What'd You Shoot Today?

[cdh79]

just got back from a regular 9-hole round, and with exception of one friend, we all did well today (out of 6 players)..

I shot a 41 (it's a par 34 course) and made 4 pars, three bogies and two doubles. I am a bit bummed about the two double-bogies as both weren't really necessary and I had some lip-outs and one ball stopped a cm in front of the hole.. it did improve my handicap by 0.3 points, so I am not complaining (despite another good round having been kicked out). 

[WillieT]

Quick Sunday afternoon 9 holes with grandson at Minnesott.  A former co-worker, playing solo caught up with us on #4.  We played out as a trio the balance of the holes.  Great temps with gusty NW winds between 15 and 20mph.  Putting was inconsistent, total of 22 putts.  Managed 3 GIR and 3nGIR.  Two of the GIR became bogies due to putting.  Wound up with a 47.  

[pganapathy]

Played one a half rounds yesterday.  Was supposed to go in the afternoon and then dad woke up in the morning and decided he wanted to play.  So we went to the course a bit late and eventually played 8 holes.

bogey x 4, par, bogey x 2, par

Then decided to drop dad back home, have lunch and go for the planned afternoon round which morphed into another since the guy I was supposed to play with dropped out and another friend came into town late morning and wanted to put in a practice round for his match play game Tuesday.  Decent round though couple of miserable holes pushed my score up.  Started on the back 9 and had miserable holes there.

bogey, par, bogey x 2, par x 5, double, par, bogey x 2, double, bogey, double, bogey x 2

 

[cdh79]

the weather was so great over here (sunny and warm), and a friend and I met coincidentally at the driving range.. there were free spots available, so we walked a 9-hole round. 

started with a birdie off the back tees, but then it went downhill from there (well, made 2 more pars and some great approaches, but too many penalties thanks to water hazards).. ended up with a 48

Edited March 21, 2022 by cdh79

[WillieT]

My son wanted to play today - he had been on a tough work schedule for the past 10 days.  We played at Minnesott today as the course we have an associate membership is closed while it changes ownership.  Anyway, I started with bogie and hit six more bogies in a row.  A lot of up and downs.  Double bogied the seventh with a birdie on the eighth.  Finished with a bogie on nine and a 44 going out, easily the most consistent nine holes I've ever played.  Make the turn and the game goes south.  Let's just say a 53 on the back was marked by two doubles, two triples and a quad bogie.  Highlight of the back side was seventeen - typically a 3w or 3h based on which set of tees we play.  Today was a 3w that I played perfectly to get the cart path bounce for a 258 "overall" drive, an easy gap wedge in and two putt for par.  No amazing stats to report, but a great day of golf that had some consistently boring golf on the front and lets see how many ways I can mess a score on the back event.   Looking to have another opportunity to hit the links with the best ball 9-holer tomorrow afternoon.   

[p1n9183]

On 3/7/2022 at 3:56 PM, p1n9183 said:

What a saturday I had! finally all the game came together, played at my home course (70.2 rating / 128 slope) and shoot -5 (67). Amazing ballstriking and I managed to sunk a nice share of putts.

After a sandwitch at noon I joined a couple of friends to play 12 more holes, shot -6.
-11 in 30 holes, that was amazing to experience for a 1.6 index player. 

Of course, as I spected I hit reality on Sunday shooting an above average 75 (+3) witch felt like a horrible and boring round of golf. 

One week later I shot +1 (73) on Saturday and again a marvelous -5 (67) on Sunday.
This last weekend I shot -2 (70) on Saturday and just practiced the course on a windy day on Sunday. Game is really taking off right now, index dropped to 0,1 and is likely that I will lower it a little more by the end of the month to achieve +handicap.. I would love to see that..  

[pganapathy]

Had an absolutely miserable start to my round though it did get better towards the end.

Quadruple (2 balls in the water), triple (1 ball in the water), bogey x 2, double, par, double, bogey, double, par, double, par x 2, double, bogey, par, bogey x 2

[cdh79]

shot 42 over 9-holes on my home-course today.. I ended up with 2 par, one double-bogie and the rest bogies.. the double was caused by an unfortunate water-ball that ended up about 10 meter right of the target and had an unlucky bounce into the hazard.

All in all I am very happy with the round though, as I had some decent approaches and my putting went great. The driver was a bit disappointing (first use about 215 meters, but it wasn't a solid hit; second was a complete mishit to around 115 meter - so pitching wedge distance), and I decided to use my 3-wood at hole 8 instead of the driver, as I am just so much more consistent with it. Hole 8 is a par 4 and even with my 3-wood off the tee (goes over 200 meters, usually around 210m) I can get a decent approach shot with about 160 meters left. My 7 iron even went a bit too far and it rolled off the back of the green (according to Arccos it ended at 164 meter).  I just need to get the penalty out, and maybe tighten up a few of the chips around the green and I should be able to get below 40 on that course again. I managed this only once so far, but with the weather brightening up and the course being much drier than the past months it's so much easier (and more fun) to play again.

