Sandy
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- Aug 29, 2006
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You wait 23 months for one, and then two come along straight after each other! :laugh:
So, I've been playing for just under 2 years now, and though I'm very happy with the way my game has improved I realized a couple of months ago that I've NEVER had a chip-in from off the green. I've had several putts from off the green, but never chipped one straight in the hole.
So today, after a couple of weeks off the course, I went out for a round at my local course. Somehow my came really came together on a couple of holes and from nowhere I chipped one in for a birdie on the 2nd! Already ecstatic from this, I repeated it with another birdie on the 14th!
Birdie #1: A 176yd par 3 with 4 bunkers guarding the green and the flag towards the front left of the green. Left my 22* hybrid about 5 yards off the front of the green on the fairway with the ground too wet to putt it. Took my new Callaway X-Tour 60/11MD, put a great stroke on it and it hopped in on the third bounce!
Birdie #2: Very tight tree-lined hole to a well guarded green. 19* hybrid off the tee, 8i that I hit fat and landed up a good 30yds off the green. Took my trusty spin-milled Vokey 56/10 and stepped up. Again made a great little pitching stroke, landed it right on the front of the green and watched it break along the surface and drop right in the hole after about 10yds of roll!
It felt so good to finally hit these shots, and all the credit has to go to an unknown teenage Korean girl down at the range on Saturday - she was in the booth next to me and was one of the best players I've ever seen. She spent a good 30 minutes just chipping balls with her wedges and at the end she'd hit a good 50 or 60 balls all within a circle with a 3ft radius. She had an amazing stroke for this, and I spent the rest of the session I had trying to emulate what I'd seen - obviously it worked as my chipping and pitching got me a good score today.
I could have easily got my best score ever today too if I'd not been experimenting carrying a 16* hybrid today and forced myself to try it a few times to see how it worked - great off the tee, but probably cost me 5 or 6 strokes. That Callaway wedge is a permanent addition to the bag after today though...
So, I've been playing for just under 2 years now, and though I'm very happy with the way my game has improved I realized a couple of months ago that I've NEVER had a chip-in from off the green. I've had several putts from off the green, but never chipped one straight in the hole.
So today, after a couple of weeks off the course, I went out for a round at my local course. Somehow my came really came together on a couple of holes and from nowhere I chipped one in for a birdie on the 2nd! Already ecstatic from this, I repeated it with another birdie on the 14th!
Birdie #1: A 176yd par 3 with 4 bunkers guarding the green and the flag towards the front left of the green. Left my 22* hybrid about 5 yards off the front of the green on the fairway with the ground too wet to putt it. Took my new Callaway X-Tour 60/11MD, put a great stroke on it and it hopped in on the third bounce!
Birdie #2: Very tight tree-lined hole to a well guarded green. 19* hybrid off the tee, 8i that I hit fat and landed up a good 30yds off the green. Took my trusty spin-milled Vokey 56/10 and stepped up. Again made a great little pitching stroke, landed it right on the front of the green and watched it break along the surface and drop right in the hole after about 10yds of roll!
It felt so good to finally hit these shots, and all the credit has to go to an unknown teenage Korean girl down at the range on Saturday - she was in the booth next to me and was one of the best players I've ever seen. She spent a good 30 minutes just chipping balls with her wedges and at the end she'd hit a good 50 or 60 balls all within a circle with a 3ft radius. She had an amazing stroke for this, and I spent the rest of the session I had trying to emulate what I'd seen - obviously it worked as my chipping and pitching got me a good score today.
I could have easily got my best score ever today too if I'd not been experimenting carrying a 16* hybrid today and forced myself to try it a few times to see how it worked - great off the tee, but probably cost me 5 or 6 strokes. That Callaway wedge is a permanent addition to the bag after today though...