Golf Ascending was created by a couple of guys who are obsessed with golf, and one day decided to make a RU-vid golf channel!
Brady and Tyson spend hours and hours testing golf products such as training aids, golf clubs, golf apparel, and basically anything that has to do with golf. This channel is meant to provide tips for improving your golf game, as well as entertain with golf challenges, course vlogs, product testing, and more!
We publish videos every week! Make sure to subscribe and click the notification bell for weekly golf content!
Check out our website and blog at golfascending.com/
We often review golf equipment and always give our honest review of a product. When applicable, we will add an Amazon link for your convenience to purchase the product. As an Amazon Associate Golf Ascending earns from qualifying purchases.
As a beginner player during the time I had the pleasure of playing this course (April 2nd, 2022) , here are my thoughts: 1. The employees/managers are incredibly elitist and snobby 2. When approaching the manager behind the counter to start our round, he informed us that they initiate a ridiculous, bullshit format of payment where the price is dynamic based on popular demand ("progressive pricing" they call it. To put it in words from the perspective of everybody else but the owners/managers of this course: "screw-over-the-customers pricing"). In other words, when we reserved our tee time days in advance, the price was set to a specific amount. But when it was our time to start our round, they decided to INCREASE our fee just because "demand was popular." It sounded like it would apply to us regardless if we had connections or not. Absolute elitist thievery if you ask me. And a breach of contract. If you, the consumer, makes an initial contract of agreement for form of payment with the business itself, the business, then that price should be set in stone. INSTEAD, the crooks at this course decide that they can change the price at any time for whatever reason, and they upped the price for us when we showed up. Completely immoral, unnecessary, and a total dick move from management. Screw them. What they do should be ILLEGAL. 3. Aside from how rude and crooked the management is, it's a spectacularly beautiful course. Hole 12 is just as stunning as the reviews/videos claim it is. I will always remember it. But man, that green is RELENTLESS. A lot more difficult than it looks. 4. My performance on hole 7 was my best performance on ANY hole in my short 6 year (as of 2024) golf career. I had a chip shot for birdie that was not only over a bunker, but the pin placement was so difficult, yet I chipped it perfectly enough, reading the green well enough, so that chipping it just above the top of the bunker, it would roll RIGHT INTO THE CUP I KID YOU NOT. Proudest moment of my life. 5. Hole 15 is as hard as it looks, if not, harder. I know I'm a beginner, but this was the only hole i had to skip. I had two drive attempts that ended up in the canyon, and we had an audience with the party behind us sitting in their cart watching us because the party ahead of us was playing slow (no joke, at the 18th hole, we ended up calling the clubhouse to complain about these out-of-country tourist a-holes taking their sweet time). So I said "eff it, I give up" and just let my brother and brother-in-law finish it up. 6. In general, it's such a gorgeous course. There's nothing like southern Utah on Earth. One of our favorite places to visit is Moab, because the scenery is just stunning, and this course is probably the closest you can get to that aesthetic in terms of golf courses. 6. There was a roadrunner just perched on the wooden information post for one of the holes (can't remember which), when we approached the hole to tee off, it wasn't anything super special but it was kinda a cool moment. 7. DO NOT GO DURING THE PEAK OF SUMMER. I went in April, and it was incredibly hot. Unless you love 110+ degrees Fahrenheit weather, avoid this course (or St. George in general) during the hottest summer days. 8. Overall, great experience. Take away the horrible, egotistical management, and you've got yourself a world-class course.
Why is it that home putting greens are shaped like this. A real putting green is huge, even if the shape is somewhat like this. A home green is so unrealistic with this shape unless it is extremely large. Otherwise you hardly have room to putt. Look at all the putters on the course make eighty foot putts. What fun is it tho always make 10' or less putts all the time. Eventually its will be too small. How is that worth the money?
This seems like participation trophies. Im not a good golfer, but id never allow myself to take an advantage because the person im playing with has put in more work and effort to become a better golfer. This seems akin to giving every 1st grader a prize after a race or something. So if someone is an 18 handicap, what advantage do they get versus a 7 handicap?
The best analogy I've read about which tee box to play, take your honest 5 iron distance and times it by 36 or your honest driver distance and times it by 28. The total is the 18 hole yardage you should play.
You need to play the tees that give you an opportunity to hit mid irons or less into the par 4 holes. If you are constantly using a hybrid or 5 wood, move up to a shorter tee!
I have often heard that if you take your 5 iron distance and multiply it by 36, should give you your maximum yardage for the tees you should be playing.
You have really strange colours for your tees… Is just there where you live??? We have white for professionals, yellow after, then blue and the nearest are red. It’s like this everywhere I went. In which part of the moon do you play golf :-) ???
Thank you for making this video! 4 years later, it's as relevant as ever. I have a question, though I'm not sure if you address it in later videos - what is the oldest age of clubs one should get when buying used. I've heard different advice ranging from "no more than 10" to "not older than 20". I know opinions differ, but wondering what your take is on club age?
Typically no older than 10 years, as some clubs can become non conforming in competition, but most new golfers don’t care about that. Irons that are in good condition can last a long time.
Boring. If i suck i suck and inlive with it. I dont ask better chess players to play down a piece so I wont claim handicap. Nerd stuff. One of the parts of golf that is lame. Just play and be. You did not actually win with a handycap so why pretend.
The higher the handicap the less skilled the golfer. lower handicap the better the golfer. If we're talking the current president in office 😂, no chance the guy has a 6 handicap 😂. A 6 handicap would essentially mean you are shooting consistently 6 over par on 18 holes...somewhere in the 70's.
Lol! For reference...a 6 handicap is very very good....no chance the president in office is a 6 or even an 8 😂. Someone with a 6 is shooting roughly 6 over par on 18 holes...somewhere in the mid to high 70s which is fantastic golf.
I just started going to the driving range a few months ago to practice and be ready for a course, I’ve bought my clubs from goodwill/thrift stores so far. I have aero burner 12.5 driver, top flite 3w, callaway X 5W, lancer oversize irons 5-PW, extra top flite wedge, and Wilson alignment blade putter. Combined cost under 60 dollars. Once I start playing courses I’ll look into upgrading but for now I’m focused on swinging consistently
Ya...a 6 handicap is a really good golfer. 8 is really good as well. No chance the current president in office is that. That would mean he's shooting roughly 6 over par...for reference that's somewhere in the mid 70's.
Might look clean while wet but as soon as they dry they are still dirty. I let mine sit in a water vinegar bath submerged then rinse till the water is clear. Then dry use another hat to keep the form, then Scotch guard/starch.
It's definitely a confusing formula...an easier way to digest it is a handicap is an average of your 8 best scores from your most recent 20. That should give you a good starting point to figure out roughly where you are at. If you get your official handicap through USGA all you have to do is enter your scores and the course and tee box you played from and they do the rest. Same with something Like 18Birdies or SwingU. Hope this helped!
Good method - Here is my easy peasy method for cleaning my hats. Get a bucket filled with warm water and put in some Pine Sol and some dish detergent and soak hat for 2 minutes - then take hat out and use vegetable type brush on hat where the stains are then swoosh hat in the soapy bucket for one minute then rinse hat in a bucket of fresh water 2 times - hats are clean and disinfected etc.. then hang hat on a line to dry - I never put them in the clothes dryer.
yep, you are correct. This was something used more as a training aid with the putter grip. When I had the chipping woes, I wasn't playing in any USGA event lol! It did help me get back to the basics of chipping which really helped me at the time!
