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.

                      @MartinD you got some of the breaks I needed today. Maybe the golf gods have a quota and you used it up. 🙂

                      I hit 4 fairway bunkers, including one on a mid iron layup. What a maroon. I had a deeply plugged lie in a greenside bunker that led to a triple. I also had a double. And my short game was trash. Too many short sided shots that I didn’t even get on the greens. Give yourself a putt!!!

                      The rest of the holes were just fine, and I shot 81 with 9 greens and 34 putts. The aeration is still hurting our putting. I hope they put more sand on the greens.

                      I won a skin which will win peanuts, under ten bucks.

                      Another bad 9 holes - 48. Lost two balls off the first tee and one off the second. On the 3rd hole, a homeowner gave me a pro v1 he found on his lawn and I played the next 6 holes without losing it. Parred 7, 8, and 9. I think this immature guy on a porch roof near the 8th green brought me good luck!

                      Sneakylong Would've been faster had we not run into a walking single

                      Was there anyone in front of him? When I play by myself I’ll practice too but I always look back to see if someone is coming and I’ll speed up to get more space.