How'd you play?

[JeremyD 225]

Played Foxfire Red Fox course this past saturday. Hit ball better than I had in a while. 78% of greens. Had several birdie putts, made 2. Also dropped a Triple, Double, bogey, and 13 Pars for a 75. helped our team win some cash. I enjoy playing the course. It's kind of wide, and fits my 250 yard drives perfectly. I played it well a couple weeks ago, and felt confident when i started. Also won 2 pins and our team won 3 skins. It was a fun day even though it was 95 degrees.

[GolfSpy_BOS 15,485]

1 hour ago, Lacassem said:

Fun round at a tournament my uncle has been putting on for over 20 years. Really good charity where they have been able to raise over 100k for disabled veterans, kids locally going to college among other military type stuff.

My uncle is a retired marine from Vietnam and is a Purple Heart recipient, he bleeds red white and blue and this tournament is one of his baby’s.

awsome round as always but the short and skinny of it, @B.Boston has the good details. Wedges was my jam today, and after Bryan’s drives it’s all I needed to do lol. Of those wedges one I literally hit the flag from 90 out. And this guy that almost Jordaned

We went -9 and after the 1st hole of the day we birdied (20’er on a par 3) was hoping for lower but alas wasn’t meant to be. Beautiful day in the sun for a good event.

One of my handful of decent drives:

also what could be one of the last putts with the odyssey putter for anyone following the @Fujikura Golfshaft thread.

 

Such a great time!

Here’s the Arccos down and dirty on our team’s play:

Overall we played really well.  Two teams finished ahead of us a -10.  While I didn’t track every shot by which person hit it I did go back and look at drives because I had a pretty prolific day off the tee with the Epic Max LS and Motore X combo.  

Now,  There are certainly some downhill assists here, but nothing too crazy… but I was striping them pure today.  A lot of shots had nice tight draws and I’m really feeling like I can swing smooth and get great results with this combo.  We ended up using my drive on 7 of the 14 non par three holes.  My average on those holes was 287.57!  I’ve never had a day like that off the tee. Also interesting to note, I took driver on every single par 4 and 5 even if it meant needing to try to take one over a tree to cut a corner.  I feel really confident with this combo right now.  We started on #15, par 3s excluded:

But it was a DAMN good thing I had Mark, Pete, and Tim there to hit approach shots because Those were not nearly as good for me, although I did card one natural birdie on #13.  My Arccos smart distance for driver went from 266 yards to 271 yards with just this one round.  It’s going to hurt a little bit when I tell it to exclude this round from my stats… but it must be done!

It was a nicely run event, with a lot of good people and I was happy to have the chance to join in this year!

 

[ejgaudette 3,926]

16 minutes ago, B.Boston said:

Such a great time!

Here’s the Arccos down and dirty on our team’s play:

Overall we played really well.  Two teams finished ahead of us a -10.  While I didn’t track every shot by which person hit it I did go back and look at drives because I had a pretty prolific day off the tee with the Epic Max LS and Motore X combo.  

Now,  There are certainly some downhill assists here, but nothing too crazy… but I was striping them pure today.  A lot of shots had nice tight draws and I’m really feeling like I can swing smooth and get great results with this combo.  We ended up using my drive on 7 of the 14 non par three holes.  My average on those holes was 287.57!  I’ve never had a day like that off the tee. Also interesting to note, I took driver on every single par 4 and 5 even if it meant needing to try to take one over a tree to cut a corner.  I feel really confident with this combo right now.  We started on #15, par 3s excluded:

But it was a DAMN good thing I had Mark, Pete, and Tim there to hit approach shots because Those were not nearly as good for me, although I did card one natural birdie on #13.  My Arccos smart distance for driver went from 266 yards to 271 yards with just this one round.  It’s going to hurt a little bit when I tell it to exclude this round from my stats… but it must be done!

It was a nicely run event, with a lot of good people and I was happy to have the chance to join in this year!

 

Sounds like that combo is killing it which is great. Found a similar groove with mine lately and looking forward to the next round of now that I have the spin under control. Though don't think I'll quite keep up with that average.

[fixyurdivot 17,408]

22 minutes ago, B.Boston said:

Such a great time!

Here’s the Arccos down and dirty on our team’s play:

Overall we played really well.  Two teams finished ahead of us a -10.  While I didn’t track every shot by which person hit it I did go back and look at drives because I had a pretty prolific day off the tee with the Epic Max LS and Motore X combo.  

Now,  There are certainly some downhill assists here, but nothing too crazy… but I was striping them pure today.  A lot of shots had nice tight draws and I’m really feeling like I can swing smooth and get great results with this combo.  We ended up using my drive on 7 of the 14 non par three holes.  My average on those holes was 287.57!  I’ve never had a day like that off the tee. Also interesting to note, I took driver on every single par 4 and 5 even if it meant needing to try to take one over a tree to cut a corner.  I feel really confident with this combo right now.  We started on #15, par 3s excluded:

But it was a DAMN good thing I had Mark, Pete, and Tim there to hit approach shots because Those were not nearly as good for me, although I did card one natural birdie on #13.  My Arccos smart distance for driver went from 266 yards to 271 yards with just this one round.  It’s going to hurt a little bit when I tell it to exclude this round from my stats… but it must be done!

