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Extremely lucky shot today on the par 3 2nd hole. 172 yards, bunk in the front flag in the back right. Winds blowing right to left. 8 iron fade over the green, hits a tree branch and trickles down to 2 feet above the pin. Bird is the word.
I love gettin lucky
Bag- Orig. 14 Stadium Tour
Driver- R7 limited 9.5*
3 Wood- R7
5 Wood-Viper Tour
Irons- X18/X22 ToursWedges- 52*/ 56* SandPutter- Hamilton f2 series BladeBall- Pro V1Glove-

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On Sunday had the kind of round a dog would curl it's lip at, but it rained during the round and I ended up in a bunker which had the consistency of thick porage on the 17th.......used a 9 iron and dug the ball out to within 3 feet and potted to get 2 points (stableford)

Driver - Mizuno MX700
3W - Mizuno MX700
3H - Mizuno MX700
4I - 60◦ - Mizuno MX200
Putter - Fazer Tour Touch IIIHandicap: - Lack of talent


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Had the longest drive I've ever hit today only to follow up with a perfect pitch to an inch.
Par 4 8th, 331 yards, top of the hill with a steep dropping fairway sloping left down the hill hard (if you hit a draw you're dead). The bottom of the hole is about 40-50 feet downhill and then it goes another 35-40 ft uphill to the green. I drove it from the tips to 15 yards of the green and then pitched it up for a putt that a stiff breeze could have knocked in. Drive must have been somewhere over 310, only to follow it up with another perfect shot. Definitely gave me something to gloat about.
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watched my playing partner (a 19 yr old kid named drew) completely ignore a dogleg right by bombing it over the trees and onto the right side of the green... he even called it
RUSS's avg drive - 230yrds and climbing

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I have two nominees from today's round.

Hole #6: 3 wood from a fairway bunker, it was a flat lie with almost no lip and I hit it about 210 yards and straight, that is my longest fairway bunker shot ever by 40 yards

Hole #7: sand wedge from 102 yards to the pin from a deep divot, I hit it ten feet past the pin.....then left the birdie putt on the front lip

in the bag...

Driver: MX560
3W/5W: Tight Lies
3i-pw: Pi-7gw/sw: Tom Watsonputter: Bulls Eye bag: Ozoneball: / home: Lake of the Woods @ www.golfthelake.com


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Just played earlier today 9 holes, did pretty good, shot 46 (+10) but started out slowly, 4 consecutive double bogeys. Then I hit not just the shot of the day, the shot of my life to this point. A 177 yd par 3, took my 5 hybrid and hit it to 4 feet and tapped in the birdie putt, first birdie in over a month. Kinda kickstarted the rest of the day as I didnt play spectacularly after that, but did make 4 bogeys in a row to shoot my 46, had chances to save par but couldnt get up and down was actually a little discouraged I didnt save par on the last hole, had about an 8 ft putt for par that caught the edge of the hole and bounced out but overall a better than average day.

In my bag
Driver-top flite cannon 460 cc 10.5 deg, reg flex
3 Wood-ACUITY GOLF RCX 14°
3h-warrior golf tcp 20°
4h-warrior golf tcp 23°5h-warrior golf tcp 26° 6-pw-AFFINITY / ORLIMAR HT2 SERIES irons steel shafts regular flex56° sw-tour seriesram puttergolf balls-intech beta ti


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Nearly aced a 187-yard par three today. It's the 18th and it's right in front of the clubhouse dining room at the course I'll be playing in a tournament next week.

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Nearly got an ace today on a par 3 course. It was the 17th hole and only 103 yards, but i hit a PW pretty good, landed 5 feet in front of the hole, bounced and rolled just to the right of the hole. Walked up to the green and it was 2 feet from the hole. Tapped in for birdie (got a 61 on the par 54!)

In my University of Missouri Golf Bag:
Driver- 09 Burner 10.5* M Flex
Hybrid- 09 Burner 22* M Flex
Irons- r7 5-PW, AW Graphite Shaft, M Flex
Ball- Burner Putter- White Hot Tour #1


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hit a bird yesterday... not a birdie... but a bird... lol...
there were a bunch of crows on the fw and i pulled 4h...
as soon as i swung and the birds heard the thwack... they and the ball took off in the air...
the unlucky bird got popped in the backside and spun around in the air till it recovered and flew away...
my ball however dropped like a rock 50 yrds short of the green
RUSS's avg drive - 230yrds and climbing

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Playing alone, from the tips today, I played through a guy and his mom. After several holes of waiting behind them, they asked me through on #15.

I caught the top half of my tee shot and hit it about 100 yards total - to just infront of the ladies tee box. Embarassed, I hit a smooth 4 wood about 235 - to about 65 yards from the pin.

Third shot, 65 yard sand wedge, landed exactly where I wanted it, and rolled into the cup for a 3.

driver: FT-i tlcg 9.5˚ (Matrix Ozik XCONN Stiff)
4 wood: G10 (ProLaunch Red FW stiff)
3 -PW: :Titleist: 695 mb (Rifle flighted 6.0)
wedges:, 52˚, 56˚, 60˚
putter: Studio Select Newport 1.5


Posted
Today a had a good day on the course and a highlight was when I hit a 7 iron to the 6th hole par 3 and landed it 7 ft past the hole and it spun back to within 20 cms!

Posted
dogleg left that tends to get me everytime...
finally got my draw to work off the tee perfectly without duckhooking it...
bent that baby right around the corner in front of the 150 marker
RUSS's avg drive - 230yrds and climbing

Posted
Short par 3 elevated green.
Hit a pitching wedge to within 5 feet and made the putt for birdie.

They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more complicated than that.


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Had a couple today, missed the green wide left on a par 4 by quite some distance on my 2nd shot, chipped it to 3 ft and made par. Was actually upset to make a par on one of the par 5's I played today, its a short one though, only about 450 yards. Hit a good tee shot(for me anyway) to about 210 out in the right rough. Hit my 3 hybrid to just short and right of the green but with the pin up front, was only maybe 30 feet from the hole. I really wanted to make a good chip but couldnt duplicate the earlier mentioned one, got it to within 15 feet and 2 putted and got par. Those were the best of the day, nothing spectacular, shot +13 for 10 holes (yes 10).

In my bag
Driver-top flite cannon 460 cc 10.5 deg, reg flex
3 Wood-ACUITY GOLF RCX 14°
3h-warrior golf tcp 20°
4h-warrior golf tcp 23°5h-warrior golf tcp 26° 6-pw-AFFINITY / ORLIMAR HT2 SERIES irons steel shafts regular flex56° sw-tour seriesram puttergolf balls-intech beta ti


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Superflopped one to 4 feet from 20 yards or so over a bunker to a shortsided pin to save par.
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G5 9° V2 75 X / 909F2 15.5° V2 85 X / 909H 19° V2 100 X / MP-33 #3-PW X100 / X-Forged Chrome 54.15 60.10 X100 / FGP Black 34" / Penta TP

Handicap is a guess because I haven't established one yet.Best score so far is a 71 on a 6,509 yard 70.3/121 par 72 muni, during a glorious...

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Today on my practice course, I pitched it in from about 15 yards. I almost pissed myself.


 
 


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On a par 5, hit a fair drive that got a generous kick from a fairway bunker berm, left me 200 or so to the green. Maybe could have reached from there, but I decided to lay up and give myself a chance to hit close for birdie. 2nd shot ended up about 60 yds out, hit to about 4 feet and made birdie. 2nd ever birdie, and that turned out to be the difference as our team took 1st place, and I got low net as well.

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