Deluded Optimism

Balls Magazine Year 2, Volume 4 (25 overall)

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As you may remember, I let you know about my first tournament win of the year and my lowest score differential ever in Volume 2. Today, I'm going to tell you about the very next tourney I played with my club. This month's tournament was a two-person team Scramble. In this

Balls Magazine Year 2, Volume 3 (24 overall)

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Last time, I let you know about my first tournament win of the year and my lowest score differential ever. Today, I'm going to tell you about the very next time I played golf which was roughly three days after the tourney. I took off a Tuesday from work to play

Balls Magazine Year 2, Volume 1 (22 overall)

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I just realized the last time I wrote about golf was back in September. A lot has happened since then. On that occasion, I wrote about the Senior Championship at my golf club which is open to anyone over 50. I ended up doing fairly well and scored some points

A Thursday Afternoon Carpenter Existential Experience!

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Greetings, hola, guten tag, ni how, and yadda yadda. I swear the month of February exists only to mess with people's sense of time, space, and perception. 2024 is already six weeks old, we never really had winter in Yinzburgh, and I can't tell if the days are getting longer (sort

Your Thursday “Asleep-At-the-Switch” Carpenter Thread

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Ahoy-yoy!   I realized I never did a Stillers bye week report, but who cares. They're 7-6, will never beat the Patriots in any meaningful way, the offensive is broken to hell, and are somehow in currenth #6th seed. Tomlin Voodoo is real, ya'll. Just accept this. This season has been so

Balls Magazine Volume 20 (and Open Thread!)

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On Labour Day Weekend, I am in the middle of enjoying a four day weekend thanks to having Friday off for some strange reason that I'm not going to argue with my employer about. I decided to organize a golf tournament on Friday with some coworkers for fun, pride, and

Balls Magazine Volume 19

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The last time I played golf, it was the 4 club tournament in July. To refresh your memories, here are the four clubs I chose: 5 Wood 7 Iron Pitching Wedge Putter I ended up shooting an even 100, which I was very happy with. Unfortunately, due to work commitments and some work around the

Balls Magazine Volume 18

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As you may remember, I was scheduled to play a tournament using only four clubs. I sought advice from the DFO Commentists and settled on the following four clubs: 5 Wood 7 Iron Pitching Wedge Putter I ended up shooting an even 100! This was a satisfyingly good result! As you know, my goal has been

Balls Magazine Volume 16 and Saturday Night Open Thread

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As you may have noticed, I have been lax in publishing new episodes of Balls Magazine. That's not to say that I haven't been playing golf. I have. I've just been playing really shitty golf. To wit, here are my results from my last three rounds: 107 at Santa Anita Golf