DestrehanTiger

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The saga lasts for hundreds, maybe thousands of years if one goes back to the First Men. Yet it seems it stays stuck in Middle Ages forever. No medical advances, should have discovered gunpowder by now, It's as if the civilization stays stuck in place forever.

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There was some. The first men were basically wiped out because the Andals had steel weapons.

Also, you could theorize why major advances haven't happened. You have unpredictable seasons. At any day, you could have the start of a catastrophic winter that lasts a decade. If you know that is around the corner, most of your attention is just on survival rather than improvement.

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Do you still use it? Do you like the new interface in the dashboard?

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I stopped a few years back. I got my clubs regripped and just never put the sensors back in. While I really enjoyed looking back at a round and seeing how great or poor each shot was, I just realized the joy from post-round was taking away from the joy during the round.

- I was focusing too much on remembering to tap my watch instead of just focusing on the putt
- I was too conscious of taking practice swings too far from my ball. This was mostly on teeboxes when we were waiting. If I was just swinging around to get loose, I would be worried it was tracking it as an extra shot
- Logging penalties was a pain.
- Actually the UI on Shot Scope watches wasn't great either.

As others have said, I don't think the benefit is knowing your distances. If you are at the point of spending money on them, then you probably have a decent idea of how far you hit your clubs.

The real benefit is strokes gained data to pinpoint the areas where you can improve. Right now, you may see that you had 28 putts and you must've putted great that day. The strokes gained may show that your approach game was terrible, you short game was great, and your putting was average.

Having said that, I think it comes down to 2 types of people that would like it. Stats people and people that have time to actually practice in the areas it identifies as weaknesses. I fall in the former category. I enjoyed knowing my strokes gained numbers. However, it eventually got to be too annoying to continue. It wasn't that it was impacting my pace of play, but it was in the back of my mind that I couldn't practice swing too far away from my ball. Also, I was finding that I needed to make too many post round edits. This was with Shotscope about 4 years ago. So, maybe the technology is that much better now.

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We get to #4, a small par 3 again, and they are chipping onto the green. We sit in our cart at the tee box waiting and they look at us, waive us to play through. Finally, I thought, but it sucked that they sat there watching. Nothing adds pressure like a group of people watching you play through so they can resume playing, but I was just thankful that my son and I were going to finally get to play at our pace. I hit from the teebox and go into the water. frick! I hit again and overshoot the green.

At that point I was like "screw it, we're gonna just pass them up and go to #5 then replay this hole twice on the back 9".

They have no idea my plan to just skip the hole. As soon as I hit onto the other side of the green, they resume playing. Did they not know what allowing someone to play through means? I was flabbergasted that they were going to resume playing their hole as soon as I hit after they let me play through.

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While I would normally just get out of your way to allow you to finish before playing through, I could see them thinking to just proceed with some of their chips and mark their balls while you were driving to the green. There's really no point to it since they would have to wait for you to tee off and hit your second shot on the next hole, but I could still see that line of thinking.

Also, is this you?

The Christmas movies can be fun to make fun of while you watch. It's like a Christmas tradition.

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Soccer Is All Middle

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While I disagree with most of the article, I think this is a big a reason as any why Americans have a tough time becoming soccer fans. In all of our other sports, there are lots of small moments that have stat indications that you can cheer for: every shot made in basketball, hits in baseball, first downs in football. Soccer doesn't really have that.

While we can appreciate a great pass out of the back to relieve pressure and start an attack, if there is no goal, there isn't really anything to look back on to remember it.

This is not an argument against soccer. I can appreciate the little things when I watch, but it just takes longer for a new viewer to appreciate it.

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Wearing neutral colors at an away match would be ideal as well and is standard.

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This fascinates me about the difference in sports cultures between the US and the UK. For golf, the US is brash and out of control. In soccer in the UK, away team fans have to sit in designated sections with lines of security up and down the steps to prevent them from beating the shite out of each other. I'm not arguing that US team sports fans are choir boys, but, for the most part, you can sit anywhere in a stadium in your teams colors and be fine. Obviously, Philly is the exception.

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Paramount Plus will get you Champions League games which is great but for Premier League you will need a Peacock Account.

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It's a shame there is more of a barrier to becoming an EPL fan than 16 years ago when I started getting interested. It wasn't perfect when I started trying to watch, but, eventually, every single EPL game was available on NBC Sports. it was awesome. Now, it's just another service you have to pay for.

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It really speaks to how serious we take it vs the Euros.

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I really think we should stop trying to make the players care about it more. It's not working. Lean the other way. Try to make the prep as close to a normal event as possible. Sure, build up everything to make it different for the fans, but leave the behind the scenes stuff out for the players. They can't fake it. It does mean more to the Euros. So, let the US team go into the event like the machines they are for every other event and win the cup that way.

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But a giant divot in the fairway that was made that day is a permanent part of the course?

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I'm assuming this is retorical, but I never made that argument.

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Well that grandstand wasn’t here in the 1800’s

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Are you referring to the grandstands that weren't there in 2025?