jwiet443

Hey LeftyKP! Welcome -- I also just joined MGS Forums and from WI. Just curious where in WI you are located. I am also a Ph.D. Chemist and still interested in academia although I'm in industry and just curious where you are a professor and what is your subject of expertise. All the best!

How long have you been playing golf? What’s your handicap or normal score? I started playing golf when I was 11 (I'm 36 now), played competitively in high school for my school's team; however, during college and graduate school I was focused on school/partying and only played golf maybe 2-3 rounds a year for about decade. I am a bogey golfer or just slightly better at this point. I don't have an official handicap but am looking maybe get one and play more regularly now. What do you love about golf? Getting outside and enjoying a beautiful course. The feeling you get when you hit a perfect golf shot and/or the feeling of flushing the ball right on the sweet spot of the club. I'm a father of 2 (6 y/o girl and 4 y/o boy) and I'm getting them into golf and I suspect golf can lead to some amazing memories and shared experiences over the year with them. What brings you to MyGolfSpy? Do you already know any other Spies? I am a scientist and I got dragged in by the ball data studies and ball lab. I love it. I do not know any other spies on this forum, but I have some buddies I golf with who come to the MGS for news and reviews and we chat about that at work and out on the course. Where are you from? What is your home course? I live just south of Madison, WI (Oregon, WI) -- I typically play at Evansville Golf Club in Evansville, WI. I like to play a number of the course here in Madison. What are the best and worst things about golf in your region? Weather/limited season. This year it feels like a lot of courses have had a tough time staying dry or even just not flooded. Bugs, mosquitoes specifically, are also a downside of how wet it has been. What do you do for a living? I am a chemist. I am on an R&D team working towards synthesizing and manufacturing portions of highly potent cancer therapeutics called Antibody drug conjugates (ADCs). How’d you pick your user name? User name given to me by my university/undergrad first letter of our first name, first 4 letters of our last name, and last 4 digits in our student ID. I've used it on a number of website forums/emails etc over the years WITB: Driver: Ping G430 LST 9* (Newton Motion 5Dot Shaft) Just fitted for this 3W: Taylormade R15 (Stiff flex stock everything, weight all the way in the toe) 5W: Taylormade Stealth 2 plus (Stif Flex stock everything) 3H: Ping G425 (Stiff flex, this thing will never leave my bag) 5i thru AW: Taylormade Qi 10 (120 dynamic gold stiff +1") 54 and 58: Mizuno S23 (std bounces +1") Putter: LAB Golf Counter Balanced DF3