Course Vlog: My First One Hole Course Vlog

Everyone was asking, so here it is. My first attempt at pulling off a Course Vlog, or at least one hole of it. This is the 370 yard, par 4, 4th hole at Snohomish Golf Course. This challenging uphill par 4 plays about two clubs longer than it reads and in damp conditions gets even longer.

Let me first off say that this was a blast and I did learn quite a bit from doing it. I have some much better ideas for the next one, and I'll take along a bit more gear for better audio and less shaky video, but for a first effort, I hope it looks as ok as it did in processing.

Hope you enjoy this because more are coming!

Golf Fitness: The Journey To 100 Continues - Week 1

No video this week as this is really just a launch into the first week of my efforts to drop a bit more weight and get back to where I was during The Reboot. I ended up that portion of The Journey just over 240 pounds last April(ish) and slowly drifted around 250-260 over the last year. The rough schedule and lack of monitoring what I was eating did take a bit of a toll on me, so the continuation that has started is more about getting back down to where I should be, not where I am.

There's some good news and bad news this week. The bad news is that I weighed myself the first day of The Continuation and I thought I was at 261, but I was actually a touch over 265. So there's an ugly start to this whole thing as I thought I only had 46 pounds to reach my old playing weight of 215, but it's really 50. That's just fine though, it's nothing but a number and it's already starting to fade, and that's where this week starts. Moving on to the better news, today I am down almost 2 pounds to 263.2 for the week. Again, a bit of a bummer since I thought I was going to make it back into the 50's this week, but it's a negative number and not a bad one for getting back on track.

The Journey To 100 Continues: Week 1 

Starting Weight: 265.4 
Current Weight: 263.2 
Goal Weight: 215.0 

 Left To Go: 48.2 pounds

Going Pro: My Bag, My Irons & My PAT - Episode 8

Welcome to Episode 8 of Going Pro. In this episode, I am hitting up one of the most common questions I've been getting lately on the internet and how I even got into the situation where it was able to come up. For those that don't know, last year, as I began my run for the USGA Mid-Am Tournament, I was desperately searching for a replacement to my faltering Wilson FG-100 irons. After testing quite a few clubs, I found, for lack of a better term, perfection in the Sub 70 Golf 639 MB blades.

Then as the season just started to ramp up, the goals changed and so did my mission. The need for a set of new sticks took on a bigger sense of urgency and I opted to play it safe with something new, but very familiar. But now, a year later, the questions are still being asked, what about those Sub 70 Irons and why aren't they in the bag today?

For additional information on Sub 70 Golf Products visit www.sub70golf.com

For additional information on Wilson Staff Model Blades visit http://bit.ly/StaffModels

To see my current bag setup visit http://backinthefairway.blogspot.com/p/whats-in-my-bag.html

Make sure that you let me know if you want to see that COURSE VLOG! Leave a comment on the YouTube Video and let me know you want me to try one. I know there's a ton of great ones doing it out there already, but I'm up for trying it if you want to see it!

Golf Fitness: The Journey To 100 Continues

For those that are new to the channel, The Journey To 100 is really where all of this "resurgence" into the game of golf began. In 2015, I was in very poor condition, although for a guy carrying around 350 pounds of weight, some might have said I was doing pretty well. What I found as I tried to get serious about my playing again was that my body just didn't turn the way it did when I was lighter, so I started making changes to my swing to compensate. Things like a lagging downswing followed by a last second wrist unhinging was generating the power I needed to play, but was ultimately leading to some very inconsistent scores.

As my aspirations to return to competitive golf started to come together, I realized that inconsistent scoring wasn't going to get me where I wanted to be and I needed to change myself to get where I needed to go. So, the first Journey To 100 began. Topping the scales at 349.8 pounds, I dramatically lost about 40 pounds in February of 2018. Unfortunately, my progress was stifled in April as I had to have surgery which put me on the shelf for a short time. As the summer came to a close, my wife and I began the Ketogenic Diet, which is where The Journey To 100 - The Reboot began.

With a new found effort beginning to take over, I started this crazy way of eating (do not call Keto a diet, because it's retraining yourself and your body to eat differently, not cut calories) and the results were amazing. Immediately after the first week or so, the weight began to peel off and I started to understand how burning fats instead of carbs would change how I lost weight. As I approached a year, I was down 75 pounds and feeling much better, but then another development stymied my progress yet again.

In April of 2019, I changed my golfing goals and in turn, really messed with the plan that was working so well for losing weight. As I accepted the Assistant Professional Position at Snohomish Golf Course, the long hours and crazy schedules began to wear me down and throw me out of the normal patterns that were working so well up until that point. After almost a year of "coasting" I am up 15 pounds and not keeping my macros where they should be to keep myself in a full Keto mode. This video is the start of getting back into that mode and getting things going again. To make this very long story short, welcome back to The Journey To 100 and my efforts to get myself in better shape to play more golf and play it better.

The Journey To 100 Continues: Week 1

Starting Weight: 261.0
Current Weight: 261.0
Goal Weight: 215.0

Left To Go: 46 pounds