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[NJBigFish22]

I walked (some might say woddled) outside on the street today without the use of my crutch.

 

Trying to beat @touch to 1500!

 

Edit: Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!

Edited July 17 by NJBigFish22

[Double Mocha Man]

5 minutes ago, NJBigFish22 said:

I walked (some might say woddled) outside on the street today without the use of my crutch.

 

Trying to beat @touch to 1500!

 

Edit: Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!

 

I should have gone full on Irish in my picks: McIlroy, Lowry, Harrington, Clarke and O'Rahm.

[chisag]

1 minute ago, Double Mocha Man said:

 

I should have gone full on Irish in my picks: McIlroy, Lowry, Harrington, Clarke and O'Rahm.

 

 

... I really like MacIntyre. If you hadn't picked him, I would have. 

[Double Mocha Man]

2 minutes ago, chisag said:

 

 

... I really like MacIntyre. If you hadn't picked him, I would have. 

 

Ah, but he's a Scottish guy. Although there is a legit fifth Irish guy named McKibbin.

[touch]

 

 

Goes to 

 

 

Congrats ! 

 

 

[touch]

 

 

DMM          McIntyre   Lowry           Rory           Rahm          Scheffler       alt- Xander 

touch         Rahm        Rory              Lowry        Day               Xander         alt-Spieth

Casual       Rory         Rahm            Fleetwood  R. Fox         Fitzpatrick     alt-Hovland 

BobCat      Rory         Fleetwood    Clarke        Harman       Fitzpatrick    alt- Xander

Mitchell    Rahm        Rory              Scottie       Fleetwood   Straka           alt- A. Scott

chisag       Scottie     Rahm             Rory           Xander         Hovland   alt Morikawa

imk             Rory         Fitzpatrick     Aberg        A.Scott         Hatton          alt - Choi

DLR            Bryson     Scottie          Rory           McIntyre       Rahm            alt - A.Scott

DMan        Rory         Scottie          Bryson       Fleetwood     Aberg           alt- Lowry

Parker       JT             Rory             Koepka      Fleetwood     Hatton          alt- Xander

TLindy      Scottie     Rory              Rahm         Xander          Lowry           alt - Bryson

BigFish     Rose         Henley         Rahm         Reed              Hatton          alt-  R. Fox

P3P            Cantlay    MacIntyre    Morikawa   Xander          Straka           alt - R. Fox

NCL          Fleetwood  Hovland     McIntyre     Rai                Straka           alt - N. Taylor

SPounder Rory        Scottie         Rose           Fleetwood     Lowry           alt - Rahm 

 

 

 

Point Values

50 points if your player is the Champion

40 Points for a 2nd place finish

30 Points for a 3rd place finish

10 Points for a Top 10 finish

5 Points for making the cut

-3 Points for a Missed Cut

 

Standings 

283 Pts - TripleLindy

268 Pts - DLeightonReid

265 Pts - DMM

264 Pts - Mitchell

243 Pts - Chisag

220 Pts - Spounder

195 Pts - Touch

189 Pts - Casual Lie

152 Pts - imKirby

138 Pts - NJ Big Fish

109 Pts - Parker

95 Pts - DMan

91 Pts - Hickory

45 Pts - P3P

28 Pts - NCLancer

14 Pts - BobCat

[mshills]

8 hours ago, NJBigFish22 said:

I walked (some might say woddled) outside on the street today without the use of my crutch.

Sweet! How are stairs going if you don’t mind me asking? Even now six years on, I have to be really careful going down stairs.

 

You get your final prosthesis in a few weeks, right? That’s tremendous. 

[NJBigFish22]

3 hours ago, mshills said:

Sweet! How are stairs going if you don’t mind me asking? Even now six years on, I have to be really careful going down stairs.

 

You get your final prosthesis in a few weeks, right? That’s tremendous. 

Stairs are ok as long as I have a handrail.  I still take it very slow both up and down.  I will probably like you where no matter how much time passes I will have to be real careful with them.

 

I had the casting for the final on Tuesday.  That should be back hopefully by the end of July.  Then we will make adjustments if needed, test the components and then it goes to final production.  If all goes right that should take another 2 weeks.  I really hope all the timing lines up.

[touch]

@Double Mocha Man

 

Your weekly ivy check. 

[touch]

 

C'mon Rory.

 

touch    Rahm -1 F   Rory ?  Lowry -1 F  Day+2 F    Xander E F 

 

 

 

Edited July 17 by touch

[NJBigFish22]

1 hour ago, touch said:

 

C'mon Rory.

 

touch    Rahm -1 F   Rory ?  Lowry -1 F  Day+2 F    Xander E F 

 

 

 

How are all the guys you dropped doing?

