How'd you play?

[GolfSpy_BOS 15,485]

1 hour ago, Golfspy_CG2 said:

It’s fairly common knowledge here about “The Corner” in my office that houses 3-5 golf bags and sets at any given time. Well after shooting 101 today.   I’m trading them all in for these
 

Just kidding….or am I

Parties in Robs office!

Stocking up for the official MGS golf outing are we?

[sirchunksalot 16,286]

11 minutes ago, Lacassem said:

Your course looks even better! Smart with the umbrella. Glad you were able to get out man, knock out those doubts, sounds like you did just that today!

I gotta get a bigger umbrella to cover me a bit better, but having that shade sure was nice. I'm a bit on the pasty side and thought that plus a lot of sunblock might keep me from being mistaken for a lobster. 

 

[GolfSpy_BOS 15,485]

1 hour ago, sirchunksalot said:

I left work early today to get the windshield replaced on my car, so I decided it was a perfect day to get out and play nine. The weather was wonderful, 85 degrees and a slight wind. I did have to set up an umbrella on Johnny 5 to keep from roasting. 

I'm not going to say I shot well or bad, it's my first round in two months due to a loss of confidence in my game. I treated today as practice and just getting back into the rhythm of the game. 

My round started out rough, I had to play a different course than normal and there's no practice area. I lost three balls on the first three holds and hit a fourth OB that I found. Those first holes I started out +3, +3, and +8. That third hole was brutal, three lost balls didn't help much. At least it was pretty out. 

After that, I settled into a rhythm and had a run of double, double, and three bogeys. One of the highlights of my round was being 2 feet over the green on the first par five and hitting the green in regulation on the second, although I 3 putted the second one from 39 feet. In fairness, it was an uphill breaker I aimed 6 feet to the right of and just didn't hit it hard enough. 

Driver was horrible most of the day, but I hit my irons better than I have in a long time. The putter was really good most of the round except for a couple of 3 putts on tricky greens. On the 9th I hit my best shot of the day from 47 yards out, left of the flag into the slope and it rolled down to 11 feet. Unfortunately, it left a downhill left to right breaker I ran 13 feet past the hole. 

Overall, I shot a 60 with 20 putts which normally would be a little discouraging but with the way I hit my irons I'm feeling pretty good. 

Maybe I need to start breaking my windshield more often.

glad you got out there on a beautiful day! Got my first 9 of the year scheduled for Sunday with my brother and my son, so that will be fun!

sometimes just getting out there with zero expectations is the best for our games. Hoping your confidence starts building with this round!

[JerryB 1,152]

8 hours ago, Kenny B said:

 Of course you added the 2 stroke general penalty for hitting Owen's ball when you are both on the green, right??

Ah shoot, is that a thing??  Thank goodness I'll never need to play a legitimate round!! 

[chisag 18,555]

53 minutes ago, sirchunksalot said:

due to a loss of confidence in my game

 

... All sports success is predicated on a self belief. As much as Jay Cutler was loathed by some, I loved him saying that after throwing 4 picks to one Packer DB in a game, if there were time left in the game he would have thrown at him again. If you don't believe you will be successful, you won't be.

... In an acting class I took when I fist started out, the goal was to walk into a space and experience it without trying to do anything. It is a lesson in not trying to act or perform but just BE. You were supposed to just stand up and walk on the stage when you felt the urge to do so. Maybe 20 actors in that class. I did it twice in 2 classes and just got lost in my own thoughts walking around, siting down or standing on stage and did pretty much nothing but experience the space and after the second class the instructor gave me back my tuition and said the class had nothing to teach me. He referenced a guy that would jump up every change chance he got and was sooooo determined to "experience the stage" but alway did things like touch an object or pick it up and look at it and in general do everything but just experience the space. He had ben up at least 10 times in that 2nd class and when he literally jumped up and started toward the stage the instructor yelled "Sit The F*CK Down!  You are already trying to perform as you left your seat!". Another actor got up, failed and received some instructive criticism before this guy immediately but sheepishly got up again and started toward the stage and the instructor told him to sit down because now he was trying hard not to act when he was supposed to be just experiencing and not trying anything. 

