Well, sometimes you have to accept the fact the body ages. I had to update my signature and include two more hybrids. Love long irons. There's no feeling in golf sweeter than when you smooth a 3-iron, don't even feel the ball leave the clubface, and see that ascending trajectory. The key to that sentence is... "when"!!! That "when" became memories of days past.
Have thoroughly enjoyed the Ping G10 hybrid. Would have really preferred to match it with a couple more. However, I bought the Adams hybrids for $40 each.... new. The Pings would have cost me another $100 each!! Just couldn't justify the difference.
It's been three weeks and 6 rounds since introducing the additional 2 hybrids to the bag. Yesterday, they started coming into their own. I began to get the feel them. 44/41, yesterday. The 85 wasn't too bad and it could have been better if I could have putted. We started really early before the greens had been mowed. They were exceptionally wet and slow. Then, by 4 we broke through the mowers and began to see much faster greens. As the morning sun began to dry them out, the change in the greens from #1 to mid to late back 9 was tremendous.
This morning was one of those days. 40 on the front. Was leading the son-in-law by 5 at the turn and he wasn't happy!!! The back nine was interesting. Needed to finish in time to get home, change clothes, and get to church. Wife would have been even more upset with me had I been late off the course. 1 of the 4, this morning, is a gentleman who likes to walk off every shot from a sprinkler head. His pre-shot routine drives the rest of us nuts. The grass grows up around his ball just while he's getting his butt adjusted to the exactly correct position!!!
So... I'm pushing the clock. Trying to get Mr. Perfection... whose exacting form carried him to a stunning 49 on the front... to get the lead out. Son-in-law is catching fire and I feel he will close the 5-stroke gap quickly. Perfect set-up to crash and burn and turn the front 40 into a nice 90 or 95 finish. But.....
It just seemed to "click" this morning. Chip in from off the green for bird on 11. The holes just seemed to be 6" diameter and sitting at the bottom of soup bowls. Everything wanted to go in!! Birdied 18, after sticking a SW to 18". Back nine... 38. 40/38... best round of the year!!! (Son-in-law did card a 37 on the back, but I still got him by 4 on the round!!!)
The idea that I'm so old the long irons have to be replaced by "sissy" hybrids hurts!! The suffering of sore knees through a preacher's long sermon was greatly diminished with the glimmer of the 78 dulling the pain!!!
Have thoroughly enjoyed the Ping G10 hybrid. Would have really preferred to match it with a couple more. However, I bought the Adams hybrids for $40 each.... new. The Pings would have cost me another $100 each!! Just couldn't justify the difference.
It's been three weeks and 6 rounds since introducing the additional 2 hybrids to the bag. Yesterday, they started coming into their own. I began to get the feel them. 44/41, yesterday. The 85 wasn't too bad and it could have been better if I could have putted. We started really early before the greens had been mowed. They were exceptionally wet and slow. Then, by 4 we broke through the mowers and began to see much faster greens. As the morning sun began to dry them out, the change in the greens from #1 to mid to late back 9 was tremendous.
This morning was one of those days. 40 on the front. Was leading the son-in-law by 5 at the turn and he wasn't happy!!! The back nine was interesting. Needed to finish in time to get home, change clothes, and get to church. Wife would have been even more upset with me had I been late off the course. 1 of the 4, this morning, is a gentleman who likes to walk off every shot from a sprinkler head. His pre-shot routine drives the rest of us nuts. The grass grows up around his ball just while he's getting his butt adjusted to the exactly correct position!!!
So... I'm pushing the clock. Trying to get Mr. Perfection... whose exacting form carried him to a stunning 49 on the front... to get the lead out. Son-in-law is catching fire and I feel he will close the 5-stroke gap quickly. Perfect set-up to crash and burn and turn the front 40 into a nice 90 or 95 finish. But.....
It just seemed to "click" this morning. Chip in from off the green for bird on 11. The holes just seemed to be 6" diameter and sitting at the bottom of soup bowls. Everything wanted to go in!! Birdied 18, after sticking a SW to 18". Back nine... 38. 40/38... best round of the year!!! (Son-in-law did card a 37 on the back, but I still got him by 4 on the round!!!)
The idea that I'm so old the long irons have to be replaced by "sissy" hybrids hurts!! The suffering of sore knees through a preacher's long sermon was greatly diminished with the glimmer of the 78 dulling the pain!!!
