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Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Golf Fitness–The Journey To 100–The Reboot–Week 13

Week 13 was a bit late due to the fact that I was under the weather all week last week. I did get the video shot on Wednesday as usual, but I didn’t get much editing or additional shooting done all week. Anyways, give it a watch and see how Week 13 turned out! Don’t forget to subscribe and hit the little bell icon so you don’t miss a video!


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Saturday, October 27, 2018

Equipment Review–Craftsman Golf Putter Cover

As I have been looking to drop a few putts a round, one thing that found it’s way out of the closet was my old Odyssey Golf Tri-Hot #3 putter. On the second hole of that first round, I holed a 50 foot putt and I made the decision to at least play the winter with the Tri-Hot. As I continued around the course, the Tri-Hot continued to perform well, but what wasn’t fairing so well was the old original putter cover that came with the cover all those years ago. Thanks to online retailers, I managed to find a very well made cover at an exceptional price. If you’re in the market for a great cover at a good price, check out www.craftsmangolf.com.


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Thursday, October 25, 2018

Golf Fitness–The Journey To 100–The Reboot–Week 12

The Journey To 100 continues to week 12. After coming in at 277.6 this week, I watched in awe as I stepped on the scale for this week’s weigh-in only to see my first weight under 275. Of course, 274.4 is hardly a safe measurement under the 275 mark, but it’s a huge leap forward aa the 3.2 pound drop was the largest I’ve had in a few weeks. I was pretty happy with how the week went and can’t wait to keep the momentum going. Thank you for continuing to follow me and help me grow this channel by sharing the blog or the videos I post as I try to reach the USGA Mid Amateur next year in Colorado.


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Sunday, October 21, 2018

Playing A Round–The Golf Club At Echo Falls–October 20, 2018

This is my first ever attempt at putting together a round up video, so hopefully you will enjoy this enough to leave me a comment or subscribe to the channel. It’s a totally new process for me and I am only doing this from a mobile device, most notably the HTC U12+ and the FilmoraGO editing app. I don’t have any lighting setups on board yet as I am trying to keep the budget as low as possible and keep as much income going to the journey as possible. Still, hopefully you enjoy watching it as much as I enjoyed making it. I’m hoping to add some additional features in the future, but for now, take a look and let me know if you want more videos like this and even some live course commentary type stuff. I’d love to grow the channel and have more fun making videos.


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Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Golf Fitness–The Journey To 100–The Reboot–Week 11

It’s week 11 and everything continues to move forward on The Journey To 100. Today is an important milestone in the reboot as I officially passed the 40% mark on the journey. That’s right, since August, I am no down over 40 pounds and continuing to move forward, or downward. It wasn’t a huge week as it started out at 278.6 and it finished at 277.6, but that’s a pretty great drop for my first week of not cataloging everything that went into my mouth. I’m trying to ween myself off the “food” Apps and just continue to track my activity and my weight on a daily basis instead of trying to log all my food and crazy macros every day. I’ll reverse that course quickly if things go haywire, but since it’s been such a steady, gradual drop this time, I don’t feel the need to keep up the daily tracking and counting at this time.

It was a good week over all though. Calories stayed under 2000 per day, I was able to get a round of golf in on Sunday and I finished my first review of the Highpoint Fitness Co. Pro Tour Ball that you can watch here if you haven’t seen it yet. I have a few more reviews in the works, so keep watching for new ones as I dial in my review process and figure out how to do them. It’s a big learning curve coming from cellphones and laptops and switching up to golf equipment, but I’ll get there and hopefully some day we can look back on the first ones and laugh a bit. Anyways, hit up the video link above and give it a watch.


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Monday, October 15, 2018

Equipment Review: Highpoint Fitness Co. Pro Tour Golf Ball


The Highpoint Fitness Co. Pro Tour Golf balls are a 3-piece urethane golf ball that is designed for distance and stable flight. After getting them out on the course and putting them through their paces, they behaved very well. One issue that continues to plague the smaller manufacturers (and honestly, I'm not sure how small Highpoint Fitness is) is the durability of the cover. Once again, I was wowed by the performance of the ball, only to be let down by the durability of the cover. Still if you're looking for a very high performance ball, but not worried about wear and tear affecting your game, put the Highpoint Fitness Pro Tour ball on your short list to try.


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Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Golf Fitness–The Journey To 100–The Reboot–Week 10

Week 10 came and went with a bang. The week started out at 280.6 and ended up at 278.8, or a 1.8 pound loss for the week. Calories seem to be locked in at about 1500 per day and the three nine hole rounds that I was able to get in in the last 10 days certainly helped my losses. If you have any questions on how or what I am eating on this diet, I would be happy to share them in an upcoming video. Anyways, watch the video for more and don’t forget to subscribe! Thanks for watching!


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Saturday, October 6, 2018

The Journey To The USGA Mid-Amateur–Episode 2

Welcome to the end of the first week of the Journey To The USGA Mid-Am! It was a great first week as everything seemed to go pretty well for me. I was able to get in two 9 hole rounds at Echo Falls, shooting under par in both of them. My driver is behaving beautifully at the moment. I didn’t really have a chance to hit much in hybrids on the course this week, but the 3 iron did make an appearance during my Monday round to see how it was flying after my range sessions with it last month. My mid-irons are all working very well, though Echo Falls really doesn’t give them much of a chance to be used. My 7-8-9 irons are all dead on and longer than normal, Another club that has picked up distance is the pitching wedge, which has also performed very well so far this off season.

