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Another weekend of perfect golf weather, and I didn't waste a day.

Friday i got out for 9 holes after work with Steve and a fellow member. The golf this day was relaxing and enjoyable. I just kind of smacked the ball around. tried some things, of course none of them worked. Think i was somewhere in the 39 or 40 range. Nothing to write home about. Was just great weather and nice to be out on the course after a ridiculously horrible day and week of work.

Saturday was again perfect for playing golf. I got out to the course early to hit some balls before teeing off. I figured I would fix my swing 20 minutes before my round. Unfortunately I didn't have enough time. I was on the verge of figuring it out but didn't. The round started out well. Actually, my whole group was great off the start with Matt, Cal, Wes, and myself. We were tearing up the front 9. As a group we birdied 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 (eagle). For the back it started off much the same. 3 birdies on 10, 2 on 11, and the wheels came off. I was 1 over after the birdies on 10 and 11. I doubled 12 and from there I was awful. Finished the round at 82 or 83. Not a great score by any means. Left very miserable for the rest of the day and drowned my sorrows in Bud Light.

Sunday was the second Men's Tour event of the year at Thundering Waters. I hate this course. Think it's a joke, with horrible conditioning, way to tough on some holes, and over all just didn't enjoy it last time I played. This time, I still thought the course was bad, but it wasn't as horrible. They did cut out 2 great holes to start and made the course about 1000 yards shorter all said and done. They added a couple par 3's I think and made some par 4's around 300 yards, shorten some of the par 5's. This course has potential, but it's just not going to happen. The greens were ok overall. Not very fast, not to slow. Pretty smooth for the most part. There is some ridiculous green complexes which I actually find kind of fun. Makes for some interesting chip shots.

On this day of golf I actually got to the range in the morning and had plenty of time to work on my swing. Good thing I did. I actually fixed it this time. It always goes back to some small stuff you forget from the year before. I seem to forget the same thing every year. Stand up taller, narrow stance, smooth swing. I figured out these 3 keys and kept them going through my head. Ball started flying straight with nice trajectory. Driver was flying perfect. I got the fix. So i left for the course.

I played much better in this one than the last and my last few rounds. I was aggressive all day hitting driver on every hole. My chipping was great. Putting was about a 7 out of 10. Iron play was good. If i could control my nerves I would have been better, but shot 77. This put me in a tie for 11th. Pretty good and I'm not totally disappointed. I for sure left 3 strokes on the course with some sloppy putting from 3 feet. I made a double on last par 3 16th by being over aggressive, not going to beat myself up over that. The putting was my downfall and something I need to continue to work on. I haven't been nervous in a tourny in a while. Think i was this time because i was only 2 over after 14 holes. I was feeling great.

Some small mistakes cost me in the end. My buddy Ryan actually was the last 76 to come, he was in the last group of the day, and he pushed me out of my first ever top 10 on tour. I guess I will have to play better at the next one.

Solid weather again sunday, I had a great playing group of guys. Bad news at the end of the round as at least 10 cars got broken into by some losers who thinks its cool to do things like that. I feel awful especially for Matt as he lost his whole set of clubs, and a camera with pics of his son on it. Jerks.

Playing a lot of golf lately. Hopefully it will be some good golf now that I got a swing back. Need some practice time, will get on that this week. The countdown to Ballyneal and Sand Hills is 10 days. I can't freaking wait.

I need to hit the Gym.

Just made it through a pretty decent long weekend if I do say so myself. Actually, a well deserved one as my week of work leading up to it was absolute hell. Just glad it's over.

I was maybe a little ambisious this weekend, attempting to get in 4 rounds over 4 days. Well I guess it's not that hard on paper, but didn't turn out exactly how I thought it would.

Friday was a perfect day to get out after work. Working on gettting Ryan and Steve to come out regularly, so far looks good, but not this week. Anyways, I have a great time playing with those guys. This week we were joined by the club pro Drew which was actually great. It was the first time the head pro from my course came out to play with me. He's a phenominal putter aside from have an all around great game. I actually played my best round of the weekend on friday. shot 41 on the front and then turned around and posted a 35 on the back to shoot 76. Ya, could have been lower with a better front, but I was happy with it. Made some great shots. On 11 I dunked a lob shot from about 15 yards off the back of the green for a birdie. Chipped in from the fringe on 12. On 16 I found myself 245 out right beside ryan. I tell him to make sure he hits a good layup cause I'm going for the green. He said no way it gets there. I ended up killing one perfectly at the pin and it landed about 6 or 8 feet away. I left the putt on the edge for eagle, still a great birdie. Ended up with a bogey on 18. Good times.

Saturday started off well enough, but I had to quit after 9 to go to work. I had people working that day and I felt bad being on the course while they are working. So i left and went back to the office. My attempt at being a good boss.

Sunday was a perfect day for golf again. We had phenominal weather friday, sunday and monday. I found myself to be a little tired sunday morning. Ended up dragging my ass around the course struggling to make good swings. Shot low 80's. Can't remember exact score, very unremembarable round.

Monday was more of the same except I was even more tired. Late nights early morning weren't agreeing with me this weekend. I schlepped my fat ass around the course again with little to no effort as I had nothing left in the tank. Shot 86 with a bunch of holes not even finished.

Not my best scoring, but definitly a great weekend none the less.

I'm a little worried about my conditioning. I got so tired playing only 18 holes a day. I'm going away with Matt for the most ridiculous golf trip ever in 2.5 weeks and we are slotted play a minimum of 36 holes a day. Probably expected to play at least 45 or 54, all WALKING. I walk every time I play but i've never walked 36 in a day. So i have to get some training in the gym or something. I think i need to stengthen my legs back to where they were a few weeks ago. The golf has killed my squash game so I've lost a good amount of endurance and put on some weight i lost. Not happy with my condition right now.

