How'd you play?

[DashingDane]

Played my best round ever on Saturday and broke 100 (98) for the first time. Feels so satisfying to see progress (started playing in January)

[Tom the Golf Nut]

On 4/21/2024 at 8:56 AM, sirchunksalot said:

 

I was wondering the same thing, from the photo in your original post it looked like someone had a pet monkey they let loose. Those Fox squirrels can get huge! I used to see them quite a bit back in my hunting days and they could sound like a deer with all the noise they made going through the leaves. 

They are very common down on the Myrtle Beach courses. They will beg for food. When you leave your golf cart they will jump in and steal any food. They even open zippers on golf bags and take food out of your bag. I caught one taking my uncrustable PB&J out of my golf bag. Chased him off but he hid and waited for me to get on the green and came back for another attempt. 

[William P]

1 minute ago, Tom the Golf Nut said:

They are very common down on the Myrtle Beach courses. They will beg for food. When you leave your golf cart they will jump in and steal any food. They even open zippers on golf bags and take food out of your bag. I caught one taking my uncrustable PB&J out of my golf bag. Chased him off but he hid and waited for me to get on the green and came back for another attempt. 

They are stubborn and persistent to say the least!

[Dan Yates]

Bizarre round of golf Saturday morning at my home course Gettysburg National.  
 

Played Friday evening after work and only finished 13 holes before it got too dark to play on.  Unremarkable round except that I holed out for par on #4 from short side behind the green to a hole about 12’ from the back on a downslope, and got up and down from three bunkers.  Everything that got me into having to make those shots was mediocre.  I had an 8:45am tee time the next day, so I treated it like a warm up/practice round.

Woke up Saturday to drizzling rain and temps that tried and then failed to get out of the high 40’s.  Butchered the start: double, double, par, par, bogey, bogey.  The people I was paired with looked like they hoped I got lost on the way to the 7th tee.  But then I hit a 5i 208 yds to 12’ and lipped out the putt but easy par.  As it got colder I started playing better.  Birdied #8, left birdie putt on #9 1” short, lipped out birdie on #10 after duck-hooking my tee shot into the fairway of #14, left a 38’ birdie putt on #11 6” short but dead on line, birdied the par 3 #12, up and down par on #13, birdied par 5 #14, up and down par on #15, bogeyed #16 after getting out of position off the tee, sank a tricky 5’ left to right downhill putt for par after coming up short on the par 3 #17, and birdied #18.  
 

+5 front, -2 back for a 73, and best round of the new year after a terrible start (that could have been even worse if I hadn’t gotten lucky on a couple of bounces).  Really showed me the value of letting the bad shots go and telling yourself, “the next one will be a lot better”

[TJ Hall]

4 hours ago, DashingDane said:

Played my best round ever on Saturday and broke 100 (98) for the first time. Feels so satisfying to see progress (started playing in January)

Congratulations on breaking 100!!!

[barney_bogey]

Okay boys. Scramble for a good cause today. Typical mulligan packages, long drive, closest to pin and putting contest. Standard issue event.

We don't expect to win. We just come in respectable like and enjoy the buffet.

Two teams come in and post -25 scores.
47... 40 freaking 7.

The audacity of these guys looking out into a crowd of their peers with stolen accolades just astounded me.

Can't imagine how sharp the grooves were on those pencil wedges.

Anyways, I hit em petty good. Clean inside 100 and the new putter felt incredible! My pace was way better than average.

47....

B

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[David Leighton Reid]

After 5 days of much needed rain, I was the only golfer to challenge our wet course this morning.  The course was only open to walkers, but I didn't think I would be the only idiot maneuvering around standing water in low spots.  I shot 76, with 2 birdies, 6 bogeys, and 10 pars.  My shot of the day was a Dave Pelz Special 3/4 swing 9 iron from 118 yards that came to rest inches from the hole.  Life is good!

[Dan Yates]

40 minutes ago, barney_bogey said:

Okay boys. Scramble for a good cause today. Typical mulligan packages, long drive, closest to pin and putting contest. Standard issue event.

We don't expect to win. We just come in respectable like and enjoy the buffet.

Two teams come in and post -25 scores.
47... 40 freaking 7.

The audacity of these guys looking out into a crowd of their peers with stolen accolades just astounded me.

Can't imagine how sharp the grooves were on those pencil wedges.

Anyways, I hit em petty good. Clean inside 100 and the new putter felt incredible! My pace was way better than average.

47....

B

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Do you think they agreed ahead of time to post -25’s?  It’s absurd - so assuming it’s a standard distribution of 4 par 5’s, 4 par 3’s, and 10 par 4’s, if they eagle all of the par 5’s they’re -8, birdie the par 3’s they’re -12, so they claimed to eagle 3 par 4’s and birdied the other 7???  Stolen accolades indeed.

