What'd You Shoot Today?

[Craigers]

I shot a 46 on the front 9 of my home course. 

My driver contact is improving, but I still need to hit more fairways 2/9. I also need to work on pitching/chipping around the green. 

[Jrwatkins7]

Jekyll and Hyde again...  If I am good enough to make 5 birdies in a round how can I still make 4 double bogies in the same round?  This game is so frustrating.  5 birds and shot 79.   

[bkuehn1952]

Played one of my favorites, Pierce Lake.  Shot 77 (69.6/131) for likely my best differential of 2020.  Tied my record for birdies in a round (5) so one can figure that I did hit some really poor shots along the way.

[RetiredOldMan]

1 hour ago, Jrwatkins7 said:

Jekyll and Hyde again...  If I am good enough to make 5 birdies in a round how can I still make 4 double bogies in the same round?  This game is so frustrating.  5 birds and shot 79.   

Wow! I can totally relate. 

However, a 79 is still not too bad 

There is a reason some of us have different occupations. 😄

Keep at it. There will be better days for you. 

 

Retired Old Man

[Grizvok]

Played 9 with my girlfriend’s dad and her little brother at a course I’ve never played before. Shot a 43. Pretty short course overall with one downhill par 4 being so short that my 3w tee shot went OVER the green. Most of the remaining holes were still somewhat short but a bit more reasonable.

Chipping and pitching continues to improve. I believe the improvement on this front continues to stem from viewing each short game shot as a chip/pitch hybrid.

I desperately need to get better at reading greens. 

[Cantankerish]

89 today at Pompano Municipal's lovely Pines course.  I had never played it before.  We finished right at 8 PM. When you leave the 18th, you go past the excellent outdoor bar with live music you can hear on much of the course.

Driver was working.  Putter not so much.

[Greg 504]

103 at Mill Creek, home course to Ben Curtis in tiny Ostrander, Ohio. The course was well maintained and pace of play for a Saturday was great. My first time playing this course. It did not seem overly difficult, I just managed three penalty strokes and found myself behind trees four separate times where I had to punch out. My lob wedge earned a time out in the garage as well for being an irritable jerk.

Was an enjoyable round with a great friend I have had since elementary school. 

[Nail]

Shot 90 yesterday. Couldn’t get the driver going at all. Although I drove the par 4 16th green and came away with a birdie. 
 

Shot an 83 today equalling my personal best. Driver didn’t behave too well but it went well enough for enough holes to shot a pb. Putting and chipping very well though for me. 

[HJJ003]

Another rough day this weekend. 100. Taking a new priority piece to the golf course is hard lol. I’ll keep working as my practice sessions have been fruitful. 

Edited June 21, 2020 by HJJ003

[iacas]

71 with John at Cranberry Highlands.

Played in 4:25 that felt longer. Hot day.

[Beastie]

77 today. Couldn’t buy a putt and it was v. windy and wet. Pretty good tee to green though.

[NM Golf]

69 (-3) today. Fought the driver most of the day. Stood up on #18 and hit the best drive of the day right up the left side. Get down there and my ball is gone. Nowhere to be found. I end up taking a double bogey. So irritated, on that hole you can't see the landing area, someone had to have swiped it, there is literally no where for it to go.  

[DrvFrShow]

God awful and we'll leave it at that. 

[Cantankerish]

1 hour ago, NM Golf said:

69 (-3) today. Fought the driver most of the day. Stood up on #18 and hit the best drive of the day right up the left side. Get down there and my ball is gone. Nowhere to be found. I end up taking a double bogey. So irritated, on that hole you can't see the landing area, someone had to have swiped it, there is literally no where for it to go.  

 

I am with you on that.  You got hosed.  I can not stand losing a ball in the fairway.

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Feeling very good.

Got an 80 on a par 70 course today, my best score ever. My previous best score was 84 on a par 72 course.  As you can imagine, with a score considerably below my handicap everything was working from the driver to the flop to the putter. Amazingly this occurred in a big rush to beat dusk.  My 10-year-old was with me.  He had his share of good strikes and talked my ear off on the drive home with all the fun he had.

Special Father's Day all around.

 

[jsgolfer]

Rejoined Springfield G&CC last Thursday, played my first round back at he old stomping grounds and actually played decently, which had been a struggle.  Hopefully the decent play will continue.

41-39-80 

 

 

[Darkfrog]

Ground out an 89, with 7 penalty strokes. Never quite felt comfortable over the ball. Reflecting on this round, the good thing is that 6 months ago when I left the course with this feeling, my score was well into the 100s, and now I can break 90 with the same feeling. I guess that's a testament to the improvements I've made with lessons and practice.

Had handful of flush strikes, but the big right miss with driver was going all day, and I think I topped/thinned about half my approach shots.

Putting touch and green reading was very good by my standards - only 30 putts.

[Rkrider99]

Took a trip to St. Louis, MO to play golf with my son over the last couple of days. Never played the courses before. Well, let's just say I was embarrassed. I've never 3 and 4 putted so many greens in  my life. First of all, you'd have to take 4 of our greens on my home course, combine them, and that would equal one green at the courses we played. Then the tiered greens, at Whitmoor CC, you get above the hole, and you end up with a 30 foot putt coming back. Oh, yeah, the scores:

Thursday - 89 at Whitmoor - North, Friday - 90 at Missouri Bluffs, Saturday - 89 at Whitmoor - South, and finally Sunday - 84 (42-42) at Whitmoor - South, I think I finally changed something where I was getting the ball to die near the hole.

All in all, a fun time with my son for Fathers Day.

Now to see how I'll play on my not so fast, flat, greens on my Florida home course.

[dagolfer18]

I played gosh awful today. Had my dad, brother and grandpa playing with me today, which lightened the mood despite my poor play. Last time the four of us played together was all the way back in December. My dad and I played each other straight up on the front, and he beat me by three, 48 to 51. My grandpa also shot 51. Don’t know what my bro shot, but he parred both par-3s.

My grandpa and I were the only ones to continue at the turn, and we rode a cart together to beat the heat. I didn’t do much better on the back, shooting a 49 with a quad on the par-5 16th, a hole that I normally play well. I was 150 out laying two, but I pushed a 7I over the road (which shouldn’t even be in play). I pushed my  second ball as well, but that one didn’t get to the road. Took me four to get down from there. 

The final damage is an even 100. Ballstriking really hurt. Chipping and putting were as good as normal, and if I didn’t have that to back me up, I probably would’ve shot 110 or even higher. Only one par all day, but the irony of it is that it was on the toughest hole on the course. I’m going to the range tomorrow afternoon to get back into a groove.