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Mike Fraser Golf
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CGTF - 7th year Certified Golf Teaching Professional
Master Club Fitter - GolfTown University
January 11, 2021
Well, wasn’t that an interesting year. So glad 2020 is behind us.
I welcome the New Year with a renewed sense of passion for golf. I will have a few spots for a select group of students. I will have a new procedure for sessions. I am thankful that golf is one of the few approved activities one may enjoy in this most trying time.
If CoVid wasn’t enough to challenge you to your breaking point, I had another issue that found a solution.
My arthritic thumbs (left one specifically) hit a breaking point late in 2019 and I had CMC Joint Arthroplasty done on my thumb January 8th, 2020. The surgery was a success and my surgeon suggested that the joint was much more stable and my constant pain should be alleviated. I’m happy to report that this is true! Although my thumb looks quite different and I have a permanent hyperextension, I can grip a golf club and literally have no pain in my left hand.
My golf game certainly suffered this past year as it took a long time rehabilitating the joint, but I did see some light at the end of the tunnel and I did get a chance to play a little (once the courses opened up again May 1st).
I continued to work at the McCleery Golf Course for my 4th season and was involved in some irrigation repairs, beaver dam maintenance as well as the 15th hole bunker redesign and rebuild while the course was closed to the public.
Although I’ve played some decent golf in the past two years, my thumb situation did play in to a rise in my handicap index. In 2019, I ranged from a low of 1.1 to a high of 2.0, but ended the year at 1.8. In 2020, I ranged from a low of 1.5 to a high of 2.3 and ended the year at a 1.8. I recorded 22 scores in 2019, with only 1 game after September 11th, as my thumb pain was debilitating. With golf being shut down early in 2020, I was able to record 22 scores and was starting to see some progress in August and September.
I am now in my 52nd year of playing this wonderful game and I begin my 7th year as a CGTF Certified Golf Teaching Professional.
So here’s to 2021 . . . I hope our paths cross on the 1st tee somewhere.
Play well, have fun and FORE!
Mike Fraser