[pganapathy]

Fairly decent round and decent ball striking today.  A bit of improvement in the short game and I would have had a single digit score.  Wound up 12 over

Par, double (chipped into bunker and then two putts), bogey x 2, par x 2, bogey, par x 2, bogey, par, bogey x 2, par, bogey x 4

[pganapathy]

Had a great ball striking round today and generally good scores.  Played 14 holes and only one bad hole.  I got into the water hazard and decided to try and play out of it.  This was a practice round for me since I am playing a tournament on Sunday.  Took me 3 shots to get out of the hazard and then wound up with a triple bogey.  Normally I would have just taken a penalty drop but I decided to try and practice in case I wound up in such a situation.  The end result is I will take a penalty drop in the future.

bogey x 2, par, birdie, bogey x 4, triple, bogey, par, bogey x 3

[WillieT]

Just over 2" rain yesterday meant cart path only today at Minnesott - and its one of the best draining courses in the area.  Also meant the greens were really receptive to approaches but also somewhat slower in terms of roll.  Nothing like seeing an approach shot hit and stick!  My son and I were some of the earlier ones out today so we were not pushed in any way and it made for a leisurely round.  I wound up with a 92 and he a 95.  Overall, it was a decent "for me" round with 4 GIR and 3 more nGIR.  Putting was so-so with 39 putts (several holes were three putts and no one putts).   Scoring wise - 4 pars (2 front, 2 back); 7 bogies (5 front, 2 back) and 7 doubles (2 front, 5 back) with two of the pars coming on the last two holes - nothing like finishing solid.   

[cdh79]

amazing weather over here today.. about 20C and sunny and no wind.. played a 9 hole round (as most of the time) and ended up with 5 par.. the most amount of pars I've ever had so far.. unfortunately I added a triple-bogie and a double bogie to the round as well.. 

my overall best round was 3 birdies on those 9 (also adding in a triple and a double-bogie)

[cdh79]

I played one of my best rounds today, and it was championship day from our whatsapp-group (15 members).. we play regularly together and go on golf trips together, and have a monthly championship with small prizes (birdie pins, sleeve of balls for closest to the pin on holes 1,9,10 and 18 as well as a 15 Euro and a 30 Euro voucher to a golf-shop for 2nd and 1st prize).. 

I managed to play an 83 today which resulted in 40 stableford points, which gave me the first prize. 2 players shot lower scores (81 and 80) but we play stableford, and given they have a lower handicap, I ended up winning.  It's the second time that I won so far (out of 9 championships that we have played so far). Comes in handy, as I need to get some new gloves again anyways. 

[pganapathy]

Tournament today and my game was good except my finishing, especially the putting, let me down.  I finished 16 over while I should really have been 10 over or so.  Too many putts which refused to go in.

bogey, par, double, par, bogey x 2, par, bogey x 8, double, par, bogey

[NM Golf]

Bogey-free 71 yesterday, 17 pars and a birdie. Kinda of a boring round really, hit it pretty well, but just couldn't get anything close, couldn't hit the par 5s in two, and when I missed the par 5s I missed in really bad places so I couldn't get up and down for birdie.

I missed 8 fairways, but 6 of those were by less than 4 feet, only one drive on #2 actually had me in any trouble and I was able to punch out and get up and down. Missed five greens but only had to chip twice because the other misses were actually shortish putts from the collar. 

Pretty happy altogether, I have gone bogey free very few times in my life. Only problem was my buddy shot 30 on the front and I ended up paying out like an ATM. In my group, one birdie just doesn't cut it. 

 

Edited March 28, 2022 by NM Golf

[phan52]

Disaster on Saturday. Really regressed in my work on my swing path. It was cold and windy so that didn't help, but still. Only two pars. 

48-47-95

[Sandy Lie]

Ok, I’ll start with the last hole. We played Pinehurst #2 today. And we were a bit dumbfounded at what we watched on the 18th. We are in the fairway getting ready to hit to the green.  For those of you that have been there before the Statue Garden is off to the left well past the sidewalk. I’d say about 40yards left. Walking up the fairway I saw a group of guys doing the photo op with the Payne Stewart statue.  Ok, no big deal. What happens next was I don’t know, crazy? Unbelievable? You tell me. One of the Resort Guests is playing #2 and he starts walking over to the 1st tee area….but he decides to walk across the green! And to top it off he stops to light his cigar!  A few of us are going “what the $*ck”?
Totally oblivious to what he’s doing.  So we hit our shots, I’m pin high about 12ft. Then another clown comes over to the green and I mean edge of the green to watch us putt! What the hay?  So we finished and I walked over to the first tee area to get rid of the push cart and I have to say something.   Walked right up to him and asked him why he walked across the green? We were in the fairway hitting our approach shots I said.  His reply….I didn’t know that was the 18th green. What a douche.  Couldn’t believe it! I turned to his caddie (who I know) and said make sure he doesn’t get lost out there today!

Oh, greens were fast as heck, had 32 of them! 78, 39 a side. 

[dagolfer18]

Hey guys! Sorry for the long layoff (and failing to post in my blog) but I’ve just had burnout from work and school and I just haven’t had much motivation to post anything. But I’m gonna catch up today: eight rounds played in the last month, but I’m only going into detail on two of them. I’ll put my nine hole scores here as well, and any starred score is a conference match score:

9-Hole Scores: 40-49*-47*-41-44*-42

So inconsistent for sure, but apart from the 49, nothing too bad. Now on to my last two rounds!

3/26: Saturday morning my brother and I went to The Crossings to get 18 in before I went to work. I shot a frustrating 44 on the front, but it was only frustrating because my short game was awful. I couldn’t make a putt to save my life.

But that all changed on the back. I doubled 11, but then went one over on the last six holes to shoot 39 on the back and an 83 total, which included a strong par-par-birdie finish.

3/28: I’ve recently decided that I want to pursue the PGA Management program at Methodist University, and today one of my coworkers who is a Methodist alum took me and another coworker down to play the course there. 

I put together a super solid round there, shooting 40-42 for 82 from the back tees (72.6/143). It was a great putting day for me, 31 putts total, 12 on the front.

 

So to sum all this up, I was in a slump for a little less than a month, but I think I’ve found it again. I’m hoping to get out for another round tomorrow, and stay tuned for a blog post soon that will briefly go over our matches so far!