It was a nicely run event, with a lot of good people and I was happy to have the chance to join in this year!

 

Way to bring it with the Big Dog!  How does today compare with your typical driving average?

[GolfSpy_BOS 15,485]

35 minutes ago, fixyurdivot said:

Way to bring it with the Big Dog!  How does today compare with your typical driving average?

My Arccos smart distance would usually be in that 250-280 range at the top end.  It wasn’t so much that I hit it close to 300, it was the consistency I was seeing.  I doubt that I’ve ever had 4 drives of 290+ in the same round.  Usually I’ll mix some poor strikes in there but really didn’t see anything significantly offline and even when we didn’t use my ball it was more because of the angle in or rough vs fairway than that I was significantly behind.

I’m really hoping to keep this rolling in my next round, and on the plus side the Rapsodo unit arrived today for the forum testing so I’ll be able to get some more numbers to share soon!

[JerryB 1,152]

Son and I played nine this morning. He played bogey golf which is pretty typical for him.  He wasn't happy with his round which is probably a good sign for his near future.  I, on the other hand, played near triple bogey golf.  Lost a bunch of balls.  How can I keep an off white, scuffed up old Slazenger for half a round and still manage to go through a half dozen balls?

Weather was beautiful, didn't see another golfer the entire time.  We did appear to be following the guy dropping some blue chemicals of some sort so balls and fingers are all blue.  Weather was good, golf was bad, 10/10 would do it again.

[fozcycle 15,356]

Another soso day at Plantation Palms….shot 47/45:92 from the Gold Tees, 5563 yards 67.4/125.

FIR 11/14; 79%

GIR 6/18; 33%

Putts 35

 

I had one birdie on the 436 yd par 4 #14.  Conditions were wet, almost CPO.

[HeathS16 2,298]

Got to get out there again today.  Posted another good score, back to back rounds in the 70s! I didn't drive it as well today but I made everything I looked at.  Like seriously if it was on the green it had a great chance of going in. 8 One-putts! 

The best part was that I paired up with a guy and he asked about the golf ball I was playing. So I got the opportunity to tell him about the Maxfli Tour and the MGS test! He said he was going to check it out! It was a good day! 

[Shankster 33,026]

Worst round of the year today… +14, but I think Arccos missed some shots.  Probably more like +16 or 17… yikes.

 

But I expected a round like this to pop up.  I was losing everything right.  Something in the new set up I have to work out.

[Rickp 29,415]

Warm morning but nice breeze.  Driver was my friend this morning, irons not speaking to me and putter non-freaking existent!  
Shot a +5 with one Birdie that came as close as you can to being a hole-in-one!!  Tapped the 6” putt in with my wedge, didn’t trust the putter!  
 

Tomorrow is the more Serious Group so need everyone in the bag working together!

[Kenny B 33,362]

Wolf game today!!  Big winner!!

42/40 for 82.  Not the lowest score; that was a 79, but the other two guys shot 85 and 91.  Tee time was 7am and it was chilly; 59º but the wind picked up as the round went on, getting up to maybe 15 mph by the turn.  Had to put a jacket on.

I had three great shots:

• On the par 4 #7 my ball was a little left in the rough by the contoured green; chipped way out right and lipped it out for a gimme.  
• On the par 4 #9 hole from 100 yards out, my ball landed 2 inches from the cup and spun sideways to 3 feet; birdie.
• On the par 5 #18 I was trying to cut the dogleg to the left of a group of fairway bunkers.  Only driver swing all day that felt totally unsynchronized; ball drifted right of the bunkers, which is the normal fairway shot (I should go there every time!).  Second shot to 76 yards out in fairway.  Easy wedge to a front pin in the narrow part of the green; stuffed to 2 feet; birdie.

So what did I win?  8 quarters!!!  Not bad since I was Wolf on the first hole and lost 3 quarters.  Played better when it warmed up.

Overall, I hit more quality shots than normal that I feel are the result of my PlaneMate work.  Back to PlaneMate in the morning and more Wolf on Thursday.  

 

[MaxEntropy 8,214]

Rough evening.... Started with 4 straight bogies - first three were bad, the fourth was a good bogey. Then things got interesting. Relatively easy par 5 with a topped tee ball, decent second, topped third with a 5i, pulled 8 iron off the cart path and over the bathroom, had to thread a punch shot back towards the hole, managed to thread the needle, but into a bunker, out and two putt for a triple. Easy par the next hole, and finished bogey, triple, bogey for a 48. Ugh. Putting was bad again. Driver was actually pretty good besides the topped drive, only once did I not have a clean shot, just couldn't execute.

