thehillgolfer

shot a even par 35 yesterday....3 putted once, lipped out two birdie putts, and shanked a 9 iron from the middle of the fairway....couldve been an amazing 9 holes...and i didnt hit driver once cuz i needed to work on my 3wood.

I have a question. Has anyone had a problem with shanking Cleveland CG10s? i have a 52 degree and if i'm focusing usually wont have a problem and its my favorite club in the bag. Sometimes though, i will randomly shank the ball straight left (i'm lefthanded). I was wondering if anyone else had experienced this too. Its mostly with 3/4 shots of like 50-100 yards. Also if you have any clue as to why it randomly does that please share.

my course doesnt really have a mud problem, but around the green especially it has a lack of grass problem. So if i'm going to chip and i'm in between clumps of grass or in a hole i'll roll it over to i can actually hit a shot rather than hope to blade it close. If i was actually playing a serious round i wouldnt, but most the time i dont even keep score, i'm just looking to improve.

i think the biggest reason by far is lost balls/not hitting a provisional. the cure for that is hitting a provisional if there is ANY doubt you lost your ball. if anything it gives u a practice drive after a bad one. also not sucking at golf speeds up play alot too.

yeah, i dont really care...i just kinda wish all these reporters/camera people would leave town. i also was really annoyed by the fact that all the media people tried to blame the police and president of tech. Cuz none of the students and people here were, just those dumb people like katie couric...ugh, she got on my nerves.

thats pretty cool....they shouldve just sent them up to our local muni though, we have plenty of titliest VT hats

I was on vacation at the outer banks last summer and played at this place called Holly Ridge or something like that. It was awful. The greens were very strange. I'm not sure what type of grass they were or if they were grass, but whatever it was it was awful. Luckily i met some cool people from ohio and we were able to complain about how awful the course was together.

my experience is similiar to erik's, i started playing golf 3 years ago and shot in the high 90s. Luckily i was a freshman in high school so i played pretty much everyday during the summer and was able to shoot in the high 80s by the end of the summer. The next year i was able to get to lower 80s. And last year I was placing in our local junior tour and number one seed on our golf team. Your golf game is something that is constantly going be changing though...just look at the best player in the world, he's changed his swing twice. But the best way to get better is to play A LOT and to try new things, also getting a golf book isnt a bad idea either. I got my dad Tiger's "How I play golf" for Father's Day one year (guess who actually used it) and i used that as a basis for my swing. I think i have every page in that book memorized. but thats how you get good

being a christian, i thought it was totally awesome when zach johnson talked about how he could feel jesus' presence with him out on the golf course and started crying.... you could tell winning definitely meant so much more to him than it would've meant to tiger. so congrats to zach johnson

i just got a titliest 904F (you gotta love those clearance sales!) its my first real 3wood and i'm excited about using it....too bad its like 30 degrees

riding...i have to walk most everytime i go out though cuz of junior events and high school matches...but i would much rather ride

well my luckiest shot of the week was today when i hit a 6 iron on like a 180 yard par 3. I was trying to hit the ball straight with maybe a bit of draw. It ended up i started it out like 30 yards left of the green (i'm a lefty) and drew it back and it landed 4 feet from the hole. and i just stood there thinking i couldnt have hit that shot if i tried 100 more times. oh well i'll take a birdie on that hole anyday

played a quick nine after work and shot a 34... made up for hitting a car while parking this morning at school

have u seen the cover of madden 2007 recently??? i had #2 pick and took LT because its bascially a toss up and i dont want to have to mess with the madden curse.

luckily i'm 17 and cant say i've had any golf injuries, unfortunately basketball and soccer havent been so kind... among other things i've had a broken toe, hyperextended/bruised knee, partially knocked out tooth that required a root canal (in the one game i forgot my mouthguard ) stitches right under my eyebrow (one of the most painful things ever cuz i had to go to some clinic cuz i was in the middle of nowhere tennessee and the doctor was scared of using novacaine so close to my eye)... oh and my broken toe was a result of kicking a girl's cleat...and i didnt realize it was broken til the end of bball season like 7 months later. so yeah, that was completely off topic but i figured i had to at least show off some of my other injuries.

luckily my course installed an irrigation system a couple of years ago but it is still very hard....all the other grass around town is turning brown. i know up in northern va its bad too. i went to a soccer tourney last weekend and it was the funniest thing. there was place with 4 soccer fields and all the grass around in the whole area was brown except the soccer fields, which were nice and green. but go two feet off the field and it was brown and dry as anything.

shot a one over 36 at my home course... made 2 birdies and 3 bogeys...and both those birdies were two putts...it was a weird day, i hit the ball really well and had two random chunks. and i had a 3 putt, i never do that at this course.

i also sometime pay attention to what other people are hitting, like in high school matches and stuff. After a couple holes, you can usually tell who hits it further and by about how much, so if its a course i've never played and we get up to a par 3 and i see a guy hits his 6 iron well but it come up just short, and i have been hitting it about one club further than him all day, i know i can get a 6 there. its especially helpful if your in between clubs, and as i said before, dont know the course well.

shot a 39 on tuesday in my hs match...just havent gotten around to posting it. some kid thats going to play for tech next year shot a 32...with a double on the last hole, absolutely crazy, and this is one of the toughest courses in southwest va. i thought i had the best round of my life going too, i parred the first two holes than eagled the third hole...and of course i then went double double and limped in par bogey par bogey...but thats golf

i wont get to watch anythign tomorrow or saturday cuz we have a soccer tournament. but i'll most likely spend sunday afternoon watching it at work (gotta love working at a golf course) unless my marshall comes in and starts watching nascar (which he is prone to do)

double par is usually a good rule of thumb for beginners. they use it in alot of my high school matches and even started doing it in my junior golf tour. and believe me, its saved my butt on more occasions than i wish to recall.

i dont see anything wrong with what dayll is doing. all my life i've always been told that the most important thing in any sport is to have fun. and if the strategy he uses for him to have fun works, so be it. i'm sure if he's serious about getting good at golf he'll stop doing his pretend golf once he gets better, but its better to do what hes doing than not play golf at all. and maybe he doesnt really feel like getting down to a single digit handicap, he just wants to go out and enjoy a round of golf, seems perfectly fine to me. i think that strategy is alot better than drinking so much you dont care about how you are doing.

shot an even par 36 today in our hs match. finally got medalist . hit 3 fairways, 8 greens, and had 17 putts. if it wasnt for a stupid double on a 110 yard par 3, i wouldve had something really good going.

thanks dad (he always does that)

first of all i wasnt saying he isnt any good. when it comes to his swing, mostly my comment was based on his club position at the top of his backswing and the tempo (if u can call it that) with which he swings. like sometimes i tried to gear and nail it like he does and half the time i'll hit it fat or do something else thats not very pretty. and the reason i said something was because you always hear about guys changing or tweaking their swings so they can hold up under pressure, and i bet its even tougher for him with his 200 MPH swing (exaggeration) i hope that helps