Crosshair Golf Blog
June 30, 2010
Favorite Time to Play Golf
What is your Favorite time to play a round of golf.
My friend likes to get up early on a Saturday or Sunday with a tee time around 6:30. He can play golf and be home before noon so he can “Work” around the house. I personally think it is the only time he can sneak out of the house.
I, on the other hand, like to play late in the afternoon on Sunday. My wife and I get to the course around 4pm, no crowds, no waiting. We can have a nice walk in a beautiful setting and not feel rushed. Early in the summer it is OK because we have daylight until 8:30, but as the summer wears on we finish earlier and earlier.
We all have different times we like to play a game of golf. I told you my “favorite” time. But, as long as I am with good friends anytime is a good time to play golf
June 28, 2010
How Many Drivers Do You Have In Your Closet
This post is for all you multiple golf driver owners. How many of you purchase a new driver, or know someone who purchases a new driver, every year? Does it make your game any better?
I am personally acquainted with someone who, every year, needs to have a new driver. Just to make his game better. His game never gets better, he refuses to take a lesson, and he blames it all on his clubs with the driver being the ringleader.
If you are one of these people…STOP. You are not helping your game and your friends do not look forward to playing with you. You need to stop buying Drivers. What you need to do is improve your game in 3 easy steps.
1. Get properly fit. 2. Take a lesson or 2 with your new clubs. 3. Relax and gain your confidence on the course.
If you have confidence in your golf clubs you will probably only get new clubs when you need them not when you “think” you need them. As a purveyor of custom fit golf clubs I would love for everyone reading this to buy a new driver every year, need it or not. But, as a person who loves the game of golf, and loves to talk about the game of golf, I would rather have you buying a new driver or set of golf clubs every three years because you have worn your old set out.
If you are going to purchase your new clubs online, most golf club companies have some sort of “Get Fit” guide to follow. We have a module in which you input a few measurements and you will be able to get the clubs that fit you. I would suggest you get professionally fit for your clubs if you are a scratch golfer. You can do this at any pro shop, usually for no charge. You can then use these measurements to order from us or any online golf shop. If you have not established your swing yet, I would not suggest newer golfers get a full professional fitting. If you get fit for clubs and then take lessons and your swing changes your clubs might not fit you anymore.
Our custom club fitting module is a great way to get fit for a custom set of golf clubs
One set of properly sized, quality golf clubs should give you quite a few years of top notch performance and fun on the golf course. Clean your closet and sell all the clubs you do not use, Find a set of golf clubs that you feel comfortable with, have them custom fit to your specifications. Then, go take a few lessons, practice and enjoy years of fun on the golf course.
June 25, 2010
How far do you hit your 5 iron
How far do you hit your 5 Iron?
You will here this question or “what club do you use to hit 150 yards?” Either way, you should have a answer. Why, because if you are wanting to score better, then this is good information to have.
If you walk up to any Pro Golfer and ask “How far do you hit your 6 iron?” Their answer will be something like “163 Yards” not 160 yards or 165 yards, it will be 163 yards, they will know exactly how far they hit each club. The better Pro’s will know how far they hit all their clubs in different weather conditions, different altitudes, etc. You give them a situation or climate and they will know how far they hit the clubs in their bag.
For us weekend warriors we do not need to know exactly how far we hit each club, but we should have a good idea. We need to be close, 5 yard increments is probably fine for us. This information is good for scoring and for safety. For instance, A new golfer is out on the course. He is 150 yards to center of green. He does not know what club he uses for 150 yards so he grabs his 3 wood. He sends his ball through the windshield of a brand new Caddy in the parking lot, Loses $5.00 skin, and worst of all he got a quadruple bogey. But worse than that, he could have actually hurt someone.
OK, what do you do? After you have had a few lessons, get out to a driving range, preferably a driving range that allows you to hit off the grass. You might want to take several trips to the driving range. Each time you go try to hit 10 to 15 balls with each club and make notes as to distance. Once you know these numbers, you will see your scores drop and your enthusiasm for the game rise.
If you do not have the time to measure each and every club, then just take your 5 Iron. Lets say that after a few trips to the range, you have determined that you hit your 5 iron 160 yards. You can now estimate 10 yards per club in either direction. Your 6 iron 150 yards and your 4 iron 170 yards, etc.
Now you are ready to see a yardage marker, pace off your ball and put it in the center of the green.
So I will ask you again. How far do you hit your 5 iron?
June 23, 2010
June 9, 2010
June 4, 2010
Try the Putting Green for a change
How many times do we show up early for a round of golf, grab a bucket of balls, and head out to the driving range and hit all the balls with our golf driver? Too many times if you ask me.
