How did you shoot today at Golf
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Typhoon they really are. I played rivercourse.com with the men's club. Everyone played from the whites. Total of 6126 yards, according to the scorecard. Trouble started on hole 3. Par 4 380 yard dogleg left. I pulled my 5 wood, because it's about 200 to ob. I topped my 5 wood, 2nd shot wasn't much better. 7 iron got me to the bend, then I chunked my 7 iron, chucked my 9 iron, 9 iron bump and run onto the green, one putt. Hole 4, 185 yard par 3, 5 wood off the tee, ended up pin high way to the left, on the tee box of hole 3, ball 2" below my feet, Wedge over the cartpath, hill, bunker, and green. Stubbed my wedge 2 times, finally onto the green with my 5th shot, 1 putt for 6.
Hole 10, to the right of the fairway into the rough, 5 wood and got under it, 7 iron into a tree, 9 iron punch out to short of the green, 9 bump and run onto the green, then 3 putt.
Hole 14, driver to a bunker on the right, 7 iron to just barely out of the bunker, 7 iron to the fairway, 5 iron to the left of the green, next to the cartpath, 9 iron bump and run up the hill, over the depression, skittered over the green, putter from 2 feet in the rough, 2 putt.
Those were my worst 4 holes that were all triples.
I'm happy with the way I played on 95% of that round. I need to work on my ball striking, and consistency. My handicap is 23.7, and that round was 21 over. I'm looking at it as not bad for this being the beginning of my 3rd year playing.
Hole 10 is listed as 402 yards, and hole 14 is 484 yards.
75 (par 71) at Timber Greens. Had one birdied. Hit it pretty good today on less than 5 hours sleep due to the Super Bowl going into extra innings. Maybe I need to try less sleep more often.
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I moved back to the white tees today. I get 3 more strokes on the 18. I still managed a 77 with only a few GIRs. Driver, 4h, chip, putt pars. Had one birdie (on our shortest par 4), 8 bogeys and 9 pars.
Nice winter day today, sunny and mild. I shot 87 with 4 greens and 33 putts. I’m not doing much of anything well. Putting is a struggle. I’m trying to tell myself that it’s conditions plus rust, but I don’t really believe that.
At a minimum, I have to decide on a different putter for tomorrow.
Played better today but still shitty. 46-47 at Whirlwind Cattail course. Changed out my putter but still had a couple of 3 putts on much bigger greens than the greens on Sunday. I had quadruple bogey and a couple of doubles due to terrible tee shots. I blame one of the guys we were playing with. Dude is a sales guy and never shuts up on the tee box. I would call him out on this but he has paid for at least 4 of my rounds of golf over the last couple of years, including $215 for today's round.
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I'm teeing off at noon. Swapped out driver, putter, balls, and will be trying something different in my swing.
What could possibly go wrong?
Lately every decision I make on the course is wrong and ends up costing me big time. Or at least, I make it turn out to be the wrong decision. I'm going to go into George Costanza opposite mode today.
On the positive side, I just picked up a handicap stroke on our toughest par 3!
I forgot to mention. We also played with my buddies son who was visiting from Toronto. The kid is about 25 and he shot even par on the day with a double and triple on his card. Kid had at least 5 birdies and on the 350 yard par 4 16th, he came up 5 feet short of driving the green. No matter, he proceeded to chip in for eagle from 50 feet!! It was fun to watch.
I played yesterday for the first time since mid October. The results were about what I expected.
I hit some good shots and more bad shots. I had a bad case of "peeking" and I topped several shots.
Over all I was satisfied for the first round of the season. I'm finding that every year older I get it takes me more time in the spring to get my swing back to feeling natural. I used to just show up on the tee box
and hit the ball. By the end of the first round I was back to normal. Now my first time on the range I
really struggled and the second range session was a bit better. Yesterday's round was a bit more consistent but I still have a long ways to go to get back to feeling good about my swing.
Very nice day but breezy.
83 with 5 greens and 31 putts. My putting was much, much better. I switched from a counter balanced mallet to an anser style, and I lined up the ball. I hit my start line way better today and made some good putts for pars.
The bad holes were really bad, though. The wet dormant Bermuda around the greens can make you look real stupid. I’m in my third winter and I still struggle.