How'd you play?

[Vegan_Golfer_PNW]

4 minutes ago, Shapotomous said:

I hope you left out a decimal point in that SG number!!  .

I wish. See my breaking 90 thread. It was awful. New putting stroke. Distance control sucked. If I putt like an avg 20 handicap I shoot a 41 instead of 53

[sirchunksalot]

35 minutes ago, edingc said:

The round that could have been...

Double bogey, four three-putts, three three-footers lipped out.

36/37 -> 73

One of these days I'm going to break par.

Great round! To pull off a 73 with that kind of bad luck is phenomenal. It's been fun watching the progression of your game these last few years and I have no doubt that you'll break par soon. 

[Kenny B]

1 hour ago, edingc said:

The round that could have been...

Double bogey, four three-putts, three three-footers lipped out.

36/37 -> 73

One of these days I'm going to break par.

 

46 minutes ago, sirchunksalot said:

Great round! To pull off a 73 with that kind of bad luck is phenomenal. It's been fun watching the progression of your game these last few years and I have no doubt that you'll break par soon. 

And yet it was just a week or so ago that you couldn't hit anything!!  This is golf; can't get discouraged when things don't go well for a round or three.  Focus and trust and play!

[edingc]

27 minutes ago, Kenny B said:

And yet it was just a week or so ago that you couldn't hit anything!!  This is golf; can't get discouraged when things don't go well for a round or three.  Focus and trust and play!

I focused on staying "neutral." I was getting so wrapped up in the scores and bad swings that I couldn't actually focus on what was going "wrong" in my swing. I spent some time on the range and found a few thoughts/keys, and then today I just really tried to not let my emotions swing too far one way or another. I still hit a few clunkers (one that led to the double bogey, and another on No. 16 that led to a bogey when I was 1-under at the time), but I tried to focus on the next shot and things worked better for me.

The shots weren't mutually exclusive - the three-putts led to the double bogey and two other bogies. Two of the missed three-footers were that double-bogey and bogey. I also got bailed out by my course on two or three drives that went well right of my target. My course allows a right miss off the tee in several spots, and I took full advantage of that this morning.

Thanks, everyone, for the comments. It was a fun round for sure and something I can build on (although my season is fast coming to an end).

[edingc]

2 hours ago, Lacassem said:

Early 605 tee time this morning. 3rd group off and I was just paired with another walking single. Great guy same age as me and was a pretty damn good golfer. Guess he had been struggling with his driver and has a driving iron and he smokes the thing (hit his driver on 1 hole and that was it), was impressive. We passed the two groups ahead of us by hole 8 and cruised to my kind of round, 3 hours 10 minutes and done.

Struggled on the front with alignment, struggled pulling everything left and just could not get myself in a good position setup wise. Worked it out by hole 10 though. Luckily was hitting the ball well so I was just off greens. Around the green helped me out big time.

79 with 2 birdies, 9 pars, 5 bogeys and 2 doubles (both on the front).

Was not long off the tee today but the back was throwing darts with the irons and put a handful of short irons/wedges to 5’ and finally started making a few birdie putts.

6:05! I could use some of the early light here. Downsides of me being on the opposite side of the time zone, I suppose. Getting tough to start as early as I'd like...

[chisag]

2 hours ago, Lacassem said:

but the back was throwing darts with the irons and put a handful of short irons/wedges to 5’ and finally started making a few birdie putts.

 

... Nice! Sounds like your irons heard about the Forged Tec's coming soon. 

[chisag]

59 minutes ago, edingc said:

I focused on staying "neutral." I was getting so wrapped up in the scores and bad swings that I couldn't actually focus on what was going "wrong" in my swing. I spent some time on the range and found a few thoughts/keys, and then today I just really tried to not let my emotions swing too far one way or another. I still hit a few clunkers (one that led to the double bogey, and another on No. 16 that led to a bogey when I was 1-under at the time), but I tried to focus on the next shot and things worked better for me.

 

... Great round! One of the things many will find if they play a practice round if they can have the course to themselves, is often a bad swing will produce shots almost as good as your best swing. Hitting a hybrid a little thin from 205 that carries 150 and rolls 60 is not any different than a well struck hybrid that flies 200 hops and stops. Obviously a hook or slice is a different story but I am always amazed at how good bad shots can turn out. Especially off the tee with a driver. 

... The point being when you play, just accept the bad swings because even at your level of play they are going to happen but you don't need to "fix them" during a round because you will probably put a good swing on the next shot. Golf always will be about managing your worst shots, so have a short memory and focus on the shot you are playing. Clearly shooting a 73 you have a good swing and a solid game. One of the Ah Ha moments for me as watching my favorite player at the time, Freddie Couples hit 2 hooks OB off the first tee in a tourney and I realized if someone at his level can hit back to back horrendous shots, why do I think I should hit good shots every swing? 

[Lacassem]

1 hour ago, edingc said:

6:05! I could use some of the early light here. Downsides of me being on the opposite side of the time zone, I suppose. Getting tough to start as early as I'd like...

