3 days of golf

So i got my first legit rounds in St. Catharines in the books as of today. Played both saturday and sunday with one of my favourite groups. Matt, Cal, Bernie, and Myself. Basically Cal, Matt and myself play every round together and we pick someone up each week. Usually Gary P on saturdays, but bernie joining the group is always solid. He usually makes the round a lot of fun for 2 reasons. One, he is a cocky, funny ass, SOB. Just makes jokes all day, and kicks all of our asses. It's become a personal goal of mine trying to win money off him. I bet him every week, no matter what, and I loose every week. But I love the challenge, and the day I beat him will be a great round. Second, he does help my game a lot. Although just about everyone tells me I'm to aggressive and need to work on hitting 3/4 shots (which is becoming a real pain in my ass because I keep trying to mussle full irons), Bernie is great for the little tips you need to step your game at.

Saturday, I played like garbage. I credit it mostly to the awful rainy conditions and the drastic change in ball flight and distance compared to Arizona. I posted 87 on the computer, but Cal was quick to point out to me first thing sunday morning I was actually a 90.

Sunday was a better day. Great weather and golf course conditions. I shot 43 on the front, and then settled down on the back and shot a solid 38. Still made lots of mistakes, but was feeling realy good for the Better Ball tourny today with Matt.

So after 2 rounds of probably scaring the shit out of Matt over my horrible play going into the Ontario Qualifier, it actually turned out to be a great day. Matt is way better at me then giving the details so I'll leave it to him. Check out Now On The Tee for his write up. I did play well. Massive improvement from the weekend. My best highlight was on the first hole. I pured a huge drive dead centre into gale force winds. I was 175 out and smoothed a 4 iron to about 2 feet and made the first birdie of the day. From there on I was solid all round. I hit 1 bad drive, the rest were perfect. I grinded like I was Matt's protege making my fair share of pars. Matt said he shot 78 after it was all said and done. I didn't keep my individual score since it was a team game, but I had to be either that or 1 stroke either way. We both played really well. I think next year we will be even better and hopefully qualify. Haven't seen the full results yet, but we probably missed the cut by 1 or 2 strokes. All in all, a great day.

Not my material

This is from another blog, http://www.deadspin.com/.


Just a crazy story, but it is true.


"This is why we should arm all umpires and Mascots."

You know what would make baseball even more popular? Regularly schedled gun fights! In East Texas, a rec league game turned into a hail of buckshot.
"What basically happened is they had one subject there that was agitating one of the players," [police] said. "He (the suspect) then threw a beer at this player." That turned out to be the last straw. The baseball player approached the heckler, who was also his cousin, and they got into a fistfight The suspect then left the baseball field, but returned a short time later with a shotgun loaded with birdshot and "started shooting down in the area of the baseball field."That angered the suspect who asked the large crowd gathered around the field if someone had a gun with which he could retaliate. "Someone did furnish him with a shotgun (also loaded with birdshot) and they started shooting at each other," [police] said.
So much to work with here. First, the initial heckler was the guy's cousin. And then, when the guy starting firing buckshot, the player asked if anyone in the crowd had a gun ... and somebody did! Baseball's so much more fun in East Texas.

Pics from AZ

Here's a link to some pics of the golf we played in arizona. They do no justice to the true beauty of the courses we played, but you can get the idea of what they looked liked.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=1978&l=95e57&id=517710975

I'm moving to Arizona

Just returned from the my 8 day vaca in Arizona. We had an amazing time. Played 117 holes of golf in 6 days. Basically the best golf courses I ever played. all of them were very difficult, fast greens, sometimes gale force winds, hard as concrete, and the most perfect conditions I have ever played in. I played really well for the week. My irons were amazing. I really it them better then I ever have. Also my driver was on point all week. I was bombing one after another straight down the pipe. And playing over 7000 yards everyday i needed every bit of it. My chipping and putting was pretty good too. It took me about 2 days to figure out how to play all these courses. It was all about running the ball up to the hole. You couldn't put any spin on the ball near the greens, and the contours of the greens made you play really cool shots. I would be 15 feet from the pin, but have to turn 90 degrees and hit a shot up a hill so that it would roll backwards to the hole, just amazing shots. I even made the great chip in for par one day where I had to chip it about 2 feet, stop it on top of a large slope, and then it just slowly rolled down about 18 feet straight in the cup. I was mid 80's on all the courses tat were over 140 slope, and shot 80 and 81 on the course that were 130 to 133. Not bad considering i've never seen these courses before, and it was my first rounds of the year. One thing I can say is, I am ready to play this year. I just feel it. My swing was on point this week. I have a tourny with Matt this monday at a bridgewater. The one thing I remember from playing that course last year was the speed of the greens. Luckly, I am coming off of playing the fatest greens I ever played for a week. I'm feeling good Matt, we are making a run at this thing, I promise.

Tony coming out of the gates strong

Ya this weekend was the masters. Great tourny, love watching it every year. I'll leave the synopsis up to Matt and Cal.

What was an extra super bonus this weekend was the return of the Sopranos and Entourage. My 2 favourite shows. Sopranos was very week last time is was on. I think there was something like 6 or 8 episodes and they really kind of sucked. But last nights episode returned to true form of what is expected. Not big on giving away the details, but the fight was great. Loved the evilness from tony at the end, and there was some great comedy in it as usual. One thing I was surprised by was Tony mentioning he had someone lined up to take over. I'm assuming that Chris was the guy, but I can't remember what he did that would have put him in tony's bad books. Do you remember Cal?

Entourage was phenominal. The most clever show on t.v, very funny, and just absolutly entertaining. I haven't missed an episode of Entourage since it started 3 years ago, and it's one of the only shows that has only gotten better over the seasons rather then sucking the longer its on, example 24. Looking forward to the 4th season. Ari is making a push to get Vince back after being fired last year. Drama has a new T.v. show out, and the sight of his billboard all over L.A. has made for some hilarious scenes. All in all, its good to have some great shows back. Especially at a time when all the other crap i watch is just ending.

Now I just wait for Big Brother to start and I got my summer t.v. viewing fulfilled.

I watch to much t.v.

Relief

Finally after months and months of anticipation I got to play some golf this weekend. After missing out on saturday due to a fantasy baseball draft Matt and I got out for 9 holes sunday afternoon. I arrived late for breakfast thinking it was raining all morning and no way Matt and cal would play. Luckly they were both still at the club playing cards. So i grabbed a huge breakfast, ran home to change and drop Harper off at my moms and headed back to the club for some golf. Got out to the first tee and i asked the guys "are we cool for rain." To which they responded "just some light sprinkle is going to hit us." Matt tees it up and just as he starts his back swing a terenial down pour arrives putting a halt to the game. Out of frustration of wanting to play so badly I declare I'm playing a few holes anyways. Its wasn't cold at all and I was already out there and wet, so why not swing the club a few times. So i walk up and tee up a ball in the pouring rain. After a very weak practice swing a go to hit my drive. I can't say exactly where the ball went cause I lost it off the tee, I was distracted by my $800 driver flying through the air after it slipped out of my hands, flew 20 yards forwards, off a tree, and landed dead in the centre of the cart path. Best start to the season I have ever had. After we got about half way down the first fairway to rain stopped and it was actually pretty decent weather considering. Warm enough to have the sleeves rolled up, and dry enough in the fairways. although I didn't hit very many fairways, it was a great day regardless. I forgot my putter at home so I wasn't putting, but still enjoyed working out the sticks. If the weather can stay nice for a couple days and minimal rain we might get out again. Even if we don't it's only 2 weeks untill I go to Arizona.

Thank God golf season is back. Now it's just waiting for football to start.