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Going out to same course again today. Bringing my BIL and planning to walk. But also now I have a strategy on ~4 holes that's different from yesterday having seen what line to take now vs what it looked like just from the map. Will be interesting.
 
20 rounds with the new clubs and I finally broke 90 with an 89. Still getting used to these things but I see the progress.
Similar experience today and about the same number of rounds in. Something clicked on the back 9 and I finally started controlling my yardage. Frustrating front 9 as I missed deep (crisp contact) three times and played too much fade four times, but I found the right balance with an 8i from 145 out on 12 then didn't miss a green on an approach again, finishing with a 7 footer for bird on 18.
Yeah I'm finding the good shots annoy me more than the bad ones because I know I can do it. It's just remembering the new swing and club lengths.
 
Starting four days of golf today. Playing Monday because I qualified for my club's team as the low gross player. Will probably get my *** kicked but will enjoy the heck out of playing in that spot for my club.
Update: Don't have to play as a scratch! I'm our first handicapped player so I'll likely be giving some strokes but a better player qualified as our scratch guy thankfully so I don't have to be the sacrificial lamb.
Update: My club killed it. We beat them 30.5 - 5.5 in total points. I won my match 2.5 - .5 (won the front easily up three and halved the back). I had to give two strokes to my opponent and I knew I was in good shape when I could see the concern on my opponent's face after I outdrove him and his driver with my hybrid on the first shot. Generally, I know whether I am playing a "good" match play opponent if he appears unimpressed by my practice swing and recognizes that handicaps exist for a reason and he just has to trust his game and ignore mine.

I missed three two-footers on the back to prevent me from taking the clean sweep including a four-putt on a par five I reached in two. Oddly, I made like three fifteen footers and hit some really nice lag putts so stats probably evened out, but it's just a bummer to miss out on the clean sweep due to some bad short putts. I have a new LAB putter and I just haven't trained my brain yet to be okay just bricking the putt at the hole.

Super fun nonetheless and feels good to win as a team with everybody on our team crushing it.
 
Played again today...same course, 13 over on the back 9, which we played first, vs 12 over for the course yesterday.

Finished 21 over.

Definitely had better strategy on a few holes now that I know them. Just a couple factors:

1. Luck went about as badly as it can go. Had one awesome good bounce but a bunch of bad ones and bad lies.

2. I walked today, and it was more humid, so I was tired somewhat on a few shots after long climbs up hills. Very hilly course.

3. A few penalties today. Mostly from bad lies but one from a tee shot that if I had kept it a yard more to the right would have been on the green of a par 4. Also landed in 2 fairway bunkers and a green side one.

Still feeling really good about my game. Excited to go again tomorrow.
 
Second hole: triple
Eighteenth hole: double

All other holes: 7 pars, 9 bogeys

14 over

Actually the best I've played the 18th yet. Hole is very hard with a very fast and slopey green.

Left a LOT of putts out there today. I think as nice as everything is at this course, the greens are inconsistent. I feel like I hit the same putt five times and 1 was good 2 were long and 2 were short and it wasn't because of up or down hill.

Had a great moment. This old foursome I catch on 10 and 11 waits on the 12th tee when they see my approach on 11 (where I think all four of them took 4 shots to get on, it's a long lar 4) lands pin high just in the rough. I grabbed putter and wedge, put it to ten feet, put the putt like 8 inches away, tapped in for bogey. I get to the next tee box and they're like come on through, not much ahead of us, you look pretty professional only taking two clubs to the green there!

I reply that I'm not very good but do play quickly so thank you and one guy goes well let's see another one right by the flag here. Proceed to thin the crap out of a 9 iron but it rolls pin high on this par 3. I said sorry that's not the show you expected, I'll try to get up and down for you.

Best chip of the day. Nestled it like 18 inches from the hole. Par. Felt so good.


The big downhill par 4...drive it almost 300 but then made a stupid choice. I just needed to get it on the green and have a 10+ ft birdie putt but a locked in par. Instead I went right at the pin, landed it perfectly, but didn't realize it sloped down so the ball rolled to the fringe. Ended with a damn bogey.
 