[touch]

5 minutes ago, NJBigFish22 said:

How are all the guys you dropped doing?

 

Not keeping track of them.

 

[touch]

54 minutes ago, NJBigFish22 said:

How are all the guys you dropped doing?

 

Well I just noticed English is right up there Mr. 1500. 

Edited July 17 by touch

[touch]

Like clockwork every afternoon a thunderstorm moves in. This has been taking place for weeks here in WNC. 

 

 

[CasualLie]

On 7/14/2025 at 2:03 PM, touch said:

Pick change me.

 

Bye Bye Harris English because of your caddie off the bench situation and welcome to my team Hideki. 

 

 

 

Ooops!

[CasualLie]

What course is Bryson playing?!?!

 

Even Justin Leonard can finish under par.

Edited July 17 by CasualLie

[Triple Lindy]

1 hour ago, touch said:

Like clockwork every afternoon a thunderstorm moves in. This has been taking place for weeks here in WNC. 

 

 

I can relate, although it appears as if our daily rain showers are over for awhile as we settle into the typical summer pattern of high 90s and sunny. We played today and for the first time in more than a month, we didn’t get rained on at any point during the round. We tee’d off at 9am, which seems the ideal start time for our weather - still in the low 80s, windy and enough sunshine to burn off some of the humidity. It was 97° when we finished, but with a nice breeze off the lake all day, it wasn’t too bad.

[mshills]

Dang Bryson….Patrick Reed and Wyndham Clark and Padraig Harrington and Darren Clarke and Lee Westwood and Justin Leonard beat you! 😂

[CasualLie]

10 minutes ago, mshills said:

Dang Bryson….Patrick Reed and Wyndham Clark and Padraig Harrington and Darren Clarke and Lee Westwood and Justin Leonard beat you! 😂

 

A friend of mine I play 18 with every now and then is like Bryson in terms of power.  He wanted to be on tour and as a junior/early adult player he was very good, hits it long, putts well.  He could never quite breakthrough, still plays, still hits it a long way.  But the one thing he could not do to save his life is flight the ball down with his irons.  Wedges yes, but from 4i - 9i, just sky high balls.  That just does not work on windy days which in N. Ireland happens on all days that end in 'y'.

 

Trying to overpower a course works in plushy U.S., but U.K...not so much.

 

 

[Mrgreen36]

Finally a day under 95 degrees.  78 and breezy.  Played 18 at 120, finished at 415 (walking)   shot a 70.  Made 1/3 eagle putts, lipped out eagle chip and could have dropped at least 4 more birdies. 

 

Best 18 this year.  Swing is good, mind has been slacking.  Today was good mental day.  

[imkirby34]

12 hours ago, touch said:

 

imk             Rory         Fitzpatrick     Aberg        A.Scott         Hatton          alt - Choi

 

 

I guess maybe I should actually watch some of the Open since I've had the honor of playing there.  Great, now I'm thinking of the chicken salad sandwich and Magner's Irish Cider.  Oh, and our hilarious forecaddie.

 

T20 / T1 / T10 / T45 / T6  (KJ Choi is one stroke off from DFL.)

[NJBigFish22]

3 hours ago, mshills said:

Dang Bryson….Patrick Reed and Wyndham Clark and Padraig Harrington and Darren Clarke and Lee Westwood and Justin Leonard beat you! 😂

Hopefully Wyndham didn’t assault any more lockers and get banned from another course!  
 

I not to surprised Bryson played bad, watching some of his practice round the R&A filmed he didn’t look close to being sharp.

[touch]

3 hours ago, Mrgreen36 said:

Finally a day under 95 degrees.  78 and breezy.  Played 18 at 120, finished at 415 (walking)   shot a 70.  Made 1/3 eagle putts, lipped out eagle chip and could have dropped at least 4 more birdies. 

 

Best 18 this year.  Swing is good, mind has been slacking.  Today was good mental day.  

 

Damn dude you don't play a heck of a lot compared to some of us in this group and yet you go out today and snag a 70 with 3 eagle looks of which one was holed. 

Nice playing and way to stay mentally tough.

Props on the 70 Mr green. 

[touch]

3 hours ago, CasualLie said:

 

 

Trying to overpower a course works in plushy U.S., but U.K...not so much.

 

 

 

 

This is spot on and why I steered clear of making him a Pick this week. 

 

 

 

[DLeightonReid]

On 7/16/2025 at 8:35 PM, deadsolid...shank said:

Have you been there before?

Nope, first time to play golf in Nebraska.  Our group of 12 will play 36 tomorrow at Wild Horse.  