Glad you played well and enjoyed your new putter.  I’ve been loving mine lately too.

[Tom the Golf Nut]

3 hours ago, barney_bogey said:

Okay boys. Scramble for a good cause today. Typical mulligan packages, long drive, closest to pin and putting contest. Standard issue event.

We don't expect to win. We just come in respectable like and enjoy the buffet.

Two teams come in and post -25 scores.
47... 40 freaking 7.

The audacity of these guys looking out into a crowd of their peers with stolen accolades just astounded me.

Can't imagine how sharp the grooves were on those pencil wedges.

Anyways, I hit em petty good. Clean inside 100 and the new putter felt incredible! My pace was way better than average.

47....

B

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Had to laugh. I can't count the amount of times I see cheaters win scrambles. Last year 4 high school kids won one that I was in. We could see them all hitting off the womens tees, take 8 putts per hole and so on.  They didn't even pay for mulligans and came in with a 51. 

Another time it was a big Boys and Girls Club fund raiser and a team cheated. They had someone watching the scores turned in and came in a little later with 2 strokes less. The team behind them saw they were not playing well and called them out when their names were announced. They challenged them to a two hole scramble top rove they heated. The once they refused, a fight broke out. Real fight, fists were flying and police were called. Some charity event that was.

I'm there to support the charity. But it's pathetic watching people cheat like that. I used to get mad but now I just expect the worst going in to it.  

[Peaksy68]

Solid round but should have been much better. 7 over playing off 7. Another poor finish, doubled 16 and bogeyed 17. Had to hole a 8 foot putt to par the last. Missed 3 birdie putts from 3,4 and 5 feet. All were slight misreads but well struck putts. Disappointing as it’s rare for me to have that many close chances. Had 2 birdies, one after a good approach to 6 feet from 70 yards, the next was a hole out from 60 yards. Drove the ball reasonably well, conditions were pretty windy, with a few strong gusts making things interesting 

[Rob Person]

10 hours ago, barney_bogey said:

Okay boys. Scramble for a good cause today. Typical mulligan packages, long drive, closest to pin and putting contest. Standard issue event.

We don't expect to win. We just come in respectable like and enjoy the buffet.

Two teams come in and post -25 scores.
47... 40 freaking 7.

The audacity of these guys looking out into a crowd of their peers with stolen accolades just astounded me.

Can't imagine how sharp the grooves were on those pencil wedges.

Anyways, I hit em petty good. Clean inside 100 and the new putter felt incredible! My pace was way better than average.

47....

B

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We played last week, and had some holes you could buy An albatross, others had hula hoops set up from 20 yards away for an ace, and so on. The tournament officials caught on to the sandbaggers claiming 25 hcp though (max allowed) again, for charity,  so no skin off my back, but ethically , you don't take the trophy,  you find the group who truly shot worst in the bunch and hand it to them. We never take money's either, ot ALL goes back to the charity. Door prizes and raffles, that's different.

 

7 hours ago, Tom the Golf Nut said:

Had to laugh. I can't count the amount of times I see cheaters win scrambles. Last year 4 high school kids won one that I was in. We could see them all hitting off the womens tees, take 8 putts per hole and so on.  They didn't even pay for mulligans and came in with a 51. 

Another time it was a big Boys and Girls Club fund raiser and a team cheated. They had someone watching the scores turned in and came in a little later with 2 strokes less. The team behind them saw they were not playing well and called them out when their names were announced. They challenged them to a two hole scramble top rove they heated. The once they refused, a fight broke out. Real fight, fists were flying and police were called. Some charity event that was.

I'm there to support the charity. But it's pathetic watching people cheat like that. I used to get mad but now I just expect the worst going in to it.  

Yikes! Fyi, this rarely happens at our events, especially since it's 90$ law enforcement already there.   

[NubianRugby]

Shot 47 on the front 9 at Langston yesterday. Doubled both the par 5s and had bogey on every other hole. Doubles on par 5s are terrible, but the thing that had me most irritated was a pair of 3-putt bogies after hitting the green in regulation.

It's so upsetting. I'm right there putting for birdie and, because I never want to come up short on a birdie putt, I run it past the hole. Then I'm annoyed/angry with myself; don't take the time to line myself up properly or I'm scared to go past the hole again & leave it short; and miss the come backer by 2 inches for a disgusting 3 putt. 

The upside is that on 6/9 holes I had a par putt, most of them were +20' but I had a number of strong rolls that left me kick in bogies. Spending more time on chipping/putting has me taking better lines and making better chips when I just miss the green on an approach. One day those putts are going to start falling, that day was not yesterday. 

