The Petite Corona is the official on the greens cigar in my personal opinion. Leave the the DC's and Piramids for the club house.
The Monte 4 is my cigar of choice. I've also been seen chomping a Bolivar PC or two on the links.
For the club house? What ever it is, be it a large cigar or not, it is something special that I have taken a great deal of time thinking about and it is guaranteed to be the best couple of cigars, hours and pichers of beer that the weekend had to offer.
CD
---------------------------------------------------------------- #423 "O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers." Julius Caesar
Posts: 1951 | Location: NOR-CAL-USA | Registered: June 22, 2003
I like everyday-type smokes on the golf course; like La Gloria (Miami) Wavells, natural or maduro...La Aurora beli maduros too. Probably just me, but the real good smokes I like to enjoy when I have an opportunity to really appreciate them, not when I'm focused on golf.
Sometimes I like to set up 2 different smokes for the front and back nines...last time it was an old Henry Clay mirabelle and a P2 maduro.
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Posts: 111 | Location: Seattle, WA | Registered: October 12, 2006
Heck, The cheap public courses I usually play don't have wind screens on the carts..So I just grab something from my bottom shelf that can withstand a 10 knot head wind...
I always walk, so i usually take a big fella that i know will last awhile whether windy or not as long as it lasts me 9 holes or so i'm cool with whatever....i'm focusing on the golf too much to be overly concerned with the stogie
Come again? You know I don't speak Spanish. In English, please. What? You pooped in the refrigerator? And you ate the whole... wheel of cheese? How'd you do that? I'm not even mad, that's amazing.
Posts: 215 | Location: Maryland | Registered: October 17, 2006
Yeah, I usualle like middle of the road cigars for the course. I'm usually concentrating on golf too much and not able to enjoy the cigar.
******************* "If I had taken my doctor's advice and quit smoking when he advised me to, I wouldn't have lived to go to his funeral." -George burns at age 98
When I'm on the course, my go to cigars are usually a Perdomo Estate selection or a Pueblo Dominicano Series I or II. If I'm playing a really nice course, I'll spice it up a bit and smoke something a bit stronger and of higher quality...usually something from Don "Pepin" Garcia. Any way you slice it (no pun intended), having a cigar or two on the course is the way to go.
Sometimes your on the course to play golf and end up just smoking a cigar and sometimes you go to the course to smoke a cigar and end up playing some good golf. It's a win-win situation!
This year, it'll probably be the new VegaFina churchill. It's already my car 'gar and it will probably make plenty of apperances on the golf course because it tastes good -- mild and buttery smooth -- but it also burns and draws perfectly all the way down with no need for touch-ups or re-lights, plus it doesn't dry out my palatte or get bitter. And it burns nice and slow. Granted, that does not a classic cigar make, but for the golf course or the car when you want a good performing, straightforward smoke, it does the trick for under $5 a stick. Not bad. I like it. Besides, if tee time is 6am, anything stronger would be probably send me running into the woods to commune with nature before the third hole. I see guys firing up Opus X first thing in the morning ... they gotta be made of pretty strong stuff inside.
Last game of golf i played I smoked a Brazilia Gol, but it varies from game to game. However i usually go with every day price range smokes since I'm normally too focused on the game to focus on the cigar.
I usually go thru 2 or 3 during a round. Most often HdM Maduro double coronas or lately Punch Gran Puros. I keep a variety of "hand-outs" in my golf locker humidor for the guys who just want to be smoking something.
Posts: 31 | Location: New Mexico | Registered: August 21, 2006
I played the other day and had some Fonseca Vintage during the round and Camacho SLR while we were drinking afterwards
******************* "If I had taken my doctor's advice and quit smoking when he advised me to, I wouldn't have lived to go to his funeral." -George burns at age 98
My choice is whatever I have that's cheap. My interest is more about the game than the cigar, so I toss the cigar on the ground when I'm swinging or putting.
If it's a great course I may have a Opus X or a CC with me for the clubhouse, but out on the course any cheapie to keep my mind off the slow players in front of me.
Posts: 205 | Location: New Jersey | Registered: January 14, 2007
Curlyheads and Famous's Nicaraguan 3000's Presidentes. The Presidentes last ages and you can pick them up cheap if you keep your eye out, and it's a durn good smoke for the price. If I'm playing somewhere special I'll bring a Bolivar Inmensas, though I've only eve rplayed somewhere I thought was THAT special all of about 4 times...
Also, if your a golfing cigar lover the Cigar Minder cigar clip is a MUST.
I just keep my cigar in my mouth, address the ball and swing away... maybe that's why I'm not good at this game. Like they say "A bad day of golf is better then a good day at work"
"If I paid ten dollars for a cigar, first I'd make love to it, then I'd smoke it."
In all honesty, it does not matter what cigar is in your mouth...you're on a golf course smoking a cigar for crying out loud! That, in itself, is nearly pure Nirvana! Granted, if you live in Oakland, CA - you're screwed, but whatever you decide to take from your humidor at 5am on a Saturday to drive 2 hours to the golf course (c'mon fellas, you know you've all done it!), it's going to be a great day! What better than spending a day on acres and acres of natural beauty (unless your play the airport course), smoking a few stogies, and playing some golf with three of your closest buddies?! I cannot think of many other situations I'd rather be in..
Smoking cigarettes is a habit - smoking cigars is a mindset
Posts: 13 | Location: Birmingham, AL | Registered: March 01, 2006