Golfers: what coin do you use for marking your golf ball on the green?
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I use a 1857 AU Gold Dollar.
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and it sets us apart from practitioners and consultants. Gregor
Well, now you know.
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Does anyone still use a real persimmon head driver or does the driver used by most exceed the value of an unc 10 Lib?
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Well, now you know.
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Yes I still use a ping eye II persimmon driver, and as for the marker I never need one, one putt does the trick every time.
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I like to use bimetallic coins. I have also used coins from Mexico, Thailand, and Russia.
On my way to Pinehurst tomorrow (12 hr. drive) and plan to use that two-ney alot.
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and it sets us apart from practitioners and consultants. Gregor
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<< <i>1933 $20
Well, now you know.
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Played it several times until I quit the game in 2001.
Guy
<< <i><<Does anyone still use a real persimmon head driver or does the driver used by most exceed the value of an unc 10 Lib? >>
Yes I still use a ping eye II persimmon driver, and as for the marker I never need one, one putt does the trick every time.
Chris >>
I didn't know Ping ever made a persimmon driver....laminated yes, pure block of persimmon, no. All of their wooden drivers were painted black, usually the case with laminated because they wanted to disguise the wood--ugly.
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edited to add:
Does anyone still use a real persimmon head driver or does the driver used by most exceed the value of an unc 10 Lib? >>
The Marker is any quarter thats in the pocket.
Yes I still use a persimmon Power Built Driver and 3 Wood. I also have another persimmon driver that is brought out once in a blue moon. The Putter is a old Ping that is about 30 years old. The score still sucks most of the time also.
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<< <i>Does anyone still use a real persimmon head driver or does the driver used by most exceed the value of an unc 10 Lib? >>
I'm a member of the latter type. Callaway ERC Fusion for me. I had to give up my favorite driver, ERC II, after I cracked third clubface
<< <i>Whatever you use, it should be small, not larger than a penny or dime--larger can be distracting to other players. Right now I'm using a beat-up use a Merc dime.
Guy >>
<< <i>I like to use bimetallic coins. I have also used coins from Mexico, Thailand, and Russia. >>
Thats what I like to use also...currently using a Russian 10 Rouble.
<< <i>On my way to Pinehurst tomorrow (12 hr. drive) and plan to use that two-ney alot. >>
Cameonut...thats so
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Better not mark your buddy's ball with that! Whenever I mark my buddy's ball, he puts the coin marker in his pocket when he replaces it; so I use a 1964-D AG Lincoln.
Sadly, I haven't been golfing in over a month. Up here in New England the weather was horrendous for a while and flooded most of the courses I went to, and with winter fast approaching the sun has set before I get out of work. I just started golfing this year and have yet to master my drivers. I can hit with my irons just fine, but my drivers are absolutely useless to me. Before the season gets going next spring, I'll have to take some golfing lessons to learn how to swing my drivers properly. (I've gotten 80-bajillion pieces of advice already, but none of it has really worked.
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Weather in CT. has been horrible for over a month, but we've managed to get out almost once a week. I play with a co-worker. We work nights so we can get out mid-week during the day when the course is very empty.
Last week we spent almost as much time searching for our golf balls in the leaves as we did playing the game! I think the season is pretty much over for us!
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<< <i>For a little while I used a 1/10 oz Gold Maple Leaf since it was easy to see and always drew attention from the other golfers. But with how soft the 24k gold is, I decided to use something else since I didn't want to damage the gold. Now, if I remember to bring it with me, I use a one troy ounce pure Iridium button.
Sadly, I haven't been golfing in over a month. Up here in New England the weather was horrendous for a while and flooded most of the courses I went to, and with winter fast approaching the sun has set before I get out of work. I just started golfing this year and have yet to master my drivers. I can hit with my irons just fine, but my drivers are absolutely useless to me. Before the season gets going next spring, I'll have to take some golfing lessons to learn how to swing my drivers properly. (I've gotten 80-bajillion pieces of advice already, but none of it has really worked.
