u/Rolex_Art

I am going golfing next thursday morning with a client - flying in the night before and renting clubs etc.

Should I bring my own balls from home where I can use a stencil to mark them? Or should I just buy a dozen from the proshop the day of?

Assume work pays for everything so I'd either be using my own $ for my balls or buying them on the corp card but not having the time to use a stencil.

Thoughts?

Yesterday I had a chance to go out and play some holes and played some of the worst golf I have played all month.

The weather has been shitty. It has been raining and miserable and since there was a lot of standing water on the course there was a lot of overgrowth because they could not mow the lawns.

Net net all the balls you were hitting were either getting plugged in or easy gallery losses in the rough where the ball was right there you just couldn’t see it.

I ran into my friend that is a club champion and asked him how he was playing and he told me that he had not made a par all day and was losing balls like crazy and I did not feel bad about my game after that.

Bogey after bogey after bogey with one par and one double.

Sometimes when it is cartpath only you should take the day off.

I've seen the Sky Dweller and never really fell for it - partly because I had tried on "too big" bracelets on Oyster at the AD and I have a thin wrist.

Was on a flight a week ago and the dude in front of me had the Sky Dweller on Jubilee. Perfect fit.

I realized with a jubilee set to my wrist size I'd be golden.

I have many Rolex watches and some are getting much less wrist time as others.

LN Sub I bought just to wear on strap (I have the LV/Hulk) and BLNR (I have the 18k GRN)- both from 2016.

I reached out to a dealer I have done business with who had a like new 2022 Blue Dial Jubilee Sky Dweller and sent him 2 photos of the watches I wanted to trade and got a response I thought was fair:

10k for sub. 12k for BLNR - box and papers for both - and the 24k Sky Dweller they had was reduced to 23k and I paid 1k cash difference and the watch was mine.

I thought that was a fair deal. $1k for a watch I wanted to swap out 2 I don't really need or really want.

They supplied the shipping both ways which is like $250ish.

Now I'm seeing all these videos in my feed that the Subs are selling for 17k. BLNR's for 20k.

I'm saying to myself should I have demanded more $?

I get selling as a private or selling as a dealer is different than selling TO the dealer - they have to make $.

I get that this is 1st world problems - but any thoughts on this?

I was in Cancun on vacation at the end of June and went to the luxury mall with my wife and in-laws and while they were doing whatever they were doing, I popped into different shops like panorama to see if they had anything interesting. I found the Watch store and was able to walk in and buy the royal pop.

I did not know that it was a manual wine. I actually thought it had a battery which is pretty funny, but I had ordered the matching bracelet for it while I was still out of the country so a day or two after I got back I was able to pop it in place and wear it and I gotta say I really love the look of this thing.

I have so many watches that are worth so much money but the fact that this watch is so much fun to wear is awesome.

The only thing that sucks is that your wristbone can pop the watch out of the bracelet so I have had some time where I was traveling for business and took it off to go to sleep because I had moved in the night and all of a sudden I wake up to a bracelet, but no case and now I got a search around the room only to find that it fell behind the bed stupid stuff like that.

Oh, you also can’t play golfing it it seems but other than that I’m really pleased with it.

Check it out

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZ\_ND2FAi4z/?igsi=MW51djF1YTlzc3E1bA==

At work they give away "points" for stuff you can get on the online portal - you know, anniversary dates for working x amount of years or someone giving you points for doing a good job on something,

I had a bunch of points and used them for a few dozen golf balls - these e12 straight flight ones were some of the ones I chose.

Anyone have experience using them and are they as advertised keeping your ball straight?

Just curious if they are as advertised.

I had a 3pm boarding time that got pushed to 340pm.

At 330 they announced our flight was delayed 3 hours - turns out another flight had a problem with a plane, they took our plane and gave it to them and made us wait for another.

We didn't board for for 4 and a half hours and the last 90 minutes was "15 minutes delay, 30 minutes delay, 45 minutes delay - as the pilots plotted a new route. Everyone was crowded at the gate, standing, waiting. Desperate to crowd the entrance and jump in behind the wheelchairs.

Gate agent had it on lock down - we boarded group 1 and I, who had been standing there for an hour (because i'm going to be sitting for hours i prefer to stand before i board) - boom - let's go. I'm the only one in group one. Nobody behind me, nobody with me. I'm not so sure there was another Mosiac.

