What'd You Shoot Today?

[elementz]

Got off to probably one of my best starts ever last night.   Was -1 thru 5 and finished the front 9 with a +1 (37).   The back 9 wasn't very good but we were playing speed golf to try and beat the darkness.   Ended up with 37/44 for an 81.   Still a great score for me.    My last 5-6 rounds have all contributed to my handicap index so we trending in the right direction.

[saevel25]

Shot a 42. Got to making 1/2 to 3/4 my normal swing. Much better tonight. Should have been a few strokes lower. I blades a pitch shot on hole 1. Didn’t get width. Tried to make a 3/4 swing on a par five, but hit it full swing because my 3/4 is a full swing. A 8 iron went 180 yards and hit the cart path over the green into the lateral hazard. 😳

[elementz]

Played some really nice away courses in a different city this past weekend.   Feast or Famine is the best way to describe those 2 rounds.     If I take my best holes....I was -4 in 18 holes (not consecutive) but was +35 in the other 18 holes.   So frustrating.

36 hole breakdown.

4 Birdies

14 pars

7 bogeys

7 doubles

3 triples

1 Quad

 

 

 

 

Edited July 21 by elementz

[saevel25]

At Sheep’s Ranch, Bandon Dunes.

Shot an 84. That wind was nasty going from like hole 7 forward. It was like a 3-4 club wind if in the face.

Greens are tricky with the natural grass. 

[bkuehn1952]

39/39/78 for an 8.7 differential. Ball striking was good. Putting and chipping was off just enough to prevent a very good score.

[saevel25]

that turned out to be a 9.6 differential. My ball just gets demolished by the wind. I miss hit it just enough for it not to get pushed around. 

[saevel25]

 

Shot a 96, 15.6 differential. 

Just played bad. Early was either big misses left, or big pushes right. When I tried to not right side bend I would hit 3-6 inches behind the ball. I shanked a 4 iron on a par three. 

[saevel25]

Shot an 89, 12.2 differential.

 

[saevel25]

79, 3.0 differential.

[iacas]

11 hours ago, saevel25 said:

79, 3.0 differential.

Well that's different.

[saevel25]

56 minutes ago, iacas said:

Well that's different.

Blind squirrel finds a nut and putted well.

no, I decided to play a round being athletic rather than paralyzing myself with swing thoughts. I have no clue if I was doing what I worked on. It was the last day and I was tired of freezing at the top of the swing not know if one of four outcomes were going to happen. 

[iacas]

1 hour ago, saevel25 said:

Blind squirrel finds a nut and putted well.

no, I decided to play a round being athletic rather than paralyzing myself with swing thoughts. I have no clue if I was doing what I worked on. It was the last day and I was tired of freezing at the top of the swing not know if one of four outcomes were going to happen. 

That's always been the deal.

You put in the work hyper focused on ONE or at most two things, so that you don't have to think about anything except a single feel or the target or something on the course.

[saevel25]

19 hours ago, iacas said:

That's always been the deal.

You put in the work hyper focused on ONE or at most two things, so that you don't have to think about anything except a single feel or the target or something on the course.

Just didn't think the focus wouldn't be anything about my arms/hands. 

[GolfLug]

Shot my new low 72 (par 70) today. Had 5 birdies, also a new best, which included a hole out from the bunker on par 3 6th, and another hole out pitch from 15ish yards on the long par 4, 15th. 

Got a couple of other good breaks. Except for an OB drive on 14th (and ensuing double bogey), not much went wrong. All in all I might have used up a year's worth of luck in a single day. 

[saevel25]

Played 9 holes, shot a 39. 

Kind of got around. Everything between the trees, so in play. Short game was rusty. Got to get back on that. Greens were stupidly slow because they got a lot of rain yesterday and probably couldn't cut them down. Usually in the summer they are firm and pretty fast for how sloped they are. Got to work on face to path a bit. 

