2025 Myrtle Beach Classic Round 1 on Simulated Golf Tour
Hey everyone. Life is good. That’s what I’m trying to say today. Life is good. The weather is good. If only my body was feeling good. Um, still doing the flooring. I’ve got majority of the flooring done upstairs. Almost there. I’m pushing through it. Welcome to the Joshua Plan Golf. New intro there from last week as you guys saw. So hopefully you guys um are are playing in this tournament and have some fun too. This is the Myrtle Beach Classic at the Dunes Golf and Beach Club. So hopefully we play well. I couple practice swings here today. Played um or hit them pretty good. This weekend I I actually scored well on Sunday. I shot a three over at my home course and um it didn’t feel like a three over round. It felt like I was going up and down on every single shot. I think I hit like three fairways, two fairways and that’s it. But I was chipping and putting good enough to score well. So my driver was completely off duck hooks everywhere. So hopefully that’s not the case today. So let’s just dive right into it. All right. So we got 400 yard par 4. I should just leave this on driver because it’s a mini driver. I can use my other uh fairway wood, three-wood if I want to, but all right. I’m going to hope that there’s no um misreads or non-reads like I had last week here. So, just going to cross our fingers and hope for the best here. We’re going to cross our fingers and hope for the best with the the driver swing to I don’t know why I’ve had so many duck hooks, but I have. I’m gonna try to make a slight change here. Hopefully for the better. Duck hook. It ain’t going to hurt me, but it ain’t going to help me either. That was a thinking too much about other things swing. So, all right. 174 in. Good thing I’m feeling pretty good with my irons anymore. I carried that 200 yards rolled out to 230,400 spin. Wow. Wowzers, y’all. High toe. High toe on that one. That’s what I’m going for. That swing right there. Get the body into it. Roll up. Come on. Yes. Barely got into the circle. Love it. It’s a good way to start. Birdie off the top. See if we can get a better shot in here with the uh driver, though. But that’s a great way to start. I mean, that’s a solid seven iron. Right. Right where I want it. I’m trying to turn my hips some more. Get my hips open during the uh strike of the ball. So, trying to do the same thing with my my driver here and seeing if it ends up working. We’ll see. Well, we’ll see what’s over on the left hand side over here. Wasn’t a bad strike really. Yeah. 247 carry. I mean, I like those numbers. I’m kind of You know what? I might actually hit a nine here because if I go too far, try to fade it around or draw it around the trees here. One thing I need to start working on is getting my self mentally out of my head when it comes to my like main driver so I can start hitting it and practicing it indoors because that is killing me on the regular course, too. And I need to start working on a fade, too. My fade is just not working out the way I need to. And I have some holes where I need to fade the ball on this golf course, my home course. If I can keep hitting the ball like this, I’m going to be a very happy person. That was a solid strike. All right, first putt of the day, y’all. I need to get I need to get a new microphone set up. I need something that can just like sit on top of my camera, record directly to OS OBS here, and I don’t have to have something in my pocket like this. I can just It’s made for it, you know, cuz this is driving me crazy. Can feel the cord. [Applause] Oh, sit. Man, I smashed that. Jesus, I smashed that ball. Felt like a good putt, though. All right, this is going to go a little right and then it’s going to go back left, though. Man, I don’t know. I might I might just go right at it. I think that’s probably the better play, actually. There we go. There we go, y’all. 405 5 yds uphill. I don’t know what is hitting me on this thing. It’s like it’s like the cable’s not long enough. Tow banger. It’s going to work though. All right. What’s that? One second, guys. I got to fix this for it drives me absolutely insane. All right. One moment. You see how the uh sausage is made, as they say here. See, I had it going I had it going down the backside. Sorry about that. I might mute this. Yeah, I think this is going to be better. didn’t bother me this much last time doing the same exact process. So, I don’t know why it bothers me so much this time. All right, now that we’re done with that, back in action again here. Going to hit a nice eight iron into this hole. Don’t want to go full though. That was not full. We’ll see if it gets to the green bounce up there. You know what? That worked out. Wasn’t a bad swing necessarily. I just didn’t catch it the way I wanted to. Too much. There we go. We’ll try that. It’s going to move quite a bit. Get in the hole. Go. All right, we got our first par five and it is a shorty, man. 464 about 260 carry that left bunker. Looks like a little less to carry the right. Let’s see if we can Get in a decent spot here. Oh, that was a great strike. You guys, golf is so freaking weird how one day you can be playing so bad. Like Saturday, I just felt like I played like absolute crap to today. Playing so freaking good. What’s the carry on the water? That’s about 200. I didn’t clean a couple clubs prior to starting the round today, so bear with me while I clean a couple here or clean this one. Four iron. Kind of need to bring back that seven wood that I touted as a game changer, which it is. I just like hitting iron shots, you know. All right, this one’s got to be a solidly struck shot. If I pull this a