How'd you play?

[yungkory]

+6 on the front and +1 on the back for a 79.

Pretty pleased with that considering I don't play more than once a month (excluding two scrambles I played in) and the fact that it was my first real round with the new irons and newly-shafted wedges (shout-out to @dlow206 and Bort golf again!).

Didn't hit driver well, but the irons were pretty solid except for a huge pull on the 3rd. 130y par3 and I yanked my 9i probably 160 left OB and made a triple. Made a double on a par 4 that punishes you for going right, which I of course did. Had to punch out and couldn't hit the green from where I punched it to. Outside of those two holes I made 15 pars and a bogey which I'll take all day!

[Golfspy_TCB]

Played in my standard Sunday Game, and took the DF 2.1 out for a spin... It took me a little while to get used to the roll speed - and our greens went from being dew covered to dry and fast during the course of my round (got up to 95 by the time I was walking off 18).  But that thing is MONEY inside of 8 feet.  

I drove the ball really well - hit 14/14 fairways and 13 greens in reg.  15 pars and 3 bogeys for a 75.  My 3 bogeys were from greenside sand... so that will by my "how did you practice" post in the coming week.  

[MattF]

Not good, not bad. Got caught in a few showers. I'm still trying to find myself with the new sticks but managed to stop the bleeding enough to shoot a crowd pleasing 90 at Windmill Lakes.

Driver was behaving for the most part with a new grip, so there's that.

[MaxEntropy]

On Saturday I played in another outing for a league I sub in periodically - they made it a two-man scramble where the B flight picked their A partner out of a hat. The course was about an hour away and was a great course. Very hilly and picturesque. I had a great time. I played pretty steady all day - driver was once again pretty good and irons were very solid most of the day (just some challenges with direction). Short game was pretty lame and putting was tricky with very sloped greens. We ended up middle of the pack - winner was +2, we were +6. My partner played really well on the front, but kind of fell apart on the back. I'm not sure what his handicap is, but I'd guess he's about a 12 for 9 where I'm a 6 for 9. We also ended up winning a skin with a birdie on a par 3 (I also won closest to the pin with the tee shot). Only 2 skins were won on the day so we more than made our money back.

[TR1PTIK]

I actually got to play twice this past week! First round was Thursday at Shady Valley Country Club which I had never played before. I was asked to join a foursome with a couple pastors from my church for an outing with one of our mission partners. We figured we'd be scrambling, but it ended up being a really low-key event and there were only 7 of us who stayed to play golf after lunch, so we all played our own ball and just slapped it around for fun. I was pretty sore from the gym and didn't do any sort of warm-up other than putting so expectations were low. However, I shot an 88 with 38 putts (didn't get down to read most of them because my quads were killing me lol). Not too bad for not caring at all on a course I've never seen before.

Second round was at Whitestone Golf Club on Friday with my regular golf buddy Kaleb. I was less sore than Thursday but still feeling a few things. However, I was able to hit the range before and that all seemed to go pretty well. Everything was off to a great start until my first putt on the fastest greens I've played all season. They had to be rolling close to a 13 as you barely had to tap the ball on most putts. I'd spend the round back and forth between good play and not-so-good and finish with an 84. This surprised me as I felt like I was hitting the ball much better the day before but apparently my bad wasn't as terrible as I thought.

After those rounds, I decided to look at my recent scores and I haven't shot outside of the 80's since July!!! My last 6 recorded rounds are 87, 83, 83, 87, 88, 84!  Even better, my index hasn't been any higher than 10.0 for that same period!

[Golfspy_TCB]

5 minutes ago, TR1PTIK said:

My last 6 recorded rounds are 87, 83, 83, 87, 88, 84!

Great consistency Tr1ptik!! I see a 70's in you near future!!

[Golfspy_TCB]

4 minutes ago, EasyPutter said:

Wet Sunday for golf but a delayed opportunity to get with old friends for first post-COVID restrictions round that combines overnight "preparation" of food and drink with best conversations in a mountain cabin.  Saturday would have been drier under sunny skies as Sunday started with heavy rain before sunrise and continued more on than off in all manifestations from deluge and driving rain to light drizzle with everything in between.  A good social round of best ball so didn't keep individual score.  Good day for reconnecting and recharging the spirit.

