After a fairly decent round driving the ball, I sliced a nasty one off the 18th tee through the trees onto the adjacent 9th fairway. Hit a low 3 wood back through the trees and it got through pretty clean and looked to be right of the green somewhere down there thereabouts. Went down and started wandering around looking for it getting more and more disappointed when my wife chipped on and then called over, "there's two balls on the green, you noticed that right?"
Best Shot of the Round
Scramble today. First round in 4 years with a full set of clubs. This year I played a few times with 5 clubs, only iron a 7 iron. Borrowed my friends kids ironsā¦. Didnāt go that great BUT..
12th hope at Lake Sunapee CC is a brutal par 3. Itās 230 yards uphill into the wind to an elevated green with a false front amd a 2 level green. I donāt carry a fw and I know Iām not going to get a 3 hybrid there. So everyone else canāt reach the green with their driver anyway. Closest was 15 yards away from the green. I hit my abbreviated driver swing ā¦ā stingerā to 13 feet on the lower lever where the pin is. Brutal breaking putt where I laughed to myself because my back was almost to the hole and I made the putt for 2.
Ended up winning the only skin of the day for thatā¦$400 cash
Hole 17 today at Ocotillo Golf Club. I pulled my drive left and it managed to creep out of the fairway bunker, leaving me with a very awkward narly rough lie. Had 112 yards to the front pin location with a big ass bunker just to the right of the front of the green. I max out my 54Ā° wedge, looks like it will be short but ends up a little under 5 feet from the cup. I really enjoy the feeling of a great recovery shot. I proceeded to miss the short birdie putt. I did however make up for it by dropping a 30ft bomb on 18 for birdie! The last 2 holes were very fun today.
Had 1 birdie yesterday on #5. Hit a perfect drive up the hill, was in between PW & GW to a front pin and I clubbed up, but didn't commit. Thinned the PW to the very back of the green. I did this a few weeks ago and it leaves you a good 60 ft putt downhill breaking a good 15 feet right to left. I 3-putted last time, but it just took 1 putt yesterday lol. No skin though.
The final hole is a tough 380-yard par 4 with water all along the left, and the green is tucked behind the water. I'm not a long hitter so instead of going for the green on my second shot I'll usually play a shot that'll end up to the right of the green and hope for an up-and-down. Today I smoked hybrid that had a tight little draw (unintentional) that curved around the water and ended up on the right side of the green. Two putts later, I had a par on a hole where I usually take a bogey. It was a satisfying finish after a rather disappointing round.
4 days later
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My best shot of the round was a 35 foot birdie putt on a par-three. It's a two-tiered green and the pin was on the upper level. I hit a pretty good tee shot, but the wind pushed the ball left onto the lower tier. I was faced with a 35-footer, up a sharp rise, but then there was a drop-off after the hole. I had to hit it hard enough to get up the rise, but not too hard and have it roll way past the hole. And I nailed it!! The ball died right at the hole and dropped for the birdie!!
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Yesterday it had to be my up and down on the 427 yard , par 4 17th.
Hit a good drive and had 155 in to a back right pin, but off a slight downhill lie so hit the turf behind which closed my face and pulled the shot into the front left bunker. Very deep bunker with the green elevated about 12 feet above the base where my ball sat. Pin was on opposite side of green and it was uphill shot 17yards. Spalshed the ball to 8 feet past and made the slippery downhill putt for par
6 days later
I birdied the par 5 18th hole yesterday. Into a stiff wind I hit a good drive, and a good 3-wood. I was still about 150 out so I decided to hit a 5-hybrid. I hit it perfectly, and ended up about 4' from the hole . . . and . . . birdie!!
I had 2 fantastic shot in one round. Hole 3, drive was a bit short, in a little depression, I managed to skull it over the green on my 2nd shot. Found it in the rough, flopped it up onto the green and it just ran right down the sloped green and into the hole for par. 2nd par of the round. Hole 6, my drive managed to get a lucky bounce off the trees to the left and the ball ended up in the fairway. 80 yards to the pin, I didn't catch the ball clean and ended up short. 3rd shot I skull it over the green and it stops against the fence. 4th shot ends up short and the ball stops on the green. Downhill, left to right slider and I hit the center on the cup to save bogey from 25 feet. Still ended up 10 over....
Oh well, had fun!!
On the 18th hole I ended up in a green side bunker. It just so happened that there were about 6 or 8 of the grounds crew doing maintenance work on the bunkers at the time. I told them that I needed to get up and down for a par and a season best score. No pressure, right? So, with all of these guys watching, I hit my bunker shot to within 4' of the hole and made par. 
Came pretty close to acing the 16th hole yesterday. 133 yards, which is usually a 9 iron for me but I hit PW because it was downhill. I was wondering if PW would be enough club but I flushed it. Ball hit a few inches short of the hole and hopped a few inches left for a tap in. Gotta love it when the result matches how nice the shot felt! I posted a pic in the "what did you shoot today" thread.