[Vegan_Golfer_PNW]

Got out this morning and at the turn decided to play the back nine too. I was gassed. 47/55. Hit some decent drives and I am getting to the point of now selling my ventus the more I play with the KBS TD. Short putts still driving me crazy for some reason. Every putt has break and I am sycing myself out. I had one do a full 360 lip out for par. It was wet and windy and only 42 degrees. Great work out and I had the course to myself. Was tranquil despite not shooting the best.

Edited April 30 by Vegan_Golfer_PNW

[Rob Person]

I played 9 holes after gc duties today. Decided that I would see how hitting from the orange tees would work out for me.

While I didn't gain any distance on my drives, I didn't lose much either.  Maybe 5-6 yards average? Which is pretty consistent from my previous rounds with the mindset ball. I managed to hit 5/9 fairways, and both greens on the par 3s.

Greenside spin... hmmm?.  Not sure what was going on, but it still would hop and rollout about 8-10 feet. And i had forgotten about that part from previous testing on the second hole. 100 yard wedge shot, back pin. Got decent loft, landed what i thought was soft, but still rolled off the backside. I doubled that hole after getting back on the green.

I did lose 1 ball though.  9th hole, there is a wet marsh divide between the fairway and the green. My second shot, about 165, uphill green. I used a 3/4 swing with the 5 wood. It came up just a yard short of the green, and bounced backwards and rolled into the muck. I ended shooting a 47. 1, 3 putt the whole round. I decided I'll stick to rhe whites until I can get below 85 consistently. 

[Hacker60521]

Played 18 today and it was rough. Front 9 was fine. I was relaxed shots went well etc. On the back 9 I had an infamous blow up on a par 5. Dropped two into the water. That said putting was good. No three putts, and only a couple of doubles. 
 

Tmrw it’s off to work on my short game. 

[Michael.Sandoval33]

Got out for 18 and in total was +26 for a 98 on the day. Everything felt really good today except two parts of my game. First being that I still have no idea what I'm doing with a 3 wood in my hands (my 5h performed really well). Second, if there had been any body of water on this course, my putter would probably be at the bottom of it right now. 

Off the tee, really solid 10/14 fairways. My irons, the best I think they have performed totally through a round. And my wedge game definitely set me up to where I should not have needed as many putts as I did. 

39 putts! No idea what a lag putt was. Powering too much into shorter putts that I didn't need to. Just a really bad day for the putter.

Still better than sociology coursework

 

Edited April 30 by Michael.Sandoval33
Putt*

[cksurfdude]

On 4/29/2024 at 6:54 PM, barney_bogey said:

Okay boys. Scramble for a good cause today. Typical mulligan packages, long drive, closest to pin and putting contest. Standard issue event.

We don't expect to win. We just come in respectable like and enjoy the buffet.

Two teams come in and post -25 scores.
47... 40 freaking 7.

The audacity of these guys looking out into a crowd of their peers with stolen accolades just astounded me.

Can't imagine how sharp the grooves were on those pencil wedges.

Anyways, I hit em petty good. Clean inside 100 and the new putter felt incredible! My pace was way better than average.

47....

B

 

21 hours ago, Tom the Golf Nut said:

Had to laugh. I can't count the amount of times I see cheaters win scrambles. Last year 4 high school kids won one that I was in. We could see them all hitting off the womens tees, take 8 putts per hole and so on.  They didn't even pay for mulligans and came in with a 51. 

Another time it was a big Boys and Girls Club fund raiser and a team cheated. They had someone watching the scores turned in and came in a little later with 2 strokes less. The team behind them saw they were not playing well and called them out when their names were announced. They challenged them to a two hole scramble top rove they heated. The once they refused, a fight broke out. Real fight, fists were flying and police were called. Some charity event that was.

I'm there to support the charity. But it's pathetic watching people cheat like that. I used to get mad but now I just expect the worst going in to it.  

 

A few years back played in a charity outing upstate that a good friend of my wife's was one of the sponsors of - at the prize ceremony, our group was each awarded a box of golf balls .. for being "The Most Honest" team .. which of course means we were absolutely DFL 

.. but it was fun outing on a nice day on a nice course and one of the guys in our group cleaned up in the raffles anyway!

[cksurfdude]

So. Each time I post in here I wanna brag about something spectacular that happened out on the course. But .. today is not that day... 

My small achievement is playing 4 x 9 hole rounds within one week for the first time. Oh and didn't lose a ball, although I seemed to be trying hard on the Par 3s!

Drives off the tee were mostly ok; putting was mostly ok ... but sheesh everything else in-between was a struggle for me today so it was another high scoring round.

..need to set up another lesson....

