How'd you play?

[Sluggo42]

3 hours ago, JerryB said:

I know the feeling!  We have the day off work so I was planning on hitting the course, but all my playing partners bailed.  Apparently -5° with sustained 30mph winds is "too much" and I'm a "lunatic."

Wimps…

[Tom the Golf Nut]

4 hours ago, JerryB said:

I know the feeling!  We have the day off work so I was planning on hitting the course, but all my playing partners bailed.  Apparently -5° with sustained 30mph winds is "too much" and I'm a "lunatic."

Dammmmm that kind of weather can cause an injury. I applaud your dedication, but I suggest you find an indoor simulator somewhere. I'm cold just reading your post!

[JerryB]

1 hour ago, Tom the Golf Nut said:

Dammmmm that kind of weather can cause an injury. I applaud your dedication, but I suggest you find an indoor simulator somewhere. I'm cold just reading your post!

But outdoor golf is free during this season!

[Grand Stranded]

MERRY CHRISTMAS from a frigid Long Island!

I wish you all a wonderful Holiday, along with your family. For those of you with little children in the house, enjoy. They make the day extra special, and these years will go by very quickly!

[rkj427]

1 hour ago, Grand Stranded said:

MERRY CHRISTMAS from a frigid Long Island!

I wish you all a wonderful Holiday, along with your family. For those of you with little children in the house, enjoy. They make the day extra special, and these years will go by very quickly!

Merry Christmas to you from southeastern Michigan...............agree 100% with your thoughts.

Seems that the temperatures in South Carolina are very cold for them at this time too, and hoping it warms back up before your travels back there.

[Rickp]

4 hours ago, Grand Stranded said:

MERRY CHRISTMAS from a frigid Long Island!

I wish you all a wonderful Holiday, along with your family. For those of you with little children in the house, enjoy. They make the day extra special, and these years will go by very quickly!

Merry Christmas to you also!!

[Bang60]

Hopefully all had a nice Xmas, I've had a great Boxing day with my best ball striking for a looooong while. Today I decided to try my Mizuno MP Type 2 Driver plus the Titleist TS3, why the bloody wind was blowing hard so used the Mizuno directly into the wind and the TS3 with a tail wind, the TS3 went 245metres a new long drive for me yeah a tail wind but I still had to HIT the ball nicely to get that result. On the first I hit both drivers as I was playing alone, hit a baby DRAW with both drivers which I was surprised and delighted with. On one hole I tried to go down the shaft on my 5wood which I hit skinny went 80ish metres then 6 iron onto the green, on another hole I nailed 6iron 120metres and normal conditions it's 155-160 that's how strong the wind was. Nice day I'll remember...

[Sluggo42]

We got a round in before the heavens opened up to give us some much needed rain!

supposed to get rain on and off for over a week, so we’re thrilled with that..

shot ok 79, but kept having little stupid errors, which should be my middle name…

I think we get a dry tomorrow, but will probably be doing the 90° rule which makes for a lot of walking…

[revkev]

Finally warming up after 3 cold days in Florida. I don’t know that it got to 40 on Christmas. Walked 9 this afternoon. It was in the low 60’s. Just beautiful. Shot a respectable 39. 
 

Back at the beach condo for Sunset. Enjoying a My Father cigar and Kettle one vodka martini and watching the sunset.

 

 

[Syks7]

After a couple weeks of flu and a lot of work I managed to get out today for the first time since early December.  It was rainy and cold, but good to be out. 

I was rusty and still a little weak  and it showed -- weird day across the board 46/43 88.  Everything felt a touch off in my and I'm pretty happy that I managed to (literally) dink my way down the fairway to play slightly better than bogey golf.  3 GIR and 3 Fairways hit.    Nothing was truly atrocious, but nothing was good.  Off the tee I was making solid contact, but just leaving the face open to varying degrees leading to a lot of blocks into the rough.   Approach on line, but a touch heavy.  Not enough to dig a crater behind the ball but enough to rob myself of 10-15 yards worth of clubhead speed.  The resulting short approach shots were solid --  good enough to give myself a chance at an up and down, but not good enough to put it in higher percentage make zones.  Not that it would have mattered anyway.  Putting wasn't great.   I had the speed but I didn't have the line.  36 putts.   I never really threatened the hole on my first putt aside from the three pars.  14 up and down chances and zero conversions.   

[GolfSpy SAM]

11 minutes ago, Syks7 said:

After a couple weeks of flu and a lot of work I managed to get out today for the first time since early December.  It was rainy and cold, but good to be out. 

