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Living up north we have just a few months to enjoy the game.. But this past week has been a bit mild and there is one course that allows for 9 holes in winter. So myself and my pal went there to try and it was our first time trying to play in winter with snow on the ground. It was lot of fun but from a game point of view excruciating.. The distances was all over the place.. When we hit down on the ball, the ball actually gets pushed deeper into the ground and then leaps out similiar to wet ground.. In a nutshell, we left with more questions than when we started but had a fun time...
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Yesterday on the Par 4 tenth at my local course I hit my second shot from 140 yards out to 2 feet.
Got my first birdie of 2010

My Clubs
Driver - LV4 10* R flex
Wood - sam snead persimmon 2 wood (for windy days)
Hybrid burner tour launch 20* stiff flex.
Irons - Tour Mode 3i,4i stiffIrons - FP's 5-PW R-flexWedge - spin milled 54.14Wedge - spin milled 60.07Putter - Victoria Lowest round 2010: 79 (par 70)Latest rounds at...

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A 2-oz. shot of Jamieson Irish, straight up. It made me feel better since it's too cold to play golf.

Focus, connect and follow through!

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Wedges:  :callaway: MD3: 48°, 54°... MD4: 58° ||  Putter:image.png.b6c3447dddf0df25e482bf21abf775ae.pngInertial NM SL-583F, 34"  
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Hit 6 beautiful drives in a row on the simulator yesterday ... felt so good I bought the club!!
That's about the best I'll do for a while as it's doubtful we'll see the grass again here in Wisconsin 'til April!

Mark Boyd of the Clan Boyd
"Retired in my Dreams"

 

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Weird day. Was all over the shop but managed to hole 4 X 25 foot putts on the front nine which I never do. I had my putter shortened to 34" last week and it seems to have done the trick. Also smashed a 317 yard drive (GPS Confirmed) on the last, had been a frustrating day and really opened the shoulders. It went about 60 yards further than we normally hit on that hole. Hit a solid 9 into the green and two putted for Par, nice way to finish on the hardest hole on the course.

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extremely tricky slider...
35 footer...
hole cut front left last bedroom down a long narrow hallway...
love seat and 2 end tables making it hard to read or much less see the line...
i could tell by the grain in the carpet it hasnt been vacuumed in a few days so it was playing a lil slow...
took 2 practice strokes...
addressed the ball...
back an thru... pure stroke... heard the click of the putter face contacting ball... ball disappeared under the loveseat...
tracking... tracking... tracking... b00000000mmmm... its in the hole! ftw!
RUSS's avg drive - 230yrds and climbing
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Had a good shot today. I hit a drive in the right rough and had 95 yards left to a front pin with wind pretty strong in my face. Turns out I was in hardpan and could not afford to hit it fat at all. Used my new 52 spin milled vokey and hit as pure a shot as I ever hit. I was using a Pro V1 as well. The shot went right up over the tree that was about 50 yards away, landed about 5 feet from the cup and sucked back off the green onto the fringe....

I normally dont put that much spin on the ball, so I was loving it, even though it spun right off the green!

Chipped back to the cup to about 2 inches and tapped in for par......

Great (and cold/windy) round today!

Jim

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TaylorMade Burner 10.5*

Adams Insight BUL 15*
Taylormade RBZ 3H

TaylorMade RBZ 4-AW

Vokey SM4 54-11

Cleveland CG14 58 2 dot wedge

Ping Karsten Series Craz-E putter

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My best shot this week has been on the driving range. I am working on driving down and through the ball (hitting down). I practice this technique on the range and
building muscle memory helps to transfer this move to the course.
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Well, its a combination of shots. From 1st hole my Tee shot was pretty bad so I practically gave up on the hole, but somehow my next 3 were awesome landing an 8 iron from 125 yards out 3 feet next to pin, 1 putt in for my first par 5. Rest of the course was lousy,too much full of confidence like I conquered the game
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played 3 club tourny. took my 19 deg hybrid, 8 iron, putter. I had a nasty 20 yard chip over a bunker to green that ran hard away down to the cup. I laid open the 8 iron and flopped it to about 3 feet I was pretty impressed with myself.

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Definitely on the driving range earlier this week. I took my new Callaway DT5 driver out for the first time and nailed it on the screws first swing. The guy in front of me asked for earplugs, haha!
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Not the best shot of yesterdays round but probably the most satisfying. Found the front of the 6th green (short par 3) with an 8 iron and was faced with a long, uphill putt on a soft green. Lagged it up to within tap in range when, I have to admit, I thought I was set to record a 3 putt bogey.
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for a really crappy round i actually had some really memorable shots...
best one hands down was my 3h shot...
pulled the crap outta my drive onto an adjacent fw... id say about 180-190 with trees in the way...
i saw a pretty big opening between 2 trees that left me a clear shot at the flag... but to take it thru there id probably hit the green really hot... so i decided to go over the trees...
absolutely perfect shot 10ft under the hole...
i also reached a par5 in 2 but ended up 4 putting... so i wont talk about that one... lolz
RUSS's avg drive - 230yrds and climbing
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Well yesterday was playing a a nice course with my brother, holed a really nice bunker shot green side.

Driver: 909D3 8.5* Diamana White Board X
3 Wood: MP 630 15* GRAFALLOY PROLAUNCH RED X
Hybrid: 909H 19* "Real" VooDoo X
3 - P: MP-68 KBS Tour Black Nickel X
56* 10 Wedge Vr60* 06 Wedge: VrPutter: Custom Made.Golf Ball: TOUR B330SI am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was....

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