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[BIG STU]

14 hours ago, miamistomp said:

 If you want to play along - you need a key of A harmonica in 2nd position ( cross harp)

Thanks for the 911--- I dabble a bit on the harmonica. I said dabble not no Delbert McClinton

[BIG STU]

12 hours ago, NJBigFish22 said:

Round recap:  Got up early to get to the course in time to actually warm up.  Tee time was 8:00 AM.  Started off a little shaky, thought I hit a good drive, but couldn’t find it, but same thing happened with 2 of the 3 guys I got paired with.  Got a bit better over the next 5 holes, basically split between 2 pars and 2 bogeys and a triple.  I don’t think I hit it as good as yesterday.  

I felt something grab in my back on the 7th and tried to push through it, but had to retire after the 12th hole.  Basically was having trouble rotating and walking.  Figured instead of potentially doing something more severe, it was better to rest to see if I can keep my tee time on Monday. 

Can tell you from experience you did the right thing by quitting. It will do no good doing like I did taking more CBD drinking Fireball and hitting a lefty and keeping on. Since coming to my senses and getting a dose of reality I realized I set my recovery and golf game back a year or more. I also had to realize my limitations of a limited swing and distance loss. It is just now starting to pay off some. Main thing with me is I can play as long as I do not exceed my limits without pain and meds. I came on the conclusion that it was not worth it for me to play a game even though I love it being zonked out to play and hurting the next 2 days

[BIG STU]

11 hours ago, chisag said:

... Hadn't played in awhile but was Abe to walk yesterday when temps dropped down to the upper 80's but sprinkles and high humidity, unusual for Phoenix. Driver was about as good as I can hit it and putter saved my Word not allowed because my iron game was off. My excuse is I finally put together my queen size guest bed and it took about 4 hours andI was in sooooo many unusual positions left me so sore I could hardly walk or swing a club. 70 ain't the new 50. 😳  But it didn't seem to have a negative effect on my driver or putter you are thinking? Then you need to look up the definition of "excuse*". 

... 3 bogies and all of them coming on par 3's and I missed every single par 3 green. 2 mental errors and two bad swings, but didn't hit any of the 4 solid. I rolled in a 12 footer to save par on one of them or I would have been a perfect 4 for 4 with 4's and all the par 3's. I added 1 birdie on a par 5 and I also rolled in several long putts in the 10 foot range to save pars or it would have been worse. 



*a reason or explanation put forward to defend or justify a fault.

We finally won a Shootout yesterday. First time in over a year. It was a packed field too. We had a 23 year old long hitting kid who is a great player. On the game plan they let me go to my Super Senior tees and hit my little straight popcorn fart 220 straight drive then he would blast away. He did something yesterday you do not want to do with me on the team. Leave us with like anything from a 8 iron to a wedge into a Par 4. My short irons were like the old days spot on. Actually I had the best ball striking day I have had overall in a year or more. We have a par 4 that is tricky requires a layup off the tee because there is a wet lands area in front. I hit my little 5 wood like I always do and put it in position Alpha. The kid did not even hit said he could not place it better. Had 160 up the hill. I nailed my 9 wood and put it like 4 feet below the hole. The kid told me stay in the cart and he knocked it in for me. 2 of our Par 5s they made into Par 3s because they are long holes and it was wet on those holes and with a packed field it saves time on the POP. We birdied both of those holes. The kid made a natural Eagle on our Par 5 4th hole. Of course my running partner Big Bear who is one hell of a putter on our greens and our other partner did their part too. Big Bear darn near had an Ace on our Par 3 #6 hole the ball actually hit second bounce into the cup and came out. What was really satisfying was I had a side bet with one of the Owner's sons my team against his for $20. We cleaned their clock. Yeah pretty decent day. We have the same team signed in for next week. Putting I did decent with the Broomstick hit a few good putts that did not go in but did make a couple of good ones. The did however when we missed let me make the comeback putts for practice because we have the league championship coming up in 2 weeks.

[BIG STU]

11 hours ago, Triple Lindy said:

1st game of the season for the UNT Mean Green! We have a nice, shady tailgating spot, a good breeze, and enjoying some pre-game gumbo. We're 6.5 point dogs against Cal, the newest member of the geographically challenged ACC. We're hoping for our "the band is on the field!" moment.

 

Go Mean Green!

