How'd you play?

[Rickp]

Bacon Boyz 9 holes 7:00am Tee Time, warm and little humid but nice breeze probably from TS Fred.  Not a pretty sight this morning, +4.  Driver was not good but irons were hanging in there.  Couple decent shots with 5 hybrid that gave me some hope.

Always tomorrow

[DiscipleofPenick]

3 hours ago, cnosil said:

normal Sunday round; hot and humid and by the 15th hole I was pretty worn out.  Ball striking is still pretty good; putting seems to be continuing down the mediocre path.   Did a little experimentation today; based podcasts and metrics I have been reading my goal was to be pin high or past on every hole.  Essentially the thought process is to hit your 80% percentile for shot dispersion and not always be short.   Ended up short siding myself long a couple of times, but I think the approach is beneficial and results in shorter putts.    
 

42/40:82.  8 FW, 9 GIR, 38 putts.   

I know this isn't your train of thought. I disagree with the podcasts on this, or whatever the metrics say. The traditional way green complexes were constructed was the green was sloped back to front, and the direct front of the green is open to give the shots of less skilled players a chance to bounce the ball onto the green. It's only on the newer courses, say ones constructed since say the 1980s that more obstacles have been appearing in front of greens to force players to carry the ball onto the putting surface. On the majority of courses around me (Cleveland, OH so we have older courses) if I try to be pin high or worse I'm going to have a lot of downhill putts, or chips from over the back of the green onto a downhill. If I play to stay short of the pin, I am leaving myself with uphill putts, and giving luck a chance to bounce the ball on if my 80% shot doesn't quite carry all the way on. Even if it's a front pin, I'll putt from the apron.

And I read those ShotScope metrics reports. Where I disagree is their conclusion, not with the numbers themselves. They point out that the vast majority of approach shots (or 2nd shots) end up short. They also point out that the vast majority of trouble around a green is towards the front. Their conclusion is to hit more club to make sure the player avoids trouble short. What this does not account for are the slick, downhill chips and putts I just mentioned. I think what their conclusion should be is for the player to make note of were trouble is, and make the best shot selection to avoid said trouble. If that's a lake, then take one more club. If it's a pin tucked on the right side next to a bunker, and you only hit draws, maybe don't play for the pin on this hole and aim for the center of the green. The logic should be three things  - understand your ability, be aware of trouble, make the intelligent shot to avoid trouble. 

[cnosil]

10 minutes ago, DiscipleofPenick said:

I know this isn't your train of thought. I disagree with the podcasts on this, or whatever the metrics say. The traditional way green complexes were constructed was the green was sloped back to front, and the direct front of the green is open to give the shots of less skilled players a chance to bounce the ball onto the green. It's only on the newer courses, say ones constructed since say the 1980s that more obstacles have been appearing in front of greens to force players to carry the ball onto the putting surface. On the majority of courses around me (Cleveland, OH so we have older courses) if I try to be pin high or worse I'm going to have a lot of downhill putts, or chips from over the back of the green onto a downhill. If I play to stay short of the pin, I am leaving myself with uphill putts, and giving luck a chance to bounce the ball on if my 80% shot doesn't quite carry all the way on. Even if it's a front pin, I'll putt from the apron.

And I read those ShotScope metrics reports. Where I disagree is their conclusion, not with the numbers themselves. They point out that the vast majority of approach shots (or 2nd shots) end up short. They also point out that the vast majority of trouble around a green is towards the front. Their conclusion is to hit more club to make sure the player avoids trouble short. What this does not account for are the slick, downhill chips and putts I just mentioned. I think what their conclusion should be is for the player to make note of were trouble is, and make the best shot selection to avoid said trouble. If that's a lake, then take one more club. If it's a pin tucked on the right side next to a bunker, and you only hit draws, maybe don't play for the pin on this hole and aim for the center of the green. The logic should be three things  - understand your ability, be aware of trouble, make the intelligent shot to avoid trouble. 

Respect you opinion,  and I agree you need to understand you ability, assess the trouble around the green, and make the intelligent shot. 
 

With the development of tools like shotlink, strokes gained, and people tracking their data the strategies to play golf are evolving.   The older school of thought that you want uphill putts and chips doesn’t lead to better scoring…give me a slick downhill 4 footer instead of a 9 foot uphill putt any day.  Different Strategies on when to attack pins and not too attack are now being shown to average golfers. Y more knowledgeable sources than the golf commentator trying to fill 4 hours of air time.   Additionally players end up short because they don’t know how far they hit the ball; they play to that personal best number that they seldom achieve .  
 

