Had to walk 18 since carts weren't allowed out due to storms. It was hot and muggy when I went out at noon. Virtually had the course to myself. Tons of water on the course making you walk way out of the way to get to a ball right in the middle of the fairway. Played pretty good, finished in 2:45. Got tired at the end finishing double-double which hurt. Shot 83.

Typhoon what the f is wrong with them??
We've has an entire tee box closed off and move the tee markers to the other box.

      Walterjn Dude, I was sitting there at the bar today with a grounds crew guy and the 2 other pros and I said that exactly!!

      They said they sprayed last month. I said it needed to be sprayed in April, June is too late. I don’t even work on the grounds crew🙄. I told them I hadn’t been out in 2!weeks and couldn’t believe how bad the tee boxes were. They agreed. But again, theses dunces move the markers to where the seed and sand mix is instead of where there is grass. Or like I said, close the tee boxes and put the tees either in front or off to the side it all the way back.

        First round in a week and only the second this month.
        Shot 44- 40 = 84, with 4 doubles, 31 putts, 8 fairways, and 7 GIR. Hit the ball well. Had 4 very big wedge chunks, something I rarely do. This can and will be corrected. Just a matter of deacceleration and not attacking.

        Ended with a boom yesterday....18 is a reachable par 5 .....Driver to 208 out, hit a nice high cut 4w to about 10 feet and drained the putt for an eagle to get me to 1 over ⛳

          44 in league last night and the losing streak continues. I am killing the ball, but getting myself in trouble driving it through doglegs and flying greens. I am cranking the Rogue ST Max; no idea why I ordered the Ai Smoke.

            Normally, while I don't hit far I can usually find the fairway. My putting is decent, I don't ake many long ones, but I don't 3 putt much. Today, On the front nine, my driving was terrible, I did manage to straighten it out on the back. I had 5 3 putts to go along with 5 1 putts for 36 putts. It's too bad my driving and putting were so bad as my irons were better than they have been in a long time. Ended up shooting 48/44 which is in my normal range.

            Upper 70's/low 80's but humid. The course was in decent shape considering the deluge we had yesterday. CPO but we got around in about 3:45.

            First time playing in 15 days....39/43

            Did a little Tin Cup action trying to get to the par 5, 10th in 2.
            Had 230 to the pin and put 3 in the water for a 10 🤣

            KCee Why are you flying greens? I’ve never had the issue where I’m hitting it good and then all of the sudden I’m 15 yards longer with a given iron. I don’t get it …

            I have another pro who has Mavrik irons and he flies greens when he doesn’t expect it but I told him it’s the hot spots on hollow irons that does that.

                Like crap…

                …and I lost $4 on the back 9…playing partner proclaimed a buck per hole when we made the turn…

                Typhoon I don’t think it’s hot spots as much as it’s not enough spin. They hit high launch low spin flyers.

                    DonM I could see it from the rough but it sounds like every iron and from the fairway too. Weird. I told my pro to get rid of the irons and get a one piece head.

                        Played 13 holes this morning (wasn't feeling well, so playing the last 5 would have been a bad idea), and had one of those days where almost everything seemed to work. I'm a fair number of years short of being able to beat my age for 18 holes, but it's a pretty good target for 13 - par is 49 (10 4s, 3 3s), so I need to be at least 3 under, and that's what I ended up with today.

                        It helps to get a fast start, and they don't come much faster than my first hole today. I had around 195 yards for my second shot out of the light rough after a mediocre drive - the lie was decent, so was able to get a 3-wood on it, and hit a good solid shot a little right of the flag, landing short of the green and rolling up. I thought that it might have gone through (a little bit of a flyer lie), but the ball ended up wedged between the flagstick and the edge of the hole for an eagle 2.

                        I got pretty close to holing another long shot on the par-3 sixth - hit a nice solid 6-iron down the hill that pitched in the middle of the green and rolled out towards the back hole location, finishing less than a foot away for a tap-in birdie. (I had two other birdies, at 7 and 11, to offset the two bogeys.)

                        Typhoon I do have hollow irons TM P770, but I think it's just me starting to swing better more often. I'm even clubbing down in spots and still going long. I've gone from hitting driver 210-240 to 240-260 and even beyond that each round. I'm reaching new places on our course.

                        Irons are longer too and I do go through that most years. I start the season needing 7i for 150 and by summer I'm hitting 8i. I've hit a fair # of 9i shots that far recently. I do tend to de-loft and cover most iron shots which is why I prefer at least a 30* 6i and not the newer stronger lofts. I just got my old Apex Pro irons back so maybe I'll play them this weekend and see if I get those long shots.

                          Played The Medalist, a fantastic course in Mi. Pristine conditions, huge greens. Shot 42 on the front with 21 putts, including a 4 putt! That's literally as good as I can play tee to green but couldn't make a putt. I get exposed when I play top notch courses with large fast greens. I'm terrible at reading subtle breaks so a 30' putt that I play straight that has even a small break will leave me with a 7 footer. That's a recipe for a 3 putt. I play the slower greens around home and think I can putt because I'll have 28-32 putts. Pffft.
                          Anyway, hit 6 GIR and all 7 Fws on the front, one birdie. Should've been a 38-39 easily.
                          Shot 44 on the back with 19 putts, 3 GIR, 5 FW for an 86 with 40 putts, Oh My!. Also two birdies, should have been three. Hit my longest drive on Par 5 18th and then hit a bullet on the green from over 200 out to be on in two for the first time in a long time. You guessed it, 3 putt par.
                          Got my new putter delivered yesterday but not in time to take with me so heading out now to hit a few putts. Not too promising based on a few putts on the carpet.
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                          76 at Tarpon Springs. Had two birdies. Only hit one bad shot on the front which resulted in 1 over par on the front. Went around in 2:55. Would've been faster had we not run into a walking single on the back that slowed us down just a bit.

                          Pretty nice morning for golf.