I've got a short amount of time, but i'm closer than most and will get in decent enough shape for the heavy amount of golf.

OK, let the mocking and ridicule begin. I'm ready for it and deserve it.

My 2 friends?????

So i've got these 2 guys that I'm friends with. No reason to hide it, its Matt and Cal and they think there funny, but really they are a bunch of JERKS.

Cal being his usual prankster self gets this bright idea to make me feel like a loser and hurt my feelings by just being mean.

Long story short, Matt and Cal got a chance to play Hamilton Golf and Country Club next tuesday (top 3 course in canada) and thought it would be funny to pretend that they were arranging to go in front of me just to make me feel even worse.

HAHAHAH, real funny eh? As funny as Cal seemed to think it was I didn't find it amusing.

So how about this Cal, I HOPE YOU GET A BIG FREAKING THUNDER AND LIGHTNING RAIN STORM ON TUESDAY. and not the kind where it rains hard for like 10 mins and stops. NO,NO, i want to see a 5 hour, rain like you need to build an arc to survive, rain storm that leaves you driving home at 40 KMH cause you can't see the road due to so much rain. But I only want it to start raining just as you put your tee in the ground on the first hole.

And don't you get all upset that I wish such horrible weather on you. You should have just told me you were playing it and rubbed it in my face rather than pull that crap. Like I did with St. George and Magna, and all the courses I play that you don't.

Matt, I wish only the best for you. If there was some way for it to rain only causing cal to miss the round I would hope for that, but as I'm sure you realize that just won't be possible at this time. I'm sorry you have to be included in his misfortune.

Great weekend of Golf

Yes, it was great, but my play was horrible.

This past weekend was a doozy on the course. With perfect weather all weekend I was able to squeeze out 4 rounds of golf. Yes, it's nice to have no kids and a wonderful wife who doesn't care how much golf I play just yet.

Friday afternoon after a ridiculously stressful week of work I called up Preston to make my first trip of the year to Heron Point in Ancaster. I love that course and try to play every so often. Easy enough as Preston is a member of Club Link and always willing to play in the afternoons. The course was in phenomenal shape. The greens were better than I've seen in past years, the whole course was firm, and the fescue was starting to grow in. I started off making a bogey on the first hole. Followed it up with a par on the second and a Birdie on the tough par 3 third. The wind was howling dead into us on the long 600 yard par 5 4th and I had a little trouble around the green making bogey. I'd bogey the 6th as well to be 2 over on the 7th tee. We then got held up behind a really slow group. So we jumped to the 12th tee and planned to play through 18, start on 10, play 11, 12 and go back to 7 and finish the 18 holes. Turned out to be a good plan as we didn't see another group and finished our 18 holes. Unfortunately the change in order and increased pace kind of got to me and I would end up dropping a bunch of strokes. I couldn't concentrate. Made a 4 double bogeys on the round. That sucked. Ended the 18 shooting a 81. Very disappointed. But was a perfect day on the course, had some good playing partners and got to hang out with Preston.

Saturday was normal day at the club. Thought I would pick up my game on the home course. Wasn't meant to be. I was fine through the first 7 holes, but made a dumb mistake going for the 8th green from around 250 yards and lost my ball right. Took me a few holes to regain things, but couldn't sustain it. Shot 82 which is horrible for where i want to be. Nothing really seemed to work well but nothing was that bad. Still not how i wanted to play.

Sunday was the first Mens tour event of the season. Playing Peninsula Lakes a usual. And as usual I stunk up the joint. I seemed to always play poorly in this event on this course. Things looked to be going pretty well in the early holes. I managed to scramble and grind my way to a 4 over after a birdie on the 12th hole. Things got ugly on the 13th. I would end up with a double bogey on 13, double bogey on 14, and TRIPLE bogey on 15. Horrible, truly horrible. I'm super pissed right now at 11 over par. So i picked up a beer on the way to the 16th hole. Proving i didn't care anymore and finished the last 3 holes even. Made a crap par on the 16th par 5 after being on the back fringe in 2. Ya, 560 yards in 2 shots and 15 feet in 3 (got to work on short game). Made a boring bogey on the short par 3 17th with a crappy putt (got to work on short game). Made my second birdie of the day on 18. My putting is a problem. But only from 4 feet in, which is embarrassing for my level of golf. I gave up at least 3 strokes to missed putts inside 4 feet.

Monday I took a day off work to play the GAO Better ball qualifier with Matt. This year we headed out to Scarborough Golf and Country club. As you know I'm horrible at the reviews. I will say this about the course, one of the best I've ever been on. Seriously. Amazing, beautiful, perfect course. Matt will do a write up about it, but it was simply a perfect course. I'm going to say it's definitely in my top 5 played and I'm considering it for the top 3. Will definitely do what I have to to get out there again. I don't feel as though I played as well as I could have again this year. And again we missed out from the alternate qualifier (which usually always plays in the main event) by 1 stroke. Worst of it is we had to card a freaking TRIPLE bogey on the 5th hole par 3. Short story, we both hit horrible drives, I lost mine right, Matt lost his left. I dropped and fucked up on the green and 3 putted for a 6 as Matt watched with smoke coming out of his ears. Even worse, we were 2 under up to this hole after I made EAGLE on the opening hole. We grinded away but it just wasn't meant to be. My putting is the biggest issue. I have to work on my putting to have any success this year.

Great weekend none the less. Played in short 3 of 4 days on May 1st, should have been all 4 days. This week looks nice, I hope to get out after work a few days and work on my putting. i have to be dedicated to practicing my putting and short game this year. If i do, i will achieve a lot of the goals I set for myself, most importantly, Top 3 in club championships and beat Matt every round this summer. But he got me at Scarborough, so will have to start that one over again.