ChuckZ

Love those four hours or less that I get to spend enjoying the fellowship, with my senior buddies, three days a week. My time to play a little golf and enjoy nature. Even though at my age (78) and medical issues limit me to riding a cart. Love the challenge. Right now I have stepped away for about eight weeks letting my lower back rest after the epidurals. Having injections in my hips when we return from our vacation. No golf. Doctors advice.

I find it so much easier to score from the short grass than in the rough. Played with a young man last week who hit the ball 300 yards, but he never knew where his drives would go. Mine much much much shorter but in the fairway. Guess who scored the best. Also he was bad with math. Accuracy is always best, but a good combination of both works best. Good distance and great accuracy.

Titleist T350 PW 43*, 48*, Vokey SM9 52.08F, (SM9 56.10S, 58.08M [use only one, depending the type of turf and sand, but do not carry both]).

Rule one, do not like a lot of markings on my golf ball. Very distracting "to me". May disagree with some. When I order my Prov1s, I always order the no. 8. Most do not use that number, must be superstitious. I do put three small blue dots next to the number on one side only, so when I tee it up I get a clean ball. No lines for me. I use the line on my putter to line up my putts and how to read bermuda greens. The way I was taught by a putting master back in the mid 80's. He was something to behold. He gambled with the likes of Snead and Hogan along the east coast. He did not spend five minutes on the green lining up putts.

I use to but realized you can only use one at a time. Being I am a Titleist guys I usually order their headcovers from their online special headcovers. I their pom pom and a Team Titleist (which is one of my favorite's) which I won at one of the events at Pinehurst. I support the course I play at the most and am on their interclub golf team. Charleston Municipal Golf Course, (#19 rated muni, by Golf.com in the U.S.), and a ProAm Jam R/W/B (an event that I volunteer for in Mt Pleasant since it began). Denny Hamlin [NASCAR #11] and Mark Bryant [lead guitarist of Hootie and the Blowfish] are the celebrity main sponsors. A worthy cause and get to meet a lot of great people. We are moving from Daniel Club Club to Bulls Bay this year. Other driver headcovers are Titleist stock. Outside those headcovers, I might pick up hybrid headcovers; The Masters, The Ocean Course at Kiawah Island, and Folds of and Honor. Only if they have a special meaning. Like I said, I use to. Would buy cutsies but finally passed them on to others to enjoy. At 77 guess I outgrew them. Hakuna Matata. We do what makes us the happiest, won't change out scores. ha..ha..

My wife and I will celebrate our 47th years of marriage in November. During this time we have been bless with having four wonderful miniature Dachshunds' in our lives. Dylan (7), Zach (4), Scarlett (14.5), and Katie (17.5). Funny, stubborn and very loving little furballs. We found that the little girls seem to be more to our liking and a bit more lovable. Of the four the first three had trouble with their backs. Our last we had to let go last winter due to blindness, loss of hearing and dementia. At her age she was becoming aggressive and quality of life was a real issue with her. She was my best friend. All of them are still with us in urns on our bookshelves. When our ashes are spread they will go with us. This is Ms. Katie on her 12th BD and when she was 1 (below). RIP our little angels. Dylan and Zack with black/tan. Scarlett brown/tan. Katie, fawn.

Fujikura speeder shafts. Have them on all my woods/metals. Seem to fit my awkward swing.

Good to rotate in the hot and humid weather. Get two. I have six of them

I look to keep rounds under $100. I am a member of PGAHope which is for veterans and some premier courses in SC offer us deep discounts to play. I can play the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island for $70, the other courses there that are open to the public charge us $50. Great deal. I volunteer to work events in our area to get free golf a private courses after the event is over. You have to be resourceful and you can play very good courses for reasonable rates and even sometime free. PGAHope is availabe to veterans nationwide. Look for a chapter in your state, attend the seminar and get your card. It is free and enjoy the benefits that go along with it. Get to meet other veterans as well and improve your game.

I usually mark three Titleist Prov1s, #8 with three blue dots for play and two sleeves of back up in my bag. Carry two in my pocket ready for play at all times and extra in pocket with tees, extra divot tool and ball marker. Extra sleeves go in extra pocket with tool kit to change lofts on driver/fairway and hybrids (Titleist, of course) and extra weights for Scotty Cameron putters.

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Will be looking at SM10 wedges. Just got a T350 five iron in this week. Can rotate 5i with 23* hybrid depending on course.

Take a look at FootJoy traditions. Very stable, wide toe box and most important for walkers, light weight. They come in spiked and spikeless. Spiked have more color options. footjoy.com

Well, yes it is. And only a 3.5 hour drive from my front door.

At the age of 77 I have to look at my current game and laugh at times. It was not too long ago that I was a low double digit. Boy have times changed as have the numbers. One thing that has hurt has been the renovation of our golf course. I shot my best score ever on our old course on September 13th, which was three days after my 68th birthday, and that was a 69. Could have been better as we all would say, double bogied the last hole. Anyhow they have the renovation about 10+ strokes harder. Seth Raynor style and very severe breaks and greens fast. Can never really shoot at the flags. Reason one. Have to eliminate those triple bogies. Seem to have at least two a side. That is 12 strokes. Reason two. With the new greens, never consistent, pins seem to always being placed in awkward positions. Most of the workers who set them do not play golf of understand. Most likely loose another 4-6 strokes each round. That is a stroke a hole. Pretty consistent of the tee, keeping it in the short middle grass. Am working on the short game figure could off another stroke or two. That gets up to 20, which is about where is handicap is now. Now the point is, if I would look in the mirror every morning before I leave and convince myself to eliminate those demons, WOW I might even love this game more. HOW ABOUT YOU. What can you do to improve you handicap, by the numbers. I sure could love to play at a 10 for my age and shoot my age. At this current rate I had better live a long life. ha...ha...ha... Hakuna matata.