State of your game ?

Weirfan · 2017-08-03T14:00:43+00:00

So how's your game ? Me: Jekyll and Hyde/all over the place - 6 weeks off with a back injury and can't find any consistency. Playing an average of once a we...

Bigborgel

sdandrea1 I don't have any ego anymore, and I don't have any ability either...

letthebigdogshunt

Bigborgel
Unfortunately for me I still have some ego, but like you I seem not to have the ability to play good golf. I am hoping I can come back in September and start hitting the ball better and just enjoy the walk much more.

sdandrea1

Bigborgel I don't have any ego anymore, and I don't have any ability either...

Well, shit..........

sdandrea1

Wife and I just finished 18 holes at Swan Point Yacht and CC. SWMBO brings out my best. I played the Gold tees at 5500 yds which allows me to hit more GIRs. The new wedges and putter were hot and my longest iron shot was with a 6i. Carded a 73 with 3 birdies and 4 bogies. Best round ever at that track and the card goes into the keepsake box! The state of my game was better today. 😀

FauxAmish

sdandrea1

Is yacht like a yatch ?

Or is a snatch like a naught ?😎

PA-PLAYA

sdandrea1

Sounds to me like you need to play more golf with SWMBO.

Nice! Well played!

sdandrea1

FauxAmish Is yacht like a yatch ?

Or is a snatch like a naught ?

yes.................

PA-PLAYA

Well, believe it or not there seems to still be a little something left in the tank despite my infrequent play as of late.

Five bogeys, one birdie, nice round of 76 today.

Hit all of 15 balls at the warmup range, rushed to the putting green and rolled about 10 putts, then off to the first tee. It was an absolute sauna out there today, was completely drenched an hour into play. Shot +1 going out, then lost my energy midway through the back-nine and carded a few careless bogeys. But... found a little something and hit every green the last five holes, somewhat salvaging a pretty decent round for me.

Lost about 4 pounds of water weight, then as soon as I got back into the clubhouse I replenished with a couple or three Moscow Mules. And if you don't know what a Mule from Moscow tastes like - shame on you! Best part of the day! 🙂

sdandrea1

PA-PLAYA

Nice work!

SWMBO makes Moscow Mules at home and serves them in little copper mugs. YES!!

PA-PLAYA

sdandrea1

Moscow mules rock. Absolutely love them. Three shots of Titos, about 4 ounces of Stoli's ginger beer, a splash of lime juice and garnished with a lime splice in a frozen copper mug with ice.... man - hard to beat that on a hot summer day. 🙂

PA-PLAYA

sdandrea1

PS - we gotta hook up this fall. If you're willing to travel about 3.5 hours north, I'll treat you to a great round at Woodstone. I think you'd like it. Come up on a Friday or Saturday, spend the night in my guest bedroom, have a BBQ out on the deck that evening, play golf with a few of my buds on Sunday... it'd be nice.

If you don't have my email address, let me know. Early Octoberish. I think you'd enjoy the scenery. (We aerate the first or second week in September). Greens should be great the second week of October. Would be great to finally meet you!

sdandrea1

PA-PLAYA PS - we gotta hook up this fall. If you're willing to travel about 3.5 hours north, I'll treat you to a great round at Woodstone. I think you'd like it. Come up on a Friday or Saturday, spend the night in my guest bedroom, have a BBQ out on the deck that evening, play golf with a few of my buds on Sunday... it'd be nice.

If you don't have my email address, let me know. Early Octoberish. I think you'd enjoy the scenery. (We aerate the first or second week in September). Greens should be great the second week of October. Would be great to finally meet you!

You're on! We leave for FL for the season about the 3rd week of Oct. I'm retired, so you suggest some weekends and I'll block it out. My band has a gig on Oct 7th so that weekend is out. I need your email address. The weekends of the 14th or 21st would work.

PA-PLAYA

sdandrea1

I'll find out the exact aeration schedule and plan accordingly. Hoping we can work it out. Probably looking at the 14th or 15th, or (if weekdays are clear) we can play just about anytime.

sdandrea1

PA-PLAYA I'll find out the exact aeration schedule and plan accordingly. Hoping we can work it out. Probably looking at the 14th or 15th, or (if weekdays are clear) we can play just about anytime.

My weekdays are pretty much always clear!

PA-PLAYA

sdandrea1

Weekdays are pretty easy to come by for me as well. And... the course is fairly quiet during the week. We're closed on Monday's, but can look at a Tuesday or Wednesday arrangement. The tee time will obviously depend on your intentions as far as whether you'd like to come up the evening prior or want to do a marathon 1-day drive the day of. Or, perhaps, you come up early on like a Tuesday, we get out Tuesday afternoon, then get an early-morning tee time for Wednesday so you can get back home at a reasonable hour and get two rounds in.

Let me know what you'd prefer and what your schedule might allow. The membership calendar says greens aerification is scheduled the first week of September. They should be fully recovered by the last week of September, so perhaps 9/27 - 9/28. I'm heading to Florida the first week of October, so getting out the week prior would work best for me.

sdandrea1

PA-PLAYA

Sep 27/28 would be perfect. I prefer weekdays anyway. I'll pencil it in. We can take this to email if you like.

dandreasteve@gmail.com 😉

Sneakylong

I clanged it around for an 85 yesterday. Had an epiphany that seems to have come to an end. Was concentrating on turning my right hip back behind me and have had excellent ball striking and accuracy for several rounds. As with most epiphanies they don't last forever and the search begins anew.

fatshot

Weirfan
For a 71 (almost 72) year old, I guess I'm still playing OK. I average right around 80, playing a blended set of tees on most courses. We don't play par 4's over 380, nor par 5's over 500, nor par 3's over 180. My low score is 77 so far this year, and my high score somewhere in the mid-80's. Fortunately, those high scores have been the exception. I hit lots of fairways, average about 7-8 greens per round, and 33 putts. My putting has ALWAYS been my weakness....I've recently gone "Left hand Low" for under 10 feet, and that seems to have helped a little, but really fast greens scare the shit out of me! My goal is to shoot my age before I hit 80 years old....based on this year, I have a few years to wait!

braveheart

Age 60, handicap has dropped this year to 10-11 based on improved play around and on greens. Still struggle with driver accuracy hence me getting fitted or tweaked swing session this week. Tired of the inconsistency and trying to figure it out myself. If I can make a change equipment or swing wise that a professional fitter/instructor advocates and it works , I can possibly lower my handicap a touch more.

johnnydoom

My game sucks bananas. Used to be a good iron player while the remainder of my game was not good from lack of practice. Due to kid's activities and the accompanying lack of funds I've only played about 5 rounds in the past six years. Got invited to play nine a couple of weeks ago with friends I used to work with and shot a 47 without being able to get a metal wood off the ground (swaying into them for some reason). All in all, not bad for me given the complete inactivity. Went with them again last week and didn't even bother to total it up. Had a 9 on the par 4 1st and an 8 on the par 5 3rd. Followed that up with a 7 seven on a very short par 3! Got a lot of work to do as I look to ease back into the game at age 54. Good to have actually played twice in a three week period though.

sdandrea1

johnnydoom My game sucks bananas. Used to be a good iron player while the remainder of my game was not good from lack of practice. Due to kid's activities and the accompanying lack of funds I've only played about 5 rounds in the past six years. Got invited to play nine a couple of weeks ago with friends I used to work with and shot a 47 without being able to get a metal wood off the ground (swayin........

This game can be taken up or restarted at any age. One day you'll have more time and if the desire is still there, you can jump back in. Keep your clubs. 😉

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