Congratulations anyway. We're proud of you for just getting into the Tournament. You finished. I can't imagine three days without your putter working normal. Great job.
Oh, by the way, when we play next spring, you ride with Innercityteacher.
That's it, D! Me and my Titanium hip are going to open up a can of "whoop ass" on
Originally Posted by Daryl
Congratulations anyway. We're proud of you for just getting into the Tournament. You finished. I can't imagine three days without your putter working normal. Great job.
Oh, by the way, when we play next spring, you ride with Innercityteacher.
....your suburban (notice "sub" urban) Chicago person.! My Spring break is April 18th-22nd. Pick your dates in that window. Grab your ankles, bend over (won't be the first time, right?) and kiss your butt goodbye!!!!
Loser of the most holes in this grudge match cannot post for that number of days up to seven, and the winner gets unlimited emoticons with which to torment the loser for one week! Match play, 2 rounds, no strokes, from the tips of whichever course is around (if we take a lesson do we play for free at Lynn's course?).
I'm sending Lynn a PM right now to ask if he'll be around for a couple of lessons and to see if I can get my GSEM. I'm starting a new savings fund: "Daryl's Stone Marker Noting the Scores of His Losses to InnerCityTeacher, April 2011."
Hopefully, Jerry and Kevin, not to mention OB and others will be on hand when you finally capitulate.
I have respect for you Daryl, as an intelligent, sophisticated golfer, and as a very good and funny writer, but it's time you face the Primeval forces that shaped the cosmos (nastier than your daily use of Metamucil and prunes). Contact your priest, rabbi, minister or channel Saddam H. Ask them to describe what life will be like after your defeat. Ask them to use optimistic, positive terms, since I will be kind even while shattering your golfing swagger!
It's on! "Feelin' froggy? Jump up!"
Patrick
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HP, grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the courage to change what I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Progress and not perfection is the goal every day!
I'm sending Lynn a PM right now to ask if he'll be around for a couple of lessons and to see if I can get my GSEM.
Not if I graded the test.
Cuscowilla, from the Tips? I'll give you 12 strokes. You won't beat me if you had a GSED and ten lessons from Yoda. Maybe if Mother Teresa was on your bag............ Not.
I have had many, many hours of lessons reading Yoda's posts.
Originally Posted by Daryl
Dear Threadjacker,
Not if I graded the test.
Cuscowilla, from the Tips? I'll give you 12 strokes. You won't beat me if you had a GSED and ten lessons from Yoda. Maybe if Mother Teresa was on your bag............ Not.
Listen Daryl, you don't realize how good this TGM stuff is, because you are a great golfer. I was really, really awful and I can do things I never felt possible. You will have to drive out TGM, from my cold, dead brain using a nuclear explosion!
To quote "The Death of Arthur," "I will prove it upon your person, with great joy!"
When it's over, you will have the satisfaction of knowing that you and everyone else on this site have contributed 'light that reveals', a form of golfing excellence. I enjoy your posts so much that I intend to show you the insight I gathered in person, in competition!
When one of my students learns something and surpasses me with their understanding of it, I feel encouraged! April will be a good month for all of us!
Patrick
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HP, grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the courage to change what I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Progress and not perfection is the goal every day!
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?
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?
Hi Jerry,
We'll send pictures of my "Victory Toast". I'm giving him 12 strokes and a box of Kleenex. It will be interesting to see which one he runs out of first.
Be careful, D. City is a cunning competitor who is coming on in a very strong fashion. I would suggest to withold any benevolence until the time of the competition. He will bring greetings to the family and treats for the dogs. Next thing you know he has you down two strokes and he hasn't even used any of the strokes he has coming to him.
I can only imagine what a fine putter he would be if he were to dismiss that Rodney Dangerfield specimen he has in his golf bag.
Hi Jerry! April 18 to 22nd is my Spring Break and only chance
[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
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HP, grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the courage to change what I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Progress and not perfection is the goal every day!
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Oh, that dreaded driver. Really, Patrick, the driver is the easiest of the lot to operate. You get to put it up on a peg and swing at it with all you can muster. Just remember to trace the line with pp#3 or whichever pp you chose. You had it going well that day at EG. Just like that.
Have a terrific start to your school year.
, 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.
Hybrid Mode
