Official Golf Thread - Page 12

They do a green croc print on their higher end shoes. They also do custom color combinations. My brother just ordered a pretty slick pair of green/white Footjoy's [our football team is green/white].

For nice looking leather golf shoes, I picked up a couple of pair of these BB models on clearance a while back. At $500 retail they were , at $250 clearance they were still but I pulled the trigger anyway.

Wore the blue ones this weekend for the first time. Really liked them.
http://www.brooksbrothers.com/IWCatP...=&sectionsize=

I don't think I'd buy leather golf shoes as my only pair. Wouldn't want to wear these in the mud. But for nice weather days or whatever, I really like them.

Also got these in brown:
http://www.brooksbrothers.com/IWCatP...=&sectionsize=

I like these.

^ Ew.

Golf is the once chance you have to wear spectators without looking like a fag or a douche, and you wanna go for the bicycle-toed kenneth cole look?

I wear hideous but oh-so-comfortable Foot Joys that I find on fire sale at Dick's Sporting Goods. I once spent on a really nice-looking pair of Nikes - they looked like real dress shoes - and they hurt my feet so badly I swore off the nicer-looking ones forever. And if you get those white spectators you're only going to scuff them to hell your first time out anyways, so I just don't worry about it anymore.

No offense, but just go out and play some rounds first. You're new to golf. just because your computer says yout hit your 7 iron 175 one time doesn't mean that is the right club for that shot. Just go out and have fun and play a real game of golf.

You can look at a gps layout of a green and see the a flag is position 6 yards from the front and 10 yards from the back of the green. But can you really distinguinsh the difference in your swing and have the ability to control a shot within +- 5 yards?

I know you say you're a tech nerd, but just go out and play a couple rounds. Leave your cell phone in the car, enjoy the nice weather, step off some yards, and hit the ball. You'll learn far more doing this than what your gps can tell you.

Golf is mainly about feel, developing an eye for shots, and being creative.

Golf, to me, has always been just about getting outdoors and enjoying myself. I never really care what I score.

But your advice to pio is perfect: go hit the ball. Walk off some yardages; I'm sure the sprinkler heads wherever you'll play are marked.

Have fun! Golf is a great game if not taken too seriously.

Funny enough, I got a pair of white Nike Saddles, right around the time my playing dwindled to once or twice a year. Damn things still look pretty new. This was...nine years ago?

You missed the point. Leave your yardage calculator at home for now. Go play.

I agree about forgetting about looking at the course layout and deciding what club to hit what distance beforehand. I used to do this...(just to see if I could get away with not having to hit a 5 or 6 iron), but its pretty useless. Elevation changes, wind direction and speed, trees and even their height, pin placement, slopes, tee box location, hazards, how you are hitting the ball that day and what clubs are working for you, etc. are all factors that come into play and can change on the fly once you are out there.

I've had courses I've never played on before where I thought I'd be hitting one club and once I actually got onto the hole it was completely different. Even the same hole can one day be a 7 iron and the next be a 3 iron. I've played in Vegas with heavy winds where I'd hit a driver 325 plus on one hole with the wind and then 175 on the next into the wind. So that 155 yard par 3 that looks like a 7 iron on paper can easily become something completely different.

I'm not a pro and just go out there for fun, but I know the distances I normally hit each club. If I'm hitting the ball a club longer than normal, or vice-versa, I'll adjust to that. When I get to my ball if on the fairway (or usually rough)/tee I check the yardage via gps on cart or from yardage markers if there is no gps. Then I'll look at what kind of lie I have and where I want to land the ball taking into account where the hazards are. Check wind and any elevation changes and then decide which club will work best for me in that situation and then hit the ball. Next step is usually saying "Damn it" and then going over to my ball hoping it isn't behind a tree or that it rolled into a lake. Edit: I probably didn't read enough into your post but I was assuming you meant that you'd look at the scorecard on your comp/clubhouse to decide what club you were going to use on a hole once you actually got onto the course, instead of just figuring it out while you were out there.