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SUCCESS! I Shot Par!

GonnaBreak70

By GonnaBreak70
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Some of you may remember me from my post a while ago about breaking 80 in a short amount of time after starting golf. Well, the logical next step was of course, par of better.

Today I played LPGA International Champions Course (6700 yards) and shot a 72

7 birdies, 5 bogeys, and 1 double to post an even par round of golf for the first time ever! It was an up and down day and quite honestly, year as well.

I played my first ever round of golf August, 2010 and was hooked from the word go. Since then I have work my butt off spending COUNTLESS hours hitting pitches, chips, putts, fades, draws, and I'm not gonna lie, quite a few slices.The truth though, is that I have loved every minute of it. I love putting my ear buds in, dropping 3 balls on the green, and hitting putts till they ask me to leave. I love walking to the range with another large bucket just to see if I can master the stinger 3 wood, the knockdown wedge or the ever-elusive high draw with my driver. Numerous times I've hits ball till dark without even noticing the time pass.

I've worked on several occasions with my local pro and I can say that I would not have progressed nearly as quickly as I have without his instruction.

What made it all worth it was sinking the left-to-right 15 foot birdie putt on the last to match old Mr Par.

For everyone out there working hard to beat the course, keep working, its so worth it.

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TheGeekGolfer Dedicated Member

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Great job, like the stats, too!

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BuckeyeNut Great Member

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To be quite honest, that is absolutely amazing considering you've only been playing for 18 months........not to mention you did it on a legit golf course.  Very impressive.............

You come across as one of these young phenoms who will be taking college golf by storm soon.  If I may ask, how old are you?

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  BuckeyeNut said:
Originally Posted by BuckeyeNut

To be quite honest, that is absolutely amazing considering you've only been playing for 18 months........not to mention you did it on a legit golf course.  Very impressive.............

You come across as one of these young phenoms who will be taking college golf by storm soon.  If I may ask, how old are you?

Early retired 55?

ps. congratulations to the OP!


Golfingdad Incredible Member

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That's fantastic!  I think that you have an amazing attitude.  ANybody who loves the game that much and loves practicing that much (not to mention some obvious talent in progressing so quickly) has a pretty high ceiling.

Keep it up and good luck.

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GonnaBreak70 Member

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Thank you all for the comments thus far. It's great to have a place this to come to to browse interesting topics, stories, and to get feedback as well. To Buckeye Nut I am currently 19yo.


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thats quite an inspiring little peice, i liked your stats image you put up i had something similar on my iphone. i've started doing the same kinda thing, practicing a lot! where did your pro give you the most help?

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  Long Ball Larry said:
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Well done! I like the scorecard/stats. What program do you use?



I believe he is using golfshot.com.  I got a recommendation from someone else on here for the same program.  It's got a free iphone app as well, and its fairly easy/quick to use while playing, or just load up everything afterwards.

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  crawford1982 said:
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thats quite an inspiring little peice, i liked your stats image you put up i had something similar on my iphone. i've started doing the same kinda thing, practicing a lot! where did your pro give you the most help?



I worked mostly on full swing and course management with the pro. My biggest leaps forward were when I was finally control my swing by shortening my backswing and taking more club. This resulted in more consistent results but this is much more difficult to do than you might think.

I have felt like I was on the verge of a fantastic round but I was playing blades, (Mizuno MP63) with x-stiff shafts and I had a lot of trouble hitting solid long irons. Last two rounds I decided to take my brothers Callaway X24 irons for a spin and wow! So forgiving and accurate. I feel like I can do no wrong with these clubs. I know they are GI irons but you know what, I don't care. THEY WORK.


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Yeah, that's some serious golf for an 18month old!!!

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Obviously you're not an infant. You've been playing golf for 18months, correct? Impressive improvement if that is the case...

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So... when you gonna break 70? :-P

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  Ben said:
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Obviously you're not an infant. You've been playing golf for 18months, correct? Impressive improvement if that is the case...



Oops. Sorry. Didn't read that properly.


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