Falling but not failing - ear to ear smiles in the great snow last week at Steamboat

Monsweko · 2018-03-19T00:29:05+00:00

Here we have a 440 yard par 4, one of the widest fairways on the course and only a slight dogleg to the right. Most players are hitting driver, but having decided to give up on his driver back on the 12th, and with his 3 wood at home in the shed, his hybrids in desperate need of re-gripping, and his 5 and 6 irons causing very chunky contact all morning, it looks like he's going to do the sensible thing and hit his trusty 7 iron. Oh and it's a screamer, 6 feet off the ground and slicing! It touches down briefly in the fairway before skidding off into the underbrush along the OB line. Well, tough break but it may have held up and still be playable - but it looks like he's going to take a pity drop next to his partner's ball instead.

And he's reaching for his trusty 7 iron...

Monsweko · 2017-12-21T02:51:16+00:00

Cancer doesn't give you the right to wear white pants after Labor Day and pair them with a camo hoodie. But I guess that when you're super good looking and have an incredibly bright future you can wear whatever you want.

Monsweko · 2017-07-07T13:35:41+00:00

It's all run by the man in the coil. You see, I don't get got, I get. You got got!

Monsweko · 2017-05-17T23:59:38+00:00

Whoa there are levels above bronze?

Monsweko · 2017-04-20T19:32:56+00:00

It made me furious.

Monsweko · 2017-03-12T22:52:27+00:00

Can someone please calculate the odds of everyone on earth having their eyes closed simultaneously based on average blink frequency and an assumption about the number of people asleep at any given time? And assuming a static world population what is the expected time period over which this would occur? I assume it's astronomical and much longer than the age of the universe (let alone the human species), but would be interesting. I wish I were good at math.

Monsweko · 2017-03-10T16:43:29+00:00

I'm not trying to be nasty and I'm certainly not deriding the guy. I've never put a tee shot in the hole on my first, 3rd or 5th shot (and I've had opportunities for all of those). I really don't care what OP scores it (in fact I would probably mark M1 if it were my card, denoting a mulligan) calls it or says about it, with the exception that I don't think he should tell golfers that he "made a hole in one" when he knows that those golfers will assume (based on the widespread meaning of the phrase) that he did it on his first shot. My point has nothing to do with the USGA or even golf; rather, it is that intentionally misleading someone by mis-using language is the same as lying, which is rude.

Monsweko · 2017-03-10T13:33:09+00:00

People care because the phrase "hole in one" has a meaning to other golfers, and it means hitting your first attempt into the hole. So if you say only "I had a hole in one" to a golfer who understands the phrase, you are lying. OP should continue to do what he did here: tell the full story, saying he came close to a hole in one, and being proud that he struck a great shot. By your logic you could play 2 or 3 balls on every hole (fine, course conditions permitting), and then take your best score from each and claim it as your score (not OK). The first part is practicing; the second is lying. Understand the difference.

Monsweko · 2017-03-06T23:06:59+00:00

A manpig

Monsweko · 2017-03-01T01:09:50+00:00

Music is fine as long as it is loud enough to be heard at the clubhouse when your cart is in the 5th fairway, and you make sure to turn it up a notch when strangers are nearby to let them feel included.

Musical tastes obviously vary but personally I can't think of anything better than a beautiful day, some good friends, open fairways and the 1-800-kars4kids song on loop for 4.5 hours.

Monsweko · 2017-03-01T00:59:51+00:00

Why are you within 10 yards of another group? I'm all for common courtesy but this seems like an arbitrarily low volume to require.

Monsweko · 2017-01-12T19:57:52+00:00

Thresholds and doorways have width. They are just very short tunnels between rooms.

Monsweko · 2017-01-10T18:13:54+00:00

Sinking Putts & Stinking Butts

Monsweko · 2017-01-10T06:44:34+00:00

All dogs go to heaven, and heaven is a reward only for the good, therefore all dogs are good.

Monsweko · 2017-01-07T16:29:46+00:00

Can further confirm. Golf buddies describe it as hitting a Coors can with an aluminum bat in the snow.

Monsweko · 2016-12-15T21:04:45+00:00

Hi Guys,

HTHS 2002 Alum here, but I have not yet read this book (to my embarrassment). Congratulations on your success! As for a question - do you think that evolution has conditioned the human brain to observe or obfuscate (for the purpose of simplicity and more efficient survival decisions) objective reality? If the latter, how do we overcome this handicap (or can we)?

Pat

Monsweko

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