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What's a sand bagger? Is that a good thing?

In your case, your scores will be going down faster than your handicap, and you will be winning all the bets! You probably will feel guilty, just like our friend City, and won't be able to sleep at night. :laughing9

Kevin

I do forsee some / a lot of improvements (they have already appeared). The big task is to keep all this intact and build on it during a LONG winter, so my old bad habbits don't ever dear to reappear!!

A sand bagger is a player that uses various tricks to keep his handicap significantly higher than his scoring ability. Like having a couple of deliberate quadruples on 17 and 18 since there's a tournament coming up in a few days. Like "forgetting" to register friendly games that brings the handicap down. This way the sandbagger stays "competitive" in handicap tournaments.

At worst it is cheating and at best it is cheating *just* a couple of strokes.

In a tournament in our club here in TX earlier this year, the winner posted net scores of 56 and 60. That's sandbagging of the worst kind. I was mildly shocked when he even got a price for putting up such scores. In Norway he would have been kicked out of the tournament after the first round and probably been reported to the national golf association as well.

If you play really well and have true progress people may still call you a sand bagger, but usually with a smile on their face then.

OK, so what have you been shown so far?
 

And what have you "apprenended," or what has been genuine insight for you? Details, young man!

ICT

airair,

Did you just jump on a plane across the Atlantic or did you have a work journy to the states that shortened trip to Cuscowilla. In any case, you got balls man.

ICT,

Not sure what you're asking about here.

No my only destination was Cuscowilla. It took one bus, two airplanes, two hours to kill in Newark, then 1 and and half hours with a taxi like transportation, so it was no fun ride in that repect. Now I have even more balls. I got some from Yoda as well.

I'm now finished here at Cuscowilla and I'm soon on my way home. I know it's a long travel that takes a long time and it's not exactly cheap to stay here and get lessons. It sounds like a complaint, but it's not. If you have the time and money and you want to treat yourself to something special, then do what I just did. You might learn to play better golf too.

Won't be posting anything the next 30 hours I guess.

Air and Yoda At Cuscowilla / October 25-29, 2010
 

Safe travels, Air.

You were -- and are -- a marvelous student. Thank you for your dedication and for coming to my lesson tee!

It took you 21 hours to get here:

Bus to Oslo (two hours);

Plane to Newark, NJ (with layover);

Plane to Atlanta, GA;

Private car to Cuscowilla.

But once done . . .

We made it happen, didn't we? A few hours everyday for five days, and we covered the waterfront.

One thing I won't forget:

That little 65-yard knock down you hit on our last day -- first shot and with its character called by me -- in front of the teaching pros at Cuscowilla (and under that pressure!) . . .

Bang!

You hit the red-and-white pole, the "candy cane", dead center on the first hop!

Can't make it up!

Not to mention all the 'cracking' irons and drives you hit -- also with 'gallery' pressure -- with your new alignments. Especially your new grip, shoulder alignment, start up with its coordinated pivot, arms and hands, new Top with its 'structure' and radically different clubshaft alignment, start down waggles putting you in the 'slot', right knee action and wrist roll through impact, and the new 'arrow through the ears' finish.

Amazing.

Nowhere near the 21.5 handicap player swing you had when you arrived!

Then, on the course our last day. Your first drives sailed long and true against the blue October sky. Later, three tee balls over water requiring almost 200-yard carry. Every single one on line and dry!

I am so proud of you, Air.

Bustin' every button.

That's why I called everyone over to take a look. Not to put pressure on you, but to show my fellow teachers just how far one dedicated student could come in such a short time. And you delivered.

:cheers:

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Ha det bra, my friend!

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