How'd you play?

[Michael.Sandoval33]

13 minutes ago, cnosil said:

I’d golf in Long Beach; unfortunately the logistics for that happening aren’t easily completed on short term notice.  

Understood, next time for sure then. I'll bring the coffees.
 

[berkeleybob]

Still at the sim range for a round, and I gotta tell ya. I’m starting to get cabin fever in there. The weather just refuses to cooperate in the mornings at the moment.

Making par on this hole sums up today.

Missing fairways and greens, and still eking out a decent score for myself. I’m frustrated that I missed pars too closely and happy that my recovery game is improving. That kind of emotional schism is amplified between two walls and a hitting screen.

Still, 42/47 for an 89 is in the right direction. Hopefully the next round is outside, or I may end up shanking balls into the next bay.

Edited March 14 by berkeleybob

[Javs]

My game has been on fire. Last Thursday I set the course record here for White Wing at 66 and today I set the course record for Legacy at 67. I went back to the basics and am hitting the ball amazing. If the greens were in better shape I might have shot 61. Seriously I lipped out nine putts and others were close. Today was another magical day! 

[Preeway]

2 minutes ago, Javs said:

My game has been on fire. Last Thursday I set the course record here for White Wing at 66 and today I set the course record for Legacy at 67. I went back to the basics and am hitting the ball amazing. If the greens were in better shape I might have shot 61. Seriously I lipped out nine putts and others were close. Today was another magical day! 

Quite the hot streak you’re own. Think you can take a short break for a week or so and then get hot again?

[Syks7]

I did not follow up yesterdays good round with another good one today.  54/44 98 at good ol Woodley in a men's club tournament.  Maybe my worst score at Woodley ever?  Some of it was the 30-40 mph Santa Anas out of the NE -- which I discovered is the worst possible direction for the course.  From there NE there are exactly three holes where I would consider the wind to be helping.  That said, "me" was the problem today.    You get kind of behind the eight ball when you start out with a septuple bogey and follow up with a snowman a couple holes later....  .  Some ugly swings today and I think my body was just tired from 36 holes on foot in less than 18 hours.  Normally that wouldn't be an issue but I've been on a particularly intense practice pace in prep for yesterdays round and I think I've just made too many golf swings in the last three weeks.   Time to put down the golf clubs for a week or two.  Far too many repetitive stress sore spots right now.

The big win of the day was that I didn't mentally melt down.  Just kept reminding myself that I played well yesterday and that I was just having an off day and despite the score I did hit some good shots -- just none that were strung in consecutive order. 

[Javs]

56 minutes ago, Preeway said:

Quite the hot streak you’re own. Think you can take a short break for a week or so and then get hot again?

Ha ha. Funny my wife had this full length mirror. I have been practicing my set up in the mirror. It has worked. I had two minor things going on that place the ball and my set up out of alignment. The correction has been amazing. Plus we all know once the confidence is there! Coupled with thinking I can make every putt! I don’t see any slow down! However, it is golf..,,,   

[Javs]

Gents you have to not only put the score, but a copy of the score card for hole by hole and course rating and slope. Don’t make Ben’s job harder!

[Jim Shaw]

1 hour ago, Javs said:

My game has been on fire. Last Thursday I set the course record here for White Wing at 66 and today I set the course record for Legacy at 67. I went back to the basics and am hitting the ball amazing. If the greens were in better shape I might have shot 61. Seriously I lipped out nine putts and others were close. Today was another magical day! 

wow, that is some good ball golfing... way to go... 

[Jim Shaw]

Hello spy's...

I guess my work on the putting green yesterday worked to my advantage.

Hit 16 greens, 11 fairways, 30 putts, for a total of 2 under 70.

made some solid 5 footers to save par and a couple of birdies, greens were fast and true.

great ball striking and positive putting, felt really good...

130 slope from the men's tees so pretty tough course...

[Preeway]

28 minutes ago, Javs said:

Gents you have to not only put the score, but a copy of the score card for hole by hole and course rating and slope. Don’t make Ben’s job harder!

We need scorecards here too?

[Javs]

Just now, Preeway said:

We need scorecards here too?

Mine is currently in the pro shop being validated for the course record. So……..,

[Rob Person]

Got 18 off this morning before golf duties in the afternoon.  Our 4th no showed due to his lady boss rules, but we expected that. For sake of time, we played best ball the whole round. Gave away my TM burner 2.0 to a friend yesterday,  and man can he crack that driver!  Just glad someone can hit it, because it sure wasn't me! He's 6'5" and has a massively steep downswing. But it works for him, very well! He was pushing 230-250 yard bombs +rollout all day! 

