Unlucky for some, just not me...

My thirteenth stack session and the penultimate in phase 3 of the foundation program led to further gains and yet another 1mph in stack speed / eSpeed.

I averaged 86mph on the 255g weight in set 1, with a couple of 87mph swings thrown in there. Then it was onto the 95g sets, first of those sets saw me average 100mph with a couple of 103’s in the mix, whilst the second set saw me average 103 (a new set record) with a 105mph swing amongst the batch.

As I got onto the 195g set it felt like I could maybe be a little quicker, as proved to be the case with two at 95mph and an average of 94mph.

This puts my gain over the course of the foundation program to 15mph and a potential distance increase of 45 yards.

I followed the stack session up with eighteen holes and shot another great round of 80, albeit without the clearer cut birdie and par shouts I've had of late. We had an easterly wind and this clearly made life tougher on the way out, as it was into our faces all the way.

It was a good driving day, hitting 7 of the 12 faiways with the drive on 18 certainly something to be proud of at 261 yards long.

I also hit an insane 9 wood on eleven having missed the fairway left and having found quite a poor lie I didn't expect the outcome, which was a 219 yard bomb back down the middle and set me up for the par on that hole.

With eight pars and only two double bogeys I played right onto my handicap figure and put that card in as a general play card, meaning I'll get cut again, as it'll knock off an 83 from my top eight cards.

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Hanging in there...

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Slow, slow, fast

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