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Just got back from the range about an hour ago. Nice sunset. My fourth straight day at the range and several 9 hole games in the last week. But I realized just playing golf when you're a hack isn't going to help that much so I'm trying to do the right thing and focus on the range.
 

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Darkwing Duck said:
Handicap at 13 as we end the year for qualified golf here in Northern Utah.

Some of my goals or interesting notes the last couple of years:

Broke 80, which was the main goal
Didn't break 10 handicap, which was the other main goal.
Had consecutive birdies.
Bettered my putting and chipping stats
Driver and irons have been a bit sketchy.

Goals for next year:
Get my first ever eagle
Break 10 handicap
Improve ball striking
Consistent drives...lose the duck hook
Break 80 at a harder course (looking at you, Valley View)
Continue to update my bag as I feel necessary.


Only thing that isn't more than a couple years old in my bag is my 25 or so year old whippy 3 wood. All my other clubs are now stiff shafted, so it's been hard


to pound it with authority like I used to. Love the club, though, and actually hit it good twice at the end of the year playing for a fade which I had never done with it, so maybe that keeps it in.


WITB:

Mizuno STZ 220 driver
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Yonex V-Mass 400 3 wood
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Mizuno JPX 923 Hot Metal irons 4-PW
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Taylormade Sim Max 05 48° A-Wedge
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Lazarus wedges 52, 56, 60 degree
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Taylormade Spider SX-32 Putter
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Vice Pro golf ball
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those are some seriously sweet Mizuno irons dude
 
83 and 87 to start the year.

Might be the first time I've had consecutive rounds not losing a golf ball. Even the 79 I got last year had a water ball.

Driver really the problem so far this year. Cannot hit a fairway. Plus side is the 87 would have been in the 90s last year, so I'll take it as an improvement..
 
80 today. Didn't break 80. Didn't think I was close but birdied 17 and had a birdie putt on 18 that I missed.

Could have been 75 if I could put. Four three putts. Had a three putt double, two three putt bogies, and a three putt par. Didn't get that eagle. Was only like 12 feet and three putted it. Oh well. Drove the ball better. One more round without a lost ball.
 
No idea how I’m so bad. My short game with 7 irons in is decent. I’m comfortable with it. And I’m tall and you would think could hit the **** out of a driver. Nope. I hit 225-250 as a scrawny 16 year old. Lucky to hit 175 now and even luckier if it doesn’t curve off like Lena Paul’s sweet *** and ****. **** my dying body.
 
Darkwing Duck said:
80 today. Didn't break 80. Didn't think I was close but birdied 17 and had a birdie putt on 18 that I missed.

Could have been 75 if I could put. Four three putts. Had a three putt double, two three putt bogies, and a three putt par. Didn't get that eagle. Was only like 12 feet and three putted it. Oh well. Drove the ball better. One more round without a lost ball.
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I have definitely never gone a full round without losing a ball. That would be a true accomplishment.
 
**** this. I’m playing once a week this summer and doing the range once a week too. Gonna break 110.
 
My grandfather (Opa) was legit good. His goal was always to break his age. Don’t think he ever did it.
 
Miggs said:
No idea how I’m so bad. My short game with 7 irons in is decent. I’m comfortable with it. And I’m tall and you would think could hit the **** out of a driver. Nope. I hit 225-250 as a scrawny 16 year old. Lucky to hit 175 now and even luckier if it doesn’t curve off like Lena Paul’s sweet *** and ****. **** my dying body.
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Don't worry, it'll just get worse. I banged up my knee in our recent move and it won't heal. Now they are talking surgery when the scans even showed no real significant damage, and that is just being "proactive". **** getting old.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Don't worry, it'll just get worse. I banged up my knee in our recent move and it won't heal. Now they are talking surgery when the scans even showed no real significant damage, and that is just being "proactive". **** getting old.
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Surgery for what? Did you get a second opinion?
 
