How'd you play?

[Sluggo42]

Really good...

[revkev]

First league round of the season this evening - shot 39 - tied my match. Made a nice birdie but buggered a par 5 and made double.

Overall a good round - had a career drive on one hole so SuperSpeed struck again - I was giving the guy that tied me 8 pops -


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[Rickp]

Really good...

Outstanding!


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[MaxEntropy]

I feel like it's been an eternity since I've added to this thread.... 

Played 9 after work and ended up 10 over. 4 pars, a bogey, 3 doubles, and a triple (lost ball). Struggled off the tee, as usual, but irons were pretty solid and short game was shockingly good - a chip in for par and only 12 putts. 

I used the Oncore Elixers from the free sleeve. I think I like the ball, but hard to tell with temps in the 40's. It seemed to bite pretty well but the greens were pretty slow and shaggy. We'll see when the course gets into a bit better shape if I don't lose them all by then. 

[PMookie]

Played like total dog !!! Just horrible. 92. And it was worse than the score shows!!! I need to get my lesson booked, and I need range time!!!!!!!!


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[yungkory]

3 hours ago, PMookie said:

Played like total dog !!! Just horrible. 92. And it was worse than the score shows!!! I need to get my lesson booked, and I need range time!!!!!!!!


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Adjustment period for the new sticks!

[Brian A]

2nd round of the year and couldnt get off the tee box. Good news is that chipping was still there!

[cksurfdude]

On 3/30/2019 at 7:24 PM, sixcat said:

Saw the most amazing thing! A twosome of walkers had the entire course on gridlock! Both would walk to player “A” ball, wait for him to go through his routine and play a shot, then both would walk to player “B” ball and go through the whole scenario again. Even if each player were on opposite sides of a fairway! A couple of times, the tee shots were 100 yards apart.

Thankfully, they only played 9. At the turn, I politely asked why they were doing this because it was stacking up play behind them. The response was “we only have one range finder!”

That saddens / maddens me - then others say, "Oh! Walkers are sloooow .. we shouldn't have them on the course!"

Too bad there's no minimum IQ requirement to get a tee time.... 

[PMookie]

Adjustment period for the new sticks!

Yep, and a few swing changes. I’m not very good on courses with tight, hard lies, and this course in Houston was exactly that, and add-in they punched everything except the greens. 1/2 of the greens were sand... Not a good place to establish early season confidence!


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[sixcat]

14 minutes ago, cksurfdude said:

That saddens / maddens me - then others say, "Oh! Walkers are sloooow .. we shouldn't have them on the course!"

Too bad there's no minimum IQ requirement to get a tee time.... 

Agreed completely!  It's the 1% of guys like this that give the 99% a bad reputation!

[chisag]

3 hours ago, cksurfdude said:

That saddens / maddens me - then others say, "Oh! Walkers are sloooow .. we shouldn't have them on the course!"

Too bad there's no minimum IQ requirement to get a tee time.... 

 

... Something tells me they would have been equally slow in a cart. Still have to drive to both balls, pull the right club and then put it away. If the reason for slow play was one rangefinder, they could have shot the yardage and handed it to the other player, then started toward their own ball while the other was going thru their routine and hitting. Clearly they were enjoying each others company socially and could not have cared less they were holding up the course. 

... One thing I have learned playing as a single and getting paired up with hundreds of golfers is this. Some people are just selfish and never even think about others. Don't fix ball marks, taking their sweet time, stopping the cart girl every time they see her and most importantly never looking to see if they are keeping up with the group in front or if the course is stacking up behind them. Every time I have ever mentioned to a slow group we are backing up the course they look back with that blank "there are people behind us?" look as if the idea is new to them and come up with some silly reason why we are OK at our pace. It is cart riders 99% of the time. 

... We had the first twilite time yesterday and it was 92* with a bright sun. Got there a little early and the starter sent us off. We never saw anyone in front of us and not until 18 did someone show up behind us, a twosome in a cart that played thru several groups. 3 of us in no rush at all because we had the course to ourselves so we took our time. We were all walking and it took 3:40 minutes to play. 

