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Dan Denney · a golf log Nashville · 2026

Ball Flight

Two vacation rounds in July. Then a year of lessons, a year of PopStroke, and Topgolf every week. Learning a game on purpose, with the receipts.

Sessions 4
Rounds 2 +3 putting
Venues 6 2 annual
Days in 54
since 2026.07.27

Cadence 7 in the last 30 days

01 Personal records

Derived from the log, never typed in
Game score114goal 125AUG 23 · GOLFTECLongest drive≈185ydsAUG 23 · GOLFTEC7-iron carryNew151ydsSEP 11 · GOLFTECSmash factorNew1.34SEP 11 · GOLFTECLow putting round+2to parAUG 30 · PopStroke
Low 18— not yet —First scored stroke-play round
Low 9— not yet —First scored nine
Fewest putts— not yet —First round with putts counted

02 The baseline

Full evaluation →
Projected score 114 GOLFTEC · 2026.08.23
Goal 125 -11 everyone starts at 125

Five target stations on SkyTrak, projected to an 18-hole score. The goal is already under the number. The driver is not.

300 DR · 5 shots 112to185yd 115 short
180 4 hybrid · 2 shots 130to163yd 17 short
150 7I · 4 shots 74to135yd 15 short
120 7I · 3 shots 68to120yd on target
50 54° wedge · 2 shots 10to52yd on target

03 Progress

Every session and round on the baseline · hover for the moment
T0 2026.07.24
AUG SEP FIRST ROUND IN 20 YEARS SIGNED THE YEAR AT GOLFTEC 100110120130140GOAL 125114 · ONE POINT, NOT A TREND YET

session round the moment it became a story

04 Recent activity

Full log →
  1. 2026.09.11 GOLFTEC Nashville West Practice 167 yd 7I best The selected 7-irons reached 150 and 151 yards of carry, with a best total of 167. The useful contrast is spin: the two longest were low-spin shots, while the 142-yard carry sat inside SkyTrak's ideal spin window.
  2. 2026.08.30 PopStroke Nashville Putting +2 blue Kinder course, or a temporary truce. Signed the year.
  3. 2026.08.30 PopStroke Nashville Putting +5 black
  4. 2026.08.30 PopStroke Nashville Putting +3 black
  5. 2026.08.25 Topgolf Nashville Range 120 min Two hours of hitting a real ball hard into the evening air. This is the weekly reps venue now.
  6. 2026.08.23 GOLFTEC Nashville West Lesson 114 game score A screen full of numbers politely explaining what the swing has been doing. Signed a full year of lessons and practice on the spot.
  7. 2026.08.21 Five Iron Golf Nashville Simulator · Enough feedback to satisfy the tinkering part of the brain, enough unreality to keep a bad shot from ruining the mood. Probably a one-off.
  8. 2026.07.30 Myrtlewood Golf Club Stroke play · Better than round one. Straighter borrowed balls from Blaine, still plenty of slice. Turned curiosity into intent.

05 Where

All venues →
Course World Tour Golf Links Myrtle Beach, South Carolina 1 visit · 1 round Course Myrtlewood Golf Club Myrtle Beach, South Carolina 1 visit · 1 round Simulator Five Iron Golf Nashville Nashville, Tennessee 1 visit · 1 session Coaching Annual GOLFTEC Nashville West Nashville, Tennessee 2 visits · 2 sessions Range Topgolf Nashville Nashville, Tennessee 1 visit · 1 session Putting Annual PopStroke Nashville Nashville, Tennessee 1 visit · 3 putting · best +2

06 The bag

Every club →
— nothing logged yet — Clubs go in after the first fitting. Each one will show its average carry pulled straight from sessions.

07 How it started

I had not played a real round in about twenty years. In July, on a family trip to Myrtle Beach, Blaine and Caleb asked if I wanted in. I did, badly, and three days later I wanted the next one. Misty was into it too, which is the part that made it stick.

So instead of grinding public courses through a Nashville summer, we bought infrastructure. A year of lessons and practice at GOLFTEC, a year at PopStroke, and Topgolf whenever the week allows. The plan is to learn the swing indoors, with numbers, and take it back outside with proof.

This page is the proof. Eventually.