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Heading to North Myrtle on Thursday for 4 days of golf, brew and food, playing at Tiger's Eye, Leopard's Chase, Glen Dornoch and River Hills.
 
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lylsmorr said:
Serious question for the golfing masses, has anyone ever taken lessons? I'm tempted. I've always had a tempo problem, I just don't know how to fix it without help.
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I'm actually going to start them after tax season. I've spent time on the range and playing and I can't do it myself.
 
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pl3 said:
Most of us grip too tight. Its harder to turn the hands over if too tight.
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If you're having to think about turning your hands over your concept of the golf swing is all wrong. Watch the golf channel & order you a tour striker.
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govols/cc said:
If you're having to think about turning your hands over your concept of the golf swing is all wrong. Watch the golf channel & order you a tour striker.
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Not thinking about it. Just saying if your hands are gripping tight, they wont naturally roll as easy.
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#6,284
Whatever works. When I extend through the ball I'm actually wanting to keep my hands from flipping or rolling. Maybe it does it just don't feel like it.
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lylsmorr said:
I used to have a death grip on my clubs, I was always too afraid of letting the club fly
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I was playing Buffalo Valley back home many years ago. I was still playing the Titleist 975D in fact (man I loved that driver). Anyways, there's a par 4 where you're essentially teeing off the mountain down into the fairway. In the summer if you're long enough you can drive it into a pond. It was winter and I didn't have that worry, so I teed it up, sent it flying and lost the driver into the trees off to the left of the tee box. The driver probably went 30-40 yards into the trees (and stuck in one of them). We were able to get it down without much problem. I then realized I had no clue where my ball wound up. Turns out I striped it right down the fairway, about 20 yards short of the pond. I still have no idea how any of it happened.

btw, I hit a wedge onto the green, two putted for par and walked away like it was all in my plans... Didn't do anything to the driver. Continued playing with that thing forever. I still have it somewhere.
 
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govols/cc said:
You ever played Heather Glenn? It's 27 holes & pretty nice.
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I've played all the Glens courses at least 3 times apiece, I like Heather Glen and it's a solid course, but Glen Dornoch and Shaftsbury Glen are a step above Heather and Possum Trot IMO.
 
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volfanbill said:
I was playing Buffalo Valley back home many years ago. I was still playing the Titleist 975D in fact (man I loved that driver). Anyways, there's a par 4 where you're essentially teeing off the mountain down into the fairway. In the summer if you're long enough you can drive it into a pond. It was winter and I didn't have that worry, so I teed it up, sent it flying and lost the driver into the trees off to the left of the tee box. The driver probably went 30-40 yards into the trees (and stuck in one of them). We were able to get it down without much problem. I then realized I had no clue where my ball wound up. Turns out I striped it right down the fairway, about 20 yards short of the pond. I still have no idea how any of it happened.

btw, I hit a wedge onto the green, two putted for par and walked away like it was all in my plans... Didn't do anything to the driver. Continued playing with that thing forever. I still have it somewhere.
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I haven't played Buffalo Valley in probably 5 yrs, didn't the city of Johnson City buy it and Pine Oaks and start running them ? Played Pine Oaks 3 yrs ago and it was in pitiful shape, haven't been back since.
 
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JOEY'S ALL VOL !!! said:
I haven't played Buffalo Valley in probably 5 yrs, didn't the city of Johnson City buy it and Pine Oaks and start running them ? Played Pine Oaks 3 yrs ago and it was in pitiful shape, haven't been back since.
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yeah, the city has owned them for years now. Pine Oaks is awful. I always refer to it as Pine Jokes. The layout is amazing, but they just don't keep it up. The greens aren't even true regulation, or so I'm told.

Buffalo is a lot nicer, but it's still nothing to write home about. It's beautiful scenery and is always in better playing condition though. For cheap, quick and something different, I would play there a couple times a year when I lived in JC.
 
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volfanbill said:
yeah, the city has owned them for years now. Pine Oaks is awful. I always refer to it as Pine Jokes. The layout is amazing, but they just don't keep it up. The greens aren't even true regulation, or so I'm told.

Buffalo is a lot nicer, but it's still nothing to write home about. It's beautiful scenery and is always in better playing condition though. For cheap, quick and something different, I would play there a couple times a year when I lived in JC.
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I personally never cared for either one, but played them and Elizabethton alot years and years ago with my Dad and my Uncles.
 
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JOEY'S ALL VOL !!! said:
I personally never cared for either one, but played them and Elizabethton alot years and years ago with my Dad and my Uncles.
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Seen my buddy slice a ball (lefty) into a Toyota 4Runner driving down the four lane on I think it's #12. Not a bad little course. Flirts with goofy golf at times, though.

Edit: was the twelfth. Forgot about the short par 3 that is #10.
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NYYVol said:
Seen my buddy slice a ball (lefty) into a Toyota 4Runner driving down the four lane on I think it's #12. Not a bad little course. Flirts with goofy golf at times, though.

