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Two more pics I forgot I took. One of Rory winning the Irish amateur open (I think) for back-to-back years and one of just a very picturesque hole.
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Played Royal Dublin Thursday and playing #46 Friday (http://www.top100golfcourses.co.uk/htmlsite/topcourses.asp).

Royal Dublin was a very manageable course, however 30+ mph winds makes things very difficult. Playing at only 6500 yards (I wanted an easier round after European Club), my approaches were usually short irons which meant my balls were almost always hitting the green sideways. Very difficult to golf here if you don't have the skillset to force draws/fades.

I did some reading on tomorrow's course (used to be owned by John Jameson) and it's got quite a history. More recently it's held the Irish Open and Canada Cup.

Any last minute advice on a 14 handicap golfer playing a links course with so much wind? The biggest thing really is the driver has to just be going straight. Trying to hit at the green out of the rough here is near impossible.
 
AnonymousDeac said:
Played my hardest course ever but probably also the nicest. Saw it rated as the 24th best golf course in the world by a golf magazine. Called the European Club and it's right outside Dublin.

If you didnt hit the fairway, you probably weren't finding your ball. If you did hit it in the fairway, you better hope your ball didn't roll into one of the ridiculous fairway bunkers (seen below). It was also very cool to see a hole named in honor of Arnold Palmer.

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when you told me you were going to ireland i was wondering if you were playing here. this is one of my dad's favorite courses.
 
I wish I didn't suck so bad at golf. I couldn't hit the ball to save my life today on the driving range.
 
There are two groupon/living social deals that I might buy today. One for Stonewall in Germanton, and one for Stone Mountain Golf Club in Traphill. Anyone have any experience with either of these?

Deals are basically carted twosome for $26 bucks at Stonewall and $29 at Stone Mountain plus a hot dog lunch.
 
lol Stonewall. I played there once. Its very very plain. They have on 200 yard par 3, its 50 yards out and 150 yards straight down. Seriously, you have to chip it off the tee box or else you'll fly the green.
 
tsywake said:
lol Stonewall. I played there once. Its very very plain. They have on 200 yard par 3, its 50 yards out and 150 yards straight down. Seriously, you have to chip it off the tee box or else you'll fly the green.
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Fair enough. Worth it for a $13 round though?
 
Yeah, I think when we played there it was like $20 a round, but thats been a few years back.


eta, its a great place if you want to use your irons off the tee. Unless you can really power back your driver/3 wood you can easily overdrive the fairways.
 
tsywake said:
Yeah, I think when we played there it was like $20 a round, but thats been a few years back.


eta, its a great place if you want to use your irons off the tee. Unless you can really power back your driver/3 wood you can easily overdrive the fairways.
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Ok. Think I will get both then.
 
Thanks for the Rock Barn selection last week when I asked!

There are two courses there (both in outstanding shape), and I signed up for the cheaper one through GolfNow. When I got there to hit balls they said that the course I signed up for (and paid $35 for) was slammed, so they put me on the course that they play the Senior PGA Tour event on for no charge. I got paired with two 25 year old dudes from Charlotte that smoked weed the whole round and they were great.

Everything about the course was awesome, and the experience by the staff helped make it that way too. I shot a 42 on the front and then played one of my best nines in a while on the back with an even par 36. It was in great shape and easy to see why/how the players love it when they come here.

I would suggest it to anybody that is around the Hickory area, and is definitely worth the splurge for a day trip!
 
glad you enjoyed it man, i bet they CRUSHED some pimento grilled cheeses.

i went with an ex and literally a couple days later we broke up, so i'm glad i got a free play out of it before that ended.
 
Looking for some advice on a slight injury/pain that might be golf related? Any thoughts are appreciated.

On my ring finger on my left hand (not married, don't wear a ring), the first section above my hand (not on the joint), has what feels like a hard spot/knot or something on the inside that I can when I press and run a finger across it. It tends to feel kinda sore, especially if I bend that finger a lot.

It feels like it might be a tight tendon, although I'm not sure that any tendons run left-right across a finger like that (maybe half an inch above the seam at the bottom of that finger), and when I massage it really hard for a while, it does end up feeling better for a little while. Seems to have started from golfing, but I can't really be sure, all I know is that I've played a lot of golf this year.

That's not very descriptive I think, I could post a pic if someone wants to try to help. Does anyone have any thoughts/advice/questions to help clarify? I haven't really tried ice, though ibuprofen does seem to help a little bit.
 
Can you press on it real hard and break it up? When I first started playing I developed a ganglion cyst where my right ring finger connects with my hand. I could press it real hard, break it up and a few weeks later it'd reform. I ended up getting it surgically removed.
 
Just got back from the First Tee Pro-Am in Winston at Forsyth CC. Finished double, bogey, par, triple and still managed to hang on to a 79.

Course is in pretty damn good shape with the exception of the broken clubs scattered throughout the property. They made things real firm and real fast. Greens wouldn't hold much of anything
 
tsywake said:
Can you press on it real hard and break it up? When I first started playing I developed a ganglion cyst where my right ring finger connects with my hand. I could press it real hard, break it up and a few weeks later it'd reform. I ended up getting it surgically removed.
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I don't think so...from what I've read, it doesn't seem big enough to be a cyst.
 
tsywake said:
Mine was the size of a BB when it was removed. The thing was much uglier than I ever expected.
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I don't think this is even that big. It kind of has that feeling of a narrow muscle that you're trying to massage, where you can the knot, but it's narrow and goes across my finger left to right.
 
Played Settindown Creek in Roswell, GA on Friday. I've played all of the top Atlanta courses at one time or another and think this is the best track in the area, even over East Lake and the Athletic Club. It's private, but if you ever get a chance, I thoroughly recommend it.
 
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