After I take care of my match tomorrow I will take care of Fluff in Wisconsin.
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@Hawk and I played Musgrove Mill today. @tigergolftraveler presiding.
First 7 holes was an absolute pillow fight of trading a 1 up lead. No one wanted to win.
I took advantage of a couple loose shots on a very penal course by our man Hawk and took a 2up lead after the front 9.
He got to 1 down after 10 and I won 11 with a bogey giving up a shot. (Can you tell neither of us still wanted to win)
A couple good holes by yours truly and closed it out 4&3.
I had not had the pleasure of meeting @Hawk until today and as always with this group heās a hell of a guy.
Now on to whipping @Fluff ass in Wisconsin next weekend.
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The Elite Eight
The Match
@LukeBoatright Vs. @Fluff
Good Vs. Evil
Regular Joe Vs. Part time pro
We will determine who truly respects the game.
Blue Mound Golf and Country Club
Sunday September 3rd errrr 4th.
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The fact that the 3rd is a Saturday matters not 
Working with @BushwoodCaddie on scheduling our match for this Friday at CC of Salisbury.
Is it a bad idea to play at his home course when he beat me at a neutral site last year? Yeah, probably
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Goodyear in Danville, VA was the host of 2 round of 16 matches today. @Swing_hard_and_hope took on @needforspieth and I took on @Are_you_double_D. Iāll let the other guys write out their match. The match between Are you double D and myself does need an introduction.
I am playing as a zombie. I lost my round of 32 match to Bcates but there was an injury drop out in the round of 16. Instead of A.Y.D.D. getting a free pass I was tagged to play him but starting with a 2.5 hole deficit. Zombies were used in the 2021 CLC match play also.
I am getting 5 pops on the day at a course that I have never played before. This will not be a detailed telling mostly because I have a horrible memory.
Hole 1. Par 4. Sets the seen for the day with a semi blind tee shot. No real drama on this hole as it was halved in bogies. R2.5 up
Hole 2 par 3. first pop. A long, tough par three playing 195 from the 1 ups. Both of us miss the green and neither of us can get up and down. Both card 4s but the pop gives me the hole. R1.5 up
Hole 3 Sharp dogleg right par 4. 2nd pop. Both of us find the fairway but I duff my approach. I then proceed to duff the next 2 chips. R wins the hole with a bogie. R 2.5 up
Hole 4 par 4 3rd pop. I really donāt remember anything here. Card says with both had bogies but I take the hole with the pop. R 1.5 up.
Hole 5, par 5. My iron play is not great again and R plays the par 5 very reasonably. Nice easy par for R and a horrible double for me. R 2.5 up
Hole 6. par 3. I believe that R lost his right and was not able to get up and down. I leave mine on the far left side of the green no where near the hole. I ended up rolling a really good long putt and take the hole with a tap in par. R 1.5 up
Hole 7. Par 4. Pretty straight away par 4 that R plays perfectly. Middle of the fairway leaving him his favorite number. An amazing iron leave a short birdie putt that is only not conceded because it was for birdie. I had a bogie but that doesnāt matter. R 2.5 up.
If you are paying attention you will know that we have only halved the first hole. It has been back and forth since. Time for that to change.
Hole 8 par 5. I hit a good drive and try for the green in 2. End up left, down a slope and behind a wall. R hits is drive left and tries to hit a big slinger around a tree which ends up going straight and lost. He has to take a distance and lost ball drop so his approach is hitting 5. He goes a little long and doesnāt get up and down. I hit a very safe shot well past the pin and 3 putt coming back but it is good enough to win. R 1.5 up
Hole 9. Par 4. Rās driver is starting to fail him. I think he loses this one right. I am able to hit the fairway and green. A 2 putt par is good enough. R .5 up
Hole 10. Long par 3 over water. I fat my tee shot into the lake and R hits a beautiful shot to 10 ft under the pin. Hole is over already. Only drama was seeing if R would birdie. ( He does not). R 1.5 up
Hole 11. Par 4. A blind shot of 200 yards is needed off the tee. I get mine in play and R does not. I canāt hit a green but my bogie is all I need to win the hole. R .5 up
Hole 12. Par 3. Neither of us hit the green. Neither of us get up and down. Hole halved in 4s. R .5 up.
Hole 13. Par 4. Another blind tee shot of 200 yards needed. Both get the ball in play but neither hit the green. Hole havled again with bogies. R .5 up
Hole 14. Short par 4. A bunker needs to be carried with the drive. I hit mine well and in the fairway. R draws his a little too much and catches a down slope which throws is ball out of play. I am able to hit the green and 2 putt for par to take my first lead of the day. G .5 up
Hole 15. Par 5. This one is ugly. R loses his tee shot right and hits a provisional that is also right. I hit the fairway but well back. We fine Rās first one but all he has is a punch out which he has to do 2x. I lose my approach left which now requires me to punch out. Iām laying 3 short of the green and R is laying 4 over the green. I s word one into a bunker. Get our and 2 putt for a double. R canāt get up and down so he ends up with double also. Hole halved. G .5 up
Hole 16. Par 4 , last pop. I go fairway and green side bunker. R loses another drive right . He is able to salvage a bogie but I somehow get up and down from the bunker for a 4 net 3. G 1.5 up.
Hole 17. Down hill par 3. It is 170 on the card but only playing about 155. Both R and I go right. He is boned with a horrible lie but hits a great shot to 10 ft. My chip on goes long and my putt back goes 5 ft past. R misses the putt and has a bogie. I have the 5 footer for the match which I am able to make. G wins 1.5 and 1.
