How'd you play?

[GolfSpy_SHARK]

Was a great round today. Beautiful 60 degree day. Overall no really glaring bad facet of the game today just had a couple poor holes and didn’t make the birds when I had the chance. Greens were toughhhhhh and was tough to hold them. Standout today was putting and off the tee:

 

[Jmikecpa]

Finally a round of golf without high wind, rain or locusts. Also had decent greens for a change. This all translated to 67 which was 5 under. Drove it well, hit the irons well and putted lights out with 27 putts for the round. Nice to see the work payoff and show I can still put up a number on occasion. Fun day overall with some good company and a very stress free round overall. 

[TJ Hall]

2 hours ago, Jmikecpa said:

Finally a round of golf without high wind, rain or locusts. Also had decent greens for a change. This all translated to 67 which was 5 under. Drove it well, hit the irons well and putted lights out with 27 putts for the round. Nice to see the work payoff and show I can still put up a number on occasion. Fun day overall with some good company and a very stress free round overall. 

Great round!

[William P]

2 hours ago, Jmikecpa said:

Finally a round of golf without high wind, rain or locusts. Also had decent greens for a change. This all translated to 67 which was 5 under. Drove it well, hit the irons well and putted lights out with 27 putts for the round. Nice to see the work payoff and show I can still put up a number on occasion. Fun day overall with some good company and a very stress free round overall. 

Nice round! One can only dream...

[silver & black]

+4 on the front for a 38. +6 on the back for a 41. 79 total for 18 holes. At this point in my "older" years.... I'll take it every time. 

Edited April 27 by silver & black

[Josh Parker]

Played a round today and had some good shots and not so good shots. Going thru my swing change, I expect to have some bad shots and results. 

I'm still minimizing the damage and trying to keep out of my head.  Seeing progress but man o man is it frustrating at times. Haha. 

Keep grinding and it will pay off!

[Shapotomous]

I played an Arnold Palmer design today at the Country Club at Woodmore outside Wash DC.  I really enjoyed the layout and green complexes.  The staff there was extremely friendly to us non members and helpful.  The weather was a little sketchy in the high 50's with a light steady rain for the middle 5 or 6 holes. 

The tee shots and approach shots were working pretty well and the putter was mostly average.  I did lose my distance control with the putter in those middle rainy holes and had a few 3 putts.  A tap in birdie on a par 3 on the back nine and finishing with a birdie on the par 5 18th helped the score and I finished with a 76. 

One hole, #15, was closed for re- construction so we played #1 a 2nd time to get an 18 hole score.  I'd love to go back and play again when #15 is open and when the grass has thickened up a bit with some warmer weather.

[cksurfdude]

7 hours ago, Jmikecpa said:

putted lights out with 27 putts

Wow great round and great to see that about the putting!!! 

[TJ Hall]

3 hours ago, Josh Parker said:

Played a round today and had some good shots and not so good shots. Going thru my swing change, I expect to have some bad shots and results. 

I'm still minimizing the damage and trying to keep out of my head.  Seeing progress but man o man is it frustrating at times. Haha. 

Keep grinding and it will pay off!

Are you gaming the Toura’s you put together?

[Rob Person]

@Corentin Vadillo. This is a great thread to post your golf days.  We love to see those golf posts and pics!

[Josh Parker]

7 hours ago, TJ Hall said:

Are you gaming the Toura’s you put together?

I have played a few rounds with them but working on this swing change have primarily stuck with the gamers. 

[Corentin Vadillo]

7 hours ago, Rob Person said:

@Corentin Vadillo. This is a great thread to post your golf days.  We love to see those golf posts and pics!

Awesome, thank you @Rob Person. I’ll definitely post my games feedback and results here. 

[Byrnzee]

Yesterday I got the chance to play Warren Golf Course at the University of Notre Dame. I'm a proud ND alum (Go Irish!) and it's always a treat when I get a chance to go back and visit.

