How'd you play?

[CarlH]

Struck the ball fairly well today.  Inside 100 yards, I struggled with my wedge getting steep and fat in the wet turf a couple of times on the front side.  Putting was awful today.  I lost count of the number of 3 putts.  To be a little less harsh on myself, the pins were in some ridiculous places, but still.....I don't think I made one putt of any significance.  Had several burn the edge and a couple lip out.  Just wasn't my day with the putter.  Shot an 83, despite good ball striking, several realistic birdie opportunities which I failed to make, and magnificent weather (actually quite warm in the low 80s).

[fozcycle]

After working 16 hours at the Polls yesterday and with Nicole blowing by tomorrow I decided to play today. 20+ mph sustaining winds and 35 mph gusts, today was a hard round. Shot 46/46:92 with one chip in birdie. My FIR were 8/14 for 57%, GIR were 5/18 28% and 36 putts.  Kinda fun watching the wind move the ball.

[chisag]

... I am sure I will get plenty of sympathy for this, but todays round started with NO sun, 10 mph winds, only 62* and Oh Yea RAIN!?!? Thankfully it only lasted 5 holes as all of us were going to quit after 9. "Warmed" up to 65* and by the back 9 my grips were finally dry. 70* and sunny Friday but mid to low 60's next week and that is    for Phoenix so here is where I am expecting some sympathy from those of you up north. 

[Golfspy_TCB]

8 hours ago, chisag said:

... I am sure I will get plenty of sympathy for this, but todays round started with NO sun, 10 mph winds, only 62* and Oh yea  RAIN!?!? Thankfully it only lasted 5 holes as all of us were going to quit after 9. "Warmed" up to 65* and by the back 9 my grips were finally dry. 70* and sunny Friday but mid to low 60's next week and that is    for Phoenix so here is where I am expecting some sympathy from those of you up north. 

[GaryF]

9 hours ago, chisag said:

... I am sure I will get plenty of sympathy for this, but todays round started with NO sun, 10 mph winds, only 62* and Oh yea  RAIN!?!? Thankfully it only lasted 5 holes as all of us were going to quit after 9. "Warmed" up to 65* and by the back 9 my grips were finally dry. 70* and sunny Friday but mid to low 60's next week and that is    for Phoenix so here is where I am expecting some sympathy from those of you up north. 

How about exchanging sympathies? Our Nov weather in GA is very spotty and 50s-60s.  Played nine 2 days ago, 15-20 mph gusty winds.  Just opened 2 weeks ago from overseeding and CPO.  Uncharacteristically struggled with the driver (short mishits) but did hit the fairways.  Between very long uncut fairway grass and LOTS of leaves, we spent frustrating amount of time trying to find our balls in the fairways. Shot 44.  Played a different course yesterday (not over seeded), driver getting better, very gusty and shot 42 but could have been much better. 

Still bummed about my cancelled trip - should be playing Verrado today, but instead waiting for more wind and rain from Nicole. 
 

[MattF]

Not the ending for the season that I wanted but still pretty good.

41/44 85. Front 9 should have been better but I took a 7 on the 9th hole.

[Bang60]

17 hours ago, chisag said:

... I am sure I will get plenty of sympathy for this, but todays round started with NO sun, 10 mph winds, only 62* and Oh Yea RAIN!?!? Thankfully it only lasted 5 holes as all of us were going to quit after 9. "Warmed" up to 65* and by the back 9 my grips were finally dry. 70* and sunny Friday but mid to low 60's next week and that is    for Phoenix so here is where I am expecting some sympathy from those of you up north. 

In New Zealand that's a normal winter for us so no sympathy but alittle empathy lol....

[edingc]

Not often I get to play golf in November. Weather turns tonight but today was 70 and beautiful, just a little windy. Texted the owner of my course (which closed last month) and he said to come out and play. So my brother-in-law and I had the entire course to ourselves.

No flags or cups, putting just to holes in the ground. That lead to some long first putts when I didn't quite make it to the center of the green. Greens were rolling pretty well, fairways and roughs were pretty thick since they really haven't mowed much. Still, shot an 83 with four doubles in the less than ideal conditions.

To go a full month without playing, practicing a bit but not as often, and still manage that, I'm over the moon. Swing felt really good today. My driver behaved for most of the round, my irons were pretty solid. I just cost myself strokes on the green (a four-putt and two three-putts) and on 18 I overdrew my tee ball OB onto the driving range. Six strokes that I could clean up easily.

Second tee shot was mashed up the hill with a little wind help, a pitch was hit flush but just off the back of the green, and I ended up hitting a beautiful little chip to 3 feet to tap-in for double. Really was a nice set of swings to finish off my year.

[Sluggo42]

Back went out again, but I’ve concluded it’s my kidney cyst- long story- but anyways- it fired off on the 9th tee to where I had to actually pick up and go home- extremely painful- makes me mad because I was -1 and had just hit back to back 275 yd drives with the TSr… now I’m back on the couch taking heavy duty Tylenol…

gotta be tough to get old….

[CarlH]

Today, the top 20 point winners in our MGA for 2022 competed in a Last Man Standing tournament.  Note that this isn't the 20 "best" golfers, but the 20 highest point earnings based on play during the year with MGA Thursday games.  Groups of 5 competed against one another in the following format:  Holes 1-6 were cumulative scores (net).  At the end of 6 holes, the person with the highest net score was eliminated.  In each subsequent hole, highest score gets eliminated until one person wins on hole 9 (in each of the 4 groups).  In cases of ties, a putt off was used to determine who would progress.  After all four groups were done (2 groups played 1-9 and 2 groups played 10-18), the winners of each group would go to hole #7 for a 3 hole playoff with the lowest net score being the winner.

