TigerTaco

Thanks for the info.

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Is first tee at Santa Maria legit?

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My kids never did the program, but I’d say it’s worth it. I go out to the range a few times a week and see the kids out there. They break them out into groups and work on short game on the practice green, putting on the chipping green and full swing on the section of range reserved for lessons. They look like they have simple chipping and putting competitions to hold the kids’ attention. If nothing else, they are exposed to other kids their age that are interested in golf. If you want to go with private lessons, my daughter that’s on a high school team, started out taking lessons at Santa Maria with Jack Terry.

I went through the Justice of the Peace/Judgment of Possession process in Baton Rouge. The process took about a month. I tried to get the state police to sign off on it being a home built as I had a bill of sale for a damaged trailer frame and receipts for an axle, tongue, bunks, tires, lights, hitch, etc. They refused saying there was no way I bent the aluminum I beam frame at home despite having receipts for the rest of the parts. I got nowhere going that route. About 5 years earlier, state police did sign off on a trailer under the same circumstances, so I thought I’d have no issues. I was wrong.

If you have enough time, consider adding Prague and/or Munich to Austria/Hungary trip. I hit Vienna, Salzburg, Budapest, Munich and Prague on a 10 day trip, but we like to move around.

I lived on the course in 1999/2000. The back nine (my neighborhood) was new at that time and a better layout than the front nine. It’s not a long course, but relatively tight as the holes are in two neighborhoods with houses lining the fairways. Fees for residents were a bargain at the time. I think it was $300 to join and $100/month.

Sam’s off Seigen sells cut down beef ribs. I asked the butcher if they had whole and was told yes, but you have to buy the whole rack. You can’t buy a couple ribs. It would have been about $80, so I passed.

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It was more than an extra $50

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Yeah, should have specified per club.

For those that have been to Bebu, is there a push to use aftermarket shafts like I read about at Club Champion? I’m looking for a fitting, but I likely only want to pay for stock options. I’ve hit a few irons on a trackman with both stock and $60 upcharge shafts with little difference between them. However, the irons were not fit to me.

The Asian grocery on the corner of Florida and Sherwood has them.

When I poured the slab, I emptied half the bags on top of the plastic sheeting covering the ground. I added water and mixed it in place. I added rebar on top then mixed the remaining bags in a wheelbarrow. With a helper, I think we finished in about an hour. Later in the build, a friend let me borrow a mixer, but it was easier just to mix in a wheelbarrow. I used the home brew high temp mix, the fire clay came from a ceramic shop in the Mammoth Drive area and the lime came from the hardware store on Foster. That’s the only place I could find the right type of lime. I think the common stuff for agricultural use won’t work. Portland cement and sand came from Home Depot. It’s been a while so I may have fire brick brands wrong, but the Butler bricks around town are not as dense and uniform as the Halsey brand I bought in New Orleans. For a 42” oven I think I used 250 bricks. All that said, if I did it again I would strongly consider building a poured dome using refractory. The bricks look a lot better though. My dome is stucco. I added waterproofing to the mix, but it does get damp when it doesn’t have frequent use. To do a 90 second pizza cook, I do need to light a fire a day or two before to dry it out so that I get 900+ temps at the dome and 650 on the floor. I cook right on brick floor. Preheating isn’t necessary when I use it frequently. When it’s dry and I do a long/hot burn, the oven will still be a few hundred degrees days later. I bought the insulation from Distributors International in Gonzales. I have 3 to 4 inches of insulation board under the floor and a few inches of insulating cloth over the dome. That’s the key to holding in heat along with an insulated door. Email me at my screen name at g mail if you want some pics.