Brian McTevia

@GolfDigest @bryanbrosgolf Please god no scrambles, love watching you guys but the scrambles lose me Stroke play , match or alternate is fine…. Scramble is no bueno

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@zheinold1014 Other suggested Bear Dance that’s a hell yes but a bit pricey (worth it) also in the zip code is Ridge at Castle Pines

@zheinold1014 Rain dance up north is spectacular , TPC Colorado is pretty good but 5 hour rounds are the norm Budget friendly Murphy Creek in Aurora is a fun layout and Fox Hollow in Lakewood is a good track too

We will be in Colorado July this year. Denver. Estes Park. Colorado Springs. Looking for some golf courses in these areas to take my boys. Any recommendations on here? I’ve played Colorado National, Green Valley Ranch, Riverdale Dunes already so looking for others. TIA!

@aakashgupta Last time I visited Red Robin after long wait myself and the two kids ordered burgers with bottomless fries. Ask waitress hey kids are starving can you bring fries out to start “Let me check with mgr if we can do that” , mgr says no can do, only one at a time Dead Robin

Red Robin is a case study in how to kill a restaurant chain from the inside out. In 2015, the stock hit $92.90 per share. Revenue peaked in 2017 at $1.4 billion across 573 locations. Families loved the place. Bottomless fries. Birthday parties. “Gourmet” burgers when that word still meant something in casual dining. The brand had real equity. Then management panicked about rising minimum wages and made the single worst decision in the company’s history: they fired all the bussers. January 2018. CEO Steve Carley cut bussers across every location, eliminated expeditors, and replaced kitchen managers with generic “back-of-house” roles. The logic was pure spreadsheet thinking. Labor costs were rising, so remove labor. The savings looked great in quarterly earnings. The second and third order effects were catastrophic. Tables stopped getting cleared. Wait times ballooned. Walkaways increased 85% year over year. 75% of the dine-in traffic loss came during peak hours, the exact window when the restaurant makes money. Ticket times out of the kitchen jumped a full minute on average. Customers who waited 20 minutes for a table and another 20 for a burger stopped coming back. Red Robin’s own CEO at the time, Denny Marie Post, admitted the damage was self-inflicted. And here’s the compounding problem. While Red Robin was gutting its own service model, it simultaneously launched a “Tavern Double” value menu at $6.99 to drive traffic. Orders of the cheap burgers jumped from 9% to 15% of all orders, which cratered the average check. So Red Robin was now serving worse food, slower, in a dirtier restaurant, at a lower price point. That combination is how you enter a death spiral. Meanwhile, 16% of locations were in malls. Mall traffic was already declining. Those locations saw 5.5% sales drops versus 3% at standalone stores, dragging the whole system down. Management acknowledged the problem quarter after quarter and did nothing about it for years. Five CEOs in 10 years. Think about that. The one leader who provided stability, Michael Snyder, was with the chain from 1979 to 2005. After that, it was a revolving door. Every new CEO launched a new turnaround plan. Every plan was abandoned by the next CEO. The North Star plan. The First Choice plan. New menu rollouts. Loyalty program reboots. None of it addressed the core issue: they’d trained an entire generation of customers to think of Red Robin as the place where the service is terrible. The contrast with Chili’s makes the failure even clearer. Kevin Hochman took over Chili’s in 2022 and did the opposite of what Red Robin did. He simplified the menu, invested in operations, launched a $10.99 “3 for Me” deal that went viral on TikTok, and let the food speak for itself. Chili’s just posted 31% same-store sales growth. Red Robin’s comparable revenue was down 1.2% for all of 2024. Both chains were in roughly the same position three years ago. One chain invested in the customer experience. The other spent a decade cutting it. Red Robin’s $65M market cap and Chili’s $3.3B market cap tell you which approach works. The stock went from $92 to $3.61. That’s what happens when you optimize for the quarterly earnings call instead of the customer walking through the door.

@TheGhostofhogan But everyday play I’m more than comfortable out to 7k yards but prefer 6,500-6,600

@TheGhostofhogan I used to have idiot friends that wanted to play for money back there and I had a great short game so I didn’t care if I missed the green with a 4 iron or 6 iron I knew I’d likely take the money as I couldn’t reach hazards and bunkers they could…. But we were all decent players

Can anyone explain to me why people like to play the tips? I want it short vs long. I want to whiff a drive and still have an iron in. I want to shoot a low number not a high number. The tips are for elite players and let’s face it non of use are elite. Move forward please. You’ll be happier

@SHistorians Nope would rather wait for @StraightDown or @johnnieO sale. Rather pay $90 for either of these than $60 for UA but that’s just me Buy once cry once

Watching Jordan Spieth, I am curious…does Under Armour make money on their golf line? It’s no knock on Under Armour, but I just don’t seem to see a lot of their gear when I am playing golf. Does anyone on here wear a lot of their golf product? If so, do you like it? Honest question - just curious.

