brother you walk for everything here
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Awesome stuff @brandonmanson! Tournament golf is hard. Nothing else to it. Its not just a round with your buddies or normal “pressure”. It just hits different. I’ve been playing tournaments since veerry early in my golf journey and its taken until now (5’ish years into tournament golf) to really embrace those nerves and actually play better in tournaments.
Keep your head up - enter anything else you can. Grab some books on the mental game of golf (I recommend Cool Under Pressure). So few people, even low caps, enter actual events and sign a card. You did something very hard that few players have the stones to do. Be proud of that!
@xthrubyx This is the mid-am syndrome - life gets in the way. Trying to fit everything in given your life schedule and limited opportunities to play/practice 
To me thats all getting a lesson & not having tons of time to practice equates to.
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PFitz rolling up to the first tee about to whoop some D1 boys carrying
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We definitely found all of Arthur’s Hills out there.
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“renown”
Ugh.
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Also not in the top 20 public tracks in metro Detroit
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We rocked em. Doubled the first to ease in, played really solid the rest of the round. Let’s go shock the world at Entrada in a few weeks, shall we?
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LET’S FUCKING DO IT!! Hell yeah brother
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In the Metro NYC area, 95% of events are walking only. The exception are team events that more closely resemble outings than championships and the senior events.
Half the private clubs don’t have enough carts to handle a 120+ player field anyway.
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Wild, every tournament here is carts. Only stuff that’s required walking is USGA events.
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It also helps that most of the courses up here are built for walking and the temps aren’t awful outside of July and August.
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Pretty deflating start to the comp season so far but it’s finally forced some much needed changes:
Shot 82 on a NASTY weather day in the first Q of the year for the NC Mid-AM (mid 40s and rain for 14 of my 18 holes). 76 would’ve gotten in and I’m proud of battling when almost a quarter of the 70-man field WD’d during the round or didn’t turn in their card. Just wish I wouldn’t have been needlessly aggressive after a rough/nervous start.
Returned to the same course last week for an NC Am qualifier and shot 77 despite making 4 birdies. A true feast or famine experience where I played 11 holes really solidly and then just shot myself in the foot on the other 7, getting punished for every mistake.
Had a real come to Jesus after that round and looking at stats from both competition and casual rounds this year it’s pretty apparent my iron play has been abysmal. Went to a local shop and spent a good 2.5 hours on their sim and walked out with a new set of irons with much heavier shafts than I’ve ever been comfortable using but the numbers don’t line.
First round out yesterday with the new setup was incredibly encouraging. Shot 71 and hit 15 greens… /TigerVoice/ just didn’t make any putts! Will have to be really intentional with practice time and playing focused casual rounds of golf - Last planned qualifier of the year is in a few weeks at the course I played yesterday.
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Just registered for my first Mid Am tournament. Mississippi Mid Am October 10-12 at Starkville Country Club. Grew up playing this course in the summers and went to school at State. I’m likely going to miss my club championship at CCJ in July after our son is born, so this should keep me focused on practicing.
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Last year I played in my first individual stroke play tournament and I loved it more than pretty much any golf I’ve ever played. It was a two day thing, first day you get flighted. Perfect set up for a clown like me who can’t really compete with the big dogs, but also wanted to test the waters.
Well then I made the first flight and took second to last anyway, but whatever.
I’m going to play in that one again, but there’s another 2 day banger down in the Minneapolis area that I’m thinking about signing up for. Only problem is it’s not flighted and I’m pretty sure I’m going to take last. Also I would have to drive 3-3.5 hours and find a friend’s couch or get a room. But it’s only like 150 bucks. According to the registration, you have to be a 5.5 handicap to register and I’ve been sitting around 4 all year. It’s at two different courses, one I have played once, 3 years ago and shot 84*, and one I have not.
*I’d like to think I’m a much better golfer now than I was 3 years ago, but that can ebb and flow.
Should I drive 3 hours and find a place to stay to get my ass kicked in this tournament?
- Yes, of course, stop being a baby
- Probably sure
- Probably no
- Absolutely not, you idiot loser fool
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Sign up, important to remember nobody cares what you shoot in a tournament but you, about 99.9999% of the time. Enjoy the hell out of it, hit up the network of MN folks you have, somebody up there certainly has space for you.
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Signed up. It took me 6 golfer lookups in the sign up sheet to find someone worse than me.
Donator, baby. But whatever. Stoked.
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There appears to be one (1) player in my handicap range. Oh boy.
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You’ll be shocked at how many 1.X might also shoot a much worse score than you because they aren’t just playing a round at their local course with their buddies.
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Shoutout the guy who took the last spot off the waitlist in the WA Open, leaving me 1st alternate, him shooting 93 in the first round & WD’ing before 2nd round and me not getting to play.
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