Share Your 2025 Golf Goal

- Play more golf with my dad - Break par twice - Master the 50-yard bunker shot (à la Bryson)

Last year I started getting some gnarly back pain playing golf as a reasonably healthy 30 year old. Recently put in a lot of work in the off season with a TPI professional (highly recommended btw) to understand why it was happening and get on a mobility/strength training regimen. Although I'm already almost there, a healthy and pain free swing in 2025 is all I can ask for. All my other golf goals (more rounds, lower scores, etc.) flow out of that.

Walk more! Golfing in central Ohio is a joke, and you can't get out on a course for under $50 with a cart (I was told prices would go down, but apparently only in Greenland? Am I reading this right?) even at most of the munis. You can save $20 and get a good workout by eschewing the cart.

- Care less. I put too much pressure on myself to perform when playing in events - Get my anti-cap below 20 - Play with and against better players more often

- Beat my best 18 hole score 76(+4) - Get to 1000+ holes played for 5th straight year - Make the Horse Race in Home Course Tournament

Going to Pinehurst in November. Currently playing at a 14, but my new years resolution is to practice more than I play, and I'd like to break 90 more times than not when I'm at Pinehurst

Make more eagles than >doubles this year. I’m a decent low index player who rarely goes super low, but also rarely blows up. This year, I would like to trust myself more to hit some big shots when given a green light. I may not actually make any more eagles, but if I make a few more birdies and still keep big numbers off the card, it’s a win.

Logged 32 18-hole rounds last year, so let’s try to beat that here in 2025. Birdie every hole at least once at my club. 50 birdies total, ideally. Get the hdcp below 6 (currently 7.7). Play in at least two B Team matches at my club. And play as many 3 and 6 hole loops as possible with my two older kids (11 & 8, the 3 year old has a few more years until we include him).