What time do you get up for a morning round?

I'm playing tomorrow with a 7am Tee time. The course is half hour away and we need time to park, register and hit some range balls. So I figure to wake befor 5am . My routine is to hot tub first to loosen up, eat 2 eggs and toast, take a dump then get dressed and leave ny 5:45.

What your early morning times/routine?

jmtbkr wrote:I'm playing tomorrow with a 7am Tee time. The course is half hour away and we need time to park, register and hit some range balls. So I figure to wake befor 5am . My routine is to hot tub first to loosen up, eat 2 eggs and toast, take a dump then get dressed and leave ny 5:45.

What your early morning times/routine?

Wake up, surf porn, have sex with the wife, feed the dawgs, feed the chickens, make some tea, eat breakfast beings eggs, greens, and toast or a green smoothie, travel, sometimes range but always chip & putt. 7 is too early. I don't have kids and I mostly play weekend golf with the wife so 9 or 10 is better.

The guy who runs the club I play with makes all the tee times on Weekends between 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. The rotation of courses we play are all publicly and privately owned public courses and almost all are within an hour's drive of my home. So its the same routine as a workday: up around 6, shit/shave/shower, make and eat a breakfast of cheeseburger and home-fried potatoes, drink about half a pot of black coffee, and hit the road leaving enough time to hit maybe 50 balls on the range and try to figure out how the greens and are going to be putting and chipping. These are perfect tee times for me. The club gets the prime times and we typically play the round in 4 hours 20 minutes.

I haven't had to set an alarm clock for golf in over 4 years, which coincides with the birth of the first kid. It doesn't matter what I've got going on, what time I went to bed, or how much I had to drink. I am up at 6am. With the course 15 minutes away, I leave the house 40 minutes prior to the tee time.
I don't have any real routine, but I will be drinking 2 cups of coffee, eating a little bit of something, and hopefully taking a shit. Shower is preferable though not required.

I tend to play a little later these days but used to have a regular 7.20am time slot every Saturday morning when I lived in Auckland. I used to rise at 6.00am, take a dump, have breakfast of eggs on toast + coffee and leave for the course at 6.40am. If I'm playing that early there is no range time. Just some putting, a few practice swings and I'm good to go. I used to do this all year round in Auckland but in Taupo it's far too cold in winter so starts are pushed back to about 10.00am.

95% of the time I would be there 1 hr in advance... just to relax, drink my coffee, smoke a cigar, chip and putt etc... I NEVER get to the course close to T-time

I never hit balls before a round. The course I grew up on didn't have a range, so I never got into the habit. I can stretch just find 5 mins before the round. I rarely putt before a round, and only if I'm killing time and there isn't anyone around that I'd rather talk to.

I'm not a morning golfer. I hate playing befoe 11:00ish, so my morning routine isn't quite as important.

Golfaholic wrote:I never hit balls before a round. The course I grew up on didn't have a range, so I never got into the habit. I can stretch just find 5 mins before the round. I rarely putt before a round, and only if I'm killing time and there isn't anyone around that I'd rather talk to.

I'm not a morning golfer. I hate playing befoe 11:00ish, so my morning routine isn't quite as important.

Didn't you have a range outside your house ... and warm up hitting balls into the woods?

Kiwigolfer wrote:

Golfaholic wrote:I never hit balls before a round. The course I grew up on didn't have a range, so I never got into the habit. I can stretch just find 5 mins before the round. I rarely putt before a round, and only if I'm killing time and there isn't anyone around that I'd rather talk to.

I'm not a morning golfer. I hate playing befoe 11:00ish, so my morning routine isn't quite as important.

Didn't you have a range outside your house ... and warm up hitting balls into the woods?

Hahaha. That was only for video purposes!

Now, there is a "range" just down the road from me where I can hit irons. You have to take and pick up your own balls though, but I bought 25 Dozen Nike Juice balls and a Shag Bag to make it easy.

On a side note, you guys should look into the CamCaddie if you video your swing a lot. I attach mine to an old pulled Aldila NV shaft. Slip the iPhone on it and it's good to go. Sets up in seconds and the video quality is best kind. I just keep it in my bag.

Golfaholic wrote:

Kiwigolfer wrote:

Golfaholic wrote:I never hit balls before a round. The course I grew up on didn't have a range, so I never got into the habit. I can stretch just find 5 mins before the round. I rarely putt before a round, and only if I'm killing time and there isn't anyone around that I'd rather talk to.

I'm not a morning golfer. I hate playing befoe 11:00ish, so my morning routine isn't quite as important.

Didn't you have a range outside your house ... and warm up hitting balls into the woods?

Hahaha. That was only for video purposes!

Now, there is a "range" just down the road from me where I can hit irons. You have to take and pick up your own balls though, but I bought 25 Dozen Nike Juice balls and a Shag Bag to make it easy.

On a side note, you guys should look into the CamCaddie if you video your swing a lot. I attach mine to an old pulled Aldila NV shaft. Slip the iPhone on it and it's good to go. Sets up in seconds and the video quality is best kind. I just keep it in my bag.

