Back to the Futures: Back from Vacation and Onto Q-School
by stephconnelly on Aug 20, 2010 12:52 PM EDT
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I finally got myself together and made some improvement these last two events! Nothing great, but at least made a few checks and saw some good things. I feel like I have learned so much this year and it has all come to light at once. It was certainly the boost I needed going into our last event in Albany and the rest of the fall.
The past few days, I took a little vacation with a few of the girls I play with on tour. One of them has a lake house in North Carolina, so we got to go tubing, swimming, play cornhole and just relax a bit. It was a much needed few days off, even if I did get beat up a little tubing.
On my drive back home, I started thinking about my schedule and plans for the fall. I decided I am going to LPGA qualifying school. I wasn't planning on it since I had not been playing well and it cost so much money, but I had made a check the past two weeks and started feeling better about my game.
And I don't want to just sit around and think "what if" for the next year. I'm not going to let anything get in the way of my dreams, especially not myself.
So now I am working on getting everything taken care of that goes along with Q-school, my game, hotel, plane tickets, etc. Time to get excited and ready to play!
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Some improvements ? I’d say so ! Lovin’ the DFT bikini ! :-D
Play well in Albany and then Q-school. Like I said when you started doing this – we don’t want to see you around here next year reporting on the Futures Tour !
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
Sounds like the right decision, Stephanie
Hope you get the money together and obviously we’ll all being keeping our fingers crossed for you.
ahhhh???
What’s playing Cornhole consist of, if I can ask ?
"pain is only weakness leaving the body"
it’s sort of like horseshoes, but you play it with beanbags and a slanted piece of wood with a hole cut in it.
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
as opposed to lawn bowling ? :-)
(I’m kidding – I watched a yard bowling match in Scotlant – it was pretty amazing)
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
Wendy darlin...the word cornhole
has an entirely different meaning to men…..jist sayin……STUB
It may have an entirely different meaning to YOU, Stub
It has NO meaning to me (even with CG’s explanation) – just saying!
Here you go, Wendy...
…a Cornhole tutorial WITH some good Flat and Scruggs “Foggy Mountain Breakdown”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdbOMzLKdbA
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
lol – it’s a fun picnic game. a lot of people take a game with them to football games for some tailgating fun. Not as easy as it looks, either.
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
Oh dear, oh dear
Here we go again. Tailgating here meansdriving too closely to the car in front & unlikely to be able to brake in time. What do you do – throw the bean bags standing on the car roofs?
Wendy...tailgating in the states (colonys to you)
has a double meaning….1=same as yours…..2= putting down the tail gate of your truck, or actually setting up a table and grilling sausages, etc. before sporting events….done in the parking lots prior to the game itself…..big during Football season….Bangers and Beer….make for good times….these events can get quite elaberate, with Chicken, Brisket, (beef) and each tailgater trying to out do the others….STUB
lol – nice to know we can get you back for all the British slang you threw at us all those months ago when we had to do ask what you were talking about. :-D
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
I love learning all these new words/expressions
It’s just that I’ll have little or no opportunity to use them as no-one over here will know what I’m talking about.
Hey PG, as you didn’t know what Cornhole was either, my roof-top version is not such a bad idea if you’re really really stuck in a traffic jam, is it?
WELL then, I’m thinking you need to make yourself a nice Cornhole game to play with the neighbors ! :-)
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
BTW - I giggle at "DFL"
Outside of golf circles over here, it means “Down From London” – a disparaging term for Londoners visiting us country folk & mistaking mushy peas at the fish ’n chip shop for guacomole. (OK, the last bit is a snide joke about a certain politician).
Wendy
What type of fish is used over there for Fish N Chips ? Here it is Haddock. I’m told England shops use Cusp or Baby Blue shark a/k/a dogfish.
"pain is only weakness leaving the body"
The most popular choices are cod & haddock
but due to shortages of these, I suspect coley, etc, are sometimes substituted. Even heard of fish (can’t remember the name) from Far East being sold as cod/haddock (with subsequent prosecutions). Pays to know one’s local & better still to know one’s fish. Never heard of Cusp though.
BTW - did you get my e-mail
thanking you effusively for those wonderful Srixon golf balls (which are indeed a luminous lime-green/yellow)
husband delighted, and all my goodies from Portsmouth Country Club? The course card explains a lot of things I’ve never quite understood about US courses before (but not quite liked to ask). Is the pace of play under local rules really really strictly enforced?
don’t know about Portsmouth – but courses around here try to “encourage” rounds no longer than 4 1/2 hours – but rarely do anything to get the slow golfers moving.
Personally, I wish we had some of UK golfers over here who know how to just use a stare to let you know that they are serious about picking up the pace. We made the mistake of taking a very slow golfer along with us to Scotland and had to put up with that stare quite a bit.
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
I'm v. tolerant towards beginners
provided they let us play through (which they normally do), it’s those old gits who declare they’re “playing a match” (not an official cloub event) and are totally indifferent/selfish regarding the two clear holes ahead of them/behind us, who get my goat. Admittedly our course is considerably shorter than PCC, but more than 41/2 hours I would lose my will to live (whilst harbouring a desire to shorten their lives even more).
lol – since when does playing a match become a reason to not let faster golfers through ?
I know some countries over there require a certain handicap level before you can play on some courses – does that happen in the UK, too ? Always seemed like a good idea to me – but golf turned into a “right” over here somehow, and it’s less about trying to play your best and more about how many beers you can consume in 18 holes (in a lot of cases – not all, of course)
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
Drives me nuts, Court (almost as much as you do)
Obviously it’s not a logical reason, but the club gives an apologetic shrug & says “they’re playing a match” when I complain about not being invited to play through. Most private clubs over here require a certain handicap level – ours does not. I think it would be considered a course to hone one’s skills on before moving onto more difficult courses, however. I’ve never seen any drinking on the course (everyone takes their golf pretty seriously) a pint in the clubhouse afterwards is the norm.
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