How did you shoot today at Golf

Mattyv · 2021-02-06T03:18:59+00:00

I figured we could have a thread on golf rounds. I'll go 1st. Played Whirlwind Cattail course today. I was hitting the driver far. Pushing 290-300 75% of...

Walterjn

Typhoon I MIGHT.... depending on HOW much over. Then again, shit here isn't exactly cheap...

mulegolf

Par4QC We will get your snow down here, after it melts. And it will close a couple courses on the way through. Actually, it will close a lot of things on it's way through.

Are you near the Mississippi River? Most of the water run off from right around here goes to the head of the
Des Moines river at Lake Shetek and the dumps into the Mississippi just south of Keokuk, IA and Hamilton, IL.
Where the Des Moines starts is Near the town of Currie, MN. and is 10-11 miles from me.

Par4QC

mulegolf I'm about a mile up the hill from the river.
Your melt goes a good direction for us here!! Keokuk is SW of us. Still, plenty of other places feed us directly. And some nasty '100 year' floods. Have been a few the past 25 years. 😄

sdandrea1

83 today on a "real" golf course just up the road from home campus. Hilly layout with large undulating greens. Good test! Had two sloppy double bogeys, two birdies.

Jelopster

First time out this year and shot a 40* at my 9 holer. Not a true 40 as I hit 2-3 off the tee on a few holes and played the best one.

Some notes:

The Fat Lady Swings putter I refurbed is $$$. Maybe it’s because I’ve never used a mallet, but this was the best I’ve ever putted.
The Mizuno ST-Z 220 driver is long and forgiving. I didn’t hit one out of the center but they still went super straight. I can only use driver on 3 holes but all went 270 - 280.
The PXG 0211 (first gen) 3W continues to impress. I hit it 2x off the tee and both carried 250. One just cleared a creek and clung on to the bank.
The Cleveland Niblick is revolutionary. First time I’ve ever used a chipper. I dropped a few balls down on a few holes to compare the chipper to the LW. The chipper won every time hands down. It gives me a chance to get up and down.
I put the Sub 70 699 3U in the bag (and took out the 7W b/c there are no 200 yard shots in this courses but there is a 235 yd par 4.) After duffing my first attempt off the tee with the 3U, I tried swinging about 70% and nutted one 220, dead straight. I think I need to try the 70% swing on all my iron shots.
Speaking of irons, I didn’t have many opportunities to use the new (to me) Ping Gs. I hit a 7i off the tee box (no tee) a few times while waiting for the group in front to finish and had a few pure strikes and a few thins. The pures felt great and thins sill did pretty well. I thinned a 9 on a par 3 and it still hit the green (but ran through). I need to spend some time at the range learning how to hit an iron!

Mattyv

Played San Marcos in downtown Chandler AZ today. Shot 43 -39. Solid round with 1 birdie. Made par on holes 11-17. That was nice. Took the 7.5° Bang O Mattic St539 out today. Holy shit is this driver money. I had qt least 5 drives that went 290+ and straight. It was silly how long this driver was. I have a new DCT coming but this thing is staying in the bag for another round or 3. Out drove my buddies who hit really good drives on hole 16 by 90 yards.

DonM

Mattyv Bang O Matty?

Sneakylong

79 at Timber Greens. Had one birdie. Pretty good ball striking day. Shrimp salad on toasted sourdough for lunch.

DonM

Sneakylong
If everyone ate more seafood, would there be enough to go around?

See, that's why I don't eat it. So it doesn't get wiped out any more than it already has.
Those poor shrimps....

Gimme some of this:
Giphy - Filet Mignon Food GIF

DonM

Ok now I'm really hungry.

garyt1957

Played Lake Jovita South today. Gorgeous course. Quick greens. Still had the driver woes, (maybe I'm hitting down, lol) literally couldn't get it airborne. I'd bounce the ball maybe 75-100 yards off the tee , making GIRs impossible. Crazy thing was we were playing by ourselves and no one behind so I'd hot 3-4 drives and they were all the same. Seemed off the toe like barely even hitting the ball. Never seen anything like this.
Actually hit the irons well. Hit every green but two with an iron, but unfortunately it was always my 3rd shot. Except par3s, hit every GIR. Shot 45 on the front with 22! putts.
Shot 45 on the back for a smooth 90. Played the whites at 6200.
Hope I can get this driver nonsense worked out

sdandrea1

garyt1957 Hope I can get this driver nonsense worked out

Try hitting down? Maybe shorten the shaft?
🤣🤣

DonM

garyt1957 Back in the bad old days, I would sometimes bench the driver for long periods. I remember teeing off a lot with my 7 wood. One round I used 6 iron, and scored better.

Serious question, how about teeing the driver ball about a half inch off the ground, or a quarter inch? Hit it like a fairway wood. Because your brain is definitely trying to manipulate something at impact. When you tee it down, there are no choices, you have to go down and get it.

rsvman2

garyt1957 Try to hit it very smoothly, almost like you are trying to just hit it half as hard as you think you should, and see what happens.

garyt1957

sdandrea1 you laugh, but I had all that crap going through my head. Up, down, sideways, tried em all to no avail. And driving was the one good constant in game

garyt1957

DonM I tried everything I could think of. I did try teeing it really low, tried 3 or 4 different swings, Ballard, StacknTilt, even tried what I remembered of the Heard Super Swing. Absolutely nothing worked and the results were al.ost always the same, toe hits that never got off the ground. I probably need to get home and forget about golf for a week and all will be fine. Driving has been the only good constant in game. One more round tomorrow.

sdandrea1

garyt1957 you laugh, but I had all that crap going through my head. Up, down, sideways, tried em all to no avail. And driving was the one good constant in game

No thinking Gary. Thinking is bad. Just let golf happen. It's like a virus. Good days, bad days. 👍😉

Typhoon

garyt1957 Take a week off, you’ll be fine. Too much in your head. I went to the range yesterday, irons, hybrid all great. Driver… it was like a 30 handicap stepped in to hit😂. It’ll be fine in a week, for me I just have to stop hitting driver indoors.

garyt1957

Played our last FL round today at Moccasin Wallow GC. Pretty rough course that got pretty good reviews?
First 9 was same as the others, 75 -100 yard grounder. It's truly unbelievable. Hit the irons fine just the driver sucks.
Got to hole 12 and just concentrated on keeping my lead shoulder in and actually hit some decent drives coming in. Ended up 45-45 for a 90

Par4QC

garyt1957 Just let me know when you are on the road North, heading home.
I'll lift the curse. 👹

🤣

Typhoon

garyt1957 Gary make sure your legs are moving and you’re shifting your weight through impact. Get that trail knee and right hand back to the ball at the same time. Compare it to your iron swing.

sdandrea1

Par4QC I'll lift the curse. 👹

Uh-oh. 😎

garyt1957

Par4QC Haha, I picture you with an ugly doll sticking pins in it

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