Day 1 of maybe retirement. Started out great. Had 7 makeable birdies on the first 7 holes. Made good runs at all, all putts past hole by 2-3 feet. 3 hard lip outs. None went in. +1 through 10, and then I must have realized that I hadn't picked up a club in 3 weeks. Started missing greens like crazy (but as I look back, the missed greens were with a 3w, 3h, 3h, 4h, 5i .... some long shots on a cool windy day didn't go so well). Had a nice 12 foot putt for a birdie and 79 on the last hole ... nope.
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Shot 48/46 this afternoon. First round of 2024 and first with the KE4 Max irons. It was a bad day to take new clubs to the course without ever hitting them. So windy, I didn't know what club to hit. Just two gir. I would have had 3 more if I had chosen the right club, lol. I felt rusty, too. Driver was ok but I hit some pretty bad shots with irons and hybrids. The greens were inconsistent. Some faster than others. Multiple 3-putts and didn't make anything longer than 3 feet.
83 at Tarpon Springs. No birdies. 48 degrees when we went out at 7:13. Had three layers on and kept them on. Only had two of us today and we were done at 10:10.
4 days later
78 at Timber Greens. Had two birdies. Haven’t played there in a couple months and it’s in excellent shape. We were first out and went around in an hour and a half on the front 9. But they have members go out on the back and slowed us down.
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Sneakylong Nice round.
Cold as a coal miner's belt buckle here.
7 days later
First round since November. Shot 46-45-91. Can't do anything right. Played Coral Oaks in Cape Coral, Fl.
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Yup, unless you live on the Cape. lol But when I lived in Haverhill many put their clubs away at the end of October. I may start just playing golf here in Florida in the summer (April-October) because it’s getting too expensive.
Mediocre - to- poor putting today. 83. Team got 5th which means we all got our $3 back.
85 at Tarpon Springs. No birdies. Beautiful morning for golf. 69 when we went out at 7:10.
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44-41-85 at The Club at Westminster in Fort Myers. I am such a hack. Lost 2 club lengths off all clubs. But I'm still hitting them pretty straight so how can you misfit it that bad that you lose that much distance but still hit it straight?. Such is my golf life.
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Played yesterday in cold and damp. Stocking cap weather. CPO and the course was a soggy mess. Packed wet sand. I hadn’t played in 5 weeks and most of us hadn’t played in a few weeks at least.
I shot 84 with 4 really bad holes. Sand shots sailing over the greens into bad spots, and the same for flop shots. Lot of woulda coulda shoulda in my decision making. I should have known better but I specifically practiced sand and flops before the round, and did great on both of them. Why even practice?
9 GIR, 32 putts. Kinda humorous stroke averages:
Par 3s: 3.50
par 4s: 5.10
Par 5s: 4.75
Looking at the app today, I see the course got an overnight PCC adjustment of +2 for yesterday. (From the USGA black box algorithm.) That means yesterdays scores were pretty bad on average. It really means we played a much tougher course and/or conditions than usual. So my 84 effectively became an 82 for handicap purposes.
Our foursome sucked the least and we were the big winners.
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I played my first round of 2024 today at a place called Zellwood Station Golf Club, north of Orlando. A hilly course, esp. for Florida, and in really nice shape. I shot 42-42-84, and was pretty happy, although I missed a couple of putts and messed up a chip or two on the #$%^&* Bermuda turf. I liked the place well enough that I'm playing there again next week! Oh yeah....$45 green fee!
Played last Saturday at Western Skies golf course. Shot 39-46. Couldn't hold it together on the back nine due to the pace slowing to a crawl. Started out, par, par, par. Finished with 666, bogey, double, double. 4:45 to play one of the easiest courses in town.