How did you shoot today at Golf

Mattyv · 2021-02-06T03:18:59+00:00

I figured we could have a thread on golf rounds. I'll go 1st. Played Whirlwind Cattail course today. I was hitting the driver far. Pushing 290-300 75% of...

Sneakylong

Forgot to mention the guy we played golf with yesterday putted with one hand (right hand). Said he started doing it after seeing an amputee play golf. Said his lag putting got much better.

He did put a nice smooth roll on the ball. Good tempo. On short putts he'd put his left hand on his knee. Tiger Woods used to practice using just his right hand. I've never tried it. Not sure I will, but it seemed to work for him.

Eguller

Sneakylong Tiger Woods used to practice using just his right hand. I've never tried it. Not sure I will, but it seemed to work for him.

You should. It’s a great practice routine and show you what a smooth stoke is like. Good for distance control too. 👍💲

Typhoon

Sneakylong On short putts he'd put his left hand on his knee. Tiger Woods used to practice using just his right hand. I've never tried it. Not sure I will, but it seemed to work for him.

So this is how I've practiced for years. Once I started doing that my putting vastly improved. Its also how I step in to address my putt... last thing on the club is my left hand.

LogicalOne

VigilanteTrail

🙏🏼😊

VigilanteTrail

Also forgot to share that we stumbled upon a crime scene on the par 5 thirteenth hole during our season opening round yesterday…

Dogleg right that demands a fade/cut or super high power draw…I hit a great drive but perfectly straight…ended up left rough with obstacles…

Decide to play my 2nd down the left side to not flirt with a grouping of trees in front of me…nope…schwacked a tree dead center & ball ends up directly behind me about 25 yards but with a better opening now to get back into fairway if I aim right a bit…

3rd shot …5 wood and absolutely roasted it…but too much cut and the ball enters a huge tree way up high on the right side of fairway after flying for around 180’ish yards…

I hear my playing partner yelling obscenities as I get closer with the golf cart to pick him up because he was hacking away on the right side of the fairway when I was left…

“You killed it!!” he exclaims…
“What??” I reply…
“The squirrel!! It fell from 30ft out of the tree, hit the ground & flopped around a couple times then died!” he said…

Yup…involuntary critterslaughter…guilty as charged…I honestly felt bad for the poor bass turd…minding his own business up on his tree limb and I killed him with an errant shot…

Pretty sure the odds of getting an Ace are better than killing a damn squirrel with a 5 wood…

Yes…I did buy a round of beverages for our group at the 19th…

Just crazy I tell ya…

Bravopilot

VigilanteTrail Didn't you say you worked "Life Support"???🤣😁😎

KCee

VigilanteTrail Oh man! I inadvertently killed a goose on our 12th hole last year. I pushed my drive into the woods on the right, it rattled around and came almost all the way back to the tee but still in the woods. I decided to punch my hybrid out thru the trees and hopefully over the hill down the fairway. Well of course with easy punch shot I roasted that hybrid out of the woods. As it was heading towards the crest of the hill I see some geese taking off and apparently my ball nailed one right in the neck. As I'm walking out of the woods I can see the gaggle? of geese in the fairway just over the hill and one of my playing partners is yelling " you knocked it down and it's flopping around like you broke its neck!. Then the flock takes off...right at us at first, but then up over the trees towards the water. The goose I hit is still flopping in the fairway. I was thinking I'd have to put him out of his misery, but he was dead by the time we got to him.😥 And to make things worse my ball probably would have been at least 100 yards further down the fairway 😮

Par4QC

VigilanteTrail It's not often Rex is left speechless. But, Rex is.
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VigilanteTrail

Bravopilot Life Support"???

😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤣

VigilanteTrail

KCee my ball probably would have been at least 100 yards further

Damn geese!!! 😂🤣

garyt1957

KCee should have given you a medal

VigilanteTrail

Par4QC It's not often Rex is left speechless. But, Rex is.

Wanna buy my varmint rifle? Apparently I don’t need it anymore…

DonM

Beautiful day for golf, but not a beautiful round. I had the shanks right from the get go during warmups and they stayed with me. Including short game. Plus bad putting. 89.

The divots were outside in, so that probably was giving me the hosel rockets. I need to fix that before tomorrow's round. It's a cruel, cruel game.

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Par4QC

VigilanteTrail Buddy pulled up to a stop sign, near an old country church. I looked up and saw a squirrel sitting on a limb maybe 20-30' up. I jumped out of the car, grabbed my shoe, and threw it at him.

I'm 1/1 squirrel hunting without a gun.....as dead as if he was hit with a golf ball!! 🤣

VigilanteTrail

Shot 45 gross 37 net on Innisbrook Copperhead during Sim league playoffs tonight…we took 14 of 20 points… on to next match tomorrow night…

…still in the running for 3rd place at best since we were eliminated from championship bracket last week (tied that match but went to tiebreaker rules & we lost)

mulegolf

Along the lines of the squirrel and goose sagas I once killed a blackbird that was in flight. I teed off at our par 5 7th hole
which has a creek about 60-70 yards from the tee box. A blackbird came flying across about that time and the ball drilled him from the side. Feathers flew and the blackbird ended up floating by in the creek, dead. The ball ended up landing on the far side of the creek, in play but very short of where it was headed.

garyt1957

mulegolf Along the lines of the squirrel and goose sagas I once killed a blackbird that was in flight.

I also once hit a drive that hit a bird in flight. The bird literally exploded and nothing but feathers seemed to come down. Looked like the bird flew right into it.
Playing with my Dad he hit a liner off the tee that dropped a squirrel . He was bitching about the yards it cost him on his drive. Finally he starts to feel bad for the squirrel. Just as we drive up the squirrel pops up from the dead and runs off. No way I thought it could survive a direct hit like that.

rsvman2

41 at Riverfront in Suffolk, VA. 49 degrees and breezy when we teed off, it was in the mid-to-high 50s when we finished. Really hard course. Wicked fast greens with mounds and hills. Some 18-foot putts break 10 feet or more. Fairways all basically hardpan because of dormant, short grass. No double bogeys. Four pars and five bogeys.

The brand new driver was a revelation. If I could have hit decent iron shots I could've scored pretty well. I was thinning most of my irons off the hardpan. Once the grass awakens, I feel like I will be primed for a good season.

Spartan

Another nice day (for March) in Missouri. About 47 when we teed off, about 53 when we finished. Clear blue skies.

46/46. A bit disappointing as I drove the ball fairly well, putted well, some good shots around the green, some not so good shots. Same from the fairway.

Got around in 3:40 which is decent for CPO.

MidwayJ

93 today in the senior golf league. A beautiful day but a frustrating round where I hit the driver pretty well but couldn't score. Approach shots, chipping, putting were all mediocre. On our next to last hole (par 3) I fatted my tee shot 50 yards short of the green, then hit it to 3 feet and made the par. It felt like the only hole where I was happy with how it turned out.

DonM

We had the same beautiful weather as @MidwayJ .
86 with 8 GIR and 37 putts. 4 doubles. Putting and chipping was not good. The greens are crusty and fast. Lots of break, even in short putts. I’m hitting it on my intended lines but I’m not figuring them out.

On the bright side, very bright, I realized something that I’ve been doing wrong in my setup. My irons were much better. I go through this at least every year. What feels good is not what is good.

I hit and parred all four par 3s. Three of them with 6H and the long one with 7W. I got two of the greenies, but didn’t make the putts.

Our team was beaten like a drum. DFL.

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