Sparky

My normal putter earned a timeout for a few rounds so it can sit and think about what it has done!😁 Nice round despite the extra putts Sparky.

    Played the simulator yesterday. Stone Canyon golf club in Oro Valley, Arizona.
    We played a two-man scramble. My partner and I shot +1 with 5 birdies. Fun day when your hitting the ball good. 🙂

      Nice day today but windy. Cold front coming in as I type.

      I shot 82 with 6 greens and 32 putts. With the top half of my bag, I'm a 6 handicapper. With the bottom half, not counting putter, I'm a 16. I'm killing my fairway woods with the electric yellow FGS Plus shafts. I was on a par 5 in two, which is real rare for me. Driver, then XR16 4 wood, and it was all carry, not rolled up onto the green. That is a lot of fun for a weak sister like me. I had a 70 foot eagle putt with big break and got it to 3 feet for birdie. I birdied another par 5 and par'd the other two. One of them I had to use the Acer SR1 7 wood to get there. It was a great shot. Our par 5s are tough because of fairway bunkering and guarded greens. I am sure I averaged lower on the 5's today than on the 4s. I had four 6's on the par 4's today.

      Because: still missing greens with short irons, and the short game was OMG awful. The last two rounds should have easily been in the 70s. I need to do something before I get the chipping heebie-jeebies.

      Giphy - Losing My Mind GIF

      Alright, I’ll try this.
      https://www.golfdigest.com/story/short-game-chipping-wet-grainy-dormant-bermuda

      If you live and play south of the Mason-Dixon Line during the winter months, I am sure you consider yourself one of the lucky ones. A 12-month golf season makes a lot of Midwest and Northern golfers jealous. The downside is that you may regularly experience the most daunting short game lie in golf: tight, wet, dormant Bermuda grass. I’ve coached over 100 PGA, LPGA and PGA Tour Champions players over the years and every single player—without fail—has asked how to navigate this situation.

      FauxAmish Stone Canyon golf club in Oro Valley, Arizona.

      Was lucky enough to be invited and play this course in person back in 2005/2006’ish…it was definitely LEGIT…

        Today, an 82 year old shot 74 from the normal MGA tees. He’s a stick. He has won the club championship 7 times. He carries a 4.1 index and gets 1 stroke from those tees. Drives it about 240.

        He has some kind of tremors and has had to switch to a long putter.

          Played better today, for half the round. 47-40 @ Mission Royale in Casa Grande. Only hit one fairway and that was with an iron. Front nine everything was right. Back nine,everything missed left. 20 putts on the front, 15 on the back. Not great, but better. I get to tee it up again tomorrow, so maybe I can string together two good nines.

            DonM

            $67. Course was in decent shape minus the greens. Looks like they took some frost damage a couple of weeks back when we got really cold. They were almost back in decent shape but they were a bit bumpy.

              The strugles continue. 46-45 at Kokopelli today. I dont understand putting. 18 putts on the front nine, 13 putts on the back nine. Played the last 2 rounds with a recently acquired DCT courtesy of @LBlack14. Took me 23 holes before I finally found a fairway with it. Distance has been phenomenal, just need to get the direction sorted. Finally found the grove on the last 3 holes today. Hole 18 I piped one 280 or so just through the fairway, chipped to 1 foot for a tap in birdie. Hard to score playing off of hard pan dirt like this course has if you get off the fairway.

                82 at Sebastian Municipal. We went over to Sebastian on the east coast of FL. to visit family. Played with my brother in law and nephew on Saturday who are down on vacation.

                Sebastian is a nice old style Florida course. There’s a small airport next to the course where sky divers are parachuting down above you. Pretty cool.

                Mattyv I dont understand putting.

                I don’t like the hassle of lining up the ball. But when I do, it really helps because my aim sucks. I have a line template tool that makes a triple line and it makes it a lot easier to line the ball up quickly. And easier to use when making the stroke.

                    DonM

                    I have one of those already. My struggles have been speed related. My reads are fine, I just can't get the speed dialed in. Greens were wet and slow when we started. Once we got to the back nine, they were dry and I started making putts.

                      DonM makes it a lot easier to line the ball up quickly

                      I never, ever, use any mark or any alignment that may be on the ball....name/number/etc.. I turn the ball white-side up.
                      I consider myself a very good putter.😉

                      My thought on doing that is 'concentration'. Much like I believe a young person starting out should use an older driver head, smaller than 400cc.
                      jmo

                          Par4QC kinda like takin' a knife to a gun fight or carryin' less than 14 clubs to me. I don't know if you remember or paid attention, but our buddy Muff does the same thing you do and he's a pretty good putter as well.

                            I don't line up my putts with a part of the ball, either. For me it takes too long. And what if you get it lined up wrong? I just look at the putt from behind, then address the ball and stroke the putt. No practice strokes, no alignment aid, nothing. And I'm one of are best putters at the course. I rarely three putt, and everybody wants me on their scramble team because if I can see a line a couple of times, I jar a lot of long putts.