2000 Posts, 9,900 reactions, a couple tests and lots of new friends

[Preeway]

Good Evening All-

This is my official 2000th post. To commemorate, I decided to follow along with what several others have done and tell of my journey from beginning to now.

Looking at my the date of my first post, I can’t really tell for certain how I found my way here other than to guess it was over Thanksgiving break when I had some time to get lost in the interwebs. I can’t say which article first led me to MGS, or if it was the testing opportunities in the forum. But I can say I was quickly hooked and posting scores in the VCT thread.

It wasn’t long before I stumbled across the testing opportunities. After reading the How To Be A Tester thread I updated my profile and also decided to donate to MGS. Soon after that I was chosen to be a tester for the BagBoy Nitron and was officially hooked into everything the forum had to offer.

Random posts in scattered topics were quickly replaced with VCT scores and good morning posts. Soon, another chance to improve my testing mettle came about with the Titelist white box ball test. This was super fun and really made me dig deep to find ways to compare two balls head to head. I’ve played rounds before with two balls just to see how one would fare against the other but it was always very passive in terms of data collection. While there were many of us spies granted the chance to be a part of this test, I still took it very seriously and it led me to get a much better idea of how to be creative in my testing methods.

2023 came to an end with an amazing opportunity to be a tester for the Odyssey Ai-One putter.  I chose the Milled 7 T CH and quickly fell in love with everything about this thing. Cold weather sadly shut down courses shortly after receiving the putter which led to the vast majority of my testing being done. While this didn’t necessarily prevent me from doing a thorough review, it did present challenges I hadn’t prepared for and once again, pushed me to find creative ways to get testing data to share with fellow spies.

In short, I want to thank all of you who have taken the time to engage in conversation and throw subtle jabs back and forth. Looking forward to my Excellent Adventure with @CFreddie and competing in the VCT with all of you. @GolfSpy_BEN, let’s get this ball rolling. I feel an amazing year of golf in front of me! And I’m eager to virtually compete with all of you! Shark Bait Hoo Ha Ha!!!

[sirchunksalot]

Congratulations on the milestone Chris! It's been a pleasure to get to know you and I appreciate the contributions you've made to the forum. 

[Josh Parker]

Congrats on 2k post and I have enjoyed the reads and interactions. 

[Northern Monkey]

Congratulations on hitting a milestone figure. Keep up the good work

[GolfSpy_APH]

Big congrats and thanks for all you have provided the community so far!

[ParFore74x]

Congratulations on the big milestone! 

[CFreddie]

Congrats @Preeway - this is a HUGE accomplishment! 

[Rob Person]

Awesome milestone post!  Keep swinging and Keep them posts coming!

[Cfhandyman]

Congratulations  Chris, @Preeway for hitting 2,000 posts and  over 9900 likes. Well done and thank you for all your contributions.  I guess this means you’ll just have to go out golfing and break 70 again.  

[cksurfdude]

I've also enjoyed your posts and becoming a virtual friend .. and looking forward to making that IRL at the Nebraska Meetup in July .. where we will also have to sample some tasty local IPAs!!

Edited April 1 by cksurfdude

[Preeway]

22 minutes ago, Cfhandyman said:

I guess this means you’ll just have to go out golfing and break 70 again.  

Challenge accepted!

2 minutes ago, cksurfdude said:

I've also enjoyed your posts and becoming a virtual friend .. and looking forward to making that IRL at the Nebraska Meetup in July .. where we will also have to sample some tasty local IPAs!!

Looking forward to this as well!

[jbern]

I followed along fairly closely on the BagBoy Nitron test because I was involved in the Clicgear 4.0 test at a similar time, but my favorite topic that you started is the "Fitness Goals: Helping Each Other Reach Our Goals" thread! It's not all that popular, but I've found it greatly motivating and nice to follow along with those involved!

Congrats on the milestone and congrats on the good golf you've been playing so far this year!

[GolfSpy_SHARK]

Congrats on the milestone testing buddy! You did a fantastic job on the BagBoy Nitron review and contribute so much here. Looking forward to many more posts!

[Kenny B]

Congratulations on the milestone!!  Nice job and looking forward to many more posts!!

[ejgaudette]

Congrats on the great milestone and here's to many more posts!

[GolfSpy_KFT]

Congrats on 2k @Preeway! Have enjoyed getting to know you through the forum and hope our paths cross one day in the future! Thanks for being a fantastic contributor here!

[Preeway]

15 minutes ago, jbern said:

I followed along fairly closely on the BagBoy Nitron test because I was involved in the Clicgear 4.0 test at a similar time, but my favorite topic that you started is the "Fitness Goals: Helping Each Other Reach Our Goals" thread! It's not all that popular, but I've found it greatly motivating and nice to follow along with those involved!

Congrats on the milestone and congrats on the good golf you've been playing so far this year!

Now that I got my cortisone shot for my knee I can get back in that thread and track my own fitness again. 

[bens197]

Congrats on the milestone! 

[TJ Hall]

Congratulations on the 2000 posts!  Looking forward to many more to come!

[TSauer]

Congrats on the milestone, Chris! Thank you for all the contributions to the community. Looking forward to many, many more!

[rkj427]

Congratulation Chris on the milestone, and for all your valuable input here on the forum.

 

[TG8]

Round of applause, Chris!  

[revkev]

Congrats!

[tdroma98]

Congrats Chris @Preeway reaching 2,000 posts! 
Here's to 2k more!! 

[JumboOctapus625]

Congrats man, 3k is next in line