kondo komono golf

even before she'd heard of marie kondo

mrs ragged me about the too-many-golf-clubs in the garage

so this weekend i sorted them out

i was kinda rueful, 

by the time i got the clubs sorted out of 2 bags into 4 sets, plus strays

i found 5 broken clubs 

you'd think one would not hang on to something so shameful

as a broken golf club

but i also sorted out my tees (only wooden, from now on (freezer bag full)

my ball-mark fixers (mostly az resort courses), ball-markers (cz coins only)

pencils (those with erasers, ONLY!)

 this first set is the first set i bought for myself (1986)

to replace my daddy's 1960s vintage set

cavity back Cactus Irons (ping clones), heavy heads, gooseneck shaft, metal shafts

parts are loaned out, or lost forever 

my daddy's 60s vintage Walter Hagens. 

some rust on the irons, 

the plate on the driver is not loose, but not set well

(between the screws) 

missing my daddy's blade putter

i kept the head for years 

after i broke it (and my 7iron)

after a 3putt bogey at TPC Woodlands

#2, i think, a short par 4 dogleg right over water

to a very elevated green with large fringe areas

i can't find it now

 mine & mrs current sets

(I have two sets of cobra irons, 

that i have intermingled

as events have dictated 

(say a club was lost or broken)

jack nicklaus Golden Bear MacGregor irons and 'woods', 

that is

i *think* that's wood under the heavy epoxy finish

5 iron is some cheap substitute

i didn't remember that

i thought the set was complete

what i hope is 

to get the Nicklaus and my Daddy's sets complete and 

competition ready

so that if i have a golf guest 

who entertains the same idylls as i

we can play a friendly game from the gold tees

if you see how i mean  . . .  

2 wooden-shaft clubs i have always meant to use in some golfy-wall installation

Kroydon Hardened Sole clubs (40s vintage)

valued at around $75 on ebay, cleaned up

these have gotta go,

no value sentimental or otherwise

Mrs Old Ram Putter - home set is out on loan

a putter i won in a tournament but never use anymore

a stray / extra cobra 7 iron . . . 

god, i love 7 irons, may favorite club

must be,

it's the one i have had to fix the most

if you see how i mean . . . 

i have one other set out on loan
a 90s vintage cobra clone
but i think now i will let it go
i still have the 1 & 2 irons from that set
that i used to hit the heck out of
i may reshaft them 
(my grandson educated me 
that you HAVE to swing HARDER
with the metal shafts they have
which i was more-than-happy to do
that many years ago, 
but now i spend all my time 
trying to smooth out and slow down my swing)

I want to give away my extra set of cobras
i'll have to fix the 6 iron again
(I love the 6 almost as much as the 7)
and put wedges in there, 
but sure there's at least 4 putters 
that can go with the set
and two different drivers:
and 'adjustable' cobra
and the biggest cobra headed driver
i've ever seen that CLOUTS 
like a hammer banging on a shipping container
i mean Hilariously LOUD
rather than extra forceful --
it SOUNDS like it's going 40 yds further than it does. 

MY Eagle # 5 on Scot Schreiner # 1, Kerrville

yes, it's only 477 from the whites, 
but there was wind in our face, 
gusting up to 3-club wind. 

I hit one of my patented wind-cheater drives, 
maybe 30 ft up in the air was all, 
with just a touch of fade 
to fight against the wind 
quartering against us from the right . . . 
I'd guess 260 with the roll down a couple of tiers, 
next to the giant old native pecan tree 
that guards the inside of the dogleg . . . 
those trees are common on this course -- 
bushy as shrubs, 
you got to go around, over, or under 'em, you can't go thru 'em. . . 

then off a down-hill, side-hill, hanging lie, 
busted my 7wood, pushed just a smidge, 
but my natural-hook, hook-lie, hook-wind 
all guided it away from the copse of trees 
that guard the green on the right, 
so that my ball rolled all the away across the green, 
front-to-back, 
to 15 ft from the back pin,
just off the fringe in the patchy rough
between two mounds.

I could see the line like it was stenciled in the grass,
it broke 3 feet left-to-right
then swerved back left at the cup
-- nothing but cup --    
i didn't make another putt all day
7 3-jacks, plus another 2 missed-birdies

 so here is the latest tally,
with my marker, Mr Science still setting the pace.

i *say* that my only goal in life left now is to shoot my age,
but an albatross would be nice, too.
but as i also say,
i thought trying for more eagles would get me more birdies,
but instead i get more double-bogeys . . . 
i'm not sure what would happen 
if i tried for albatrossi . . . 8^D . . .