Tiger1242

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His character in Game Night was hilarious

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How can that possibly be profitable for frito lay?

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The USGA screwed up by watering the greens between waves Thursday.

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Wasn’t this addressed before Thursday?
The course is always watered at 2pm, it wasn’t a special USGA decision it was standard operating procedure right?

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playing the same ball consistently is critically important.

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It’s quotes like this, this right here, that drive me insane. I’m going over the top of my opinion in this thread, I understand the ball DOES make a difference, I myself play the same ball consistently unless I’m just sucking that day or messing around.

HOWEVER saying that a 12 handicap playing the same ball all the time is CRITICALLY important is ridiculous.

No I’m saying a good ball can hurt you as bad as help you and a bad ball can help you as much as hurt you.

The point I’m making is that if you aren’t that good, the ball you play does not have much of an impact on your score.

I’m not naive to how golf balls work. The point I’ve made 1000 times on this board and the hill I will die on is that for most people the impact is negligible and good balls can actually hurt them on poor shots. Let’s take your moderately skilled player with a high swing speed as our example.

Just to make it simple let’s say a well struck drive for him goes 300yds with “the right golf ball”. Let’s say he’s playing a course that is 6300yds (avg 350/hole). If he plays “the wrong ball” maybe he loses 10yds on a pure shot, so it’s going 290 instead of 300, that’s not making much difference on the majority of the holes he’s going to play.

Now let’s look at short game and spin, a perfectly hit wedge with “the right ball” might hit and stick or come back some while “the wrong ball” might roll out 5-10ft, assuming he’s not an idiot he knows this and simply attempts to hit his shot 10ft shorter, very rarely are municipal courses forcing you to rip back a wedge to hold a green. Same basic idea applies chipping.

Now let’s look at the non perfect shots, depending on what “wrong golf ball” he’s playing, he could actually benefit on his bad shots (they might spin less, fly shorter and stay away from trouble, etc…). Based on my own experience and seeing others, he’s as likely to benefit from a worse ball than a good ball on bad shots. Poor wedge? Might get more lucky on the roll out. Hard sliced drive? That poor compression may keep it straighter and shorter out of trouble. Pulled iron long? Less hook and not quite as far

You guys all look at spin rate and average carry on good shots and forget most golfers don’t hit good shots every time. And my point is that while there may be a little advantage on a well struck shot, the majority of golfers aren’t hitting well struck shots that often and a worse ball can actually benefit them in those cases.

ESPECIALLY if they are taking your advice and buying a mid-level ball and not a proV1, chrome tour, TP5X level ball.

Is he ever not leading the tournament early? We all know he can start well, can he finish?

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I can hit a pro-v1/maxfli tour type of ball a good 15+ yards farther than a callaway supersoft. The ball absolutely matters.

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Sure, you can, you can also top the pro V one just as easily and shank it out of bounds the same way you do the super soft. Unless you are a single digit handicap, the ball should be the least of your concerns.

I’m a 5 and I would never dream of blaming a golf ball for a poor shot. My dad’s friend who I grew up playing with was a + handicap, he’d play the whole damn round with a range ball and still shoot even.

Sorry man, most of you just aren’t good enough to be caring so much about the type of ball you hit, or blaming the ball for bad results.

Don’t listen to these people, the ball doesn’t matter that much. People who blame bad results on the ball are people you don’t want to play with. Good shots are good shots and bad shots are bad shots, ball ain’t gonna change that

If you ever watched any of his YouTube golf videos it’s pretty clear he’s a dickhead. Even in a highly curated, edited video designed to make him seem likeable you can see his personality shine through at times

Adding to others, the 2 big keys for me to lower my scores

1. Just hit your shot type everytime you possibly can, so what if the tee shot or the green “calls for a high draw”, if you play a fade just play the fade or vice versa. I probably shaved 5 strokes off my game just by accepting my swing and playing to it as much as possible.

2. Don’t get flustered with bad shots, accept in your mind that every round your going to top a drive, chunk a wedge, skull a chip, miss a 3ft putt. It happens, if you accept at the beginning of your round it’s going to happen, you’ll be able to move on right away you won’t spiral as much

How did that hit knock that kid out? He’s a wrestler surely he’s taken a hit like that before.