Hi there, fellow DG Humans. First post today, because it took me a long time to find a golf-related forum that wasn't full of a lot of very warm air...This place seems very relaxed and real and full of information. I was looking for some recap articles relating to the Am Worlds just completed, and stumbled in. Please forgive the interruption. And the length of my initial post. It's bound to be long-ish.
I haven't compiled a profile yet, but will do so soon. Suffice it to say, for now, that I live in Charlotte, NC, and I've been playing since 1991 (with almost a decade off in there while I tried ball golf - lord, I wish I had all that money back...). Until this past April, I had zero aces to my name. So any of you who feel somehow unfairly judged by the DG Gawds as being unworthy, just know that it will come. When it does, the floodgates, apparently, will then open...
Here's my story. I'll try to be brief.
On April 11, 2018, I was playing a round with my older son (he's 21). Hole #2 at Plantation Ruins (Winget) in SW Charlotte. This is my home course, being 5 miles from the house and only 1 mile from work.
244', slight dogleg right. Used a Seer, and absolutely flushed it for my first ever. The high-5 hand-slap between the two of us caused dogs to bark from a mile away. Monkey off the back, and I won't lie: it felt pretty amazing.
On April 25, same course, hole #16. Uphill, 202', with a very slight left turn. Used a lime-green G* Thunderbird, which disc I promptly lost a week or so later. Bummer, but it happens. About eight people witnessed.
Here comes the good part. (I can hear many of you saying, "About time!")
On June 22, we had a large-ish group again. We started on hole #15, which is close to the parking lot. We do that occasionally as a way of breaking things up.
We get to #16, and of course I have a replacement G* Thunderbird. BAM! Ace.
Had a great round going overall. I was at -7 by the time we got to hole #10. This one is 223', downhill a bit, blind tee shot as straight as can be. Horizon is at about 170'-180', then the fairway slopes way down to, and beyond, the basket.
I threw a Warden, nice and low, as it should be. It creates a puff of dust as it skips at the horizon line, then disappears for a split second. Then...CHING! Another ace, making 4 total in a few months, and two in one round.
I have no idea how often that happens, but it has to be fairly infrequent, right? I intend to read this entire thread to find out...
Bottom line? The aces will come, brethren. And when the first one does - or the 51st - it will feel as good as anything legally can with clothes on.
Thanks for letting me share. It feels like bad form to bring it up in polite discussion. But finding a forum where I am allowed - nay, encouraged - to write about it...well, it's like coming home, ain't it?
