How'd you play?

[fixyurdivot]

10 hours ago, Rickp said:

Need more Fireball

LOL. Late last season, when many were planning early departures back home, the groups started drinking to "four drives on the fairway", four GIR's on par 3's, and "four pars".  That helped drain the Fireball, Peach Schnapp's, and Amaretto inventory in a big way.

[sirchunksalot]

44 minutes ago, Kenny B said:

Merry Christmas everyone from Kenny B and Mrs. Kenny B.

Well, it looked really nice out this morning but it was 21º at 6am.  The course had a 3 hour frost delay, so our tee time at 9:46 didn't happen until almost 1pm.  Not many people out playing on Christmas Eve.  My wife and I walked the front nine (par 37); the greens were frozen underneath a slightly melted top layer.  Had to play "old man golf", which I do very well.    Had 4 bogeys and 1 birdie for a +3 round of 40.  Had a 360º lip out that would have been a birdie on #7.

Here I am walking up the hill to the #8 tee after missing that putt.  

The mounds of grass you see are all over the course separating fairways, so the rough can have some tricky lies.

Here's my wife walking down the par 5 #9 about to hit her 3rd shot into the green... pond on the right, grass mounds on the left.  She made a par.

 

We became members at our current course in January 2016.  I found this pic I took on December 18, 2015 at our old golf course.  Quite a difference in both the course and the weather!!

 

Aside from the cooler weather, it looks like it was a good day to be out there. I'm glad you and your wife had a good time and were able to get a round in. 

[GolfSpy_SHARK]

Impromptu sim round. Got there a little late and only got 11 holes in but went +3 and only putted 3 of the holes (10’ gimmies) Chipping felt so much better today and it showed. Granted it was a sim but the work I’ve been putting in is really paying off.

[fixyurdivot]

37/42 at Mesa Del Sol. I was -2 thru 6.  Had a great drive on #7 and then popped my approach into the lake.  One double and the two birdies are gone.  Shook it off, got my 3 on #8 and was on the GIR on par 5 #9.  Just needed to get it down in two putts for my first even par nine in awhile. Missed a 20" comeback putt . Started the back with a double after having my drive bounce through a fence gate. Settled down and had a couple of chances to get back strokes but putts just wouldn't drop.  Still happy with another sub 80 round though.

[CarlH]

Our group had three 77s and 1 bozo comes in with an 83.  Meet Bozo.

Ball striking wasn't up to snuff (fairways were soaked!).  Missed far too many putts. Just one of those days where little went well.

I dare not whine about my game to my wife, as she is quick to point out that she remembers when I couldn't break 100.  One more reason to love MGS!  

[dlow206]

Didn't keep score today because it was cold and wet, but should have. Played probably my best, most complete round. Off the tee was good, approach shots were good, short game was good, putting was decent.

[dlow206]

Forgot to mention, my round yesterday was the first time I ever made it through 18 holes playing one ball. One Top Flite gamer made it through an entire round!

[Tom D.]

17 minutes ago, dlow206 said:

Forgot to mention, my round yesterday was the first time I ever made it through 18 holes playing one ball. One Top Flite gamer made it through an entire round!

Keep that up, the more you save on balls, the more you have for the rest of your golf endeavors !

[sirchunksalot]

I played nine holes today adding to my horrible scoring rounds this year with a 55. I hit one fairway, no greens, and had 17 putts that included 2 3 putts. It wasn't all bad, just a little frustrated with how my game is going. 

My driving was meh, my approach and chipping was a disaster, and my putter was red hot. I told my wife today that the only club I haven't had a desire to replace is the putter, weird huh?

The shots I'm most proud of and will use as a foundation going forward was a 3 wood I hit from 190 onto the green, which would have been a GIR if not for slicing a ball off the planet into some trees. I was 50 feet away for the putt, but to hit a green from that far was awesome. 

I had another shot in the par 5 6th I stuck to two feet from over a pond....After hitting the previous wedge into the water. i was just on the right side of the bridge (from the picture POV) and hit the side of the bridge.

The last good shot old the day was to finish the round out, I hit putter from of the green into the hole. 

After the round I did what I should have done before the round and hit the range and started hitting the ball well. 

I guess the reason I didn't was when I got to the course, they were taking cash only because the system was down and I had to run to the ATM. It's fifteen minutes each way and I was worried I might not get the round in before dark. I did figure out I'm over swinging the club and after adjusting was hitting the ball like I wish I would have during the round. I'm hoping to play again Wednesday, my wife wants to go out with me and I love those round where she rides along. 

[Tom the Golf Nut]

Don't be so hard on yourself. Its Late December, the weather was cold, damp and not the best for golf. I know, I'm not that far away.  The snow just about melted for me. I try not to keep score until spring. If you get a round in during the winter, treat it as just keeping the swing mechanics going. Don't expect to much.

[dlow206]

4 hours ago, Tom D. said:

Keep that up, the more you save on balls, the more you have for the rest of your golf endeavors !

