Rep Retirement Lodge: 17th Edition: Summer Isn't Just A Stripper's Name

[bigmrg74]

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Quickest way to get off the phone with a telemarketer who is trying to sell you a free cruise:

Tell them you are on the Do Not Fly list. That kinda wraps things up quickly.

Could have then asked if they have any cruises going through the Gulf of Aden.

<---way too cynical person. I was thinking if you submit all the bills they have a way of tracking what happened. (thinking like a med person) Pharma and Insurance don't care about the individual but they are all about data

There is that as well. Either way gmann, don't look a gift horse in the mouth too much.

 

[leswp1]

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NOt a golfer but Mr les and Lil were watching the Open. All they did was whine about the greens. I thought if you were a pro you are supposed to be able to golf well where ever. No one whines about the Britis hOpen. They all seem proud of how horrid the conditions are in the UK.. Chalk this up to another sport I don't get along with Bisket ball where you can club someone legally but touch their left fingernail and give someone a free throw.....

 

[bigblue_dl]

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NOt a golfer but Mr les and Lil were watching the Open. All they did was whine about the greens. I thought if you were a pro you are supposed to be able to golf well where ever. No one whines about the Britis hOpen. They all seem proud of how horrid the conditions are in the UK.. Chalk this up to another sport I don't get along with Bisket ball where you can club someone legally but touch their left fingernail and give someone a free throw.....

There's a difference between looking bad and playing unfairly. These greens were not consistent and they were not rolling true, which means that skill isn't necessarily being rewarded, ie, you can hit a perfect putt and the bump in the green messes with it, see Snedeker's putt. The British greens may look bad, but they're fair, consistent and roll true.

 

[The Rube]

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There's a difference between looking bad and playing unfairly. These greens were not consistent and they were not rolling true, which means that skill isn't necessarily being rewarded, ie, you can hit a perfect putt and the bump in the green messes with it, see Snedeker's putt. The British greens may look bad, but they're fair, consistent and roll true.

Then just hit it where the greens have a good path to the hole. Duh.

I know we talked about it last night, and there is truth to both our points, IMO.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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Then just hit it where the greens have a good path to the hole. Duh.

I agree with this. I'm happy to see a US Open that was not so predictable for any player, after years of the Brits ribbing us about our golf courses being "well-groomed parks".

 

[The Rube]

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I agree with this. I'm happy to see a US Open that was not so predictable for any player, after years of the Brits ribbing us about our golf courses being "well-groomed parks".

The course is (IMO) basically a middle finger to "the game." I love it.

 

[Ralph Baer]

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yawn!

 

[MarkEagleUSA]

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Good morning to tLodge!

 

[goldy_331]

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Good Morning Lodge.

Waiting for the skies to open up here. Hurried in to work so I wouldn't have to deal with it on my commute but forecast heavy rain and thunderstorms for the 7-9 AM range.

Found a car to replace the one that I used to kill the deer. Basically the same car but grey versus silver and about 9K more miles on it. They'll give me a Subaru certification which gives it a 7 yr 100K power train warranty from Subaru. Looked at a few others but this seemed the best warranty deal on a used car.

PS: happy to hear the puppy is doing better!

 

[mookie1995]

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S'upp y'all

 

[Lady wore Black]

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Good Morning, Lodge!

Taking the day off so I can get some stuff done around the house (laundry) and spend more time with my dad. He decided to stay an extra day. Good thing as he would be driving in these storms all they way back.

 

[bigblue_dl]

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Good Morning Lodge.

Waiting for the skies to open up here. Hurried in to work so I wouldn't have to deal with it on my commute but forecast heavy rain and thunderstorms for the 7-9 AM range.

Found a car to replace the one that I used to kill the deer. Basically the same car but grey versus silver and about 9K more miles on it. They'll give me a Subaru certification which gives it a 7 yr 100K power train warranty from Subaru. Looked at a few others but this seemed the best warranty deal on a used car.

PS: happy to hear the puppy is doing better!

I waited to leave for work until it was raining. I needed the rain to get more of the mud off of my running boards from the road rally last weekend. Almost gone now.

 

[goldy_331]

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I needed the rain to get more of the mud off of my running boards from the road rally last weekend.

