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Regional Tournament Practice Round : Pinehurst No. 1 Course notes and Hat inspiration
Pinehurst No.1 practice round with a friend. Notes for the tournament. Hole 1. Good drive. 130 yards in, 6 iron into bunker. Correct club. Green slower than practice range. Hole 2 par 5. Good drive. 3 wood. 130 yards in 6 iron. Correct club. SW. Greens slow. Hole 3. Dog leg right. Teed up quite…
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Season 5, Tournament 4 : Let Me Tell You Why
Whining drives me crazy……… although of course we’re all a little frustrated having to wait through 3 hours of thunder delays. Rob’s 2:45 pm tee time eventually got off at 5:35 along with Bear’s sudden death playoff (he having tee’d off at 9:21 am). But the whining when things went a little wobbly despite out driving…
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Drive, Chip, Putt Local Qualifier : Forget the 3 Wood Woes
On the youngest end of his age group and defying my expectations completely, Rob ran away with the highest score (by 30 points) in his age group for our Drive, Chip, Putt local qualifier : 1st place overall, 1st place chipping and 1st place driving ………. Lets take this show on the road !
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Season 5, Tournament 3 : This is the Time
Technicalities………. These are the things you work on with your coach on the range. Not in warm-up before a tournament. I felt light and easy approaching today. Even a little confident ……. Then on the practice range during warm up he starts talking about rolling his wrists like his coach was talking about yesterday. What?…
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State Tournament Day 2 : Observations and Notes
We took 9 shots off yesterday’s score. We remained somewhat happy with each other. Observation 1 : You can watch your player line up just off target time after time and think : he tends to pull it a bit left anyway so I won’t say anything ………. and every time he shoots it straight,…
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State Tournament Day 1 : Tomorrow is Another Day
This tournament that Bear is playing – is he caddying for himself? Me: Yes, Future Masters, the players all caddy for themselves. Well what is Daddy going to do there? Me: Just watch. That’s what happens when you’re the second child. Sometimes you’ve got to settle for 2nd best AKA Mom on the Bag. And whether he…
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State Tournament Practice Round : Oh Brother !
Bear played a practice round with us even though he did not play State and left for the Future Masters in Dothan, Alabama the next day. To begin with we could not get the GPS watch to sync up (it turns out they had turned the course around some years back). On hole 2 green…
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Season 5, Tournament 2 : I didn’t think we could …….
We played one of the most long and technically difficult courses on the local tour today. Our 3-ball included a boy caddying for himself (so admirable at this age) and a novice with grandma on the bag, who looked the part with her ‘Masters’ shirt, but was of no help at all to the poor…
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Season 5, Tournament 1 : And a Public Service Announcement
Our jet-lag helped us with an 8:15 am tee time for Rob 1.5 hours away. Being awake since 3 am you really have no excuse for tardiness ! Yet we started off a little rough. In the rough. The shot is done. I make some positive sounding platitudes. The shot is done, Mom ! We have…
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Vacation golf in South Africa, Pezula Championship Course : Wonderful for the Soul
Max and his best friend from childhood, together with Bear and Rob, played Pezula Championship Course nested above the Knysna Heads on the world famous and wildly picturesque Western Cape Garden Route. MOTB (me, Mom On The Bag) berated Bear on the practice range for not taking 3 balls out and a general lack of…
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Vacation Golf in South Africa, Plettenberg Bay Country Club : This is fun golf
Plettenberg Bay is a jewel of a town on the Western Cape Coast and a premier tourist destination. It is elegant and vibey and in the summer months its population swells with trendy young jet-setters attracted to the pristine beaches and surrounding natural wonders. The rest of the year it is home to largely wealthy…
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Vacation golf in South Africa, East London Golf Club : The Real MOTB Experience
The body unfolds slowly from 23 hours of sitting in an airplane, but the Bear firmly believes he can tee off without a trip to the practice range of even a practice swing ! A herd of Impala (South African antelope type animals), grazing peacefully in the presumed safety of the shade of the ladies’…
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Devil’s Triangle, Boys a Team : Sure Can Scramble
Devil’s Triangle Parent Junior Club Tournament – the boys played as a team – mom and dad not playing, even though its billed as a Parent Junior tournament. It’s either going to be very pretty or a complete fiasco…… Holes 1 through 3: Shamble (both drive, take best drive and play own shots in). Rob rescues Bear off…
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Season 4, End of Season Championship : Even Rob
With an early 7:57 AM tee time, 1.5 hours from home – Rob, with Dad on the bag, rocked the round with an Even Par 36 – his personal record and a well earned medal at the local tour Season Championship. Much later I was on Bear’s bag. Well not really. I drove the cart…
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Season 4, Tournament 6 : Cruising Under the Radar
We wait for 4 hours (Bear teed off much earlier) and still had to adjust the GPS watch half way up the fairway on the 1st hole ! (See last week). It was a shaky start with lots of blame being thrown around and it’s not fair and I’m playing so badly. I remind Rob that nobody…