Why It Exists
This is my mental filing cabinet. The goal here is simple: once a round is completed, it is stripped of its emotional weight and documented. It is ‘burned’ from my active memory and filed away. By offloading these details here, I clear the noise from my mind so I can reset for the next grind. This bin serves as an honest, raw record for my own review and for anyone interested in the unfiltered reality of this journey.
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5/24 35 Putts, 76, Indian Hills
It is hard to be critical about shooting a 76, but that is the way I think.
Autopsy:
Scared Bitch Moves: Decent Drive on 1, followed by a bad approach and a worse pitch leading to a double. Missed a makeable birdie on 7, missed a 4′ birdie on 9, failed to hit the green on my approach on 18. Left at least 4 putts short of the hole.
Boss Moves: Rallied to a +4 after going +2 on the first hole. Drove the ball decent in wet conditions. No three putts. On in 2 on the par 5 8th.
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5/17 35 Putts, 80, Indian Hills
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5/16 36 putts, 82 Indian Hills
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The Journey to 5.0
The Journey to 5: Why We’re Here
Most golf content is a lie. It’s pros with perfect tracks, pristine conditions, and swing coaches analyzing Trackman data down to the millimeter. This isn’t that. This is the grind of a 9.9 index who refuses to stay single-digits-adjacent. Tomorrow the USGA revisions drop, and the immediate target is a 5.0. From there, we look at scratch.
The Mission
“The Journey to 5” is a public log of the work it actually takes to delete strokes from your game when you don’t play for a living. It’s about the early morning range sessions, the mid-round blowups, and the mechanical breakthroughs that click for exactly three holes before vanishing.
What You’ll Find Here:
The Blueprint: Real breakdowns of rounds (like carding a 76 or fighting through a 32-putt 79 at Indian Hills), practice sessions, and what is actually moving the needle on the index.
The Burn Bin: Raw, post-round therapy sessions. The unfiltered reality of the days where everything went sideways, the blow-up holes, and the mental mistakes that make me loose me mind.
The Hard Numbers: No vanity handicaps. The good the bad and the ugly. An autopsy after every round and a snapshot of the arccoss data captured.
The Bottom Line
Golf is a game of managing misses and conquering your own head. If you’re tired of country-club politeness and want to see what a real pursuit of a 5.0 index looks like—scabs, blowups, and all—stick around.
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Rough Day on the Greens
