New guy from VA

VA_Golfer · October 16, 2017

Hello, all. I'm new to MGS having followed in some other forums along the way. Been following on social media and decided to get more involved. Can't get too much golf I suppose!

ddryan · October 16, 2017

Welcome to the Forum. I think my wife would argue your second point there about getting too much golf...

ole gray · October 16, 2017

Welcome to MGS!

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808nation · October 16, 2017

Welcome to the MGS forums glad to have you with us

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Miboy62 · October 16, 2017

Welcome to the site

Canucklehead · October 17, 2017

Couldn't agree with that last sentence enough! Welcome to MGS

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DawgDaddy · October 17, 2017

Welcome aboard!

Kenny B · October 17, 2017

Welcome from the Pacific Northwest! Glad you joined us.

Jiro · October 17, 2017

Welcome!

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MDGolfHacker · October 17, 2017

Welcome!

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poprocksncoke · October 17, 2017

Welcome to the forum!!!

yorbalinda1 · October 19, 2017

Welcome from a fellow newbee to the forum. I lived in Northern Va twice. Loved playing the Reston course.

It was late in the summer of 1980. Number one is a manageable par 5 . Big Drive...so so 4W. Pitching wedge from the bottom of the hill....can only see the top of the flag. Wedge felt about right...walked up the hill...no ball on the green...did I go over ??!!?....walked to the hole. EAGLE two under after one....37 on the front 9. 10 is a bear of a par 4...Double Bogey . Still there was a chance to break 80. Pars and bogeys later I realize if I can finish the last two in one over the dream will come true. 17 is the longest par 5 on the card. I bash both my drive and my 4W within 60 yds, I had hardly realized the darkening sky. Rain with huge drops pelting us... The other twosome is making a run for the clubhouse not even finishing the whole. We say we're going to get just as wet as both hole run straight at the nearest shelter. I walk to my ball...par should be a gimmee...with luck a birdie. Suddenly BOOM>>CRASH>>>a lightening bolt hits a stake tree. I walk calmly to my ball and loft a wedge to fifteen. Partner now wants to run too. We don't have a cart so I still say lets finish. The rain is coming down in sheets. My fifteen footer attempt is three feet short, but I make the put. Bogey on the 390 yd finishing hole(OB right) and I break 80 ! Tom says the hell with it and doesn't even come to the tee. My glove is so wet I cant get it on. I am soaked to the skin. I can still feel the water dripping off my hand as I try to tee it up. I need to hit driver for any chance to get home in two. Tom is already 50 yds down the fairway when I make my swing. BOOM another lightening strike behind me. BOOM my drive is solid with a bit of a draw. I over compensated for the OB right. It bounce once and nestles just short of the 150 tree. (No fancy range finders then, you paced it off from the 150 tree !). I hustled to my ball almost running down the fairway. Tom is almost to my ball when another thunder clap and lightening strike in the woods just off the 18th. As Tom points to my ball...He yells back words I'll never forget. Chuck he yells back as he nears the green. TAKE out your ONE iron. I am nearing the ball and I know its no more than a 7 and the lie just off the fairway might make it an 8. Why the hell would I hit a 1 iron ? I yelled back. Tom says " for safety" . Huh I say to myself has the water got to his brain ?? Tom yells back through the pelting rain and wind. 'You'll be safe all the way to the green". I go to line up my shot...but I need an explanation. OK Tom why will I be safe If I hold up my 1i. Tom yells back half laughing half crying. "Even God cant hit a one iron off the fairway; everyone knows that !. As he made his final run to his card I chunked my eight, hit an indifferent pitch, and THREE putted for a double giving me 80 even. (

99% of this story is absolutely true and I didn't break 80 for another two years and on the other side of the continent !...The one iron came out of the bag that evening.!