Bryan Tunstill1
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Bryan Tunstill1
@btcecc
PGA Director of Golf at Columbia Edgewater CC, Portland, Oregon, wife Kari and 3 kids Avery, Owen and Emery. Ricardo and Turf Dog Auggie round out the group
Portland, OR Entrou em Kasım 2011
270 Seguindo325 Seguidores

@Kstupples Let me know if you need an old, rusty Scotty Cameron putter 😂
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When you have a hotel room with a carpet that’s perfect for putting practice.. 😬 it may be too early to tell but I feel like I might love golf again 🫣#goal2027
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@TheGhostofhogan Probably some of the worst odds (in favor of the bookies) that you can find
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@TheGhostofhogan Still remember those drivers that day. 212 was all I could hit it
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@TheGhostofhogan I met Larry Barber in Montana at a section tourney. I was gonna do some fish after the tourney was over with my dad and brother and everyone told me I had to talk to Larry. He told me exactly where to go, what was fishing the best, and gave me the greatest advice. Grateful!!
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Post college I sold EZGO golf carts for a distributor in my area. We were at Grayhawk one time for a sales meeting. I was on putting green with some guys messing around & say a former plyr at ASU named Larry Barber who I got to know during my day at Oregon. Next to him was @PhilMickelson hitting balls. I went over & said hi to Larry. We chatted for a bit then he introduced me to Phil. Phil stopped hitting balls shook my hand asked me when I played at Oregon, how my game was, and was totally engaging and nice. He knew a few of my old teammates, asked what they were up to etc. Then I watched him hit laser beams with his driver for a bit- all on a rope and head high- must of been working on a specific shot- anyway my point is he was really genuine & nice. Didn’t big time me or brush me off.
We need more high profile athletes to be like Phil.
Even though he’s a Sun Devil he was cool to me.
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When I worked at a private club a while back there was a $$ game called 5’s and 2’s. U got pts for KP’s, up & downs, high low team pts, etc etc. The 2’s meant $2 a pt starting off. Team behind was always eligible to “step” on the pts which meant pts would double. If shit went sideways on a hole for one team they could get swept & win all eligible pts which would then double the pts again. Safe to say as an asst pro making a whooping $18 an hr I wasn’t in a position to lose $200/300 on the course.
The game uses handicaps and teams r low and high handicaps pair up & take on other 2 guys.
I was a good test of the nerves bc without question winning or losing by the time we got to 17th tee the pts would have been stepped on enough times they would get to $32 or even $64 a pt.
It was to my advantage being the better plyr to play this game since there was a KP pt on each hole plus natural birdies were a pt as well.
It tested the mental game in a big way because for me standing on 17 knowing I’m possibly exposed for $200 IF I don’t execute the shot was what I lived for. It wasn’t about the $$ (always nice to have some cash in the pocket) it was more about the mental challenge for me- the drive to prove to myself that I can pull off the shots when the heat was on. That is what fueled me way back when I started playing competitively at age 14. There is no other sport, IMO, where it is 100% up to you as to whether you win or lose.
I remember breaking 90,80, and finally 70 for the first time. That feeling of accomplishment was like a drug. I wanted more of it. I would eat, sleep, & breath golf.
In high school I would putt at night at the club as the practice green had a lamppost near it and just enough light shined so I could see the hole. Total nerd move back in 1986 but I didn’t care bc I was enthralled in the game.
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@TheGhostofhogan Love the golf bag. What a beauty. And a phone call on the way out of there, asking us if the ams still had their scorecards 😂
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Oregon Open one year. 1st round, playing good golf, driving it like Hogan thru 9 holes, few under at the turn, step up to our 10th hole, dogleg right Par 5, easily a get able Par 5, key is the drive, only “issue” is if you flair one right there’s OB and desert. I proceed to flair back to back tee balls right. Lost ball on first one, find second but it’s unplayable. Long story short I slap a 9 on the scorecard 🤣. If I had any mental game I coulda been a decent plyr at the club pro level.
Fried nerves & self deprecation are the strongest parts of my game 🤣😊😬🪖

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