Shooter McGavin
It's funny, if you lay me out in the sun for a few hours, if you place a Nike cap on my head, if you dress me in a polo shirt, I can bear a slight resemblance to Tiger Woods, down to even the emphatic fist pump. But put me on the golf course? I more resemble the gopher from Caddyshack.
I played nine holes with Kevin, Dave, and Greg this morning thinking that the brief instructional video on the "perfect golf swing" that I studied last night would be enough for me to get by on. After all, if I was once able to drive a stick shift car minutes after quickly perusing howstuffworks.com, then I'm pretty much capable of rocket science.
Or so I thought.
With respect to what Ted Williams would say, hitting a golf ball is the hardest thing to do in sports. With all of the components to the golf swing, there are just so many things that can go wrong. I don't know how professionals do it. Even when I repeated "Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes" to myself over and over to make sure my mechanics were alright, even when I utilized Allen Iverson's psychocybernetic visualization techniques, I still kept shanking the ball. 150 yards north. 350 yards east.
Look at my ugly swing in the video below. I don't know where the Tiger Woods thing came from. I look more like a 12-year-old boy with a potty mouth.
The worst was the 8th hole, where Dave and I were about 120 yards away from the green and kept shanking ball after ball into the water hazard. It was kind of like the last scene in the movie Tin Cup, except we weren't being stubborn, and/or trying to prove a point, and/or trying to impress Rene Russo. We just sucked.
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17 Comments
(Crack!)
"Boom."
"...Fuck! Fuck me."
"Where'd it go?"
"Left?!"
Hey that crack it made sounded really sweet though, you could have pretended it was a good shot and no one would have known.
Also, if you are going to say "Boom", you should say "Boom goes the dynamite"
i agree with larry, although you definitely look amateur in the video that is much better than most of us could hit a golf ball. you made it sound like you were really bad.
Nice replay on that shot. Gotta say, you definitely accomplished making that ball go left. If the course went straight left in that direction you would have been on the green. That 8th hole was a nightmare too. I think we took had more total strokes than all other holes combined
Yea dude what are you talking about, that's a pretty bad ass looking drive. Maybe it didn't go straight but you sure can hit it.
In this blog I think you have covered all the three best golf movies...Caddyshack, Happy Gilmore, and Tin Cup. I would say your missing Bagger Vance but that movie sucked.
And of the Big Three, the best golf movie ever is Happy Gilmore.
Shooter McGavin: I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast.
Happy Gilmore: [laughing] you eat pieces of shit for breakfast?
Shooter McGavin: No... I...
It might have been an ear-pleasing whack but I think you caught a little too much of the tee on that hit. It could sound cleaner.
Your reaction after you hit the ball is priceless. Such fury!
You must have pretty good anger management...golf is frustration. One time I throw my club and bent it on a tree.
Wish I had a video of that.
I know what movie you forgot to allude to..."The Greatest Game Ever Played"...decent golf movie you should check out if you haven't before.
Take lessons, thats all I can say. Thats how anyone gets good.
Are you THE Peter Nguyen who wrote those hilarious essay papers that have been floatin about the interweb for the past few years? I've always wondered...
ive heard rumors and i dont like it...
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