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.
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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.
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Sneakylong Had 3 birdies on the back 9. Back to back to back.
That's called any Tuesday for Typhoon. I once had a 3' foot putt for my third straight birdie but missed. 3 straight birdies is more impressive to me than a HIO.
Sneakylong Nice Round!
Played Gold Canyon Dinosaur Mountain yesterday and shot 45-41. Since taking a couple of months off from playing, i have been a bit rusty. Getting back into the swing of things now. That front nine 45 included a 7 and an 8 on the card. Driver is just ok,irons are offline, had at leat 4 yips with the wedge, putter was good. I did manage to play the Par 3 holes at 1 over.
garyt1957 That's called any Tuesday for Typhoon
Nope, that would be a bad round for him because he would’ve been over par. lol
I played Bethpage Black (white tees) yesterday. It was 90 degrees and humid. I ran out of sweat by the 16th hole. Only good news is the heat kept my back loose 
I slept like a baby last night.
Taki27 OMG yeah the humidity here in the East was horrible this past weekend. Bethpage ain't flat either!
I played Saturday after the storms and they wouldn't let carts out. Walked 18 and collapsed. Tournament the next day carts were allowed so not as tiring, but still just as hot and humid. Cold showers and LOTS of fluids.
Sucky. Shot 50. Started out 8 over through 3, then parred the #1 handicap hole then finished with 4 bogeys and a double. Greens were lightning and I only hit one in regulation. Had some trouble hanging onto the club on a few shots with the super humidity. Need to try and find some cord grips. Really miss the old tour wrap cords.
The SpeedSoft ball played short just as Par4QC said. Lost 20 yards off the driver and 10 yards off the irons. I did get good launch from it, but no extra carry. It’s ok, but I get better performance with the Costco v2 ball.
johnnydoom The SpeedSoft ball played short just as Par4QC said. Lost 20 yards off the driver and 10 yards off the irons.
Remind me who makes the Speedsoft ball so I never buy any
garyt1957 TaylorMade - who makes balls I like, but don't want to pay for. Had high hopes for this one, but perhaps the compression is just too low.
Shot a 40. Nice and loose in the hot weather and the ball is flying.
johnnydoom I can normally use a low compression ball, although 70-80 is best, but something funny with this one, for sure.
Today was GEA/FGI retro bag day...featuring lots of things that had been filling up my golf cabinet. This weekend I pulled out the heads and shaft boxes and got busy. Here was the lineup....
Drivers: Geek Fail Safe 3 on Kinetixx A flex, Geek DCT on Xcaliber Avalon 5 S.
Fairways: My gamers are still the Tommy Armour Atomic 3w and 5w.
Irons: Golfsmith P2 on Wishon Interflexx (3i-8i), and Xcaliber Pro95R (9i-pw).
Wedges: Inazone Chrome Mist on TT Score.
THE RESULT......my highest score in 5 1/2 years!
The P2 irons were fine, no issues there, but they were a good 15 yards shorter than modern clubs. Still, they were pretty solid all day.
The wedges did nothing special, and a few things less than special. In fact, after yet another chunked chip, I decided the 60* needed to be 19" long.
The C-Ray was good, except it seemed like when I just walked up to tap in a 3 footer, the C-Ray would sit on the ground cocked left and I would miss left by a ton. Happened a few times on the front, so I switched back to the gamer after 9.
The driver(s) absolutely killed me today. FS3 on the front 9. DCT on the back 9. They were just all over the place. And I played with a friend that I play with 6 or so times per year. We have always been comparable in distance, but today when I did hit one straight, I was still a good 20-30 yards behind him.
The retro bag experiment is concluded after 1 round.
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Sparky The laughter you might have just heard was coming from farther South of me. Maybe even a bit East.
Was. Not. Me.
I do this in Aug/Sept most years. Don't get really terrible results & I don't care if I do when I take them out. 'Silly season', more or less.
Don't have any Geek left, but plenty of SMT. And a ton of Snake Eyes hybrids. My clone irons are 20 years old, so they will have to do, with the 20 yr. old shafts......Precision.
40-49=89
The driver went to the bench after 2 holes. Enter the three wood and had some surprisingly long drives.
Front nine was a Seve day. Miss a shot or two on a hole to be followed by a great chip, pitch or short iron and or drain a putt.
Example: 4th shot on par 5 ...35 yard bunker shot with ball below my feet. Hit to 8 ft and made putt for par.
Made 5 putts from 8-15 feet. Never had a 9 like this one.
Ran out of steam and magic on the last six holes with 5 doubles and 1 par.
Driver sucks..........getting mental now.