Elkdale Golf Club 4th fairway and approach with water hazard in front of tee box, narrow tree lined fairway that opened to this broader approach, green just to the left side of the photo.  Talk of coming back here in a few weeks when the colors are peak and balls will disappear wherever they land hahaha.

Love the setting EP!  It doesn't matter what the game is like when the view is that spectacular!!

[ejgaudette]

Got out work a round this Saturday morning and the course to myself, lets just skip the fact that it was 40 degrees with 10 to 15 mph winds making it a bit chilly. Have been working on the driver swing, keeping my hands low after watching a TXG video talking about delivering the club with ulnar deviation which unless you set up like Bryson or how I used to with the arms basically fully extended this does not work. I have been hitting the ball very straight since, some pulls of pushes but very little curve on the ball also with irons. With the wind I still managed to hit 12 of 18 greens, but did not have the short game or putting working as I have not played much lately. Only got up and down 1 time and missed a number of mid-range birdie attempts. Shot a 76 (+5) which has dropped my index to 6.0 which is the lowest I have ever had. Hoping to get a few more round in before the year closes up shop.

[Golfspy_TCB]

10 minutes ago, ejgaudette said:

Hoping to get a few more round in before the year closes up shop.

Good shootin' @ejgaudette!  Be sure to post your few remaining rounds in the weekly Virtual Competition   

 

[ejgaudette]

25 minutes ago, Golfspy_TCB said:

Good shootin' @ejgaudette!  Be sure to post your few remaining rounds in the weekly Virtual Competition   

 

Will do for sure

[DiscipleofPenick]

Slipped out in between the rain for 9 this weekend. I played a best ball against myself from the middle tees at my old home course on the back 9. I played an aggressive vs. conservative style. It's a tighter 9 holes, with lots of elevation changes, so usually I only hit driver on 3-4 holes. So ripping driver on all of them was different. With the conservative play I never hit more than a 4i off any tee. Conservative DoP was 2up on 16th tee, but Aggresive DoP was able to win 17 & 18 to even the match. Including a birdie on 18! Though I wasn't keeping track of score, I think Conservative won by 3-4 shots even though the match was a draw. I'm going to do this experiment again, whenever I play 9 holes.

[Syks7]

Day 2 was disappointing, but not because of bad play.  Tough pin positions and being a touch off speed wise made for a tough putting day.  43/44 87.  I just didn't have my best stuff today and made a few mental errors (9 iron for 6 iron once ), two doubles, and 3 3-putt bogeys.  Missed some short nervy ones with a ton of break.  That said, I had a par putt on 16/18 holes (only converting 5).  I would be mad about that but for the fact that I was averaging 20' to get up and down.  Not going to hole a lot from that distance.  I was either slightly offline or just a little too quick or slow. (Lots of lipouts). 

I still finished 5th in the flight and 20th overall for gross.  Which isn't too bad.  I also take some solace in that as frustrated as I was, I wasn't as frustrated as the two 1.3 indexes that finished below me in gross.  Solid outing for my first two day tournament.  Could have been better but at least I was consistent in being 'average' 85/87 172 stroke gross.  

[Ben_Howell34]

Played Friday at Ballantrae. Had a rough front 9 46 but made up for it somewhat with a great 39 on the back for an 85. One birdie, on the shorter par 5 18th. A crisp 71* and beautiful day. Starting to hit my drives well, had a couple I pulled but other than that I hit a few over 290 so I’m happy with that. Excited to get my Arccos installed for my upcoming rounds. 

[ahelix]

Shot 87 (15 HCP) so it was a good day. 45 on the front and 42 on the back. Got one birdie!

First time I've:

1. Played the same ball for 18 holes
2. Had no penalty strokes
3. And avoided triple bogey or worse

Struggled with my shot off the tee and too many 3-putts (6, total of 40 putts).

I'm in the middle of a swing change so wasn't sweating my score much. I tend to shut the club face on the takeaway, and then not release the club to make the matchup work. Getting lessons to fix that but it's been VERY tough to fix. Just grinding a lot of 9 to 3 practice (half) practice swings focusing on starting the ball on line.

[Sluggo42]

Came crashing back to earth today, but still a 75, and from my normal black/blue tees. 
I did the math and playing from the whites, it averages 33.3 yds less per hole, so duh, one will shoot lower-

played the rogue max D again, and decided it’s not really any longer than my mavrik sun zero-

but it’s in the middle more…

[Kenny B]

On 9/24/2022 at 2:04 PM, Kenny B said:

On a bright side... my wife is in 2nd place, both gross and net, after the first day of the Ladies Club Championship.  Hopefully, she can come through tomorrow and add that title to the Match Play Championship last week.