A buddy of mine had something like that on his iPad and took videos of all our swings on the range prior to a round. Pretty impressive. The technology that is - not my swing!

Kiwigolfer wrote:

Golfaholic wrote:

Kiwigolfer wrote:

Golfaholic wrote:I never hit balls before a round. The course I grew up on didn't have a range, so I never got into the habit. I can stretch just find 5 mins before the round. I rarely putt before a round, and only if I'm killing time and there isn't anyone around that I'd rather talk to.

I'm not a morning golfer. I hate playing befoe 11:00ish, so my morning routine isn't quite as important.

Didn't you have a range outside your house ... and warm up hitting balls into the woods?

Hahaha. That was only for video purposes!

Now, there is a "range" just down the road from me where I can hit irons. You have to take and pick up your own balls though, but I bought 25 Dozen Nike Juice balls and a Shag Bag to make it easy.

On a side note, you guys should look into the CamCaddie if you video your swing a lot. I attach mine to an old pulled Aldila NV shaft. Slip the iPhone on it and it's good to go. Sets up in seconds and the video quality is best kind. I just keep it in my bag

A buddy of mine had something like that on his iPad and took videos of all our swings on the range prior to a round. Pretty impressive. The technology that is - not my swing!

Taking your iPad to the golf course is a b!tch move.

I generally hit off on first light so I get up about 90 minutes before that. I usuall give myself about 45 minutes to crap, put the dog out and fill his bowl, make and eat breakfast of toast and coffee, fill the drink bottle and get dressed. Takes me another 20 to get to the course, which gets me there 25 or so before tee time which I usually spend watching golf on fox. I rarely chip or putt and never hit balls before teeing off.

6:30 am last Sunday 6:40 this Sunday. My buddy will be in the driveway at 6:00.
15 minute drive. 15-20 minutes to jack around. 3 hour round last Sunday done by 9:30.
Going to be miserable tomorrow, as my wife was pulling weeds, and gave me a raging case of poison ivy. My torso is half covered, my chest, and my cock.

I'll make some juice the night before, kale, spinach, carrots, parsley, celery, apples, some ginger, grapes... whatever I have laying around, I'll slam a small glass with a handful of salt pills then hop in the shower and get ready. On the way out the door I'll grab a mug of the rest of the juice and drink it on the way. I'll pick up an iced coffee on the way that i sip through the first few holes. I like to get to the course early for competitive rounds, I don't really care if I'm playing with buds, but I always have to be doing something once I get there, just like anything else once you get warm you need to stay warm, once I start through my range routine (which is relatively short) I'll putt then chip/pitch till were ready to go. The chipping and pitching is what really get's me ready to roll.

The juice is usually plenty to keep me going for awhile, I also carry a vitamin drink, gatorade, and some easy to digest snacks for the round.

The trick is not to leave yourself too much time, it's easy for tournaments cause you know what time you're going, not as easy for weekend friendly's when you may get out early or late depending on what the course looks like.

There's this 1 guy I play with sometimes and I always feel rushed... we usually end up getting there late, have to rush, he doesn't want to hit balls and rushes me to forgo warming up... There's not much worse for you're game than feeling rushed, whether because of getting to it late, or being put on the clock in a tourney.. it'll mess with your chi.

Hubijerk wrote:I'll make some juice the night before, kale, spinach, carrots, parsley, celery, apples, some ginger, grapes... whatever I have laying around, I'll slam a small glass with a handful of salt pills then hop in the shower and get ready. On the way out the door I'll grab a mug of the rest of the juice and drink it on the way. I'll pick up an iced coffee on the way that i sip through the first few holes. I like to get to the course early for competitive rounds, I don't really care if I'm playing with buds, but I always have to be doing something once I get there, just like anything else once you get warm you need to stay warm, once I start through my range routine (which is relatively short) I'll putt then chip/pitch till were ready to go. The chipping and pitching is what really get's me ready to roll.

The juice is usually plenty to keep me going for awhile, I also carry a vitamin drink, gatorade, and some easy to digest snacks for the round.

The trick is not to leave yourself too much time, it's easy for tournaments cause you know what time you're going, not as easy for weekend friendly's when you may get out early or late depending on what the course looks like.

There's this 1 guy I play with sometimes and I always feel rushed... we usually end up getting there late, have to rush, he doesn't want to hit balls and rushes me to forgo warming up... There's not much worse for you're game than feeling rushed, whether because of getting to it late, or being put on the clock in a tourney.. it'll mess with your chi.

If we are talking night before rituals I will usually take on plenty of fluids. In summer I will drink a couple of litres between dinner and bed and try to throw in fresh fruit too. It messes a bit with your sleep getting up to piss, but being hydrated is paramount to optimum performance, especially as I always walk. In summer I will go through a couple of apples and a 2 litre drink bottle (75% water 25% oj) over the 18, and some times that isnt enough and I will top up the bottle with water at the 9th.

A 2 crapper morning, that's worth 15 yards off the tee. Java gets things moving. Fukin poison ivy though.