 

 

 

I do not know if this is true now but they used to call UNC Charlotte "Mean Green" too

[BIG STU]

9 hours ago, Mrgreen36 said:

What happened Honda?  Why is it such a complicated job to swap a radiator in a newer pilot?  I appreciate the way Germans put cars together the more non German cars I work on. 

 

I miss my 88 accord. 

German cars now days when they get old the electronics can be a biotch. My bud who owns his own shop used to be a Benz mechanic and he is good. His wife had some kind of Beemer and a tail light went out no joke and shut the whole car down. One of the reasons I got rid of my rusty S-500 and (I loved that rusty SOB) was because it had a myrid of electrical problems. Ran great with the AMG motor but you never knew if it would start back or not when you parked it. The Caddy is doing ok for now but really what I want is an older P/U with a carburetor and even an early GM or Mopar electronic ignition with a manual fuel pump. I can still diagnose and work on that stuff. My bud who owns the shop told me as bad as I hated to do so to get rid of the Benz. 

[BIG STU]

6 hours ago, touch said:

Having to watch some of this game tonight to be able to participate in conversation tomorrow at work. 😉

 

 

LOL our course owner is like me born and raised in NC. Now unlike me he is a big UNC fan ( I do not care about any of them) He bets a lot of games in fact he is like my old man will bet on anything. He had an opportunity to talk crap yesterday. Gave away a SC cooler as one of the door prizes. Of course 99% of the guys even Ohio State fans were giving him crap. I told them to back off that he had bet so heavily on UNC that if they lost the price of beer at the course would go up $1 a can next week. That shut most of them up. One of the outsiders who does not know me quipped "well who are you pulling for?" One of our regulars who knows me answered before I could " Stuey could give 2 schmitts less who wins or loses" LOL thank you Timmy

[BIG STU]

4 hours ago, bladehunter said:

Oh I don’t hate them.  I just said that to be silly.  I actually love the current coach.  Really good man.  I do prefer ECU , I’m just partial because of family in Greenville Nc and i came to love that little town .  I could absolutely live there and play Brook Valley CC every day of the rest of my life.  One of the most restful places I’ve ever been. I don’t know why.  Just is. 

Yeah Brook Valley is nice overall---- I played a lot at Greenville Golf and Country Club when I was a kid my old mans friend was the pro there. Good Lord!!! Just did the Math it is close to 50 years since I played either place

[BIG STU]

4 hours ago, bladehunter said:

Well. There’s always next year.  Maybe one year we can get an O line AND a quarterback at the same time 😂.  This is how it is to be a gamecock fan.  It’s going to be a rough season-in conference, after seeing this . UNC is decent.  But it’s mostly a great QB.  This defense isn’t anything special.  Our line is just that bad.  Wow.  

So I take it UNC won?? So the price of beer will not go up next week at the course unless they did not cover the point spread

[aenemated]

Man, the great Kate Pierson was at the PRM and I didn't go say hello. 

 

We in TCK did a rad cover of this gem with Iggy.

 

 

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Sunday Funnies

 

 

 

 

 

[Petethreeput]

I felt for the B-52s when they came through town.  They started out with Private Idaho and of course the place goes nuts.  I don’t go in the pit bc I can’t stand that long, but the second song is Party Out of Bounds.  What a great song.  The MT folks know Roam, Love Shack, PI and Rock Lobster.  200 people go cold and just stand there.  Not surprisingly the energy left us, and them, when they did give me back my man I thought the pit was going to nap.  Horrible show and much of it falls on the crowd.

[Petethreeput]

21 hours ago, touch said:

The first golf bag I saw this morning was a bright one. I thought to myself did Mr. and Mrs. P3P surprise me and show up for golf at BFCC? It features a loud tie dye pattern. The maker of the bag is Birdie Babe.  😄 I figured it was just the type of bag that our resident Dead Head's wife would use.  

 

 

Whoa, that is something else.  What does that bag say about the owner?

 

I forgot to include a few photos of Manito, pine trees are NOT 90% air.

 

 

the top photo is #1, then 18.  It just looks like there is nowhere to hit it.

 

 

[aenemated]

A morning? What's that? 

 

 

It's still "tonight" in Vegas! 

[bscinstnct]

19 minutes ago, aenemated said:

A morning? What's that? 

 

 

It's still "tonight" in Vegas! 

 

Aen! You ever been Burning Man?!