The course is a beautiful, links-style design by Coore & Crenshaw. It is a very challenging course, with a lot of undulation on the greens and trouble surrounding them. You can get away with errant tee shots on some holes, but if you miss the green, you're in trouble.

The weather yesterday was incredibly windy, with gusts of 20-30mph and sometimes more. The temperatures were in the mid to high 70s and the sun peaked through the clouds from time to time. 

I ended up shooting 87 (45-42), which is definitely higher than I was hoping for. However, with the high winds and this only being the second round of the season, I can't be too disappointed. Four double bogeys and two 3-putts didn't help.

I really tried to bring the 2-iron into play off the tee, especially with the wind being so strong. I made some good contact with it on several holes, but I don't think I was turning fully through impact as I unfortunately had some blocked shots that started right and stayed there.

There were some memorable shots, including a sand save on the tough par three 11th and a perfect draw around some trees to be pin-high on a tough par four.

Going to try and get to the range at least once this week to get some practice in and find some more consistency. My wedges and putting (minus the two 3-putts) felt really solid. Just need to find some consistency in ball striking and off the tee.

Until next round!

[cksurfdude]

7 hours ago, Byrnzee said:

Yesterday I got the chance to play Warren Golf Course at the University of Notre Dame. I'm a proud ND alum (Go Irish!) and it's always a treat when I get a chance to go back and visit.

My wife and I were at ND a few years back for the wedding of a friend's son - who was able to hold it in the main chapel. 

And yeah we .. tried! .. to play their course - what I recall most is losing a large number of golf balls in all kinds of places..!

[Prodigal Duffer]

Quick nine holes today. I’ve been feeling good about my practice and looked forward to testing it on the course (and getting in another testing round for the Offical Review of the Edel Array).

It was a good round - I was excellent off the tee, hitting every fairway except one (I was still in a fairway with a good look). I felt like I hit my irons pretty well, which is normally my weak point. My stats do not agree, but I think that is mostly from two holes, where I forgot how to hit my five iron. Short game was good. 

Hole of the day was the par 3 eighth, 105 to center, flag short sided, into the wind. I hit the front of the green and made this putt for birdie:

Although approach still stinks:

Things are trending in the right direction.

[bens197]

Even par round with 2 birdies on the 9 hole executive down the street. 
 

I’ve played this course dozens of times since I was 7 and never could shoot better than +3. Today was a good day for fairways and greens. 
 

And the greens I missed, I was able to 1 putt each one. 
 

7/9 greens. 

[cnosil]

Weather was nice a little breezy but temps were in the 80s.     It was an interesting round; Hit the ball well off the tee with 11 out  of 14 fairways and the others were still playable.  Basically no problems off the tee.   Only hit 6 greens but felt like I hit my irons really well.  Most of my greens missed were long;  the ball hit the green but I wasn't able to get it to stop.  On the back I started aiming more for the fronts of greens and just let the balls release.    Short game was a disaster chucks or couldn't get the ball close enough to one putt other than the few times I was able to use the putter from off the green.   

I need to figure out how to take the short game shots from the practice range to the course.  Maybe it is just a lack of focus on the course

 

11 FW,  6 GIR, 33 Putts    42/39: 81

 

[cksurfdude]

Played 9 this afternoon with my honey; she was struggling a bit today but I did mostly ok .. except for those couple of times I didn't...

The Par 3s killed me. Doubled both. Really dunno what's wrong in my head here - neither one is all that difficult in actuality.

First one topped the tee shot, hit the second ok but still just short of the green, took the putter but prob should've chipped here .. and then two putts.

Next short Par 3 drowned the first tee shot; re-tee'ed and hit it nicely .. had an outside chance at a birdie putt .. just a touch too much oomph and rolled over the edge.

A bunch of second shots also cost me .. this facet of my game has consistently been weak.

But hey like I've been saying...

Work In Progress! 

