What'd You Shoot Today?

[bkuehn1952]

Our senior club’s first tournament of 2025 was two days ago. At 11am it was still around 55 degrees f. Off and on rain all day and pace was miserable with our group clocking in at close to 5 1/2 hours.

My first nine was underwhelming with two pars and seven bogies. At the turn I gave myself a mental pep talk. While my scoring was pathetic, I had not had any disasters. Maybe I could salvage something with a decent second nine. One birdie and eight pars later, my comeback was complete: 43/35/78. 8.9 differential  (68.3/123).

I have to give a nod to an unlikely hero, my rain gear. I replaced my 2012 rain suit this year. While it is not high end, it kept me dry and, more importantly, warm.

[billchao]

I have not been playing well so far this year. Had some back tightness issues that have been bothering me for a couple of weeks which didn't help things. Today didn't start much different. Shot 50 on the front, could barely hit the ball in the air. Kept trying to make adjustments to get something to work and wanted to quit. Something must have worked though because I ended up shooting 39 on the back with 6 GIR. Stupid game.

[BabaYaga]

84 today on a 72.9/137. 6709 yards.

First real tournament in 7-8 years for me. It was a tight course that I hadn't played before. Tons of OB and water. I played the same ball the entire round so I guess that was a win?

Tripled my 2nd hole after skulling a pitch over the green and then 3 putting it. Two other doubles and couldn't get any putts to drop. 2nd round of the year and didn't really hit any 'bad' shots besides two pitches. Just am not dialed with the irons yet but kept it in play. Lots of good shots just couldn't convert.

[pganapathy]

Decent practice round today to get ready for final tournament of the season this weekend.  4 over front 9 and 7 over back 9 with only pars and bogeys

[elementz]

Played first 18 the other day and went 43/43.   Went out and played 9 holes last night and shot....43.   That is pretty much my average so I aint mad at shooting those numbers through the first couple of outings, given the crappy conditions and the winter rust.  For the 86 I shot, I felt it could have been much better as I hit 8 GIR and 8 nGIR.   Greens were so wet, shaggy and slow, it was a struggle just getting the ball to the hole.

[Elmer]

45
Couple Pars,
Couple Doubles!

[pganapathy]

Final tournament of the season.  Two day event but I only played the first day.  My round started so well with a shotgun start on the 15th.  Bogey, par x 2, bogey, par, bogey and then things took a turn.  3 putt double, bogey, couple of duffed shots double, bogey, 3 putt double, par, into hazard double, couple of duffed shots double, bogey, par x 3.  Without those 5 silly doubles, I would have had more than a fair chance of a trophy in the stableford event for one day play.  C'est la vie

[elementz]

Interesting 9 holes last night...

Hole 1 - Sliced into the tree line and hit a tree on the approach where I ended up losing yardage.

Hole 2 - took me 2 chips and 2 putts to get in the hole

Hole 4 - rinsed my approach into the pond.

With all that being said, I was +4 on those first 4 holes, but got locked in and played the final 5 holes at -1.   Ended up with a 39 (+3).

Foolish game.

[Elmer]

44 (9 over)
Had a few pars, a few not pars.
Played out of 2 traps.

game would be much easier if my driver would go straight down the middle. But no, it wants to go right or left and never let me play out of the fairway.

[elementz]

Similar 9 to the previous....slow start by being +4 over first 4 holes but settled down and went +1 over the next 5.   I can live with a 41, especially with 2 penalties and a 3 putt thrown in there.

[DaveP043]

I rarely come here, it feels like bragging, but I'm going to brag anyway.  In my last two rounds I had 76 (Diff 3.3) and 74 (shorter tees, diff 4.1), and my Index has dropped a full stroke to 5.6, the lowest its been for more than a year.  

[retoid]

33 minutes ago, DaveP043 said:

I rarely come here, it feels like bragging, but I'm going to brag anyway.  In my last two rounds I had 76 (Diff 3.3) and 74 (shorter tees, diff 4.1), and my Index has dropped a full stroke to 5.6, the lowest its been for more than a year.  

Great job!

[scotth]

Stupidly gave into peer pressure yesterday and played from the tips and rocked a 98 on a course from my normal tees am usually in the 83 range.  
 

Teeing off with a driver on a par 3 sucks. 🤦‍♂️

[Huffy]

Played 9 after work, fired a 36 (E), made 7 pars on the first 7 (all GIR and 2 putt), bogey & birdie on 8&9, hit 8/9 greens with 17 putts. There were a couple of birdie putts that should have fallen, but I'll never be upset with that round.

[BabaYaga]

Two rounds over the last two weeks to throw in here.

5/7/25
77 on a 71.0/130. 6,239 yards.

It was a Par 71...I don't even remember much about this round. I hit the ball fairly well but wasn't super consistent with it. Had a triple on 15 when I didn't clear the trees I was trying to cut on a Par 5. Birdied the last hole after sticking a wedge to about 3 feet. That was nice.

5/15/25
75 on a 73.1/140. 6,683 yards

This was my second tournament of the year. A 75 was good enough for 1st place in the event. Tough course. I tripled my 2nd hole of the day and couldn't really get anything going but played really well on holes 8-12 getting 3 birdies. I hit a ton of bad shots but was able to focus and recover really well. Helped that I putted well and made every putt inside of 5 feet.

 

[elementz]

41 (+5) last night...with two 3 putts.    Good thing I wasn't hitting the ball solid but scrambled well.

[elementz]

Played an away course and went 42/39.    Nothing special on the front but things seemed to be clicking on the back by being 3 over.    Could have easily been even on the back if I didn't (a) double bogey the Par 4, 13th from inside 100 yards and (B) not miss a 4' birdie putt on the Par 3, 16th hole.

[BabaYaga]

Three rounds to update here.

5/24/25
80 on a 71.5/132. 6,551 yards.

Tournament for me and was feeling pretty good. Doubled the first hole and never really got into a rhythm. I don't know why I can't get off to good starts in tournaments this year. Doubled 9 as well after I tugged my tee shot slightly into the heather. Bogeyed the last par five after putting myself in a terrible spot with my layup to the green. It a tale of a few holes that just got out of hand.

5/25/25
96 on a 73.2/135. 6,840 yards

Well - this was the WORST round I've played in 12+ years and I didn't actually swing the club that poorly. This was a disappointing tournament performance and I was DFL - if you can imagine. I lipped 6 putts, couldn't find 4 tee balls in the heather even though we saw exactly where they landed (and bounced), and I was in a bunker 3 times in which I was so close to the lip that I had to just pop it forward into the flat part of the bunker to get a swing on the ball. I didn't hit it that poorly...but a 96 is a 96.

5/29/25
73 on a 72.1/136. 6,683 yards

What a boring round of golf. 3 putt bogey on 1, bogey on 2 after short siding myself on an approach, birdied 4 after hitting it to 20 feet on a par 5, 3 putt bogey on 9 as I was on the top shelf....then parred all the way to 18 where I birdied it. 38-35 and hit 13 greens. Got up-and-down on 4/5 opportunities but the putter just wasn't working. I had 6 putts in the 12-15 feet range and couldn't get any to drop.

 

Shot a 96 and my handicap still dropped after the week lol