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I enjoy this sport almost too much. I'm the delusional type that thinks if I ever won the lottery I might just take a year and try to make the web.com tour. Life is so cruel, hey?
- I'm about a 17 handicap
- Kind of a stickler when I play, in that, I don't cheat and will putt in anything outside of about 10 inches. I don't toe wedge and reshoot etc. as I see a lot of people do when I play with them. But either way, I don't care too much about what others do, I more care about what I'm doing and how I'm scoring.
- I used to not care to watch golf much, but over the last decade or so my enjoyment level in watching has increased so that I at least follow it most weekends and will keep a leaderboard window open on my phone checking scores etc.
- The thing about following the pros, though, is that like every sport for me (it seems) I feel like I need some connection to a player - like if he's from my home area, or has some other connecting point. I'm bad for that. But the thing with golf, is that most of the players are so bland and many seem like they pretty much grew up as uberprivileged rich kids, that it's hard to root for too many. My favorite players at the moment are: Adam Hadwin, Jason Dufner, Jim Furyk, and Jon Daly. I follow a bunch of others, but those are the ones at the top of my list.
- Jon Daly's My Life In and Out of the Rough is one of the best autobiographies ever. It's one of the most interesting reads you'll ever embark on, period.
- My best 9 holes was a par 36, my best 18 was an 87. Not a great score over 18, but I do keep honest scores so I give myself credit there. I've also had a stretch over like 6 holes where I was I think 2 under par, but, of course, those rounds never seem to keep going and after 9 I was back to 4 over or something frustrating.
- In keeping with that last point, I always tell people that the average golfer could shave off probably 4 or 5 strokes a round because we don't have a gallery telling us where our ball landed and we in many cases aren't privy of practice rounds with books in hand about how to play each hole - unless, of course, we're playing on our home course or something. That may all sound like an excuse, and I don't adjust my scores at all, I'm just saying that I've lost enough balls in first cut rough let alone misshot based on faulty understanding of a hole location etc., to know that pros benefit greatly from galleries who know where their ball went every time, and also the practice round where they can write notes about how to play each hole. It's just something I keep in mind if I'm being too hard on myself during a bad game.
- I've only had 2 eagles. Both par 5s and well-played holes, I didn't luck out too much. I've also had a hole in one on a par 3 but that was sheer fluke as it would have gone way past but it nailed the flag and dropped perfectly.
- I've only played one tournament. I played terribly. But the kicker was that the winner looked like Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons - I kid you not, no exageration. He was probably 5' 5" and 375 lbs with some strange almost Amish scraggly strip of beard and a hot-dog ingredient stained golf shirt. I did all I could not to be astonished when I met him, execting to see someone who looked like Jordan Spieth who shot under 70 per round. Anyway, one of the greatest stories of my golfing life lol.
SO . . . Comment on anything I wrote, or anything else! Golf talk it up!
- I'm about a 17 handicap
- Kind of a stickler when I play, in that, I don't cheat and will putt in anything outside of about 10 inches. I don't toe wedge and reshoot etc. as I see a lot of people do when I play with them. But either way, I don't care too much about what others do, I more care about what I'm doing and how I'm scoring.
- I used to not care to watch golf much, but over the last decade or so my enjoyment level in watching has increased so that I at least follow it most weekends and will keep a leaderboard window open on my phone checking scores etc.
- The thing about following the pros, though, is that like every sport for me (it seems) I feel like I need some connection to a player - like if he's from my home area, or has some other connecting point. I'm bad for that. But the thing with golf, is that most of the players are so bland and many seem like they pretty much grew up as uberprivileged rich kids, that it's hard to root for too many. My favorite players at the moment are: Adam Hadwin, Jason Dufner, Jim Furyk, and Jon Daly. I follow a bunch of others, but those are the ones at the top of my list.
- Jon Daly's My Life In and Out of the Rough is one of the best autobiographies ever. It's one of the most interesting reads you'll ever embark on, period.
- My best 9 holes was a par 36, my best 18 was an 87. Not a great score over 18, but I do keep honest scores so I give myself credit there. I've also had a stretch over like 6 holes where I was I think 2 under par, but, of course, those rounds never seem to keep going and after 9 I was back to 4 over or something frustrating.
- In keeping with that last point, I always tell people that the average golfer could shave off probably 4 or 5 strokes a round because we don't have a gallery telling us where our ball landed and we in many cases aren't privy of practice rounds with books in hand about how to play each hole - unless, of course, we're playing on our home course or something. That may all sound like an excuse, and I don't adjust my scores at all, I'm just saying that I've lost enough balls in first cut rough let alone misshot based on faulty understanding of a hole location etc., to know that pros benefit greatly from galleries who know where their ball went every time, and also the practice round where they can write notes about how to play each hole. It's just something I keep in mind if I'm being too hard on myself during a bad game.
- I've only had 2 eagles. Both par 5s and well-played holes, I didn't luck out too much. I've also had a hole in one on a par 3 but that was sheer fluke as it would have gone way past but it nailed the flag and dropped perfectly.
- I've only played one tournament. I played terribly. But the kicker was that the winner looked like Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons - I kid you not, no exageration. He was probably 5' 5" and 375 lbs with some strange almost Amish scraggly strip of beard and a hot-dog ingredient stained golf shirt. I did all I could not to be astonished when I met him, execting to see someone who looked like Jordan Spieth who shot under 70 per round. Anyway, one of the greatest stories of my golfing life lol.
SO . . . Comment on anything I wrote, or anything else! Golf talk it up!
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