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Bigsasasfloppyhair reacted to dummiesoot in Golf
Played my first game in six weeks, 41 points missed a couple of three footers due to hitting core holes. Happy over all though.
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Bigsasasfloppyhair reacted to kplfishtank in Golf
Cracking week away.
Southern dunes was fantastic track thanks dummiesout and skelf for recommendations
shingle creek again very good.
Disney the palm was in poor condition with work being done all round course. Didn’t reflect on price
royal St. Cloud, great value at 42 dollars.
Los colinas was on cart path so we played the big course el campeon which is again great.
Saving the best till last.
Grand Cypress New course , loosely based on old course with wee burns running all the way round it. First and 18th are replicas
all in a good week in decent weather.
Roll on Australia in late February for some more warm weather golfing
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Bigsasasfloppyhair got a reaction from Steelydan1690 in Petition for the boys banned after Kilmarnock.
Are they good cunts?
If one of them is @Steelydan1690 then I think the ban is fair enough tbh.
I joke of course. Signed. The club are turning into wee Nicolas henchmen sadly.
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Bigsasasfloppyhair reacted to TEFTONG in Golf
Good luck to Chris Kirk.
For Chris Kirk, everything felt so much worse when he'd not had a drink.
"My anxiety about my golf. My anxiety about money. My anxiety about my relationships," says the former world number 16.
The American explains most people who drink to excess and have a legitimate reason to stop "find their mental clarity gets better. Their health gets better. All these things get better".
In April came a moment of clarity amid a hung-over haze brought on by the previous evening's session - the father of three had to stop drinking and needed to quit golf to focus on recovering from his alcohol and anxiety problems.
Kirk felt like his cravings for a drink would be "something I was going to have to fight every 15 minutes for the rest of my life", but since stepping away from the sport he has worked with a psychiatrist and sports psychologist, as well as implementing a 12-step plan.
Next week, after his self-imposed absence, Kirk will return to the PGA Tour for the first time in more than six months at the Mayakoba Golf Classic in Mexico.
Chris Kirk✔@Chris_Kirk_
Tomorrow I will celebrate my 34th birthday but I have already begun a new and better chapter in my life. Thank you to my friends and family for being there for me.
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Kirk had tried to quit in the past, but those attempts resulted in him returning to alcohol inside a couple of months.
In an interview with the PGA Tour, Kirk says: "For an alcoholic, if you just stop drinking on your own and do not really do anything else and just fight it every day, then everything gets worse. That was definitely the case for me," adds Kirk.
"Everything spikes after that. I was in a really bad place, a much worse place mentally than when I was drinking."
Kirk says part of the problem stemmed from leaving the "perfect scenario I had always dreamed of" - wife, kids and a nice house - to spending "close to 30 weeks a year on the road by myself".
"I think my drinking was accelerated by that and maybe my fitness level and my mental capacity were probably brought down as my drinking went up," he adds.
"I still was playing reasonably well, but not to the level I was a few years before that."
Kirk would drink at restaurants with friends and then continue in hotel rooms or at home on his own, admitting: "There is no trigger, the trigger is me."
He stopped drinking beer when it began affecting his weight, instead moving on to wine and spirits which he says "accelerated things".
The four-time winner on the PGA Tour would not drink while competing and did not want to turn up to play "really hung over", but would feel "weird" if he had not had anything the previous night.
"I was just fighting it and fighting it," he adds. "Finally, after a couple of relapses, if that is what you want to call it, in April it was just like, 'OK, I can't do this anymore. I have got to change something because I am going to end up with nothing'.
"It was when I realised I just really, truly do not have control over this, because I really wanted to not be doing it and I still was."
'I am not even upset I am an alcoholic'
Kirk spent time coaching his son's baseball team during his absence from golf
Now, as he prepares to return in Mexico next week as the world number 303, Kirk says it feels "awesome" to be starting a "new and better chapter in my life".
"To have gone from this overwhelming fear and anxiety of the future to now just pure excitement and embracing that I do not know what is going to happen because nobody knows what is going to happen," he says.
"You spend all this time trying to control things and control what is going to happen next and the more that I have let go of that and the more that I have embraced that uncertainty, the happier I can be every day.
"I do not know what I am going to do tomorrow. I do not know what I am going to do the day after that, but it is all good. I know that I am going to come back and play some golf and if I enjoy it and I am successful at it, then great. If not, then that is all right too."
Kirk has also been touched by the support he has received.
