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Category: Golf

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  • Playing the Old Course

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    Playing the Old Course

    Linda on some stone bridge a deranged course designer decided to put in the middle of the fairway. More pictures can be found in the photo album.

  • Recovery

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    After an abysmal game last Saturday, today’s golf game was a pleasant return; 13 over on a par 71. 10 GIRs; 6 Pars; 2 Birdies; 8 Fairways; 37 Putts, (so I still have to get used to my new putter); 3 liters of water (it was a hot day).

  • Bate and Switch

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    Bate and Switch

    The Milgram experiments into the study of obedience to authority published in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology in 1963 describe the results of an experiment to discover the extent to which people obey authority. The results are interesting and Wikipedia provides a good summary. But the bottom line is that people will and…

  • Progress towards 80

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    Progress towards 80

    As noted in my earlier post today, I had a 6:15 tee time. Today I scored 83; a milestone on the roadmap to my stated goal of breaking 80. There are a number of encouraging elements embedded in this score: But the point that holds the most promise is that I was 8 over on…

  • -2 Strokes

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    Today I dropped two stokes; that’s what the man said. A computer assessed my putting in five key areas and then compared my “score” on these points to best practices (as defined by the “pros”). The five key areas are: The technology used is developed by the SAM Puttlab. After taking the test putts a…