Thanks, but for those that know me, even if I lost 10 balls per round, that wouldn't stop me from my spending on other golf equipment 

On a different note, the closest I came to losing a ball during my round was a ball plugged in the fairway. Couldn't find it, but one of my playing partners spotted it.

[chisag]

1 hour ago, sirchunksalot said:

I hit one fairway, no greens, and had 17 putts that included 2 3 putts.

 

... I played yesterday and the starter told us "No pin locations today because the Senior League had their year end tournament but moved up to the red tees and placed pins in the hardest positions on the greens." So I matched your two 3 putts and would have had 2 more but the ball rolled off the green so the next one didn't count as a putt. Not sure how this could have been fun for these guys because at least 7 pins were a few feet off the edge on a downslope so the only way to stop the ball was if it rolled in the hole. Others were on the side of slopes. I was joined by a decent player (Justin) around 35 and his Dad (Rick) and they were very frustrated as they don't get out a lot together. Rick was a high. index played and just picked up every green after 3-5 putts. Justin had quite a few 3 putts, several 4 putts and a 5 putt. I mostly just let the ball roll off the green and then had a short uphill putt coming back and then starting playing for a shot just off the green LOL. 

... Not too annoying as I came home from sunny 70* to watch the Peccker game in freezing and windy snow so I am still just happy to be in the warm sunshine even of the greens were basically unplayable. 

[Tom the Golf Nut]

35 minutes ago, chisag said:

 the greens were basically unplayable. 

We have a "Greens keeper revenge day" at my club sometime mid summer. Absolutely brutal. It is not fun.  You have to hit the hole or its off the green or sometimes roll 30 feet away when you started off only five feet away.  On hole 11 the pin was on the back of the green. I missed a putt by two inches, stopped pin high right side of the cup. Then it rolled back the entire length of the green and another 10 feet off.   No posting scores or counting putts that day.  The greens keeper would ride around the course and laugh at the players when they would get upset. 

[sirchunksalot]

40 minutes ago, Tom the Golf Nut said:

Don't be so hard on yourself. Its Late December, the weather was cold, damp and not the best for golf. I know, I'm not that far away.  The snow just about melted for me. I try not to keep score until spring. If you get a round in during the winter, treat it as just keeping the swing mechanics going. Don't expect to much.

Thank you for the encouragement and advice. I tend to sometimes get a little hard on myself, I'm a pretty chill person, albeit way too competitive with myself. Today was a good learning experience and motivation to keep working on improvement. 

I'm glad to hear the snow hass finally melted up your way. Hopefully the weather will stay nice enough you can play soon. 

[Tom the Golf Nut]

2 minutes ago, sirchunksalot said:

Thank you for the encouragement and advice. I tend to sometimes get a little hard on myself, I'm a pretty chill person, albeit way too competitive with myself. Today was a good learning experience and motivation to keep working on improvement. 

I'm glad to hear the snow hass finally melted up your way. Hopefully the weather will stay nice enough you can play soon. 

Supposed to be 57 on Wednesday. I'll be out playing then.

[sirchunksalot]

Just now, Tom the Golf Nut said:

Supposed to be 57 on Wednesday. I'll be out playing then.

Nice! That's pretty good weather this time of year. 

[CarlH]

1 hour ago, Tom the Golf Nut said:

We have a "Greens keeper revenge day" at my club sometime mid summer. 

We have the same thing, however we don't play it as a stroke play event.  It's a team scramble -- sometimes a 2 man, but usually a 4 man scramble format.  The pin locations are outrageous, including impossible locations, tiny holes, obstructions, etc.  It's a fun event that everyone in the club enjoys.

edit:  last year, one 2-some putted 27 times on #18 before they got it in the hole!

 

[Tom the Golf Nut]

14 minutes ago, CarlH said:

We have the same thing, however we don't play it as a stroke play event.  It's a team scramble -- sometimes a 2 man, but usually a 4 man scramble format.  The pin locations are outrageous, including impossible locations, tiny holes, obstructions, etc.  It's a fun event that everyone in the club enjoys.

edit:  last year, one 2-some putted 27 times on #18 before they got it in the hole!

 

We also do across country scramble event. You turn the 18 hole course into a 9 hole course. Example: You tee off on hole # 1 but the green is the one on hole #2. So in essence a par 8. But you can get there any way you want in the least amount of strokes. Over trees, through the woods or follow the course layout. You can get very creative. 

[CarlH]

12 hours ago, Tom the Golf Nut said:

We also do across country scramble event. You turn the 18 hole course into a 9 hole course. Example: You tee off on hole # 1 but the green is the one on hole #2. So in essence a par 8. But you can get there any way you want in the least amount of strokes. Over trees, through the woods or follow the course layout. You can get very creative. 

We have a 27 hole course and they did a cross country tournament last year.  I didn't play because I was out of town, but I heard it went well.

