Great deal on some great golf clothes

SubSeventy is a line of great clothing that is available online at http://www.sub70usa.com/.  Normally their clothes are too spendy for me but right now the entire collection is seriously discounted.

I recently ordered some clothes from them and while the shirts were good, the pants were way too snug for me.  Their line is all European cut and they recommend ordering one size larger.  I think 2 sizes larger would be fine as they really do run small.  It is all top notch stuff though.  Sizes are a bit limited as it is all clearance right now but if you can find something in a size that would fit you won't be disappointed.

Totally Driven's new digs

I stopped by Totally Driven's new Edina location last night after work.  They are still working to get all of their flightscopes and trackman equipment set up and calibrated but the new space looks really great.

They have a hitting zone area that runs most of the length of the building for full swings.  I think there are something like 8 bays there fitted for swing analysis.

Up front next to the reception area is the club building area and across the way is the putting area and a room set up for short game work.

Adjacent to the full swing area is a men's and women's locker room and next to that is a full gym set up with high quality life fitness nautilus machines and free weights.

Anybody serious about their game, either with golf fitness, custom club fitting, or high quality lessons that is in the Minneapolis area needs to check them out.

Their new location is on the frontage road just north of 494 and just west of West Bush Lake road.  You can see their sign from 494.

TotallyDriven.com

Golf! It's on the horizon

While Minnesota continues to languish in 40 degree days and a very gradual snow melt, its golf courses have had to delay their opening days.  Minnesota's handicap recording season officially opened on April 1st but no courses were open yet on that day.

But I have an ace up the sleeve. Well, actually an airplane.

My friend Michael talked me into booking a trip down to Arizona to play some golf.  We actually booked the trip a while ago and back then I figured we would already have some golf under our belts here.  Now I am not so sure.

We are leaving April 25th.  Hopefully in the 3 weeks until then Spring will have sprung around here.  We are actually scheduled to start our Minneapolis men's league on April 24th so we will see if I will be inaugurating the 2013 golf season in Arizona or if I can get some preliminary swinging done in Minnesota.

Michael and I leave Thursday and will be joined by my friend Keith on Friday afternoon.

Here is our itinerary for our trip:

Thursday 4/25

• Fly into Phoenix  in the morning
• Afternoon round and the TPC Scottsdale Champions Course.

Friday 4/26

• Morning round at Troon North Pinnacle Course
• Afternoon round at Troon North Monument Course

Saturday 4/27

• Morning round at We Ko Pa Saguaro Course
• Afternoon round at We Ko Pa Cholla Course

Sunday 4/28

• Morning round at the TPC Scottsdale Stadium Course - home to the PGA tour's annual Waste Management Phoenix Open.
• Flight home in the evening.

Now thanks to Mr. Google, here are some ariel layouts of the courses with hole numbers.  (These are pretty big full size):

TPC Champion:

 Troon North- Pinnacle:

 Troon North- Monument

 We Ko Pa- Seguaro

 We Ko Pa- Cholla

 TPC Stadium

I am so excited for this trip I can hardly stand it!  This will be first foray into desert golf.  I just hope my early season swing proves to be relatively straight!

Bubba's charmed life - First the General Lee, then the Masters, now this

Bubba has gone a little swamp people with this one.  While this might work in Florida, it is probably not too practical in Minnesota, but even less so in desert golf.

Free rounds of Golf at Stonebrooke- Today only

In order to celebrate the first day of spring in Minnesota, if you order that pervasive Titleist ball deal through Stonebrooke golf course they will give a free round of golf with the order.

Good today only until midnight.

For the duffer in all of us

Revisiting Angelo Spagnolo's 66 on the 17th at TPC Sawgrass.  That hole led the way to him being named the worst avid golfer in America.

Pebble Beach

Well there is still 6 inches of snow on the ground in Minneapolis but today I took a trip to Pebble Beach to watch my friends play.

I didn't have to take a flight for this.  I actually just drove over to Minnetonka to Bunker Indoor Golf.  A indoor simulator facility with 12 full swing simulators and a putting green area.


I arrived a bit late and by then they were already on the 4th hole. I didn't play as I am nursing a month old shoulder injury.  Hoping to be recovered by the time I need to swing for real.  My friends Keith, Michael, and Tom generally were impressed and said the distances seemed fairly accurate.  Chipping and putting were a bit unrealistic but the full swings seemed realistic.

 A shot of Tom with perfect position at the top.

The round of play took just over 3 hours to do.  Putts were given if inside of 10 feet.  Only 2 putts were made from outside of 10 feet.

 Keith on the 18th.  Not quite as impressive as the real thing but Keith hit a great drive.  Just to the left of the famous fairway trees.

Vigen teeing it up, also on 18.  He faded his tee shot right into one of the bunkers down that side.

With the gimmie putts the scores were a touch hard to stand up but Michael won with a 92.  Keith had a 97, with an impressive 41 back nine.  Tom finished with a 45-55 even 100 round.

This was actually a pretty fun looking thing to keep the rust knocked off in the Winter.  I am looking at maybe trying a similar facility in Chaska at the end of this month.  Hopefully my shoulder will be recovered by then and I can start to work on getting some kind of swing back in preparation for this year.