little bit, it should be fine. But I just want to hit a nice solid 4 iron here. 204. It should carry. It was a decent strike. A little towy, but it works. Gave myself an eagle putt. So, one more. Try that. [Music] turn. Oh, come on. How did that go? Dang it. I didn’t think I hit it that hard. My leg putting a little bit sus right now, as they as the cool kids say. All right, there we go. Good. Still made birdie. Still made the bird. Go with seven here. Anything in the 170s, I go with seven. This one’s at the front. It’s going to take a lot of carry. So, one thing I need to start looking at on the course is the carry number to get to the green or over bunkers and stuff is cuz I’m always looking at just the flag itself and nothing more through my rangefinder. So, I knew that was going to be a little left, but I got a hold of it. Not terrible. I’m on the green. From 180 out, I’ll take that all freaking day. Try that. I don’t know if that’s too far out to the left. Go a little harder and I had it. really don’t feel like I’ve had a lot of bad shots today. Even the even driver is feeling pretty good right now, which is an anomaly out here it feels like these days. So, had one driver a little bit left, but other than that, I’ve just been smoking them a little towy sometimes, but fairway. I mean, my misses have been good m misses. little loft. We’ll see where that ends up. It’s probably my worst drive of the day potentially. Excuse me. 155 out of the rough to a front pin. Go eight iron here. Should be able to get over that tree. I’m just in the rough, not deep rough. So that’s good. Come back. Yeah, straight. Just straight push on that one. Just a straight push. First wed shot of the day, [Music] though. Things moving a little bit left. Go. Roll out. Roll out. All right. A brand new ball. And I already got a big old scratch on the side of it. That’s dope. [Applause] A straight pushed it again. I’m almost getting stuck a little bit. Oh, come on. 166. Ooh, I can’t really see much, but just go for it, I guess. Let’s check out the shotgun cam, actually. Oh, yeah. I should be able to get that up through the trees. Question is distance more so than anything. I hit that really solid. That last shot. 256 carry with 3,400 spin. It was dead center. I just pushed it. Yeah, that was towy. Look at this. This has got some movement left to right. So, I’m gonna actually move this one out just a little bit here because that thing is going to move left to right big time. Basically same shot as the last one though for the most part. Or was the last bunker shot I should say. Oh, sit. I hit that way too hard. as soon as it came off the face. All right. Come on, baby. Let’s make this shot. Get in. A that was such a good putt, you guys. I should have been in. All right, let’s go back now. God, that would have been nice to have a clean scorecard. I don’t think I’ve had a clean scorecard yet this year. Even if it was 18 pars, I’d be happy with clean scorec card. This is a longer par five though. That’s left. That was my I went left on the last hole, so I can’t go or right on the last hole. So, I can’t go right this time. Hopefully the algorithm doesn’t screw me big time on this one as I’m going for driver from the this. But I it’s not the lip I’m worried about. It’s just how the algorithm is going to treat this. Good. It didn’t totally screw me. That was a great shot actually from there. Took a ton off, but great shot nonetheless. 41. 41. Hit it too hard. Sit. Sit. Get myself a birdie putt. All right. Do not go long on this one, Josh. Do not go long. Turn back. Turn back. God, I did not think I hit that that hard. Shoot. I thought I hit that just right. Come on. You got to make this, Josh. Never had enough. I pushed that even. Never had enough. Dang it. It’s two backto back stupid holes. That’s a little frustrating. I hate giving away holes like that. Exact number. We’ll see. So funny. I even told myself, don’t go long on that hole and I still did. I was like, that cannot be short. I was like, no way that’s short. All right, short par par four. Let’s see if this is going to actually be a driver hole or not with the water there. Uh, it’s going to be close. I should probably just hit a hybrid. All right. Three hybrid. I like the alligator uh um pin or ball uh ball markers. T markers was a great strike. Just didn’t go as far as I had hoped it would. Just pushed it a little bit, too. It’s 124, though. It’s not a not a bad position to be in. I’m just looking for good ball strikes. Come back just a little bit. Wow, that took off a ton on that from the uh rough. Maybe just one to the right. Maybe two. Just right edge of cup. Feel like it’s going to come back a little bit more. 22. Now I’m just not hitting it very hard. Better than being over, I guess, and getting into the circle. Just makes it a little more difficult to make any any birdies. Come on. Be good. Be in a good freaking position. Yeah, I’m like getting into the positions. This is what I couldn’t do on the golf course this weekend is I could not get into the positions that I’m trying to get into. I need to get into to make good swings like that. So, so this is uh making me very happy that I’m able to get into these positions. One of my better strikes that almost carried 260. So, that’s got to be good. Oh, when the spin gets you. When the spin gets you, sometimes it helps you, sometimes it hurts you. That time was a bit of hurt. One more. There we go. 10footer. pushed it. Just missing these like little crappy like 10footers. Not crappy, but like putting pushing it or leaving it short. I should just missing with the putter today, but we’ll have that. All right, 170 is a little bit. It’s