Do we need to start a collection to buy you a hose?

 

[bigblue_dl]

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Do we need to start a collection to buy you a hose?

I like nature's hose.

For the record, the gravel mud was still there after we went through the car wash.

 

[leswp1]

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There's a difference between looking bad and playing unfairly. These greens were not consistent and they were not rolling true, which means that skill isn't necessarily being rewarded, ie, you can hit a perfect putt and the bump in the green messes with it, see Snedeker's putt. The British greens may look bad, but they're fair, consistent and roll true.

You would think part of being a pro would be working that stuff out rather than coddling them and making everything perfect. Tough conditions separate the men from the boys. How is it unfair when everyone putts on the same green? They were consistent for every player, they didnt' change conditions between players. The people who were best at figuring them out won. If you want everything to be perfect why not use turf or better yet- a carpet covered with a retractable roof to really make conditions perfect.

 

[Scarlet]

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I waited to leave for work until it was raining. I needed the rain to get more of the mud off of my running boards from the road rally last weekend. Almost gone now.

I'm so glad we got some decent rain yesterday as my car apparently looks like a toilet to every bird in the area. I get more bird **** on my car - it's uncanny.

 

[bigblue_dl]

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You would think part of being a pro would be working that stuff out rather than coddling them and making everything perfect. Tough conditions separate the men from the boys. How is it unfair when everyone putts on the same green? They were consistent for every player, they didnt' change conditions between players. The people who were best at figuring them out won. If you want everything to be perfect why not use turf or better yet- a carpet covered with a retractable roof to really make conditions perfect.

But its not the same for every player, that's what is meant by saying they're inconsistent.

 

[St. Clown]

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But its not the same for every player, that's what is meant by saying they're inconsistent.

Do you mean the greens' speed is inconsistent, is that what's different? Because the break would be greatly altered by that.

During the five minutest that I watched the US Open this weekend, I heard they used fescue for the entire course at this place rather than bent grass for the greens, like most places use.

 

[bigblue_dl]

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Do you mean the greens' speed is inconsistent, is that what's different? Because the break would be greatly altered by that.

During the five minutest that I watched the US Open this weekend, I heard they used fescue for the entire course at this place rather than bent grass for the greens, like most places use.

It is so inconsistent that if you have two balls, 2 feet from each other, equidistant from the cup, one line may roll true and the other may be bumpy, and the ball gets deflected off track.

The greens are supposed to be fescue, which is not an issue. The issue is that the original fescue greens got infested with the native poa annua grass, which seeds out very quickly, and at very short lengths. You can end up with little poa annua clusters, the have tiny little grass seeds on it, that can deflect the path of the ball. This was never the intention of the course designers, the greens were supposed to be all fescue. You can see on the couple greens that were reworked a few years ago, that the poa annua hasn't gotten to them, and they were actually rolling fine, without those same issues.

 

[bigmrg74]

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I'm so glad we got some decent rain yesterday as my car apparently looks like a toilet to every bird in the area. I get more bird **** on my car - it's uncanny.

I was in Lansing saturday night and I made the mistake of parking under a tree. Sunday morning it looked like something out of Angry Birds: The Movie!! Found a carwash a little ways down the road to clean it off, just rolled up to the start and you could the guys thinking "What a ****ing Mess!" tipped them all well as I really needed it cleaned off to just see out the windows.

It is so inconsistent that if you have two balls, 2 feet from each other, equidistant from the cup, one line may roll true and the other may be bumpy, and the ball gets deflected off track.

The greens are supposed to be fescue, which is not an issue. The issue is that the original fescue greens got infested with the native poa annua grass, which seeds out very quickly, and at very short lengths. You can end up with little poa annua clusters, the have tiny little grass seeds on it, that can deflect the path of the ball. This was never the intention of the course designers, the greens were supposed to be all fescue. You can see on the couple greens that were reworked a few years ago, that the poa annua hasn't gotten to them, and they were actually rolling fine, without those same issues.

That, and they were saying that the daily growth rates of the greens can change over the day, with different grasses growing at different rates over the day. That and the foot traffic on the green over the day can change how the green can play over a day as well.