One and a wakeup
Last full day in Buffalo. This has been one tough project and I'm glad there will be another lull. I could be back in a month or so.
GOLF SEASON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was home in Tidewater for two weeks just past and got to enjoy a sumptuous Paques feast. Golf is back after not hitting a single club for the entire winter I thought I would be swingless. Not really, though the suggestion Doc made to move back a tee box seems to have hurt him more than helped. My first set of scores from the ~6400 yard sets of tees on each course with rating/slope around 70/125 follow
97,98,95, 98, 109, 95 90, 95.
Not bad I think from a tee box I was scared to look at last year. The difference you ask? I can hit a high draw now. It carries about 220 and the full distance at my home course is about 245 on a good day with an easy swing. Wind at my back from the elevated tees at Riverfront I can rip one 250 rolling to 270. This with a brassie the Taylor Made R5 dual draw bias. I've been lusting for the R7 460 and it's at the top of my to get list this week. A few buckets to shape the draw with this I am told, with my swing I could get 275-290 out of this thing.
The Futura is working really well. I've made some mammoth putts this year and its good to see the putting is there early. The Master's dish is still in my ownership after a 95-116 win at Bide A Wee. The greens were still a bit bumpy from aeration but it was a good experience from the blue tees. Doc says at his age this is as far back as he needs to go so next year I'll be stepping back to the gold tees at BAW. just a shade under 7,000 yards.
The next cup test will be at the arnoldpalmer signature courses in Cape Charles, VA. This will be tough as the courses, there's a Nicklaus signature there too, play like nothing either of us have ever seen. Breaking 100 on these rounds will be a true victory. So the Memorial cup will be, in fairness, a composite of both rounds played on the Palmer course on Saturday. Doc and I are still debating over whether it should be stroke play in the morning or match play in the afternoon since a composite of both rounds once again wouldn't be fair with no strokes being given until handicaps from these new tees can be established.
Hmmm, maybe a Stableford and a matchplay? 0 points for double bogey, -1 for anything worse than double bogey, 1 point for a bogey, 2 points for a par, 5 points for a birdie, and dare I say it 10 points for eagle, and 25 for albatross.
It would be very difficult to know who won until the end and that would make the competition a bit more well competitive!
Any way you slice it 44 more rounds to play and I've already lost one round to Doc the second chukker at the Subiaco whence i shot 55-54 109. Matched up with Seeley somehow I just couldn't get out of those wet heavy sand bunkers that morning. Had a bloody 9 on the par 3 4th. It was truly all downhill from there. Doc was playing the very best he could carding a 52-49 101. Tough day, however, I kept my head up and persevered. The very next trip there the following Thursday I shot 45-45 90 and that was after a 48-47 95 on the home course that Tuesday.
All things considered, no play for four months a broken fibula in January and 3 broken fingers in February, at least the drainage pin was out before I went home, and this crazy project, I'm quite happy where my game is this year.
My goals?
15 rounds under 90 this year, 25 birdies in the season, and of course the big goal to sweep all the trophies, the Squanto Slam, Masters, Memorial, Open, Championship, Squanto Cup seaons and The Bird. Six in all sitting in the den once again by late August.
Well thanks to all of you who have been keeping tabs with Cavalor at the Dis Brimstone-Daily Pitchfork (http://thedisbrimstone-dailypitchfork.blogspot.com) in my absence. What a fun bunch of devils they are, eh?
Fore!
1stcyborg
GOLF SEASON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was home in Tidewater for two weeks just past and got to enjoy a sumptuous Paques feast. Golf is back after not hitting a single club for the entire winter I thought I would be swingless. Not really, though the suggestion Doc made to move back a tee box seems to have hurt him more than helped. My first set of scores from the ~6400 yard sets of tees on each course with rating/slope around 70/125 follow
97,98,95, 98, 109, 95 90, 95.
Not bad I think from a tee box I was scared to look at last year. The difference you ask? I can hit a high draw now. It carries about 220 and the full distance at my home course is about 245 on a good day with an easy swing. Wind at my back from the elevated tees at Riverfront I can rip one 250 rolling to 270. This with a brassie the Taylor Made R5 dual draw bias. I've been lusting for the R7 460 and it's at the top of my to get list this week. A few buckets to shape the draw with this I am told, with my swing I could get 275-290 out of this thing.
The Futura is working really well. I've made some mammoth putts this year and its good to see the putting is there early. The Master's dish is still in my ownership after a 95-116 win at Bide A Wee. The greens were still a bit bumpy from aeration but it was a good experience from the blue tees. Doc says at his age this is as far back as he needs to go so next year I'll be stepping back to the gold tees at BAW. just a shade under 7,000 yards.
The next cup test will be at the arnoldpalmer signature courses in Cape Charles, VA. This will be tough as the courses, there's a Nicklaus signature there too, play like nothing either of us have ever seen. Breaking 100 on these rounds will be a true victory. So the Memorial cup will be, in fairness, a composite of both rounds played on the Palmer course on Saturday. Doc and I are still debating over whether it should be stroke play in the morning or match play in the afternoon since a composite of both rounds once again wouldn't be fair with no strokes being given until handicaps from these new tees can be established.
Hmmm, maybe a Stableford and a matchplay? 0 points for double bogey, -1 for anything worse than double bogey, 1 point for a bogey, 2 points for a par, 5 points for a birdie, and dare I say it 10 points for eagle, and 25 for albatross.
It would be very difficult to know who won until the end and that would make the competition a bit more well competitive!
Any way you slice it 44 more rounds to play and I've already lost one round to Doc the second chukker at the Subiaco whence i shot 55-54 109. Matched up with Seeley somehow I just couldn't get out of those wet heavy sand bunkers that morning. Had a bloody 9 on the par 3 4th. It was truly all downhill from there. Doc was playing the very best he could carding a 52-49 101. Tough day, however, I kept my head up and persevered. The very next trip there the following Thursday I shot 45-45 90 and that was after a 48-47 95 on the home course that Tuesday.
All things considered, no play for four months a broken fibula in January and 3 broken fingers in February, at least the drainage pin was out before I went home, and this crazy project, I'm quite happy where my game is this year.
My goals?
15 rounds under 90 this year, 25 birdies in the season, and of course the big goal to sweep all the trophies, the Squanto Slam, Masters, Memorial, Open, Championship, Squanto Cup seaons and The Bird. Six in all sitting in the den once again by late August.
Well thanks to all of you who have been keeping tabs with Cavalor at the Dis Brimstone-Daily Pitchfork (http://thedisbrimstone-dailypitchfork.blogspot.com) in my absence. What a fun bunch of devils they are, eh?
Fore!
1stcyborg