Tag Archives: Golf

Curbing my Enthusiasms

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As a side note, I seriously have to curb the number of ‘active’ projects I have going, and stick with games (and sports) that I like to play.

Baseball and racing will always have a spot in my rotation.  Soccer and hockey take the next tier, with football and basketball lower on my list.

I also have golf, tennis, boxing, wrestling and lacrosse in various forms.  Of those, I have to be in the right mood/mindset to play any of those.  None of those games are ones I consider playing with a long-term ‘season’ or replay.

And then there’s the least played games: bowling, roller derby, demolition derby, and some interesting fictional sports.  Someday, I keep telling myself.

I just started the 2013 SCRAM season, and the 2024 SCRAM/SCRAM-B sets arrived in the mail today.  Yikes.

So yeah, I need to curb my habit, considering the vast amount of other hobbies I have and would like to pursue as well.

Stay tuned, I guess…

Golf: Olympic Club

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I had forgotten how long it takes me to play a shot-by-shot golf game.

It took me the better part of 3 days to finish a round of golf with four golfers.  But it was fun.

I painted the golf markers, too.

Final scores from the Olympic Club, San Francisco, California:

Stewart Cink and Bubba Watson tied at the end.  Based on the back 9 score, Stewart Cink is the winner of this round.

Next up in ASG Golf will be a round at TPC Harding Park, with a foursome chosen from the 1970s set.

Stay tuned!

Golf

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I’m either of or past the age when I should have taken up golf.  I suppose I still can, Dad had plenty of sets of clubs sitting around here.

In lieu of that I of course play on my tabletop, and lately the bug has bitten me, though I have yet to actually set up and play a game.

It started with PLAAY Games’ Binge Week Golf event in late April, where I picked up the new History Maker Golf play mat and Course Collection 20, along with Course Collection 19 and 2010s Golf Stars set.  CC20 contains 72 cards which allow you to create your own golf courses.  I finally did that last night, and have yet to play a round on my custom course, tentatively named TPC Delta Tioga Links.

The bug bit harder when I started looking up golf game videos and came across Dave Gardner’s unboxing video for APBA Golf, which I’ve had sitting on my unplayed shelf for about 8(!) years.  I dug it out and looked at it, and may give it a play through after reviewing a couple more of Dave’s videos.

The reason it sat around unplayed?  History Maker Golf and ASG Golf.  Both of which I’ve played a few times over those 8 years.  I played HMG more because it was a much simpler game to play, as much as I liked ASG.

One of the videos Dave posted was of these ball markers for ASG/APBA Golf, which he ordered from Shapeways.

I immediately thought, ‘3D printed?  Surely they’re available to print at home!’

And I found them.

$4 for the file instead of $9 + shipping.

These mark where your ball lands on the course.

APBA Golf:

ASG Golf

I’d been using ‘sign here’ flags in the past.

I also found myself on ASG’s website, and ended up ordering TPC Harding Park and the Men’s 1970s golfers set.

Now I just need to find the time to play the often postponed John Price Invitational, as soon as I get a foursome of golfers from him.

Stay tuned!

Golf: TPC Summerlin

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I meant to play a round a couple of weeks back, as a quarantine distraction.

So here we are today:

2020 Quarantine Invitational, from TPC Summerlin, Las Vegas, Nevada.

I randomly chose 4 golfers from PLAAY’s fictional 2017 Pro National Golfers set.

Results:

Somers and Weber were tied after the 16th, still tied after the 17th, and a birdie on the 18th by Weber gave him the win.

Such excitement!

*golf clap*

Not sure when the next golf match will be, though next month is the second annual John Price Invitational.

Stay tuned!

Reflections

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I started playing table top games regularly when I decided to get reacquainted with Strat-O-Matic basic baseball.

I though that would be it.  The dice tower/tray that I built (PepsiCo Park) was inspired by other player’s Strat-O-Matic-themed creations.

But then, through my brother, I discovered PLAAY Games’ Red White & Blue Racing, which led to History Maker Baseball, which further led to about half a dozen other baseball games that I’ve tried, and almost a dozen more that I haven’t, along with various football, basketball, hockey, soccer, golf, wrestling, and other sports.

Quite a library of games I’ve built up over the years, and who knows when/if I’ll get around to all of them.

But that’s my plan.

Stay tuned!

The Inaugural John Price Invitational

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A friend on Facebook posted a list of his top ranked golfers, so I asked him for a foursome of golfers that I could play a round with in History Maker Golf.

I decided to have them play at Augusta (of course) and called it the Inaugural John Price Invitational.

The results:

Amazingly, Bobby Jones birdie’d on the 18th to force a playoff with Ben Hogan.

Which I didn’t play until about a week later.

Jones’ game totally fell apart in the second half.

Congratulations, Ben Hogan, winner of the Inaugural John Price Invitational!

Have an idea for a foursome?  Or even a pair of golfers to have me play?  Let me know.

Stay tuned!

Plodding Through

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My brother was right about the rules for Box Seat Baseball: they’re a bit much to get through after one read-through.

Plus I’m distracted by the arrival of other games (sport and non-sport), and I’m trying to fit in a round of golf as suggested by another friend on Facebook.

Hopefully all this will clear by the beginning of next week.

Stay tuned!

Golf!

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My home desktop PC bit the dust Monday morning, so I replaced it and spent the day reinstalling and configuring programs.

I took the time to reinstall and play a game of ASG Golf.  I have the 2014 players and the Olympic Club course, and I added myself as an additional golfer.

BEHOLD!

Yeah, I suck.