I would say that my decisions this past weekend were probably smarter decisions than I have made in the past.  All players have dispersion patterns for the shots and you have no idea where your next shot will go.   I’ll continue to work on better target selection for better long term scoring.  

[chisag]

1 hour ago, DiscipleofPenick said:

I know this isn't your train of thought. I disagree with the podcasts on this, or whatever the metrics say.

 

... Yes Pro's and better iron striking low digit index players have enough control to purposely hit their approach shots short when the shot calls for it, but they are still short or long of pin high 50% of the time. The average player is short 99% of the time and this has nothing to do with the slope of the greens or where the trouble is. I play with strangers all the time and unless they mishit a shot they are almost always short of the pin, often short of the green. Obviously a front pin can call for a shot that comes up short of the pin and for a better player as you stated just short of the green but that said, a typical higher index player attempting that shot can come up 10-20yds short and face a difficult pitch or chip. 

... So until you are both long and short of pin high 50% of the time, the vast majority of golfers should follow cnosil's lead and attempt to be not just pin high but past the pin. If and it is a big IF they begin to hit past the pin more often than not, then it is time to adjust club and shot selection. Playing late in the day, just take a good look at a typical par 3 of 160yds or longer with a middle pin and you will see a ton of ball marks on the front of the green but very few pin high and even less past the pin and the amount of pitch marks short of the green can be an eye opener. 

[Shapotomous]

On 8/15/2021 at 1:27 PM, DiscipleofPenick said:

Played today and not as good yesterday. Though this course was far wetter than yesterday's round, and I hope they didn't mow the fairways in a few days. Just a local course with my buddy and his wife. I didn't really keep score but I think it was in the 82-84 range. Only 1 birdie and 1 double.

The course itself was...interesting. It's about 15 minutes away from my house and I've played 9 a few times at it, but today was the first time playing 18, and the blue tees.

So as I mentioned the fairways were long. Not plush or grown in, just long. I'm hoping this means they just haven't been able to mow in the last few days. Unfortunately, there was crab grass all over, fairways too. Some of the blue tees were tucked back in a chute, which was a nice feel (and messed with me a bit) but a lot of the big trees have over grown with limbs sticking out into the fairway or hanging right in front of the tee box so you couldn't even use half of it. The par 3 17th, I couldn't even see the flag from the tee as there was a pine tree about 20 years in front that blocked the left third of the green. Trim it back. Also the course is listed at 6985, but when I measured it on Google Earth, it came out to under 6400.

To  top it off, this is the sign that greets you as you drive in. The audacity....

maybe they meant Augusta, Maine??  

[DiscipleofPenick]

2 hours ago, cnosil said:

Respect you opinion,  and I agree you need to understand you ability, assess the trouble around the green, and make the intelligent shot. 
 

With the development of tools like shotlink, strokes gained, and people tracking their data the strategies to play golf are evolving.   The older school of thought that you want uphill putts and chips doesn’t lead to better scoring…give me a slick downhill 4 footer instead of a 9 foot uphill putt any day.  Different Strategies on when to attack pins and not too attack are now being shown to average golfers. Y more knowledgeable sources than the golf commentator trying to fill 4 hours of air time.   Additionally players end up short because they don’t know how far they hit the ball; they play to that personal best number that they seldom achieve .  
 

I would say that my decisions this past weekend were probably smarter decisions than I have made in the past.  All players have dispersion patterns for the shots and you have no idea where your next shot will go.   I’ll continue to work on better target selection for better long term scoring.  

That's what it should be man! Comfort and confidence. Not just blanket metrics, but what works best for you! If you're comfortable making those decision and know what putts and shots you are comfortable with, go play your game and ignore the haters. I know what I am comfortable with, and stick to it.

You are right, people need to know their true carry distances, not always focus on that personal best number. 

[THEZIPR23]

Some of my most rewarding rounds come when there is some adversity (my golf swing). Saturday was no different. Hit an ugly heel cut of #1 tee, was lucky with pin position that I wasn't blocked out (par). 2nd tee shot went straight into some backyards (double). 3rd tee shot, this time a 5W hit a tree about 50 yards off the tee, hit a miracle recovery shot and was able to make par. 4th hole is par 3 and I miss my 5 iron by 35 or so yards another bogey. 3 over after 4, not exactly a roaring start. Standing on the 5th tee I did a quick mental recap of the errors and decided to focus on 1 swing thought (better lower body movement) the rest of the day and give my everything to get back to even. Tee shot on 5 was just a thing of beauty, missed 10 footer for birdie but then 2 putted the 6th for bird. Was on pretty much cruise control after that, ended up hitting 15 greens and missing a 4 footer on 18 to shoot even (72). Always great to find it during the round and shoot a good score. 

