I am glad I came down. It was a phenomenal weekend. So much to process, but so amazing.
Recap & Picture Thread - 2013 THP Outing - The Ultimate Weekend of Golf
I am glad I came down. It was a phenomenal weekend. So much to process, but so amazing.
Just kidding. After looking through the pictures with me my wife has officially declared that my golf wardrobe is boring;apparently I will be buying new clothes shortly. Obviously, not an issue for you guys
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Seeing the Loudmouth photo again made me think of this and laugh.
Freddie waddling back to the table at the banquet, grimacing and complaining about chafing. Me, on the other hand, I was fine and chafe free.
Freddie waddling back to the table at the banquet, grimacing and complaining about chafing. Me, on the other hand, I was fine and chafe free.
Buckjob
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almost as fun as chipping out of our villa living room through the glass sliding door over the railing of the deck onto the 18th green.... why we didn't video that i don't know.... oh thats right in case i missed!
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John, you and me buddy - let's find a way to be there!
the_paulo
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Made it back home and still trying to remember all the stuff I want to put in my recap. I'm sure I'll miss lots, but I'll post as they come to me. I'll try to get my first thoughts up later today.
It was a great weekend though. I met some amazing people, made some new friends, met some in person who just seem like old friends now, and was made to feel welcome. Think my wife had just as much fun as me too!
It was a great weekend though. I met some amazing people, made some new friends, met some in person who just seem like old friends now, and was made to feel welcome. Think my wife had just as much fun as me too!
Damn. Now I'm a favorite memory for a few people.
New slogan for me: Chaff free in 2013.
I was actually extremely comfortable. They are so thin, it doesn't matter. And as I have said a dozen times, it's all in the quality of the chonies.
Well after getting home at 11:30 pm on Sunday and (2) 10 hour work days, I'm hoping to get my recap up soon. I don't have a day off until Monday so it could be a little while unless I sneak it in today.
I will throw this out there really quick.
JB and GG - how do I say thank you enough? You guys did an amazing job and made me feel so welcome. I swear Morgan met me once and never forgot my name after that! :thumbup:
Paulo was the greatest partner I could ask for. He carried our team to beating THP! More to come.....
Freddie literally changed my game with one simple line, "can you swing like that on this shot?"
My villa mates were amazing!
Every foursome was top notch. I could get used to golf like that.
I've got a ton more but time is short. So more to come!
I will throw this out there really quick.
JB and GG - how do I say thank you enough? You guys did an amazing job and made me feel so welcome. I swear Morgan met me once and never forgot my name after that! :thumbup:
Paulo was the greatest partner I could ask for. He carried our team to beating THP! More to come.....
Freddie literally changed my game with one simple line, "can you swing like that on this shot?"
My villa mates were amazing!
Every foursome was top notch. I could get used to golf like that.
I've got a ton more but time is short. So more to come!
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If you guys can make it out, you will not be disappointed.
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Thank you for all of the help and tips, it was so great being able to play a round with you.
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Cpljohnst's Recap part 2: The Golf
Saturday morning arrived bright and early. I was up at 6:30am and had the very last tee time at 10:30am. So what to do. Headed over with Carsten to grab breakfast in the clubhouse, we met up with White Rhino (Gordon) and sat down for a quick bite. Carsten went all healthy with fruit and cereal to match his 125 lbs of weight. Gordon and I are just slightly north of 125 so we went with the full on breakfast buffet!
I headed over to the first tee and had just missed the first group going off at 8:00am. I stuck around until 9:30am watching each of the groups tee off and enjoying some good banter. One of the best was when Ward hit driver over the tree on the first hole. Someone in his group said "man I think that hit the tree", which bummed out Ward and he walked back to the cart to grab another ball with his head down. Only after he got back to the tee did they let him in on the joke, that his first ball had easily cleared the tree.
