair of the mizunos came through so i figured id give em a shot. they were great when i was on my game but i wasn't on my game as much as i would like. I havent hit any other blades to compare them to but everyone i have talked to who has had mizunos top tier clubs has loved them. im trying to think of the exact set i had but i cant remember...they were probably the 2005-2006 model. at this point im just happy if i can get on the course. only played once this year. not too happy about that.
Jul 6 2012 10:37PM
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scratchproteen
Posts: 5173 - Karma: 286
dude i love my r7 irons so nice.
Jul 6 2012 11:15PM
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Forcillo
Posts: 3801 - Karma: 3,580
I'd say get something with a stiffer shaft, since they tend to provide the most control/accuracy.

But go to Dick's or another big golf store near you and ask the guys there. They'll help you out and you'll leave with a well-suited driver.
Jul 6 2012 11:43PM
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oil.
Posts: 2255 - Karma: 1,254
word.

drivers a rbz w/ motore 6.1, i20 3w, adams idea pro gold 20* hybrid, mizuno mp63 irons, ping tour s 54, 60, putter is a ping nome.
caps at a 3.4 right now

tournament season is getting really heated! ill say im pretty serious hahaha
Jul 7 2012 12:58AM
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50in07
Posts: 3070 - Karma: 1,471
I started playing again this spring after not really playing the last two years and i've been playing almost everyday. Recently I've been shooting high 70's/low 80's.

Burner Superfast 2.0 driver
Superfast 2.0 irons 4-A wedge
Ping G10 3 wood
Cleveland 52 wedge
Vokey 56 wedge
Jul 7 2012 1:08AM
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sir_drums_a_lot
Posts: 335 - Karma: 14
Gonna be playing D3 college golf this fall, have titleist 910 D3 driver, taylormade RBZ 3 wood and 3 hybrid, mizuno MP-58 irons, a mizuno 52 degree wedge, a taylormade 58 degree wedge and an old odyssey tour putter.
Used to be a 2.9 handicap before I was diagnosed with stress fractures in my L4 and L5 vertebrae, and had to take 6 months off, but my game is back to where It was.
All the golfers here, please make sure your core is strong that way you won't fuck up my back like I did. It really sucks to have to not play sports for 6+ months and the pain doesn't go away even when you're healed.
Jul 7 2012 4:38AM
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vordulmega
Posts: 513 - Karma: 47
my handicaps currently 3, im thinking about going for my instructors card in a couple years (i'm only 16)
Jul 7 2012 5:11AM
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king.tubby
Posts: 2865 - Karma: 122
dont know my handicap. clubs are crummy old hand me downs. shot a 90 yesterday. not really "serious" about it, but enjoy the hell out of it.
Jul 7 2012 11:30AM
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Zimmerman
Posts: 6992 - Karma: 1,021
HC is about 15.

Best 9= 35 on a 36
Best 18= 82 I think.

As you can see, I am not very consistent.

Clubs: Burner 2.0 9.5 Driver, Burner HT 3 wood, 3/4hybrids, and irons 5-PW, Tour Burner AW, Cleveland CG10 54* and 58*, Odyssey black 2ball putter
Jul 7 2012 12:29PM
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Dyar
Posts: 622 - Karma: 35
Where are you playing for??

Jul 7 2012 12:39PM
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juicedrummer11
Posts: 1960 - Karma: 1,331
clubs:

Ping g15 driver
Ping i15 hybrid
Nike Victory Red Irons 3-P
Nike Victory Red Wedges Black 52,56,60
Nike Oz Putter (the blade green and black one, i won it in a raffle and am looking to get a scotty cameron soon)

HC is about 10 ish or so
Jul 7 2012 12:46PM
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H-Slice
Posts: 529 - Karma: 120
Im a 10 handicap I have burner 2.0 irons burner super fast woods an adams hybrid forget the name of my wedges a yes putter and i just bought myself a pingi20 driver
Jul 7 2012 1:23PM
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sir_drums_a_lot
Posts: 335 - Karma: 14
Virginia Wesleyan College, good D3 team
Jul 7 2012 1:57PM
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POW-WOW
Posts: 1464 - Karma: 40
Just played my best round, 39. Stoked
Jul 7 2012 3:29PM
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gnarnia.
Posts: 1346 - Karma: 55
i play to a 10 and try to get out three times a week or so at least. once you start breaking 90 or 95, thats when it gets really fun and you get bit by the bug.
Jul 7 2012 7:19PM
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Ian.Ham
Posts: 1700 - Karma: 1,206
Love golfing and shredding!!!! I live in Salt lake and it is the sickest for golfing and skiing. Like 10 public courses, open since like march too. I use taylormade burner+ irons and Ping 5 wood and driver. Handicap is like 5-10 for 18. Don't keep an official one though. Shot my first even round of 9 here at Mount Hood this summer, super stoked!!
Jul 7 2012 7:59PM
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juicedrummer11
Posts: 1960 - Karma: 1,331
this is why i love reno and tahoe :P
Jul 8 2012 2:55AM
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scratchproteen
Posts: 5173 - Karma: 286
caddying for my buddy in the Minnesota Amateur on the 16th 17th and 18th....if he can win it he gets into the US Amateur.
Jul 9 2012 2:46AM
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bess.
Posts: 700 - Karma: 62
yo skialife89 we need get up and play

