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re: Lafayette area

Posted by CaptainZappin on 12/21/25 at 3:33 pm to
Have you even been to Lafayette?

Good luck finding anything decent there under $500k and prepare to pay private school tuition. I’m not arguing there are great places to live there, but they’re generally not starter homes

Go to Youngsville especially if you plan on the public school system
Ignoring the travel bag situation I feel like you can almost fly them there and back for what it costs to rent and then at least have your own sticks.

I finally just broke down and bought travel bags for the entire family rather than fighting the rental game

re: Kids golf set

Posted by CaptainZappin on 12/21/25 at 3:02 pm to
I think it depends on the context of seriousness.

Us kids on eBay if he’s just starting.

Once he gets serious put him in some ping ProdiG’s or wait until he’s 13 or so and get some actual Pings

Upgraded my 11 year old into ping prodiG about 6 months ago. Far and away better than US Kids—we’ve had basically every variant of those they make. They’ll reshaft for free one time as well.

Ping is king for junior golf

re: Walt Disney World Golf?

Posted by CaptainZappin on 12/19/25 at 3:55 pm to
Played LBV today with my sons (11,7).

Pace of play fine for us, we’re slow, but probably faster than kids who never play, they play a lot of junior tournaments.

Greens are overseeded in rye, maybe rolling 6-7 at best. Ate my 11 year old up, he didn’t get many to the hole after being more used to the 10-11+ we’ve been rolling at Le Triomphe lately.

Talked to the guys working the course, they had an issue with disease awhile back and had to shut the course down and rework the greens. It was fine for us, but if you’re super serious, I would avoid LBV for now

We had fun, but not worth the Disney golf prices, IMO

re: Best Appliances

Posted by CaptainZappin on 12/7/25 at 7:45 pm to
Speed queen washer and dryer. I’ll never own anything different

Walkie Talkies for Deer Hunting

Posted by CaptainZappin on 10/12/25 at 6:28 pm
I hunt north Louisiana just a couple of times a year. Putting my 11 year old on a stand this year nearby, but terrible cell service and you can’t always localize gunshots. I have a 7 year old begging to go too and I can’t be in two places at once. My 11 year old does shooting sports at school and has done more gun safety education than I have, so I’m not worried about that part.

I want a set of 3-4 walkie talkies I can rig up with earpieces that will reliably work for at least a mile, maybe 2, depending on where my kid, buddies, and I am. It’s dense pine and oak forest up there for the most part.

Won’t use them often, so I don’t want to spend over $100 if I can help it.

Appreciate the help.
I think I have to agree about Homer.

Meadow Lakes? in Bernice is also awful.
Came here to post this. I just emailed both of them

As if we needed another reason to dislike Cassidy. I also feel like Kennedy is a door to door salesman at times, but is 1000x better than Cassidy.

Won’t bore the board, but I had a fairly lengthy interaction with Cassidy as a medical student many years back when he would occasionally come to the clinics—he’s a piece of garbage. Everyone shuddered when he came through the door.

I’ve held my nose and voted for him. I don’t think I can do it again.

re: Best shot this week for you

Posted by CaptainZappin on 10/27/24 at 9:09 pm to
Scrambling today with my 9 year old just for fun. We’ll scramble from the reds like DeChambeau and just see how low we can go (it’s never very low). On 9, I stuck a 56* within 3 feet from about 82 yards. My son steps up with his 8i and puts one to about 12”. Made for a proud dad.

I think that was the shot of the week for both of us.

re: Future of Le Triomphe

Posted by CaptainZappin on 3/30/24 at 7:53 pm to
I wouldn’t be the first for something trivial

re: Future of Le Triomphe

Posted by CaptainZappin on 3/30/24 at 5:35 pm to
Member of LT here.

Heard rumor of 109 golfing members currently.

We go through pros like drawers, unfortunately. Thankfully we’ve kept Thomas Wartelle and Popp in the teaching facility.

Just turned and burned two excellent young pros who were super enthusiastic about junior golf, which pissed me off.

I’m a touch scared to post about the GM, I’m afraid she might trace my IP, but ol boy who went scorched earth and deleted was incorrect, she’s tough to deal with and I’ve never heard anyone else say differently in my 6+ years as a member.

OCC looks better every day
That makes sense.

Hence why my kids are in private school
This doesn’t make sense, LPSS and Diocesan schools are governed by different entities. Why is diocese worried about wtf LPSS is doing for this.
Based on UK technical briefing 21, their rate is about 0.6%. Can be seen on page 33 of the document below. Best I can tell, it is no longer published. The US won’t ever publish this data. Only cook up a gotcha study that vaccine makes you more immune—waste of time with a 0.6% risk of reinfection and an even lower risk of death unless you’re 90

LINK