... That student reminded me of a golf because the exercise is both easy and extremely difficult at the same time and if struggling the only way to be successful is to keep a positive attitude and keep doing it til you get it right. Many would have quit trying to experience the stage but this guy was not going to be deterred. I would advise you to be that guy!  After failing 10 times he could hardly wait to fail the 11th time. Ignore your failures and revel in your successes. Initially you will fail more often than you will succeed but you will succeed if you think you will. And then keep building off that success. You obviously have the work ethic, passion and you have it in you but you just have to believe in yourself as much of the rest of us here believe in you! 

[Rickp 29,415]

4 minutes ago, chisag said:

 

... All sports success is predicated on a self belief. As much as Jay Cutler was loathed by some, I loved him saying that after throwing 4 picks to one Packer DB in a game, if there were time left in the game he would have thrown at him again. If you don't believe you will be successful, you won't be.

... In an acting class I took when I fist started out, the goal was to walk into a space and experience it without trying to do anything. It is a lesson in not trying to act or perform but just BE. You were supposed to just stand up and walk on the stage when you felt the urge to do so. Maybe 20 actors in that class. I did it twice in 2 classes and just got lost in my own thoughts walking around, siting down or standing on stage and did pretty much nothing but experience the space and after the second class the instructor gave me back my tuition and said the class had nothing to teach me. He referenced a guy that would jump up every change chance he got and was sooooo determined to "experience the stage" but alway did things like touch an object or pick it up and look at it and in general do everything but just experience the space. He had ben up at least 10 times in that 2nd class and when he literally jumped up and started toward the stage the instructor yelled "Sit The F*CK Down!  You are already trying to perform as you left your seat!". Another actor got up, failed and received some instructive criticism before this guy immediately but sheepishly got up again and started toward the stage and the instructor told him to sit down because now he was trying hard not to act when he was supposed to be just experiencing and not trying anything. 

... That student reminded me of a golf because the exercise is both easy and extremely difficult at the same time and if struggling the only way to be successful is to keep a positive attitude and keep doing it til you get it right. Many would have quit trying to experience the stage but this guy was not going to be deterred. I would advise you to be that guy!  After failing 10 times he could hardly wait to fail the 11th time. Ignore your failures and revel in your successes. Initially you will fail more often than you will succeed but you will succeed if you think you will. And then keep building off that success. You obviously have the work ethic, passion and you have it in you but you just have to believe in yourself as much of the rest of us here believe in you! 

Great story and will be helpful to many of us !!  “SirChunks” will be fine as we all know he will, he’s a grinder and doesn’t give up.  

[sirchunksalot 16,286]

9 minutes ago, chisag said:

 

... All sports success is predicated on a self belief. As much as Jay Cutler was loathed by some, I loved him saying that after throwing 4 picks to one Packer DB in a game, if there were time left in the game he would have thrown at him again. If you don't believe you will be successful, you won't be.

... In an acting class I took when I fist started out, the goal was to walk into a space and experience it without trying to do anything. It is a lesson in not trying to act or perform but just BE. You were supposed to just stand up and walk on the stage when you felt the urge to do so. Maybe 20 actors in that class. I did it twice in 2 classes and just got lost in my own thoughts walking around, siting down or standing on stage and did pretty much nothing but experience the space and after the second class the instructor gave me back my tuition and said the class had nothing to teach me. He referenced a guy that would jump up every change chance he got and was sooooo determined to "experience the stage" but alway did things like touch an object or pick it up and look at it and in general do everything but just experience the space. He had ben up at least 10 times in that 2nd class and when he literally jumped up and started toward the stage the instructor yelled "Sit The F*CK Down!  You are already trying to perform as you left your seat!". Another actor got up, failed and received some instructive criticism before this guy immediately but sheepishly got up again and started toward the stage and the instructor told him to sit down because now he was trying hard not to act when he was supposed to be just experiencing and not trying anything. 

