Big match play tournament this past weekend. We won 3/5 in our flight which was good but disappointing. The first 9 hole match my partner and I had 7 pars and 2 bogies and we lost by 2. One player beat us both with a maybe 60+ ft birdie putt and maybe 40-50 ft bird putt....he lipped out 3 other long ones. The greens were the hardest and fastest we've ever had them and this guy was unreal. His partner made only 1 par, but on the lone hole this guy needed him.

Next round we made 7 pars and 2 bogies and we won 7 up lol. Pretty sure we had 7 pars and 2 bogies in each match and we won 7 up, 4 up and 2 up and the 2 losses were both 2 down. The other lost match it was 1 hot guy as well, but he was just perfect from tee to green that round. Not too often an 18 cap shoots even par for 9 on a windy day with fast greens and a # of difficult pins. He's not a sandbagger either, he just had the 9 holes of his life.

First round in a week, I shot 38-42 with 9 greens and 34 putts including two 3 putts. I didn't make a putt today.
I started even par through 6 holes, and the course gets easier after hole 7. But I seemed to lose focus by about the 13th hole. I made a bunch of crappy approach swings coming in.

Eguller The strings, the mulligans…. Turns it into a sideshow. I know the money goes to the charity, which is what it’s all about, but it ends up just not being golf.

      Typhoon but it ends up just not being golf.

      …. Like using Handy Sandies. 🥴

        Went around my little course 2x today.
        1st 9 was 5 over with one double bogey and 5 pars.
        The 2nd was the same score 5 over with one triple bogey, one double bogey, two birdies, 3 pars.

        I shot 39-42-81 this morning at Bedford Hills GC in Temperance, MI. I played OK the front, but fell apart on the back.
        8 GIR, 35 putts, 0 birdies, and I got up and down from off the green only ONE time ouf of 8......terrible chipping! 🤬

        Today was day 1 of 2 of the club championship. I shot 78 net 73 which puts me in 4th both gross and net. First gross had 73 and first net 71. Bear in mind we’re all 55+, we don’t have any scratch or better index guys here.

        I had no birdies but no doubles. I missed a 5 footer for birdie. It had some break, but I made a crap stroke. Too much thinking. 3 great shots wasted.

        Had to cut it to 9 holes due to my wife’s sore shoulder. A great day to be alive in the outdoors, not a great score with 48. Hit 6 very good drives, but the only green in regulation and only par was on a 175 yard second shot up the hill with a 4 wood rolling 20 feet past the hole. Played on a course with a 128/69.7 slope/rating from the white tees, which is above my pay grade. I love to play it though. Just over swinging the irons on most of my swings and combined it with a really sucky short game.

        Whoever was inhabiting my body today did not know how to putt.
        I shot 86 with 38 putts, and that is not counting the ones from the fringe. I had three 7's on the card, all involving 3 or 4 putts. I hit 9 greens, which should yield about a 77. It was the worst putting day for me in a long, long time.

        Oh well, shit happens.

        Giphy - world's fails GIF by World’s Funniest

        Fall Shootout today. I sucked. No idea where the driver was going. Shot 91 but my 19 index partner shot 80, his PB, and we qualified. True alternate shot with final 10 teams and we breezed thru the first fee holes before we fell apart. Our first Shootout we didn't place. Bound to happen I guess.

        13 FWs
        9 GIRs
        2 birdies (with 4-5 missed short by an inch or 2!)
        1 bogey(on a Par 3, of all places)
        26 putts....and I'm complaining that was too many!!

        Best round in a few years; hit every club really good, even the new 455DB, 8*. Did not get the height of the old days, but they went as far as I've been hitting lately; a couple to new spots. And anyone that says those heads are not forgiving......I was all over the face...see FWs hit above.😉

        Oh yeah......-1.....71. 😲
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          Much different day today. I shot 74 with 34 putts, including 3 three putts. The greens are running faster now, and that is pretty darn fast. It's easy to run one too far past the hole.
          But also 3 birdies. 13 GIR. No doubles.

          Where was this on the second day of the CC?

          This is the approach shot on 1 for the A player and me:

            DonM This is the approach shot on 1 for the A player and me:

            Nice..... who got the 'greenie' ? 😉

                Another scramble today. Pretty hard and long course. Very tight. We shot -10 which was good considering one guy hasn’t played since before Covid and was awful anyway. Took 7 practice swings, every one with a divot … divots with his driver as well. Then he’s hit it 50 yards. Putted like he was blindfolded. Second place.

                  Par4QC Even I can make that birdie putt. 🙂