 

Im kinda stereotyping you 🤣 but it’s a compliment! Like you seem like actually cool/hip on a next level, compared to me anyway, lol. I mean, I like to think I’m cool but I’m definitely not in the Burning Man kinda way 🤣
 

Buy I saw this year a disaster! Someone died 😳 and it torrential rain 🌧️ flash flood and everybody’s gotta shelter in place!

 

Was just curios if you been or maybe you think it’s stupid, idk, lol

 

 

Edited September 3, 2023 by bscinstnct

[DLeightonReid]

11 hours ago, touch said:

 

 

Dang it, I wanted to see if you enjoyed the course.

I played it often when I lived in Green Valley and I liked the track. One of my rounds there was most memorable. 😉 

 

 

Posted October 9, 2017

 

 

This story took place in October of 2006 in Las Vegas.

 

Being that I have worked in the Hospitality Industry most of my life I have had the luxury of heading out to play golf Monday mornings while pretty much the rest of the world goes back to work. My work week ends Saturday night, so for decades I had Sundays and Mondays off.

One particular Monday I did not have my usual game. I wanted to play so I thought I would just go out as a single and get paired up. I went to the Stallion Mountain Golf Club east of the strip off of Boulder Hwy (It was the old Sunrise CC opened by Tour player Jim Colbert and was the location of Chip Beck's 59 during the 1991 LVI Tour stop). I walked into the pro shop and told the individual at the desk I was a single. The man said that the course was wide open and there were no other golfers but me wanting to play for a couple of hours. I said oh well looks like I am playing solo. I headed to the range for my warm up small bucket. I was at the range about 15 minutes when the starter walked over to me and said a single was just paying his greens fees and would I mind if he joined me. I said I would welcome that and continued to hit balls. Five minutes later I see a gentleman walking towards the range. This is the image that I saw. A extremely well dressed golfer with a nice Callaway Staff Bag over his shoulder. He was wearing high end golf clothes( think sold in CC Pro shop's type apparel) , top of the line Foot Joy Classics and a TOUR Callaway cap. Now inside these fine golf clothes was a man who I immediately thought was one of the ZZ Top band members, see his beard came down to the middle of his stomach. We shook hands and introduced ourselves. We loaded up the cart and headed to the first tee. It has been my way to let any golfer/s that I am randomly paired up with set the tone regarding how much interaction we have with one another while playing. For almost the entire front nine Steve and I may have had 4 sentences each between one another and they were all golf related. Maybe a wind direction question or a what iron you were hitting on a par 3 tee box, but that was the extent of it. Steve was a good player. I would say a solid mid single digit handicap. Remember now this was a very good golfer dressed in fine attire and hitting players clubs that were housed in a pristine Callaway Staff Bag (no name embroidered). Somewhere during the 11th hole he turned to me and asked if I liked music and if there was a type of music I liked best. I answered that I was a kid who was raised in the Motor City during the Motown years and loved that music, but I was a rock and roller at heart for sure. He asked if I had a favorite band or two? I said I liked so many but my favorite was Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. He said he liked Tom Petty too. That was is it for any interaction between us for most of the back nine. We talked a bit when Steve asked me about a couple of holes lay out (as he told me on the first tee this was his first time on the track), but that was all in the way of interaction between us. We get to the 18th tee box, the two of us had played well up to that point and there was a very mellow enjoyable tone to the round. On the the tee box he asked me what I was dong that upcoming Saturday Night. I told him I worked on the strip and Saturday Night was the busiest night of the week for me. He asked if I could get the night off if I wanted to. I replied that if it was something important I could indeed get someone to cover for me yes. He replied good because...... I'm Steve W********* and I am Mike Campbell's guitar tech and have been with the Heartbreakers for over 20 years. I asked so you are not Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top? He laughed and said no he was not Billy Gibbons. He said I would like to put you on the VIP list for backstage access Saturday Night. Tom Petty was headlining the 2006 Vegoose outdoor music festival. Gentlemen I went and saw how the show comes together and functions like a well oiled machine during the performance. It was quite a new perspective for me regarding a live Petty show. I danced away as I always did to many songs at a Petty concert. I was on the side of the stage with other people who had the same pass that I did. This was the 8th time I had seen Tom Petty live. Did I meet the band or my favorite musician? No, but It was a very special night regardless. It was a night that was provided to me because two strangers got paired up together for a round of this great game and they enjoyed each others company quite a bit. 

Thank you Steve W.