[Nail]

Haven’t posted in a while, but said I’d come on and share two rounds I’ve had lately. 

firstly I shot a level par 71 off our green tees which are one up from our back tees. I had five birdies 4 of them on the back nine. So a 3 under par back nine. 

Then I shot a 1 over par 72 off our back tees, which was a PB for me.
 

So I achieved two of my goals for the year. One was to break 75 for the first time off the back tees. The second was to get a handicap index lower than 6.5. I’m now a 6.2

PS Erik I’m really enjoying the spin axis podcast 

[ConorHealy]

Shot a dispiriting 86 on Sunday. Not giving myself any sort of chance with the driver - hit 3 of 13 fairways, which is never a solid foundation.

Need to work on short game on wet ground too, must have chunked half a dozen chips within 20 metres of the green.

[ChetlovesMer]

I "feel" like I've been hitting it really well the last few times out. The last nine I played was on the back-9 at Bent Tree GC in Sunbury, OH. 

Hole 10: (par 5) Smoked my drive just off the fairway on the left rough. On the second shot the ball was in rough and below my feet, so I just hit chippy (positional?) 5-wood to about 135 yards. knocked it on with a 9 iron, two putts... this game's easy. 

Hole 11: (par 4) Again, roped my drive, this time dead straight. A 100 yard gap wedge and two putts later, I'm on a roll. 

Hole 12: (par 4) Hit a fairway finder tee shot to the center of the fairway, 125 out. This time P-wedge to about 18 feet. 3 putts later and I'm 1 over. (In fairness hole 12 might be the toughest green to putt on the course.) No excuses, it was a 3-putt bogey. ... Argh... I'm 1 over after 3 straight GIR's. 

Hole 13: (long par 3), over-cooked a 5 iron. Pin high but well to the left. Pitched it on over a bunker with my 60, two putts later and I'm now 2 over. 

Hole 14: (par 4) The tees were way back on this hole. Tattooed my drive, but it found the pond to the left. Argh... Take a drop, hit 8 iron from 150, the ball spins back away from the flag on the sloped green leaving me a 20 foot putt straight up the hill from just off the green. I miss the resulting 5 footer and end up with a double. That one hurt. Argh... I'm 4 over. 

Hole 15: (par 5) Again, the tees are way-way-way in the back. My drive is safe from the water, but finds the bunker on the right. I advance the ball with a 6 iron. Then I hit 8-iron to about 9 feet. I leave the birdie putt on the lip. 2 putt par and I remain 4 over. 

Hole 16: (par 4) Once more the tees are way back. But I hit an absolutely perfect drive. I'm left with 120 over water to front pin location. I hit P wedge... oops. I pured it. It goes like 140. It's on the green, but I'm 60 feet from the hole. The putt is downhill all the way. I leave it 10 feet short. I leave the next one an inch or two away. DANG! Another 3-putt bogey. 5 over. 

Hole 17: (short par 3) Worse swing of the day. Hit it fat and short of the green. I bump it on the green to about 5 feet, miss the five footer, another bogey. Now I'm 6 over. 

Hole 18: (par 4) Pretty close to perfect drive. Hit it past all the trouble. (There are bunkers in the middle of the dog leg on this hole. You can play out safely to the right of the bunkers or pound it over them. In this case I went over.) I had a P-wedge to the green. Hit the wedge to about 9-10 feet. Converted the putt for birdie. YAY! I finished 5 over. 

So overall I shot a 5 over 41 which is very solid for me: 

• I hit 5 out of 7 fairways. One was just left in the rough. One was a little farther left in the water. 
• I hit 6 GIR's. 2 NGIR's. 1 hole I had to take a drop after my tee shot found the water. 
• The putter was unimpressive. 2 three-putts, and one that would have been a three-putt but the first putt was off the green. I didn't putt as well as I should have. I did finish with a made birdie putt on the last hole. 

I think my game is solidifying... if that makes any sense. Here are my last (10) Nine-hole rounds, all at Bent Tree GC, some on the front, some on the back: 

42, 37, 41, 40, 47, 41, 36, 43, 39, and then a 41 last week.