Ayaya Golf, episode 1-3

Episode 1

A golf program with Aya Matsuura. Notice that the tee area is green, but it seems everything else on the golf course consists of dead (or nearly dead) grass; apparently the area isn't watered or something. On the first hole the guy makes an normal shot; Aya manages about six yards.

She continues with her game since she's furthest from the hole. She manages to bounce a golf ball off a tree one time. She's not getting much of any flight out of her shots; she tends to hit grounders.

She makes the bunker on the first hole.

Results of the first hole. At the moment I'm not exactly sure why they are doing this series. It's obvious that Matsuura is an absolute beginner at golf; it's almost as if this is something done to humiliate her. The hole was a par 5, by the way.

The second hole is shown in extremely short fashion, with the end score on the par 4 showing signs of improvement for her score.

She improves on the third hole, cutting three more strokes off. Her drive still is a grounder, but her iron shots are showing a little air, even though their distance is limited. She makes an extremely good put and just barely misses sinking it for a 9 total.

She manages to improve even more.

They show a series of commercials she did, one of them involving golf.

This is going to be incredibly difficult since she is going to have to shoot over a water hazard.

She apparently didn't make it, but almost did. There's a bunch more commercials and the episode ends.

Golf, episode 2

The sixth hole, a par four. Again, notice that all the grass everywhere except on the tee area and the putting surface appears to be dead.

She ends up in a sand trap. She makes a couple of terrible shots that keep her in the bunker, then the guy explains how she needs to loft the ball to get it out. She does that and hits it out fine.

She seemed to be getting better and now is getting worse. I'm not sure about what the surface of the putting green is made of. It appears almost too uniform to be grass, more like it's stuff like a pool table is covered with or something.

The score so far.

Another hole completed.

This hole is a par 3, but you have to shoot up over a small stream or something.

She got a 6 on the part 3. She has a strong tendency to go to the right really sharply. It also seems that she often swings just as if she's swinging the club but without any actual force behind the swing.

This whole has a much wider stretch of water to shoot over. The good news is she manages to clear the water. The bad news is that it's another shot to the right and it ends up in the trees.

Commercials.

Golf, episode 3

(For the rest of these episodes, I'm just going to put some pictures and will only add a description if something very interesting happens.)

A female yoga instructor joins them for a short bit. Matsuura Aya continues to have major problems using a driver, generally either going almost directly to the right or off a little less directly towards the left. She seems to be getting better with the irons, though.

The guy has major trouble on one hole, though. His first shot is fine, but his second slices to the right (like Aya's first shots do.) His third shot slices to the right, hits a fence and bounces backward. His next shot slices to the right and gets stuck in a tree. His next two shots again go to the right.

For some reason, maybe they were running out of time to do the filming, but they both start doing a lot of running on the last few holes, shooting as quickly as they can.

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