I really enjoyed his interview prior to the round yesterday. In a nutshell, "I'm not supposed to be here anyway. I'm just going to enjoy playing on a weekend in a major. And then he started laughing about it.
I had never heard of him prior to this week, but after that interview was hoping he wouldn't tank.

Strange is right. His swing is exactly on plane. With the way he swings the club, it's hard to say that this is fluky.

Just went out and played in 107 heat index. Hit the ball like absolute shit: one fairway and one green, but I managed to scrap together a 41, which with the way I hit the ball, felt like a 34.

I was hitting huge flares all day, which is really odd for me, because I never cut the ball. I finally started rolling my hands over super hard on 7 and hit the driver a bit more solid, but I was still all over the place.

That was exhausting, especially walking in that heat and humidity.

Yeah, I'm playing Shoal Creek tomorrow at noon. Its gonna be a high of 97. Pretty sure I'm gonna get heat stroke. But hey its free so what can ya do.

Basically, I was hitting the driver like Phil at Winged Foot in 2006--flush shots, but with a face that is way open and shoots the ball way right. With that said, I realized after hitting 4 tee shots that I was laying the club way off and I needed to roll the piss out of my hands to get it somewhere near square.

It still makes me wonder why he was trying to hit a carve slice the entire back nine instead of just trying to rip over a draw.

So ever since getting back into golf this year. I've been using this online golf recording deal. Keeping track of my GIR, fairways hit, putts, etc. I even have this GPS thing on my phone so I'm even recording my driver distance.

One thing I have found is that I am a terrible, terrible putter. I guess I already knew this, but jesus christ am I bad. I also can't hit fairways, and this includes a round that I was like 12/14 on. My stats through about 15 rounds are

GIR - 58%
FAIRWAYS - 29%
PUTTS PER GIR - 2.22
PUTTS PER ROUND - 36.75
DRIVING DISTANCE - 287.9

I knew I'd be real good at Par 5's, but I'm actually worse at Par 4's than I am Par 3's according to my average score on each. WTF?

You're doing pretty well to be hitting 58% of Greens in Regulation considering how rarely you're playing from the fairway.

It's not the US Open where I play. It's easy to hit out of the rough unless you are hitting a 4 or 5 iron. Even at the "hard" courses around here like Ironhorse and Sycamore Ridge the rough is pretty much a joke. If they grew it half as long as the US Open nobody would even come play. I'd like to play a US Open course when they grow it that long. I'm pretty confident I couldn't break 120 and I'm about a 5 handicap right now.

Hell, most of the good courses here grow it to 2.5 inches, minimum.

Nasty, thick shit.

Because of upper back issues I hadn't played for two months till I got out last week a few times. I seemed healed and l haven't lifted a weight for that period of time either so I feel fairly loose. It's off to Branson Creek here in a minute for 18 holes with relatives. I should probably pack some extra balls for that track. It can be a ball eater.


PhilFree:arrow:

Absolutely love the back 9 on this course......

The whole course is pretty nice but yeah the back 9 is hot and the two par fives back there are really good holes.

This was family golf with family I'd never met. That's what I get for being the last one there. They were good peeps of course but it wasn't conducive to good golf. Not that I'm capable of that at this point. I birdied #2 and then I lost 5 golf balls the rest of the day:doh!:

The forgiving thing is they drew names out of a hat for two player scrambles teams. Which I normally hate but in this case when we were done they figured I shot 78 with my own ball. :) With 5 lost balls? Sure O.K. whatever they say.


PhilFree:arrow:

81 guys teed it up at the World Golf Championsips this week. And with 6 holes to go in the 2nd round, Tiger is beating 3 of them.

My how the mighty has fallen.

Don't look now but Tiger is 2 down after 2 holes in the PGA Championship

FYP.