***Official 2024 Golf Thread, pick up the pace, HCP be a changing *** (2 Viewers)

[Zow]

Gonna have a decent sample by end of today how much walking impacts my score. Right now, with a 3-round sample, it appears it's worth between 5-10 strokes.

Guess I'm an out of shape dad now. Sad.

Oh yeah. It's soooooo much healthier to walk but for us guys out of shape it does make a discernible impact on the round. I walked (pushcart) 18 sober last weekend and shot 87. I was 100% impacted by fatigue (my home course is quite hilly and at 7500 feet elevation there's 3-4 spots where a walker gets significantly winded and then needs to hit a precise tee shot).

 

[TLEF316]

I used to play consistently better when I walked. The rhythm just always worked for me and gave me time to clear my head in-between shots (good and bad) I'm certainly no gym freak but between genetics, basketball and walking like 80 rounds a year, I'm in decent shape.

But this summer I've stunk no matter what I'm doing (although I feel like I MIGHT be turning a corner back to respectability).

 

[Zow]

I used to play consistently better when I walked. The rhythm just always worked for me and gave me time to clear my head in-between shots (good and bad) I'm certainly no gym freak but between genetics, basketball and walking like 80 rounds a year, I'm in decent shape.

But this summer I've stunk no matter what I'm doing (although I feel like I MIGHT be turning a corner back to respectability).

I think there's definitely some merit to walking the course and that rhythm. In a perfect world where cost isn't an issue, probably the best way to play is with a caddie who carries your bag and you're not rushing the round. That allows for the benefit you've identified yet cuts significant down on the fatigue (for example, in the aforementioned bad round above, I hit a drive ob because I had honors and I was just exhausted from pushing my bag and pushcart up a large hill to an elevated box and swung out of breath).

 

[The Gator]

Anyone else here use The Grint app for scores/courses? Might be fun to have a FBG group on there.

i do for all my rounds

I’ll pm you my info.

Didn’t know until yesterday it tracks your round that you drink vs ones you don’t

 

[Truebluey]

Does anyone here have advice for hitting off turf v mats at the range?
I'm just getting back into golf after 30 years away. Having a great time. But.

I have this problem. At the range i will hit iron after iron pure as heck. Dead straight and all the same distance. On grass on the course i hit only every third shot like that. Too often i just barely top the ball and it skitters along about 40 yards on front of me. I don't think I'm hitting fat, because that would mean I'm hitting turf, correct? My problem is i never seem to hit the turf. Even on my best shots it's a clean strike and pick. and on my worst i barely make contact with the ball. What am i doing wrong on grass?

 

[CGRdrJoe]

Anyone else here use The Grint app for scores/courses? Might be fun to have a FBG group on there.

i do for all my rounds

I’ll pm you my info.

Didn’t know until yesterday it tracks your round that you drink vs ones you don’t

haha and sends ball busting messages like Gator just 3 putted 3 holes in a row.

 

[CGRdrJoe]

Does anyone here have advice for hitting off turf v mats at the range?
I'm just getting back into golf after 30 years away. Having a great time. But.

I have this problem. At the range i will hit iron after iron pure as heck. Dead straight and all the same distance. On grass on the course i hit only every third shot like that. Too often i just barely top the ball and it skitters along about 40 yards on front of me. I don't think I'm hitting fat, because that would mean I'm hitting turf, correct? My problem is i never seem to hit the turf. Even on my best shots it's a clean strike and pick. and on my worst i barely make contact with the ball. What am i doing wrong on grass?

kis said it best

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[The Gator]

Anyone else here use The Grint app for scores/courses? Might be fun to have a FBG group on there.

i do for all my rounds

I’ll pm you my info.

Didn’t know until yesterday it tracks your round that you drink vs ones you don’t

haha and sends ball busting messages like Gator just 3 putted 3 holes in a row.

Yup.

