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April 12, 2008 / Saturday
There's A Hole In My Finger
Went to Spring Valley today to get some more practice in. Yes, I know, I am obsessed with this golf thing these days. That shouldn't surprise any of you. It involves hitting things, and I like hitting things.
Speaking of hitting things, I swung a wiffle ball bat and hit Aaron square on the chest with a bright orange ping pong ball yesterday at Sports Authority. It made a loud smack on impact. I was shocked. I'll admit that I was aiming for him, but I honestly didn't expect to (1) make contact with the ball and (2) have any sort of aim even if I did hit it.
Anyway, back to the driving range. I broke out the 5-iron, hit a few off the tee, and then worked on hitting off the mat with it. I was really happy to find that I can hit off the mat now, and with the same consistency, aim, and distance as I have off the tee. I think this calls for a happy dance.
*does happy dance*
Spent some time with the 5-wood and 3-wood after that. They like me less today than they did on Thursday. That's okay; at least they don't outright hate me.
Played around briefly with chipping. It's still easy and boring. Yawwwn.
Spent a lot of time working on pitching. I suck at it, big time. I have no control over distance and have tons of questions about grip, swing, and positioning. I'll have to remember to ask at class next week.
I finished off the bucket pitching. Toward the last few balls, I felt a sharp rubbing pain in my pinky at the end of my swings. I took my glove off and saw some skin hanging off. I looked a little closer and saw that I'd worn off a lot more than just some skin; there was a little hole about two or three layers deep where that skin had been. I have no idea why it's not bleeding, but it sure does sting.
So let's see... 5-iron is good, 5-wood and 3-wood are okay, chipping is fine, and pitching needs a lot of help. Thursday, we fix!
April 12, 2008 02:16 PM | Golf
Comments
"I'll admit that I was aiming for him" LMAO! Oh, that was good.
Posted by: Jennie at April 14, 2008 05:45 PM