Miggs said:
Surgery for what? Did you get a second opinion?
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Yeah all that is in process. I have calcification of the tendon in my MCL they said spurred by age and the injury. They are looking first at possibly shock wave therapy to break it up. Maybe needle aspiration, trying to be as non-invasive as possible obviously. But the MRI showed possible micro-tears and that all combined to harden the tendon up causing loss of mobility and weird pain. Mainly I don't feel much pain in that leg because 10 years ago a doctor giving me a shot hit my sciatic nerve and killed the sensory branch from my waist down, so no sensations of pain really. It's weird. I'm on antiinflammatories, getting cortisone shots and PT and such. But given my age and everything they are looking at just helping me more or less live with it and minimize the symptoms to see how it heals up on it's own rather than even arthroscopic surgery as they don't want to just do more damage trying to fix it. It sucks.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Yeah all that is in process. I have calcification of the tendon in my MCL they said spurred by age and the injury. They are looking first at possibly shock wave therapy to break it up. Maybe needle aspiration, trying to be as non-invasive as possible obviously. But the MRI showed possible micro-tears and that all combined to harden the tendon up causing loss of mobility and weird pain. Mainly I don't feel much pain in that leg because 10 years ago a doctor giving me a shot hit my sciatic nerve and killed the sensory branch from my waist down, so no sensations of pain really. It's weird. I'm on antiinflammatories, getting cortisone shots and PT and such. But given my age and everything they are looking at just helping me more or less live with it and minimize the symptoms to see how it heals up on it's own rather than even arthroscopic surgery as they don't want to just do more damage trying to fix it. It sucks.
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Have you tried golfing with it?
 
LogGrad98 said:
Yeah all that is in process. I have calcification of the tendon in my MCL they said spurred by age and the injury. They are looking first at possibly shock wave therapy to break it up. Maybe needle aspiration, trying to be as non-invasive as possible obviously. But the MRI showed possible micro-tears and that all combined to harden the tendon up causing loss of mobility and weird pain. Mainly I don't feel much pain in that leg because 10 years ago a doctor giving me a shot hit my sciatic nerve and killed the sensory branch from my waist down, so no sensations of pain really. It's weird. I'm on antiinflammatories, getting cortisone shots and PT and such. But given my age and everything they are looking at just helping me more or less live with it and minimize the symptoms to see how it heals up on it's own rather than even arthroscopic surgery as they don't want to just do more damage trying to fix it. It sucks.
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Awful, man. Awful.
 
Miggs said:
I shot 146 a month ago. I’m so bad.
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I played pebble beach two years ago or so and that’s about how my round went. Bunkers there are crazy and I seemed to find them all round long. It was fun because it was pebble beach but it was a tumultuous tedious round because I couldn’t do anything. Lol
 
Darkwing Duck said:
Handicap at 13 as we end the year for qualified golf here in Northern Utah.

Some of my goals or interesting notes the last couple of years:

Broke 80, which was the main goal
Didn't break 10 handicap, which was the other main goal.
Had consecutive birdies.
Bettered my putting and chipping stats
Driver and irons have been a bit sketchy.

Goals for next year:
Get my first ever eagle
Break 10 handicap
Improve ball striking
Consistent drives...lose the duck hook
Break 80 at a harder course (looking at you, Valley View)
Continue to update my bag as I feel necessary.


Only thing that isn't more than a couple years old in my bag is my 25 or so year old whippy 3 wood. All my other clubs are now stiff shafted, so it's been hard


to pound it with authority like I used to. Love the club, though, and actually hit it good twice at the end of the year playing for a fade which I had never done with it, so maybe that keeps it in.


WITB:

Mizuno STZ 220 driver
View attachment 17596
Yonex V-Mass 400 3 wood
View attachment 17597

Mizuno JPX 923 Hot Metal irons 4-PW
View attachment 17598

Taylormade Sim Max 05 48° A-Wedge
View attachment 17599

Lazarus wedges 52, 56, 60 degree
View attachment 17600
Taylormade Spider SX-32 Putter
View attachment 17601

Vice Pro golf ball
View attachment 17602
Click to expand...
End of year for handicapping in northern Utah approaches again, so I get to look back a year ago to see how I did relative to goals.

I DID get my first eagle ever. Pitched from about 65-70 yards on the fifth hole at Davis Park.

My handicap...remains 13. Great. Some of it was not being able to play for about 8 weeks in the summer. Got Covid at the beginning of June and it cost me most of June and July.

Ball striking was meh. Never had a come together round. That 80 I posted about was the best round of the year. Got an 82 somewhere, too. My last round I shanked most of my irons, so kind of back to the drawing board.

Didn't lose the duck hook. Did fix it for the most part, but as golf is, other problems arose. For the most part, though, my driver isn't why I didn't break a 10 handicap this year.

Played several courses I've never played before, and I tend to perform worse on new courses. Shot 87, 89, 90 on rounds in Vegas.

Did replace my old three wood. So WITB is the same with exception of



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Goals for next year:

Walk more courses.
Break 80 at a course I haven't.
Improve handicap. Sub 10 is the goal, but let's improve generally.
More GIRs, particularly on par 3s so I can have better HIO chances.
Tighter distribution on all clubs.

Figure out my wedge situation. Do I give myself one less wedge and get a hybrid/7 wood? Need a 54 degree if that's the case.
 
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