Stupid game. Played Saturday. Booze fest. 2 over in the front, 5 over on the back. Lipped 4 or 5 putts. Pretty happy. Played today. Stone cold sober. Not sure I even broke 100. So many holes that I picked up on. Such an infuriating game. A few good laughs though. Group behind us were absolute bombers and very good. They hit into us once on a blind tee. I popped out just so they could see that our group was still waiting to hit. They gave me the wave and yelled sorry. No harm. Then they did 3 more times. All three were thrown in the junk. One guy was complaining that he lost money because he couldn’t find a couple drives.
Played in fundraiser 4man scramble last weekend. Tied for first but got second on the cardback. Was alot of fun and won some raffle prizes. Got trashed. Wife had to come pick me up. Surprisingly she wasn't even pissed and it ended up being a great night watching a movie on the projector outside with the fam when we got home. Played with my 6 year old Saturday morning on the local par 3 course. I played like trash and shot a 38. Couldn't make a putt and I hit maybe 1 green. We played again this morning and I shot a 29. Hit every green but the putting was still a bit rough. Such a stupid game. The boy ended up carding a 41 which is a new low for him. His previous low is a 43. I tell you fellas what, it's pretty awesome to watch his confidence grow and his improvement. On hole 7, I yanked my tee shot a bit and left myself a 30 footer for birdie. He walks up and cranks his driver ends up with a 10 footer. He proceeded to 3 putt(that is the part of his game that needs the most work) but the look on his face and the grin he had from having a better shot than dad was priceless.
Listened to that podcast today. It was really entertaining, but I also can’t help feel like everything surrounding the captaincy decisions in the Ryder Cup is wildly overblown. There have been really shitty captains with really shitty processes who won. And vice versa. And all sorts in between. We come up with these outrageous narratives around “what works” after the fact with crazy revisionist history. It’s all confirmation bias. Whoever plays better wins. I’m sure player buy-in and comfort to decisions plays some small role, but the rest is just narrative bullshit. Most of that narrative being created to justify and rationalize some other previous narrative made. It’s about who hits the shots and who doesn’t. Not narratives.
Paris was a hilarious disaster, but yeah mostly we had a lot of overrated teams and Europe was strong where it mattered most.
I think Tom Watson was a true case study in what *not* to do. But his fatal flaw is he didn’t have the players comfortable with the decisions he made. As long as you meet that one single criteria, it doesn’t matter at all how you get there (regardless of the media trying to create a narrative that there’s a secret perfect formula out there, somewhere).
One of the biggest takeaways was Mcginley had planned to lead off with McDowell for two years and Watson couldn’t remember who he picked for four ball.
Lost in semi finals of our partner match play 2&1. It was a great match had a little fun, had a putt that hit the back of the hole and bounced out that would have won 15 and tied us. lot of fun
Ain’t nothing wrong with the older ladies goose. Maybe you should hit up a Silver Springhouse happy hour and find you a cougar.
Fun story - my buddy locked his clubs in his rental car with the keys an hour before his tee time. Had to forceably retrieve them. Shot +4 on the way tougher of the two courses. Hoping for a good round tomorrow
Believe this is the guy playing in the US mid-am so probably wouldn’t want to play that round with new sticks
Yeah this was in the Mid-Am so somewhat justified. Just a wild morning all around. He was +5 thru 4 to start the day with no warmup and then got it together.