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Welcome! I will get those added for you!

Good morning fellow spies and happy Friday! This is my last day of work for a week as we took the entire week off next week for our yearly summer vacation. We are doing a bit of a staycation again this year, where we have different activities planned during the week but will come back home each night to have the boys sleep in their own beds. We are starting off with dinner tonight with some friends to celebrate my wife's birthday, then nothing planned yet for tomorrow. Sunday we are taking the boys to the Kalahari hotel and waterpark in the Dells, then will come back home Monday evening after playing in the waterparks for a couple days and go from there. I have a Dr. appointment this morning at 10:40. I noticed Wednesday at dinner I was having some pain swallowing. It isn't the usual sore throat, and it has somewhat progressed since then to where I will swallow, have some pain in my throat and then it moves into my chest. Figure it's better to see someone now than just wait it out in case it is something that can be cured with an antibiotic. Never had esophageal pain before, so just playing it safe. Hope everyone has a great day and wonderful weekend!

Also, in light of the not just golf apparel statement, every pair of joggers and nearly every polo I own I wear to work. I wear my golf shorts on the weekends for date nights with my wife or when we are out with our boys. I can dress the joggers up for weddings, or dress them down for casual wear. So I do pay a bit more typically for the Primo joggers (but always during a sale…KEY), but they have extra tall sizes for inseam length that ACTUALLY fit my 6’4 frame and I wear every pair at least once weekly if not more so.

In my opinion, golf is as expensive as you want to make it. I think the blanket statement that keeps getting thrown around of golf being too expensive altogether is false. Just like you can go to Taylormade or Callaway or Titleist's websites and buy new clubs, you can go to GlobalGolf, eBay, etc. and buy used that are a couple seasons old at massive discounts without being in beaten to crap shape. Same with apparel, if you want to spend on the Rhobacks and Peter Millar's of the world, you can. You can also just as easily shop sales at places like UA, outlet stores, etc. Even brands that are on the more expensive side like Primo, Avalon Golf Co. and others run sales where you can save a good amount of money on their products. No real debate that the cost of green fees continue to rise, but you can play twilight times or off peak season for higher end courses at a discounted rate. You can also use apps like Golf Moose, Golf Now, and websites like GroupGolfer to save on tee times. Yes, golf is an expensive sport. No, it is not exclusively expensive and can be played and enjoyed for what I consider affordable prices by buying things secondhand and looking for the best deals on tee times.

I am glad you were able to enjoy my home course and your round, fantastic scoring! Sad to have missed you, that is for sure. On that last picture, you were right across the way from my home! From where you were standing to take that photo, our house is across the cul-de-sac and you most likely saw a white Chevy in the driveway. If you're able to make it to the area again, I definitely will not miss you! We ended up going for dinner at the club in the evening for my wife's birthday and I played "daddy caddy" as my boys called it for two holes of goof around golf before dinner. That was just before 6pm. I bet we didn't miss you coming in by much!

Good afternoon spies on what has been a SUPER busy day so far at work. Got in around 5:30 for employee biometric screenings and ran those straight through until 11:00am, taking blood pressures, height/weight/waist circumference for every scheduled person. Same thing again tomorrow. Ran really smoothly, so it wasn't bad at all and time goes by quickly, just a lot happening. My schedule unfortunately isn't going to allow me to meet up with @rkj427 at my home course. Bummer since he's so close, but it's a beautiful day for golf and I think he will enjoy it! Also, of most important note, it is my wife's birthday today. We don't have big celebration plans for tonight, but are going out to dinner with some friends on Friday evening and then have all week off next week to do fun things with the boys. Still hoping to make her a nice dinner tonight, but the boys have swimming lessons from 6-7 so it'll make it a bit tricky. Hope everyone has/is having a great day!