It was a great match and I am honored to have a chance to be back in it. I do feel a bit scummy for being in the round of 8 with a loss on my record.
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Weāre all set for 10:00 on Friday, 9/9. Two spots available for anybody that would like to come along. Iām fairly certain the guest fee is $45 to walk/$65 to ride. Iām biased on walkability so will defer to @anon29849602 for an official rating.
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Probably an 8? Canāt imagine not walking it.
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Sweet 16 matchup at an empty CC of Salisbury on a lovely September Friday morning. @tigergolftraveler made the long drive up for our match and along for the ride we had @grizzly224 @MileHighTransplant @Deven75. Thatās right, a squad of five and since Salisbury DGAF we were off and running. Donāt alert the authorities but we had Deven launching wound balls from the tips, TGT and I settled on the one up Blues and Grizz and Ethan from the White box. Five CLCers walking from three different teesā¦glorious!
TGT making the long drive, coming in hot for no warmup and giving me 3 pops (2 in the first 4 holes) allowed me to get off to a hot start. After a bad 3 jack from me at the first, a hot putter took me to 5up through 7. We traded holes on 10 & 11 and then my final pop on #12 had the match dormie as we headed to the par 5 13th. TGT found a couple deep fairway bunkers and a comfy par from me closed it out 7&5.
We finished out the back 9 which we had to ourselves and enjoyed a cold beer on the back patio. Always a pleasure to play with TGT, Grizz, Ethan and Deven.
On to the round of 8 for a matchup with our dearly departed @anoNanerMan
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and now for the pillow fight of all pillow fights. A desperately hungover @Cooperk11 and my pathetically out of shape golf game took to the Landing Course at River Landing this afternoon. I was 7 over through 6 and 3 down when I remembered how to play a semblance of golf.
I rattled off a handful of pars as we made the turn and @Cooperk11ās game was slowly leaking oil. We both stumbled home a bit and the matched finished with a win of 3&1. A true survive and advance kind of day.
Thanks to @JoeCostello for hosting and @AirMailWedges for joining us. The tried their best to show us how to play golf and made for a great afternoon.
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The people need a 3 page essay on the mechanics of the majestic wedge from 15.
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Ah yes, a beauty to behold. All day @AirMailWedges had been warning me about the 15th and joked that he and @JoeCostello were initially going to just skip the hole so the mindset was not great to begin with.
Regardless, I stripe a 3 wood off the tee (actually a toe hook that finds the middle of the fairway) leaving 146 to a center pin. The rain had started to come down pretty good at this point as I set up over a stock PW. The swing got a little quick and a little steep with the net result being something approximating this ball flight:
Contact with the hosel could not have been more square, so much so, that my playing competitor @Cooperk11 only heard the sound and thought of it as a normal strike.
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Cmon man. I donāt need to feel this emasculated this early on a Monday.
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Cleared the water no problem, just the wrong way 
Ah man that graphic got a good chuckle out of me this morning.
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This Saturday, @BCates and I are playing our round of 16 match at Sedgefield. A new course for me, excited about it!
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Repost from WhatsApp, with some extra details:
Congrats to @BCates for beating me 2&1 today at Sedgefield in the round of 16 of CLC Match Play. Pretty good match on the front, turned into a bit of a pillow fight on the back until Ben turned it on down the stretch to put me away with considerable style.
I actually won the first two holes of the day, and Ben made a clutch par putt from maybe 15-20 feet on No. 3 to avoid going 3-down. I held the lead throughout the front nine, getting it back to 2-up after sinking a delicate downhill 50-foot birdie putt on No. 8. But Ben answered with a fairly sick birdie putt of his own on No. 9 to get back within 1.
I three-putted from 8 feet on No. 10 to waste a pop, allowing Ben to win the hole and get the match to square. He caught a brutal break on 11, hitting a good drive that we just couldnāt find in the rough ā but I made a mess of the hole, and we halved it with matching triples. Good stuff.
No. 12 was fun, a par 3 about 190 to the pin. We both hit good 5-irons and both went long ā and the member who hosted us bet Ben five bucks he would not be able to keep the ball on the green on his little pitch back down (from maybe 6-8 yards off the fringe). He hit a GREAT little shot that landed in the rough and then rolled slowly onto the green, could not have done any better ā but still rolled all the way off the front of the green, incredibly. I was closer to the green and hit a putt from the rough; after watching Benās ball, I putted it about 4 inches and trickled it onto the fringe, and it still went past the hole, but I made the 6-foot par putt to go back 1-up.
Neither of us played particularly well the next three holes, but we were all square heading to 16, a trickly little par 3. I inexplicably chunked a 9-iron into the water and Ben made par to go 1-up, taking his first lead of the day.
I bounced back to hit a good drive and a great approach on 17; Ben and I both had downhill birdie putts, but he went first, and played the big break masterfully, dropping in a 20-to-25-footer downhill for the birdie to clinch the match with style (as I proceeded to miss my own downhill big-breaker).
Ben is the better player, and he was giving me 5 strokes ā and he outplayed me by a pretty wide margin on the back 9 to take the match, even though I made enough gritty putts to save bogeys and even a āclutchā double (lolā¦) to hang around for 17 holes. Fun day of golf; appreciate Ben for using his connections and getting us on Sedgefield (for the first time for me). Really enjoyed the course and the company.
Enjoy the rest of the tournament, all!
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THE ELITE EIGHT IS SET
Congratulations to
@nanner
@BushwoodCaddie
Time to see who can make it through to the final four and join Luke in the quest for greatness! Iāll work with yāall on timing, but ideally get these matches done by late October. We would like for these to be spectated, and if you can choose some special courses that is always encouraged.
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