I was rusty and still a little weak  and it showed -- weird day across the board 46/43 88.  Everything felt a touch off in my and I'm pretty happy that I managed to (literally) dink my way down the fairway to play slightly better than bogey golf.  3 GIR and 3 Fairways hit.    Nothing was truly atrocious, but nothing was good.  Off the tee I was making solid contact, but just leaving the face open to varying degrees leading to a lot of blocks into the rough.   Approach on line, but a touch heavy.  Not enough to dig a crater behind the ball but enough to rob myself of 10-15 yards worth of clubhead speed.  The resulting short approach shots were solid --  good enough to give myself a chance at an up and down, but not good enough to put it in higher percentage make zones.  Not that it would have mattered anyway.  Putting wasn't great.   I had the speed but I didn't have the line.  36 putts.   I never really threatened the hole on my first putt aside from the three pars.  14 up and down chances and zero conversions.   

Nice to get out, even with the weather we're having. My wife and I both got Covid for Christmas ... so it may be a while until I'm back out, but let's definitely get a round in this year! 

Happy 2023!

[Syks7]

1 hour ago, Samsonite said:

Nice to get out, even with the weather we're having. My wife and I both got Covid for Christmas ... so it may be a while until I'm back out, but let's definitely get a round in this year! 

Happy 2023!

Stay healthy.  Happy 2023!

[Kenny B]

After our 55º and 35-55mph winds the snow melted pretty fast; our course opened today for walking only.  My wife and I headed to the course to play 9 holes; 37º with only a slight breeze.

Hard to get a tee in the ground; frozen... so were the greens underneath the top 1/4".  I hit every 7/9 fairways and 4/9 greens.  Parred the first 6 holes; bogeyed the last 3 holes for a 40 (+3).  Sun came out on #5 and I had to take off my jacket... still had 4 layers on. 

My driver worked pretty well for not playing for the past month.  Irons were good until the last three holes; that was what cost me the bogies.  Freezing rain tonight, but 46º for  high tomorrow; walking again, no carts allowed.

Our course has a lot of grassy mounds and corresponding depressions with undulating fairways.  The ground is still frozen, so there was nowhere for the melted snow to go.  We had casual ponds everywhere!!  I was in two of these ponds in the middle of the fairways on #5 and #9.  Fortunately I could reach my ball with my retriever.

[Bang60]

Played like a ****** today and quit after 5, blowing a gale lost 2 rubbish balls and found "8" nice balls yeah 8 people LOL.... I've picked the wrong day to play my Mizuno Widex Driver 12deg driver which sucked into the wind off the tee but was nice off the deck, so definitely my favorite fw wood with baby fades and nice to know where that clubs going lol. 

WISHING ALL MGS A  "HAPPY NEW YEAR"

 

[MattF]

9 hours ago, Kenny B said:

 Fortunately I could reach my ball with my retriever.

Have you regripped that bad boy yet?

[EasyPutter]

9 hours ago, Kenny B said:

The ground is still frozen, so there was nowhere for the melted snow to go.  We had casual ponds everywhere!!  I was in two of these ponds in the middle of the fairways on #5 and #9.  Fortunately I could reach my ball with my retriever.

On a below freezing day those would be distance enhancing features in the middle of the fairway!

[fixyurdivot]

Well, one round a trend does not make but I'm happy to have checked off one of our 4 courses for a sub 80 round.  I played Desert Springs yesterday, one of three foursomes in our Thursday groups, and shot a 38/40.  We all netted $12 each.  It had rained over 1/2" the day before and the 0800 shotgun start time, low 40's temp, along with heavy dewpoint, had me feeling like I was playing a round in Seattle. 

Rooster tails and putting lines all over the practice greens.  Chip shots would, seemingly, throw a cup of water forward with each stroke - one had to mind where they positioned themselves .  It was WET!  That said, the course drainage is great and, with the exception of a few bunkers, no standing water.  Fortunately the low chance of rain never came and the sun poked its way through the clouds just enough to make for a pleasant day.  

One down, three to go .

[Kenny B]

2 hours ago, MattF said:

Have you regripped that bad boy yet?

No... I bought a brand new one last fall.  iGotcha!!!

[Kenny B]

33 minutes ago, EasyPutter said:

On a below freezing day those would be distance enhancing features in the middle of the fairway!

Ordinarily yes, but since it was above freezing and the sun out, our friend that played with us had a ball rolling across the one on #7, but halfway across it sunk... just like a ball rolling on a green and going in the hole.  It's still there; I couldn't reach it.  Maybe today the water will be down a little, if someone else doesn't "find" it first.