Edit: was the twelfth. Forgot about the short par 3 that is #10.
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My Chevy Blazer took one in the passenger side door there about 20 yrs ago, sounded like a cannonball hit, the funny thing was, we were on our way to play at Tri Cities.
 
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JOEY'S ALL VOL !!! said:
My Chevy Blazer took one in the passenger side door there about 20 yrs ago, sounded like a cannonball hit, the funny thing was, we were on our way to play at Tri Cities.
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I always liked Tri Cities. Always liked how it was so short until the one par three that played like 230. One of those where did the hell did that come from type jobs.

I also took a ball off the thigh there one time. Lady hit a ball that apparently never got three feet off the ground. Hurt like hell.
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NYYVol said:
I always liked Tri Cities. Always liked how it was so short until the one par three that played like 230. One of those where did the hell did that come from type jobs.

I also took a ball off the thigh there one time. Lady hit a ball that apparently never got three feet off the ground. Hurt like hell.
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I grew up playing there, pretty much learned the game there and at Warrior's Path. I still play both every once in a blue moon.
 
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is Pine Oaks the track right by the school as you come in from east side of town? if i recall that road is University?

we played there and Warriors because we were poor while i was in school there.
 
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doozer said:
is Pine Oaks the track right by the school as you come in from east side of town? if i recall that road is University?

we played there and Warriors because we were poor while i was in school there.
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Yep, that's it, it's a dreadful course, never was great to begin with and went downhill.
 
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I really like Warriors Path a lot. One of the more underappreciated courses in NE TN. Buffalo has a lot of potential if Johnson City would just pump some money into it. But JC obviously doesn't have the means to do that. I almost wish they'd sell it to someone, but not sure if anyone is interested.

Pine Oaks needs all kinds of work. Hole #6 is alongside University and I know one person that hit a car and an old neighbor that had his car hit. Was playing with a friend who bounced his ball over a car into the median.

Don't know of anyone that has hit the cars on Elizabethton. That takes some effort honestly to get through the pine trees. I like Elizabethton though, for the most part. The middle stretch of the back nine gets quite difficult and I can agree it's almost goofy golf, but good shots will keep you in play.

I have a love/hate relationship with Tri Cities. It's cheap, usually in pretty good shape and you can really work the course. But the management there sucks and they've really pissed me off a couple of times. I swore off the place for over four years at one point.

Graysburg, The Crossings and Crockett's Ridge are the best public courses in upper NE TN. I'd take Graysburg up against just about anywhere, and I truly mean that. They keep the course in great shape year round and the original 18 throws everything at you imaginable. You can score there pretty easily, but if you get overzealous it will bite you very hard. There's a lot of good courses in Morristown too. Andrew Johnson in Greenville used to be a favorite, but that course has gotten run down as well.

I miss playing golf :(... I'm hoping to actually get to take some swings into a net tomorrow. First time I've hit a golf ball since I got out here.
 
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volfanbill said:
I really like Warriors Path a lot. One of the more underappreciated courses in NE TN. Buffalo has a lot of potential if Johnson City would just pump some money into it. But JC obviously doesn't have the means to do that. I almost wish they'd sell it to someone, but not sure if anyone is interested.

Pine Oaks needs all kinds of work. Hole #6 is alongside University and I know one person that hit a car and an old neighbor that had his car hit. Was playing with a friend who bounced his ball over a car into the median.

Don't know of anyone that has hit the cars on Elizabethton. That takes some effort honestly to get through the pine trees. I like Elizabethton though, for the most part. The middle stretch of the back nine gets quite difficult and I can agree it's almost goofy golf, but good shots will keep you in play.

I have a love/hate relationship with Tri Cities. It's cheap, usually in pretty good shape and you can really work the course. But the management there sucks and they've really pissed me off a couple of times. I swore off the place for over four years at one point.

Graysburg, The Crossings and Crockett's Ridge are the best public courses in upper NE TN. I'd take Graysburg up against just about anywhere, and I truly mean that. They keep the course in great shape year round and the original 18 throws everything at you imaginable. You can score there pretty easily, but if you get overzealous it will bite you very hard. There's a lot of good courses in Morristown too. Andrew Johnson in Greenville used to be a favorite, but that course has gotten run down as well.

I miss playing golf :(... I'm hoping to actually get to take some swings into a net tomorrow. First time I've hit a golf ball since I got out here.
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The majority of my local golf is played at Graysburg, I've been a member there for the past 10 years save a 1 year layoff when I couldn't play because of a ruptured L5 disc. I was raised on Warriors Path, grew up just a couple of miles from there. I also play quite a bit at Crockett's Ridge which is also just a couple of miles from my childhood home and where my parents still reside, I also play some at Cattails in Kingsport, Woodlake in Tazwell, Millstone in Morristown and River Island in Knoxville.
 
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