garyt1957 Snuck out again for a quick 1:43 18 holes. Played the other course at the slumpbuster, played the senior tees which are really short at 5400 yards.
Shot 76 including my first ever under par nine. I hate to count it because of how short the course is, but it's still a first.
Nice shooting Gary, but I'm calling bullshit on 5400 being short!
. Your day will come when you'll be hoping it's 5000. 
. Golf is already hard, play it forward.
The MGA combo tees that I and most of us play are 5800, 67.9/121. It's slightly short based on the 5i x 36 and driver x 27 suggestions. But I like it. I get to hit several short irons per round.
Everyone here thinks the ratings of the MGA tees are too low. When I compare to other courses I've played a lot, I definitely agree.
The rating system gives a lot of priority to distance, but much of our trouble is on the approach shots. The tips are 7000, 73.6/133. They have the same difficult approach shots as we do from the MGA tees. Well, except for the par 3's. Even on those, the long hitters are using about the same clubs as I do from the shorter boxes.
Played 5771 yards today and played like shit. One GIR. Got 14 Stableford points against a quota of 21, shot 94. 
'Slope' is either overrated or underrated.(??) I play 110 courses that play harder than ones I play at 123+ that are longer in yardage from senior tees. Scores are usually similar.
Played out back 9 which I rarely play. I usually only have time for 9 holes between jobs and go off the front. This time of year not many day time midweek 18 holers so I got out on the back. It’s tougher than the front… tricky, hardly use driver. It’s an ugly 9. Most of the holes were added to make it an 18 hole course. It’s cut through the woods and it’s visually ugly… still stumps in the rough
. Anyway… shot -2. Still not happy with my irons at that time. More ugly shots on the green but that was the only good thing about them. Went to the range afterwards with only a 9 iron. I know I keep thinking I found the problem but this time I did, it was my set up and just having one club with me was a good idea
Played a fund-raising scramble today at Virginia Beach National with three guys who aren't very good. The weather was perfect.
I played pretty well. The driver was particularly good. We went 7 under, and two of those were my solo birdies.
All in all, a great time.
After I posted about yesterday's scramble, I remembered that it wasn't two but three of our birdies that were my solo birdies.
Also, tee to green, over the first four holes we took my shot four out of eight times; thereafter, the team took my shot 21 times; the other three guys combined contributed 7 shots total. And yes, my shoulders are a little sore from carrying the team all the way around.
Funniest part is that this was the second tournament in a row that my team would have won the second flight if we had just been one shot worse. So we ended up tied for last place in the first flight, instead.
rsvman2 Funniest part is that this was the second tournament in a row that my team would have won the second flight if we had just been one shot worse. So we ended up tied for last place in the first flight, instead.
In my last 2 scrambles, our team was last in the first flight . In both cases, had we missed one birdie, we'd have won the 2nd flight. This "divide the total entries equally into 3 groups" is just plain luck for winning a flight.
Temp was 75 when I finished and that let me shoot 1 under....38/36.
This was on a 'short' course though
, where I played a mix of senior and middle tees around 5700 total.
Darkspeed X driver & $7/doz. Maxfli StraightFli (orange)balls were the shits paired together!
rsvman2 Funniest part is that this was the second tournament in a row that my team would have won the second flight if we had just been one shot worse. So we ended up tied for last place in the first flight, instead.
I've heard of flights in tournaments but thought it was based on handicaps, ie 1st flight is 0-5 handicaps 2nd flight is 6-10 etc. But your saying the second flight just starts at a certain point? Like the top 10 finishers are the 1st flight then the next ten are the 2nd flight etc? That sounds like the dumbest thing ever to me?
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