Back to the round, out of the 3 of us, the other 2 drivers were mostly taken due to distance. (I only average 225-230) I held the green on a number of approach shots,  10 of the 18, to be exact. Again, between the 3 of us, no 3 putts. Putt of the day went to me, a double-breaker uphill then downhill for a 18' birdie. Had it missed, it would have been only a foot pass the hole. GiR 16, FiR 13, finished the round in 3h38m.

Edited March 15 by Rob Person

[Javs]

3 hours ago, Preeway said:

We need scorecards here too?

No I didn’t have my glasses on and posted in the wrong place, sorry!

Edited March 15 by Javs

[Javs]

3 hours ago, Jim Shaw said:

wow, that is some good ball golfing... way to go... 

Thank you!

[Prodigal Duffer]

Took yesterday and today off for the kids’ spring break. Planned to play with them yesterday, but son was sore from rock climbing, so I went out by myself. Was okay off the tee, but reverted to my old ways with the irons. Made for a tough round, but ended up playing with a nice guy, so that was good.

Had a shot at eagle on a very short par 5:

Missed it two inches right, tap in for bird. Also made par on the no 2 handicap, and saw this guy on the no 1 handicap:

Got home and did some iron practice. Chalking this round up to a learning experience and will continue to grind.

[BreakfastBall15]

Just wrapped up 18 and it was a roller coaster to say the least. 45 front 41 back with 16 mph winds gusting up to 35 at times. Ask things considered it was a pretty solid round. My “strength” was my weakest part today but my wedges were on fire today. I watched that video Taylor Made put out with Rickie Fowler working on flop shots and decided to try it out. 2 hopped and stopped within 3 feet and another lipped out. Driving in the wind was filled with highs and lows, into the wind on a par 5 was one of my best drives of the day. Left me 220 out and made par from there. On a wind assisted par 4 I pulled out driver where it’s normally a layup hole, carried 320 over the water and set up for a chip and 2 putt par. Overall I’m pleased especially considering the conditions

[unccross]

Got out for a round a daylight this morning in the rain.  How did you play is a tricky question. I didn’t feel like I played well until the very end. I started on the back and I struggled hitting my driver. Ended up parring 4 of the last 5 holes. Shot 92. Best score I have had since starting back playing golf in November.  Had 3 penalty strokes for hitting drives in the water and greens were recently punched and covered in sand. Under the conditions, I’m pretty happy with the result. 
 

[texanfleck]

Played yesterday and took my 6yo son (spring break). Played really consistent on the front 9, ate a hot dog and got a little sloppy. Working really hard on hitting my second shot consistently.

Edited March 15 by texanfleck

[fozcycle]

Shot 40/40:80 with a revised 11 Hcp nets me a 69. I had 3 birdies, a Par 3, a Par 4 and a Par 5, so I guess I shot the cycle….LOL. FIR 9/14 64%. GIR 8/18 44% with 31 Putts.

[Syks7]

Well... like a lunatic I woke up thinking "my body may be sore, but that's no reason to not go practice and figure out what went wrong yesterday."  No need to take a break.    I get to the golf course and decide, "No, I should just go play."  Proceed  to shoot 41/43 84 on the same course less than 24 hours after my worst round there in years.  I hit two 300 yard drives today after never hitting a 300 yard drive.  One right at 300 and the other at 312.  Yesterday, I hit my first drive of the day off the inside of the heel into a pond.    Golf is a mystery.  It doesn't feel like much has changed since yesterday, but yesterday I had no feel and today I didn't even have to look for it.    

The problem has to be between my ears.

Edited March 15 by Syks7

[Preeway]

Like I figured, today was a different day than Tuesday. Nothing felt right and it was a grind on almost every hole. It feels being able to look back on a round and know you shot 78 without your best stuff. My driver was all over the map with my shortest at 255 and my longest at 351. It was about 25°-30° cooler than Tuesday and I repeatedly failed to take the cooler temps into account when calculating my yardage.  Also had a 10mph wind, most often in my face, as well compared to 0-5mph on Tuesday. Again, continually failed to adequately account for wind which combined with cooler air temps led to most approach shots being 30’-50’ away from the pin. And that was when I hit the green. Putter also struggled today. Had my first three putt with the Odyssey (twice actually) and speed control was a challenge. Hoping to is again a sign of things to come as I would be ecstatic if my bad rounds this season are in the high 70s. All in all, it was a great day and my first official handicap round for 2024 in the GHIN. 