[NotScratchYet]

Played a quick 9 holes today with my son, after getting my honey-do list completed on Saturday.  We went to the range to try to figure out his pushes and we think we got a handle on it and went to the first tee.  I hit my 4-iron down the right in a good spot, now it's time for him.  He pipes one straight down the middle and even out-drove me by 5 yards!  I give him an iron and placement recommendations and he puts it exactly where I said from 140 yards out.  He continued this good play for the next 4 holes straight.  He has not once strung this many good shots and kept the concentration before, and I couldn't be more proud. 

Then the wheels fell off, such is golf sometimes.  I told him to be grateful for how well he played those first 4 holes, in time things will come.

For my game, I was focused on shot placement, avoiding trouble areas, and hit all 9 greens in regulation.  My putting is my largest hurdle to overcome.  The greens are still recovering from being punched and sanded, but my speed was far off today.  If I can keep the ball striking up, and improve my putting, my PB will be hit soon.  I can feel my first round in the 60s right around the corner.

[NotScratchYet]

2 hours ago, cnosil said:

Weather was nice a little breezy but temps were in the 80s.     It was an interesting round; Hit the ball well off the tee with 11 out  of 14 fairways and the others were still playable.  Basically no problems off the tee.   Only hit 6 greens but felt like I hit my irons really well.  Most of my greens missed were long;  the ball hit the green but I wasn't able to get it to stop.  On the back I started aiming more for the fronts of greens and just let the balls release.    Short game was a disaster chucks or couldn't get the ball close enough to one putt other than the few times I was able to use the putter from off the green.   

I need to figure out how to take the short game shots from the practice range to the course.  Maybe it is just a lack of focus on the course

 

11 FW,  6 GIR, 33 Putts    42/39: 81

 

I had a similar experience with the greens today.  They were hard and wouldn't leave a pitch mark no matter how high my approach was.  Seemed like the ball flew far and had to make some adjustments.  My short game is always a little rusty when starting back in the season, Maybe next round everything will click for you.

[MattF]

Played with @DiscipleofPenick at Windmill Lakes yesterday.

Shot a disappointing 93 but there glimmers of hope.

I think with a bit of work the new driver is going to be a monster. I have to work out my tee height because I was struggling with it. Also, hit some shots long, like quite a bit longer than my normal length for that club.

Shot of the day was the 290 yard drive down the throat of #10.

[DiscipleofPenick]

1 hour ago, MattF said:

Played with @DiscipleofPenick at Windmill Lakes yesterday.

Shot a disappointing 93 but there glimmers of hope.

I think with a bit of work the new driver is going to be a monster. I have to work out my tee height because I was struggling with it. Also, hit some shots long, like quite a bit longer than my normal length for that club.

Shot of the day was the 290 yard drive down the throat of #10.

I ended up with a solid day shooting an 82 (43-39). There were a few rough holes with a triple on #3 and back to back doubles on #9 & #10. Basically those were the holes where my driver went haywire. Irons were not great until #12 and I figured out what I was doing wrong, I striped them for the last 6 holes. Short game was the highlight as usual as that saved me a bunch of pars.

[BallsLeon]

Walked 18 in the rain yesterday with my buddy. Have had rain all week so only back 9 was open, and they haven’t been able to mow much. Played the back 9 twice with a light mist to start and full on rain by the end. Had two other walkers join us that were also good company.

Scores were high, but that didn’t matter so much because match play kept it fun. I gave my buddy Chris 3 strokes on the first 9, we were all square going into hole 9 and I was able to close out the win. Next 9 we played straight up, Chris figured out his driver more than me and won 2 up.

Only trouble we ran into were these parents letting their kids play on the teebox.

[Stuka44]

Well I rebounded nicely from my 103 last Sunday.   Shot 89 at Pineridge Country Club, on a more difficult course, with probably the 2nd fastest, and most subtle breaking greens we play.  Also a place we only play 2-3 times a year, so don't know it as well as most others.  I'm sad to report I did suffer "cerebral edema" , but very happy to report it only lasted one hole.  Now it did result in a 2 penalty stroke 10, but the new me(post Punderson, meltdown and quit after 9, 2.5 years ago), took it without a curse word to be heard, and moved on to the next.

