A new 21 day challenge begins with some crazy backspin

21 Days of Golf & Tennis: Day One

First, let me clarify that I will continue to post relevant flashpoints and high quality books to look for during the challenge process.  See the end of the post to find today's featured book to look for in the field.  Also, I will be dissecting the recently published Bookfinder.com Top 100 sought after out-of-print titles in the near future.

The Final Practice Hole at Terradyne

 For my first day of the 21 Day Golf & Tennis challenge, I hit up the 3 hole practice facility at Terradyne.  This is one of my favorite features of the club, as it comes in handy when I only have thirty minutes or an hour to spare during the day.  I usually play a couple of balls per hole, then on the last hole (a gorgeous downhill par 3 over water) I play one ball from each tee box and see how many birdies and pars I can make out of five shots.

Since my generous father recently have me a box of ProV1x's from his years' supply he recently won in a raffle, I have been having a blast putting insane amounts of backspin on the ball with my Vokey lob wedge and other high irons.  If I have 80 yards to the pin with 90 to the back of the green I just hit a nice and smooth 56 degree lob wedge and the ball spins back toward the pin on a string.  I almost holed out one from the fairway for eagle doing just that the other day in my match against Nate, which was the unofficial kick-off to the challenge.  He recently won his club championship at Tallgrass so I'm going to have to step up my game to beat him this month.

Nate gloats on 18 after closing me out on the final hole

 

I'll leave you with today's featured book to look for:

Discovering Donald Ross: The Architect and His Golf Courses

$175 for a used out-of-print hardcover published by Wiley in 2001.

If Golf course architecture isn't already on your list of bookselling flashpoints, go ahead and add it now, as I have done very well with this one over time.

More examples of golf and other sports flashpoints to come throughout the month of September.