... That student reminded me of a golf because the exercise is both easy and extremely difficult at the same time and if struggling the only way to be successful is to keep a positive attitude and keep doing it til you get it right. Many would have quit trying to experience the stage but this guy was not going to be deterred. I would advise you to be that guy!  After failing 10 times he could hardly wait to fail the 11th time. Ignore your failures and revel in your successes. Initially you will fail more often than you will succeed but you will succeed if you think you will. And then keep building off that success. You obviously have the work ethic, passion and you have it in you but you just have to believe in yourself as much of the rest of us here believe in you! 

That's a great story, Sam! I can't imagine how hard it would be not to act when you're taking a class to act. Sometimes it's just good to experience the stage, or in our case, the golf course and simply enjoy the time we have out there. 

2 minutes ago, Rickp said:

Great story and will be helpful to many of us !!  “SirChunks” will be fine as we all know he will, he’s a grinder and doesn’t give up.  

Thank you! Those moments you see a glimmer of what we can do makes the work worth it. 

[chisag 18,555]

28 minutes ago, sirchunksalot said:

I can't imagine how hard it would be not to act when you're taking a class to act. Sometimes it's just good to experience the stage, or in our case, the golf course and simply enjoy the time we have out there. 

 

... The main point to take from this is you are swinging a club and hitting a ball. Acting is just being what you say you are being, not acting like what you think that is. Just go up and experience the stage without acting like you are experiencing the stage. Like a little girl being a princess and having a tea party that ceases to be a little girl because she IS a princess. For little kids, pretend is very real. No thoughts of how to be a princess, what is the right way to stand, sit or what would a real princess say ...  just be a princess and everything you do will be what a princess does. Once you start thinking about how to do it, you risk over analyzing. You are just swinging a club and hitting a golf ball and again it is very easy and very difficult at the same time. Everyone will tell you when they had their best rounds, they had no thoughts of how, just where to hit the ball. That is the goal. Just trust the swing you have and hit the best shots you can hit with that swing on that day believing you will hit more good shots than bad. And if you don't, be confident you will be a princess good player the next time. 



PS. This sinus infection has been kicking my a$$ but feel like I am coming out the other side. Not leaving the house for a week and no golf for 7 days when new irons arrived 7 days ago has me posting more than normal. 

[Sluggo42 7,780]

Kinda been hacking the last few rounds, thinking about other things. My “new” swing sort of was slipping away and I didn’t really notice. Then on the 13th after a drive behind a tree, I had to hit a draw. 
then I started thinking about how to hit a draw, and then I remembered all my recent lessons, and how I’d been slipping away from them. So, I went through the lessons set up and swing, and darn if I didn’t his a great shot with a nice draw around that tree. I played to par the rest of the round and was happy that I remembered.

moral of the story is that it can be very easy to stray from “new things”, but if you do, don’t be stubborn stupid, and get back onto that pony…

[Syks7 1,051]

As I'd hoped my home course did indeed feel a mile wide after my last two rounds.  40/43 83 in a men's club tourney.  I flirted with 80 all day and played pretty well save for #14 when I forgot how to play golf and tripled.   9 Pars on the day, which may be a personal record for me.

My putting was lights out today except for a single three putt -- 31 total putts, two 30+ ft putts to get up and down + a ton of of them that burned the edge leaving me with 6" tap in's for bogey, same for all the pars I made in regulation.  The par put was 1' or less.  Just couldn't get a birdie to drop.   If I'd been a bit luckier the score could have been in exceptional territory.  

Short game was also pretty exceptional for once.  Left myself with a lot of reasonable chances.   

Off the tee and on approach I was okay, not great, but reasonable.  I've been trying to smooth things out, but doing the towel drill tucked under my trail arm.  I decided to just swing at that tempo all day and surprise, surprise, a smoothly swung iron that hits the center of the face goes further than aggressively swung hit off the toe or heel.  Credit to my instructor on that one.  He posted a video of his swing (which he rarely does) this morning and I thought man I just want to swing smooth like that all day... which became my swing thought for the day.

Edited May 12 by Syks7

[Golfspy_CG2 32,615]

2 hours ago, GolfSpy_BOS said:

Stocking up for the official MGS golf outing are we?

