Walterjn However, a 70 yd shot may be harder since not a full swing. Your play gets better each time. Congrats. Did you back date the play to Tuesday?
How did you shoot today at Golf
Nice man!! Congrats!
Didn't play today. It was raining most of the day. Our course just reopened on Wednesday after being flooded.
It figures, open Wednesday and raining again today. Supposed to be raining each day through the weekend. We
got .83" so far today and if it does that two of the three days of the long weekend, we'll likely be under water again.
39/38...77
Tried something today I had never done since the invention of hybrids.
A couple days ago I had to pull the shafts from Jake's old set of Rocketbladez due to the tips being bent. Decided to reshaft them with some Nippons I had. Threw the 5-PW in the bag today, and only took 1 driver. Never touched a hybrid all 18, and only used the 7wd on the last hole! iirc, I did hit every iron in the bag, even off tees on Par 3s, and actually hit them fairly decent yardages and straight, although a bit short of greens where a hybrid would have reached; but was adamant not to use anything but irons today. Only wedge I had, besides PW, was an SW and it was damn good, thankfully, what with all the GIRs missed. Hit 12/14 FWs. Only 24 putts and 12 were 1 putts, due to the SW. (did have a few balls on fringes though)
Felt like it should have been a better score, but damn.....hitting irons feels great again.
Bravopilot my play has good day, and absolute dog shit days. I'm just trying to have a good time out on the course. Keeping score, is just a habit on the full size courses. My little course is all practice where I can hit a ball from the tees I'm playing, then hit another one with a short distance wedge from the forward tees. Mostly just to see if I can muscle one to the green.
I shot 87 with 6 greens and 33 putts. The short game was not sharp. Bunker game was horrid. I stepped on my wiener all day.
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Haven't been on the site in a few days my friend, but saw your post and it made my day.
I remember a few years ago an enthusiatic new member to this golf forum who integrated by asking questions and then responded with gratitude for the answers.
It didn't take long for this old-timer to know there was a welcome new member.
Congratulatuons on the Ace my friend, and welcome to the HIO club. May there be many more.
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Got in 18 today and shot the temp....81. Wasn't a really good feeling 81, but considering it was from over 6000yds., in retrospect, I'm going to take it with a grin. The guys I was with were playing at 6500, but that is their normal; mine is 5500. And they didn't get me by much
. Tough course for me to break 80, but I like the place.
Putts were very low again, but wth...when you simply cannot hit a GIR, something better show well. FW clubs were on the fritz for some reason, so I had to pull hybrids out on the back 9, for a recovery.
Driver was again, surprising on low quality strikes, still making my 'old' yardages on them. '(Smoke)in' them on occasion
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Haven't played this course for a couple seasons and they have a brand new clubhouse, and it is a huge learning center. A really nice set up for a muni. BUT....for whatever reasons, they appear to be eliminating almost every bunker on the course. And are damn slow in that process. Bunkers were roped off, empty of sand and had water with weeds growing in all of them. July, and no clue what they are thinking. Other than that, it is a decent looking course. And well maintained.
Played the summer shootout today which is modified alternate shot. We were awesome tee to green but had the worst putting ever. We started on 8 and the horrible putting started on 11. I pitched our 3rd on a tough par 4 to maybe 5ft below hole. I thought the ball was going off the green. I lipped out from 6 ft and we made double. That was pretty much the rest of our round. I usually say nothing but didn't have to because one of our playing partners told him to stop hitting short putts so effin hard lol. My ballstriking was really really good. Unfortunately I can't play next weekend in solo tournament.
Played in a tournament today. Shot 89. Only hit two FW's all day. Two lousy GIR, mostly due to bad driving and always having no shot in. The struggle continues.
1 over par 72 at Timber Greens. Had 3 birdies on the back 9. Back to back to back. Yup the hat trick. lol First up #13 which is a par 3. Was playing 129 to the pin. Hit it to 4 feet and bingo.
Next up the par 5 14th. Hit my drive in the mayors office. Hit 5 wood down the middle and then had 104 to the pin tucked in to the right behind a bunker. Hit gap wedge to 7 feet and bango.
And then the par 4 15th. Mishit my drive a little and had 160 to the pin. Hit 6 iron to 10 feet and bongo. Bingo, bango, bongo. Then on the par 4 16th I double bogeyed. 
Such is golf.
Hit a lot of really good shots today. Ball striking continues to be good.