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  On 7/6/2024 at 1:23 PM, DeadMan said:

I need 5, 13, 16, and 17 to complete it. But I am now a little worried about needing to play 18 to get those last 3, especially if I'm still missing them in, like, October.

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81 holes of golf since this post, 7 birdies, and knocked out zero of these holes. I had a reasonable shot at 17 from ~15 feet yesterday and just missed it short and high. Had a decent look at 16 twice, but no dice either time. 

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  On 7/29/2024 at 6:04 PM, DeadMan said:

81 holes of golf since this post, 7 birdies, and knocked out zero of these holes. I had a reasonable shot at 17 from ~15 feet yesterday and just missed it short and high. Had a decent look at 16 twice, but no dice either time. 

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I hear you. #14 and #17 are my missing Away holes. Had a round with 6 birdies and only knocked off one hole. I never will complete the Home card before the snow flies. Sigh.

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  On 7/31/2024 at 10:26 PM, bkuehn1952 said:

I hear you. #14 and #17 are my missing Away holes. Had a round with 6 birdies and only knocked off one hole. I never will complete the Home card before the snow flies. Sigh.

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I am already strategizing about what courses have easier holes on the ones I'm missing! There's still 5 months left (August, September, October, November, December)! I'm not well...

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Birdied #4 at the home course. Hit it to 12’ and made the putt. Halfway done.

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Four birdies today (3, 5, 12 and 18). Eagled 18 a few weeks ago. I just added myself to the list. That leaves three holes (hardest) and a few months to get them. 

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Bumped 14 from my list today. Hit a slightly toed 6I from 186 on 14 at WW today, and made the 13-footer dead in the middle.

I played 10, 14, and 17 from the blue tees but the rest of the round from the whites with irons.

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Ok, I have completed the challenge and have eagles on 3/4 of par 5s. Today though brought something different as I had the Turkey by having consecutive birdies on 2, 3, and 4. I actually lipped out on 5 so 4 was in reach. Anyway, I think that's a first for me! 

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Birdied the final hole on my home course today. It’s always been a bogey in the past so this felt great. Aggressive swings to conservative targets: hit a big drive, followed by a partial wedge to 2 feet. The Dan Grieve partial wedge setup system worked! Thrilled with the outcome. 

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Birdied #13 at Quail Brook with a 15-footer. I thought it was new but apparently it isn’t.

Missed a 3-footer on #12 for birdie that would have been new, but it was probably the dumbest 3-footer I’ve ever seen. It broke 12” from the apex and started rolling back towards me, leaving me 2’ uphill for par. I probably could have putt a foot past the hole and it would have rolled in from behind. Stupid hole location.

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I birdied number 5 to knock off the entire front 9. I was slightly worried about this hole - at the course I normally play at, number 5 is the hardest hole for all 3 of the 9-hole courses. In fact, I birdied the hardest hole location on that hole (I pushed the approach about 20 feet, ha ha). 

All that is left now is 13, 16, and 17. I probably have 10 more rounds until the end of the year, so a decent amount of chances, but I might be playing back 9s a lot in November/December!

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Knocked out 16 last Friday. Down to 13 and 17. Getting there...

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  On 9/5/2024 at 8:10 PM, DaveP043 said:

I guess I'm back to playing, I made 3 birdies today (from the "senior tees", one of which was new to the list here.  9 down, 9 to go!

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Wow, Saturday I made 5 birdies (and only 3 pars), I now have 13 holes complete at my home club.  

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Finally completed the challenge! took me a long time to get hole number 4, which is a short par 4 that gently curves about 60 yards left starting at about 200 yards out and then the fairway necks down to the green. I have sometimes taken a 3W off the tee because I can push my drive and it then would enter a wooded area about 230 yards out.

I pulled driver and blasted a push into the woods and it rattled around and ended up in the fairway about 60 yards from a back center pin. Spun a 58* wedge to about 2 feet: 

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There was a little break to it and the greens were recently aerated making a short putt a little more difficult.

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  • 3 weeks later...

Finally. It seemed like months since I was able to record anything. I finally got #17 to complete my "Away" scorecard. Woo hoo! I will stay away from discussing my pathetic efforts so far with my "Home" course.

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  • 2 weeks later...

Played 63 holes over this past weekend. Made 5 birdies, but none on 13 or 17, which are my last 2 remaining. I am running out of time. I probably have 8 rounds left this year, so it's getting to crunch time here.

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I thought I had already knocked #1 off the composite list so I didn’t bother posting about it, but apparently I didn’t. I birdied #1 at Spooky Brook on 10/6.

It’s a short par 5; I flared my drive a little right but far enough to get under the trees that would normally block an approach from that angle. I hit PW to 20’ but missed the eagle putt.

Front 9 is done on the composite list. Only #12 and #15 left to go.

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