Anyway - as I got on the plane i looked at the FA and said - no problem, this is how it is, no reason to get upset or angry because you can't do anything about it and it makes you more miserable.

Positive. Happy. Smiling. I was going home.

I got in 2F. Put my eye mask on, a neck pillow between my head and the window and put on a podcast of something lame like the twilight zone and slept.

Yeah, we sat an hour on the tarmac and as the plane started moving it was making all kinds of sounds I was not a fan of - it is what it is.

Point is - there is nothing you can do - being miserable doesn't help the situation and these things happen, which suck.

Positive side, it was on the way home not the way there and I didn't miss anything I had planned and it was just the difference between landing at 7pm vs. 1 am.

Felt bad for a group of 4 dudes who had their flight cancelled out of EWR and took a cab and changed flights to LGA only to have their flight delayed. I was sort of surprised they were not drinking and were just sitting there miserable.

It is what it is. Keep a positive attitude and your head straight because life will hand you worse. If you fall apart at bullshit like this you'll really never be able to handle the big stress.

Did it suck? 100%. Was I exhausted at 3pm and ready to fall asleep on the plane? 100%. Was that 4.5 hour delay painful as I was wondering if I'd be able to stay awake and make my flight? Yup.

Fuck it. I got work done. Set stuff up for friday. Got home, saw the dogs, got in bed with my wife and started the day at 6 am, champion style.

No need to be a paper tiger my man ;)

It has been a hundred degrees in Miami and play has been unbearable.

I went out the other day to play and walked nine holes.

When I started I had a couple two holes in front of me that were playing from the forward Tees.

And as I got closer and closer I saw what they were doing: playing cart path only when it was not cart path only.

She would hit the ball they would drive a hundred yards Park the cart the both of them would walk to her ball 150 yards across the fairway where he would then film her taking the shot after multiple practice swings, walk back to the golf cart, and then drive 50 yards forward where they would both get out and now walk to his ball where she would film him take his shot.

By the fifth hole I was waiting for them on every shot.

And to give you an example I'm playing a three wood off the tips and my drive off the Tee Box is going as far as where their second shot is landing so they're not just playing slow but they're just moving the ball 100 yards down the Fairway.

By the 7th hole I was just saying to myself I'm going for it. They were not in any danger of getting hit by my ball but I was so sick of waiting. The 8th hole is a par 3 so I really had no choice but to wait but the second their golf cart moved I was teeing off.

They also kind of sucked but that's not the point but I will say like when you're 30 yards from the green and then you hit the ball 30 yards on the other side of the green.... I just don't understand what the fuck is going on there like I have never seen people not be able to control the ball when you are so close.

I had a foursome of guys behind me that were all riding and of course I was concerned about pace of play and if these guys were going to be on my ass, they weren't.

That said I was nine for nine driving the Fairway but hitting gir was another story.

It did not throw off my game but I will say my putting was trash. Mapping the story back to it being 100° typically I would go out at 12:00 noon during my quote on quote lunch break and practice putting for half an hour or 45 minutes and I haven't done that in about 2 weeks and last night I had zero confidence putting and I mean zero it was so crazy how I knew I was not going to be able to make any putt and was missing the easiest ones ever.

7 bogey 1 par and I finished with a double on the 9th for plus nine some of the worst golf I have played in a while but at least I understand why and can tighten up the putting for the next round.

I understand maybe people want to get exercise I understand maybe people want to be able to enjoy themselves but pace of play is real and there was nobody in front of them for a full hole and a half.

I hate that shit.

Even waiting until 7pm to go out and catch an hour of play before sundown is impossible.

Heat + Humidity out of control and the layer of saharan dust in the air keeps it from raining.

OMG when will this pass!!!!

Holy shit i went out yesterday at 5pm, was hydrated - had nutrition before hand and got destroyed by the heat and humidity.

Carrying a bag didn't help.

9 holes of bogey golf, tap ins all that shit - couldn't make a single par.

Went for a lesson this am at 830 = 30 minutes = had fully sweat through my shirt - soaked.

I tried to carry an umbrella to shield myself from the sun but the one i had caught the wind and i was fighting to walk the entire way = working way too hard vs. being in the shade - just wasn't worth it.

How guys are wearing black pants while they play is insane.