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Cody Blick Uses Borrowed Clubs To Shoot 63 At Web.com Q-School

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Cody Blick is the newest poster boy for perseverance and overcoming adversity.  Imagine going to Web.com Q-School battling for eight guaranteed spots in 2019. Then imagine the panic after realizing your beloved sticks were stolen. What to do?

Borrow clubs of course constructing a makeshift combo bag. So how do you think he did?

Pre-tay, pre-tay, pre-tay damn good as GolfDigest’s Joel Beall describes. It truly is a great story, but also makes one wonder how essential custom sticks are. Not that club fitting is unnecessary, but that using borrowed bats can free up the mind to play with nothing to lose with a built-in excuse. One of my best rounds was playing with a neighbor of my Dad’s clubs.

At the end of the third round of the Web.com Tour Qualifying Tournament, the 25-year-old Blick was 10 under for the event, tied for 74th. While catching the leaders (23 under) was a pipe dream, Blick had a reasonable shot at a top-40 finish (after Saturday, that standing hovered around 14 under). An important figure, as those who finish 11th to 40th earn eight guaranteed starts on next year’s Web.com circuit.

Unfortunately for Blick, he’ll have to surmount that charge with clubs that aren’t his own, as his own bats were apparently swiped. On Sunday morning, Blick took to Instagram, pleading for whoever took his bag to return it, offering $5,000 for his sticks, no questions asked.

 

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🚨STOLEN GOLF CLUBS🚨TO WHOEVER HAS OR HAS SEEN MY GOLF CLUBS- I will give you $5,000 cash no questions asked.

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Somehow, Blick threw together a bunch of misfit clubs when his own sticks didn’t materialize c/o his Titleist rep.

Magic ensued.

“It was an attack mentality all day,” Blick told GolfChannel.com. “Hitting bad shots was OK, almost, like, Dude, I have a mismatched set. It’s not expected of me to hit good shots. In a weird way, that was comforting.”

So there ya go. Lesson; never give up, ’cause sports happens…

Cody Blick Q-School Titleist Web.com