DriverBreaker Posted April 27, 2023 Share Posted April 27, 2023 Being in and around golf for my job, and helping my students improve their games, I decided I wanted to start playing competitive golf. I hadn’t ever played in a tournament solo before and as I’ve gotten older I wanted something to stay competitive with. I miss the days of setting goals and getting after it. So I had to start somewhere. I decided to do a one day local PGA event (not the Tour, people always get that confused, the actual PGA of America organization). I registered for and played in my chapter’s championship. I hadn’t played in over a month and had a small medical procedure about a week and a half before the event (dads might catch my drift here), but I still wanted to give it a go. I had never played the course either. The format was modified Stableford and I was in the last tee time of the day. Hole number one, I’m off the tee first and I could feel some nerves. I went through my pre-shot routine (so important to have) and piped one 300yds right down the middle. Couldn’t ask for a better start. Then I’ve got about 175yds to the flag, and cold topped my 7iron lol! Talk about a let down. From there I made bogey to start the round. Long story short, I finished T-17 out of 45 players. I had quite a few putts including an eagle and two birdies that missed on the lip. I had the most horrible plugged bunker lie I’ve ever seen before that killed my momentum on the back nine and a few other ups and downs. All that and I broke 80 in a legit tournament. There were lots of positives to take away. Some areas of improvement will be to play a bit more aggressive at times (I played too conservative with some approach shots), and I had 38 putts…. Yeah…. Let’s just say the green speeds were not the same as the practice green. Lol I signed up for the Match Play event as well, so we see how that goes when we get our first matchups announced! cnosil and srooch2 2 Quote Instagram: @tony_rosselli_ Training Pre training max driver speed: 124mph Current: 130mph WITB: Driver: G425 Max, 9* Woods: 2007 Burner TP 3 wood and 5 wood Irons: Z765 4-PW (1 degree flat) with KBS $-130 shafts Wedges: SM7 50/12/F, 54/10/S and 58/12/D Putter: L.A.B. Directed Force 2.1 Ball: ProV1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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