[DLeightonReid]

5 hours ago, mshills said:

Dang Bryson….Patrick Reed and Wyndham Clark and Padraig Harrington and Darren Clarke and Lee Westwood and Justin Leonard beat you! 😂

I can only hope Bryson redeems himself tomorrow.  

[touch]

 

@Triple Lindy  I wish we had the option to can the afternoon storms and just shift like you are into the only sunny and hot gear instead. 

 

 

Just when I had figured it out.

 

 

Back on Tuesday the two Bills, Stan, and I teed off at CC of A at 2:10. I started the round out rather sloppy with 3 straight bogeys due to dumb stuff like forgetting the 3/4 part of my gap wedge approach on 1 and ending up on the top collar of a downhill green with two tiers 60 feet from the hole. 3 Putts. On #2 my third shot with a PW on the par 5 found the channel left of the green and from there to the top right pin I couldn't chip it close enough to have an easy putt. A second bogey there. On #3 the downhill Par 3 I hit my 6 iron badly off the toe and it ended up in the front bunker far from the pin. I pretty much suck at long bunker shots. I got it out cleanly but only to the collar in front of me. I left myself with an uphill 30 footer with 5 feet of bend for par. I raced it 3 feet by. I somehow made the second putt (4th shot) for bogey. #4 is  the no. 1 cap hole. Great drive and then a 6 iron 1/2 a club uphill from 148 to 10 feet. Missed the birdie putt but the bogey streak was over when my par putt dropped. On 5 I hit a fine drive and then came over the top so bad with my 7 wood approach shot that it went into the middle of the creek that lines the hole on the left. Water ball. Ended up with a double. I was 5 over thru 5. We were playing 2 man teams/combined scores (and my team was 3 down already). I said on #6 tee (shortest Par 3 on the course) to my partner Bill B, " hey man I have to get it going. My tempo is off and my timing ain't that great either but I have hit some quality shots so I think I can right the ship." I shot the yardage and told the group it was 123 yards. 123 is my number with a 9 iron. The pin was back left and it was just 10-12 feet from the little downhill slope that makes up the back left corner of 6 green. "I'm going right for the bank left of the pin Bill and let it trickle on down to the hole. I really like this number." I flushed it and I loved it in the air. It was headed right for the back corner bank. It hit 5 feet beyond pin high, checked, and then rolled to the right down towards the hole. The others in my group paid me compliments on the shot. When we drove up to the green I saw that I came real close to making my fourth Hole In One. I tapped it in for my first birdie of the round. My 9 iron has really been on of late. Give me a 120-125 yard shot and I feel confident I can get it close.

#7 is a 475 yard flat Par 5. I hit a solid drive and then a pure 3 wood. For my third shot I hit a SW to 12 feet and made the putt for another biridie and two in a row. +3 after 7 holes. We knew bad weather was moving in from a few directions and the thunder started after we walked off the 7th green. It was time to seek shelter. Not far from where we were on the course is the restrooms and ice water station for the front 9. We headed there. Over the next 10 minutes many more golfers arrived and joined us. The storm hit and it was windy as hell. The rain was sideways. The over one dozen golfers waited the storm out for 50 minutes together at the on course restroom . When we resumed play on 8 another hard rain hit. Our radar screens showed that this weather pattern was most likely to be in the area for an hour or more so our foursome decided to bag it and head to the clubhouse.

 

This was the third round in row for me where there was a storm interruption and it was the first time we called it instead of waiting around some more hoping to resume play. 

 

Dang it. The round was over right when I had gotten my swing back. How unfair. lol   

I'll remember that 9 iron on #6. ⚡

 

Next Tuesday the same foursome will tee it up again and finish the match.

 

As I write this post my phone has been lighting up with warnings that another thunderstorm is over downtown Asheville. 

 

 

 

Edited July 18 by touch

[NJBigFish22]

Your shot on 6, in the words of Maxwell Smart missed it by that much!

[deadsolid...shank]

56 minutes ago, DLeightonReid said:

Nope, first time to play golf in Nebraska.  Our group of 12 will play 36 tomorrow at Wild Horse.  

What a treat you’re in for. Still one of the most fun courses I’ve played. It was really, really fun when I used to play it for $25!

 

Be interested to hear your thoughts.  Of Bayside as well. It’s unique!

[touch]

15 minutes ago, NJBigFish22 said:

Your shot on 6, in the words of Maxwell Smart missed it by that much!

 

You're showing your age B. 😀

.....but maybe that shot earned me enough points to jump in the time machine and go back and have a dinner and dancing date that went into the early morning with Agent 99 🙂