What'd You Shoot Today?

[iacas]

I shot 78 today. It was the most boring 78 in the world... and included 7/14 fairways (many were just off by a few feet). It included 10/18 GIR. It also included one sand save and two up-and-downs.

It also included 34 putts.

I missed in all the wrong spots and left myself with tough ups-and-downs, or, when I didn't, simply failed to make the putt. I hit a lot of solid putts today, but very, very few went down. Only three one-putt greens. Ouch.

[Rafcin]

you and Michelle both

[xian]

Shot a 49/49 today, but it was the best-feeling 98 I've shot. The long game really seems to pretty solid. The short game is less catastrophic. I need to work on the sand game (it's so bad) and get my putting (green reading actually) a little better and things will really begin to fall into place.

[Konrad]

I shot a 33 yesterday at my local par 35 layout. I finished with 3 birds, so that was nice. 2-3-2 looks good on the card :)

Bogey-Bird-Par-Par-Bogey-Par-Bird-Bird-Bird
5-3-5-4-5-4-2-3-2

[bzotta]

I shot an 89 today (my best ever, and first time in the 80s) on a par 70. My iron play was better but still a little inconsitent, but i putted great and drove the ball great. I almost blew it with a triple bogey 7 on #18.

[iacas]

Shot a 74 today with three bogeys and one birdie. Hit a lot of putts where I wanted out of the 10 greens (8 fairways) I hit, but only one fell. Many of the missed greens and missed fairways were literally by inches. I hit only two bad shots, really... It could have easily been a 70, but two mental mistakes and all those putts cost me an indeterminate amount of strokes.

Still, I'm quite happy.

[Thrash13]

I shot a 33 yesterday at my local par 35 layout. I finished with 3 birds, so that was nice. 2-3-2 looks good on the card :)

And your handicap is 8? You aren't sandbagging us are you?

Congrats on the 33, that is awesome!

[Thrash13]

I shot an 89 today (my best ever, and first time in the 80s) on a par 70. My iron play was better but still a little inconsitent, but i putted great and drove the ball great. I almost blew it with a triple bogey 7 on #18.

Congrats on making it in the 80s. It will only get better from here, and you will find yourself creeping in on the 70s sooner than you might expect.

It took me awhile to break 90, but once I did, I closed in on 85 and 80 fairly quickly.

[iacas]

And your handicap is 8? You aren't sandbagging us are you?

Yeah, I was tempted to post the same thought...

[Konrad]

Eh... it's better to be lucky than.. err. consistant?

[cold]

39

i think i'm coming over the top but just keeping the club face closed because I'm pulling a lot of my shots. . tight short game though and decent iron play

[Jeepthrills]

League last night. Started with a push into the heather that led to a tripple. Pulled it together to play the next 6 two over before a double/double finish. Didn't really matter in the grand scheme of things. We had a bye due to the odd number of teams in the league. We took all 6 points and increased our lead in the league. In five weeks, my wife has yet to lose an individual match. She has taken all 10 points possible and has the 4 lowest womens scores (gross). I have only lost one match and I was giving the guy 10 shots for 9 holes. Combined we have taken 26 of 30 points.

[Finn07]

Shot 81 43/38 today. Putted like absolute crap, missed some very makeable birdie putts from 10 feet or less. 3 for 3 in sand saves which was nice. The worst part about today was realizing that my 5 iron was broken on the fourteenth hole. Then to boot on hole 17 the shaft in my driver breaks. Three weeks ago I played a course where there was a tree limb hanging over the left side of the tee box. I set up on the left side of the tee box not even noticing it. On my follow through the club smashed against the limb. I Guess that made it very weak cause today it gave. Anyway decent round but could have been in the mid 70's.

[Finn07]

Bad golfing experience today. Had to play without my driver cause it broke yesterday. Also got paired up with a horrible golfer today. I was looking for his ball all day today. Dont get me wrong, I dont mind if your horrible but when your ball goes five yards every time, its time to pick your ball up, not take two practice swings each time. Needless to say i played 9 holes and left, i couldnt take it anymore. And to boot i played like shit.

[Sanjuro82]

Shot an 89 today (47/42) at Pecan Lakes in Navasota. Struggled a bit on the front nine (at one point I had 3 doubles in a row!!). Found the trees a bit too much too.

Settled down on the back nine. Putting was sporadic, but that was probably because the greens had just been re-turfed (sandy).

[iacas]

Shot a 74 today at a course that is only 68.7/116 or something like that. Had a "birdie bogey birdie bogey birdie bogey" streak on the front in the middle of one and two pars. Had all pars on the back except a double bogey followed by an eagle, then two bogeys on the closing three holes.

Eagle was on a 300-yard par 4. Hit a good drive (there's a chute of trees that aims you 30 yards left of the green, so you have to hit a pretty precise cut). Had about 30 yards to the hole, 25 to the green.... pitched it on, watched it roll, and drop.

[LarryK]

81!!! It finally came together today! Beat my previous personal best by two strokes. Just established my first handicap this year, and it was killing me to play to an 18 or 19 when I knew I was much better. A couple of 100-plus rounds earlier in the year made me look like a bigger chop than I really am. And then I've been mired in the low 90s and upper 80s since.

Funny thing today. Some of my stats weren't all that different than usual. Four out of 14 fairways. Thirty-five putts. Seven greens in regulation was a little bit of an improvement. The biggest difference was my "other" category. I have always kept this stat. "Other" are any strokes that aren't tee shots or putts. A "boring", plain vanilla, even par round would consist of 18 tee shots, 18 shots from the fairway or rough (two shots on the par fives cancel out the zero shots that should occur on the par threes), 18 GIR and a two-putt for par. So, my "other" category is a comparison to how close I am to the ideal goal of 18 strokes between tee and green. GIR alone doesn't give you the total strokes you waste between tee and green. And I waste a lot. Normally, that figure is in the upper 30s or lower 40s. Today it was 28!

And that's what I worked on earlier this week at the range. Approach shots that, if not on in regulation, would at least be good enough to keep me out of jail and away from big numbers. The result: 1 birdie, 8 pars and only 2 double boagies.

I'm psyched.

[cold]

92 on a new course. .

A couple quads, nice drives though, upwards of 300 +