Originally Posted By gaston lives I used to work with an airlines crew on the tarmac, and ever since, I never use anything other than a hard casing. You don't wnat to know the things I've seen. *shudder* Cape Cod Joe...I, too wish I could go play golf right now. It's nice outside, and I'm stuck in the stinking office!
Originally Posted By Coachbagfanatic OMG, not good. I will double check with my father but I am almost positive he said that it was a hard casing.
Originally Posted By gaston lives If not, please, for the love of golf, have him return it and get a hard casing. It's WELL worth the extra cash. If not, he may end up with some ladie's huge panties in his ball pouch. (seen it happen.) Or he may end up with a club that's been used to hit around rocks and small rodents and things like that. Broken clubs (or stolen clubs) always happen. THese things are always averted if it's a hard casing. For the record, I never approved of any of the above...except for the ladies panties thing, that was funny!
Originally Posted By Coachbagfanatic Gaston, You should be a writer. LOL. I will pass on the word. Thanks
Originally Posted By gaston lives I used to be a sports editor for a newspaper in Nebraska...before I realized that Nebraska is of the devil and moved back home to the Rocky Mountains.
Originally Posted By Coachbagfanatic Oh that explains it now. You have great stories. My question as, I don't know much about golf bags, is the hard casing seperate from the golf bag itself. I do know that my fathers golf bag that contains the clubs is hard but the travel case is not except the part where the clubs goes. I don't mean to sound like an idiot but I don't know much about the sport except for my fathers stories.
Originally Posted By Coachbagfanatic Ok I might be sounding blonde at this moment but my fathers golf club bag goes inside of his travel bag. His golf club bag is hard but the travel bag is soft with padding and has a hard lid for the golf clubs themselves. It does lock as well. Any advice to this would be appreciated.
Originally Posted By cape cod joe Thank you also v55 as I am all set to buy the club case and I had no idea. I just bought very expensive clubs so I appreciate the advice.
Originally Posted By gaston lives I think I see what you're getting at, and personally, I'd go with a complete hard sided tote. You can find them at any Pro Shop, and are WELL worth the extra $$$. He can probably find some online from www.golfsmith.com rather inexpensive, I"m thinking. Trust me, he'd rather spend more now and save a headache later.
Originally Posted By Coachbagfanatic Thanks Gaston, I have spoken to my father last night and he is going to get the hard case. I do appreciate all of your help as well as everyone else.
Originally Posted By cape cod joe You're really frustrating me Gaston as this will be the 3rd day in a row I'll be leaving the office early (I would usually be playing these days) but it's too cold to play (29 degrees right now) and a snow dusting covering the course. I live on the 5th green so everyday I check for the pin placement on the 5th as I'm driving down Country Club Rd after dropping off the kids at the bus stop, but I have managed to block out that it's too cold to play until this stupid thread teasing me like this) Where do you live Gaston? How warm is it? Tease me some more.
Originally Posted By gaston lives I live in Colorado Springs...right now it's like 65 degrees. What do you do for a living that you can afford golf course residency? Are you guys hiring?
Originally Posted By cape cod joe Big news Gaston--I did play 5 holes before walking the L wedge to the house distance home after reading this thread all morning. We lived 17 years in a house and got lucky in the real estate boom. We took every penny we made on the house sale (around 250k) and put it into this house here at the Ridge Club> 5th green----500K underpriced in my opinion on 10/15/04. I was right because we refied in 05 a year later and it appraised for around half a million more than the 860,000 we paid, so went to Orlando and bought over 2 million of real estate which we're doing right now. I call it Orlandoopoly as it really is just like the game. We just deposited our first rent checks Monday and it seemed strange. We own an Insurance Agency so we have a steady cash flow but we are not wealthy and are in the bottom 10% income of the people who live here. With the 50K initiation fee we paid, I'm motivated to play all I can, 30 degrees or not. I thought Colorado Springs was in the mountains as in cold? I also thought the real estate there is some of the priciest in the country so what are you talking about hiring here? What are you playing to?
Originally Posted By Lake Nona >>I thought Colorado Springs was in the mountains as in cold?<< Colo Spgs has a arid climate because of the front range. You do get blizzards once in a while. Now like days like today, nice and warm,snow will melt in a couple of days after a snowfall. I grew up in Colo Spgs, left in 1983 for Connecticut.
Originally Posted By cape cod joe Where about's in Ct Nona? My wife and I lived in Groton and Ledyard in 77/79.
Originally Posted By Lake Nona My father got orders for the USS Skipjack in 1983. He then got orders for PCU USS Pittsburgh and in 1987 he got orders for Norwich University. I enlisted in 1987. <a href="http://www.norwich.edu/" target="_blank">http://www.norwich.edu/</a> <a href="http://navysite.de/ssn/ssn720.htm" target="_blank">http://navysite.de/ssn/ssn720. htm</a>
Originally Posted By gaston lives I haven't had my handicap established officially for a fwe years, but I play to around a 12 right now. A fwe years back I was around an 8. The property out here is really pricey. It makes it tough to do any kind of property buys since our own lot takes up most of our investment cash.
Originally Posted By cape cod joe Hang onto that lot and you'll reap big rewards as my father always taught me that they aren't making any more of it. How big is the lot? How much? 500K an acre?
Originally Posted By cape cod joe Gaston--I'm glad I got the five holes in yesterday (thanks to the posts here) as we have almost a white out here on cape and the wife just left early to pick up the kids at the bus stop. I heard the apple as in N.Y.C. is getting hammered much worse. We have about 3 inches on the ground. I'm outta here too maybe in hour or so.