I lucked out had slots available Friday. I was worried about the light, and when I got up this morning it was pretty dark but right at 6 it brightened up (that picture). It’s definitely getting close though. Not setting clocks back will help too

1 hour ago, chisag said:

 

... Nice! Sounds like your irons heard about the Forged Tec's coming soon. 

lol 2/3 darts were my 48* SM8….790s are still on the chopping block

[DiscipleofPenick]

Got out around the rain and walked 18 in 2:30. It was easy when you're a single and the first one out. No holes were birdie holes today @chisagbut that doesn't mean I didn't make good swings. Shot 81, no doubles either, just sprayed the ball all over and my short game kept saving me. Iron play was terrible again.

[tony@CIC]

Had a pretty good day yesterday  - playing in the Men's Club Championship. Took 1st in my flight. 

[sirchunksalot]

31 minutes ago, tony@CIC said:

Had a pretty good day yesterday  - playing in the Men's Club Championship. Took 1st in my flight. 

That's awesome! Congratulations!

[Rickp]

3 hours ago, tony@CIC said:

Had a pretty good day yesterday  - playing in the Men's Club Championship. Took 1st in my flight. 

Congratulations!!

[cjeffs12]

Had a breakthrough round today! The first day back from a week long cruise through the Caribbean, so I had no expectations after not touching a club for over a week. I shot my best score of 77, not my best swing but I was able to stay in play and get up and down. I didn’t even realize where I was score wise until 18 tee, but just focused on fairway and green like I was for the day. Looking forward to see where this can lead. 
 

Score: 77

FIR: 8/14

GIR: 10/18

PUTTS: 33

[RichL85]

After the atrocity of my range session on Friday, I went in with pretty low expectations today. Went out in the heat of the afternoon and had a bit of a round. For one, I ended up losing my phone around the 4th hole so my normal score tracking app couldn't be used. Strangely enough, that might have helped as the only score keeping was my Shot Scope. It was only one shot better than my previous best, but I guess any personal best is a good day out there. I just didn't know about it until I got the round to sync off the device.

Ended up going 42/43. It was not always pretty, but I mostly just did a good job of avoiding big numbers. One double on the front and 2 on the back. Four pars on each side and a number of fairly standard bogeys. Had a bit of a mental breakdown in the middle of the back going double, double, bogey, bogey. No real excuse for it other than just that I got kind of pissed about the guys behind me hitting into me a few times because I was waiting on the group in front of me. Best hole for me was #12 where I hit driver over the trees to cut the dog leg, leaving myself about 40 yards to the pin. Didn't do any better than a two putt par, but it was my longest drive of the day. The driver is definitely still a work in progress, but this was enough to give me hope that it can become something useful in my game. 

Positive note. My phone was found and returned. Realistically, I can see another few strokes coming off that if I can find myself in the fairway more instead of having to punch out under the trees so often. The swing is still coming along, but I'm in a much better mood than I was on Friday. 

[TheCanadianBogeyman]

Well, if I ever needed proof that consistency was my problem, today was it.  I shot 89, which for me is not too bad.  45 front, 44 back, no 3 putts.  However, for the 9 consecutive holes in the middle (6-14) I was only 1 over par (par, bogey, and then 7 consecutive pars).  So to shoot 89, I had to shoot a combined 16 over on the other 9 holes.  I don't think I've ever started a round so mediocre, only to turn it around and play great, and then go back to absolute garbage by the end.

I really need to work on eliminating those big number holes. and keeping my swing under control.

[MattF]

16 hours ago, tony@CIC said:

Had a pretty good day yesterday  - playing in the Men's Club Championship. Took 1st in my flight. 

Congratulations Tony!

 

I, on the other hand, played so badly I walked after 9.

[tony@CIC]

2 hours ago, MattF said:

Congratulations Tony!

 

I, on the other hand, played so badly I walked after 9.

I can relate. I started out the summer great - then quickly flamed out - so much so I told my wife a month ago I was thinking about quitting golf. Then 3 weeks ago my drive came back and feeling pretty good overall about my swing. As the old saying goes: "it's called golf because all the other 4 letter words are taken". 

Time to see Randy? I know he's pretty booked up - but maybe he can squeeze you in as an emergency case. 

[ejgaudette]

21 hours ago, edingc said:

6:05! I could use some of the early light here. Downsides of me being on the opposite side of the time zone, I suppose. Getting tough to start as early as I'd like...

My course just moved weekday tee times back to starting at 7 (very annoying that they do these big jumps and don't do rolling tee times ) so morning rounds are over on weekdays. Weekends are still 6:30 for now.

[MattF]

3 hours ago, tony@CIC said:

Time to see Randy? I know he's pretty booked up - but maybe he can squeeze you in as an emergency case. 

Pretty sure it's between the ears, so as a swing coach, I don't know that he could help.

[Rickp]

Monday Exec9, nastiest course in area.  All holes all carry, wet even in drought!!  I lost one ball 2nd hole the other 3 guys I didn’t bother to count.   
I didn’t feel comfortable over the ball all morning.  Third hole had to give the other guys a “let’s go, ready golf” too much standing and whining.  Didn’t keep any scores, too depressing.