[GolfSpy_SHARK]

Fun round at a tournament my uncle has been putting on for over 20 years. Really good charity where they have been able to raise over 100k for disabled veterans, kids locally going to college among other military type stuff.

My uncle is a retired marine from Vietnam and is a Purple Heart recipient, he bleeds red white and blue and this tournament is one of his baby’s.

awsome round as always but the short and skinny of it, @B.Boston has the good details. Wedges was my jam today, and after Bryan’s drives it’s all I needed to do lol. Of those wedges one I literally hit the flag from 90 out. And this guy that almost Jordaned

We went -9 and after the 1st hole of the day we birdied (20’er on a par 3) was hoping for lower but alas wasn’t meant to be. Beautiful day in the sun for a good event.

One of my handful of decent drives:

also what could be one of the last putts with the odyssey putter for anyone following the @Fujikura Golfshaft thread.

 

[Reesedw]

Got out wife the wife and Grandson yesterday.. Mental note to self, Drink more before going out with those two again LOL... My grandson thinks he should be Tiger woods after playing 4-5 times and driving range a couple of times.. but he has decided that he wants to play HS golf.. SO I'll take him and help him play.. it is a local 9 hole course par 34 ended up shooting a 39, which I am happy with, but doubled the 9th which i am not happy about.. slightly uphill par 3 playing 125.. hit it dead right into the crap had to drop on a burned out strip of grass beside the cart path and hit it to 15 feet and 2 putted.. other than that had a good round.. damn near drove 1 par 4 green sitting at 310.. over a pond slight dogleg right.. landed 5 ft short of the green birdied it.. Wife played really well, dangit... LOL 

[JeremyD]

Played Foxfire Red Fox course this past saturday. Hit ball better than I had in a while. 78% of greens. Had several birdie putts, made 2. Also dropped a Triple, Double, bogey, and 13 Pars for a 75. helped our team win some cash. I enjoy playing the course. It's kind of wide, and fits my 250 yard drives perfectly. I played it well a couple weeks ago, and felt confident when i started. Also won 2 pins and our team won 3 skins. It was a fun day even though it was 95 degrees.

[GolfSpy BOS]

1 hour ago, Lacassem said:

Fun round at a tournament my uncle has been putting on for over 20 years. Really good charity where they have been able to raise over 100k for disabled veterans, kids locally going to college among other military type stuff.

My uncle is a retired marine from Vietnam and is a Purple Heart recipient, he bleeds red white and blue and this tournament is one of his baby’s.

awsome round as always but the short and skinny of it, @B.Boston has the good details. Wedges was my jam today, and after Bryan’s drives it’s all I needed to do lol. Of those wedges one I literally hit the flag from 90 out. And this guy that almost Jordaned

We went -9 and after the 1st hole of the day we birdied (20’er on a par 3) was hoping for lower but alas wasn’t meant to be. Beautiful day in the sun for a good event.

One of my handful of decent drives:

also what could be one of the last putts with the odyssey putter for anyone following the @Fujikura Golfshaft thread.

 

Such a great time!

Here’s the Arccos down and dirty on our team’s play:

Overall we played really well.  Two teams finished ahead of us a -10.  While I didn’t track every shot by which person hit it I did go back and look at drives because I had a pretty prolific day off the tee with the Epic Max LS and Motore X combo.  

Now,  There are certainly some downhill assists here, but nothing too crazy… but I was striping them pure today.  A lot of shots had nice tight draws and I’m really feeling like I can swing smooth and get great results with this combo.  We ended up using my drive on 7 of the 14 non par three holes.  My average on those holes was 287.57!  I’ve never had a day like that off the tee. Also interesting to note, I took driver on every single par 4 and 5 even if it meant needing to try to take one over a tree to cut a corner.  I feel really confident with this combo right now.  We started on #15, par 3s excluded:

But it was a DAMN good thing I had Mark, Pete, and Tim there to hit approach shots because Those were not nearly as good for me, although I did card one natural birdie on #13.  My Arccos smart distance for driver went from 266 yards to 271 yards with just this one round.  It’s going to hurt a little bit when I tell it to exclude this round from my stats… but it must be done!