Ha. Great thought!!There might be some missed tee times in that case

[Lacassem 16,694]

17 minutes ago, Golfspy_CG2 said:

Ha. Great thought!!There might be some missed tee times in that case

Puke and rally I say!

[MattF 14,539]

Got out on day release from quarantine yesterday (It's actually day 6 so I'm allowed to leave the house with a mask). Weird day, shot a +13 48 front and a +4 39 back for an 87. I guess your playing partners do make a difference. The two brothers I played the front with were hackers but they left after 9 and I played by myself on the back.

[DiscipleofPenick 4,023]

1 hour ago, MattF said:

Got out on day release from quarantine yesterday (It's actually day 6 so I'm allowed to leave the house with a mask). Weird day, shot a +13 48 front and a +4 39 back for an 87. I guess your playing partners do make a difference. The two brothers I played the front with were hackers but they left after 9 and I played by myself on the back.

Glad to hear you're doing better, at least health wise. Sorry you got stuck with hackers. Are you still playing mostly at Windmill? Did we get a new date for the Ohio meetup?

[DiscipleofPenick 4,023]

Went for 9 last night, very slow play as we were following leagues around. Birdied the first hole and parred the last 3 for a 40. Wasn't focused for some of the middle holes, but got it back to close it out. Also it was the first real 9 holes of the year, as in it wasn't CPO or below 50 out. 

[Vegan_Golfer_PNW 4,661]

Well a glimmer of light showed up last night, in context with a friend of ours, she made the proposition that, 18 holes with prior notice is ok once in a while   
 

 

[MDGolfHacker 7,908]

16 hours ago, Golfspy_CG2 said:

It’s fairly common knowledge here about “The Corner” in my office that houses 3-5 golf bags and sets at any given time. Well after shooting 101 today.   I’m trading them all in for these
 

Just kidding….or am I

Parties in Robs office!

After my last round, I'm in!

 

MDGolfHacker

[MDGolfHacker 7,908]

Played my league round this past Wednesday.  Practiced putting throughout the week up to the round...what I should of done is actually hit the driver and irons  more as well While the driver didn't go too wonky on me, the irons were just all over the place.  Oh, and the putting wasn't sharp either which contributed to a less than stellar round. I will admit, our closing two holes, a par 5 and par 4 I kind of gave up on especially the par 5 which I went for the green in two out of frustration (which I never do since water comes into play) and ended up with a bad lie a little short of the green, contributing to a bogey and the last hole I was 4' away on a left to right breaking putt for par. Burned the left edge of the cup (did that a lot during this round - I should of just aimed at the center of the dang cup!)  Oh well, there's always next week!

 

MDGolfHacker

[cksurfdude 10,865]

So you know how high school team coaches like to say "It's a building/development year"? Well that's the way I'm looking at my last round (and not as a train wreck disaster sloppy mess )

Was out there trying to apply some of the good stuff from my recent lessons and, of course, while it's still new ... it's still a little uncomfortable when actually trying to hit golf ball to a target..... So a lotta lotta misses buuut .. on the flip side even tho the misses were ugly none of them were really all too terrible. Seemed to find some overhanging branches on a few tee shots which - perversely - I'm gonna consider a bit of progress as these were right pushes vs low-left pull hooks...

Putting, though, really was a disappointment - last round had a good handle on both speed and line, and in my warm-up for this round was putting the ball to where I wanted like 9 / 10 times. Oh well 

I'll just have to say it again:
Work In Progress.

[AVILACA23 13]

Played my 4th round of the year, and things have been steadily declining. 82 89 87 96. With absolutely no control of the golf ball, 4 OB, and 2 straight pushes into the bush. A long time friend the Shanks even played a few holes with us towards the end, which was a nice surprise culminating in a fantastic afternoon! 

This season I came with a goal of a stronger mental mindset to golf, and enjoying the time on the course instead of chasing numbers. I have not done done well with this goal and can't even bring myself to hit balls at a range right now. 

Can't wait for league to start on Tuesday.