Haven't got a birdie since I started scoring on this. Do they send out messages for that too or just the bad ones?

I'm playing Morro Bay Saturday that supposedly has wicked greens. Hope your post isn't foreshadowing

 

[Instinctive]

Does anyone here have advice for hitting off turf v mats at the range?
I'm just getting back into golf after 30 years away. Having a great time. But.

I have this problem. At the range i will hit iron after iron pure as heck. Dead straight and all the same distance. On grass on the course i hit only every third shot like that. Too often i just barely top the ball and it skitters along about 40 yards on front of me. I don't think I'm hitting fat, because that would mean I'm hitting turf, correct? My problem is i never seem to hit the turf. Even on my best shots it's a clean strike and pick. and on my worst i barely make contact with the ball. What am i doing wrong on grass?

I don't think it's mat vs grass, personally. If anything, the toughest part of going from mat to grass is mats are more fo giving of fat hits.

I find the challenge is more range vs round. For me, that means my range sessions (and front yard practice) tend to be very structured. I get loose with a few, grab my favorite club and stripe a couple, work on 1-3 clubs pretty intensely, and then reserve a couple "holes" worth of balls where I'll hit driver or hybrid, then a long or mid iron, then a wedge. Do that like 3-4 times to end a practice session.

For me the comparison is free throw shooting. Even 50% college FT shooters can go 85% in practice when you shoot 100 in a row. But to get better, I had our kids randomly stop in the middle of various drills and shoot two and then get back into it. Because you need to mimic what your body is doing, which is not staying stationary and feeling dialed in by the sixth free throw.

To me, same in golf. Of course I feel I'm hitting every seven iron awesome from the third to fifteenth one I hit on the range. But I need to hit it after a driver like 5 times a round with no previous seven iron hits. So practice that.

 

[Judge Smails]

There are 0 tee times in so cal wanted to play saturday before 11am and forgot to book weeks ago. Only short courses have tee times available, shrink the game

What area?

 

[TLEF316]

I am 100% team "Shrink the Game"

 

[Truebluey]

Does anyone here have advice for hitting off turf v mats at the range?
I'm just getting back into golf after 30 years away. Having a great time. But.

I have this problem. At the range i will hit iron after iron pure as heck. Dead straight and all the same distance. On grass on the course i hit only every third shot like that. Too often i just barely top the ball and it skitters along about 40 yards on front of me. I don't think I'm hitting fat, because that would mean I'm hitting turf, correct? My problem is i never seem to hit the turf. Even on my best shots it's a clean strike and pick. and on my worst i barely make contact with the ball. What am i doing wrong on grass?

I don't think it's mat vs grass, personally. If anything, the toughest part of going from mat to grass is mats are more fo giving of fat hits.

I find the challenge is more range vs round. For me, that means my range sessions (and front yard practice) tend to be very structured. I get loose with a few, grab my favorite club and stripe a couple, work on 1-3 clubs pretty intensely, and then reserve a couple "holes" worth of balls where I'll hit driver or hybrid, then a long or mid iron, then a wedge. Do that like 3-4 times to end a practice session.

For me the comparison is free throw shooting. Even 50% college FT shooters can go 85% in practice when you shoot 100 in a row. But to get better, I had our kids randomly stop in the middle of various drills and shoot two and then get back into it. Because you need to mimic what your body is doing, which is not staying stationary and feeling dialed in by the sixth free throw.

To me, same in golf. Of course I feel I'm hitting every seven iron awesome from the third to fifteenth one I hit on the range. But I need to hit it after a driver like 5 times a round with no previous seven iron hits. So practice that.

Sounds like interesting advice. I'll try it.

My Toptracer Range has sim golf hole setups, so maybe I'll try that instead of my practice set. I've been trying to establish the distance on my new irons, but playing a sim round will be fun.

