CONTEST Live Update Thread – The 2025 Grandaddy of Em All with Callaway Golf

mikewood69 here..... long time listener, first time caller..

just wanted to wish this years team good luck. Remember to sit back and look around a few times. Take it all in. The experience is fast and furious. You are going to hit great shots and sh***y shots, but everyone only wants the greatest experience for you. sip on a blueberry lemonade, enjoy the comfort stations, enjoy it with your whole team. This experience is once in a lifetime and the memories will last forever. looking forward to following along and cheering this years team on.

And don't forge to post a long thank you post calling out all the people that made the experience of a lifetime, that would just make you look like an a**hole.
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True story @hedley_lamarr08 was with near me when I sat down and do this. I told him, I’m going to set this like I was at home.

If I was at home, I would ride JRod in the parlay, now I need you to go wreck it.
He was as honest and heartfelt as he could be. @JDax catches hell but deserves his love for what he gives back to this place. Only thing he loves more than this place and Finley is his family.
 
Morning peoples!!!
 
My heart is with team THP but I have to go with Team Callaway to win. I'd love to be wrong.
Just transfer those coins into my account.
 
Give em hell today boys!

190 pages later I’m finally caught up…. For now
 
Team THP,

Great moments… are born from great opportunities.

And that’s what you have here today, Team THP.

That’s what you’ve earned here at The Grandaddy of ’Em All.

Thousands of golfers would trade a year of swings to tee it up where you stand.

But we are the ones chosen to walk these fairways…to chase this experience…

and to take our shot against Team Callaway.

Callaway may have the tech. They may have the research. They may have a whole army of R&D wizards designing weapons in the Ely lab…

But they don’t have your heart.

They don’t have your passion.

And they sure as hell don’t have the fire that comes from representing the THP Universe…the greatest golf community on Earth.

Today…you play for more than birdies.

You play for each other.

For every forum member refreshing the thread back home.

For every golfer who’s ever dreamed of walking into ECPC, opening that door, and seeing their name on a Callaway bag.

For everyone who believed that experiences like this still exist in golf.

Callaway wants your best.

And they’re going to get it.

But they’re also going to learn something:

You can’t measure heart with a launch monitor.

You can’t out-design belief.

You can’t out-engineer grit.

And no amount of carbon, tungsten, AI, or face-mapping replaces a team that refuses to back down.

So today, swing free.

Trust your fit.

Trust your team.

Trust the hours you’ve put in on the range and in the threads.

Let the nerves turn into energy.

Let the moment be bigger than the fear.

And when you step onto that first tee, look across at Callaway and let them know with your eyes:

We belong here.

We earned this.

We’re THP.

And we’re not just here for the experience…

We’re here to compete.

Every shot. Every hole. Every moment.

Because great moments are born from great opportunities…and this, right here, is your opportunity.

Now go out there…

Play bold.

Play fearless.

Play with that THP spirit that never quits.

And let’s make this Grandaddy…one they’ll never forget.
Goosebumps!!!
 
Give em hell today boys!

190 pages later I’m finally caught up…. For now
gotta keep your head on a swivel with the updates.
 
All the feels today...let's go boys!

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Having hit the Elyte FW ONE time, I'm mindblown to think what is coming. That Elyte FW was so freaking easy to hit! Exciting stuff!!
The TIs will not be coming out of my bag. They are too good for me.
 
Man, we are so lucky that Al and the membership at The Hideaway have embraced this event. We cannot thank them enough
Absolutely.

Thank you Hideaway members!

I still can feel how warmly you welcome us. How humbling it was you knew each of us and genuinely wanted to learn about who we are. and for us to beat Callaway.
 
Mood music to match my feelings:

For Whom the Bell Tolls
Metallica
 
What clubs gets the first swing for you at the range?

I normally start with an 8 iron and work my way to the longer clubs, but it’d be hard for me not to unwrap that driver first thing!
Mostly habit based, but I always start with a gap wedge and work my way toward driver
 
First tee with other groups spectating will be electric.
 
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And rocking a blue camo Hideaway Q-Zip.
 
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