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What are your Golf superstitions?


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On 8/5/2016 at 11:44 PM, Gator Hazard said:

Lol!  People who know me will say "here is the line", "here is you". I'm never behind the line.

I wrestled with a dude who never washed his sweatpants from wrestling practice. I used to lose 5 lbs of water weight a day in practice. He was lazy so maybe half but none the less. You can imagine what it was like having to wrestle with a guy who would make Pig Pen pinch his nose. I told him to wash his stuff, it was disgusting. He said no. I  stomped him every time he had to practice with me. If I had to practice double leg takedowns with him his thighs were gonna be sore afterwards for me enduring the stench. The sweat pants used to be white but were gray brown on fronts after a while.  I eventually took his place on varsity team as a sophomore when he was a senior.  It was JV or quit for him,  he quit.  No one missed him, or the gag inducing smell.

Back to topic: I usually put a spare ball in right hand pocket, ball in play between goes in left. Left bottom pocket is two or three tees of varying length. Right bottom pocket is divot repair tool. My ball marker is the nerdy hat clip magnet thingy. Left hand side of brim out of eyesight. I don't call those superstitions, I call them being organized. 

That's just nasty...

That reminded me of another one. I can't have another ball in my pocket. It will undoubtedly cause my ball in play to go to a bad place where I will need to use the spare.

- Shane

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