As I indicated the greens were tough missed 3 or 4, less than 4 footers, subtle breaks, and very slopey so I was afraid to just try and jam then in, could go 5 feet past on a couple...OH Well!

On a high note played Saturday morning teeing off at 0850.  A 15 minute downpour between 0800 & 0815, made everyone stay home.  Never had anyone behind us, and had entire back nine to ourselves.   

On a very sad note since the weather was perfectly clear during our entire round, the lack of golfers, is likely due to ALMOST NOBODY, calling to cancel their tee time, when they decided not to play.  

[JAYER38]

I really need to go back to tracking my shots and rounds...

Played 14 holes yesterday as it was a last minute idea and honestly I got tired of waiting for groups in front of us who played beyond slow and multiple balls.

Anywho had a solid round for the most part.... 2 putts across the board(gave up some 5fters that bothered me a bit. Played alot of sand shots which hurt the scorecard a bit as I'm not good at those but its practice right! So really just need to work on the mid iron game for better trajectory and sand game to lower the scores from what I can tell

[edingc]

41/41 -> 82 yesterday morning in the rain. Was able to hold off on the umbrella until hole 7 or so, took a 30 minute break at the turn trying to wait it out but probably should have just trudged on from the start.

First five holes or so were really solid, last five were really shaky. Swing kind of comes and goes as it pleases. I was happy with my putting. Erase a double on the back par 5 that featured two open face shanks and get my wedge distances dialed in and I'd feel a lot better.

[sschristie]

We got rained out at Arcadia Bluffs on Sunday but played the South Course on Saturday. No rain, but 40 mph winds made for a challenging round. I went 51/48 and was really happy with my round other than one par 5 I blew up on. 

Despite the wind I loved every minute of that round. The course was in good shape for early season, and with the heather cut down I lost no balls in the thick grass. If I were to play it again without the wind, I would make better club choices - the fairway bunkers ate my ball a few times, so a 3 wood or hybrid off the tee would have saved a few strokes. My plan was to keep the ball low out of the wind, but generally I was never in position to run the ball up due to the wind. The greens were challenging - fast with false fronts and corners that sloped into sand, and on a few occasions I had to run up and mark my ball so the wind didn't push it off the green.

[edingc]

1 hour ago, sschristie said:

We got rained out at Arcadia Bluffs on Sunday but played the South Course on Saturday. No rain, but 40 mph winds made for a challenging round. I went 51/48 and was really happy with my round other than one par 5 I blew up on. 

Despite the wind I loved every minute of that round. The course was in good shape for early season, and with the heather cut down I lost no balls in the thick grass. If I were to play it again without the wind, I would make better club choices - the fairway bunkers ate my ball a few times, so a 3 wood or hybrid off the tee would have saved a few strokes. My plan was to keep the ball low out of the wind, but generally I was never in position to run the ball up due to the wind. The greens were challenging - fast with false fronts and corners that sloped into sand, and on a few occasions I had to run up and mark my ball so the wind didn't push it off the green.

I know Bluffs is the course everyone raves about, but the South course is the one I really want to play.

[NubianRugby]

On 4/25/2024 at 6:37 PM, Sluggo42 said:

I haven’t been posting as much lately, because it seems repetitive to come in every day and say basically the same thing, oh, I shot a 77 today and made some great shots, blah blah blah…

Fair point, but everyone here actually cares how you played! I'm like a 18-20 Index and I need this forum to see/hear about the single digit handicaps posting their struggles off the tee one day or talking about a chunked chip after a piping a drive. There's also the aspirational part of it too, you see guys talking about how they dropped their handicap by 10 strokes in a season and it gives us duffers hope. 

The point is, keep posting man, it's all good.

[NubianRugby]

4 hours ago, Stuka44 said:

Never had anyone behind us, and had entire back nine to ourselves. 

Always a glorious day when that happens. A couple of weeks I had the front 9 at my home course to myself after they had punched the greens.