EJ Mac

I too found that sweet spot on the driver this past week. I have struggle with that and bunker play since returning to he game in April. Wednesday I shot a 95 and grabbed my first ever eagle. Friday I shot a 92, but both scores do not do justice to my ball striking ad confidence I found this past week. Now to shore up the mental side and eliminate the blow up holes and mid 80's or lower should be on tap. It felt good to have yet another stranger, who by the way is a pretty good stick, tell me they find it hard to believe I shot that number with the way I was hitting the ball.

Thanks gents for the pearls of wisdom and the solid reinforcement to continue on. It may just be this unrelenting winter getting the better of me as well. I am used o having at least 1 mild day near 50 during the winter each week to play or practice in. The other frustrating thing is not so much the blow up holes or the crappy swings as much as it has been the letdowns I am experiencing with the putter these days. I have begun to hit a good number of greens in regulation only to see my 3 putt levels rise to brain nullifying levels. Regardless though I appreciate the kind words and solid reinforcement and will await the nicer weather to come and steer this ship in the right direction.

Had almost a month off due to a lumbar fusion for my wife. The 2 rounds prior to this procedure I had finally began to once again find my fairway and hybrid swing and had it pretty much grooved, as well as the irons and putter. Fast forward to now I pretty much feel that if I were playing for s*** I would not get even a sniff. I have even been having serious thoughts of once again shelving the game as it is getting really frustrating to be on the verge of playing to my true ability only to lose it all and revert back to hacker status. We will see what happens I guess a friend has made me commit to seeing it through until fall and making my final decision from there.

Played New Years day and walked 36 with new irons in tow. Didn't score particularly well (94/99) but had a ton of positives which easily cancelled out the negatives that cost me the inflated scores. Hit a lot more greens in the second round (99) but was getting yippy with short puts and easily cost me 10 strokes on that round. Fairway wood and hybrid play came back around in a serious way. Jury is still out on the irons as they need another round for a true comparison. Slow play did not help matter either had a really nice rhythm going off each tee but hard to maintain when the group in front has to hit 3-5 shots before they are out of your range and I am a real short hitter.

Got out on Thanksgiving for some free golf and shot my best round since returning to the game in April, an 88 which included 2 blow up holes and 2 very nice birdies as well as 4 other looks at bird that settled for pars. The 2 brain fart holes killed what could have been a career round. No complaints as I found some missing pieces during the rounds and hopefully can get my back well enough to get back out and bring the scores down even more.