 

[CGRdrJoe]

There are 0 tee times in so cal wanted to play saturday before 11am and forgot to book weeks ago. Only short courses have tee times available, shrink the game

What area?

orange county/seal beach

 

[BeTheMatch]

Two weeks and change away from our annual 12-man Ryder Cup format four-day drinkathon.

Little bit of an interesting twist with the teams this year.

Opposing team will have the top two players, but also the bottom two in the group.

I think it could handcuff them with matchups. We'll see.

Day 1 will feature our top two players (I'm one of them) going against their top two. Love the underdog role.

I took down the No. 1 player in singles last year (round of my life) to help get us the team win. So he'll be looking for payback.

Is it net?

No handicaps.

Got your work cut out but no pressure when you’re supposed to lose. Swing hard, take chances, talk ****!

Well, we won our big Day 1 match. Dropped 3 of the first 4 holes. Clawed our way back. Finally got it to even at 15. Both birdied 16. Both birdied 17. Then on 18, with the other guys gathered around the green watching us come in, I was able to get an approach shot into a tricky green, and they went long. We lagged the 20-footer in close for a tap-in par. They missed a 10-footer and we pulled off the upset. Up 2.5 to .5 heading into Day 2.

 

[CGRdrJoe]

today is day 11 of no golf if i don’t find a course to play tomorrow then I won’t be playing until Tuesday and that will be the longest non injury stretch in years.

 

[The Gator]

today is day 11 of no golf if i don’t find a course to play tomorrow then I won’t be playing until Tuesday and that will be the longest non injury stretch in years.

How far south are you? Got a place to stay in Grover Beach. Nipomo has some nice courses

 

[CGRdrJoe]

today is day 11 of no golf if i don’t find a course to play tomorrow then I won’t be playing until Tuesday and that will be the longest non injury stretch in years.

How far south are you? Got a place to stay in Grover Beach. Nipomo has some nice courses

I’m in seal beach, going to universal studios tonight for an RIP deal so late night will make for a late morning. however i may be waking up early to fly to vegas in the morning to go to the ufc fights if not then scramble to walk on before flying home sunday

 

[TLEF316]

Shot under 40 for 9 holes for the first time in God knows how long. Actually didn't hit it great off the tee (which has been the problem all Summer) but they at least all stayed in play and none of them prevented me from getting on or near the green in reg. 1 Bird, 2 bogeys, 1 double and 5 pars for a 39.

Still not hitting the driver consistently GOOD, but its less bad and I'm hitting a few really good ones every time out. Gotta keep building back.

 

[BeTheMatch]

Two weeks and change away from our annual 12-man Ryder Cup format four-day drinkathon.

Little bit of an interesting twist with the teams this year.

Opposing team will have the top two players, but also the bottom two in the group.

I think it could handcuff them with matchups. We'll see.

Day 1 will feature our top two players (I'm one of them) going against their top two. Love the underdog role.

I took down the No. 1 player in singles last year (round of my life) to help get us the team win. So he'll be looking for payback.

Is it net?

No handicaps.

Got your work cut out but no pressure when you’re supposed to lose. Swing hard, take chances, talk ****!

Well, we won our big Day 1 match. Dropped 3 of the first 4 holes. Clawed our way back. Finally got it to even at 15. Both birdied 16. Both birdied 17. Then on 18, with the other guys gathered around the green watching us come in, I was able to get an approach shot into a tricky green, and they went long. We lagged the 20-footer in close for a tap-in par. They missed a 10-footer and we pulled off the upset. Up 2.5 to .5 heading into Day 2.

We rolled to an easy win in our Day 2 low/high/total format.
Up 4.5 to 1.5 going into today's six singles matches. The Cup is within reach.

 

[BeTheMatch]

Two weeks and change away from our annual 12-man Ryder Cup format four-day drinkathon.

Little bit of an interesting twist with the teams this year.

Opposing team will have the top two players, but also the bottom two in the group.

I think it could handcuff them with matchups. We'll see.

Day 1 will feature our top two players (I'm one of them) going against their top two. Love the underdog role.