It was a nicely run event, with a lot of good people and I was happy to have the chance to join in this year!

 

[ejgaudette]

16 minutes ago, B.Boston said:

Such a great time!

Here’s the Arccos down and dirty on our team’s play:

Overall we played really well.  Two teams finished ahead of us a -10.  While I didn’t track every shot by which person hit it I did go back and look at drives because I had a pretty prolific day off the tee with the Epic Max LS and Motore X combo.  

Now,  There are certainly some downhill assists here, but nothing too crazy… but I was striping them pure today.  A lot of shots had nice tight draws and I’m really feeling like I can swing smooth and get great results with this combo.  We ended up using my drive on 7 of the 14 non par three holes.  My average on those holes was 287.57!  I’ve never had a day like that off the tee. Also interesting to note, I took driver on every single par 4 and 5 even if it meant needing to try to take one over a tree to cut a corner.  I feel really confident with this combo right now.  We started on #15, par 3s excluded:

But it was a DAMN good thing I had Mark, Pete, and Tim there to hit approach shots because Those were not nearly as good for me, although I did card one natural birdie on #13.  My Arccos smart distance for driver went from 266 yards to 271 yards with just this one round.  It’s going to hurt a little bit when I tell it to exclude this round from my stats… but it must be done!

It was a nicely run event, with a lot of good people and I was happy to have the chance to join in this year!

 

Sounds like that combo is killing it which is great. Found a similar groove with mine lately and looking forward to the next round of now that I have the spin under control. Though don't think I'll quite keep up with that average.

[fixyurdivot]

22 minutes ago, B.Boston said:

Such a great time!

Here’s the Arccos down and dirty on our team’s play:

Overall we played really well.  Two teams finished ahead of us a -10.  While I didn’t track every shot by which person hit it I did go back and look at drives because I had a pretty prolific day off the tee with the Epic Max LS and Motore X combo.  

Now,  There are certainly some downhill assists here, but nothing too crazy… but I was striping them pure today.  A lot of shots had nice tight draws and I’m really feeling like I can swing smooth and get great results with this combo.  We ended up using my drive on 7 of the 14 non par three holes.  My average on those holes was 287.57!  I’ve never had a day like that off the tee. Also interesting to note, I took driver on every single par 4 and 5 even if it meant needing to try to take one over a tree to cut a corner.  I feel really confident with this combo right now.  We started on #15, par 3s excluded:

But it was a DAMN good thing I had Mark, Pete, and Tim there to hit approach shots because Those were not nearly as good for me, although I did card one natural birdie on #13.  My Arccos smart distance for driver went from 266 yards to 271 yards with just this one round.  It’s going to hurt a little bit when I tell it to exclude this round from my stats… but it must be done!

It was a nicely run event, with a lot of good people and I was happy to have the chance to join in this year!

 

Way to bring it with the Big Dog!  How does today compare with your typical driving average?

[GolfSpy BOS]

35 minutes ago, fixyurdivot said:

Way to bring it with the Big Dog!  How does today compare with your typical driving average?

My Arccos smart distance would usually be in that 250-280 range at the top end.  It wasn’t so much that I hit it close to 300, it was the consistency I was seeing.  I doubt that I’ve ever had 4 drives of 290+ in the same round.  Usually I’ll mix some poor strikes in there but really didn’t see anything significantly offline and even when we didn’t use my ball it was more because of the angle in or rough vs fairway than that I was significantly behind.

I’m really hoping to keep this rolling in my next round, and on the plus side the Rapsodo unit arrived today for the forum testing so I’ll be able to get some more numbers to share soon!

[JerryB]

Son and I played nine this morning. He played bogey golf which is pretty typical for him.  He wasn't happy with his round which is probably a good sign for his near future.  I, on the other hand, played near triple bogey golf.  Lost a bunch of balls.  How can I keep an off white, scuffed up old Slazenger for half a round and still manage to go through a half dozen balls?

Weather was beautiful, didn't see another golfer the entire time.  We did appear to be following the guy dropping some blue chemicals of some sort so balls and fingers are all blue.  Weather was good, golf was bad, 10/10 would do it again.

[fozcycle]

Another soso day at Plantation Palms….shot 47/45:92 from the Gold Tees, 5563 yards 67.4/125.

