Since returning from my covid-forced golf abstenince, my golf game has been terrible. It certainly wasn’t professional before courses shut down, but when I returned, I could barely hit an iron in the air. After the initial joy of being able to play again wore off, I grew increasingly frustrated that I couldn’t fix my …
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Weekend Golf
Saturday: It being above 50, I played golf this afternoon at TPC Potomac. I started off on the range, hitting about 150 balls with a variety of clubs. I was making very good contact, so I moved over to the course. On the first hole I piped a drive down the middle, about 217. From …
Straightening The Driver
One of the hardest things to practice on a driving range is straightness for longer shots. It’s easy to see how far a ball goes (especially with my Flightscope Mevo), but (especially with my mediocre distance vision), it’s hard to tell how left, right, or straight a ball goes. It probably doesn’t help that my …
Measuring Progress With Flightscope Mevo
As I’ve mentioned ad-nauseum, at the end of August I bought a Flightscope Mevo launch monitor, and I love it. The one major thing the Mevo lacks is a display of long-term trend data. The only data view available is for each individual “session”. This makes the Mevo a great tactical tool on the range, …
My Apartment putting practice setup
I don’t know whether I’ve mentioned it before but as soon as I moved into my apartment I purchased a small practice putting green. It’s not very fast or very long (about 8 feet), but it is perfect for working on making nice, consistent putting strokes. The cup liner prevents all but perfectly on-center and …
Langston Golf Course
After a busy few weeks at work, I finally got back onto the golf course today. I played (part of) DC’s Langston golf course at Twilight. How was it? Well, the condition of the course is not good. Dead grass and dirt everywhere. The layout is flat, but interesting. The landscape is beautiful. Langston is …
Tree cheers for golf
It was a great day for golf today. The weather was warm but not hot, the course was lush but not wet, and after ten days away I was ready to see whether my new and improved swing had abandoned me. Thankfully, despite some left-hand pain, it hadn’t (for the most part). I was a …
Hello World
In 1996, Tiger Woods starred in an ad titled “Hello World”, announcing his entry onto the golf stage. That same year, I too said hello to the world, much less dramatically. (You can watch the ad below). If you stumbled on this post and wondered why you should care that I was born, you shouldn’t. …
Michael Golfs 