I took down the No. 1 player in singles last year (round of my life) to help get us the team win. So he'll be looking for payback.

Is it net?

No handicaps.

Got your work cut out but no pressure when you’re supposed to lose. Swing hard, take chances, talk ****!

Well, we won our big Day 1 match. Dropped 3 of the first 4 holes. Clawed our way back. Finally got it to even at 15. Both birdied 16. Both birdied 17. Then on 18, with the other guys gathered around the green watching us come in, I was able to get an approach shot into a tricky green, and they went long. We lagged the 20-footer in close for a tap-in par. They missed a 10-footer and we pulled off the upset. Up 2.5 to .5 heading into Day 2.

We rolled to an easy win in our Day 2 low/high/total format.
Up 4.5 to 1.5 going into today's six singles matches. The Cup is within reach.

Today will be such a mental grind as three days and nights of drinking is catching up to us. Only the true professionals can survive.

 

[Zow]

Two weeks and change away from our annual 12-man Ryder Cup format four-day drinkathon.

Little bit of an interesting twist with the teams this year.

Opposing team will have the top two players, but also the bottom two in the group.

I think it could handcuff them with matchups. We'll see.

Day 1 will feature our top two players (I'm one of them) going against their top two. Love the underdog role.

I took down the No. 1 player in singles last year (round of my life) to help get us the team win. So he'll be looking for payback.

Is it net?

No handicaps.

Got your work cut out but no pressure when you’re supposed to lose. Swing hard, take chances, talk ****!

Well, we won our big Day 1 match. Dropped 3 of the first 4 holes. Clawed our way back. Finally got it to even at 15. Both birdied 16. Both birdied 17. Then on 18, with the other guys gathered around the green watching us come in, I was able to get an approach shot into a tricky green, and they went long. We lagged the 20-footer in close for a tap-in par. They missed a 10-footer and we pulled off the upset. Up 2.5 to .5 heading into Day 2.

We rolled to an easy win in our Day 2 low/high/total format.
Up 4.5 to 1.5 going into today's six singles matches. The Cup is within reach.

Today will be such a mental grind as three days and nights of drinking is catching up to us. Only the true professionals can survive.

And a true professional states himself in the mirror at 6 am, briefly questions his life decisions and then he sacrifices it all for love of the game - by choking down a shot of whisky to get that ship back on course to glory. Or so I like to think.

I shot 77 yesterday on my own ball. Team is currently in second.

My brother in law missed a two footer yesterday to win a bunch in a horse race. So, team has some mental hurdle today. He was at the range at 6 am trying to work it out already so I’m confident he’s back at it.

 

[The Gator]

I guess our foursome is playing “Vegas” today.

Zow will be proud of the gambling, I'm already on top of the drinking

 

[BeTheMatch]

Got the job done today. Smart with our matchups for singles play to leave no doubt. I won 8 and 7 to help our team go an easy 3-3 today to secure the 7.5 to 4.5 win.

Polishing the trophy for another year. Champions Dinner tonight.

 

[Zow]

73 (1 over gross) today and lost ground in the tournament and lost a $100 cart bet. My partner and I in a best ball game shot the same gross score 17/18. Lone different hole was my bogey to his double.

Fun game.

 

[The Gator]

@CGRdrJoe

Any fun alerts today?

 

[Judge Smails]

I used to play consistently better when I walked. The rhythm just always worked for me and gave me time to clear my head in-between shots (good and bad) I'm certainly no gym freak but between genetics, basketball and walking like 80 rounds a year, I'm in decent shape.

But this summer I've stunk no matter what I'm doing (although I feel like I MIGHT be turning a corner back to respectability).

I think there's definitely some merit to walking the course and that rhythm. In a perfect world where cost isn't an issue, probably the best way to play is with a caddie who carries your bag and you're not rushing the round. That allows for the benefit you've identified yet cuts significant down on the fatigue (for example, in the aforementioned bad round above, I hit a drive ob because I had honors and I was just exhausted from pushing my bag and pushcart up a large hill to an elevated box and swung out of breath).

