Thanks brother…great to meet you and all the NLU devotees. Really enjoyed the golf and the fun. I want to do it again…soon! I’ll have to do it with a new driver shaft though.
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And for the record it was damaged due to equipment failure. There was no rage involved although the desire was there given the -22 for the weekend.
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One of the more impressive things of the weekend. The choke down driver.
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The truly tragic part of the trip was my two best drives all weekend were with a 36.5 inch driver. Sad…
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Finally catching on why the @MerchCzar was calling me Big Tone by the end of the trip since I finished runner-up (to him). Little do we forget, Finau won the Northern Trust, so find a new slant!
Ps. Congrats on the (limited field) win, Neil!
In all seriousness, thanks for an awesome event and weekend @Privatecollection @MerchCzar. Incredible group of guys and gals to hang with both on and off the course.
Plenty of on the course highlights but to share a couple off the course: 1. Literally sharing the last peach cobbler available at the Holly Inn Tavern with @Soly and @KVV (delicious I might add - props to the @Commish, @lbrowne96 & Co for the rec). And 2. Watching @barnabyjones let the entire Deuce bar know that Texas is officially not back.
Had an absolute blast - one I won’t forget. Pinehurst always delivers.
Cheers to the next one!
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Family:
A quick note. Had such a fabulous time this weekend. To be among people again — to laugh, to tease, to root on, to commiserate, to celebrate with strangers who quickly become friends — is such a gift. I was thinking on the drive home what it means to be a small part of this NLU universe.
Golf can be such a polarizing endeavor, flawed for reasons too numerous to list here. But it also, at least for me, has always felt like the one sport where community means more than the actual results. I think other sports want this to be true, but only in golf it it actually true. I do not believe weekend pick-up basketball players or friendly-but-competitive fast pitch softball players (just to name two examples) would embrace each other the way we do when someone is deeeeeeep in their process, and still struggling, trying to enjoy the walk anyway. I don’t put too much stock in the whole “gentleman’s game” and “game of honor” bullshit, but I do believe (deeply) in celebrating other people’s successes and joys on the golf course. And I saw so much of that this weekend.
Every time I see my truly gross golf swing captured in still frame or in video, it’s impossible to imagine that anyone would ever want to play golf with me. That they would find it, on some level, fun. But gatherings like this are a nice nod to what I believe: This thing we have — whatever it is, perhaps words can’t properly define it — is our tribe.
Other people may have their own tribes, and they might be louder and larger and more bro-ish, and that’s cool too. I don’t want to be a member of what they do, or associated with what they stand for, but I don’t wish them ill.
I am just grateful I found my tribe. Thank you for welcoming me into it. The last two years have been dark for reasons big and small. It is a pleasure to reemerge, with full throated laughter, back into the light.
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@KVV - if you’ve come this far, perhaps you’re willing to go a little further…
And by that I mean back to PH for some New Year’s fun.
Come one, come all Donnybrookers. Rooms available. (Check most recent post from @Double_Bogey_Dave for updates).
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This speaks to me extremely loudly. I suck, my swing is garbage yet these fellow tribe members welcome me with open arms and make me feel more than just present. They make me feel included. Thank you for capturing what this place means to me also.
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That is blasphemy. You have one of the most unique swings I’ve seen and it rocks!
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Thank you proving my point.
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Can we do this again next weekend?
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I’m happy to once my feet aren’t swollen anymore.
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