Walked back to the range for some warm up. Almost forgot this, but late on Friday night Jersey Nate came back in to the villa with the Wilson Staff D100's he wanted to demo and let me know that the THP Staffers were digging all the winners prizes out of the Tour Van, so Nate joined me and we walked back over and I picked up the X Hot Pro's I had won from the Wheel of Destiny from Mr. Freddie Kong, whom gave me a hearty "enjoy" and "congrats" at the hand off. I was anxious to hit the X Hot Pro's so put them in the bag Saturday and decided to just play them and see what happens.
After warm up I met FlyDigital and Acessence. We were getting close to our start time, but BigLee had not arrived yet. The starter came and told us it was time and that they'd get BigLee out to us if he showed up. Well just as we pulled up to number 1, Lee arrived so we had our complete foursome. I had a blast playing with the four gents. Acessence was my partner and with him coming from the Great White North of Canada this was only his second round of the year. He was a trooper and hit some great shots, though clearly was not at his best with still trying to shake off winter rust. (He played much better on Sunday I hear.) FlyDigital was consistent throughout the round and can hit some very good golf shots. BigLee was fighting a hook most of the round, but when he did connect that ball just went. BigLee hits ball far!
At the end of the round I had finished with an 88. Not my best play as I could not avoid three costly blowup holes that pushed the scoring up. Did have several good holes though. May not have been my best decision to run out and use the X Hot Pro's in a competition round right off the bat. I struggled with distance control and yardages as well as it quickly became apparent that I need a lie angle adjustment as I had frequent misses to the right. Overall though I really love the clubs and think they will fit my game perfectly. Going to pick them up from Ole Gray on Thursday in Monroe and take them to the PGA Tour Superstore for the lie angle fix and replace the stock grips with the Winn Lites I love.
With being the last foursome out it was a quick turnaround to try to get in at least an extra nine holes. FlyDigital (Damian) was game for more so he and I picked up Checkered (John) at the clubhouse and took the shuttle over to the Nicklaus. I had briefly talked with John at the meet and greet on Thursday, but it was really fun playing nine holes with him and sharing the cart. The three of us had a real good time while The Golden Bear kicked our collective arses. The course was typical Jack, wide open fairways that get you feeling good, then you take a look at the approach shot and say "what the heck do I do to hit that postage stamp and avoid all that trouble". I shot a 48 for nine and could really feel the weariness in my body on the par 3 8th, where it took me 4 shots to get out of the bunker! That was the deciding factor and I knew the body needed rest. Called it quits at nine and went off to get showered and ready for the Villa Crawl.
Sunday I had an earlier tee time of 8:20. Our plan was to put all my bags in ATLGolfer's car that morning (whom had an 8:30 tee time) so we'd be all set after the round. At 7:45 still no word from ATLGolfer after an attempted text and phone call to him. That damn Franzia from our Villa during the crawl must have put him over the edge I'm thinking. And just as I'm about to head out to start searching under bushes for a sleeping Seth, he calls me up. "Dude, just got up. Going to take a quick shower and be right there". He does just that and we are all loaded up by 8:05. Rush to the course and i get to the cart just as the starter is telling us to head to the tee. No warmup for me, which was probably just as well, I was a bit stiff anyway. For this round on The Watson course I'm paired with TrueFX (Paul) and JimnyCricket (Roy). Checkered (John) was supposed to be with us but he was sleeping in. He would later join us on the 10th tee for the back nine.
Really enjoyed playing with these guys. TrueFX hits the ball forever! He's only been playing for 3 years and has dropped 10 of his index each year. I'm telling you now at next years outing he'll be playing to a six! He has some incredible potential and a really nice guy too. JimnyCricket (Roy) was a pleasure. Fantastic humor from this guy. Our games are very similar and I could see he and I having a tremendous back in forth competition if we lived nearby one another. It seemed like Roy was in nearly every bunker on the front nine, so on the 10th tee he announces "There will be no more sand!". His proclamation held for about five holes but then he made the dreaded golf god taunting statement..."See I told you there would be no more sand". We'll his drive went right to the beach and Paul turned to him and said "Hey Roy, where's your ball?" :laughing: It was pleasure getting in nine more holes with Checkered too.
