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re: Best personal golf cart

Posted by BenDover on 4/29/25 at 4:31 pm
I think Club Car is the best but Yamaha and EZ-GO are both really solid options as well. Evolution has really been growing in popularity but they are made very cheaply and it's difficult to find parts for them.

The common denominator with the Evolution cart owners is I've noticed is that they're all are "rigged". As in something breaks, they can't get a replacement part, so they have to do some baw engineering.
It’s probably the only place Ewers has a chance to even make it as a backup. Maybe with Shanahan in SF too, but landing in MIA was probably the best case scenario for Ewers based on his strengths and system fit.

re: Greatest moments in NFL draft?

Posted by BenDover on 4/24/25 at 10:42 am
CeeDee Lamb's sidepiece trying to sneak his phone away from him and Lamb snatching it back
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It sounds like banks relax some processes in the investor model where they already have a relationship with investor and builder


It's the bolded part that determines how lax the bank will be with draw disbursements/inspections, along with the bank's loan policy. A lot of banks have, or are near, a concentration in their C&D buckets so things may be even tighter now. Especially if you're a new customer or have a transactional relationship with the bank.
Theres a reason you keep jumping to Datagolf for your comparisons, Jim. Niemann sucks anytime that it matters.
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Look i hate Fat Reed with the energy of a thousand suns, but i want to see his fat face on the screen so i can hate him actively.


I agree, and America loves a good villain as much as they love the protagonist. I don't agree with the other poster that there's 20 dudes on LIV that could move the needle, but I think there are 4-5. Niemann has been LIV's golden child for the last several years and has done nothing but shite down his pant legs on the biggest stages. Sorry, Jim. You're going to have to let that one go.

Take the 4-5 names on a leaderboard and instead of seeing that box as:

Scheffler
McIlroy
D. McCarthy
R. Henley
Aberg

You could see:

Scheffler
McIlroy
DeChambeau
Rahm
Aberg

There's a huge difference there, and I feel pretty damn confident that ratings would agree.
The schools being thrown out as potential suitors don't make sense. Tulane ponied up a shite ton of money for their guy during the winter portal. UNC just signed a big recruit over LSU in Baker and also has a 45-year old in Max Johnson. Nico's brother, Madden, flipped from UCLA on signing day in December and took his HS WR with him to ARK.

Of course all of this is after Nico's dad had Madden transfer high schools so the kid lost eligibility for his senior year.

Nico's dad is burning bridges left and right and quite clearly does not give a damn about his children. Pretty sickening to watch.

re: Over the top advice.

Posted by BenDover on 4/15/25 at 4:10 pm
Swing thought to help:

You don't create speed from the top of your downswing, you create it at as the club is traveling through the ball. Try to recreate the feeling as if you were to skip a rock across a pond. You would be whipping your arm through.

Drill:

Place a tee about a clubhead behind and to the right of the ball. Then place another tee about a clubhead in front and to the left of the ball. This should create a "gate" for you to swing through and force you to swing through the ball from the inside.
Club Car, Yamaha, and EZGO are all good brands. I've had CC & EZGO and prefer CC but it's more about preference at that point. You can't really go wrong with any of the three.

Yamaha has a really good gas model that is super quiet. It's hardly louder than the electric models but it is $$$$$.

For the electric ones, you just top the batteries off with distilled water every few months or so in the fall/winter. During the hotter season you may check them more frequently. Just be sure you're using distilled water when refilling.
Jay isn't going to make a deal. He's going to continue to stall LIV/PIF until either A) the money runs dry from FSG, and/or 2) the big name guys like Koepka/Bryson's contracts expire with LIV and try to get them back on Tour.

It's all been a bullshite rouse by Jay to get LIV to pause or drop the lawsuits before the Tour went bankrupt.
I felt exhausted after watching yesterday, I can online imagine how Rory felt after the round. I can't recall a rollercoaster round like that before. On the back 9 alone we had:

- One of the worst wedge shots I've seen on tour on #13
- All-time iron shot on 15 where he then proceeded to miss the 6-foot eagle putt
- Great shot on 16 where he proceed to miss another short putt for birdie
- All-time iron shot on 17 before converting the birdie putt
- Great drive on 18 overshadowed by another poor wedge shot and putt

That doesn't even touch on the two ridiculous shots over the trees on the front-9. Hell, Patrick Reed 3-putted from 4' or he would've had a chance to win it. Aberg had a chance as well before he nutted up on 17 and then played army golf on 18.

Just an unbelievable tournament.
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Those last 2 possessions coming out of timeouts were really really bad.


UF killed Houston on plays coming out of a timeout. There were several times in the 1st half alone, whether team timeout or commercial break, UF would run a set that Houston was just boggled with. That is largely a mechanism of coaching.

Doc Rivers used to get killed on plays coming out of a timeout too. I'm not going to pretend that I watched Houston any more than March Madness, but that did stand out to me last night. Sampson is clearly a great motivator, and the players seem to love him, but he needs to find some basketball nerd to help him with those situations. Even last night, they were coming out of timeout and the commentators mentioned that Sampson didn't draw up a play on his white board, he simply wrote "TOUGHNESS" and did a rah-rah talk.
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Why didn’t you take down a job offer listing that had been filled?


Because he wanted to "pipeline" candidates.... and do the exact same thing to the candidates that he's complaining about here.
I suspect they'll still give the award to Shai due to voter fatigue. However, when they snubbed him of the regular season award in favor of Embiid, Jokic said, "that's fine, I'll go get the Finals MVP instead". Part 2 incoming?
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the paspalum grass, ball sits up like zoysia but it's very sticky.


This is very true. To the OP, we went last fall and had a blast even though it was about a 9 1/2 hour drive each way for us. That said, we will be flying next time :lol:.

The course is incredible and very well kept. I'd say the two most difficult parts about it were figuring out how to strike the ball with tight/sticky lies (you have to really be shallow, and I'm steep), and the wind. It's hard to tell what the wind is doing because the course is sunk down into the hills, but the wind is up there.
Crazy times in CFB when you can't hardly get excited about a big 5* committing to your program. The landscape has shifted in such a way that a recruit's 1st commitment is really nothing but a leverage play and LSU seemingly enjoys throwing out the 1st number in negotiations.
Played Bluejack National the day before their member/guest. Wide fairways so you don’t get killed off the box, but man the greens were unspeakably fast and undulating. Had an amazing time and #12 is as close as you can get to playing 12 at Augusta.
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Fox “generated” it?

Seems like the businesses generated it and Fox took it to promote the generators


This is an example of something sounding way smarter in your head than out loud. Of course FOX generated it. They paid billions (indirectly) to broadcast the Super Bowl. FOX then was able to generate, or make, a large chunk of that money back in the form of selling ad space to the tune of $800MM.
Correct. Donnen, Phelan, and the two candidates running now, are all connected to Third Coast Bank. As are Vanguard and Blackrock.