weapon of choice

today is a day i don't ever want to forget.

warning: not safe for golf noobs

twas my first time back at the OCC courses in a month for a round of 9-holes.. and boy oh boy has the place changed. no more putting green (they're converting it into a chipping practice area) and a couple of holes at Aranda have been redesigned or something so the pins(flags) are in vastly different spots from where they used to be. some greens got reworked to have so much undulation, so much so that my putting was a semi-disaster :(

BUT. there's always a but. by hole 5 i was so pissed with my lack of distance with my 4-wood and the incurable slice i was experiencing with my driver (aka 1-wood aka the biggest fattest club of the lot which is supposed to give you the most distance) So myself and ashwin (my brudder lah) were messing around while waiting for the flight(of players) in front to clear out and i asked if i could use his top-of-the-line, SICK and SLICK, crazy ass, prized possession TaylorMade r5 dual type D driver (pictured) cos that bugger was hitting 200m drives..on average *faints*. you see how nooby i am in comparison to him?!?! ashwin FTW!

but anyways i gave it a coupla swings and went for it..still sliced it bad enough to land outside the OB marker -__-, but far enough to make the buggy ride from the tee box to the spot where it landed a good 15 seconds longer. which means that it went ALOT further than usual. i was under the r5's spell already ah. at hole 7 i was all set to use it again cos it was a nice and long par-5 with plenty of fairway to work with. and so, "JUZ WHACK"..
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for the first time in my 17years and 11 months on this planet, i hit a golf ball ONEHUNDRED AND SEVENTY metres. inhuman. i really wasn't expecting that cos my previous best was about 130m (but it rolled an extra 10-20m after making a pretty large divot in the fairway..and that was waaaay back in 06 :P ) but thanks to that blessed club, i reached 170! i got my dad's approval too( not that he doesn't usually give his approval. its just that HE himself is one of em John Daly-esque BIG hitters who gets 200++ drives effortlessly) *kowtows to the r5* that driver is magic lah. srsly. and there was considerable enough air time to hold my "end of swing" pose for more than just a few fleeting moments..that felt gooooood. 450cc of pure power.