Motivating day at scramble!

[WUTiger]

Today I played in a benefit scramble.

My team didn't do very well - 5 over - but I had a good day and got compliments from my teammates. (Two were 15 HDCPs who had bad days). I don't mean to brag, just wanted to give a progress report for the season, as shown in scramble.

On the thirteen long holes, we used my drives 7 times. Three had carry of about 240, plus good additional runout. For most part, drives were in fairway or first cut, even ones we didn't use.

Six of my full-shot approaches held the green, and I wedged us in for a one-putt four times. (Fairway woods off the deck were a little klunky...).

One thing that helped: I took all my practice swings with the sun to my back. That way, I could use the shadow to check I wasn't overswinging, that I stopped at my ear.

This is the summer I redid irons: reshafted my X20 Tours from PX 5.0 to much lighter NS Pro 8950GH (R.Flex), and also got to test out the SLDR irons (also sub-100 gram shafts). With lighter shafts in both iron sets, I had trouble at first with trying to kill the ball. I didn't need to with the lighter shafts. (Used X20 Tours today).

Today was the first time in ages I didn't have a woods-hybrid swing and an iron swing: I had a golf swing! Having wood and iron shafts closer to the same weight help this out.

I've had some good lessons this summer, but that's it for awhile. I just want to work on what I already know I need to do, and build it into my swing.

[mcanadiens]

Today I played in a benefit scramble.

My team didn't do very well - 5 over - but I had a good day and got compliments from my teammates. (Two were 15 HDCPs who had bad days). I don't mean to brag, just wanted to give a progress report for the season, as shown in scramble.

On the thirteen long holes, we used my drives 7 times. Three had carry of about 240, plus good additional runout. For most part, drives were in fairway or first cut, even ones we didn't use.

Six of my full-shot approaches held the green, and I wedged us in for a one-putt four times. (Fairway woods off the deck were a little klunky...).

One thing that helped: I took all my practice swings with the sun to my back. That way, I could use the shadow to check I wasn't overswinging, that I stopped at my ear.

This is the summer I redid irons: reshafted my X20 Tours from PX 5.0 to much lighter NS Pro 8950GH (R.Flex), and also got to test out the SLDR irons (also sub-100 gram shafts). With lighter shafts in both iron sets, I had trouble at first with trying to kill the ball. I didn't need to with the lighter shafts. (Used X20 Tours today).

Today was the first time in ages I didn't have a woods-hybrid swing and an iron swing: I had a golf swing! Having wood and iron shafts closer to the same weight help this out.

I've had some good lessons this summer, but that's it for awhile. I just want to work on what I already know I need to do, and build it into my swing.

Sandbagger. ... Good on you boss.

[vangator]

Five over in a scramble? That's a rough day. :-) As long as the beer was cold! I've never been over par in a scramble yet (knock on wood). They're still fun anyway.

[David in FL]

Sounds like a fun day!

[dave s]

Nice post.  And it does make you feel good to contribute to the team when playing a scramble!

dave

[GangGreen]

I had a similar experience yesterday at a charity golf outing as well (scramble format). Been struggling off the tee lately but, for whatever reason, I was hitting it REALLY well yesterday. I don't know, there's just some "freeing" about a scramble format. I too have been taking lessons this season and it was nice not having to think about swing mechanics or the implications of a bad shot...just line it up and hit it.

[vangator]

I played in a scramble a few years back (when I was younger) where I wasn't the A player. I was the B, so I teed off 3rd. Our A player was the best driver of the ball I've ever seen. LONG! Well, since I knew he was behind me, I pucker up both cheeks for my drives and I don't think we took one of his drives all day. I can hit the ball long too, but I was in a zone that day. Several over 300.