I was in group 2.  As the lowest handicap player in that group,  I had to give 3 of the 4 players one stroke on hole #2.  I shot 1 over for the first six holes (lowest of the 5).  On hole 7, I bogeyed, but tied another player and beat one who hit his tee shot OB (par 3).  On hole #8, I make par and the other 2 bogey the hole and have a putt off.  Hole #9, I win with a par.  I advance to the finals.

The finals are hole 7 (par 3), hole 8 (par 5), and hole 9 (par 4).  I will get a stroke from the lower handicap player and it falls on #9.   I par all 3 holes and win by 2 shots gross (3 net) over the next best score (and last year's winner).  

I am the last man standing for 2022.  

 

8 minutes ago, Sluggo42 said:

Back went out again, but I’ve concluded it’s my kidney cyst- long story- but anyways- it fired off on the 9th tee to where I had to actually pick up and go home- extremely painful- makes me mad because I was -1 and had just hit back to back 275 yd drives with the TSr… now I’m back on the couch taking heavy duty Tylenol…

gotta be tough to get old….

Take care of yourself!

[cnosil]

8 minutes ago, CarlH said:

 

I am the last man standing for 2022.  

 

Congrats;  sounds like a great format.

[CarlH]

Just now, cnosil said:

Congrats;  sounds like a great format.

Thank you.  It was great format.  I've never played anything like it before, but it was really a fun way to play.  They did flight the groups, so there weren't a lot of strokes being given out and players played from their normal tees that they play during regular play.  In my first group, we had one guy playing the forward tee and the rest on the same tee.  In the playoff, the low handicap player played one tee further back (he's 11 years my junior) and one playing the forward tees.  Just a great format.  I guess you could play with a larger group, but 20 seemed to be the right number.

[fozcycle]

Well, after 5" of rain this week, we'll be CPO tomorrow......lotta walking.

[Bang60]

On 11/11/2022 at 11:58 AM, Sluggo42 said:

Back went out again, but I’ve concluded it’s my kidney cyst- long story- but anyways- it fired off on the 9th tee to where I had to actually pick up and go home- extremely painful- makes me mad because I was -1 and had just hit back to back 275 yd drives with the TSr… now I’m back on the couch taking heavy duty Tylenol…

gotta be tough to get old….

Yeah I know all about “old” at 72 because my body just won’t do what I want, and that’s bloody frustrating as right now I’m sitting in my recliner with muscle spasms in my left hip. Which model TSr you using?

[Rickp]

3 hours ago, fozcycle said:

Well, after 5" of rain this week, we'll be CPO tomorrow......lotta walking.

Yup CPO this morning.  Lucky to even get out after Nicole dumped about 4” of rain yesterday.  
Bacon Boyz decided after a couple holes that 6 was enough.  Too bad I had to that point 5 pars and an extremely ugly double where a ProV1x decided on drowning over staying with me.  
I haven’t been posting on Play lately as with new driver, fareway woods and irons I’m in total experimental mode.  Irons are getting OK, 7 wood is great, Driver is still a bit of a mystery, still playing around with loft but it’s now a slight fade.  I’m OK with that.

Breakfast was great!!!

[Kenny B]

36 minutes ago, Rickp said:

Yup CPO this morning.  Lucky to even get out after Nicole dumped about 4” of rain yesterday.  
Bacon Boyz decided after a couple holes that 6 was enough.  Too bad I had to that point 5 pars and an extremely ugly double where a ProV1x decided on drowning over staying with me.  
I haven’t been posting on Play lately as with new driver, fareway woods and irons I’m in total experimental mode.  Irons are getting OK, 7 wood is great, Driver is still a bit of a mystery, still playing around with loft but it’s now a slight fade.  I’m OK with that.

Breakfast was great!!!

Was the ProV1x Yellow???  

[Rickp]

10 minutes ago, Kenny B said:

Was the ProV1x Yellow???  

Why yes it was    
Oh oh, it’s YB cousin

 

[Grand Stranded]

Tomorrow I play a Stableford event, Tuesday it’s a quota game, then I wrap my year up next Saturday with our Member-Member Tournament. The following Monday I head up to Long Island, and won’t be back down until after Christmas.

It seems like I’m slipping into one of my funks lately. There isn’t one particular part of the game where I’m struggling, it’s more a lack of focus leading to making bad errors either in judgement or execution. i honestly don’t feel like I’m playing poorly, but my scoring has been horrible, and that’s infuriating.
It feels like this trip north is coming at the right time. I need a break from golf right now. I usually take the clubs up with me, in hopes of squeezing in a couple of rounds with my nephews and friends up there, but right now I think I’ll leave them down here this time,

 

[EasyPutter]

Veterans Day golf has become a tradition at a favorite family owned course south of me, they don't charge Vets for a cart on this day and if I walk it they usually just waive the greens fee.  Today Nicole's northern bands arrived on the way to the course. Took this video on the ride to the course, been using this windshield treatment for 40 years, problem is the heavier the rain the easier it is to forget it is raining and have to remember I'm going to get wet if I get out without an umbrella ready. 

I do enjoy playing golf in rain, don't know what it is but more than any other conditions my game comes together better than other times.  46 and 44 for one more than my best round ever (and handicap went down a point when the round saved).  This one is going for my Week 7 Tour entry, too good to pass up. 

Only 2 others on the course before me and they said I was their last player on the course for the year.  Presented with a certificate for golf next year so essentially gave me back my green fee to use again after the no-outdoor-golf months are past.  The improvements this year with new footbridges improving access across their many creeks, places where brush used to be now resembling idyllic gardens,  better cart paths and terraced tee boxes, indeed I will be back next year and not just to use their gift as more than ever it is a peaceful place I golf to find.

[Bang60]

Played ave irons today but driving was good, too much recent rain made the course tough with ponds every where..