Quest for under par continues. Finally starting to see some putts drop. Mental error on #6 - a 3 shot par 5 with a wide fairway, so that is usually where I try an adjustment with the driver prior to 3 tough driver holes. Unfortunately, the adjustment resulted in a 60 yard pull into a street which should not be in play. Did birdie on the 2nd ball, so only a bogey to go +2. Good middle 6 got me back to even after 12. But the home course has a tough final 6, and I was +4 coming in.

Did try a 7.5* driver head today (same model as my usual 9*) to bring the flight down a bit. The good drives were really good. The not good ones were bad. I think it will work.

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.


    41 gross 33 net on Bountiful Ridge (SLC) front 9 at Sim league late shift…we are now officially eliminated.

    Yet another tied match & another loss via the tiebreaker rules…oh well.

    Great season with plenty of stories & mucho laughs with the guys…looking forward to real golf season now…🤣

    78 with 2 birdies (back to back). Good ball striking day. Hit some killer drives and fairway woods. Nice and straight with some having a nice little draw. Hit some nice high approach shots with my irons as well.

    Putting and chipping weren't as good, except for the 2 birdie putts. Just two of us and we were first off at 7:20 and were done at 10:11. Nice cool morning, but sunny.

    92 on Tuesday, 87 today. Seriously slumping. Driving it well, putting well, everything in between sucks. Making double and triple bogeys. Good thing the company is good.

    We played CPO today in a light mist. I shot 79 with an asterisk. We had 2 holes closed for flooding so we are given net pars. Those holes are not likely pars for me but that’s the league rule.

    I only had pars and bogeys. No 3 putts. Short game was very good. I’m finally changing for real to a Bermuda grass short game. I am purging my old northern habits. Heel up/ toe down, some forward lean, a brisk stroke, minimal turf interaction but not none. This is for tight lies, which is all we have until the grass gets growing. My northern method of using the bounce with a relaxed stroke is history. After Wednesday’s round, I buried it. RIP.

    So, I haven't been much into golf for the past 10-12 months. On nice days I would choose between golf (mostly alone) or fishing (mostly alone). I pretty much chose fishing, as it was free and I could leave anytime!

    However, Friday I finally decided to head out to the course. I asked for a small bucket and 9 hole cart, only to be informed the range was closed due to rain the night before! So I headed to #1 with no warm up and not having hit a ball in about 8 months. I sliced the first shot, but took a breakfast ball and sliced it as well but not as badly. I think I deserved a redo! Then I bladed the approach into the uphill slope in front of the green and got up and down for par.

    Hole #2 was a slice with the driver, but I found it and had a punch toward the green. Made a good shot, just short but mishit the chip and 2 putted for bogey. Sliced the tee shot on a Par 3 and again did not get up and down for another bogey.

    Hole 4 Par 5, hit a short drive in the fairway. Second shot with 3W felt good but immediately lost it in the cloudy sky, no idea where it went. Dropped and hit a yellow ball to hopefully see it and did down the right side. Found the first one just right of the fairway 40 yds out. Made a really good half swing approach and left myself with a 20 ft uphiller for birdie which I missed short left. Par.

    Another par 3 I severely sliced right and bogeyed. Next hole was another Par 5. At this point I have figured out I have been pulling my head up and spinning out causing the slices. I concentrate on head down through the swing and hit a good drive, end up 245ish out and have to carry water short. Pull 3W again and make a great pass ended just right in 2. got up and down for my first birdie of the year. Next hole I blade a PW long left then chunk the wedge shot and 3 putt for double.....

    #8 shortish Par 5, hit a short drive off the heel but in play. Hit 2h high and right into pine trees. I have a line to the hole and hit a punch gap wedge off the pine straw that lands just short and rolls in for Eagle!

    Last hole I again hit a Baby Huey fade right under a cedar tree. Hit the best iron shot of the day onto the green 20 ft short of the hole. Make the uphill right to left putt for birdie and card a +1 37.

    I never knew golf was this easy! I should just quite my teaching job and go Pro!

      Friday 3/15 My friend & I played 9 holes at the Barefoot Greg Norman course in Myrtle Beach in the light rain & I shot a 45 from the Geezer Tees. On 3/21 we played the Fazio course at Myrtle Beach & I shot a 89 from the Geezer Tees. Today we played the Barefoot Davis Love course & it was cold & windy. I shot an 95. That's about as good as it gets for a geezer like me with a replacement left ankle. I like the Norman course the most.

        Willis Friday 3/15 My friend & I played 9 holes at the Barefoot Greg Norman course in Myrtle Beach in the light rain & I shot a 45 from the Geezer Tees

        Whatchoo talkin' about Willis?

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          Thanks, I never played the Dye course yet & I'm not sure i really want too.

            78 (39-39) at Timber Greens (Par 71). Had two birdies. The first on hole #5 I had ~ 175 in and hit my 5 wood to ~ 8 feet. The second birdie was on #18. Had 105 to the pin and stiffed my A wedge to a foot. New putter performed well.

            I shot 39-40-79 today at historic old Ottawa Park GC in Toledo, Ohio. Nothing to get excited about....the course is short (although we got ZERO roll today!), and it wasn't in very good shape. I haven't been able to touch a club in 2 weeks due to cold, windy weather, and it showed. Hit a lot of popup fairway woods for some reason, and that is something I need to get under control, since I find I'm hitting more and more of them into greens on par 4's. Short game was decent.....30 putts, 6 GIR, 1 birdie, 1 double (the last damn hole!! 😡).

            41, 36 today at Twisted Oaks. Team won 1s on 2 best balls (by 1 stroke). Best ball-striking day in 3 weeks.

            Our official men’s league has started back up for the season. We had a beautiful day for it, although cold to start. I began with a double and two bogeys so I thought I was toast. But I made a lot of pars, then finished with a double to shoot 82. That won me first place gross in the second flight. I think it will be about 50 bucks net.

            I had only 5 GIR. My swing was pretty clunky. I had 31 putts, including some great par saves. My putter was the moneymaker today.

            I’m trying out my 8 hybrid from Eleven Golf. So far it is pretty solid. Twice I hit it over trees with no stress. I’m going to give it more time but I am leaning towards getting the full set from 4 or 5 to PW.

            Played 9 yesterday, got involved in a 2 man team scramble from the forward tees. My partner and I ham and egged it the entire time. I hadn't played in a week, so it was a good thing he was hitting well off the tee. My best tee shot was on hole 6, it's about 215 to the center of the green. I hit a nice 5 iron to just short of the green. My partner stubbed his chip, I bumped a 9 iron to about 3' to the left of the hole, made the birdie putt. When it was all said and done, we went around 9 holes at even par of 29. We were even par through 3, birdied 4, par on 5, birdie on 6, par on 7, bogey on both 8 & 9.