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Played a round with a captain of a division III college

Valleygolfer

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Let me say this without any bragging intended. I rarely play with anyone who out hits me on the course or if they do, it is a 10 yards or so, driver wise. I generally out hit most I play with by 30 yards or more. Not that I am that long, I just play around a lot of shorter hitters. They often look at my shots somewhat slack jawed which is a little off putting because again, I am not that good or really that long.

The other day I get caught up with this guy and I became the "slack jawed" lacky. This cat had a swing like butter. Killer lag. He was BOMBING it. I just was like wow dude you are murdering that ball. We were playing the blacks and he was putting the ball 30 yards past my normal "whites" playing area. Perfect draw drives in the fairway most of the time. I was mundo impressed. To bad he moved to Florida to go to golf school. I wish I could have played a few more times with him.

He said he played all sorts of sports in high school but found that he had a knack for golf and stuck with it. I asked him what his average drives were and he said when he is on, it is every bit of 300 with some bombs at 310-320.

It was pleasurably humbling. I still played well enough to hang with him but I don't think he was grinding too hard.

I thought I would just share this...in case anyone is bored.. :-D

"My ball is on top of a rock in the hazard, do I get some sort of relief?"

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I just facebooked him and he has a book published too. He didn't even mention that...

"My ball is on top of a rock in the hazard, do I get some sort of relief?"

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I've played with several young baseball players in Florida for Spring Training. Some of those guys can murder the ball. There was one guy about 6'3" pitcher who hit the ball consistently in the 350 range. There was a par 5 playing 500 yards and he was well inside the 150. Didn't have a short game though. I've never heard a ball hit as hard as he hit it. I played another round with a former LSU linebacker. He was 6'5" and still chiseled at 50 years old. He routinely hit balls well over 300, but not necessarily in our fairway. :-D

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This guy was on the golf team. Played a Cleveland Classic driver. Made a weird slap noise when hit... Solid all around golfer. His book was about golf as well.

"My ball is on top of a rock in the hazard, do I get some sort of relief?"

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What school? Somewhere up Vermont way? Never been to Vermont but would love to go sometime. Having Bernie Sanders as a Senator would worry me. I call myself conservative, but I'm more of an anarchist.. That's it for my politics. :-)

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What school? Somewhere up Vermont way? Never been to Vermont but would love to go sometime. Having Bernie Sanders as a Senator would worry me. I call myself conservative, but I'm more of an anarchist.. That's it for my politics.


Williams College in Mass

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