Help! I'm out of control!

A little tongue in cheek there, but definitely in golf mode and crazy into it like I haven't been since high school days. You know back when we had real woods and feather stuffed balls! ( Well maybe balls an exaggeration, maybe)! 🤔😅

I recently purchased a green book for my home course. Know that sounds a bit crazy since I play most rounds there and should know every blade of grass there and do. But bare with me, I wanted to see if it was a beneficial asset and would add any insights. Looking at it also since I know the course well, it would give me a good idea of how truly informative this book is. For those who might not know(which I doubt on this forum), it is from Golf Logix. And now besides the green slope and heatmap of the breaks, they have tee to green slopes of the fairways and all the hole charted. Now I have Arccos which gives you a overhead real look at the hole with a host of info. And I use that for data collection and after round analysis and a Garmin for distance. But doesn't show how the fairways and hole in general flows, sloping wise. So my thought, being obsessed of late with this game, (why not, this is why I work and I have only me to spoil and my cat and she says its okay).🐱

So like I said knowing my course it would show me how good this tool would be going to an unknow course. ALA the MBWA in August and might be worth the investment for the courses I would be playing there besides having a souvenir of the experience.

Thoughts? Buhler? Buhler?

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8 Comments

burkholder.ronald

Mar 15, 2023

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I don’t think you will find out what courses you will play in time to receive the green books.

if you find the one you have is accurate you can use it to calibrate your feet and eyes when determining the amount of slope. If you are able to do that then you can use Aimpoint Express to determine the break for any putt or chip.

I believe there are several YouTube videos on how to use Aimpoint Express.

Steven

Mar 15, 2023

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Thanks Ron,

We will see, the proposed course assignment date is the 22nd so would have to be expedited or sent to the Hotel.

I here you on the app. But even though I'm an Arccos user, I like the Garmin watch on my hand and would like the fact that I would have a book I can pull out of the pocket as compared to my phone which stay in the cart.

Steven

Mar 18, 2023

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@burkholder.ronald

Sorry I don't think so either. But I did get one for my home course,

But a couple of thoughts and some clarification.

I guess more of what I was looking for was on approach. I mean probably the best and smartest thing to do especially when on unknow course in competition is center green shots unless thing are really clicking.

So I was looking more for which way is the green sloped coming in comparison to the pin placement. Just looking for whatever edge can get.

Thanks for response.

Gerry_Lager

Mar 19, 2023

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In Jon Sherman's book "The Four Foundations of Golf" he mentions the strategy on approach shots. Among other points, the most important was to just go for the center of the green. He backs up the theory with statistics based on handicap and proximity to the pin on approach shots from different distances.

Tom Holt

Mar 15, 2023

What a cool product. I wonder if at the MBWA if we will play the same course each day and if we will know before you pick up our package if we will know that info. I guess I could always NDA. They most likely won't know until the HC thing is figured out. But since I wont be playing until we start I would be nice to know. As far as at home practice in the garage. I can't very well be hitting golf balls full swing and I don't think those plastic balls can be good for you (correct me if I am wrong) . Its a standard garage that has to have a car parked in it that can be removed for any practice but is there anything I can do that will help me practice in the garage? We have tons of practice greens for putting, mild chipping and sand areas too but they are always filled with geriatric gentry that take forever to figure out where they are. Just kidding but it can be a pain if don't go at the right time.

Tom Saguto

Mar 15, 2023

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Plastic balls are fine if they're the only option, Tom. Perhaps a better alternative for your garage (or other limited-space areas), however, might be a DivotBoard. I'm thinking @Steven might be able to attest to that.

Steven

Mar 15, 2023

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No Tom we will be playing 4 different courses on Monday thru Thursday. You will be notified as of now on August 22nd via email of your course assignments. Yes and of course because of the notification date we will know before we get to Myrtle Beach. And in June we will get an application for handicap submission.

Here's a link to schedule age.

https://myrtlebeachworldamateur.com/schedule/

Steven

Mar 15, 2023

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Tom to add about the 'Garange", I have a 1 car garage also. I have a net that I always keep set up and just move to side. For some reason having trouble imbedding picture or vid here.

If you look up under general discussions you should find a post that has my "garange". I use yellow foam balls to warm up. Then when I get loose I hit regular balls. I also use the Divot Board both with and without a ball. you can get it through a link in the Saguto online store I believe.