Driver : Taylormade Tour Burner
Irons : Nike Slingshot
Putter : Adams A14
Wedges : Top Flite Lob
Jul 9 2012 3:00AM
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E-fry
Posts: 601 - Karma: 2,171
I love golfing in the summer. I have about a 20 handicap but it's a lot of fun. I just use my mom clubs because she doesn't golf anymore
Jul 9 2012 3:06AM
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skia4life89
Posts: 2400 - Karma: 172
Yea man for sure.


Also, my shop has these Bridgestone Forged j40 that I want to try so bad.
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Jul 9 2012 10:16AM
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seward
Posts: 5233 - Karma: 2,174
exactly.

not trying to hate, but there are so many people here obviously lieing about handicaps and scores.
i know everyone uses 100 as the benchmark between golfer and noob, but do you fully comprehend how hard it is to break 100?

think about it, if youre playing bogey golf, which is decent golf, bogey on every hole, your score is going to come in at 90-91, obviously depending on your courses par rating but im going with the average 72-73 par. blow up one hole, sink a couple in the pond and boom, youre at 100.

i consider myself a ok golfer, i can hit the ball, ive played once a week for atleast the last 10 years during summer, and i am absolutely extactic to break 90.

ive worked at numourous private courses in highschool and would love to know where all these 3 handicapper's come from, cause 9-10 people i see out on the course's are fuckin shit, or in the exact same boat as me, consistently between 90-100.
Jul 9 2012 4:39PM
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1337
Posts: 31064 - Karma: 29,404
well said.

I hit a 91 the other night and was beyond stoked. 44 on the front 9, 47 on the back. I'd broken 100 before a couple of times, but it was my first really good game (If I didn't go 6, 4, 6 on the last three I would have been sub 90).

I have the bug for sure.

Maybe I'll go out and try to play 18 right now!
Jul 9 2012 4:42PM
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EmperorKuzco
Posts: 6660 - Karma: 254
I shot 102 on a par 3 course last week. Ya I know I'm pretty good. Also Im not handicapped.
Jul 9 2012 4:53PM
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oil.
Posts: 2255 - Karma: 1,254
haha well i just shot 74 to qualify for an ajga... biggest golf tour in america, tiger, phil, webb simpson, hunter mahan all played it. super excited
Jul 9 2012 5:05PM
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1337
Posts: 31064 - Karma: 29,404
shit man, that's quite an accomplishment! congrats!
Jul 9 2012 5:07PM
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oil.
Posts: 2255 - Karma: 1,254
thanks! im super excited
Jul 9 2012 5:10PM
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seward
Posts: 5233 - Karma: 2,174
obviously there is exceptions, congratulations.

i was just trying to highly the point that there is ALOTTTTTT more shit golfers than good ones.
and that people lie like a cheap fuckin rug about their scores.

also, since all the cool kids are doing it.

driver: Taylormade R11.
3 wood: Taylormade R9.
5 wood: Taylormade R9.
irons: og Nike Slingshot - 3 thru PW.
56*: Cleveland Tour Action.
60*: Cleveland Tour Action.
Putt-Putt: og Odyssey White Hot.
golf pride gripzzzzz
Jul 9 2012 5:14PM
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oil.
Posts: 2255 - Karma: 1,254
thanks dude!
tell me about it. haha i felt i needed to set myself apart from the rest.
Jul 9 2012 5:21PM
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POW-WOW
Posts: 1464 - Karma: 40
The next day I played 18 and shot +20 over... I might be the most inconsistent golfer ever.
Jul 9 2012 7:17PM
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Snowgoner
Posts: 5047 - Karma: 966
bogey golfer here. play at least 3 times a week in the summer
Jul 9 2012 9:17PM
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kamron_708
Posts: 944 - Karma: 1,129
8 handicap
Titleist 910 D2 9.5 degree, set on B-3.- 265 yards
Used R11 3 fairway, set open with lead tape on heel- 235
Burner Rescue -1 degree of loft, -210
Burner 2.0 4-AW w/ project x 6.0
4-195
5-180
6-165
7-145
8-140
9-130
P-115
A(G)-107
Wedges- Vokey SM4, All black nickel
54- 90
60- 75
Sand Wedge- TaylorMade ATV 56
Putter- Nike Method Belly Concept, 20 grams in toe, 2 grams in heel
Balls- Callavay HX black or Penta TP3
I have an r11 bag on backorder, golf galaxy ran out of rbz bags, and offered and r11 one for a discount.
All clubs up to wedges have Black and red multi compounds, and everything else has tour wrap vg2(white)

I shit you not. over 1000 dollars, and my school payed for it allllll. oh yeah, Stiff shafts throughout the bag

