mattshaver

I've been trying to break 90 for a few years now. I've had a couple 90s and a few 91s, too, but never sub-90. Playing Sunday at a local muni, and had a pretty normal (bad) front 9, but picked it up on the back. Almost holed out from the fairway for an eagle on 11. Got to 17 with an 81. My score-keeping app was telling me "Projected score: 90". F you, app. I'm breaking 90 today. I had a par 3 and a par 4 left. 17 is a par 3 with a tiny green and a mound on the left side of the green that bounces balls right onto a patch of ground that is always covered in leaves and pine needles, and left under some trees where you have to bounce your chip into the mound to get it to stop before it rolls over the green into all the pine needles and leaves on the other side. So of course, i block it right (82) and I have a horrible lie whereafter I blade my pitch shot over the green (83) to under the trees on the left. Angry with myself, but still thinking that I can save it. That is, until I hit my chip too enthusiastically into the mound, but over the tiny green (84). Again. Chip from the right side of the green (85) to a foot for a 5 (86). Get to 18 tee thinking a birdie wasn't out of reach. Knew I needed to be in the fairway though, so I thought I'd hit my 5i off the tee that I'd been hitting pretty well all day. Chunked it 30 yds in front of me (87). Hit a good 3W to get flag high to the right of the green (88). So I know 90 is out of reach unless I hole the pitch shot. The flag is just on the edge of the top back portion of the green. Pitch ends up short on the green and on the level below the flag about 15 ft away (89). Of course, then I hole the putt for an even 90. I really hate this game sometimes.

shot a 91 today. but, if you look at my scorecard from today, you'll notice i 3-, 4-, and 5-putted. a lot. i just could not find the speed of the greens, a few of them had spike marks and old hole locations out the wazoo. just straight up nasty. if i 2-putt every time that i 3-, 4-, or 5-putted, i end up with a 79. this is possibly the most frustrating game ever.

posted a new personal best sunday, but still one stroke short of my goal for last/this year (breaking 90). posted a 90 even. shot a 41 on the back nine and i didn't even feel like i was having all that great of a round, so i'm really excited to see what i can do this weekend. the 41 included an 8 on a par 4 where i topped my drive, and it shot left hitting a tree. recovery shot was also topped and in the water. still had 2 double bogeys and a triple, but i can almost live with those scores. i cannot live with an 8. also, didn't 1-putt a single green and had 2 3-putts. so i know i'm leaving a lot of strokes out there. but i'm optimistic!

pushed a drive straight right to the adjacent fairway and had about 190 to a flag on the left of the green. there was a clearing in the trees that gave me a perfect line to the flag from the other fairway. stepped up and hit a beautiful straight 3 iron right at the pin. bounced on the front collar and rolled to 2 ft. sank it for birdie!

In it to win it!!

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shot 91 2x's this weekend. soooo sooo close to breaking 90!! would have had it easily yesterday, but i 4-putted after getting a GIR on a par 3 and put 2 in the water on another hole. could have had a comfortable 86 or so if i had just bogeyed the hole with 2 in the water (ended up carding an 8) and had 2 putts on the hole where i 4-putted. i know it's all coming together slowly though and i can tell my game is improving. also, over the weekend played the course we'll be playing this upcoming weekend in my golf league. had my first birdie in what seems like a year (nice drive 260 along the right edge of the fairway leaving 140 to an elevated pin over water. pulled the approach but the green sloped left to right and i had a tap in for birdie). next hole i holed out from 50 yards or so. would have been nicer if it wasn't for a bogey (1 in the water after hooking the drive and punched out from the ditch without getting a good aiming point to the fairway above me, ended up behind a tree and had to chip out to ~50 yds..) overall, very good golf weekend.

goals for 2012: 1. break 90. this is actually a left-over goal from 2011. i came really close a week or so ago by shooting a 91, so i'm thinking this one should be pretty easy. 2. practice more. 3. break 90 at least 5 times. 4. card at least 10 birdies over the course of the year. i don't think this should be a problem, despite my last birdie being about 8-9 months ago. yesterday, i missed 3-4 very make-able birdie putts just because i kept thinking "don't leave it short/don't push it/don't pull it/etc..." 5. have at least 1 round with no score over double bogey. this is going to be the hardest one, i'm sure, but it will keep me motivated. i look at my scorecards and just shake my head about what could have been if i could at least limit my blowup holes to 1 per side, or even more awesome would be 1 per round. this probably will fall into place if i can... 6. settle on ONE swing motion/theory/movement/thought and stop fiddling around.

