Wow...what an outing!
Played our weekly "random" foursome competetion in our Cedar Rapids course and joining us was a newer member named "Eddie" who I've never played with before...but heard he has some serious, yet unorthodox game he brought with him from the Philippines.
I don't know where to begin in describing this guy...
When I met him at the tee box I figured him to be near 30-ish in age..slim and around 5'-9"....
Turned out he just turned 50!!!
Looked in his bag and he had a 9* ORIGINAL Big Bertha...looked like a fairway wood by today's standards...he had an old set of Hogan Apex irons that he bought from us...a beat up ol original Adams Tight lies 16* fairway wood.
I figured he must play with his kids or something because there was a 56* wedge that was maybe 24-29" long.
Nice guy I thought.
From that point on, from what I saw, I thought then and now...he's a freak of nature.
His swing is something you saw on those old Bugs Bunny cartoons where he's playing baseball and at the plate twists himself in a rubber band fashion....every part of his body twisted...from his feet to his neck, everything was twisted...to the point where he is literally on his tip toes at the end of his backswing....
And unleashed some vicious drives! Not always straight...but damn far.
I am dead serious when I say this: Imagine standing at address...and going into your backswing so far back that your back, is now facing the ball on the tee...and your face towards the sky before you start your down swing.
Reminded me of Linda Blair in the Exorcist...it was almost that "creepy" yet spellbinding to watch.
So that's not all!
When he got within 100 yards of the green, he would pull out that "childrens" wedge and with ONE HAND, very nonchelauntly, pitch it onto the green, easily within a one putt distance...every freakin time.
I asked him what was up with the one hand pitch shots...and he said when he is trying to be exact in his placement, with two hands, they seem to fight each other...those in our foursome who played with him before, concurred and said he would sh*nk the ball repeatedly with two hands.
So short one hand pitch shots are his signature swing.
We have another tournament tomorrow...and if I'm teamed up with him, I'll record it and post it here.
Oh, today? he shot a 3 under 69.
Played our weekly "random" foursome competetion in our Cedar Rapids course and joining us was a newer member named "Eddie" who I've never played with before...but heard he has some serious, yet unorthodox game he brought with him from the Philippines.
I don't know where to begin in describing this guy...
When I met him at the tee box I figured him to be near 30-ish in age..slim and around 5'-9"....
Turned out he just turned 50!!!
Looked in his bag and he had a 9* ORIGINAL Big Bertha...looked like a fairway wood by today's standards...he had an old set of Hogan Apex irons that he bought from us...a beat up ol original Adams Tight lies 16* fairway wood.
I figured he must play with his kids or something because there was a 56* wedge that was maybe 24-29" long.
Nice guy I thought.
From that point on, from what I saw, I thought then and now...he's a freak of nature.
His swing is something you saw on those old Bugs Bunny cartoons where he's playing baseball and at the plate twists himself in a rubber band fashion....every part of his body twisted...from his feet to his neck, everything was twisted...to the point where he is literally on his tip toes at the end of his backswing....
And unleashed some vicious drives! Not always straight...but damn far.
I am dead serious when I say this: Imagine standing at address...and going into your backswing so far back that your back, is now facing the ball on the tee...and your face towards the sky before you start your down swing.
Reminded me of Linda Blair in the Exorcist...it was almost that "creepy" yet spellbinding to watch.
So that's not all!
When he got within 100 yards of the green, he would pull out that "childrens" wedge and with ONE HAND, very nonchelauntly, pitch it onto the green, easily within a one putt distance...every freakin time.
I asked him what was up with the one hand pitch shots...and he said when he is trying to be exact in his placement, with two hands, they seem to fight each other...those in our foursome who played with him before, concurred and said he would sh*nk the ball repeatedly with two hands.
So short one hand pitch shots are his signature swing.
We have another tournament tomorrow...and if I'm teamed up with him, I'll record it and post it here.
Oh, today? he shot a 3 under 69.