Category: 2016
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Season 5, Tournament 6 : Round of Tears
Rob hit a magnificent 38 for 9 holes off the green tees at a Club tournament last night. I was nowhere near the bag although I did ride around watching the action from the cart path. He could do no wrong …… found every fairway, drained the putts ……. and I felt confident going into today,…
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Season 5, Tournament 5 : Same Old Same Old
Same old, same old. Same old score. Same old complaints. When negativity seeps in its a slippery slope. Fortunately I do believe he will grow out of this tendency to let a little rain cloud settle on top of his head. Bear did. So there is hope. The problem is that the trigger to summon…
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Regional Tournament Day 2 : Same Mistakes
Success does not consist in never making mistakes, but in never making the same one a second time. George Bernard Shaw. This was the only source of my frustration today. I’ve been listening for the last few rounds now to comments along the lines of : I’m just not hitting the ball the distance I should.…
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Regional Tournament Day 1 : Out Of Our League?
Dad to Rob: You work on your game, Robbie and you’ll get better. As long as you are having fun on the golf course. Oh I am. Dad to Me: What about you? You have fun? Me: What? Hell no ! Do caddies ever have fun? Hot as Hades. Way too many putts, 3 wood woes, and a…
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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…