I really miss playing a course where you could miss the greens in safe places. We don't have that. Let me think out loud here. Number 5, 8, 11, 12, ... that's it. 4 greens that you can play to include reliable misses in safe places in front of the green. And honestly, those greens aren't that hard to hit and the misses aren't too bad, so there is no reason to play safe on them. The other 14 greens, you either hit the green or fringe, or you are probably facing a fairly difficult short game shot. Not always of course. Some of the misses end up okay. But most of the time the misses are down in a deep hole, or a bunker, and short sided to boot. Then throw in the bermuda grass. It's like I walked 4 miles to school, uphill both ways.
Our A player yesterday shot 75. I was trying to think back to his round. It felt like he was on a lot of greens. I know he hit all the par 3s, and they are hard for most of us to hit. It was windy as usual. He used a driver on 1 or 2 of them and a 3 wood on the others. I barely missed one with a 9 wood, hit one with the 9 wood (birdie!), and hit one with the 7 wood. The other one was 6H, not enough club, into the bunker. Should have used the 9 wood there but chickened out because of the winds. All in all that was a good showing on the par 3's for me, but he was better.
He is a master with his 3 wood. He uses it for like a 4 club range of distances. And he's great with his driver that way too.
I just don't remember him being in any bad spots yesterday. Maybe he was. Had to be. His short game is good.
His lag putting is much better than mine. His birdie length putting, no better than me.
So there you go. I need to hit more greens (irons!!!), somehow not get in as much trouble, get better with short game, and especially lag putting.