@TheGhostofhogan These on the other hand were great , a few majors were won with these. A friend had them and I hit my fair share of balls with them

Who remembers these hideous things? Sounded like you were hitting the ball with a bag full of nickels.

@messedupcars Granny … aka ultra low gear

@MyGolfSpy Two items Tensei 1k pro white driver shaft Phantom 11.5 LD putter

Quick question…what’s the last piece of golf equipment you bought that actually made you better? 👇👇👇

@NUCLRGOLF I’ll take me wedges and walk up… need to compose myself

🚨⛳️🗣️ #DISCUSSION: Without telling us what your handicap is, what's something you say at least 10 times per round?

@NUCLRGOLF Wasn’t LIV launched as part time golf for big money. 54 holes and an easier travel schedule. Now 72 holes and tournaments globally all the time …. Isn’t it easier to live in the US play PGA Tour and occasionally DP ??

🚨❌📝 #NEW — The Telegraph reports that Patrick Reed passed on a new deal with LIV Golf, despite the league meeting his contract demands. What do you think was the issue?

@GrantHorvatGolf Bob and Wes better get a lead on you and FP before alternate shot …

The 2- Man YouTube Tournament. Teams are: Fat Perez & Grant Horvat Bob & Wesley Bryan Joey Coldcuts & George Bryan 54 holes 18 holes on each channel. Formats are Scramble, Best Ball, Alternate Shot. Who you taking?

@Tyler_Polumbus Hire an offensive coordinator

Ok vent… Give me all the pain

@TheGhostofhogan @JonathanYarwood @Titleist I’m a titleist / mizuno kind of guy but Taylor Made is the only hybrid I get along with visually

@JonathanYarwood @Titleist I’ve always struggled hitting them left. Have they made one yet that doesn’t look like it’s gonna hook off the planet?

Hybrids are so versatile. You can hit ‘em high, hit ‘em low, hit ‘em far, hit ‘em short….heck you can even chip with ‘em! Gotta be at least one @Titleist hybrid in your bag 👌🏼

@TheGhostofhogan Well it said 7 on the bottom but 29 degrees isn’t a 7iron no matter what they etch in it. No way can I hit my 34 degree 7 iron that far unless it’s a trailing 30mph wind

@bmctevia U flew a 7 iron 192 yards? That’s impressive!! I’d be lucky to fly one 150 right now

Not new info but still amazes me the massive shift in lofts in irons over the last 30 years. Below is some info on one manufacture I picked to do comparison on: 1995 Callaway's flagship irons were the Big Bertha irons which featured a 7-iron loft of 33°. This was typical for game-improvement irons of that era—relatively traditional (not yet "jacked" for extreme distance marketing), but already somewhat stronger than classic blade lofts from earlier decades (which often hovered around 35°–37° or higher for a 7-iron). - Game-improvement / distance-oriented models (e.g., Paradym Ai Smoke standard, Elyte series, Big Bertha): Typically **27°–29°** for the 7-iron. - Paradym Ai Smoke (2024/2025 model, still current): **28°**. - Elyte / Elyte X (newer 2025 releases): Around **28°–29°** in most configurations. - This reflects the industry-wide "strong lofting" trend for added distance claims, often 4°–6° stronger than 1990s equivalents. - **Players' / mid-handicap models** (e.g., Apex Ai200, Apex Pro, Apex CB): Usually **30°–34°**. - Apex series (e.g., Ai200/Ai300): Often **30°–31°** or so. - True blades like Apex MB: Closer to **34°** - Overall, modern Callaway game-improvement 7-irons average around **28°** in flagship distance models, while more traditional players' irons stay in the low-to-mid 30s. Key Comparison - **1995 Callaway 7-iron** (Big Bertha): **33°** → - **2025 Callaway 7-iron** (e.g., Paradym Ai Smoke or Elyte): **28°** (common in popular models) → 5° stronger loft translates to roughly 1–1.5 clubs more distance on average, with tech like AI faces, tungsten weighting, and variable face thickness helping maintain forgiveness and launch despite the lower loft. This 5° shift is part of the broader industry evolution since the mid-1990s/early 2000s, where manufacturers strengthened lofts to market "longer" clubs—though actual performance gains come more from tech advances than loft alone.

@TheGhostofhogan The original “mini driver” Loved the “deuce”

The 🐐of all 3 woods!!! Am I wrong? This club when caught on the ‘hot’ spot would go for MILES!!

@NUCLRGOLF Avoid penalty strokes and miss the green in the correct spot

🚨🏌️⛳️ #DISCUSSION — Golfers who’ve broken 80, what’s the best tip you could give to your fellow golfer?

@depressivehacks @NUCLRGOLF This and a relatively efficient short game breaks 80 a lot

@NUCLRGOLF Keep the ball in play and eliminate penalty strokes.