@djpie, correct me if I am wrong, but I had the impression you were swinging way harder and more aggressive at the ball in this round. Completely activated. Felt less artiste than what we have typically seen on video.
I had a really similar experience, but on 9.
Stands as my low round to this day, but I wasn’t really paying attention to what was going on until we got off the 9th green and my cousin who was keeping score said to me “dude, you’re 5 under right now.”
It shook me and I got very quiet for about 3 holes and it was the most uncomfortable I think I’ve ever been on a golf course. When I realized that I managed to get through those 3 holes with pars on each, things went back to normal and I poured in a few more birdies, but I probably would have rather not had anyone mention it in the first place.
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I love Trails but I just think it’s wild when people rank it #1. Even more wild is when you have it #1 but hate hole 14 like Tronald. 14 is my favorite hole on that course. My buddy drove it on the green and I drove it just in front and we are not great golfers, so the criticism of it being too hard I’ll never understand.
I didn’t say anything about hating 14.
I really like that hole actually.
In my practice round at Trails, I played the hole down wind. It seemed pretty easy.
In the tournament, the wind switched 180 degrees. I hit driver-8 iron I think. Maybe 7 iron. That made the hole a lot harder.
Never said you did hate it. I think it’d be fun into the wind, we played it without wind and it was probably skewed too far to the reward side of the equation.
certainly seems like you did
Are you Tronald?
that was a response to me with “you” indicating i have trails #1 but hate hole 14 like Tron
maybe you meant to reply to someone else
Wouldn’t say swinging harder, but more committed for sure. I think it was probably a combo of a few things. 1) Doing actual, real, productive practice before leaving and having a better feel for how far clubs are going. 2) Having Squid there to confirm every shot. It’s easy for me to spiral in my own head when we’re playing anything that’s firm: “I’m pretttty sure with the wind and the uphill and the firmness that this is like a 135 shot, but mayyybe it will take a big hop so I should probably take something off.” And then you’re thinking about a million things and just fat it short-right into a bunker.
Having Squid (who sees these places all day every day) tell you “It’s a 135 shot and there’s no way that club goes long” obviously makes it so much easier to commit/release/etc. 3) Also just making everything on the greens helped, which is pretty random and pretty uncontrollable.
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That was my favorite line of the episode by far. Definitely will be borrowed.
Excellent episode with a good mix of narration and on course discussion.
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@djpie Obviously we’ve all been thoroughly impressed with the production quality of this season. Keep up the great work - we love it.
I noticed you are starting to add the musical tracks to the descriptions on youtube. Would it be possible to go back and do that for all of the episodes - or in particular Bandon 101 episode 3 , the piano track the episode finishes with starting at 25:30 mark is real good.
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To harken back to a previous TS, you got decision errors and execution errors. Less attention on decision means more focus on execution.
I knew I wanted it so was able to pull this together. Awesome music selection @djpie
Oh and current playlist is sitting at 2:22 with a 9 minute classical peice. Perfect for 9 holes
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well done Tyler! 
Cool
I forgive you for sniping that auction now 
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I think Trails might have been my favorite episode of the season! Of course, the ocean courses are ridiculously amazing but on film they become mind numbing at times.
Less wind and more banter from the boys helped a bunch too.
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I do still feel a little bad about that
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More money for a great cause, nothing to feel bad about my friend.
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Arent all bunkers like that?
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