[CarlH 8,281]

Started to play today.  After our drive on #2, we realized we (as in 3some) were in for a long round as we were following 4 women, one of which was THE well known slowest female player in the club and they were following another 4 some.  SO, after hitting the drive, we picked up and cut over to our inside 9 (27 hole course) and played 2-9, then back to the turn, played 1, ran into family golfers with their young kids, jumped ahead of them to #7.  Did I mention that the other two players had no patience?  Anyway, I was really hitting the ball poorly and getting unbelievable bad breaks, in addition to that.  I'd had enough at that point.  Totally lost any sense of focus or desire to even play.  Have no idea what I was scoring, but it wasn't pretty, I'm sure.  I did not enjoy bouncing around from hole to hole.  I would have rather just taken our time and played golf as it was intended to be played and enjoyed the day and company.

[Kenny B 33,362]

25 minutes ago, CarlH said:

 Anyway, I was really hitting the ball poorly and getting unbelievable bad breaks, 

Bad breaks, eh?  Unbelievable ones?

I was recently told that over time the bad breaks and good breaks even out.  Horse hockey!!  I've been waiting for over 2 years for the good breaks to catch up with bad breaks!!

 

[CarlH 8,281]

27 minutes ago, Kenny B said:

Bad breaks, eh?  Unbelievable ones?

 

Well, not unbelievable, but tough pills to swallow --- hit a great 8 iron a bit left of the flag, it hits and bounces hard left (like 90 degrees) into a trap.  Another hole, I pull my iron into the trap and get the proverbial fried egg into the side of the trap.  I hit my best drive of the day and when I get to it, it's in a deep divot that the person didn't bother even trying to fix.  I don't think I had any good bounces today to even any of the bad ones out.  Or maybe I just don't remember the good ones

[chisag 18,556]

... After a forgettable round yesterday when my back was stiff and the swing change was unforgiving of injury that I turned into a practice round on the back 9, things went much better today. Swing change continues to produce excellent shots and out of nowhere a really bad shot. Front 9 was pretty uneventful and I just missed too many putts but my proximity to the hole did not produce many makable birdies. Just 2 inside 8 feet and missed both. 

... Back 9 was much better but also had more really bad shots. #12 is a shortish par 5 with my best drive of the day leaving me 205 to the pin and just flat topped my DHY leaving me 105 to a back pin and hit a nice GW to the fringe and then rolled in the putt. #15 is a short par 4 and I topped (again ) my tee shot just making it through the desert and on the fairway. Layed up with my 5 wood and chipped to 10" to save par. #17 was the killer though. TOPPED ANOTHER TEE SHOT on a 576 yd par 5! Hit a nice 3 wood and was still left with 210 and just misjudged the wind as I hit a 4 iron that came up 10 yards short of the green. Pin was in the back, cut just over a tier so I a hit a low checking LW into the tier that hopped just over it, checked up and trickled to what I thought would be a tap in ... then watched it disappear into the hole. The most unlikely birdie of all time. 

... Determined to play the last hole well I put a smooth swing on my drive and hit it really well and dead center leaving me 129 to a pin tucked over the water. Decided to hit a hard pw instead of a 3/4 nine iron and watched it hit just on the green, hop once and spin back off the green sitting on the railroad tie for a second, then into the water. 2 shots hit as well as I can hit them and I am dropping on the narrow strip of rough between the water and the pin. Decided to putt and read it almost perfectly stopping 1" from the center of the hole. And I am thinking "Isn't that golf illustrated in two holes?" I played the par 5 poorly, but one great shot resulted in birdie and played the par 4 almost perfectly hitting 3 shots as well as I am capable of and end with a bogie. Twilite Golf Gods must have had a few extra White Clams. 

... All in all no complaints other than maintaining focus with my swing change. I am pretty sure most of my mistakes are just a momentary lack of focus as opposed to a physical problem, although I realize this will be the case for a couple months or more til the change becomes second nature and I don't have to think when swinging. 

[CarlH 8,281]

Totally different day today.  While I wasn't driving the ball well, it was okay.  Iron play was pretty good, chipping was good, and putting was good.  37/39 (76 +4). No birdies, 4 bogeys.

[HeathS16 2,298]

I was REALLY pressing to post another score in the 70s…maybe a little too much. Sh**ked one on 5 which led to double…did that 3 more times during the round and just couldn’t shake them. This is not a good place to be, Dante’s levels of hell needs to include sh**king a golf ball. They cost me 6 strokes today. 

Anyways…back to reality sorry to be so gloomy. 

 

[ejgaudette 3,926]

1 minute ago, HeathS16 said:

I was REALLY pressing to post another score in the 70s…maybe a little too much. Sh**ked one on 5 which led to double…did that 3 more times during the round and just couldn’t shake them. This is not a good place to be, Dante’s levels of hell needs to include sh**king a golf ball. They cost me 6 strokes today. 

Anyways…back to reality sorry to be so gloomy. 

 

We all have those rounds, hope you bounce back next time out.

[Kenny B 33,362]

4 minutes ago, HeathS16 said:

I was REALLY pressing to post another score in the 70s…maybe a little too much. Sh**ked one on 5 which led to double…did that 3 more times during the round and just couldn’t shake them. This is not a good place to be, Dante’s levels of hell needs to include sh**king a golf ball. They cost me 6 strokes today. 

Anyways…back to reality sorry to be so gloomy. 

 

They always show up at the worst time, and the result is in the worst possible location.  At least they do for me.