How'd you play?

[sirchunksalot]

1 hour ago, chisag said:

I don't speak turtle.  

All I know is Cowabunga. 

[GolfSpy_SHARK]

1 hour ago, Rickp said:

Went well, Home around 1:00!!!

Speedy recovery Rick!  Ack on course and the BBZ in no time

[Tom the Golf Nut]

1 hour ago, Rickp said:

Went well, Home around 1:00!!!

Hope you have a quick recovery. I love the official golf tan lines on your arms. You represent the golfing community well.

[Kenny B]

1 hour ago, Rickp said:

Went well, Home around 1:00!!!

Wow!  Glad to see you home!  I had to stay overnight until I had a bowel movement and be able to negotiate 2 steps by myself... but that was 8 years ago!!  Do your therapy!!  Painful but worth it.   Don't skip!

[GrumpyGolf]

1 hour ago, Rickp said:

Went well, Home around 1:00!!!

Speedy Recovery! @Rickp Wishing you an easy recovery and easy physical therapy!

[Rickp]

1 hour ago, MattWillGolf said:

Was just thinking about you and your surgery. Glad to see you’re home. What is the SPF rating on those stockings?

I think SPF 120!!  Gotta wear to deter blood clots.

10 minutes ago, GrumpyGolf said:

Speedy Recovery! @Rickp Wishing you an easy recovery and easy physical therapy!

Thanks!!!

[Yellow Ball]

On 5/25/2022 at 9:17 PM, CarlH said:

I haven't been talking much about my game lately.  Frankly, I was growing weary of talking about my poor play and I'm sure you guys were tired of hearing my whining   

Don't worry I enjoy the whining. I think of it as a fine dining experience. You get to the restaurant, start off reading the menu, and before you know it your pallet is full and your ready to tell others about the experience in your own way.

At least your playing partners play the correct color ball! 

[Kenny B]

15 minutes ago, Rickp said:

I think SPF 120!!  Gotta wear to deter blood clots.

Thanks!!!

I had to be on blood thinner for a couple of weeks.

[Kenny B]

2 minutes ago, Yellow Ball said:

Don't worry I enjoy the whining. I think of it as a fine dining experience. You get to the restaurant, start off reading the menu, and before you know it your pallet is full and your ready to tell others about the experience in your own way.

At least your playing partners play the correct color ball! 

See @CarlH... I knew YB would love the whining.  YB is the Whine and Dine type.  

[Yellow Ball]

1 minute ago, Kenny B said:

See @CarlH... I knew YB would love the whining.  YB is the Whine and Dine type.  

Exactly 

[JerryB]

Owen and I met up with our buddy Mark before work to play nine at River Heights.  Mark's a better golfer than we are and his striking was really solid today.  He went +2 and said it was his best round in a while.  Owen was +9 and I was +11, no worse than double bogey on any hole.

After a few rounds of teeing off with 3 wood I went back to driver and struggled at first before Mark noticed how low I had the tee.  Mental mistake there.  Once I adjusted the tee height (and also stopped unintentionally trying to kill it) I had a couple nice drives and even out drove the others on hole nine on my way to my only par.

[Rickp]

7 hours ago, Kenny B said:

Wow!  Glad to see you home!  I had to stay overnight until I had a bowel movement and be able to negotiate 2 steps by myself... but that was 8 years ago!!  Do your therapy!!  Painful but worth it.   Don't skip!

Almost same for me.  Had to Pee then take a walk up an down the hospital hallways.  Not sure how many but a lot.

lm amazed at the Process, surgery started @ 8:00 per SWMBO, she was watching the computer screen in the lobby that tracks patient progress. I woke up in recovery @ 10:00 they went thru all the vital then got dresses 11:00.  
physical therapy were there got me up and walking!!  SWMBO & my Buddy were there and after passing the minimum requirements we went home.

A home nurse and physical therapist will be here this afternoon.