I think it is time we start hitting the putting green and improving our scores instead of always taking out the driver and trying to improve our sexiness. Let me ask you this. What is so sexy about a 300+ yard drive followed up by a 4-putt?
A par 72 golf course has probably four par 5’s and some of those are probably dog legs that require a lay up. You might have some long par 4’s that you can get away with the driver, even though you should probably lay up.
All golf courses, regardless of length and number of holes, have one thing in common. To finish every hole, you must putt. That’s right, you have to take the putter out and use it at least once, probably twice, and all too often three times on every single hole you play.
So, don’t buy that bucket of balls and try to be the long drive winner. Instead, grab a handful of the balls you use every day, hit the putting green, and win the round, time and time again.
June 3, 2010
The Golf Frustration Blues
I am in the middle of the fairway, 150 yards out, no wind, no shadows. I take my 8-Iron and go through my routine. I address the ball, keep my head down and wham……Worm Burner. You guessed it, I topped the ball.
Simple 94 yard par 3. You can do this every day. Except some masochistic course designer thought the fairway between you and the hole is a great place to put a pond, maybe he likes fishing. But I digress, my ball is in the water. I do not know why, this is a shot I make all the time when there is no pond in my way.
They say that golf is a “Mind” game, or golf is a “Mental” game. Well, I am here to tell you “They” are wrong. Golf is a head game. It gets in your head and torments you. It beats you down. It makes you do crazy things like pay $500.00 for the newest, latest, greatest, driver. A driver that will send the ball farther and straighter than any club before. That is, until you get it in your hands and slice the ball onto interstate 90 that runs along the par 5 5th.
So, why do we do it? Why do we keep going to the course, weekend after weekend? I will tell you why. Sometimes that Golf Bug that has gotten in our heads is asleep. We step up to the first tee and take out our Driver and hit it straight and true. Then, hole after hole we make sweet shots and finish, maybe not with a pro tour score, but we break 100 or even 90.
We beat the demon in our heads.
Tiger Woods Ho Hum Start at the Memorial
Tiger Woods broke even for the first round of the Memorial. A bit boring, but for all the Tiger fans it is good to see him back at it.
It is a bit early to tell, but if he gets his groove back we might be in for some interesting golf this weekend. With Phil Mickelson and Jim Furyk in the top 10, Tiger will have his work cut out for himself.
Justin Rose is in first place at 7 under and there are 69 golfers with in 6 strokes of the lead and 3 more days of golf.
Let’s see what happens on Friday
June 2, 2010
Will Tiger get the Lions Share
Tiger Woods, 108th in the Fedex standings, will make another return to the PGA Tour this weekend with a 12:44 pm tee time at the Memorial. Is he ready to take the Lions share again or will he come up lame.
How many times do we hear the golf commentators proclaim, “Tiger is on the prowl” and how many times do we see leaders drop one by one as Tiger stalks silently by. At the end it is Tiger with the kill, and all the meat he can eat. What will Tiger do this week? It is hard to tell. There are a lot of young cats out there who are very hungry and will not be looking over their shoulder to see if Tiger is “On the Prowl”.
Remember, it’s a jungle out there and only the strong will survive. In Golf, it is the strength of the mind that will bring you to the kill first. Tiger Woods has had his eye on Jack’s coveted 18 Major wins. He has two more chances this year at courses he likes and has been successful at. But, over the past year, Tiger has fallen and all the young lions sense the weakness, and I would say “They are on the Prowl”.
Tiger does not need to win this tournament, but he needs to send a message. That message has to be that, I might be down but I am not weak. He needs to make some heads turn and look over their shoulders. If he can do that then he will get the Lions Share, and eat well for another week. If not, he might be fighting Hyenas and Vultures for the scraps.
Get In The Hole
It is probably not a breach of golf etiquette to yell “Get in the Hole” when a tour player tee’s it up and lets t rip on a par 3. But do we have to yell every time Tiger Woods does anything. I know it dosen’t happen often, but there are times that it is patently obvious that a shot is going everywhere but the fairway, and some dumbass has to yell “Get in the hole”.
I think there is an unspoken contest out there to be the first fan to yell “Get in the Hole’ when Tiger tees it up. It would not surprise me if when Tiger is having his banana break and he tosses the peel in the trash some spectator is yelling, “Get in the Hole”, if only in his mind.
I do not really think this blog post serves any purpose other than being a senseless post on the Crosshair Golf Blog. So, if anybody stumbles upon this post then please yell to me to “Get in the HOLE”