Massive Golf Dork, or MGD, is the next level past “scratch.”
If you have your name embroidered on your bag and golf isn’t your job, you might be an MGD.
If you are “too good” or manly for a 7-wood or hybrid…
If the loft on your driver is smaller than your shoe size…
If you often use the phrase, “keep your head down,” you are an MGD.
If after shooting your best score, you video your swing and find several mechanical faults to work on…
If you make a boast about one of your stats and that number is better than the PGA tour average…
If you know the exact swing-weight and shaft weights of all your clubs…
If your reason for not liking a course is that it is too short and you play the white tees…
If you pump your fist and the immediate result isn’t, “you won the Masters…”
If you give a lesson to a friend, that you read, heard, or invented on your own…
If you add your handicap to the length, in seconds, of your pre-shot routine and it is over 40, you should be shot.
If you step off yardages, or own a laser and don’t hit it green high at least 16 times in 18 holes…
If you find yourself often criticizing the golf swings of players who are better than you…I guess that makes me an MGD
R=80, S=50, X=20
If you add one of the above numbers (shaft you use) to your average drive and that number isn’t over 300, you are an MGD
If you ask the starter if they have pin sheets…
If you have ever stepped off a yardage twice because you weren’t sure if you had 70 or 71 yards…
If the cloths you are wearing cost more than the green fee…
If the number of equipment changes is more than the number of rounds you play…
If you have a 2-iron in your bag, and haven’t broken 70 in the last year (what does that say about you folks with 1-irons)…
If you think aesthetics is a positive and difficulty is a negative, when judging a golf course…
If you constantly say, “I know my way is funky, but it works,” and your handicap is 22…
If your iron covers, cost more than your irons…
If you have made more than one golf purchase from an infomercial….
If you are the only one playing the back tees, and shooting the highest score in the group….
If you have more wedges, than woods….
If the club champion can’t hit your irons….
If your person displays more than 5 corporate logos…
If you have ever gone up to a pro and told him a story about how your nephew is the next tour star…
If you think you know someone who hits it farther than Monte Scheinblum…
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Posted by radioman on December 31, 2009 at 7:43 am
A very happy and prosperous New Year
to you and your family, Monte.
I take umbrage with one of your MGD
requirements.
” If the clothes you are wearing costs
more than the green fees”: I was playing
a chellenging par 3 course where the
winter rates were 10 dollars for seniors.
I would have to play that course in
my underwear to avoid the MGD tag.
(Would you believe that I was scolded
once, for ignoring their dress code?)
However, that course is now closed.
The course I now play charges 18 dollars
for seniors who are town residents.
Golf cart not included. This is for
a full length 18 hole course.
I guess I can avoid your MGD spec
there, by wearing my around the house,
dungy clothes, and my old running shoes
with holes in them, instead of my 59 dollar
golf shoes.
What the heck are pin sheets?
Hey, I once thought that it would be
cool to have my name embroidered on
my golf bag. But I saw a guy with big, tiger
head covers, and his name emblazoned
on his bag. He was topping shots,
one after another. I then decided that
I didn’t want to be a bigger jackass than
I already am.
Radioman
Posted by Monte Scheinblum on December 31, 2009 at 12:01 pm
LOL
Posted by Smitty on December 31, 2009 at 8:25 am
OMG I’m a MGD.
Posted by Mike Z on December 31, 2009 at 9:41 am
Fun post. I would add:
If you shoot your handicap but complain about how terrible you played.
If you wait for the green to clear to hit your second shot on a par-5 when your remaining distance to the green is farther than your tee shot traveled.
When you say that you hit a par-5 in two when, in reality, your ball landed in the front bunker (or short of it).
Posted by Monte Scheinblum on December 31, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Nice
Posted by A Tyler on December 31, 2009 at 9:48 am
The only one I’m guilty of is the loft on my driver is less than my size 13 shoes. 🙂
Posted by Rusty on December 31, 2009 at 1:48 pm
How about adding… If you give video golf lessons wearing cargo shorts and an untucked shirt. 🙂
Posted by Monte Scheinblum on December 31, 2009 at 2:09 pm
There is no question that fits.
Posted by S. Wood on December 31, 2009 at 3:27 pm
If you think aesthetics is a positive and difficulty is a negative, when judging a golf course…Count me IN !
Bad = Tree growing in landing area
Bad = Approach rolls back into water from the green because not enough fringe (sorry Augusta)
Bad = Railroad ties.
Bad = Narrow parallel fairways—hard hat area
Bad = Long forced carries (risk/reward is better)
Bad = Aerated greens
Posted by eric on December 31, 2009 at 7:34 pm
I guess I need to cut my toes off or get a driver that I’ll hit the moon with
Posted by Monte Scheinblum on January 1, 2010 at 3:06 am
LOL. The point of this is we are all golf dorks. Some just worse than others.
Posted by Andy on January 1, 2010 at 6:56 pm
Re: Driver loft smaller than my shoe size. I carry a 10.5* driver, but it’s been a long time since I had size 10 feet – fourth grade or so.
Posted by Monte Scheinblum on January 1, 2010 at 6:58 pm
If it makes you all feel any better, I have a size 13 and use a 7.5. 🙂