[innercityteacher]

[quote=JerryG;75514]April is not good for me. Early March has some potential.
By the way, if you are going to go after D on the golf course, are you going to be expecting a few strokes as per your GHIN or are you going to go into this cold turkey?


I offered him an even match from the tips, but he was feeling frisky and offered me 12 strokes from the tips. He is a good golf writer and generous with his strokes. A real nice guy, Jerry, like you and Kevin. Hell, OB will probably give me 15.

My RFT motion was really not a karate chop in Minnesota. You guys were great at helping me with my Pivot. With that chopping motion and the forward ball position you and Kevin showed me, I roll my Pivot to the ball and chop it down the middle. I did it with about "oooo" 40 shots in a row, tonight, on the range.

The forward ball position really helped me in my small, novice competition. Knees/hips firing up and down to load/unload the vertical left wrist. It doesn't matter what the course is and who I play, Down, Down, Down, is compression, backspin, and controlled landings on the greens, somewhere.

Your suggestion about the hybrids, Jerry, was correct, also. I put 6 or so of the hybrid shots on the greens in regulation! Where I was very lucky, though, unlike Ted and Jeff, was that the greens we putted were Bermuda and rolling at almost a 10. My heavier putter, three ball markings, just had to get the line started for the most part and the ball just kept finding the bottom of the cup or very close to the hole. I actually talked myself out of two correct reads which were otherwise do-able for birdies.

With 15 strokes for my hcp index (13., I was 4 strokes better or so, than my club champion. He shot a 78 (index 2.3) gross and my score was 84. He had played the course before! The course had a lot of similar features to White Bear Lake yacht club. We played it shorter but Down is still Down.

Finally, since we saw each other in MN (high to Pat) (Elise has been swamped setting up her room so no recipes yet), I started chipping to get the ball on the green right away to let it roll out. The faster greens held the line very well and the # 3 pp gave those chips enough power to get mostly hole high. The other day, I got up and down for for par or better at least 5 times.

Could Ted and Jeff or Kevin when he heals up, bury me in any type of competition? Easily, at this point. What happens though when I learn to master my driver (which was really why I didn't win going away the other day)? The Down is the great equalizer! If I can get hybrids to stop from 180 yards out, imagine if my drives give me 30 extra yards and I can hit a 7 iron or 8 iron? I know Ted and Jeff would still be hitting a wedge or 9 iron in. Maybe when they're Yoda's age?

Wait a minute, Yoda is Yoda's age and he'd gut me like a fish!

Maybe, when they are your age, Jerry, I'll have a shot!

Patrick