I’m looking forward to getting more practice time in with the shorter wedges. I am having quite a few shots in the 50-100 yard range left over after the distance increase that the Triton has given me, so I will be doing some rounds with only irons from the white tees to help get into the longer clubs a bit more. I may even do a round or two from the back tees with irons only just to get things moved a bit further back. This is where the real test will start coming as my short irons have been very strong for quite some time now, but the mid-to-long irons have suffered a bit from not being used as much.

I hope you enjoy the recap for the week and I’ll see you again soon.

Friday, October 5, 2018

2019 Competition Season: It Starts Now

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If you followed me for the last year, you know that I had some huge expectations for 2018 and that they were destroyed early on by a surgery and schedule conflicts. Well, the 2018 season is all but over now and that makes it time to look ahead to 2019 and some goal setting. Let me be clear on this one, first and foremost is going to be getting into some actual tournament play this season and using those tournaments to work towards one goal – reaching the USGA Mid-Amateur Tournament in Colorado. None of the local events for 2019 have been set up at this time, but I do plan on hitting the qualifiers for the WSGA Men’s Amateur (usually July) and the WSGA Men’s Mid-Amateur (Usually August) for sure. With the future of the tournament series that I signed up for this year in question for next year, I’m not sure what options I will have for playing out tournament play during the rest of the season, but I will see what can be arranged.
One option may be the casual tournament setup of the WSGA Winter Golf Series. The six tournament series usually kicks off in January and features various formats from stroke play to stableford scoring to even a scramble format. Many of these are team events, so I will have to try and find a playing partner for some of them – if you’re local and want to play, message me! Another part of me is really wanting to milk the Winter Golf Card that I purchased for The Golf Club At Echo Falls ($179.99 for unlimited play M-F and after noon S-S from October through February.) Either way, the key to making a move on the Mid-Am next year at any level is going to be getting consistent off the tee and even more consistent with my wedges.
Of course, there’s no predicting the future, which makes this once again a fluid plan. There aren’t any real opportunities between now and March to get into many tournament play scenarios, so I’ll just have to see how wet and how crazy this winter gets to see what sort of shape I can keep my game in. My plan at this point in time is to get a range session a week and 2 9 hole rounds a week beginning October 1st and continuing through February. I’m 100% geared up for a wet winter this season, though my Ionix Bag may need a weather-proofing or maybe an upgrade to the new Exo cart bag? I’ll keep the Ionix for dry weather carrying, but something a bit more substantial might be nice for rolling around on my ClickGear for the winter months.
All things said, if I am able to play as much as I am hoping, I should have about 45 rounds in (many will be nine holes I’m sure) and about 20 weeks of range sessions is as well. My goals for the off season are going to be mostly path to face related as this has been the biggest cause of my inaccuracies over the past few years. My ball flight tends to move from draw to hook pretty easily, so my aim is to pull that back to just a draw state over the colder months. Short game work will also be an emphasis over the winter as Echo Falls usually has some pretty stellar greens year round. I recently tested out a new putter model that is on my radar, the Wilson Staff “The Bean” model just set up a bit flatter for me and rolled the ball very well in store. In my on-again/off-again iron search, I’m still dead set on my FG 100’s, as the performance of them is still just stunning. I do think I am losing some playability in the longer clubs, but without a proper fitting, I don’t see myself making a move at this point.
That brings me to a Spring goal that I am hoping will be met prior to the official season starting – the completion of my Journey To 100. Currently, at the time I’m writing this, I am at 35% of my goal in just two months of work. If I keep up my second month pace, I should lose about 10 pounds a month, or be at goal weight near April of next year. At that point in time, I plan on getting fully fitted to something newer or even just having my FG100’s adjusted out to where they need to be for my new swing and new body. According to most fitting tools, I still play a standard to 1° upright setting at standard length with standard grip size. I’d love to see if that changes based on my weight loss, but I have a feeling it’s going to be pretty standard or close to it.
From there, I will have to do some homework over the winter to see if there is a good Men’s Club opportunity for next season or if finding something similar to the Pro Golf Club Series is possible. I was really bummed that I didn’t get a chance to really take part in it this season, but even more upset that, from the sounds of things, there won’t be a chance to play it at all next season. I know there are some other local events like the Cascade Golfer Cup Series and some local County Amateur opportunities that I could work in, but it won’t be the same as having an actual tournament schedule like I had hoped to set up this season. Anyways, let’s take this season one step at t time and see how great 2019 is going to be.

Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Golf Fitness - The Journey To 100–The Reboot–Week 9

Well, week 9 is in the books and it was a good one. This is also the first week that I will be doing video updates (for real this time) and broadening out my content to the official Back In The Fairway YouTube Channel! Anyways, back to the nitty gritty here, I came in this morning at 280.6, or down 3.4 for the week. This brings my total loss to almost 45 pounds in 2 months! Encouraging, yes! I’m setting goals and getting to them. Check out the video and make sure you subscribe to the channel as I will be posting the videos here, but you won’t miss a thing and you’ll get early access there!

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