Good morning MGS'ers on what started out as a downpour Tuesday morning but is giving way to clear skies the rest of the day. Original forecast was rain in the afternoon but that now does not look the case, which doesn't hurt my feelings as I have league play tonight. The Drive, Chip and Putt challenge went well for my oldest son Myles yesterday! He ended up finishing in 8th place out of 20 participants in the 7-9 age group, and with his birthday in April he was one of the youngest participants. He scored the 4th most points in the putting category, and I'm just super proud of him. He mentioned being nervous Sunday night, and I could tell he was feeling some nerves as he fiddled with his tee height for his first drive about five times. However, he promptly tagged an 89 yard bullet right down the middle of the grid for his first swing of the day and had 2/3 drives stay in the grid for scoring purposes. Chipping was a bit of a challenge, and I think next year we will take a different approach to practicing for that area. He still managed to get two balls into the scoring target, and one outside which is still a point. For putting, they had a tricky left to right side breaking putt set up for the 6 footer. He drilled it like it was a tap in for 25 points, then hit the 15' and 30' putt to within 10 feet, both good for 5 points. All in all he tallied 47 total points and was just 16 points off third place. I have a feeling the next couple years he could challenge for a top three finish and advance to the regional qualifier. We finished it off with a hot dog, brat and kiddie cocktail in the clubhouse. Hope everyone has a fantastic day!

Glad you enjoyed the loop, Robert! Great score as well!

Great question and discussion piece. I've only really started to take golf seriously the last 2ish seasons. Before that I would play, but it was super inconsistent and really never with any emphasis on doing something to actually improve. I started last season at a 30.3 index and am currently a 15.7. My goal last year was to get to a 15 and at the time, I thought that would be good enough. I was wrong lol. I am trying to get down to the 12-13 range and would ultimately like to be in the single digits. I don't have a set timeline on when I want to achieve single digits by, but I do feel confident that I can do it. I have not broken 80 yet, but again this is one I am confident I can do as I'm typically just a few bad holes per round away from what I would consider a good score. I need to be better about consistent practice, which I have no excuse to not do other than busy schedules with our 7 and 4 year old boys plus work and everything else that comes with it.

Team Tucked for me 99% of the time. Pretty much the only time my shirt is untucked is if I am out on the course in the evening with my boys and we are just playing a handful of holes after the last tee time of the day.

I am 1 hole a way from a Par on every hole, then want to get to 50% or better birdies to meet one of my 2024 goals!

I went to check on this to update as well and saw it was overwritten. I know starting over may be a fruitless cause for some as we are pretty deep into the 2024 season, but I wanted a place to track mine and thought I'd share it here with those who would like to have it somewhere as well. I will post the link at the header of the thread, too. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Cb7nH7XqFnU4-uq41jXqHWLNQzYdWTKqKZQj752Yfy4/edit?usp=sharing

Unbelievably, I played my first 18 hole round of the year at my home course on Saturday. I have played a good amount of 9 hole rounds, and quite a few 5-7 hole practice loops with my boys in the evenings, but 18 has been hard to come by. It was a mixed bag of results on my way to a 92. The big killer during the round was 4 doubles and 2 triples, and 3 of the doubles came on par 5s. 6 pars and 6 bogeys rounded out the scoring. There was certainly potential for a mid to low 80s round. I had two penalties on OB shots, and one painfully came on my approach on the par five 7th hole after I hit a 282 yard drive down the middle left of the fairway leaving me with 198 to the flag stick. I overcooked a 7 wood into the woods on the right of the green, then proceeded to duff my approach with my 56, costing me an extra stroke on top of the drop. What had looked like a good opportunity for birdie or par at worst quickly went off the rails. Ball striking overall was solid, but I really struggled for some reason on the greens, recording 5 three putts, a total of 40 putts, and 4.6 strokes lost to my 12 handicap target on Arccos. I hit 7/18 GIR, so was pretty pleased with that, and lost less than a stroke to my 12 handicap target in the driving, approach and short game categories. The short game really surprises me as I hit some bad, and I mean BAD, shots around the green with my wedges. This has all but confirmed to me that I will be looking to move on from my 52 and 56 Cobra Snakebites as I have no confidence in them at the moment and overall have never hit them well. The search for replacements has already begun. I do feel like I am playing better golf overall this summer, but still need to find a way to eliminate the 7s and 8s on the scorecard. If I can manage to do that, consistent scoring in the 80s is absolutely feasible by the end of this season.

Date 07/20/2024 Course Name Reedsburg Country Club Gross Score 92 Course Rating 70 Course Slope 127 Gross Strokes over/under par 20 Birdies or better 0 Longest Drive 282