"I think that the shame of all of this has gone as well," he says. "That is why I am so comfortable talking about it. It is all right. I am not even upset that I am an alcoholic. It is fine.
"It is just something different that I have to deal with, but everybody has stuff they have to deal with. Everybody has issues. Everybody has stuff that is bothering them that they need to work on. This just happens to be my thing.
"It does not make me a bad person. Over the last few months it has made me a much better person that I have realised and have taken action to do something about it.
"Now it is my hope that someone out there will read this story and see that there is a way out."
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Bigsasasfloppyhair reacted to kplfishtank in Golf
Staying on IDrive
shingle creek
southern dunes
Mission innn Los Colinas course
Disney palms
royal St. Cloud
grand cypress new course
couple I’ve played before and a few new ones wanted to play Waldorf Astoria but they are ripping piss with prices
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Bigsasasfloppyhair reacted to kplfishtank in Golf
Heading to Florida for a weeks golfing on Saturday. Cramming in 6 rounds in the week. Can’t wait. 27 degrees and sun , might even leave my waterproofs at home 😂😂
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Bigsasasfloppyhair got a reaction from ShanksRFC in Golf
Yes they are good. Ask for Euan. He’s excellent. 👍
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Bigsasasfloppyhair got a reaction from BlueSuedeSambas in English Football
Exactly. Protect their assets and get a wage off the books. Pretty shit behaviour from Derby.
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Bigsasasfloppyhair got a reaction from Rangers_no1 in English Football
That’s unbelievable if the passenger gets the sack but the two idiot drivers get fined 6 weeks wages by the club.
Thats there version of Sandaza, see the opportunity and get him to fuck.
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Bigsasasfloppyhair got a reaction from Blueray in Golf
Yeah it’s nice. The west course is bit shorter but not bad. The east course is stunning.
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Bigsasasfloppyhair got a reaction from ShanksRFC in Golf
One of the courses at murrayshall is longer. I’ve played it few times and in recent years they have always hosted the Scottish Schools Finals too.
Ask to speak directly with ban events manager etc. When you sell it to them of an event, rooms, food, drink, golf you can get some decent deals if you barter 👍
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Bigsasasfloppyhair reacted to born a blue nose in English Football
Not bad first 12 min's from man city lol
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Bigsasasfloppyhair reacted to LaudrupsPatrickBoots in English Football
Southampton haven't looked the same side since we stole their director of football imo
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Bigsasasfloppyhair got a reaction from dummiesoot in Golf
You are spot on mate. The biggest challenge is fucking stuck up members who don’t see the future of the club, instead they see what they think is their club.
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Bigsasasfloppyhair got a reaction from RFC RYAN in Golf
Just finalised a deal for these beauties and for a steal into the bargain too.
4-PW, custom fitted shafts and custom fitted grips. Also including lie and loft fitting to tune them in. All for £699.
Sold my Ping irons for £500, so a pretty good deal for £200.
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Bigsasasfloppyhair reacted to RFC RYAN in Golf
Yip when I was younger 16–17 I got pulled up for hitting off the yellow tees at my course whilst out playing a bounce game with my old man and the course was empty. Lucky if you can get 2 three balls out when our juniors have their medal time.
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Bigsasasfloppyhair got a reaction from RFC RYAN in Golf
You are spot on mate. The biggest challenge is fucking stuck up members who don’t see the future of the club, instead they see what they think is their club.
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Bigsasasfloppyhair got a reaction from dummiesoot in Golf
Bloody steal.
My pro put me in touch with another pro friend who is a mizuno specialist. Guy is from Just outside newcastle.
Between the two of them the fitting was done at Lanark, Skype call etc and all details sent over to him.
Couldn't believe the price he quoted. It even includes the postage 😂😂😂
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Bigsasasfloppyhair got a reaction from Rangers_no1 in Boxing and MMA
Mcgregor comeback in January.
I hope the fenian bastard doesn’t see February.
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Bigsasasfloppyhair got a reaction from dummiesoot in Golf
Just finalised a deal for these beauties and for a steal into the bargain too.
4-PW, custom fitted shafts and custom fitted grips. Also including lie and loft fitting to tune them in. All for £699.
Sold my Ping irons for £500, so a pretty good deal for £200.
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Bigsasasfloppyhair got a reaction from dummiesoot in Golf
Planning on a wee equipment overhaul for next season.
Fitting planned for next month for two new hybrids.
But I fancy new irons too.
Love the look of the Mizuno MP-18 MMC Irons. They look stunning.