The Rough Draft — End of Season (?) Recap

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All right, folks. Welcome to the rough draft end of season recap. 20 end of 2023 summer fall season.

What an incredible season it's been for me,

obviously, you know, you can,

you know, go back and watch the videos. But last season and all the way into the beginning of this season

when I was playing, I was shooting, I was shooting over 100 and lucky to break in the hundreds or sorry break in the nineties.

We a, a golf trip and lesson down at Tory Pines

really was a, a game changer for me.

I and I, you know, I, I didn't even have a handicap prior to the season, but now I'm, I'm sitting at 12.4.

I've, uh, I've really knocked on the door breaking into the seventies a couple of times where I bro, I hit 80.

Let's see if I can find it. Did I hit 80? Why, why don't I see 80 anywhere in here? I didn't hit 80 or maybe it was 81.

I've hit 81 a couple of times, but it's been like pretty close.

So if we look at so this is about a month ago now I hit 81 and we can, oh yeah, this is a, my recently, I wouldn't say that recently, but like, I've had some rounds where my approach game is just, just pinpoint.

It's just like I'm hitting, I, you know, hitting flagsticks sort of thing. Um, you can see that in the stats here calling it out.

But let's let me show you this round how, oops, how close I was to like actually doing something.

So II I shot an 81 overall and had a triple bogey on 17. Like that was it, it was 17. That did me in if I and here's where I was on that one.

It is a very short part three, but

the, the flag was very short and from here I just messed up this, I ended up four, putting four, putting from a gap wedge that was just like a bump and run very easy to do.

And I just, I just like nuked it super far and then four putted it because I was, I guess I was fresh with myself.

But that, that should have easily been no worse than a bogey. And that and a bogey really only should have been.

I, I mean, it really should have been. Yeah, I would say no worse than a bogey and then I would have been a 79 par was absolutely like in play there.

Um I would say fif 15 ft, let's say 25 ft from the hole and 15 ft off the green, like it was that close.

So, really unfortunate. Um, I had a lot of birdies this year. It's been, it's been, uh, you can just see it in this round.

A couple birdies.

Yeah. So I've done, I've done that several times now, so I've gotten very, very close to breaking in the eighties or breaking in the seventies.

I should say. here's another round, this is couple months ago. So it might have been, I don't recall if this was included in the last video.

Um, but you kind of see getting a couple birdies on the car pretty frequently.

So, anyway, the past few weeks I haven't really been able to play as much. Um, it's fall first of all and so

the golf courses are doing, have, like, really changed their schedules at this point and they're about to close here in Tahoe.

Um, I just play yesterday and my day was a mess, honestly. But

one of the,

ok, so one of the things I've been working on and you can kind of see it over here on the right hand side is my, my current swing swing thought is shifting forward to sharp transition.

I mean, you're really supposed to do this only for iron swings. But I think I'm really, I don't know, I'm just playing with it in all, all my swings.

It's more pronounced, I think. Well,

yeah, I

see it on, you can kind of see it there. There's like almost a little bit more of a pause at the top and it really lets me open up my hips more and it starts and it adds more velocity because I'm literally moving forward.

I'd say that's been adding some distance. So I had yesterday, I had the longest start I've ever had at, at Le Tao golf course, literally 315 yards.

Absolutely incredible. I had some wind at my back but it wasn't, I was hitting it long all day. Even my, well, when I hit it, well, I hit it long and it was, it was a little bit of a, a little bit of a spray.

But, um,

yeah, you can see here, I only hit 2 11, obviously, not, not great, but then, uh, the next drive, 2 92 like that, you know,

2 76 and this one was into the wind. So that's, that's a huge distance in my, like, that was a great, that's as, that's as far as I've really ever hit it on this whole into the wind.

So it's some really good stuff going on my swing I think starts with a takeaway and keeping my hands inside of the club as I'm taking it back.

But also doing basically my wrist hinge to set the swing and then not trying not to hinge at, especially at the top.

I don't want to hinge at the top because that just adds um more inconsistency.

Um Another thought I have is really trying to keep my back towards the target for as long as possible.

Because when you're,

when you,

when you hit the ball, you like, you really want your shoulders to be parallel to the, to the ball.

So

uh it's pretty hot. This is gonna be hard to, to stop it. OK?

You really want your shoulders to be parallel to the ball. So

like, yeah, I don't know. Not great. But

so there they're kind of open, it's not too bad, but like the more parallel they are, the more you're, you're really coming in from inside, coming from, uh, the slot and keeping the, the, the club a study.

It's my, my balls, my misses have all been left recently, which is pretty incredible. Like there's, you know, miss left, but it's mostly like getting too much spin to the left.

It's, it's pretty incredible because at the start of the season, I was slicing everything right.

So that's another thing.

So, I mean, a lot of that is my initial takeaway and really trying to keep that club face closed grip all that sort of stuff.

See if I like anything I'm doing here,

hopefully. Yeah.

So anyway, II, I like,

I like a lot of what I'm doing, especially distance wise as far as my short game, my short game has been a little messy.

Oh, I do. I bought a new putter. I should, I should mention that I bought new putter, got the Spider

GT Max.

Uh, this one.

And

so II I did a trip up to Whistler for work and I, uh,

it's kind of funny because I almost, I, I got to try a, I, so I bought this putter and then, and then a couple of weeks later I did and I liked the putter, but a couple of weeks later I did a trip up to Whistler for work and I tried a Scotty Cameron Newport and I really liked it.

I was like, oh, shoot, did I buy the wrong, did I buy the wrong foot? It's possible. But it, and also I haven't really been putting that well with it.

I, I put it, I have like one or two rounds that were incredible. And then outside of that, I've just been like all over the place.

So I don't know why that is. Exactly. But

anyway. Oh, yeah, I'm not, actually, my golf season is not actually ending. I'm moving from Tahoe.

I'm taking, taking my talents to Oahu. Um I'm, I'm working remote so I decided to continue my golf journey, um, or just go somewhere warm.

Um This, this winter instead of staying here in Tahoe. Um So now we, now we all get to watch this clip because I

like it.

I'm not leaving,

I'm not leaving,

I'm not fucking leaving.

Uh So this is me and my golf season you get it

and Garcia is not leaving.

Need a,

I've never actually been to Oahu. I never played golf in Oahu, but I figure I'll make, I, I know there's some good golf out there.

Um, and I'll just figure it out while I'm out there.

So, yeah, here's some more official stats.

Yeah, I mean, I have, I guess, yeah, I've had a lot of, I, I, I'm, I'd say at this point of my golf game, I'm between like an 80 like 100 and

most recently in the past month or so, probably in the nineties, more so than the eighties. But, you know, I had a stretch there where I was really in the eighties.

My short game, I have gotten a better pitch shot most recently. I almost, I almost sank one from about 40 yards yesterday.

So that's good. My chip shots coming along or I, I practice my chip shot a lot, like there's a very close one to the green.

Um, and my pitch shot is the one I'm feeling pretty good about. And so I, I feel like going really low is, is in the cards for me at this point.

I'm just got to put it all together, play a little bit more than like, I'm playing kind of almost like less than around a week over the past month.

So you really gotta be playing more like two rounds a week to to, to get the fields down and everything.

But yeah, I'm excited for

continuing my journey and hopefully we'll be breaking into the seventies pretty soon here.

All right, that's, that's all for me. Thanks.

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