in the center. So, I’m just not going to try to hit as hard as I normally do. That was all toe. That was so bad, you guys. With the toe toe shot in the flowers, though. Going to play out of the flowers. Yay. Deep rough. Okay, so this is 27 yards. I feel like I’m going to have to hit this like freaking 40. Watch this. See that? Yep. I took off like 20 yards on it. But I gave myself a putt. I need this I need this putt right here to drop. You guys accidentally uh muted it. Another 10footer. There we go. Easy to make the ones for par, right? I need really need to start eating before I play these rounds. I come out here and I’m so freaking hungry. This is an interesting hole. Water all down the right, so you don’t want to go right. Probably the most challenging of the holes so far. Just trust the swing. I don’t mind that. Really don’t mind that at all. I’m definitely going to be laying up on this this hole, though. This is the smarter play here. There’s no sense in trying to go for this, especially coming out of the rough. Might even move this even a little bit further to the left here just to make sure It’s me. Okay. Might be a little left, but it’s okay. Oh, yeah. Perfect. Can’t be mad at that. Pretty feeling pretty confident today. May have to choke down on this one a little bit though. Come back a little bit. Perfectly fine with that one again, too. Not the closest putt, but it works. Got to go uphill 30 ft, though. It’s the only downside of this freaking putt right here. So, guesstimate 35 maybe. Oh, need it a little bit harder. Dang. And dead straight putt though. It looks like pretty much. Oh, yeah. 7 ft for par. Dead straight. All right, it’s good par. I’ll take it. Love to see some birdies on the uh card the rest of the way out here. That’d be phenomenal. drop kick. Drop kick that one. That one’s definitely the worst of the day. Stop. Stop. Don’t go in the rough. God, how unlucky is that? Yeah, that was a fun little dropkick driver. Let’s make up for it though. Right here, right now. Too hard. Dang it. too freaking hard. Oh, never mind. I’m actually on the green. Holy crap. That’s kind of incredible. I got to move that much. Let’s try that. That’s incredible that I actually stayed on the green. Wow. Carried that 190 on the sim with 5,000 backspin. Oh my god, that was a crappy swing, but it made it in. Feel like it made like a figure eight. It was like Whack, whack. Uh, I’m curious to get into some um some of the newer Kirkland balls that I haven’t been into yet because um I’m like all I’m I’m curious if they’re going to be like better outside cuz this ball is already beat to crap. But once this round is done is done like I can’t play this ball anymore at all. So left but doable. What is this? Sandy 248 to the green. Hey, screw it. Let’s go for it. Not going to be the best strike in the world, but man, that actually worked out. at Hit that exactly 50 yards and that rough took it off so much off of I was Like that’s going to turn and not go in. God, I thought for sure that was going to miss. All right, three more holes. [Applause] That one got a little stuck behind me, but don’t hit the cart path. Are you kidding me? I got the worst freaking Wow. 105. I I mean, that punch is going to be such a pain. I wonder if I can get over these trees, cuz we’ll find out. Go a hit the freaking trees. That was such a good strike, too, you guys. Dang it. Get up there. Dang it, Josh. That was a weird little chip. And I still am not on the I got to make this for bogey. Haven’t had one of these stupid blowup holes like this in a while. I thought maybe I would be able to get over those trees, but that’s one hard thing to see in the sim golf world, right? Well, at least it was only a bogey. There’s a lot of similar distance par 3s on this course. Every one of them’s like 170. Where’s this located at? You know what? I’m going to have some fun with this club down. I’m going to smash the piss out of an eight iron here. Probably a stupid play, but we’re having fun here. If I seven, I feel like I’m going to go too far every time. A 164 with that eight iron. We’ll see if it lands on the green. And it does. Just pulled it a little bit. I just want to get this one in the circle. If I end with even par for the day, so be it. Better uh outcome than I expected, honestly. All right. 18 par4. Think if I could straighten out this driver today, it would have been a little bit better. I mean, this hasn’t been bad. It was better than it was this weekend. Maybe have been on the left in the trees a lot though. Sit. Sit right there. One to one. This is like my one of my favorite like numbers between 120 and 130 cuz I just love this club so much. Come on. Be the number. Be the number. See, that’s why I love this club. I hammered it. Hammered it. Putting has just been off today. All right. Good. Barely made that one in. Oh man, that was round was a little rough there for a couple holes. So, let’s check out the uh scorecard. Started off solid in those backtoback bogeies on the back or the front. Seven and eight there. Putting 98 ft. Not great. Um, three birdies, three bogeies. Bogeies. Get the bogeies under control. I’d be pretty happy there with that. So, hope you guys enjoyed round one uh today. Um, look forward to round two coming out later this week. I’ve been trying to post them like on like Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday type of of mentality, but with everything that’s going on, my my life is like chaos right now when it comes to the housing stuff and uh summer is programs, summer things, you know. So, thanks for coming along. Until next time. Peace y’all.
The Joshua Plan takes on the Myrtle Beach Classic!
