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Tuesday Thoughts

I write today’s column while simultaneously watching the St John’s Prep livestream for the Memorial Liturgy for Bob Marinelli.

Mr. Marinelli ran the front desk at the Prep for decades and was a staple character of the experience for most if not all Prep students. I always looked forward to catching up with Mr. Marinelli when I swung back to the Prep. He had an incredible database of memories, and it seemed he knew not just everybody’s name, but something about them that he could ask you or talk with you about.

We had a great relationship. He was the Coach of our Legendary Undefeated JV Golf Team in 2011, and a big part of our State Championship at the Varsity level in 2013.

My favorite Coach Bob story happened outside of the course. I was fortunate to get to go to Game 6 of the World Series in 2013 when the Red Sox won the World Series at home for the first time in over 100 years. It was an amazing night. My family stayed overnight in Boston and I showed up in my Red Sox hoodie at 10:30 the next morning. When I checked in the front desk he just laughed at me. He told me that sure the Red Sox had never won the World Series in Boston in our lifetimes, but even more importantly, I had never had an unexcused tardy. He looked at me with the ball-busting grin he always had and said “Well you have 100 years from today to beat their streak.” The next day when we were waiting for school to start, a lot of our golf team would hang around in the office and shoot the shit before school with each other and Mr. Marinelli. When the bell rang and we got up to go to class, he said to me “Dr. Ortiz called me yesterday, I took care of that tardy for you. Guy sounded like you were giving him a hard time.”

I graduated without an unexcused tardy. That guy rocked. When each Prep Student makes their way upstairs to the office in the sky someday, I’m glad there will be a friendly face keeping attendance.

Back to the Course

I don’t want to get ahead of myself but I think I got my swagger back. Fired a nice little 76 after a bogey-bogey start on Sunday. Had another bogey on 11 with a bad tee shot and a double on 15, buoyed by a birdie on 10 to help get my cap down to where it needs to be for the Mid-Am this year, which is going to be hosted at Andover Country Club this year, I’d love to get in, and selfishly wish it was a different year due to my limited golfing schedule this year, but we’re going to grind our way in. I sent my Swing Coach some videos and he gave me some great feedback about needing some more connection in the swing, and I’ve been smashing the ball. Missed one fairway with the New GT head thanks to my ChatGPT fitter I’ve settled into the A1/T1 setup and I’m loving life on the left side of the fairway.

The L.A.B. putter experiment is still a work in progress; I’m down to 31 putts a round which is solid but feel like I should be making a few more long ones. I was pretty close on a few and definitely feel a lot more comfortable inside of 10 feet and I’m making more than I usually do from that distance. I got a new key, I’ve always looked at the hole on close putts, but now I’ve started to trace back from my line on longer putts and find a spot maybe 2 or 3 feet ahead and look at that during my stroke. It’s a great well to tell how well you’re striking and hitting your lines, with a larger sample size and maybe some more speed control drills I think I might be able to putt well enough to make up for some of the lapses in my swing that are sure to come with some busier weekends.

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Not quite through AI, but I’ve started a little side hustle of my own.

Thanks to ChatGPT, and a couple late nights on Excel I have completed my ADD holy grail, the Tully Pocket Caddy.

I launched an Etsy store, T5Golf - Etsy, and have sold about 20 of these cards to golfers in Massachusetts and all the way out in Vancouver last night.

For Tully Tuesday subscribers, if you refer 3 friends, or add 3 emails to the subscription list, I would be happy to make you one for free.

I hope to evolve this store into some more golf products outside of Analytics, with the ultimate dream being a Laser Engraving service to make custom Ball Markers, Divot Tools, and Wedge designs.

I stumbled upon the latter idea last week and think it would be a really fun hobby as well as a nice way to finance my golf and some future golf for GBaby and I, as she is taking quite a liking to the LPGA Tour Highlights, we have been watching together. We are limiting TV but there is and will always be an exception for Golf on TV.

Best Game I watched this week

Hard to pick just one. The Game 7s on Saturday and Sunday night in the NHL were OUTRAGEOUS. Ryan Whitney said on PMT only 3 times leading into Saturday had a team been trailing by two in the 3rd period and come back to tie it up, the first was a thousand years ago, the second of course was the Bruins in 2013 (never gonna pass up an opportunity to watch this), and the third was in 2019

But this weekend it happened not once, but TWICE. The Stars rallied in a way that I could not believe a team like Dallas could rally.

And that was impressive. What a night for Rantanen. Got traded away to Carolina only for the Canes to put him right back in the Avs path. A Hat-trick in Game 7 vs your former team who you won a cup with? Movie stuff.

Sunday night might’ve been even better. I was fading in and out of sleep and was fortunate to be locked in for the last 5 minutes

Two goals in the final 2:26! I love Jim Montgomery but has there ever been a coach worse with an empty net on the other end? The Bruins have a cup from 2023 if he could figure that out. Brutal Brutal Brutal way to end a season, maybe the worst way ever, prolonged by 2OTs before being put to bed by a deflected point shot to end it. These playoffs have woken me up. Hate to see this happen to a team like the Blues

Also I have to talk some golf. Scottie is back to Scottie levels. That was outrageous play all week. I had him under 66.5 on Thursday and was sweating it out on the front night until Scottie went absolutely Nuclear. Same deal on Friday when the lightning delay, I turned it off and then looked at the app to see he went -8 on his final 9 holes. What a Pyscho, look at these cards

4 Bogeys in four rounds, his last being a chunked chip that he returned by going up and down to make his 4. Wish he made that birdie on 18 to break the record but what an incredible performance. The Tour should be on notice. The Robot is fully charged.

One last note, do you see a guy who needs a win next weekend to complete a career grand slam who might be getting hot at the perfect time? I do.

Podcast Episode of the Week

I love these draft episodes, and this was a really solid one. I don’t follow Barstool as closely as I once did, but I always catch the drafts and think Nick Turani is a really funny guy, lot of very funny picks and relatable talk in here. I listened during a deep clean of my car this weekend, which was well overdue.

Best Show I’ve Watched this Week

I’m cheating again here but I didn’t watch a new show this week. I did however watch both episodes of American Idol this week and the contestants are so good. Here are some of my favorite performances of the week. Slater Nally is going to be a huge star whether he wins (which he should) or not.

This guy also rocks, great name too.

This girl is only 15 which is insane

And Breanna Nix is really good, she forgot some words but Independence Day is a sneaky guilty pleasure Country Song for me and she knocked it out of the park.

Nostalgic Song of the Week

I’m on a big Rascal Flatts kick, been trying to learn how to play a lot of their songs recently. Growing up I thought they were the biggest band in the world because it was all we listened to driving around in the car. This is a Top 3 Flatts song for me, Melt is a Top 5 Album for me. I think if I could take one person’s voice to make my own it would be Gary LeVox. Couple of Buckeyes in the band never hurts

Nostalgic Athlete of the Week

I got hit in the feels on Twitter. This may be a little niche but people need to know how good Sean Lee was when he was Healthy. Such a monster, so smart, all his best plays seemed like they came in division games, particularly against the Eagles. In my dream Golf Foursome of Cowboys along with Romo and DeMarcus Ware. We’d have a hell of a day on the links

Such a legend. Injuries suck.

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