[artful_golfer]

Found out yesterday that my GHIN went down from 25.5 to 25.1. Yea for me, I worked hard for that! That in turn also reduced my local course handicap by 1. Played with my husband in our club Tuesday Night Lights scramble yesterday. Finished with our cart lights on because of darkness and put on whatever extra clothes we had as the temperature dropped. Didn't win (28.75 with 25% of our handicap) but did get a skin and had a great time. Kept wishing I had those Wilson D7 clubs with me that I tried out on Saturday.

[CarlH]

Struggled a bit with the putter, but managed to shoot a 41/37 for a smooth 78 (par 71) with 2 double bogeys (yes, it was the putter!!!).  6 over on the front, 1 over on the back.  Shot of the round was a par 3 137 yards,  hit a 9 iron that spun toward the pin and rolled by it, leaving myself a tap in birdie.

[sixcat]

First of all, I want to say it's amazing what our staff has been able to do with the golf course since the floods last fall.  My first round of 2019 was a month ago and the damage was still very prevalent. Yesterday afternoon, the course was in amazing shape with just a few areas still under repair.  The greens are back to being the best in this region, and it's not close!

The driver was much more cooperative yesterday.  I found 6 of 7 fairways with all but one of those being from the proper angle to the green.  Iron play was baffling again.  I seem to be long with every iron in the bag.  Not "past the pin" long.  I'm talking about "fly the green" long.  I began to experiment on #5.  I clubbed down on my approach to the green.  The pin was middle-back playing 147.  I hit pitching wedge rather than 9 iron.  My pitch mark was 8 inches left of the cup but the ball came to rest on the bank behind the green.  The previous hole is 163 yard par 3.  My 7 iron approach flew the green by 10 yards. 

Clubbing down seemed to do the trick the rest of the way.  I had birdie putts on #'s 7, 8 and 9.  Didn't make any of them but I had them nonetheless.  I think it may be time to start considering a Tour caliber ball for the spin and control.  

[sixcat]

20 hours ago, chisag said:

We had the first twilite time yesterday and it was 92* with a bright sun. Got there a little early and the starter sent us off. We never saw anyone in front of us and not until 18 did someone show up behind us, a twosome in a cart that played thru several groups. 3 of us in no rush at all because we had the course to ourselves so we took our time. We were all walking and it took 3:40 minutes to play. 

Me and a friend walked 9 in 1:25 last night.  Teed off at 5:29 and I was at my dinner table checking homework at 7:30.  As we were walking to the 9th tee, I saw a twosome walking onto the 5th green.  Didn't see anyone else on the golf course.

Looking forward to this afternoon.  "Swampass Thursday" has been a staple at my club since I moved here in 2007.  It will be slightly more crowded, I'm sure.

[pulledabill]

1 under after 3 but wheels fell off for an 85. Course is getting very tough as the rough is too soppy to cut.  Windy with no roll make for a long home course. Only hit 3 GIRs..ouch..Chipping and pitches were strong pont but tough up and downs with week old aeration. 

[sp0rtsfan86]

Got two rounds in before today's rain. Played 9 Monday and shot 49. I'm still adjusting to the new year but I started striping my irons and driver. I felt somewhat confident going into the round yesterday that I'd be lower 90s on my 3rd 18 hole round of the year. I started somewhat well with a 46 including a disasterous 3 putt double bogey on 9. But then the wheels came off next three holes with double triple and then a 3 putt bogey. Ended up with two more nice pars on the back but still shot 96. Slowly my game is coming into form as my irons are crisp but currently not in the right direction. Still can't chip or pitch to save my life which is why my scores are so high.

[Siamese Moose]

Finally got my first round in this year! Very pleased to shoot 80, one double, one birdie. Had to adjust to the fact that for some reason I'm almost two clubs shorter this year, and that's before figuring in today's wind. 

[Rickp]

Finally got my first round in this year! Very pleased to shoot 80, one double, one birdie. Had to adjust to the fact that for some reason I'm almost two clubs shorter this year, and that's before figuring in today's wind. 

It’s early in the year, sometimes it takes a while for everything to come together again.


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[Sluggo42]

2 rounds today, shot decent. Highlight was 3 birds in a row, followed by two edge burners, and took a par

[deejaid]

Got a quick 9 in late yesterday afternoon. It was the first time we hadn’t had rain, but it’s raining again today. Shot 5 over, double on the first hole, Pars and bogeys the rest.

And even managed to get a pic on the 18th tee box.