I love to walk unless it’s too hot. Definitely a good way to get loose, get in a good rhythm, set up for next shot. I do notice if I get tired on the back 9 (big elevation) then my swing can suffer. I hate carrying (back) or pushing (shoulders). The electric/remote MCG cart I got from Costco during the pandemic has been awesome. Highly recommend them.

 

[Judge Smails]

73 (1 over gross) today and lost ground in the tournament and lost a $100 cart bet. My partner and I in a best ball game shot the same gross score 17/18. Lone different hole was my bogey to his double.

Fun game.

Still a great round!

 

[Judge Smails]

73 (1 over gross) today and lost ground in the tournament and lost a $100 cart bet. My partner and I in a best ball game shot the same gross score 17/18. Lone different hole was my bogey to his double.

Fun game.

Still a great round

today is day 11 of no golf if i don’t find a course to play tomorrow then I won’t be playing until Tuesday and that will be the longest non injury stretch in years.

How far south are you? Got a place to stay in Grover Beach. Nipomo has some nice courses

used to do trips there when a buddy lived in Santa Maria. Black Lake, La Purisima and others. Fun tracks

 

[Zow]

73 (1 over gross) today and lost ground in the tournament and lost a $100 cart bet. My partner and I in a best ball game shot the same gross score 17/18. Lone different hole was my bogey to his double.

Fun game.

Threw every punch I had this weekend. 77-73-75. We finished just out of the money.

 

[Mookie]

3 days of beautiful fall golf:
Day one - Regular foursome. Shoot 75 and lose money to the guy who shot 83 had the right partners at the right time and made his strokes count.
Day two - Finish T(1) with two other teams in a 36 team scramble (58) playing out of our minds (13 birdies, 1 eagle, 4 pars). Lose a scorecard playoff (we parred two top handicap holes) to finish 3rd.
Day three- Regular foursome. Shoot 84 and lose money. In a terrible mood all day (probably my liver barking at me), and just couldn't break out of it Missed about 5 birdie putts from inside 20' and three putted from 10'. I haven't been that angry on the golf course in a long time. Just a miserable day.

I think I need a little break from the game.

 

[Instinctive]

HCP up (down? moving in a good direction) to 13.6. Goal for the end of summer tournament (first weekend of october) was to go from 18 to 13. I ended up at like 21 so feeling pretty great.

Played some awesome golf today and a couple terrible holes. One where I tried to hard to eliminate the fade on my drive that I snap hooked it into water, one where I popped one up sky high and pulled OB, and one when I played through a foursome and spanked my best club into the water. Ended up above 90...but also had a bunch of GIRs and awesome strikes so left feeling really good. Match play will favor me I think vs someone consistently at a bogey with a chance to par every hole. Stroke play I'm either breaking 85 and have a birdie or two with lots of chances or I'm destroyed by a blow up hole or two (never more than three but the damage is done).

Makes me reaaaaallllllly excited for our Ryder cup event.

 

[The Gator]

Ended up shooting 112 (2 O.B and 37 putts) in Morro Bay. They have absolutely wicked greens. Like they're part of the winchester mystery house and they're all optical illusions.

Still kept my streak going of at least a par in every round and had nice chip in on 17....to save double

Extremely fun course and can't wait to get back out there

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Going to be a great couple of days coming up. The Wilderness & The Quarry on back to back days for seven if my guys and me. Both are consistently ranked in the top 5 public courses in Minnesota. Been looking forward to this for months!