[injectedcutty]

I was able to get in a quick 9 after work. Picked up some new golf shirts, and it's likely psychological but I seem to play better when I'm dressed better lol. Fired off a 2 under and had some errors or could've maybe been a 4 under 9 which would've been my best ever! Anyways, I digress. I'm still testing the @Sundog Eyewear and the sunglasses continue to impress me, especially the Billy83 model that are polarized. I've had my PXG driver for a couple years now, and its been a beast! A few pics of my local course this evening...

[Rob Person]

10 minutes ago, cksurfdude said:

So. Each time I post in here I wanna brag about something spectacular that happened out on the course. But .. today is not that day... 

My small achievement is playing 4 x 9 hole rounds within one week for the first time. Oh and didn't lose a ball, although I seemed to be trying hard on the Par 3s!

Drives off the tee were mostly ok; putting was mostly ok ... but sheesh everything else in-between was a struggle for me today so it was another high scoring round.

..need to set up another lesson....

In my eyes, Playing ANY golf is an achievement!!!

Congratulations! 

[Manny]

6 hours ago, Vegan_Golfer_PNW said:

Got out this morning and at the turn decided to play the back nine too. I was gassed. 47/55. Hit some decent drives and I am getting to the point of now selling my ventus the more I play with the KBS TD. Short putts still driving me crazy for some reason. Every putt has break and I am sycing myself out. I had one do a full 360 lip out for par. It was wet and windy and only 42 degrees. Great work out and I had the course to myself. Was tranquil despite not shooting the best.

Where do you play? I play all over PDX and Vancouver Kelso etc. Maybe we could hook up some time?

[Vegan_Golfer_PNW]

33 minutes ago, Manny said:

Where do you play? I play all over PDX and Vancouver Kelso etc. Maybe we could hook up some time?

This was forest hills in Cornelius 

[NubianRugby]

Played the front 9 at Langston again today, shot 44 today and felt a lot better than I did yesterday. Still not dropping any putts but I'm making fewer and fewer mistakes and bad strikes.

[Manny]

28 minutes ago, Vegan_Golfer_PNW said:

This was forest hills in Cornelius 

Nice, played about a month ago, they had punched and had to play the front twice. Do you know Nick?

[MaxEntropy]

HOLY CRAP!

The stars aligned last night! By that, I mean all facets of the game were mostly working simultaneously. I shot a nearly stress-free 35 (E) last night: 7 pars, 1 birdie, 1 bogey. That is a milestone for me. I've shot a few rounds in the +1, +2 range, but never ended up even. I think I'm going to create a separate thread and give more of a blow-by-blow, but I had 7 GIR's (the two misses were by a combined few feet), a chip-in birdie on the hardest hole on the 9. Overall, driver was very well behaved as I had a clean second shot every time. I was on the green in regulation on all three par 3's, but unfortunately, one was from looong range (60-ish feet) and resulted in a 3-putt bogey.

Whatever happened yesterday, I want to bottle it. Unfortunately, I know that's not how golf works.

Arccos hates putting, I think. I felt like I was putting well - even the 3-putt didn't bug me because of the distance and the contour of the green (the last 10-ish feet start falling away and I could have easily putted off the green if I wasn't careful). I suppose I also got punished a bit for missing ~8' birdie putt, but it was a downhill slider that I had to be very defensive with. In general, I was lag putting very well given the proximity on approach I had.

I also won long drive and closest to pin.

As far as scores go, my partner and I mopped up last night. With me shooting net 31, he went out and shot a net 28.

[Vegan_Golfer_PNW]

10 hours ago, Manny said:

Nice, played about a month ago, they had punched and had to play the front twice. Do you know Nick?

I do know Nick. All the way back to his meriwether days. Course is in great shape sans hole one. I presume they are either redoing that green or trying to recover the grass. The 18 I did was spur of the moment. I usually play two nines (front during week and back on weekend) as close to sunrise that I can. This weekend likely was a no go since they have an event so I pushed myself to do 18. 

[YourKillingMeSmalls]

We just started our men's league, shot a 4 over par 40, 5 pars and 4 bogeys. I felt like i hit the ball better than i scored, maybe it was the 20 mph wind but I felt like I left a few shots out there.

 

 

[cnosil]

 Not sure what to make of yesterday’s league round.   hit a few mediocre shots but did everything pretty well except short putts.  Missed 4 putts under 3 feet.   

 

[Vegan_Golfer_PNW]

3 minutes ago, cnosil said:

 Not sure what to make of yesterday’s league round.   hit a few mediocre shots but did everything pretty well except short putts.  Missed 4 putts under 3 feet.   

 

Short Putting it my bugaboo right now too. Keep grinding. We will figure it out. 

[Jim Shaw]

10 minutes ago, cnosil said:

 Not sure what to make of yesterday’s league round.   hit a few mediocre shots but did everything pretty well except short putts.  Missed 4 putts under 3 feet.   

 

how are the greens, pretty smooth?