Anyone here play Golf?

[Jerry]

I get a fair amount of pars and an occasional birdie, but I'm still looking for an eagle and that ever elusive hole in one. I've had the ball hit the flag and and stop on the edge of the hole twice now in 50 years, but I can't seem to have one fall in the hole. I guess my major fault has always been my long game. I don't play long irons or fairway woods very well. and my average driving distance is right at 200 yards. I am, however better than average with my short irons and my putter.

[ForresterModern]

I get a fair amount of pars and an occasional birdie, but I'm still looking for an eagle and that ever elusive hole in one. I've had the ball hit the flag and and stop on the edge of the hole twice now in 50 years, but I can't seem to have one fall in the hole. I guess my major fault has always been my long game. I don't play long irons or fairway woods very well. and my average driving distance is right at 200 yards. I am, however better than average with my short irons and my putter.

I can occasionally string together enough consecutive shots to card a birdie or three, but my game is very streaky and inconsistent, even after playing for 45 years or so. I am a favorite pick for scrambles because I usually hit pretty long and sometimes straight drives, and on par fives have an uncanny ability to hit the driver off the fairway (driver off the deck) usually reaching par five greens in two or being right around the green with an easy chip and putt for birdie. I can sometimes have phenomenal days putting, and other days three putt from ten feet. On the bad days my partners usually tell me, as I line up my third or fourth put, to "aim for the center of the green".

I have had several eagles thanks to well placed second shots off the fairway on par fives or the occasional lucky approach shot that flies or rolls into the cup. I have one hole in one, unfortunately unwitnessed, as I was playing alone, in the rain, on Thanksgiving day about ten years ago, on an executive course near where I then lived, on the shortest hole on the course (par 3 110 yards), farthest hole from the clubhouse, and I was one of only two players on the course all that day. I flew a sandwedge in the mist that to my eye went right over the pin and disappeared over the back of the green. I could not find it, assumed it had bonced through the fence of course into the weeds, and dropped a second ball to chip onto the green. When I went to pull the flag for my finishing putt there was my first ball, in the bottom of the cup. I looked up in amazement, turned 360 degrees to find that the only other humans visible were a farmer on a tractor turning under his dried corn stalks about a quarter mile away, and several cars passing by on the highway at 65 miles an hour----NO WITNESSES!!! AAAAGGGHHH!!! By the time I got back to the clubhouse and told the kid working the desk that day I was pretty soaking wet from the rain, and I asked him if he happened to have seen me make the shot, he said no. NO WITNESSES!!! Just like here at xmarks, no witnesses/pictures, it didn't happen.

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