# I finally broke 100! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 2, 2001, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-broke-100/79424 "2001-09-02T18:54:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Slip\_Mahoney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Slip\_Mahoney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slip_Mahoney)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2001, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-broke-100/79424/1 "2001-09-02T18:54:37Z")
And I’m telling everyone. God, I’m so happy! I usually start to fall apart around the first hole, but today, everything went perfect. I shot a 98! Now that I’ve mastered this stupid game called golf, there doesn’t seem much point in playing anymore, but I’ll go out next weekend to prove it wasn’t a fluke. You should have seen all the jealous looks I got at the clubhouse, when I went around shouting “98, 98, I’m so great, I’m so great!” My golf pals said they weren’t looks of jeolousy, but of disgust and contempt, but they’re full of shit. I know jeolousy when I see it. I am the god of golf! ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2001, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-broke-100/79424/2 "2001-09-02T19:34:50Z")
Congrats on your golf accomplishment. However, I think a bunch of people are going to pass this thread over, thinking that it is a post-count celebration. (Many other post count parties have the same or similar titles). And I’d be lucky to shoot nine holes in 300 strokes. ---
**Author:** ![Bob\_s\_your\_uncle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/53a042/32.png) [@Bob\_s\_your\_uncle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_s_your_uncle)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2001, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-broke-100/79424/3 "2001-09-02T19:36:16Z")
🆒 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2001, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-broke-100/79424/4 "2001-09-02T20:52:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Slip Mahoney \* > \*\*… I went around shouting “98, 98, I’m so great, I’m so great!” > \ > I am the god of golf! \*\* Gee, and I kinda thought I liked you… OK, I’m kidding. Congrats. Even tho I know didley about golf and have no desire to learn or play, I know that 100 is a big deal… so good on ya, **Slip** , and I hope it’s merely the beginning of your golf goddom. ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2001, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-broke-100/79424/5 "2001-09-02T22:10:18Z")
I thought this was going to be another post party. I looked at **Slip** ’s post count before I even read the OP. My first thought was, “not quite there yet, buddy.” But now I’ve read the OP and I understand. Congrats, **Slip**! ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2001, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-broke-100/79424/6 "2001-09-02T22:58:31Z")
Woo hoo…I managed that feat two weeks ago…now of course the next round I shot about 110…so it was prolly just a fluke. Keith ---
**Author:** ![nineiron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e56c9b/32.png) [@nineiron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nineiron)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2001, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-broke-100/79424/7 "2001-09-02T23:16:12Z")
Congratulations! It’s a nice feeling, isn’t it? Now you have to shoot for 95 the next time you play. I’m with Odieman. I shot the proverbial round of my life a few weeks back for a 90 (with no mulligans, by the way). Next time out, same course…got a 110. How is that possible? ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2001, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-broke-100/79424/8 "2001-09-02T23:41:24Z")
I don’t want to brag, but I shoot even par every time I go out. Then again I only count the shots I feel like counting. I call it Batty-Rules. You ought to play it sometimes. The ladies go crazy for it. ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-broke-100/79424/9 "2001-09-03T01:37:29Z")
Hey, I just broke 100 for the first time this summer myself! [sub]Then again, I was bowling at the time…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-broke-100/79424/10 "2001-09-03T02:56:42Z")
[sub]…if only my golf score was my bowling score…or even my bowling score was my golf score…\[/sub] Congrats, **Slip**. ---
**Author:** ![Redboss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8baadc/32.png) [@Redboss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redboss)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-broke-100/79424/11 "2001-09-03T03:10:34Z")
I like Batty Rules. Actually I think I use them already in many aspects of my life. Like 1998 didn’t really count. hehehe and well-done **Slip**! Redboss ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-broke-100/79424/12 "2001-09-03T03:41:41Z")
A long, long time ago I looked deep inside myself for Core Values. Worthy or not, they came down to: I’ll never join the damned Junior League and, as God as my witness, I’ll never dink around with a snobbish, exclusionary, lame-ass pseudo-sport like golf. I’m a Marxist. Groucho, not Karl. Karl was a schumuck; Groucho on the other hand spoke truth… Harumph. Veb P.S. Congratualations. I guess. Oh, piffle. Okay. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-broke-100/79424/13 "2001-09-03T08:18:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Slip Mahoney \* > **I shot a 98!** **Slip** , my darling lovey pie, you suck. The only time I have _ever_ golfed, I shot 10 over par. I no longer love you. I will send for my things. ---
**Author:** ![puk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ea5d25/32.png) [@puk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puk)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-broke-100/79424/14 "2001-09-03T11:34:49Z")
sheesh, you’re breaking up over golf scores? It was definitely not meant to be. Now Settlers of Catan, that’s a game I’d leave wife and kids for. ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-broke-100/79424/15 "2001-09-03T14:05:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GingerOfTheNorth \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Slip Mahoney \* > > **I shot a 98!** > > **Slip** , my darling lovey pie, you suck. The only time I have _ever_ golfed, I shot 10 over par. > > I no longer love you. I will send for my things. \*\* Ginger, If your golf did not have a windmill on the 8th hole, I now hate you. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-broke-100/79424/16 "2001-09-03T14:12:29Z")
If you hit a moose on the fairway is that a penalty? And what if it gets caught in his rack? Also, is that a metric 100? I don’t understand canada at all. jarbaby ---
**Author:** ![Slip\_Mahoney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Slip\_Mahoney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slip_Mahoney)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-broke-100/79424/17 "2001-09-03T18:39:03Z")
What the phuck is happening to me? I got a call this morning asking me if I’d be a fourth as there was a last minute cancellation. It’s at The Swamp, otherwise known as Lakeview, but I don’t care. Tiger Woods isn’t worthy to caddy for me, because I am The Wizard. I shot a 114. Did some jeolous bastard cast a spell on me? **jarbaby** , Canadian golf rules state that if you hit a moose, you advance one base or half the distance to the goal line, whichever is greater. And she who talks softly and carries a big stick, **Veb** herself, gave me a congrats. Sort of. How cool is that? I’m gonna crack another Molson’s, but I know it won’t help. I’m inconsolable. ---
**Author:** ![Tokiwoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@Tokiwoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tokiwoki)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-broke-100/79424/18 "2001-09-03T19:08:25Z")
Congrats! This gives me the opportunity to tell a really funny story about a fellow doper, **Cykrider**. He just started golfing this past summer, and I got a great picture of him swinging. Surprisingly, he has really great form and it looks like he’s a natural. However, if you look at the picture really closely, you can tell that the ball is still on the ground. He likes to refer to it as his ‘practice shot’ picture. 🙂 please don’t kill me Cyk! ---
**Author:** ![Slip\_Mahoney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Slip\_Mahoney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slip_Mahoney)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-broke-100/79424/19 "2001-09-04T04:42:32Z")
Boy, that brings back memories, **Tokiwoki**. I’m okay with my drives now, it’s the putts I have trouble with. I lose concentration very easily. Birds suddenly flying out of a tree, a dog barking in the distance, an earthquake, hailstones, nuclear war - any one of these things will make me blow a putt. ---
**Author:** ![puk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ea5d25/32.png) [@puk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puk)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-broke-100/79424/20 "2001-09-04T06:29:24Z")
excuses excuses. it was all a fluke I tell yah.