[Kenny B]

31 minutes ago, fixyurdivot said:

Well, one round a trend does not make but I'm happy to have checked off one of our 4 courses for a sub 80 round.  I played Desert Springs yesterday, one of three foursomes in our Thursday groups, and shot a 38/40.  We all netted $12 each.  It had rained over 1/2" the day before and the 0800 shotgun start time, low 40's temp, along with heavy dewpoint, had me feeling like I was playing a round in Seattle. 

Rooster tails and putting lines all over the practice greens.  Chip shots would, seemingly, throw a cup of water forward with each stroke - one had to mind where they positioned themselves .  It was WET!  That said, the course drainage is great and, with the exception of a few bunkers, no standing water.  Fortunately the low chance of rain never came and the sun poked its way through the clouds just enough to make for a pleasant day.  

One down, three to go .

So, was it CPO or did you walk?  I think you have an advantage if walking is required.  

[fixyurdivot]

Just now, Kenny B said:

So, was it CPO or did you walk?  I think you have an advantage if walking is required.  

Took the Yamaha.  The ~3/4 mile drive to the course was chilly.  The long time residents are telling me that the temps here, since the start of November, have been at least 5F colder than normal. Further, we've now had 11 rain events since moving here late September... definitely a surprise to us .

[fozcycle]

Weather was overcast with 56* to 80*. Shot a horrible 44/45:89 with 11/14 FIR for 79%; 8/18 GIR for 56% and a wrapping 45 putts!  Guess I’m going to have to get used to the greens at Heritage Isles as it’s my new home course.  When Pebble Creek closed 1 1/2 years ago, some of the guys went to Heritage Isles. Well, I decided to leave Plantation Palms and join Heritage Isles. Fairways and Greens my friends….

[Rickp]

Friday Bacon Boyz 9.  60* & no wind so pleasant morning.  We played pretty well  +4 even though greens were rough.  I’m likin’ the PXG 2011 more and more each time out.  Got rid of the fade and hitting more of the dreaded Straight Ball.  

[sirchunksalot]

8 hours ago, fixyurdivot said:

Took the Yamaha.  The ~3/4 mile drive to the course was chilly.  The long time residents are telling me that the temps here, since the start of November, have been at least 5F colder than normal. Further, we've now had 11 rain events since moving here late September... definitely a surprise to us .

Sounds like you might have brought the Montana weather with you. 

[rkj427]

1 hour ago, fozcycle said:

Weather was overcast with 56* to 80*. Shot a horrible 44/45:89 with 11/14 FIR for 79%; 8/18 GIR for 56% and a wrapping 45 putts!  Guess I’m going to have to get used to the greens at Heritage Isles as it’s my new home course.  When Pebble Creek closed 1 1/2 years ago, some of the guys went to Heritage Isles. Well, I decided to leave Plantation Palms and join Heritage Isles. Fairways and Greens my friends….

Getting used to different greens is typically the greatest challenge and looking forward to you posting future scores with many less putts once you get used to them. 

[fozcycle]

2 hours ago, Rickp said:

Friday Bacon Boyz 9.  60* & no wind so pleasant morning.  We played pretty well  +4 even though greens were rough.  I’m likin’ the PXG 2011 more and more each time out.  Got rid of the fade and hitting more of the dreaded Straight Ball.  

Glad you are liking the 0211….great driver

[Rickp]

11 minutes ago, fozcycle said:

Glad you are liking the 0211….great driver

Took a while for it to like me but OK now.

Still have an itch to try 0311XF.

[Bang60]

Played late arvo today used 3balls on 6 holes and still blowing a gale, I hit the ball better by playing smart golf. Only found 2 balls but enjoyed the hit with so much wind, I find in strong winds I need to hit low on the face or the ball will launch high and go nowhere. My 5iron went well best was 169 metres and kept it low out of the wind, I like hitting 3 balls into the green from the same spot as mostly the 3rd is the best and I've reduced my errors and my 3rd ball is slowly getting closer and closer to the flag.

Happy New Year....

[MattF]

14 hours ago, fozcycle said:

When Pebble Creek closed 1 1/2 years ago, some of the guys went to Heritage Isles. Well, I decided to leave Plantation Palms and join Heritage Isles.

Why is that Foz? Cost, conditions, amenities?

[Rickp]

8 hours ago, Bang60 said:

Played late arvo today used 3balls on 6 holes and still blowing a gale, I hit the ball better by playing smart golf. Only found 2 balls but enjoyed the hit with so much wind, I find in strong winds I need to hit low on the face or the ball will launch high and go nowhere. My 5iron went well best was 169 metres and kept it low out of the wind, I like hitting 3 balls into the green from the same spot as mostly the 3rd is the best and I've reduced my errors and my 3rd ball is slowly getting closer and closer to the flag.

Happy New Year....

Happy New Year!