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Cody Blick has clubs stolen before final round at Q-School, fires 63 with makeshift set to earn status
Web.com Tour Q-School is well known for being a gruelling process, and while 49 players graduated over the weekend, one man was forced to go to hell and back to do so.
Cody Blick sat three shots outside of the desired Top-40 heading into Sunday’s final round, and on waking up that morning to prepare for the biggest round of his life, the 25-year-old realized that his clubs had been stolen.
Blick took to social media immediately, desperately hoping that anyone could help him, offering $5k no questions asked should his clubs be returned.
Blick was unable to recover his clubs though, meaning he was forced to put together a mishmash of different clubs before Sunday’s final round. According to the Mackenzie Tour Twitter account, they consisted of the “Superintendent’s driver, pro shop’s wedges, random irons and a heavier than usual putter”.
Cody Blick (@codyblick) woke up this morning and realized his clubs had been stolen.
He proceeded to fire 63 with the Superintendent’s driver, pro shop’s wedges, random irons and a heavier than usual putter to earn guaranteed @WebDotComTour starts #Tourjectory pic.twitter.com/nhFOAveCs6
— Mackenzie Tour (@PGATOURCanada) December 9, 2018
After all of that, Blick pulled off a miracle. The American fired a sensational round of nine-under par 63, which included birdies at his final three holes, to take him into the coveted Top-40.
Blick is now guaranteed starts at the first eight Web.com Tour events of next season, and after everything he went through, to say he earned those starts would be a massive understatement.
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GolfWRX is live on site this week at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans for the PGA Tour’s one-and-only two-man team event.
As usual, general galleries, WITBs, and pullout albums — including some pretty spicy custom putters and headcovers — await your viewing.
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Eric Eiffert
Dec 11, 2018 at 10:01 am
This is a cool story, but no one has mentioned anything about the medalist Danny Walker. He is a great kid from our area. Won the Florida HS Championship as a freshman. Golf Digest wrote a lousy article on his win, talked about everyone else but him.
Dan
Dec 11, 2018 at 7:42 am
Do you think his contract prohibits him from disclosing what clubs he used?
John Hall
Dec 10, 2018 at 9:44 pm
Just goes to show that all the ‘latest technology, club fitting, custom build/design…’ stuff we’re fed is just bullshit. Put a good swing on it and it’ll work.
dogit
Dec 10, 2018 at 5:46 pm
Imagine if this happened to someone who was used to playing one length clubs.
Gun Violent
Dec 10, 2018 at 5:53 pm
No, because no sane person would want one lenngths lol
Norman P. Canuck
Dec 10, 2018 at 5:22 pm
We need to give him a spot in the Masters! Now! It’s the right thing to do.
Eric
Dec 10, 2018 at 9:23 pm
Norman Canuk…Hilarious – I laughed out loud haha
Johnny Penso
Dec 10, 2018 at 12:18 pm
Too bad he didn’t have those latest [Insert popular golf company here] irons with the [insert latest hot shaft] and the new [insert latest driver here] or he might have shot 59.
Sincerely,
WRX’ers Everywhere
Scheiss
Dec 10, 2018 at 5:48 pm
Aha! But you forgot the putter! He might’ve putted like xhyte and shot 83 or something with a putter that just wasn’t giving him anything
Dan
Dec 10, 2018 at 10:40 am
In 2003 and a 2 Handicap I rented a set of callaway graphite shaft regular flex irons and woods. I used S/X shafts at the time. I shot 68
Dan
Dec 10, 2018 at 10:44 am
In 2003 and a 2 Handicap I rented a set of callaway graphite shaft regular flex irons and woods. I used S/X shafts at the time. I shot 68
Sometimes when you’re on you’re on
Scheiss
Dec 10, 2018 at 5:50 pm
Nah. It just means with your extra overinflated ego you shouldn’t have been playing S or X shafts to begin with, whatwith your girly swing and all the R graphite works perfectly
Dan
Dec 11, 2018 at 7:40 am
Wow. Thanks for the kind words and the laugh
HKO
Dec 10, 2018 at 10:29 am
well done. soon the guy will never have to worry about the clubs, with sponsors lined up for him. oh and eternal hell for the club thieves. can’t imagine what he’d been through on the day morning.
George
Dec 10, 2018 at 9:55 am
These guys are really good golfers, yes a fit set helps but it shows that skill is he main thing. A custom fit set will help a higher handicap player over lower ones much more.
Johnny Penso
Dec 10, 2018 at 12:23 pm
Disagree. The more accurate and repeatable your swing is, the more you need clubs that are attuned to your exact swing properties since your margin of error is much, much smaller. Weekend golfers with double digit handicaps are generally very inconsistent and might not even notice large variations in club properties.
It’s only an anecdote but it plays into the narrative that fitting is overrated and that golfers can adapt to the small variations in club performance generated by fitting quite easily. Tweaking ball flights, launch angles and spin rates are quantifiable on a monitor but don’t necessarily translate to the scorecard unless you’re coming from a place where you are extremely poorly fitted.
George
Dec 10, 2018 at 2:20 pm
http://wishongolf.com/custom-clubfitting-is-more-beneficial-for-mid-high-handicap-than-low-handicap-golfers/
here is it explained much more in detail. Yes low handicap golfers have better feel but they are really good.
Joe Espisito
Dec 10, 2018 at 7:08 pm
What?? You saying 25hdcp’ers don’t have a repeatedly bad swing???
David Elswick
Dec 10, 2018 at 9:32 am
Wondering why 3 people graded the story s shank.
Gun Violent
Dec 10, 2018 at 10:39 am
They’re all believers in fitting lol
Gun Violent
Dec 10, 2018 at 9:18 am
Well that throws the whole theory of fitting out the window, huh. Nobody will spend money on fitting ever again.
Juststeve
Dec 10, 2018 at 11:44 am
I’m not sure that it throws out the “whole theory of fitting” but it does suggest that fitting is not essential to good scoring, something we should have remembered from a time before fitting became a business. When something becomes a business those working in the business describe what they are selling as more important than it is.
CaoNiMa
Dec 10, 2018 at 5:52 pm
He was just being a WUM, but you wouldn’t know that eh
Juststeve
Dec 10, 2018 at 8:17 am
Tell me the set was put together by a fitter. No one can shoot 63 if the clubs aren’t fit to him.
Brandon
Dec 10, 2018 at 9:53 am
People shot low rounds all the time before fitting was even a thing.
Beny
Dec 10, 2018 at 11:41 am
Not only that they were forged butter blades, a ball that would not fly straight with woods that were actually made of wood, clue and screws. I mean come on guys, these guys are STUDS. They could go out and beat us with garden tools….aka “Tin Cup Style”
dat
Dec 10, 2018 at 10:17 am
WRONG
Geo
Dec 10, 2018 at 7:39 am
Wow. No Tour issue anything and closes the deal. 🙂
Body Click
Dec 10, 2018 at 7:34 am
WITB???!!!