My serious quest to gain my TGCTours tour card started yesterday. I tried a few weeks ago but was still not comfortable with Master difficulty. STILL not totally comfortable but I know what to expect now. One thing I have learned is that unlike Pro difficulty - EVERY shot demands concentration. Even 6 foot straight putts it seems.
The first round had 13-18 mph winds which is a headache and I decided to use a smaller driver as the par 5s were not really reachable anyway- Hitting the fairways was very important as the rough was pretty heavy.
So in round 1 I was missing the fairways all day but just like real life I was doing well on my recovery shots - lots of practice LOL For every 2 bogies I would get a birdy and as I was finishing with a mildly disappointed +4 I came to the par 5 18th. Hit the fairway but the pin was 275 away.
So what did I do? Took out my driver of course LOL My driver hits about 285 but off the fairway about 80-87% of that and my 3 Wood only would go about 235. I hit the ball and it's going to the right and ends up about 25 yards and 4 feet above me and I'm feeling good. Birdy range.
If I deloft my lob wedge AND close my club I can get close I I'm pretty sure. It's a good range. Longs story short. EAGLE for a +2
This morning I see I'm in 20th place. Not sure where that puts me for a card but I'm happy thinking top 50 might get cards.
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Last Monday on a Fanduel Facebook page they posted point spreads and were asking opinions on this weeks NFL. I mentioned that with Tampa Bay being -4.5 fav's my 25 year old system had Tampa Bay as a Triple 5 Star Game of the Decade play and was 60-13 in the system.
When a team is CRUSHING the spread is playing a team NOT crushing the spread and the "bad" team is at home AND a favorite. Play the Favorite. EASY MONEY. I've made a bundle on this one.
A few people made comments and we moved on.
The next day I see the PACKERS are now favorites - so ODDLY - the bet is no longer a TRIPLE START GAME OF THE DECADE but a common boring "D" play which was 64-58 a 52% a NON-Play.
WELL - we saw what happened. The linemakers were correct (as they normally are) and Packer fans and all the rest of America moved the line. Anybody that was silly enough to place a wager from a random guy on the internet won a ton of money.
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I ended with 96 wins in Strat-o-matic and waiting for the final standings - I BELIEVE I had the best team in the NL. Aloost had 4 guys with 100 RBIs and 100 Runs Only 2 though as Danny Santana had 99 runs and 99 RBIs and Mancini was in the middle 90s on both.
Trout had 53 HRs and Yelich 47. Yelich had 113 runs and 117 RBIs and Trout had 117 Runs and 113 RBIs WEIRD!!
My SUPER EXPENSIVE Free Agent Verlander was 17-11 with a 3.20 ERA and 315 Ks SADLY he pitched 6 innings in real life this year and probably will not pitch next year so I spent a LOT of virtual money for 1 freaking Season.
I also signed Mancini to a long term contract last year and he did not play with colon cancer. Two other Free Agents totally sucked. My combined returning pitchers have an ERA of 6.32 and I LITERALLY have no 1B 2B or SS as two became free agents and the other, Santana only played 7 games before he was injured for the year.
CHAOS next year.
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Let's see what else - LOT'S of people getting COVID in my universe from school teachers to boy friends from other friends parents. WHAT FUN!! So far none have been in contact with ME! WHEW!
A family member in Texas is having a knee replacement in about a month? ME? - have not even thought about my knee for a few weeks - well let's say 6 out of 7 days a week it's a total non issue - seriously - Glucosamine??? Maybe. Who knows. All I know is 6 out of 7 days I don't even think about my knee. Not that I would go biking or jogging anything. LOL
My prednisone dose is now down to a daily 2,1,1,2,1,1,2,1,1mg a day which started as 5mg a day 1 year ago. Maybe I'm becoming less cranky? Maybe Trump is wearing me down? Maybe seeing the blue wave is real? HECK Joebiden can't even find places to spend all his money. They out bid Trump in most TV ads and they are being forced to put ads in Gas stations.
They literally are running out of places to spend they hundreds of millions.
As of this morning with 40,000 runs of a simulation Biden won 88% (which is NOT 100%) of the time and the left won the Senate 74% of the time.
I read an interesting article about Trumps two economies. The first one was not as great as Republicans say and not as bad as Democrats say. The PROBLEM is that it was OK as long as nothing bad happened and THEN - no safety net. It;s easy to "fix" a great economy to make it better as long as there are no National Emergencies - WELL - as we see something bad happened and the economy SUCKS!
It's like when Trump got rid of the National Pandemic Response team. That worked GREAT . . until it didn't. Like almost everything he has done as long as there are no hiccups it's fine. But everything he does is walking the edge of the swamp land and if you step in the wrong spot . . . . .
As the BBC noticed. The only place in the world that is having large mass gatherings is are Trump rally's for his cult.
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OMG - Star Trek Discovery Season 3. I was not THAT excited about the first 2 plodding seasons that barley held my attention but S3E1 OMG - DJ and I both clapped at the end. Elwood and I watched the episode and he said WOW tha twas GREAT!!
It's like they rebooted. With Anson Mount (Hell on Wheels) as Captain Pike in Star Trek :Lost Worlds coming soon which is 100 years before caption Kirk. Here Discovery is now 930 into the future (they had too to save the universe - long drawn out story in Season 2 )
WELL - the Federation is no more. All Dilithium exploded in the entire universe. ANYWAY - BRAVO Discovery. I am REALLY pumped for the New Discovery season
https://youtu.be/70dm3WzNuss
Cheers
Correction: the upcoming Pike-based series is "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds".
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