I played with my current gamers, the Wilson Staff Ci7's, on Sunday and shot my best round of the trip, an 81. Was really driving the ball well and hit 11 of 14 fairways. The Watson was my favorite of the 3 courses, just really seemed to fit my eye. I guess I need to play without warmup more often. Sore as heck on the first tee with no expectations and shoot that 40/41=81.
That ended the golf portion of the outing for me. Was sad to see it end but what a blast! I'll do another recap later for the Villa Crawl and some final thoughts.
Saturday morning arrived bright and early. I was up at 6:30am and had the very last tee time at 10:30am. So what to do. Headed over with Carsten to grab breakfast in the clubhouse, we met up with White Rhino (Gordon) and sat down for a quick bite. Carsten went all healthy with fruit and cereal to match his 125 lbs of weight. Gordon and I are just slightly north of 125 so we went with the full on breakfast buffet!
I headed over to the first tee and had just missed the first group going off at 8:00am. I stuck around until 9:30am watching each of the groups tee off and enjoying some good banter. One of the best was when Ward hit driver over the tree on the first hole. Someone in his group said "man I think that hit the tree", which bummed out Ward and he walked back to the cart to grab another ball with his head down. Only after he got back to the tee did they let him in on the joke, that his first ball had easily cleared the tree.
Walked back to the range for some warm up. Almost forgot this, but late on Friday night Jersey Nate came back in to the villa with the Wilson Staff D100's he wanted to demo and let me know that the THP Staffers were digging all the winners prizes out of the Tour Van, so Nate joined me and we walked back over and I picked up the X Hot Pro's I had won from the Wheel of Destiny from Mr. Freddie Kong, whom gave me a hearty "enjoy" and "congrats" at the hand off. I was anxious to hit the X Hot Pro's so put them in the bag Saturday and decided to just play them and see what happens.
After warm up I met FlyDigital and Acessence. We were getting close to our start time, but BigLee had not arrived yet. The starter came and told us it was time and that they'd get BigLee out to us if he showed up. Well just as we pulled up to number 1, Lee arrived so we had our complete foursome. I had a blast playing with the four gents. Acessence was my partner and with him coming from the Great White North of Canada this was only his second round of the year. He was a trooper and hit some great shots, though clearly was not at his best with still trying to shake off winter rust. (He played much better on Sunday I hear.) FlyDigital was consistent throughout the round and can hit some very good golf shots. BigLee was fighting a hook most of the round, but when he did connect that ball just went. BigLee hits ball far!
At the end of the round I had finished with an 88. Not my best play as I could not avoid three costly blowup holes that pushed the scoring up. Did have several good holes though. May not have been my best decision to run out and use the X Hot Pro's in a competition round right off the bat. I struggled with distance control and yardages as well as it quickly became apparent that I need a lie angle adjustment as I had frequent misses to the right. Overall though I really love the clubs and think they will fit my game perfectly. Going to pick them up from Ole Gray on Thursday in Monroe and take them to the PGA Tour Superstore for the lie angle fix and replace the stock grips with the Winn Lites I love.
With being the last foursome out it was a quick turnaround to try to get in at least an extra nine holes. FlyDigital (Damian) was game for more so he and I picked up Checkered (John) at the clubhouse and took the shuttle over to the Nicklaus. I had briefly talked with John at the meet and greet on Thursday, but it was really fun playing nine holes with him and sharing the cart. The three of us had a real good time while The Golden Bear kicked our collective arses. The course was typical Jack, wide open fairways that get you feeling good, then you take a look at the approach shot and say "what the heck do I do to hit that postage stamp and avoid all that trouble". I shot a 48 for nine and could really feel the weariness in my body on the par 3 8th, where it took me 4 shots to get out of the bunker! That was the deciding factor and I knew the body needed rest. Called it quits at nine and went off to get showered and ready for the Villa Crawl.