Well, my wife took a triple on the par 3 #3 hole playing 119y yesterday because she had a lost ball.  Her shot landed short right of the green, missed the big trap, but after all three of them looked and looked, they couldn't find the ball.  Must have plugged.  She was very upset and texted me that it was a struggle to not give up; she thought she lost it all.  She ended up losing low gross by one shot, but she won low net over the same lady by one shot.  Pretty good year for her!!

EDIT:  Added photo... My wife on the right.

[Shapotomous]

Got to play at Compass Pointe today using the foursome CTP prize from the MD golf outing....Thanks @Golfspy_CG2!  The foursome was SWMBO, one of her cohorts from the ladies assoc, playing a better ball match against myself & @MDGolfHacker.  And we got our arse's kicked!     I'm very sorry partner that I played so horribly today.  I completely lost the ability to hit a driver for most of the round and my iron yardages were way off too.  I wish I could bottle the extra 10 yards my irons seemed to be flying today for future use.  I ended up with the worst score I've had in two years.  

If the idea is to ham and egg it around the course, mdgolfhacker said it best that we were another breakfast food...burnt toast.  

Even though my golf was turrible, the company was very good and I got to say hi to golfspy_cg2 afterward too.  As I entered the inner sanctum of Rob's golf equipment emporium I swear I could hear angels singing the hallelujah chorus.  Somehow I managed to not buy any of his castoffs. 

The best thing that came out of today was SWMBO saw the stash of golf bling the Rob has.  So I can deflect any criticism about my future purchases by simply saying at least I don't have as much stuff as Rob!!    

MDgolfhacker Posing:

 

[Rickp]

6 minutes ago, Shapotomous said:

Got to play at Compass Pointe today using the foursome CTP prize from the MD golf outing....Thanks @Golfspy_CG2!  The foursome was SWMBO, one of her cohorts from the ladies assoc, playing a better ball match against myself & @MDGolfHacker.  And we got our arse's kicked!     I'm very sorry partner that I played so horribly today.  I completely lost the ability to hit a driver for most of the round and my iron yardages were way off too.  I wish I could bottle the extra 10 yards my irons seemed to be flying today for future use.  I ended up with the worst score I've had in two years.  

If the idea is to ham and egg it around the course, mdgolfhacker said it best that we were another breakfast food...burnt toast.  

Even though my golf was turrible, the company was very good and I got to say hi to golfspy_cg2 afterward too.  As I entered the inner sanctum of Rob's golf equipment emporium I swear I could hear angels singing the hallelujah chorus.  Somehow I managed to not buy any of his castoffs. 

The best thing that came out of today was SWMBO saw the stash of golf bling the Rob has.  So I can deflect any criticism about my future purchases by simply saying at least I don't have as much stuff as Rob!!    

[Kenny B]

7 minutes ago, Shapotomous said:

Got to play at Compass Pointe today using the foursome CTP prize from the MD golf outing....Thanks @Golfspy_CG2!  The foursome was SWMBO, one of her cohorts from the ladies assoc, playing a better ball match against myself & @MDGolfHacker.  And we got our arse's kicked!     I'm very sorry partner that I played so horribly today.  I completely lost the ability to hit a driver for most of the round and my iron yardages were way off too.  I wish I could bottle the extra 10 yards my irons seemed to be flying today for future use.  I ended up with the worst score I've had in two years.  

If the idea is to ham and egg it around the course, mdgolfhacker said it best that we were another breakfast food...burnt toast.  

Even though my golf was turrible, the company was very good and I got to say hi to golfspy_cg2 afterward too.  As I entered the inner sanctum of Rob's golf equipment emporium I swear I could hear angels singing the hallelujah chorus.  Somehow I managed to not buy any of his castoffs. 

The best thing that came out of today was SWMBO saw the stash of golf bling the Rob has.  So I can deflect any criticism about my future purchases by simply saying at least I don't have as much stuff as Rob!!    

I wasn't sure whether to react to this post as Sad, Laugh, or Love it... so I just Liked it.  

[Rickp]

2 minutes ago, Kenny B said:

I wasn't sure whether to react to this post as Sad, Laugh, or Love it... so I just Liked it.  

Me too…