FIR 11/14; 79%

GIR 6/18; 33%

Putts 35

 

I had one birdie on the 436 yd par 4 #14.  Conditions were wet, almost CPO.

[HeathS16]

Got to get out there again today.  Posted another good score, back to back rounds in the 70s! I didn't drive it as well today but I made everything I looked at.  Like seriously if it was on the green it had a great chance of going in. 8 One-putts! 

The best part was that I paired up with a guy and he asked about the golf ball I was playing. So I got the opportunity to tell him about the Maxfli Tour and the MGS test! He said he was going to check it out! It was a good day! 

[Shankster]

Worst round of the year today… +14, but I think Arccos missed some shots.  Probably more like +16 or 17… yikes.

 

But I expected a round like this to pop up.  I was losing everything right.  Something in the new set up I have to work out.

[Rickp]

Warm morning but nice breeze.  Driver was my friend this morning, irons not speaking to me and putter non-freaking existent!  
Shot a +5 with one Birdie that came as close as you can to being a hole-in-one!!  Tapped the 6” putt in with my wedge, didn’t trust the putter!  
 

Tomorrow is the more Serious Group so need everyone in the bag working together!

[Kenny B]

Wolf game today!!  Big winner!!

42/40 for 82.  Not the lowest score; that was a 79, but the other two guys shot 85 and 91.  Tee time was 7am and it was chilly; 59º but the wind picked up as the round went on, getting up to maybe 15 mph by the turn.  Had to put a jacket on.

I had three great shots:

• On the par 4 #7 my ball was a little left in the rough by the contoured green; chipped way out right and lipped it out for a gimme.  
• On the par 4 #9 hole from 100 yards out, my ball landed 2 inches from the cup and spun sideways to 3 feet; birdie.
• On the par 5 #18 I was trying to cut the dogleg to the left of a group of fairway bunkers.  Only driver swing all day that felt totally unsynchronized; ball drifted right of the bunkers, which is the normal fairway shot (I should go there every time!).  Second shot to 76 yards out in fairway.  Easy wedge to a front pin in the narrow part of the green; stuffed to 2 feet; birdie.

So what did I win?  8 quarters!!!  Not bad since I was Wolf on the first hole and lost 3 quarters.  Played better when it warmed up.

Overall, I hit more quality shots than normal that I feel are the result of my PlaneMate work.  Back to PlaneMate in the morning and more Wolf on Thursday.  

 

[MaxEntropy]

Rough evening.... Started with 4 straight bogies - first three were bad, the fourth was a good bogey. Then things got interesting. Relatively easy par 5 with a topped tee ball, decent second, topped third with a 5i, pulled 8 iron off the cart path and over the bathroom, had to thread a punch shot back towards the hole, managed to thread the needle, but into a bunker, out and two putt for a triple. Easy par the next hole, and finished bogey, triple, bogey for a 48. Ugh. Putting was bad again. Driver was actually pretty good besides the topped drive, only once did I not have a clean shot, just couldn't execute.

[CarlH]

Started to play today.  After our drive on #2, we realized we (as in 3some) were in for a long round as we were following 4 women, one of which was THE well known slowest female player in the club and they were following another 4 some.  SO, after hitting the drive, we picked up and cut over to our inside 9 (27 hole course) and played 2-9, then back to the turn, played 1, ran into family golfers with their young kids, jumped ahead of them to #7.  Did I mention that the other two players had no patience?  Anyway, I was really hitting the ball poorly and getting unbelievable bad breaks, in addition to that.  I'd had enough at that point.  Totally lost any sense of focus or desire to even play.  Have no idea what I was scoring, but it wasn't pretty, I'm sure.  I did not enjoy bouncing around from hole to hole.  I would have rather just taken our time and played golf as it was intended to be played and enjoyed the day and company.

[Kenny B]

25 minutes ago, CarlH said:

 Anyway, I was really hitting the ball poorly and getting unbelievable bad breaks, 

Bad breaks, eh?  Unbelievable ones?

I was recently told that over time the bad breaks and good breaks even out.  Horse hockey!!  I've been waiting for over 2 years for the good breaks to catch up with bad breaks!!

 

[CarlH]

27 minutes ago, Kenny B said:

Bad breaks, eh?  Unbelievable ones?