Not to be pedantic, but as you're a beginner here's a couple of tips. Golf shouldn't be used as a verb ("golfing"). Also, "drivers" has to be singular as there is only one--the others are fairway woods.
Good luck when you resume playing golf next spring!
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It was grand dads book originally. He played until he was 88.
Still occasionally use my 1978 Lynx Persimmon. But finally in 2004 I learned to hit a metal driver farther. It took me years! My Dad had a Set of Tommy Armour DX Tourneys from the the 50's or 60's (copper insert irons that weigh a ton each) that my brother got hold of on his passing. I always liked the feel of those woods. You had to be superman to swing those weighted irons...and my Dad was!
I often use a simple dime or penny to mark with. But with serious golf last played over 13 years ago, I mark with whatever I can find.
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<< <i>Guy, "fairway" is not a term that I ever found in the original rules of golf. Maybe now they use that term rather than "closely mowed" area. Just bustin em on ya.
It was grand dads book originally. He played until he was 88.
Still occasionally use my 1978 Lynx Persimmon. But finally in 2004 I learned to hit a metal driver farther. It took me years! My Dad had a Set of Tommy Armour DX Tourneys from the the 50's or 60's (copper insert irons that weigh a ton each) that my brother got hold of on his passing. I always liked the feel of those woods. You had to be superman to swing those weighted irons...and my Dad was!
I often use a simple dime or penny to mark with. But with serious golf last played over 13 years ago, I mark with whatever I can find.
roadrunner >>
Hi Brian,
Rule 25-2 includes the term "closely mown area" and goes on to define it as "cut to fairway height or less." It is the only place in the Rules of Golf where the term "fairway" is used. But it is there nevertheless.
The MacGregor irons you refer to were not heavier than standard irons of the day, though perhaps they seemed it when you were a lad. I may still have a derivation of that set of them out in the garage; they were called "colokrome" models.
Lexicon for your fairway woods: Brassie = 2-wood, Spoon = 3-wood, Baffy = 4-wood and sometimes 5-wood.
I didn't know you played golf. I'll take you out to Race Brook next summer for lunch and 18 holes on me. Longacre and Ron Melycher (he sets up at the New Haven and West Haven shows) want to play, too; you will round out the foursome. If I can give you as much help in golf as you have with me in coins, we'll all be whistling a happy tune.
Guy
Racebrook? Ahh...memories. My Grandfather and Father were both members there for a 40/50 year span. Played many rounds there in the 1970's. Would like to take you up on your offer one day. I was one of the "worst" caddies there in the early 70's as well...so bad that old Frank Selva would never let me go out unless I was the only rabbit left.
roadrunner
Yes, fairway was added relatively recently, though I'm not certain when. Watson collaborated on his rules book with Frank Hannigan in 1982 I believe, and the change was made probably in the last 10 years. It all has to to with an embedded ball rule and where on the course it's permissible to lift one. The R & A, the ruling body in Europe, doesn't believe in wholesale relief "through the green," whereas the USGA here in America does. As the Rules of Golf are formed jointly by the two ruling bodies and can only read one way, the R & A gets teir way. But in America we get around it by incorporating a Local Rule that supersedes Rule 25-2, and which allows relief everywhere except hazards.
Throw away that Lynx driver or have it embalmed. It's no good, not with these modern balls.
I wouldn't mind taking a metal detector to certain parts of a golf course, by the way. I would think there are compartmentalized little areas that are just teeming with old coins.
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I use a dwarf, same one I use for tossing on Friday night at the pub!
It's about the same size as a Lincoln Cent
...Alternate between 2 Franklin halves I got as change at a poker table in the Borgata from my bachelor party.
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<< <i>Golf shouldn't be used as a verb ("golfing"). >>
Does that go for bowling, skiing, skateboarding, riding, flying, wrestling, fighting, surfing and the like?