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Starting four days of golf today. Playing Monday because I qualified for my club's team as the low gross player. Will probably get my *** kicked but will enjoy the heck out of playing in that spot for my club.
Update: Don't have to play as a scratch! I'm our first handicapped player so I'll likely be giving some strokes but a better player qualified as our scratch guy thankfully so I don't have to be the sacrificial lamb.
Update: My club killed it. We beat them 30.5 - 5.5 in total points. I won my match 2.5 - .5 (won the front easily up three and halved the back). I had to give two strokes to my opponent and I knew I was in good shape when I could see the concern on my opponent's face after I outdrove him and his driver with my hybrid on the first shot. Generally, I know whether I am playing a "good" match play opponent if he appears unimpressed by my practice swing and recognizes that handicaps exist for a reason and he just has to trust his game and ignore mine.

I missed three two-footers on the back to prevent me from taking the clean sweep including a four-putt on a par five I reached in two. Oddly, I made like three fifteen footers and hit some really nice lag putts so stats probably evened out, but it's just a bummer to miss out on the clean sweep due to some bad short putts. I have a new LAB putter and I just haven't trained my brain yet to be okay just bricking the putt at the hole.

Super fun nonetheless and feels good to win as a team with everybody on our team crushing it.

really miss the interclub matches, Ryder Cup type stuff. Sounds like you are playing pretty solid - hdcp around 4-5 now?
 
Starting four days of golf today. Playing Monday because I qualified for my club's team as the low gross player. Will probably get my *** kicked but will enjoy the heck out of playing in that spot for my club.
Update: Don't have to play as a scratch! I'm our first handicapped player so I'll likely be giving some strokes but a better player qualified as our scratch guy thankfully so I don't have to be the sacrificial lamb.
Update: My club killed it. We beat them 30.5 - 5.5 in total points. I won my match 2.5 - .5 (won the front easily up three and halved the back). I had to give two strokes to my opponent and I knew I was in good shape when I could see the concern on my opponent's face after I outdrove him and his driver with my hybrid on the first shot. Generally, I know whether I am playing a "good" match play opponent if he appears unimpressed by my practice swing and recognizes that handicaps exist for a reason and he just has to trust his game and ignore mine.

I missed three two-footers on the back to prevent me from taking the clean sweep including a four-putt on a par five I reached in two. Oddly, I made like three fifteen footers and hit some really nice lag putts so stats probably evened out, but it's just a bummer to miss out on the clean sweep due to some bad short putts. I have a new LAB putter and I just haven't trained my brain yet to be okay just bricking the putt at the hole.

Super fun nonetheless and feels good to win as a team with everybody on our team crushing it.

really miss the interclub matches, Ryder Cup type stuff. Sounds like you are playing pretty solid - hdcp around 4-5 now?
Yep. 5.1 I believe. And I think I'm playing consistently as one which is nice as opposed to the rollercoaster of variance.
 
Second hole: triple
Eighteenth hole: double

All other holes: 7 pars, 9 bogeys

14 over

Actually the best I've played 18 yet. Hope is very hard with a very fast and sloppy green.

Left a LOT of putts out there today. I think as nice as everything is at this course, the greens are inconsistent. I feel like I hit the same putt five times and 1 was good 2 were long and 2 were short and it wasn't because of up or down hill.

Had a great moment. This old foursome I catch on 10 and 11 waits on the 12th tee when they see my approach on 11 (where I think all four of them took 4 shots to get on, it's a long lar 4) lands pin high just in the rough. I grabbed putter and wedge, put it to ten feet, put the putt like 8 inches away, tapped in for bogey. I get to the next tee box and they're like come on through, not much ahead of us, you look pretty professional only taking two clubs to the green there!

I reply that I'm not very good but do play quickly so thank you and one guy goes well let's see another one right by the flag here. Proceed to thin the crap out of a 9 iron but it rolls pin high on this par 3. I said sorry that's not the show you expected, I'll try to get up and down for you.

Best chip of the day. Nestled it like 18 inches from the hole. Par. Felt so good.


The big downhill par 4...drive it almost 300 but then made a stupid choice. I just needed to get it on the green and have a 10+ ft birdie putt but a locked in par. Instead I went right at the pin, landed it perfectly, but didn't realize it slowed down so the ball rolled to the fringe. Ended with a damn bogey.
:lmao: Nothing worse than hitting a poor shot right in front of the group letting you through. Glad you justified their decision.

