Another shoutout I forgot about. Shoutout @djpie. Forgot to tell ya this in person but truly admirable how svelte you are these days 
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I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS!!!
My soul has left my body.
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Does anyone know how Soly did at 4-ball qualifying today? I have looked but canāt find results.
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Admitting you have a problem is the first step my friend.
But all joking aside, your driving display in that wind was unreal. As well as those kick in birdies from āimpossibleā angles (looking at you @JScore). Iām sure youāll get that putter sorted out soon 
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Tough scene for our boys going birdie-less today
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@LukeBoatright made an impossible wedge over that bunker on 1 to that front pin look EZ-PZ. Mega hands!
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It mightāve been the paspalum, cause he shot a relatively easy 79 with a big blowup triple on 10 at Dyeās Valley at Sawgrass and was making the clutch par putts on the bermuda to take $15 off meā¦
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He was a menace on those Bermuda greens, and just steady like a damn clock off the tee. Very effortless round out there
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I felt like i shot 75-76 then added up. That triple hurt. Especially since it was mainly due to my range finder being in Meters 
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The question needs to be asked: more Wās from November 2020 until the end of next year - @JCO, Finau, or Spieth?
Congrats on the W Clint! In a finals of us trying to get there, you brought it and just did it!
I look forward to trying to unseat you next year. I have a putting plan from @Soly, spiritual guidance from @Tron, boozy supplements by @JohnP, and an eternity of up close images of @phegs32 smooth as silk tempo to get me there over the next year.
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Iām glad I told you I had a hunch it was offā¦ for how long that weekend, we will never know!
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Not sure I can add much to what has already been said, but holy hell was that a good time. Thank god the Masters is this week, because without that to look forward to I might be a shell of myself right now.
That said Iām already feeling like a shell of myself because I just did the math on how much I spent with Sneakers on the Green, and lets just say I bought more than enough mini-bottles of Titos to have filled a 1.75l handle.
Best shot of the weekend I saw was this one from @Mwilhelm10 that wasnāt even from competition. (hopefully this loads for everyone)
To the party house roommates. Gents, thanks for one hell of a weekend.
To Erin and the Killhouse 5, you just keep absolutely knocking these events out of the park. Donāt feel like there was anything I was left wanting for during the eventā¦outside of some semblance of a golf game but thatās more of a personal problem.
Canāt wait to do it all again next year.
And Iāll just leave this here for posterity.
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Are We in The Nest? One Manās NIT Weekend Experience (Apologies in Advance for the Novel)
Every single element of my day is better when I have a tee time. The iPhone alarm music isnāt quite as annoying, the coffee tastes a little bit better, the grass is a little bit greener. The sun even shines a little bit brighter, despite that on this day, the Friday of the Nest Invitational Tournament, Jacksonville Beachās heavens have opened with a small deluge beginning around sunrise. I challenge you to find 87 men and one lady more nervous than those of us standing in that cart barn as the minutes counted down before our shotgun start, watching hopelessly as another storm cell passed overhead. When the rains finally quieted for a few minutes, 20 range balls and a soaked putting green were the only thing standing between me and my first shot on the Par-3 12th hole. At 142 yards and slightly into the fan, I took 15 of the 20 balls to rehearse the high cut 9-iron I knew I needed to hit come 8:15am sharp.
Are we in the Nest? Because as it turned out, my 9-iron didnāt cut, but I blacked out the entire swing and was legitimately thrilled I made contact at all. You see, by Saturday night, you may have seen me dancing around celebrating Notre Dame touchdowns like I was surrounded by 87 of my best friends, not the 87 strangers I shared a welcome tent with on Thursday night. I didnāt know anybody at the Cog Hill event I was able to qualify from, and I surely didnāt know anybody walking up on Thursday night either. I was thankful my girlfriend could attend with me so that I didnāt have to stand alone. Here I was, actually at an event I knew I wanted to be at so desperately - yet rendered an outsider at something I so desperately wanted to be a part of. How do you reconcile those two thoughts?
So yes, I was nervous standing over that tee shot on Friday morning. Not just because I havenāt played in many golf tournaments and I wanted to succeed, and not just because I know I get the pull hooks when I get nervous, and not even just because one of the three strangers Iām paired up with is the one and only @Tron Carter, pseudo-celebrity in his own right and one of the masterminds of the very community Iām trying to become a part of ā but also because I neglected to bring any rain gear on my trip to Florida thinking Iād be on vacation for a week and thinking I was going to throw that 9-iron further than the ball with my already wet grips and borderline saturated glove. I went left of the pin and had a tricky little 25-footer from the paspalum fringe over a hill and back up to the hole that I somehow managed to put to about three feet and drilled the clean up effort in the middle of the hole.
āGreat three!ā said Tron as he gave me a fist bump. And just like that, we were just four guys thrilled to be playing golf on a weekday. And then I proceeded to pull hook the drive on the 13th directly into the water fountains.
Itās sometimes difficult to express what No Laying Up is to my friends, my family, my girlfriend. They asked why I wanted to play golf in the sleet and wind at Cog Hill with internet strangers, or why Iād travel to Florida during a pandemic to do the same. But the fact is that for every single inch Iāve given the NLU community, Iāve gotten a mile back in return. One fist bump with someone youāve heard talk golf on a podcast 100 times, and there you are talking about how for every 18th hole at Jax Beach thereās a beauty like the 5th, like youāve known each other for years, not minutes. One mention of common ground to @kevjones about being from Illinois and fast forward 48 hours to squeezing in an emergency nine holes of Scottish Foursomes and asking @PrivateCollection if we can steal a cooler to shepherd 50 extra Fat Tires and Voodoo Rangers out to the gang crowded around the 16th green watching JCO clinch the inaugural NIT championship in the dark. One āGo Irishā to @RonniePND and I knew I had someone to watch ND take on Clemson with by ourselves on the JBGC patio. One post on the Nest that I didnāt know anyone and I was invited to play at White Oak among the rhinos by @Hwhite and @OfftheDole within 10 minutes.
I didnāt post the scores I wanted to this weekend (shoutout sideways rain, 30-mph winds, a few too many New Belgium products, and pin placements by Tronald Ross), but I couldnāt care less. Every single person I was lucky enough to play golf with made my weekend better. Morale was high even when the double bogey counts got higher, one might even say we were viiiiiibing.
Suffice it to say, Iād give anything to go back to Friday morning and blackout over a 9-iron again. Maybe this time that ball would cut, but quite frankly, it doesnāt matter if it would. Thanks so much to the NLU Guis and Erin for the work they did to make this event not only memorable but truly one of a kind ā and thanks so much to all of yāall in the Nest that made this weekend and this group truly special. If youāre ever in Chicago, know youāve got a friend here to get a game going.
BabblingBrooksKoepka
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an uncharacteristic error from a great caddie who is a very good player in his own right
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I saw that! One of about 3 wedges I actually saw spin all weekend.
FTFY
Andā¦
GO IRISH!!! 
That was awesome. Enjoyed hootin and hollerin like idiots out there with you.
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