[MattF]

11 hours ago, Rickp said:

Went well, Home around 1:00!!!

Glad to hear it was a success.

[Golfspy_CG2]

I had my worst round of the year yesterday.  Even though it didn't equate to my highest score of the year, if that makes sense.   Shot 99, worst this year was a 103 in one of the very first rounds. 

For the better part of the last 2 or 3 years, getting off the tee has been one of my more reliable areas.  I've made no secret of my lack of distance, an average drive for me these days is 205 to 210.   But I'm rarely in trouble off the tee...LOL how can you be only hitting it that far..ha

However yesterday was a day that I had no concept of what was going to happen when i took the club back.  I lost 7 balls off the tee, and that was hitting Driver, 3 wood, 7 wood and even two 5 irons (those weren't par 3 5 irons by the way..ha)

What saved me was my approach shots on par 3's.   Hit 3/4 greens and was plus 1 on those for the day.   Couple that with a very good day putting.  Not so much in the number of putts 31, but some really good two putts making many of the 2nd putts from 6 to 8 feet.     

I hit 50% greens when I've been hitting 65% prior to that.  That 50% even includes those two 5 irons just to keep it in play and assure i wasn't going to run out of balls...ha   The misses off the tee were everything, pull hooks, a push slice,  low screaming bullet, even a top 

The good news was the iron play was pretty solid, when given a chacne to hit one from a decent lie or position...ha

Oh well, as they say, tomorrow's another day.  It litteraly is as I'll be playing my next round int he US Am Tour...Oh Boy..this should be fun..ha

[Shapotomous]

14 hours ago, chisag said:

 

... Impressive! I am learning Spanish but I have to admit I don't speak turtle.  

...

It's a close cousin to pig latin.  

[Shapotomous]

Get well soon Rick!! 

I suggest you keep wearing those stockings when you get playing again and stand nearby your opponents when they hit.  With your legs they will think they are near OB stakes and it will surely mess with their swing!

[Kenny B]

21 minutes ago, Golfspy_CG2 said:

I had my worst round of the year yesterday.  Even though it didn't equate to my highest score of the year, if that makes sense.   Shot 99, worst this year was a 103 in one of the very first rounds. 

For the better part of the last 2 or 3 years, getting off the tee has been one of my more reliable areas.  I've made no secret of my lack of distance, an average drive for me these days is 205 to 210.   But I'm rarely in trouble off the tee...LOL how can you be only hitting it that far..ha

However yesterday was a day that I had no concept of what was going to happen when i took the club back.  I lost 7 balls off the tee, and that was hitting Driver, 3 wood, 7 wood and even two 5 irons (those weren't par 3 5 irons by the way..ha)

What saved me was my approach shots on par 3's.   Hit all 3/4 greens and was plus 1 on those for the day.   Couple that with a very good day putting.  Not so much in the number of putts 31, but some really good two putts making many of the 2nd putts from 6 to 8 feet.     

I hit 50% greens when I've been hitting 65% prior to that.  That 50% even includes those two 5 irons just to keep it in play and assure i wasn't going to run out of balls...ha   The misses off the tee were everything, pull hooks, a push slice,  low screaming bullet, even a top 

The good news was the iron play was pretty solid, when given a chacne to hit one from a decent lie or position...ha

Oh well, as they say, tomorrow's another day.  It litteraly is as I'll be playing my next round int he US Am Tour...Oh Boy..this should be fun..ha

It seems that bad play always precedes an important event; at least it seems that way for me.  Once you get there, you'll do just fine... Anticipation vs. actually being there.

[Rickp]

13 minutes ago, Shapotomous said:

Get well soon Rick!! 

I suggest you keep wearing those stockings when you get playing again and stand nearby your opponents when they hit.  With your legs they will think they are near OB stakes and it will surely mess with their swing!

The only way the Guys would notice the socks if they were Covered in Bacon

[GrumpyGolf]

1 hour ago, Rickp said:

The only way the Guys would notice the socks if they were Covered in Bacon

Bacon makes everything better! ... except in golf, it doesn't make you a better golfer.