My wife got to experience this just this past weekend. We play a lot of Sundays as our "dates" now that we both play a lot and our playing partners dropped last minute so we got stuck behind four balls as a two ball. We aren't in a hurry but it gets annoyingly slow even though we are both playing about as slow as our comfort levels will permit. Group directly in front of us was ridiculously slow (1.5 holes behind - I almost pulled the "board member card" and tattled on them) so I made the decision to just skip ahead of them with them exclaiming "there are other groups in front!" as I give them the courtesy waive and point so they knew what we were doing. We catch up to the next foursome after the next hole and they are surprised but do the right thing and offer us to play through after they hit their drives. They joked that we better hit good ones which made my wife nervous.

Hole is a short par 5 with a bottleneck about 300 yards up the fairway to squeeze the longer hitters playing something other than the tips. I put a three wood dead center past their drives into the heart of the bottleneck. My wife then steps up to the women's tees and cranks one probably 240 down the middle and winds up sitting right next to my drive - well past the four guys' drives that I recognized as regular players. Dudes' jaws were dropped. My wife was very happy and I was very proud of her. I explained to her that there isn't anything much more nerve-wracking in golf than hitting your tee shot quickly but well in front of the group letting you go through.
 
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Second hole: triple
Eighteenth hole: double

All other holes: 7 pars, 9 bogeys

14 over

Actually the best I've played 18 yet. Hope is very hard with a very fast and sloppy green.

Left a LOT of putts out there today. I think as nice as everything is at this course, the greens are inconsistent. I feel like I hit the same putt five times and 1 was good 2 were long and 2 were short and it wasn't because of up or down hill.

Had a great moment. This old foursome I catch on 10 and 11 waits on the 12th tee when they see my approach on 11 (where I think all four of them took 4 shots to get on, it's a long lar 4) lands pin high just in the rough. I grabbed putter and wedge, put it to ten feet, put the putt like 8 inches away, tapped in for bogey. I get to the next tee box and they're like come on through, not much ahead of us, you look pretty professional only taking two clubs to the green there!

I reply that I'm not very good but do play quickly so thank you and one guy goes well let's see another one right by the flag here. Proceed to thin the crap out of a 9 iron but it rolls pin high on this par 3. I said sorry that's not the show you expected, I'll try to get up and down for you.

Best chip of the day. Nestled it like 18 inches from the hole. Par. Felt so good.


The big downhill par 4...drive it almost 300 but then made a stupid choice. I just needed to get it on the green and have a 10+ ft birdie putt but a locked in par. Instead I went right at the pin, landed it perfectly, but didn't realize it slowed down so the ball rolled to the fringe. Ended with a damn bogey.
:lmao: Nothing worse than hitting a poor shot right in front of the group letting you through. Glad you justified their decision.

My wife got to experience this just this past weekend. We play a lot of Sundays as our "dates" now that we both play a lot and our playing partners dropped last minute so we got stuck behind four balls as a two ball. We aren't in a hurry but it gets annoyingly slow even though we are both playing about as slow as our comfort levels will permit. Group directly in front of us was ridiculously slow (1.5 holes behind - I almost pulled the "board member card" and tattled on them) so I made the decision t- just skip ahead of them with them exclaiming "there are other groups in front!" as I give them the courtesy waive and point so they knew what we were doing. We catch up to the next foursome after the next hole and they are surprised but do the right thing and offer us to play through after they hit their drives. They joked that we better hit good ones which made my wife nervous.

Hole is a short par 5 with a bottleneck about 300 yards up the fairway to squeeze the longer hitters playing something other than the tips. I put a three wood dead center past their drives into the heart of the bottleneck. My wife then steps up to the women's tees and cranks one probably 240 down the middle and winds up sitting right next to my drive - well past the four guys' drives that I recognized as regular players. Dudes' jaws were dropped. My wife was very happy and I was very proud of her. I explained to her that there isn't anything much more nerve-wracking in golf than hitting your tee shot quickly but well in front of the group letting you go through.
That's awesome. Hope my wife gets there eventually haha
 
Gotta share this. As I outlined last year, I took up golf again after a 30 year hiatus and upon retirement. New clubs, new friends, having a great time, and steadily improving. Handicap had gone from 31 to 24.
Yesterday I got my first eagle! 450 yard par 5 from the seniors tees, hammered my drive dead straight 260, had 190 to a back pin, green heavily guarded by bunkers in front at 170.
190 is a 5i for me, but I didn't like my chances over those bunkers, so I took 6i and hoped to fly them and get decent roll.
That feeling when you envision a perfect shot, and then IT HAPPENS!? That was the feeling. My cartmate ooohed and aahed as it flew true, a baby draw, landed on the green, and ran. God - I'll play the game forever chasing that feeling.
Got up there and it was 15 feet behind the pin. Must have nearly gone in. Almost a dead flat putt and it rolled right in.
There was much rejoicing. Us 70-year-olds don't make eagle that often.
 