 

Gentlemen last week I sent Steve a message containing my condolences and thanking him again for that wonderful backstage experience. He replied that I was most welcome for the VIP pass he provided me over 10 years ago. He thanked me for my well wishes and added that it was tough (Toms passing) and was out of the blue.

 

With Tom's death last week I thought I might share this story involving my favorite game and my favorite Rock and Roller and how they came together one week in Vegas.

 

Rest in peace Tom Petty.

 

 

 

Great story LP.  

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Just now, DLeightonReid said:

Great story LP.  

 

Thank you. It was quite a surprise when Steve invited me to the show. I'm glad you enjoyed it DLR. 

[aenemated]

30 minutes ago, bscinstnct said:

Aen! You ever been Burning Man?!

 

I hope the absolute worst for those clowns. I hope they all drown. 

 

I've always seen it as fake azz BS. Jello said it best 40 years ago ...

 

 

I'd rather spend the money and time those idiots do to go play Bandon Dunes. Where I'll show up in all black and am like "i'm here! It me! SUP?"

 

Cowards. Like Jello says - why not every day? 

Edited September 3, 2023 by aenemated

[bscinstnct]

2 minutes ago, aenemated said:

 

I hope the absolute worst for those clowns. I hope they all drown. 

 

I've always seen it as fake azz BS. Jello said it best 40 years ago ...

 

 

I'd rather spend the money and time those idiots do to go play Bandon Dunes. Where I'll show up in all black and am like "i'm here! It me! SUP?"

 

Cowards. Like Jello says - why not every day? 

 

🤣🤣

 

 

So happy to hear you say that! I’m sure we don’t want them to drown, but I find the whole thing contrived and idiotic too!

 

We had an expression in college for stuff like that…”pseudo” ; )

[sunbeltgolfer]

2 hours ago, Petethreeput said:

Whoa, that is something else.  What does that bag say about the owner?

 

I forgot to include a few photos of Manito, pine trees are NOT 90% air.

 

 

the top photo is #1, then 18.  It just looks like there is nowhere to hit it.

 

 

I've seen wider bowling alleys.

[aenemated]

9 minutes ago, bscinstnct said:

I’m sure we don’t want them to drown

 

Oh, i do. I most certainly do.

 

Trash my beloved, beautiful Nevada for some dumb party that hasn't been cool .. actually ever? F*** em all. 

 

Burning Man? Set your own selves on fire, you fake clowns.

Edited September 3, 2023 by aenemated

[aenemated]

What a me. Lament Jimmy Buffett. Then drop the Dead Kennedeys.

 

Meanwhile, I'm listening to The Ronettes. 

[bscinstnct]

11 hours ago, braincramp52 said:

Everybody laughs at still having a antenna but I'm no slave to the cable and satellite company's. They can fight all they want. 

 

Holy, thanks 🙏 you just reminded me! I have an antenna! I got it the last time I was threatening to quit cable 🤣. It works great. I can at least get ABC with it.

 

But they gotta make a deal, I can’t imagine both sides are going to miss out on what must be an absurd amount of money 💰 with fall spots season coming and just in general 

[braincramp52]

That's cool! I will always have an antenna because it seems like every year these satellite and cable companies do this dance and I'm not gonna participate in it. 

[TiScape]

13 hours ago, touch said:

 

 

Served on a bed of basmati rice? 

 

No, just a nice big ol’ green salad 🥗 to help push those gut bombs thru us! 😜

[bladehunter]

8 hours ago, BIG STU said:

Yeah Brook Valley is nice overall---- I played a lot at Greenville Golf and Country Club when I was a kid my old mans friend was the pro there. Good Lord!!! Just did the Math it is close to 50 years since I played either place

I think I love it so because it’s Always thanksgiving or Christmas when Im up there .  And when the course is closed my brother in law and his son and I will go out and just walk on ( he’s a member) …. And have the whole place to ourselves .  That’s about as relaxed as a person can get.  

[TiScape]

Ron Capps’ Snake 🐍 tribute car is 🔥!

[bscinstnct]

🤣

 

not sure why I find this hilarious , but I do!

 

 

 

[NCLancer]

[TiScape]

Sorry @NJBigFish22, still Jus me! 🤷🏼‍♂️

 

 

🤣

[TiScape]

3 hours ago, braincramp52 said:

That's cool! I will always have an antenna because it seems like every year these satellite and cable companies do this dance and I'm not gonna participate in it. 

Assuming you keep it in your bunker (basement) next to all your prepper stuff! 
😂