I really enjoyed his interview prior to the round yesterday. In a nutshell, "I'm not supposed to be here anyway. I'm just going to enjoy playing on a weekend in a major. And then he started laughing about it.
I had never heard of him prior to this week, but after that interview was hoping he wouldn't tank.
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Strange is right. His swing is exactly on plane. With the way he swings the club, it's hard to say that this is fluky.
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Just went out and played in 107 heat index. Hit the ball like absolute shit: one fairway and one green, but I managed to scrap together a 41, which with the way I hit the ball, felt like a 34.

I was hitting huge flares all day, which is really odd for me, because I never cut the ball. I finally started rolling my hands over super hard on 7 and hit the driver a bit more solid, but I was still all over the place.

That was exhausting, especially walking in that heat and humidity.
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Yeah, I'm playing Shoal Creek tomorrow at noon. Its gonna be a high of 97. Pretty sure I'm gonna get heat stroke. But hey its free so what can ya do.
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Basically, I was hitting the driver like Phil at Winged Foot in 2006--flush shots, but with a face that is way open and shoots the ball way right. With that said, I realized after hitting 4 tee shots that I was laying the club way off and I needed to roll the piss out of my hands to get it somewhere near square.

It still makes me wonder why he was trying to hit a carve slice the entire back nine instead of just trying to rip over a draw.
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So ever since getting back into golf this year. I've been using this online golf recording deal. Keeping track of my GIR, fairways hit, putts, etc. I even have this GPS thing on my phone so I'm even recording my driver distance.

One thing I have found is that I am a terrible, terrible putter. I guess I already knew this, but jesus christ am I bad. I also can't hit fairways, and this includes a round that I was like 12/14 on. My stats through about 15 rounds are

GIR - 58%
FAIRWAYS - 29%
PUTTS PER GIR - 2.22
PUTTS PER ROUND - 36.75
DRIVING DISTANCE - 287.9

I knew I'd be real good at Par 5's, but I'm actually worse at Par 4's than I am Par 3's according to my average score on each. WTF?
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You're doing pretty well to be hitting 58% of Greens in Regulation considering how rarely you're playing from the fairway.
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It's not the US Open where I play. It's easy to hit out of the rough unless you are hitting a 4 or 5 iron. Even at the "hard" courses around here like Ironhorse and Sycamore Ridge the rough is pretty much a joke. If they grew it half as long as the US Open nobody would even come play. I'd like to play a US Open course when they grow it that long. I'm pretty confident I couldn't break 120 and I'm about a 5 handicap right now.
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Hell, most of the good courses here grow it to 2.5 inches, minimum.

Nasty, thick shit.
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Because of upper back issues I hadn't played for two months till I got out last week a few times. I seemed healed and l haven't lifted a weight for that period of time either so I feel fairly loose. It's off to Branson Creek here in a minute for 18 holes with relatives. I should probably pack some extra balls for that track. It can be a ball eater.


PhilFree:-)
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Absolutely love the back 9 on this course......
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The whole course is pretty nice but yeah the back 9 is hot and the two par fives back there are really good holes.

This was family golf with family I'd never met. That's what I get for being the last one there. They were good peeps of course but it wasn't conducive to good golf. Not that I'm capable of that at this point. I birdied #2 and then I lost 5 golf balls the rest of the day:-)

The forgiving thing is they drew names out of a hat for two player scrambles teams. Which I normally hate but in this case when we were done they figured I shot 78 with my own ball. :-) With 5 lost balls? Sure O.K. whatever they say.


PhilFree:-)
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81 guys teed it up at the World Golf Championsips this week. And with 6 holes to go in the 2nd round, Tiger is beating 3 of them.

My how the mighty has fallen.
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Don't look now but Tiger is 2 down after 2 holes in the PGA Championship
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FYP.
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