Final round up here at this club - 19 over. Tale of two rounds though. Front nine was 6 doubles, two bogeys, and a par. Just really bad. Couldn't get my tee shots where I wanted and blew every approach. Double chips galore.

Back nine was five over with two doubles, one birdie, and five more birdie putts between 6-12 feet. Everything was dialed. Killed myself on the par 4 15th that's extremely downhill though. It's wiiiiiide open so you can get after the drive and go for the green a little over ,300 out (again massively downhill though). Did the one thing I couldn't do and put it about a yard left into trees. Literally 1-30 yards right of where it went and it has a decent chance to roll on green. Put it pin high right rough on second tee shot and bogeyed the hole.
 
Tied for first both net and gross. Decided to go co-champs.

Crazy start to the round. My partner, a super solid 0 handicap, pumps ball ob on our starting hole. I hit a bad shot and nearly go ob and I wind up in play with bathroom hut in way. Problem is the nearest point of relief has tree issues so I have no choice but to chip one over the ****ter then after my partner makes a crazy bogey I drain a twenty footer downhill for par. Insane start. Felt like stealing.

We started on 18 and back is a best ball so that was our first hole. Roll to the front immediately which is alternate shot. After what felt like straight thievery I put one down the gut and in alternate shot we shoot eight pars in a row and birdie nine. That’s -1 alternates shot gross. Hit literally every green and I probably had a couple of ten footers I could made. Amazing defensive golf.

Back side we kinda let the moment get a little heavy and we only made two birdies. Lost the outright championship when we both bogeyed the easiest hole on the course - a short par 5 - we both should par in our sleep. Partner hit it in the water and I was greenside bunker in two but an awful lie caused me to skull one over the green. Net co-champs made an eagle there.

Nonetheless I went home with a trophy for club member member champion and my kids think I’m a hero that should be on tv.
 
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Played the guy from the team we tied with for an extra 18 to settle it. Best player in the club. Also happens to be my brother in law and literally the guy who taught me to play golf. He’s a 0. Im a five. Played from the tips.

71 him and 76 me. Tie it shall be.
 
Do any of y'all use the adjustable weights in driver? As I've been taking lessons to get a decent swing I've wanted to leave it totally neutral, but after a few months now of being pretty consistent, I'm wondering if in warm ups it just seems like a little fade-y or a little extra draw-y vs baseline that maybe for the day it's worth adjusting it for the round to counter that days little swing path differences?
 
Do any of y'all use the adjustable weights in driver? As I've been taking lessons to get a decent swing I've wanted to leave it totally neutral, but after a few months now of being pretty consistent, I'm wondering if in warm ups it just seems like a little fade-y or a little extra draw-y vs baseline that maybe for the day it's worth adjusting it for the round to counter that days little swing path differences?
No, not with my driver. I'd rather see my crappy swings.

The only thing I've done is deloft my 7 wood.
 
Do any of y'all use the adjustable weights in driver? As I've been taking lessons to get a decent swing I've wanted to leave it totally neutral, but after a few months now of being pretty consistent, I'm wondering if in warm ups it just seems like a little fade-y or a little extra draw-y vs baseline that maybe for the day it's worth adjusting it for the round to counter that days little swing path differences?
I don't, but if it works for you why not go for it? They're adjustable for a reason. We should use whatever legal advantage we're given.

Even pros adjust their gear for weather conditions. I didn't think that's much different.
 
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Do any of y'all use the adjustable weights in driver? As I've been taking lessons to get a decent swing I've wanted to leave it totally neutral, but after a few months now of being pretty consistent, I'm wondering if in warm ups it just seems like a little fade-y or a little extra draw-y vs baseline that maybe for the day it's worth adjusting it for the round to counter that days little swing path differences?
I don't, but if it works for you why not go for it? They're adjustable for a reason. We should use whatever legal advantage we're given.

