True Stories of A Super High Handicap Golfer Part 4

defender2803 · April 2, 2019

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

After many months of preparing...learning new ways to stand, grip a club (correctly), swing (somewhat correctly), and tons of other stuff it was time I made a concerted effort to bring my gaggle of coworkers together and put on at least a not less than zero performance. At this same time my normal group had started to change and we picked up a ringer (fingers crossed).

On to the charity scramble we went. Out of the gate we were hard charging. Just not very good...still...however I was 100% better than before. Considering I was somewhere near zero it was definitely a positive.

For once my shots were starting to be played (most times I just picked up and went with one of the other guys spots). I was generally the one playing the "safe" shot for this round. While others were swinging for the fences (and getting behind them) I was tasked with keeping us aligned. My driver was still a bottle neck but I did manage a few straight shots, just very short, and my slice was impervious to the dogleg right (yes...it does come in handy from time to time). Best of all...my years of Mini Golf were definitely paying off. A 30 footer off the fringe came to rest only a couple feet by the pin. So close! Our ringer...not so much...not sure why but he just couldn't bring his game up to the level he had quoted before. Shouldn't we be -10 by now?

But enough about the ramblings of the mundane. Yes there was progress! What is progress though without a little Congress (LOL!)?

On one particular hole the staff was taking pictures of players on the green. We were about 40 away in the trees on the right. Horrible lie and lots of tree poop. I vigorously mentioned to the camera group to take cover before my swing. They seemed to play it off that they were safe...being 20 yards right of the path to the hole. Then my whole group was yelling at them to find a bunker...made of concrete. I took my swing and the nearest golf cart had a new dent in one of metal parts. My bad. The heads looking out from behind trees...we warned you.

Of all the things that can go wrong...we will make it happen. We put a drive straight down the middle of one of the longer straighter fairways on the course. Excited we rushed up to our next shot. Less than 50 yards in front of us was a marker pole with 150 emblazoned on it. So going to birdie this hole. Our first attempt was from someone at my skill level. With a swing and a clang it was on to the next guy. The yardage marker must of moved? Of course laughing as we were it makes it a little bit harder to get that swing off. Our ringer (stinker) sets up and off it goes...over the pole...YES! We watch it trickle into a bunker next to the front of the green. Up next its the guy who made the drive. Just get it on the green we are thinking. CLANG! Holy jumping sausage pancakes! Same pole? Damn thing keeps moving. I got this! We know the distance...I know what I can do and already had someone take a shot from the same spot. I swing away and a perfect strike...too perfect...way to hot...and over the green and into a bunker it goes. Disaster strikes! Bogey!

All in all it was a much better showing...and I being the diligent one had been keeping score per hole. And...wait for it...TWO HOLES WERE FOR PAR! A miracle!!! One of them from my super long putt that helped save par (took 3 of us from 2 feet). At last we were not dead last. No...this time we were tied for next to dead last! Miracle I say! Our ringer had helped drag us up out of the brown pool of excrement we had been residing in.

And of all the things I learned on this outing...game improvement irons don't necessarily improve your game. It was time for another change.

Stay tuned for next week's episode when our hero gets a set of Wilson Staff FG-59 Irons (oh the sweet joy).

Learning tip: Hit what you can...not what they say you should have.

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