[Rickp]

We have a 27 hole course and they did a cross country tournament last year.  I didn't play because I was out of town, but I heard it went well.

That’s always fun. We used to do a similar play summer evenings when course was fairly empty after the League’s were done.
We had some fairly interesting/weird holes


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[Rickp]

Exec 9 this morning, +4 so decent round.
We got in back of the slowest 4some in the state of FL. They were playing from the tips and had no business there. I don’t think any of them even got a double bogey.



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[TBT]

Played 18 holes on Sunday..really struggled with my tee game, lots of pull hooks causing several penalty strokes....46-47 = 93

Doesn’t help that the course was really wet


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[Tom D.]

1 hour ago, TBT said:

Played 18 holes on Sunday..really struggled with my tee game, lots of pull hooks causing several penalty strokes....46-47 = 93

Doesn’t help that the course was really wet


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Make your life more stress free by playing winter golf without keeping score.  Keep the swing grooved and work on some things, especially when the course is wet -- that's not a true test of your scoring prowess anyway.

[Shapotomous]

16 hours ago, Tom the Golf Nut said:

We also do across country scramble event. You turn the 18 hole course into a 9 hole course. Example: You tee off on hole # 1 but the green is the one on hole #2. So in essence a par 8. But you can get there any way you want in the least amount of strokes. Over trees, through the woods or follow the course layout. You can get very creative. 

Way back in the dark ages of the 70's when I worked at the course we would do cross country golf in the evenings as we waited for one or two foursomes to finish so we could lock up.  The favorite "hole" was the driving range tee to 12th green which was about as close to corner to corner on the property as you could go.  We played it as a par 10, I just did a google earth straight line path on it and it is about 900 yards.  But we played a couple doglegs in it to avoid the trees adding a good bit of length.

I haven't played in a greenskeepers revenge event but did see the set up for a course near here.  Besides the unholy pin locations, a couple of the par 3's had the tee markers in the sand trap of the nearest green with a no tees allowed rule.  The only 'tee' allowed was a mound of sand like in the ancient days.

[Shapotomous]

I played a winter time 'keep my swing loose' 9 holes today in the 39* temp.  Being close to the river, the wind was steady at about 15mph with higher gusts.  I wore enough layers to keep warm and the winter gloves & ski hat/mask did their job.    Trying to figure out club selection into greens was a real challenge, only hit 2 GIR.

It was good to get out in the fresh air for a  walk, saw 2 eagles and quite a few hawks.

View from the 3rd green, low tide plus the wind pushing the water away from this shore really lowered the river level here.

[revkev]

Well my putting stank, i actually chunked a couple of chips - usually the best part of my game, my iron play was mostly okay, and in the biggest shocker of all I hit 3 drives in the water - all to the right.

I hadn’t played in over a month and expected some rust but the 47-41 was my highest score of the year.

The I realized that this is often a result just before I have a little speed jump from SuperSpeed. I also did a work out before playing and my body didn’t seem to want to co-operate at all. :(

But I had a blast. Played with a MGS guy who hasn’t been posting much, Sportsman and a friend from a forum that I frequented prior to MGS. We laughed our way around for sure.

I’m going to try again tomorrow - I worked out today!!! :)


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[PMookie]

Played 9, hit the ball very well. Still struggling off the tee when I’m wanting to hit a fade with the Honma. Irons were very solid, and putting was +1.7 SG according to Arccos. I changed how I’m holding the putter and it’s working great!

[fozcycle]

Played 18 today, first time in over a month. I think I am now recovered from Covid and Walking Pneumonia. I shot a 44/45:89 today with a few pars and no birdies. I gamed my Ben Hogan Ptx irons(shots were 1/2 to 1 iron short). Used my Wilson Triton and absolutely striped it! Fairway wood was a Powerbilt Air Force One 5 wood and it performed!

I chose the extra clubs, not my Wilson D7’s, because I wanted to work on my swing.

Gonna play again Thursday then Saturday.


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[Grand Stranded]

Ugh

Ive been up on Long Island for 12 days. It’s freezing, haven’t touched a club since I got here.I’m already stir crazy here in lock down central.

Remind me to never complain about being golfed out ever again, and to have compassion for everyone here who doesn’t live in an area where they can golf year round.

and oh yeah... Happy New Year everyone. Let’s hope 2021 is a good one.

[Kenny B]

4 hours ago, fozcycle said:

Played 18 today, first time in over a month. I think I am now recovered from Covid and Walking Pneumonia. I shot a 44/45:89 today with a few pars and no birdies. I gamed my Ben Hogan Ptx irons(shots were 1/2 to 1 iron short). Used my Wilson Triton and absolutely striped it! Fairway wood was a Powerbilt Air Force One 5 wood and it performed!

I chose the extra clubs, not my Wilson D7’s, because I wanted to work on my swing.

Gonna play again Thursday then Saturday.
 

Welcome back Foz!!  Glad you are feeling better and able to play