sure, i guess i wasn't really commenting so much on how awesome the club is, but that i think it's crazy to hit a 3W that far.

everyone should check out the video of dustin johnson hitting the RBZ 3W. his last shot in the video is like 330, 300 carry or something silly like that. jaw, meet floor.

L - writing R - everything else, golf, baseball, basketball, soccer etc. I've always been confused about hearing from people which side should be dominant in the golf swing and tried both, but I've found that I'm much more consistent when the left side dominates. Don't know if it helps that I'm left handed or not (not that my hdcp would indicate that anyways... ).

ordered a pair of the ecco street a few days ago from one of those golf-deal-groupon type sites. looking forward to trying them out. hoping they get here by the weekend so i can give them a good workout on the course. i walk all the time, and i figure if anyone knows what a comfortable shoe is, it's freddy couples and his bad back.

saw that this thread got bumped again. still back with my tommy armours. i'm contemplating taking the blades out again, just because the weighting of the club is soooo much nicer, and i love the DG S300 shafts in them. i really don't anticipate it hurting my game too much since my driver is still by far the worst club in my bag.

2 shirts on sale, a swing weight (which somehow i have already misplaced), and alignment sticks. not a trip, per se, but i just ordered online the fairwaypro mat and some ecco street golf shoes. super psyched!

has anyone tried the fairway pro? www.fairwaypro.com looks like a really cool mat, and amazon has them for $159 right now.

thanks for the encouragement. i know i'll get there eventually. the really frustrating part is that i went out the next day, and after the first 4 holes, i just stopped keeping score because i was playing so badly. my target is to eliminate the "blow up" holes where i make 7's, 8's and (eek) sometimes 9's. currently, i average about 4 of these a round. if i can just get rid of those, i'll be a long way towards breaking 90. key for me is hitting a playable tee shot.

goal for this year: break 90. i came as close as i've ever come last weekend. shot a 44 on the front nine, which includes an 8 on the 9th and a cold putter. the back nine was a different story though. 5 minute waits on every shot and i wasn't able to stay in that rhythm and ended up with a 95. ultimate goal: single digit handicap. i had the goal of being a scratch golfer, but i'll shoot for being a single digit 'capper before i worry about scratch.

congrats. i'm still looking for my first eagle. had a chance earlier this summer, but a 3-putt later (from 10 ft no less!!!) and i was walking off the green with a par...

I recently picked up a shorter putter (don't know the exact length) and it feels so much more natural to me. I've only had it for a few weeks, so I'm not really sure if I'm putting better with it, but Sunday my speed was great (for me...) ll day.

Okay i understand that if i hit it fat it winter go as high but even still it just looked like something knocked it out if the air

Hey guys, Last round I played, I hit one or two shots of varying degrees of fat-ness that looked like they had top spin, meaning it looked like they just got knocked out of the air. If my PW normally goes (just a wild guess) 60 ft before it starts to fall, these would go 40. Is it even possible for me to have hit those shots with top spin? It was really windy, so could the wind have done it? Anyone experience anything similar?

so just as an update to this thread, i've gone back to my old irons. i don't get punished as much distance-wise if i hit it fat (what i do most often, almost never thin). but my pushes are still pushes, and my slices are still slices regardless of if i play my mizunos or my tommy armours. i did feel like i improved my ball striking though with the 67s, just i could really feel when i was making crisp ball-first contact. with my TAs, it's hard to tell.

dufner looks like he's lost his touch with the putter, blowing it 15 ft by. my money is on bradley.

i don't have the same set as you, but i do play with a set of the tommy armour evo plus irons. i've hit ping i and g15's and i find them pretty comparable to the i15s. i don't ever hear anyone talk about TA stuff, but from my limited experience their irons are just as good as the pings i've tried. ::shrugs:: just my 2 cents.