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[fixyurdivot]

4 minutes ago, deejaid said:

Got a quick 9 in late yesterday afternoon. It was the first time we hadn’t had rain, but it’s raining again today. Shot 5 over, double on the first hole, Pars and bogeys the rest.

And even managed to get a pic on the 18th tee box.




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What course is that?  

[deejaid]

What course is that?  

 

 

Green Valley CC. Built 1949-51. Narrow fairways and small greens, perfect for playing persimmons.

 

Got my 1958 Wilson Dyna-Powered irons and Macgregor Super Eye-O-Matic woods in the bag.

 

 

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[fixyurdivot]

1 minute ago, deejaid said:

 

 

Green Valley CC.


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Fairfield, CA?  Looks pretty nice.  All I recall from my time at Travis AFB (Vacaville/Fairfield area) was that the wind hardly ever blew... less than 20 mph .  We use to play the course on base and there were times balls would not stay on a tee.

[deejaid]

Fairfield, CA?  Looks pretty nice.  All I recall from my time at Travis AFB (Vacaville/Fairfield area) was that the wind hardly ever blew... less than 20 mph .  We use to play the course on base and there were times balls would not stay on a tee.

Yeah, the wind can be pretty strong. Green Valley, being a valley, is pretty sheltered from the wind. Over by Travis AFB it is very windy.

Usually here in the valley the wind is pretty calm, but lately it’s been windy with all the storms we’ve had come through.


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[chisag]

... Strange but good round today. Started off hitting a tree on #1 and the ball bounced straight backwards about 75 yds and I bogied to start my day. Birdied 5, eagled the next par 4 with a 9 iron 154 downwind over a bunker with the pin at the bottom of a tier, ending about 7 yds short of the pin and 5 yds left and watched it roll up the slope and back down slowly as I whispered "better than most ..." after it disappeared in the hole. Birdied the next hole going 4 under in 3 holes. Several missed birdie putts and a few good chips and saves for par thru 17 then ended up with a bogie on 18. 7 iron downhill and downwind launched high from 179 that hit just short of the pin and still rolled off the back. No way I hit an 8 iron from there without over swinging as 175 is my max 7 iron. Green slopped back to front and very fast so my chip had no chance of stopping within 10 feet of the hole. 

... So started with a bogie and ended with a bogie and in the middle birdie-eagle-birdie with the rest pars. I was using the Maxfli Tour X and am very impressed with this ball. 

[yungkory]

Walked 9 at the Muni after work today. They punched the greens 3 weeks ago but we've been pretty dry lately and they weren't fully grown in. Also, some of the greens had some pretty gross dirt patches, not sure what happened there. Anyways, holing anything outside of 8 feet was pretty difficult, and I don't think I made a single one of the outside birdie chances.

Started the day teeing off into the sun and not seeing where the hell the ball went, and none of the coworkers saw it. Hit a provisional and asked someone to help me watch, same thing!!! Absolutely useless. I found the first one in the fairway, right side, about 70y from the pin, but the second one was goners.

The rest of the day was mostly outside birdie chances but nothing falling. The Kirkland gloves are actually nice, a little thick like I said before, but for $5 how can you go wrong? Stroke lab felt like I was making really good putts, but they just weren't dropping. Some due to the aeration holes not being fully flat, some due to me not adjusting quickly enough. The Tour Velvet +4 are really nice too, love how soft they feel, probably gonna throw them on the rest of my irons and wedges.

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[mr.hicksta]

Went out for a quick 9 at Navy Marine and from the first tee shot it was a mess. I finished par-birdie, though so it was nice to finish the 9 on a positive note. 

[Jmikecpa]

Only played a quick 9 today thanks to a battle with a stomach bug. Shot even par for 9 with little to no energy in my swing. There is something to be said for playing with low expectations and hitting fairways and greens. Shot of the day was a 5 wood into my final hole from 231 yards into a breeze while trying not to sh!t myself. Middle of the green for a two putt birdie.


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[Rickp]

Only played a quick 9 today thanks to a battle with a stomach bug. Shot even par for 9 with little to no energy in my swing. There is something to be said for playing with low expectations and hitting fairways and greens. Shot of the day was a 5 wood into my final hole from 231 yards into a breeze while trying not to sh!t myself. Middle of the green for a two putt birdie.


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Is that the “new” 5w?
Looks like a pretty good pickup!


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