I met my wife back in early 2017. From the first time I visited them in South Florida we golfed together.

I’ve golfed on and off since I was a kid… played when I was in middle school, nothing in high school, played a bit when I was in college, then very infrequently after that until I met my in-laws.

My wife’s parents and her brother both live in beautiful country club communities. Particularly her parents, they are in a fairly small community with two pristine 18-hole courses.

I caught the golf bug from them - I rekindled my love of the sport, and realized it was the outlet I was looking for in my life- physically challenging, mentally challenging, and something I can do (hopefully) for the rest of my life.

But over the past 5 years they’ve WHOOPED my ass. Even my 73 year old mother-in-law can hand my ass to me out on the course.

Over the past year I finally found an instructor I meshed with, and I’ve seen some improvement in my game, but due to COVID I haven’t seen my in-laws until now.

I shot a 91 on Monday, and a 90 today. I beat my father-in-law today for the first time ever (admittedly he wasn’t playing his best but still), and my brother-in-law who’s a 3 handicap kept commenting on how much I’ve improved.

My three best shots today:

Two sand saves out of the only two bunkers I hit all day. The first one the ball stopped two inches from the hole, and the second one I made the 8ft putt for the save.

The third was my approach to one of the hardest holes on the course. It’s a stiff dogleg right, with an intimidating lake between the tee box and the hole, and a very narrow fairway. My tee shot rolled just off the fairway into the rough, leaving my about 170 to the flag. My 3-wood is my 180 club (I’m not a long hitter by any means), so I hit it nice and soft and carried to 3 feet from the hole. My ball rolled out into the fringe, and I made the putt for par.

Lastly - the course we played today has tough island greens for both 9 and 18, and today was the first day I hit both greens without losing a ball into the water!

I’m like a little kid on Christmas. I’ve had some really atrocious rounds playing with my family, so I’m fucking stoked to finally hold my own around them!