Even pros adjust their gear for weather conditions. I didn't think that's much different.
Idk if it will work for me haha. I was trying to see if anyone doesn't and if it works before I try it and it doesn't and a round is destroyed haha
 
Do any of y'all use the adjustable weights in driver? As I've been taking lessons to get a decent swing I've wanted to leave it totally neutral, but after a few months now of being pretty consistent, I'm wondering if in warm ups it just seems like a little fade-y or a little extra draw-y vs baseline that maybe for the day it's worth adjusting it for the round to counter that days little swing path differences?
I don't, but if it works for you why not go for it? They're adjustable for a reason. We should use whatever legal advantage we're given.

Even pros adjust their gear for weather conditions. I didn't think that's much different.
Idk if it will work for me haha. I was trying to see if anyone doesn't and if it works before I try it and it doesn't and a round is destroyed haha
Go to the range for something like this. I wouldn't do it for a round if you are unfamiliar with the change.
 
You can shoot par and are bad in bunkers? That’s unusual but great. Green side bunker shots are easy unless it’s a really bad lie. All technique.
You nailed it with the bolded. All technique. I get by because I played a lot as a youth. Never tracked, but at least one tournament per week during summer, with two rounds minimum around it. I chose running over it in high school then it fell by the wayside in college then early fatherhood. As free time has opened up again, I have progressed from a few scrambles per summer to 10-15 rounds. Once I did, muscle memory returned, and since I'm quite a bit stronger now than aged 15 the ball goes a lot further. That said, the 'shot making' swings are still a miss. Like Woz, I can hit the ball a mile in the air- the trajectory of my 7 iron looks more like a wedge. When I need an easy fade, I can pull that out of my bag of tricks at will. But stuff like the big draw? the low liner? and anything out of the sand? I'm still looking. I find the big draw by accident on occasion, but any attempts at intentionally doing it have been comically bad.

I know the first step to correction. Lessons. I'm just not in a place right now in which I'm going to think about them. In the meantime, I'm embracing my high variance golf game. Although maybe a few months from now I can add another 20 yards from distance.
When I took sand lessons it was shocking to see how inconsistent I was entering the spot I wanted in the sand. Pro drew a line and I just had to drill entering at that line every time. Assuming right bounce for you. I mostly use a 58 with less bounce because our sand is compact. But a fluffy sand like in Florida probably better suited to a 54 and more bounce to glide through

1) square stance. The way open stance method with swing following that foot line is old school. Much easier being square.
2) ball positioned at left toe
3) club face open, pointing up. Don’t want to dig unless sand is wet/compact or ball is buried. Less open or square in those cases will get the needed dig
4) 65% of weight on left side to promote descending blow
5) eyes on spot you want to enter the sand. Not on the ball. You must enter the spot. How far from the ball depends on the sand. With fluffy sand you can hit 1-2 inches behind the ball. Can’t do that with firm green side bunker sand. I aim about a 1/2 inch behind in those cases. Have to be much more precise
6) shallow is better than a steep dig
7) length of swing and speed depends on height and carry you need
8) accelerate and take out the sand underneath the ball, popping it up. Want to hear a good “thump”. Like the Dave Pelz drill where he has the ball sitting on a mound of sand on a wooden board. Gives you the visual/sensation.

If you have a descending blow and hit your spot you will get out almost every time and be putting. Disaster happens when you miss your spot. Ball first? Dead. Too far from the ball? Dead. Either you leave it in the bunker in soft sand or the bounce skids and you blade the ball, watching it line drive into the face of the bunker or scream across the green. Both are bad. Did I say how critical it is to hit your exact spot with a descending blow?

Now if I can hit the correct spot/low point on my full shots I’d be in business. Trying video lessons at GolfTec to ingrain that. Also bought the BlueBrick. Time to go to work!
I could tell the last couple rounds I was getting close. Tough to tell on one course because the sand was rock hard, but I had a good one once I put the ball on a slight elevation. The other time out I was getting the right contact, but my judgment of distance was off. Then yesterday I finally had an ah-ha moment.

