When a professional arrives on your home lesson, it is frustrating because it is exciting

Pennsylvania State District – Home games are a strange thing. The circus crashed this week at the Tillinghast Field at Philadelphia Cricket Club and any lad I would say would register for my Ringer score here. I don’t know the exact number (the best score in each hole, no time limit), but it’s less than 60. It only took a few hundred rounds and 38 years to get there. Perhaps one of the 72 players in this Truist championship game could break 60 in one round. It doesn’t matter. They are playing courses I am familiar with; their games, not many.

Route, T-shirt back, rough and green dishes that look fast Very It’s challenging for me. Players think the green is average speed, or maybe slow speed, the rough benign is benign and the route is short. It really doesn’t matter. I can never break 100 from where they play. Every day, the player won’t break the age of 70, he will be very angry. all is well. Whatever they shoot, they shoot. R&A officials take this attitude towards every British Open. Indeed, this is the only wise choice.

Patrick Rodgers will use my lockers this week, with continuous Corey Conners and Nick Dunlap opening stores for a week this week, and star golfers with other last names starting with C and D. Rodgers starting last names on Tuesday, with Jason Day withdrawing troops. I can say the best, Rogers is right.

He flew to Philadelphia on three flights Tuesday. Rodgers lives with his wife and two young children in Jupiter, Florida and plans a near-game game at Myrtle Beach this week, but Day’s withdrawal changed his day and week. Rodgers went to Chez Reavie at the Myrtle Beach Championship. Just as every shot makes someone happy, so does every withdrawal.

Rodgers and his caddie Chad Reynolds were heading for the next nine games Tuesday night as I was leaving the court. (The last nine members race. Truist champions’ route is completely different.) It’s a windy night and I talked easily with the Rodgers, who will turn 33 next month. He grew up in Bloomington, Indiana, went to Stanford (playing as two amateur Walker Cup teams), and has been a steady PGA Tour player for 10 years. Rodgers loves course architecture and he knows a lot about Awhinghast, the designer of the course he is playing.

“We don’t take classes like this often,” Rogers said, using words you’ve never heard the tourer use because he describes a feature he likes. charmingFor example. When we were playing, the eighteen year old was a long dog-legged one, along the hillside on the creek, reaching the sloped green, almost adjacent to the terrace connected to the clubhouse, a converted farmhouse.

“What a cave,” he said.

I said, “This is 18 for us, but not for you.”

Of course he knew.

“I think they’re finishing somewhere and they can get more stands around the green,” Rogers said.

These guys know a lot about golf and tournament golf. The final hole of the game was our fourth time, no matter which t-shirt you played, shot 4. Whenever I do 5 there, I treat it as par. In my early years at the cricket club Once was par-5. This is a par-5. Give it to us.

It was neat and went into the locker room and saw all the tour bags, the players on the tour and the caddies there. This is a spacious dressing room. This week is not a normal time. Our driving range is very large. It looks short and the tourer, his entourage and gadget are short on it. Eighteen is the driver, and for me it is a sliced ​​hybrid. This is a driver and a short iron for trapping. It doesn’t matter. If they lose at 300, golf would be better. Then, 7,100 yards make sense again. It never happens, but the dream never dies.

When I joined the club in the late 1980s, there was a tree on the enclosed terrace and a hole in the roof that accommodated the trees. Caddy master Joe Smondrowski drives a black Cadillac and has more money in his front right pocket than some members have in their checking accounts. He controlled the first T-shirt, and more. The course is filled with trees. No one thinks a cricket club is the place for this Truist champion, championship tour, USGA champion or anything else other than a club champion. Joe moved out. New people with new ideas are making progress. Things have changed. all is well.

The course has a small parking lot, except for the players and some others sniffing it this week. Valet parking is available on holidays. I kept stopping half a mile from my first T-shirt, on the suburban street, and walking in from there. One morning, a caddie stopped to pick me up as I walked in. It was Danny Sahl, who hosted a week for Corey Connors, Patrick Rodgers’ locker room neighbor Corey Connors.

I’m going to take root for Rogers this week. I’m cheering for Connors. I really don’t care about winning results. The Lodge brothers are taking a charming old beautiful Tillinghast class this week. For me, that’s enough. Give up for a week and have nothing but joy.

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