Grateful Golfer

I Am Not A Grateful Golfer!

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This post will be short. I was playing on my home course a few days ago and came across this:

As you can see, someone took a gouge out of the green adjacent to the pin! How selfish can a golfer be to damage the green in this manner. Likely, they were frustrated with their shot and swung their club not expecting this result. However, as a long time player who values the efforts of the golf course workers, this type of reaction is unacceptable….period.

If you are frustrated with a missed putt or poor chip, do not take it out on the course. All the above action did was annoy the rest of the players, not to mention cause a significant challenge the Superintendent as they try to fix needless damage.

I am a grateful golfer! See you on the links!

Learning New Things About Golf!

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I believe that each day I should try and learn something new. As it turns out, yesterday I did because of two readers, Stephan and Tiffani, who comment on my post of being chased off the golf course. They recommend that I post my score anyway because that is the rules of golf. Truthfully, I never knew that a singles match play round is supposed to post for my handicap, but now I do.

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A Grateful Day On The Golf Course

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Playing golf is a passion of mine. This statement seems pretty obvious considering the name of this golf blog, however every once in a while I play a round of golf that heightens my gratefulness. Yesterday, I played a round at Laurentide Golf Course with my good friend Mike. We played our usual match play game and had a great time throwing jabs at each other for 3.5 hours. We laughed, joked, hit some great shots and some others that did not suit our game. Overall, I am grateful Mike and I were able find time to tee it up.

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Varying Distances With Our Irons Is A Challenge

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As an amateur golfer who loves to work on his game, I find it a challenge to when my balls travel varying distances. There are days when I am crushing the ball where what would normally be a 7 iron, for example, I am hitting a comfortable 8 iron. That is a change of 10 to 15 yards for reasons unknown. I cannot explain why my ball is travelling farther, but it is and I need to embrace that change even for a day. After the round, I try to figure out why I was hitting my ball better on that day than others. Guess what, I do not have the slightest idea why!

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Three Good or Three Bad Golf Shots

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While playing golf yesterday, I bogeyed the par 5, 512 yard hole twice. As a nine hole golf course, I had the opportunity to play the same hole with the same results. Needless to say, I was very disappointed because I expect to shoot a par or better on the par 5s. I believe my game is such were on most par 5s I have an opportunity to gain ground on my score. Well, yesterday was not the case. It was interesting that the same results resulted in the same type of swing errors and I because of my attitude, I was able to push past the disappointing results.

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