Gallery

www.golfthewilderness.com

The Quarry

The Quarry was built on the site of an old sand/gravel and iron ore mining operation and is now the #1 public golf course in Minnesota

www.giantsridge.com

Well, the bad news is I played absolutely awfully off the tee. I mean I'm usually super consistent with the driver but it was "hide yo wives hide yo kids" bad. The rest of it wasn't bad but if you can't drive it well on courses like this they're nearly impossible. Felt like I was hitting second shot 3 woods all day both days - exhausting.

The weird news is that The Wilderness - supposedly the #1 public course in the state - was really in not so great conditions. Tee boxes were a bit beat up and greens were just okay. I think they've had a hard time managing all the rain this year. It's still a pretty, majestic course but I was mildly disappointed.

The good/great was that The Quarry was just as good as I remembered. In a word, this course is intimidating. But I just love it.

 

[CGRdrJoe]

played this morning and started off with a double bogey after a horrendous lie in a fairway bunker off the tee, was under the lip and contemplated going backwards before deciding to try and blast it out. still caught the lip and it launched 90 degrees to the left behind a tree. settled down and was 8 over after 9, shot even on the harder back 9 nine with a birdie and a bogey to shoot an 80.

it was early enough that i jumped over the their other ****tier course and shot an 82 from the tips, maybe a bit of fatigue kept me from going lower but extremely happy with both rounds.

 

[Instinctive]

Another fantastic lesson. Had been feeling like I "scoop" 9i and wedges, no matter where i put the ball no matter what I do. Couple simple drills and changes, aiming with my chest and not my feet, stance a little less wide...and holy **** was everything coming out crisp.

Basically I was hitting the 8i 145-ish carry. But the 9i was down around 120. My PW which when I first learned golf was a 118-120 carry club, was going like 105 on the nose. SUPER sky high.

If I can do what we found by the end of the day today and keep practicing...I gain all the height and consistency and crisp contact, but I added back the distance and learned how to aim properly. I haven't been pulling or pushing shots, I've just been aimed super far right and then sometimes I had the club closed to go on the line I wanted and that caused all sorts of issues.

The biggest changes:
1. Aim properly
2. There's a skipping a rock / whip effect with hands, vs a "turn over" with forearms, that just creates WAY more distance
3. Legs a little less wide, toes just ever so slightly pointed out - apparently this will help promote rotating vs "tipping" or leaning in backswing

Feels amazing. Now to keep practicing!

 

[CGRdrJoe]

I just realized that I played the same ball yesterday for all 36 holes and somehow never hit a tree or the cart path to mess it up

 

[Mr.Pack]

ok, so I saw a video with Tommy Fleetwood going over his swing and I used it last night off the tee and the results were fan f'n tastic. So Tommy explained it in a way that finally clicked for me, basically normal take away with good hip rotation and then from there the transition is the left butt cheek feeling like it's moving back to where the right butt cheek is while the arms drop and then once that happens fire through the turn. The result was the longest drive of my life, it flew 260 and rolled out to about 288 without feeling like I was swinging out of my shoes.

Prior to yesterday I would get in the loaded and position and when I transferred my weight it was more on a straight plane with my hips firing out towards the target which was leaving me with weak drives and being a bit more wristy. I need to hit the range tonight to try it with my irons to slowly get more comfortable with this but damn do I love how easy it is now to generate more power.

Link to the video GB?
Edited: I see it

 

[Mr.Pack]

After adding the 23 degree version of this club I'm now carrying FIVE woods in the bag (1, 3, 5, 7, 9/utility). Those higher lofted fairway woods are magic.

If you know how to put clubs together (or have someone to do it for you) I highly recommend the Maltby brand.

My brother also carries an 11 and 13 wood

 

[Mr.Pack]

I am counting the days where I can "legally" move up to the senior tees. Lol

I can as I just turned 62, but my ego has a difficult time letting me go there. All of my buddies are at least 7-10 yrs younger but they wouldn't care. I don't hit anywhere near as long as they do so I should but.......

 

[The Gator]

Have my second lesson scheduled for tomorrow. Trying a guy at the local CC just for s different perspective.