[Kenny B]

1 hour ago, GrumpyGolf said:

Bacon makes everything better! ... except in golf, it doesn't make you a better golfer.

I think it does!!  I've been eating bacon ever since I took up golf 31 years ago and I am a much better golfer than I was then .  

[Rickp]

2 hours ago, GrumpyGolf said:

Bacon makes everything better! ... except in golf, it doesn't make you a better golfer.

I know about 20 who would disagree

[GrumpyGolf]

2 hours ago, Kenny B said:

I think it does!!  I've been eating bacon ever since I took up golf 31 years ago and I am a much better golfer than I was then .  

 

1 hour ago, Rickp said:

I know about 20 who would disagree

So I guess the answer is that bacon does make you a better golfer, you just have to eat enough of it over a lifetime to make sure the bacon grease makes your swing motion silky smooth. 

Edited June 3, 2022 by GrumpyGolf

[Rickp]

1 minute ago, GrumpyGolf said:

 

So I guess the answer is that bacon does make you a better golfer, you just have to eat enough of it over a lifetime to make sure the bacon grease makes your swing motion silky smooth. 

Something like !!

[CarlH]

@Kenny Bputs bacon grease on his driver .... he swears that it reduces spin and he picks up 20+ yards!

[GrumpyGolf]

36 minutes ago, CarlH said:

@Kenny Bputs bacon grease on his driver .... he swears that it reduces spin and he picks up 20+ yards!

Better not send pictures to the PGA, he may get Matsuyamaed ... 

[Shankster]

Finally played a round today that I felt good about. 38, with 1 double and the rest pars.  Had 3 birdies lip out. It was a ball striking day.  And a great up and down save day.

 

took the stupid Arccos sensors off my clubs, didn’t think and just played.  It was amazing.  They’ll be going away for good.

[CarlH]

19 minutes ago, GrumpyGolf said:

Better not send pictures to the PGA, he may get Matsuyamaed ... 

That's the beauty of it....bacon grease appears naked to the camera's eye  

[bens197]

I played so well today for the first 6 holes.  I had my perfunctory opening hole bogey followed by 5 straight pars.  

Then I got a call from work on the 7th regarding a personnel matter and I proceeded to go double, par, bogey, par, triple, bogey, bogey, bogey, par, double, par, birdie.  

The final hole birdie was a nice and easy 7 iron from 160 into a slight crosswind and made a 15 footer to close it out.  

40/43 which is still OK...just lost my focus out there.  Oh well, it happens.  

It was a gorgeous day outside today.  

[fixyurdivot]

40/44 at Beaverhead GC today.  I had to go to Dillon anyway to pick up some irrigation equipment and hate to waste the trip their or to Bozeman w/o trying to get a round in.  Crazy scoring.  3 birdies but 3 DB's.  Just one of those rounds where several really well hit drives ended up with part of a tree limb or tree-line to contend with.  I mean a yard forward or left or right and it's wide open... so aggravating this game we play.

4 hours ago, CarlH said:

@Kenny Bputs bacon grease on his driver .... he swears that it reduces spin and he picks up 20+ yards!

There is no way Kenny wastes a perfectly good piece of bacon for 20 yards.

[Kenny B]

1 hour ago, fixyurdivot said:

40/44 at Beaverhead GC today.  I had to go to Dillon anyway to pick up some irrigation equipment and hate to waste the trip their or to Bozeman w/o trying to get a round in.  Crazy scoring.  3 birdies but 3 DB's.  Just one of those rounds where several really well hit drives ended up with part of a tree limb or tree-line to contend with.  I mean a yard forward or left or right and it's wide open... so aggravating this game we play.

There is no way Kenny wastes a perfectly good piece of bacon for 20 yards.

I'd waste the whole pig for 20 yards!!  That would almost get me up to your drives!!