How did you shoot today at Golf

Mattyv · 2021-02-06T03:18:59+00:00

I figured we could have a thread on golf rounds. I'll go 1st. Played Whirlwind Cattail course today. I was hitting the driver far. Pushing 290-300 75% of...

DonM

Any of you Canadians playing?

Supp

DonM

I played three times in the week but haven't got around to spending too much time on the forum.

sdandrea1

Me, Jesse (grandson), PapaC (his other grandad) and a buddy played a 4-man scramble with our tee time today. Wanted to see how low we could go. Self-imposed 3 drive minimum for each player. We started with 4 birdies, an eagle, then bogey, birdie, par to get to -6 on the front. Cooled off a bit to shoot -4 on the back. Beautiful day, good company, fun times 😎😄

KCee

Did manage to make my league last night. Probably should have skipped it. Maybe the stress of recent events came out because I was crushing my irons, but could only manage a 44 and lost my match. Luckily my partner's opponent must have shot a 60 so we took 1.5/3.

Started on #10, with back hole location it's playing about 190 and I fly the green with the 5 hybrid. I was posing on it only to see it carry maybe 210. Long is no bueno at my course, but made bogey. Unfortunately even clubbing down I went long on too many other holes and my short game was horrible.

#17 they have the tees up so it's maybe only 190-210 to get a good look around the dogleg. I pipe the 5h through the fairway maybe 230 😮 Next shot is 130 to front pin into a pretty good breeze. I hit PW and fly the green; had to have carried 150 so I guess just no spin out of the rough although I got it up over a really tall tree. Made a double. #18 I took advantage of the tailwind and hit driver and half a SW, but left the birdie putt short 😞

DonM

We played the back nine twice due to flooding. Again.
38 - 36 / 74.
3 birdies, no doubles. 10 greens, 31 putts. I put two new wedges in the bag. First, a Cally MD4 54/10 with an Accra 100i shaft. I wanted less bounce than my 54/14. I made 2 of the birdies after shots with the new wedge. 😀

And I’m trying the Eye2 grind in a Ping Glide 3.0 58. I kind of like it but it didn’t get a big workout today.

Typhoon

Planned on 9 yesterday but there was nobody out there so we got in 18. Disappointed -4. Hit 16/18 greens but couldn’t make a putt to save my life. Sorta been the trend the last 2 times. Also hit the driver poorly. Combo of bad swings and trying too many drivers. I need to stick to one. If it clears up this afternoon before work in the shop I need to hit some balls. On a good note, I fixed my iron issues.

DonM

Typhoon Doesn’t sound like the driver hurt you any! 😉

Eguller

Typhoon Also hit the driver poorly. Combo of bad swings and trying too many drivers. I

Yeah - the temptation is almost irresistible to try new toys. Just ask, well….. you know who. 😉

garyt1957

Typhoon Disappointed -4.

Dude, you are banned from ever posting in this thread again! JRock, make it happen.

Typhoon

DonM Doesn’t sound like the driver hurt you any! 😉

I was spraying it and sometimes a low hook, sometimes high right. In play… but in the rough probably 30-40 yards shorter than where I should be. I’m not punching out of the trees. Just longer irons in, which I was hitting fine. But the putts end up longer…. A few weeks ago driver was great. Not missing fairways. Just need some range time to get it back

Walterjn

DonM well you do know that if his driver was working for him, he would have been at -14... over 9...😁

Sneakylong

80 at Tarpon Springs. Had one birdie. Smoked my 3 wood from 200 to 10 feet. Missed the eagle putt. My ball striking continues to be fantastic. The epiphany has lasted several months now. For some reason it doesn’t seem to be fleeting. lol 🤔

DonM

Sneakylong Smoked my 3 wood from 200 to 10 feet.

Those are special shots for guys like us.

Typhoon

Typhoon Just need some range time to get it back

Made it to the range today. Just hitting driver. Figured either out. I was closing the face on the backswing. Sort of rolling my wrists “under”. So it would either go left or if I hung on it’d be a block.

To correct it I feel like half way back I roll back my wrists to open the clubface ( it actually only feels that way, it really just goes to square) and it was all good again. Hit both the Ping G400max and the Stealth 2 Plus. Damn Ping though is just an awesome club. Sort of locks me into wanting a Qi10 max to replace my Stealth 2.

sdandrea1

Grandson Jesse and I were teamed up with 2 other Thursday league buds in a scramble today. 4 clubs total in the bag was the rule. We got to 4 under....1 stroke out of the $.

Bravopilot

sdandrea1 Did he give the Old Man a stern talking too?

garyt1957

Played the slumpbuster from the "tips" 6066 yards. lol. There are some long par 4's though 402-442-414- and a 542 par 5 but some short ones too.
Shot 41-40-81. One birdie. Some pretty mediocre chipping kept it from being a really good round.

colej

I took a hour and half off of working on the house today to get some range time in. Tested some new things and I’ll gladly report the following:

@LogicalOne LX1.XW 56* sand wedge shafted with a Kinetixx wedge shaft (on closeout from golfworks). This thing is money and wish I would’ve shafted it up sooner. For me it’s got the perfect amount of bounce, looks great at address, feels fantastic at impact.

Tried the xcaliber phoenix 5 in the Maltby TC Pro driver head. Nice lighter weight option that was very tight in dispersion. I’m not totally convinced I could put it in play and be consistent with the lighter weight. I’ll keep testing it to see if I could make it work.

Built up that budget friendly maurader putter
from diamond tour https://www.diamondtour.com/golf-components/club-heads/putters-chippers/inazone-marauder-putter-component.html
Used a 2.5” putter hosel adapter I had left over from golfworks. Shafted with a xcaliber spin 100 graphite shaft, and a big dog pure red oversized grip. Honestly for the money this putter head is great. Very consistent rolls and slight mid hits are not punished. A very slight change in sound if you strike off center. It gets just a little ring to it, otherwise center strikes are a solid sound/feel. I know @DeepRed was interested in the feedback.

I’m going in a golf trip June 14–16 I need to get a couple rounds in before that. Maybe even a few 9 hole rounds would work.

KCee

colej Tried the xcaliber phoenix 5 in the Maltby TC Pro driver head.

How is the head overall? It looks awesome and makes me want to build a 44.5" driver with 75g shaft again and see if I can hit the ball straighter......but I'd probably do better with the TC Max version built that way 😞

DeepRed

colej
Thanks for the info, I think putters are grotesquely overpriced since almost none of them work more than a couple of rounds. Lol
Looks like a real bargain.

Typhoon

Walterjn DonM well you do know that if his driver was working for him, he would have been at -14... over 9...😁

Funny f#^ker you are😁

Walterjn

Typhoon thank you , thank you very much!

colej

KCee

It’s really good and I think it would be perfect candidate for a shorter then “standard length” The feel and sound at impact is right up there with the big OEMs.

It sits very flat though!

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