Recent content by Et Tu Brute?

This particular bit of silliness is not the only reason FIR is a doofus "stat" to even talk about. Why are you gathering statistics? To understand the game or just to collect like trading cards?

I'm going to admit something a bit embarrassing about myself. I can't believe I'm this small-minded and normally I don't care at all about what other golfers might choose as their equipment. When I see someone's bag of clubs and there are covers on the irons, the word "Dork!" pops into my head...

Back when I was a 20hcp (or just about) I asked a similar question of my swing coach during a lesson. At the time I was playing "set wedges" from my set of Super Game Improvement irons. Just huge, blobby things. To answer my question, he put down his Vokey, picked up the SW from my iron set and...

You can also try arching your wrists slightly to help resist the urge to flip. I like the skinny old-school grips and don't have a problem with flippy wrists but that's probably because my hand position is pretty high and my wrists are arched. Too bad I can't eliminate the flip in my...

If it's a one-off suggestion or "tip" I listen politely then ignore it. If it is repeated or continues, I say thank you but I have my own things I'm working on. If someone were to persist after that I guess I'd ask them to just leave me alone but it's never come to that.

Can't imagine anyone laughing at that choice. Solid performer. And as you point out, catch them in multiple dozens on sale and it's a hard to beat price.

My first four rounds last week, I managed to lose 5 of my good golf balls (current version Pro V1x). On my home course you have to be REALLY hitting it bad to lose balls and I was hitting it really bad. It was starting to get pretty mental so I decided to play some balls I didn't mind losing for...

To me, for the pitifully slow speeds I swing, the Tour B X and Pro V1x are just about completely interchangeable. I really have a hard time seeing or hearing any difference between them except for the Pro V1x seems to fly just a teeny bit higher off my driver. They even sound the same when...

The same way some places a 1 BR/700 square foot condo in a high-rise costs more than a 2,500 square foot house on an acre of land in others.

Yesterday my 61st stroke was a 9i approach on my 13th hole, which I duffed horribly. The previous day my 61st stroke was a chip shot from just short of that same 13th green, after hitting a fat 8i approach (my 60th stroke that day). And who says hackers aren't consistent? Same stuff...

My first pair of prescription 'shades were too dark. They had to come off and use my normal glasses on really dark, overcast days or as soon as the sun dipped behind the tree line. And forget wearing them indoors even briefly, I literally had to pull them off to step into the clubhouse and order...

When I first started wearing sunglasses to play golf, along about 2009 or so, after a few rounds I noticed how much less tired my "squint muscles" were after a round. And before sunglasses, not every time, but fairly often I would have a little bit of a headache after a round in the summer. I'd...

My prescription progressive sunglasses have golf-specific geometry to the transitions between distance/middle/reading powers so they work much better for golf than my regular (non-tinted) progressives. Therefore I wear the sunglasses virtually every time I play golf. They have a tint this not...

They don't make courses short and tight enough for me to get by without a driver. Or if they do, I sure wouldn't want to play one.

The type of courses I prefer, it is totally obvious where the next hole is. Ideally within 30-50 yards of the previous screen is the next tee. Courses where you need a sign to tell you where to go are usually either built winding around through housing developments for the convenience of the...