 

Well, not unbelievable, but tough pills to swallow --- hit a great 8 iron a bit left of the flag, it hits and bounces hard left (like 90 degrees) into a trap.  Another hole, I pull my iron into the trap and get the proverbial fried egg into the side of the trap.  I hit my best drive of the day and when I get to it, it's in a deep divot that the person didn't bother even trying to fix.  I don't think I had any good bounces today to even any of the bad ones out.  Or maybe I just don't remember the good ones

[chisag]

... After a forgettable round yesterday when my back was stiff and the swing change was unforgiving of injury that I turned into a practice round on the back 9, things went much better today. Swing change continues to produce excellent shots and out of nowhere a really bad shot. Front 9 was pretty uneventful and I just missed too many putts but my proximity to the hole did not produce many makable birdies. Just 2 inside 8 feet and missed both. 

... Back 9 was much better but also had more really bad shots. #12 is a shortish par 5 with my best drive of the day leaving me 205 to the pin and just flat topped my DHY leaving me 105 to a back pin and hit a nice GW to the fringe and then rolled in the putt. #15 is a short par 4 and I topped (again ) my tee shot just making it through the desert and on the fairway. Layed up with my 5 wood and chipped to 10" to save par. #17 was the killer though. TOPPED ANOTHER TEE SHOT on a 576 yd par 5! Hit a nice 3 wood and was still left with 210 and just misjudged the wind as I hit a 4 iron that came up 10 yards short of the green. Pin was in the back, cut just over a tier so I a hit a low checking LW into the tier that hopped just over it, checked up and trickled to what I thought would be a tap in ... then watched it disappear into the hole. The most unlikely birdie of all time. 

... Determined to play the last hole well I put a smooth swing on my drive and hit it really well and dead center leaving me 129 to a pin tucked over the water. Decided to hit a hard pw instead of a 3/4 nine iron and watched it hit just on the green, hop once and spin back off the green sitting on the railroad tie for a second, then into the water. 2 shots hit as well as I can hit them and I am dropping on the narrow strip of rough between the water and the pin. Decided to putt and read it almost perfectly stopping 1" from the center of the hole. And I am thinking "Isn't that golf illustrated in two holes?" I played the par 5 poorly, but one great shot resulted in birdie and played the par 4 almost perfectly hitting 3 shots as well as I am capable of and end with a bogie. Twilite Golf Gods must have had a few extra White Clams. 

... All in all no complaints other than maintaining focus with my swing change. I am pretty sure most of my mistakes are just a momentary lack of focus as opposed to a physical problem, although I realize this will be the case for a couple months or more til the change becomes second nature and I don't have to think when swinging. 

[CarlH]

Totally different day today.  While I wasn't driving the ball well, it was okay.  Iron play was pretty good, chipping was good, and putting was good.  37/39 (76 +4). No birdies, 4 bogeys.

[HeathS16]

I was REALLY pressing to post another score in the 70s…maybe a little too much. Sh**ked one on 5 which led to double…did that 3 more times during the round and just couldn’t shake them. This is not a good place to be, Dante’s levels of hell needs to include sh**king a golf ball. They cost me 6 strokes today. 

Anyways…back to reality sorry to be so gloomy. 

 

[ejgaudette]

1 minute ago, HeathS16 said:

I was REALLY pressing to post another score in the 70s…maybe a little too much. Sh**ked one on 5 which led to double…did that 3 more times during the round and just couldn’t shake them. This is not a good place to be, Dante’s levels of hell needs to include sh**king a golf ball. They cost me 6 strokes today. 

Anyways…back to reality sorry to be so gloomy. 

 

We all have those rounds, hope you bounce back next time out.

[Kenny B]

4 minutes ago, HeathS16 said:

I was REALLY pressing to post another score in the 70s…maybe a little too much. Sh**ked one on 5 which led to double…did that 3 more times during the round and just couldn’t shake them. This is not a good place to be, Dante’s levels of hell needs to include sh**king a golf ball. They cost me 6 strokes today. 

Anyways…back to reality sorry to be so gloomy. 

 

They always show up at the worst time, and the result is in the worst possible location.  At least they do for me.

[Rickp]

Out of body experience this morning.  First Tee shot of the morning big slice (left) and clobbered a house about 180-200 yards and obviously OB.  Next tee shot fine and bogey hole, lucky 4th shot 2’ from hole.  Par second hole that’s good, 3rd hole for how to swing a club and never really found it.  A few lucky Pars from bad swings and good chip shots.  Finished +6, 42.

Definitely a head scratcher, would be OK if I had hair.  Gotta get it together B4 Friday, Bacon Boyz will kick my butt in a tough track with CPO.