Posts by slamfire

  • Fuck Around and find out

    Advice to anyone wanting to take it up - the game is 100% learned on the driving range & practice greens. You don't need anything but a few basic lessons you could learn via youtube. Just buy a 5 wood and putter to start. The game is learned and perfected on the driving range. Put in the time - 1000s and 1000s of swings. Like just go to the range 1 or 2 times a week for 6 months. That's the only way to learn plus there's no pressure - go ALONE and try to go when it's not busy. So much of the game is your mind and not getting emotional. If you have a back yard with some space, hitting the hollow plastic practice balls is good also. The short game is more important than the drives, yet everyone obsesses about the drives. Everyone wants to hit a straight 300 yard shot (totally not necessary).


    Wedge shots, chip shots with the 9 iron and putting is where it's at. Skill in the short game is where you win.

  • Fuck Around and find out

    Aside from playing with my dad for decades back in the day, there was a time when I was in a position to buy millions worth of equipment for my then company. It was the lead up to the dot com bust - money was flying, and it was the era where big money salesmen would come wine and dine you - and take you to extremely select golf courses. I was lucky enough to play at some truly great courses - and stay for the afterparty. Stuff like cracking open and drinking $8k bottles of Cognac, on the house etc. etc. It was fortunate for me that my father taught me to play - actually forced me to play with him starting when I was a young kid. I knew how to play and how to act at places like that. A lot of my equal level coworkers missed out on all that because they didn't know how to play. That was the era where big business happened on the courses and it was very favorable to your career to be able to take advantage... plus it was incredibly fun. That era is long over. I don't play now - haven't in about 20 years now. Neck problems. I might try to rehab myself enough to play again - it's something I'd like to do casually when I retire, but again, I'd like to do it where I could walk it for the exercise - some little municipal course. I have a lot of good memories from playing.

  • Fuck Around and find out

    My dad, then over 70 played 1 on 1 vs a black LPGA pro woman in Dallas TX at Hank Haney's on Luna Road one time. She joined our twosome - big tall lanky chick in her late 20s. My dad took it serious, his first ever game vs a pro since playing the game since the early 1950s. It turned into a serious competition after the 2nd hole. My dad beat her by 3 strokes when it was done - she told him he should have been a pro (he was definitely good enough, having been a college football player and offered a pro football contract in the 50s which he turned down - just generally athletic). He got 3 holes in 1 in his lifetime.

  • Fuck Around and find out

    I never cared much for it, but my father loved it. I did it with him because I enjoyed the talks. I did it with him until such time as he was too old to do it. Over 40 years easy.

  • The Deep State, Dangerous Lefties, Leftist insanity, Liberal filth, lying pedo cocksuckers

    MBA Administrative guys take over. They do not understand the business.


    They fear the senior guys they now manage who have a lifetime of experience in the said business.


    What do they do ? Naturally they get rid of said senior guys, and replace them with either college kids, mexicans or jundies.


    They want people who know less about the business than they do. It helps them sleep better at night.


    Said business is now in a death spiral (Customers... remember ?).


    The MBA guys will stick around 2 years max, then jump ship for the next company before they can be fired for ruining the company. They'll claim victory and go fuck up the next place.


    Doesn't matter what the business is - it's always the same story.