Still waiting for some magic to kick in. After a 3 putt on #1 for bogey, rolled in a tricky birdie on #3, and was cruising along until shanking an 8i on #5. I then went on quite a funk for 4 holes where 1 shot each hole was a complete mess. Made an adjustment on #10 tee which worked, 7/7 FW and 7 greens on back. Of course, no putts went in. +4 on the day, and I butchered the 4 simple Par 5s, +3 on those total when I average -1 on those 4.

80 at Tarpon Springs. No birdies. Windy this morning. Had a storm come thru yesterday so it was cart path only. We were first off at 7:00. Sunrise wasn’t until 7:16.

So we couldn’t follow our tee shots. First drive ended up on the left. Had ~ 175 in and hit my 5 wood. Couldn’t see that one either. Got up near the green and there it was ~ 15 feet past the hole.

Probably should play in the dark more often.😎

Second round of match play. I lost 4&3. 🙁
I had to give a stroke on 3 holes and they all cost me. I played a hair better than average but my opponent played one stroke better, before the strokes. He is a good putter, and he plays to his handicap in big net events. Last year he was runner up in this event.

I was +8 for 15 holes with 6 greens and 26 putts. Once it goes through the USGA black box, I think it will post as the equivalent of an 82. We had some rough pin placements. I never once had a good birdie look.

    rsvman2 I put it in the category of HIO, mostly luck. I have two that I can remember. Best one I ever saw was my wife from 175 yards. Never got off the ground rolled all the way straight into the hole for eagle 2 on a par 4.

      Eguller Whew...for a second there I expected to read...'darn clubs'. Apparently, it was on Steve this time. At least from the way I read it.

          Par4QC

          There's NEVER anything wrong with the clubs. It's me.

          BTW, I've had my 4h and 6h for 2 years now. SO THERE!😉

              sdandrea1 I've been playing hybrids since I was basically a kid. Maybe 20 yrs. or so.
              And actually used to be able to hit them great distances. 😞 But I never kept those.

                87 at my home course. Cold and crazy windy but it was poor chipping and putting that killed me.

                Monthly scramble today. Turns out I was 1 of 3 subs and the only original member was the A player. This guy was a wiry, fit, athletic 60-something (no it wasn't @Typhoon-he's taller than John and he's in Florida) who could bomb it. We Eagled our first par 4 after he drove the green (305y). We got to -9 and our team handicap was 6.2

                Waiting to see how we did, but not optimistic. Fun day. I got my 2drive minimum in quickly, made a few approaches that led to birdies and sunk my fair share of putts.

                Edit- we won Low Gross! $22 each!

                  DonM I have never, ever been on a winning scramble team.

                  My winning % is just barely above yours......

                    DonM I end up winning something so often that I can remember the times my team didn't win anything... maybe twice in the last ten years?

                        79 at Timber Greens. Had one birdie. The 5 wood and 9 iron were the stars today. Had the place to ourselves this morning because they were having the club championship later. Another nice cool dry morning.