 

[The Gator]

Have my second lesson scheduled for tomorrow. Trying a guy at the local CC just for s different perspective.

Really happy with this guy. First thing he did was change my grip to an interlocking(?) grip since I had a weak grip. Feels funny, but helps my club face. My swing path was super consistent, between 2-4 degrees right. Club face was between -7 left to 12 right , so we found the main problem.

Told him I’d like to do this twice a month for now, really liked him better than the first guy.

 

[Truebluey]

I just realized that I played the same ball yesterday for all 36 holes and somehow never hit a tree or the cart path to mess it up

After a couple of rounds with lots of lost balls, my goal on Monday was not to score, but not to lose a ball. I played more conservatively as a result and achieved my goal, and shot my lowest round of the summer.

Then on Wednesday i lost 7. In a scramble.

 

[Instinctive]

I just realized that I played the same ball yesterday for all 36 holes and somehow never hit a tree or the cart path to mess it up

After a couple of rounds with lots of lost balls, my goal on Monday was not to score, but not to lose a ball. I played more conservatively as a result and achieved my goal, and shot my lowest round of the summer.

Then on Wednesday i lost 7. In a scramble.

Scrambles are death to balls. One guy hits a decent shot, everyone else tries to mash the greatest **** ever and takes more risks in my experience.

That's why I almost always want to drive first and putt last...play to your strengths! Haha.

 

[Schmeabs]

Last two rounds (9 holes) have been pretty solid. 8 pars and 1 double bogey last week for 2 over last week. Today my ball striking was great and I was 8/9 greens in regulation with the only miss where my drive settled behind a tree where I had to punch out into greenside bunker. Finished 4 over with 4 3 putts.

 

[CGRdrJoe]

Played a dog track next to SFO today, the fairways were terrible but the greens were decent. 5 pars and 14 bogeys, not upset since it was my first time playing the course and not knowing the greens. I did put one in the water on a par 3 but almost holed out my drop and had a tap in bogey.

 

[The Gator]

Played a dog track next to SFO today, the fairways were terrible but the greens were decent. 5 pars and 14 bogeys, not upset since it was my first time playing the course and not knowing the greens. I did put one in the water on a par 3 but almost holed out my drop and had a tap in bogey.

32 putts.

 

[CGRdrJoe]

Played a dog track next to SFO today, the fairways were terrible but the greens were decent. 5 pars and 14 bogeys, not upset since it was my first time playing the course and not knowing the greens. I did put one in the water on a par 3 but almost holed out my drop and had a tap in bogey.

32 putts.

yeah, 5 were 6 footers to save par that missed

man this course was so poorly laid out, par 3’s followed by short par 5’s created a huge jam up on the back 9

 

[Instinctive]

Last two rounds (9 holes) have been pretty solid. 8 pars and 1 double bogey last week for 2 over last week. Today my ball striking was great and I was 8/9 greens in regulation with the only miss where my drive settled behind a tree where I had to punch out into greenside bunker. Finished 4 over with 4 3 putts.

You sound kind of amazing at golf

 

[Instinctive]

Thought I'd share my Arccos stats. Kind of fun. I have it comparing me to a 16 handicap. I'm now a 13.8 so I'll adjust it to a 13 from now on. Vs a 16:

-1.0 strokes driving
-0.1 strokes approach
+0.2 strokes short game
+2.3 strokes putting

I'm a little surprised the short one isn't more. I'm surprised the driving one isn't worse. But overall feels pretty accurate.

 

[Schmeabs]

Last two rounds (9 holes) have been pretty solid. 8 pars and 1 double bogey last week for 2 over last week. Today my ball striking was great and I was 8/9 greens in regulation with the only miss where my drive settled behind a tree where I had to punch out into greenside bunker. Finished 4 over with 4 3 putts.

You sound kind of amazing at golf

I don't keep track officially but I would guess my handicap is around 12-14 I just have played really well lately.