Sunday I had an earlier tee time of 8:20. Our plan was to put all my bags in ATLGolfer's car that morning (whom had an 8:30 tee time) so we'd be all set after the round. At 7:45 still no word from ATLGolfer after an attempted text and phone call to him. That damn Franzia from our Villa during the crawl must have put him over the edge I'm thinking. And just as I'm about to head out to start searching under bushes for a sleeping Seth, he calls me up. "Dude, just got up. Going to take a quick shower and be right there". He does just that and we are all loaded up by 8:05. Rush to the course and i get to the cart just as the starter is telling us to head to the tee. No warmup for me, which was probably just as well, I was a bit stiff anyway. For this round on The Watson course I'm paired with TrueFX (Paul) and JimnyCricket (Roy). Checkered (John) was supposed to be with us but he was sleeping in. He would later join us on the 10th tee for the back nine.
Really enjoyed playing with these guys. TrueFX hits the ball forever! He's only been playing for 3 years and has dropped 10 of his index each year. I'm telling you now at next years outing he'll be playing to a six! He has some incredible potential and a really nice guy too. JimnyCricket (Roy) was a pleasure. Fantastic humor from this guy. Our games are very similar and I could see he and I having a tremendous back in forth competition if we lived nearby one another. It seemed like Roy was in nearly every bunker on the front nine, so on the 10th tee he announces "There will be no more sand!". His proclamation held for about five holes but then he made the dreaded golf god taunting statement..."See I told you there would be no more sand". We'll his drive went right to the beach and Paul turned to him and said "Hey Roy, where's your ball?" :laughing: It was pleasure getting in nine more holes with Checkered too.
I played with my current gamers, the Wilson Staff Ci7's, on Sunday and shot my best round of the trip, an 81. Was really driving the ball well and hit 11 of 14 fairways. The Watson was my favorite of the 3 courses, just really seemed to fit my eye. I guess I need to play without warmup more often. Sore as heck on the first tee with no expectations and shoot that 40/41=81.
That ended the golf portion of the outing for me. Was sad to see it end but what a blast! I'll do another recap later for the Villa Crawl and some final thoughts.
bmwnola
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Love the reading the recaps. Keep them coming!
Hey hey hey! In all fairness, I have a hard time trusting general doctors. When I originally tore my ACL the doctor said it was cartilage and to let it heal for a little. A month later playing basketball, I landed funny and fell to the ground in pain. It was then I knew something was wrong and had a specialist look at it. In 30 seconds he knew it was a torn ACL.
Damn general doctors!
Rob Wedge
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Buck with Guinness in his hand. There's a shocker.
Buckjob
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Hey all, I won't have a recap up until I'm out of the hospital and can gather my thoughts.
I just want to keep all of you updated. I know that I have been in many of your thoughts and prayers, and you have no idea how much I appreciate that. We are very quickly approaching 48 hours from when I went under the knife (they put me out at 12:38 Central Time). Today has been a much more bearable day, no pain meds since 1AM, I've been sleeping and feeling fairly ok. Stomach is still cramped and not fully right, but they say that can take a few days, so they are holding me until at least tomorrow afternoon. I guess if there's any bright side coming out of this, I'm going to have one helluva scar. It's starts about 2 inches above my belly button, and continues down around the belly button, and ends right at the pelvic bone, so I was sliced nice and wide. Now it's just sore and getting my golfing muscles back. Thanks again for all of your support throughout this difficult time for me.
Dan
I just want to keep all of you updated. I know that I have been in many of your thoughts and prayers, and you have no idea how much I appreciate that. We are very quickly approaching 48 hours from when I went under the knife (they put me out at 12:38 Central Time). Today has been a much more bearable day, no pain meds since 1AM, I've been sleeping and feeling fairly ok. Stomach is still cramped and not fully right, but they say that can take a few days, so they are holding me until at least tomorrow afternoon. I guess if there's any bright side coming out of this, I'm going to have one helluva scar. It's starts about 2 inches above my belly button, and continues down around the belly button, and ends right at the pelvic bone, so I was sliced nice and wide. Now it's just sore and getting my golfing muscles back. Thanks again for all of your support throughout this difficult time for me.
Dan
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You get better DL. We are all thinking about you and cannot wait to see you in IL soon. With new gear and a smile. Plus, tell the ladies that you are a superhero and that is what the scar is from.
