Hahaha yeah that was not your best swing, luckily it didn’t cost ya the hole! Couple of double bogeys to start, just how we drew it up
CONTEST Live Update Thread - The 2024 GOAT Cup with Callaway Golf
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Before NFL season. They showed her enough during football games that I would recognize her. Wouldn’t know a single song thoughFinley was actually the one playing the music in his cart, he just added some Tswift to the queue at my request. I’d like to think it boosted me more than hurt him haha
JB said he wouldn’t recognize Tswift if she walked into his house
It’s a truly amazing place and gonna be a blast, looking forward to following along! Don’t forget to feed Jose and Jack after #6!
Fun follow. You killed it.
Yessir lived here most my life besides a few years on east coast after college, and for sure send me a message next time you’ll be down here and let’s get a round in!
This is amazing hahaha hope the boss’s mood lightens up next week
Also I admire your confidence in your flop shot, never seen someone so willing to try flops off hard pan
Definitely the Transfusion on 18 green after getting the point in Day 1 shamble! Drank that one a little too fast in the excitementWhat was the best drink you had at Briggs?
Wow, how have I lived without that my whole life?
The lamb shank was absurdly good
Also the buffalo chicken sandwich for lunch was amazing
And of course the taco truck tacos. Legitimately some of the best tacos I’ve ever had.
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I don’t have a playlist. I’m not a music on the course person
The par 5s were tough, very long and greens protected by bunkers
Favorite Hole: I liked the left to right doglegs, they were fitting my eye well and was fun to try and cut the corner on them. 4, 5, 13, and 16. I’d say 13 was my favorite tho. I didn’t hit my best drives on that one so forced lay ups but the bunkering and elevation/slopes to the green were really cool.
Least favorite hole: just cause I have to pick one, I’d say #9. Only played it once and was just so-so, visually didn't do much for me
Memorable shot: long putts I hit on #2 and #4 in first round gave me confidence in the flatstick rest of the event. Finleys hole out from bunker to save par was something special. Pirates hybrid chip up and down to win hole 13 in shamble from the tree behind the green was an all timer
Favorite aspect of course: bunkering around the course was very cool visually and presented some tough challenges off tee and approach. I found more greenside bunkers than fairway bunkers but all around was very happy with my bunker play. Everything about Briggs is amazing though
I ate 3 plates the night before. I was going to the bush for an emergency drop off mid round.
I'm a flour gravy guy. Corn meal gravy is "tolerable" to me. 6 pieces of bacon, two scoops of eggs and some yogurt is enough for anyone lol
And most driving holes are wide enough to accommodate slight misses from the tee. And the light rough was no penalty as long as you avoided the really think stuff.
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I didn’t have that on my bingo card either.
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Wasn't able to follow along live at all this week with some craziness at work. Just finished reading up to the point that Team Brennan takes the ring. What a fantastic way to kick off the Experience Season.
Team Brennan:
@dmehrl23
@Bunker Snot
@PiratePenguin
@MBrennanCG
Fantastic job out there this week. Looked at the odds at kicked them in the teeth!!!!! A couple of members of Team Finley were pretty cocksure of a win this week (along with a majority of the odds pickers). Way to stare the whole situation down and take the ring. Congratulations, gentlemen!
Great job of everyone keeping the thread updated. You've set a hell of a mark to match for Experiences going forward.
@JB
@hedley_lamarr08
@JasonFinleyCG
@JDax
Well played this weekend, my friends. There's no drama without a worthy adversary. You all filled the role extraordinarily this week. Super, super fun to follow along with and an incentive for revenge if we are privileged enough to experience another Goat Cup (maybe the answer is later in this thread and I'll just have to keep reading.....).
Thanks to everyone involved (including our awesome forum members). O.K. back to reading.........
Team Brennan:
@dmehrl23
@Bunker Snot
@PiratePenguin
@MBrennanCG
Fantastic job out there this week. Looked at the odds at kicked them in the teeth!!!!! A couple of members of Team Finley were pretty cocksure of a win this week (along with a majority of the odds pickers). Way to stare the whole situation down and take the ring. Congratulations, gentlemen!
Great job of everyone keeping the thread updated. You've set a hell of a mark to match for Experiences going forward.
@JB
@hedley_lamarr08
@JasonFinleyCG
@JDax
Well played this weekend, my friends. There's no drama without a worthy adversary. You all filled the role extraordinarily this week. Super, super fun to follow along with and an incentive for revenge if we are privileged enough to experience another Goat Cup (maybe the answer is later in this thread and I'll just have to keep reading.....).
Thanks to everyone involved (including our awesome forum members). O.K. back to reading.........
Favorite hole: 18, I think. Such a great vista on that tee box, multiple holes in view, trees, fields, ridges, the clubhouse. Being from a flat part of Florida I almost never see more than one, maybe two holes, from anywhere, and most are surrounded by houses. To see NO houses (except on one side of the 11th hole, but those are NICE mansions), and all the terrain and elevation, is really nice. Also played 18 pretty well both times I think.
Least favorite hole: Visually, the 1st. Tee shot to a empty horizon, not visually very interesting. Playing it? Pick a par 3. Long and hard and if I played them all 100 times I'd double or worse each of them probably 40-50% of the time.
Memorable shot: In singles after a disaster on 10 (starting hole), I thin-heeled my drive short, topped a three wood, pushed a 5 wood just far enough right just off the fairway to have an oak tree branch maybe in play. For more 4th from around 140 I hit a 3/4 7 iron with a perfect draw right at the pin, landed a few feet short, released to about 15 ft. Won the hole to get back to even and settled down from there to just play and enjoy and turned it around. Or any of the 8,000 times I used the Callaway Pre-Owned Paradym 6 hybrid to chip, hit full shots out of bunkers to 20 ft, etc. That thing was a life saver.
Favorite aspect of the course: How natural it all is. Going out early, no other people, (almost) no houses, no road noise, just course and birds and golf. Very natural bunkering. The bluebonnets and other wild flowers blooming between the holes. Much prettier in person than comes across even in good photos. Also much more slope than pictures really show.
The ball: Like most i played the Chrome Tour. It does everything great. Very solid feel. Not hard, but not the softest ball ever. Does AMAZING in the wind. In singles we got to the long par 3 third and the pin was playing 190 into about a two club wind. I took one club extra and bounced through the back of the green. We all did. Cross wind didn't really affect it unless mis-hit in same direction. The greens are still pretty firm from their renovation, but the ball would still try to check up when you gave it spin even when the green didn't want to let it. Love the triple track. May need to get some True Track for the #garagesim if nothing else.
As for the "chirping at Finley" in Alt Shot, I honestly for the life of me do not remember what that may have been! I know after we tied it up on 6, when we got to 7 I hit a perfect drive about as hard as I could hit a drive and gave a, "Come on, LFG!" or something to my teammate @Bunker Snot but that's all I can think of. If anyone else remembers me saying something different, please share. I'd love to know! Not that there wasn't some friendly banter happening from time to time. All in good fun. It was a great group.
Looking back, I did not. Thats really what happened when I think about the shots I attempted
This shot was 225 to the front into a 2 club wind. The ball hits on the upslope about 2 inches green side and kicks in. If it was 6 inches to the left it would have been a pretty short putt. Golf: a game of inches.