Previously on Chasing Scratch.

So I've determined I need professional help.

I need someone that knows what they're doing

and I have to commit to them.

Where I get in trouble is just my vanity and how I think my swing should look determines how I'd decide to work on or change in my swing.

Agreed. Video is out. I'm done with video. I think I figured out cough.

We are two guys in our mid 30s. We have wives, kids, jobs, adult responsibilities, and shaky 11

handicaps. And we're trying to get those handicaps to scratch in a year. This is

Chase and Scratch.

Episode 3. the Fall.

All right, before we get started today, this is Mike.

And this is Eli.

So we just got back from our first major of the year out west in Las Vegas where we played four rounds of golf, stroke play. There was a lot of good, there was a lot of bad. We're going to fill you in on all of that at a later date.

But today's episode is called the fall because we're going to hit the highlights of the

events of the fall of last year our first few months of our commitment to scratch.

In case you forgot, our last episode detailed our plans to get to scratch.

We laid out various ideas around practice, exercise, mental approaches, and any other thing we could

think of that would help us achieve our goal. After that though we took

two divergent paths. My path began with around the very next day after we finalized our plans.

And as I told you last episode the very next day after we finalized our plans.

And as I told you last episode, I went into the round without any scoring expectations.

My goal was simply to hit Driver every hole I could and begin to get a feel for the specific areas of my game

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