[William P]

22 minutes ago, Preeway said:

Like I figured, today was a different day than Tuesday. Nothing felt right and it was a grind on almost every hole. It feels being able to look back on a round and know you shot 78 without your best stuff. My driver was all over the map with my shortest at 255 and my longest at 351. It was about 25°-30° cooler than Tuesday and I repeatedly failed to take the cooler temps into account when calculating my yardage.  Also had a 10mph wind, most often in my face, as well compared to 0-5mph on Tuesday. Again, continually failed to adequately account for wind which combined with cooler air temps led to most approach shots being 30’-50’ away from the pin. And that was when I hit the green. Putter also struggled today. Had my first three putt with the Odyssey (twice actually) and speed control was a challenge. Hoping to is again a sign of things to come as I would be ecstatic if my bad rounds this season are in the high 70s. All in all, it was a great day and my first official handicap round for 2024 in the GHIN. 

If 78 is a struggle I must be playing the wrong game... Nice round given the conditions you describe! Did your son participate today? If so did he give you a run for your money?

[Syks7]

2 hours ago, Preeway said:

It was about 25°-30° cooler than Tuesday and I repeatedly failed to take the cooler temps into account when calculating my yardage.  

I'm getting better about this but I do it all the time still.   Same with wind.   It almost feels like the temp has more effect the lower my index gets, but I know it's because my tolerance for what is and isn't good distance dispersion from my intended yardage(and acceptable trajectory) has gotten much tighter as I go.  

Edited March 16 by Syks7

[Preeway]

56 minutes ago, William P said:

If 78 is a struggle I must be playing the wrong game... Nice round given the conditions you describe! Did your son participate today? If so did he give you a run for your money?

He played with me and as expected, he was keeping pace with me until about the 5th hole and then his mental game imploded because of one bad shot. It was all over after that,  

[gavinski91]

Got out for nine holes after work. First time out with the newly reshafted irons. Putter sucked, so I didn’t score great despite 6 GIRs (finished with a +7 41), but the 3 iron with the MMT UT shaft is an absolute rocket launcher!

[BallsLeon]

Shot a 92 (44 in/48 out) at Sykes/Lady Overland Park South/North courses from the white tees (5660yds, Par 70, 67.3/120). The wind was  howling today so I’m pretty happy with this score. Disappointed with 38 putts, but  had a few bad reads/downhill pace that punished me. Played with a great group of guys that made it a lot fun, two other walkers and one rider. Knocking on the door of breaking 90 on this course, I’ll figure it out soon enough.

[Michael.Sandoval33]

3 minutes ago, BallsLeon said:

Shot a 92 (44 in/48 out) at Sykes/Lady Overland Park South/North courses from the white tees (5660yds, Par 70, 67.3/120). The wind was  howling today so I’m pretty happy with this score. Disappointed with 38 putts, but  had a few bad reads/downhill pace that punished me. Played with a great group of guys that made it a lot fun, two other walkers and one rider. Knocking on the door of breaking 90 on this course, I’ll figure it out soon enough.

A few reads away from breaking 90. Very nice. Can't wait to see that badge under your name!

[BallsLeon]

43 minutes ago, Michael.Sandoval33 said:

A few reads away from breaking 90. Very nice. Can't wait to see that badge under your name!

Have a good feeling about this year, already ticking my handicap down before the fairways are even green

[Rob Person]

4 hours ago, BallsLeon said:

Have a good feeling about this year, already ticking my handicap down before the fairways are even green

I think you and I are similar in that regard. I've truly developed a correlation to the fact that the more frequently I play, the better my odds are of staying under 90. (I've only broken 90s twice this year.) So cheers to both of us chipping away at it!

[buckpillar]

24 minutes ago, Rob Person said:

I think you and I are similar in that regard. I've truly developed a correlation to the fact that the more frequently I play, the better my odds are of staying under 90. (I've only broken 90s twice this year.) So cheers to both of us chipping away at it!

Playing a lot always will help, at the beginning of the season I always play a few rounds the mix in practice. Seems the right recipe for me.