Jul 9 2012 11:48PM
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Casual.
Posts: 1125 - Karma: 28
when i compare my lengths with other people's it always seems weird to me. i guess i just don't strike my long irons as well as i should be. like, our lengths match up on 4-5 iron but i hit farther on shorter irons and i consistently hit my driver 300-315 yet you say you only hit it 265. idk man
Jul 10 2012 2:09AM
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seward
Posts: 5233 - Karma: 2,174
dont ever compare your lengths to others. how far you hit YOUR clubs is how far you hit YOUR clubs.

for example, i hit my 7 iron almost as far as i hit my 5 iron. 7 is just money for me.
and my buddy who consistently outdrives me by 50 yards +, ill shatter him with a 3 wood.

we always compare clubs, but its more for information to choose our own correct club, not match eachother. 
Jul 10 2012 8:44AM
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kamron_708
Posts: 944 - Karma: 1,129
Im a shorter kid, 5'6", so i have just begun to fit into the length of men's clubs, because i am so short, i have to hold the driver and fairways really deep to compensate, which is why i needed adjustability to counteract the natural draw the clubs will give me at address. that being said, because i have to hold those clubs so deep, i limits my range of motion. I was just in Golf Galaxy in the simulator, and with a 44 1/2 inch vr pro driver, i have a 102 mph clubhead spped. because the D2 with custom shafts and all is so long, it is not physically possible for me to have a semi-controlled swing while trying to move the club so fast. if i ever decide to cut the shafts down, im sure each club will go up 25-30 yards, easily. Hope that explains it.
Jul 10 2012 11:45AM
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POW-WOW
Posts: 1464 - Karma: 40
And that 6+ is on 9, my bad haha not cheating.
Jul 10 2012 11:55AM
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Talacious[Tally]
Posts: 1686 - Karma: 189
I really want to go golfing. My dad's house over looks a golf course I like to watch people golf with binoculars from the window. I feel very confident that I would do well at golf now.
Jul 10 2012 1:08PM
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seward
Posts: 5233 - Karma: 2,174
creeeeeeeeeper
Jul 10 2012 1:19PM
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*Bird
Posts: 1895 - Karma: 316
lol its not easy as it looks...at all
Jul 10 2012 1:40PM
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juicedrummer11
Posts: 1960 - Karma: 1,331
i say hey go for it. its fun to golf with girls every now an then, until one hits you with their ball off of a drive....then, not so much
Jul 10 2012 1:43PM
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Otter.
Posts: 1161 - Karma: 84
Golf is da bomb

I just picked up the new Cobra Amps and love em!
Jul 10 2012 1:46PM
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aus10
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Play on my school team who made it to the ontario championships, play the odd tournement. Cap is about a 4. Bag: Driver-ping i20 9.5* w. project x 6.5 3 wood-titliest 906f4 15.5* hybrid-titliest 910h 19* irons-mizuno mp-30(3-p) wedges- titliest sm4 52*,58* putter-scotty cameron circa 62 no.2
Jul 10 2012 3:55PM
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oil.
Posts: 2255 - Karma: 1,254
solid bag man.. the i20 driver went too far left for me. using the three wood though and its been on and off. what shaft do you have in your 910?
Jul 10 2012 7:09PM
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1337
Posts: 31064 - Karma: 29,404
can't blame the lady, I look sophisticated as fuck when I'm out there
Jul 10 2012 7:10PM
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Zimmerman
Posts: 6992 - Karma: 1,021
Well if we're doing distances...

Driver: 250-300
3W: 250
3H: 235
4H: 220
5i: 200
6i: 185
7i: 170
8i: 160
9i: 150
PW: 140
AW: 130
SW: 115-120
LW: 100-105
Jul 10 2012 11:23PM
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theabortionator
Posts: 52146 - Karma: 168,473
You should see my happy gilmour swing. Haven't golfed since 2010 though. I ate a hit of l that day too.


Drove 300+ yards and was just over the green on the first hole. No bullshit. Witnesses were there. And I can replicate that shit.

I've got skills. Need a new driver though. I can pull it off with my other driver but I broke my main driver on hole 7 because I was starting to feel fucked up and i hit the ground a little and the club head went a good 50 feet. Shit sucked.


cool story hansel
Jul 10 2012 11:31PM
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B.Fantana
Posts: 487 - Karma: 86
I work at a golf course so I try to get out a bit. Sitting at a 6 cap now but I havent been golfing good.
Driver-910 d3 (about 310 yrds) adams 2 hybrid callaway x-forged and vokeys 52 56 60. Then a superstroke scotty. if anyones in the kootneys and wants to golf let me know
Jul 10 2012 11:31PM
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Zimmerman
Posts: 6992 - Karma: 1,021
Your life is just one big ball of interesting.
Jul 11 2012 1:10AM
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theabortionator
Posts: 52146 - Karma: 168,473
Not sure if sarcasm or not. But it really is a dabble in the world of random ridiculousness.

Jul 11 2012 6:08PM
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