It wasn't a good round. Not a carbon copy of Monday, but it was a very inconsistent first 15 holes. After losing my driver right again to start I drove the ball real well from 5-10, my irons were mostly on point from the start until 10 (one duff), and I smoked a fairway 3 wood to pin high on the par 5 8th. But my usual strength (inside 50 yards) was a trainwreck. Could not get my yardage down on the lob wedge and I struggled adjusting to greens that were playing lighting fast (my birdie putt on one almost rolled back in :lmao:) so I kept flying my chips 20 feet or so past. Then the roles reversed from 11-15. I suddenly couldn't hit the broad side of a barn, but once I got within 50 yards I was great. Up-and-down one putts on 3 of the next 5 with a chip in mixed in and they were all for bogey or double. It seemed to all finally came together the final 3 holes with a bird on 16, a par on the 230 yard behometh par 3 17, then piped a drive on 18 out to 105 out dead center fairway, but then I let an easy wedge leak into the right green side bunker on 18. Is this really how I'm going to finish this round? First bunker all day, let's see what I've got left. It was deep, but I could barely see the bottom of the flag. Given the way these greens were playing, I just needed to clear the lip, land softly on the short stuff before the down slope, then let it feed to the hole. I took a big swing, knowing that when I've done this in the past I've hit the ball thin and may take out a window in the pro shop, and all I heard was a **poof** then saw the ball do exactly as I envisioned, rolling up to about 18" for a tap-in par to salvage an adventurous 89.

Ah-ha
 
Do any of y'all use the adjustable weights in driver? As I've been taking lessons to get a decent swing I've wanted to leave it totally neutral, but after a few months now of being pretty consistent, I'm wondering if in warm ups it just seems like a little fade-y or a little extra draw-y vs baseline that maybe for the day it's worth adjusting it for the round to counter that days little swing path differences?
I don't, but if it works for you why not go for it? They're adjustable for a reason. We should use whatever legal advantage we're given.

Even pros adjust their gear for weather conditions. I didn't think that's much different.
Idk if it will work for me haha. I was trying to see if anyone doesn't and if it works before I try it and it doesn't and a round is destroyed haha
Up .75. I use 1 heel bias. But that was when I was playing fades off the tee. Probably go back to neutral again
 
I need new grips. Point me in the direction of good grips at a decent price. Less than $100. I play Tommy Armour 845’s. Don’t need oversized. Just regular.
 
I was enjoying my new irons this week and I started thinking about putters. It's crazy that putters are the most used club in your bag, account for the most strokes per round, and yet you can find the one that fits you perfectly ANYWHERE. The one I'm gaming atm is a classic Anser design knockoff that I picked up for $3 at Goodwill.

What are your good putter stories?
 
My buddy and I played a match yesterday to try it out. Shot a 90, won the front 4 and 3, won the match 4 and 3, pushes the back nine (I think that's how I say those things).

Definitely wasn't playing my best but every opening I have him he didn't take either, and I finally had some great chips.

I think it's a worse score than if we just played stroke play - couple holes where I had a penalty and would normally just try to limit damage and get a bogey, but instead I try to hit a great shot and still make par to halve or win the hole, and ended up with a double or triple. And a hole where he was so out of it that I didn't take my time at all really on a five foot putt, just tapped it close then tapped it in knowing already that it would win the hole.

I think we both want to compete more to make us sharper, but maybe going to mostly stroke play since we are trying to get better too. Hard to tell if your course management, strategy, etc is good or not when it's so influenced by the opponents position.


ETA: and he's a stroke better than me and we played it no strokes since 13 vs 14 is so close anyway. Boom.
 
Interesting round this weekend.

On the par-3 fourth hole, the green is pretty small. You can get away with going a little deep (maybe 10 feet off the back at most), but if you miss left or right at all, you're in the woods. If you miss short at all, your next shot is at the bottom of a very steep ravine.

Pin is in the middle of the green, which slopes pretty good from back to front.

One of my buddies hits one into the back of the green, a little right of the pin, and it comes back down to pin high about four feet to the right.

I go last in the group and hit a wedge that looks to be right at the pin. It goes over the top and hits about 20 feet above the hole and spins back down the slope. Slowly. It just methodically keeps rolling down, and we finally start to get excited as it looks to be right on line. It just keeps coming. And then it just stops. Five inches above the hole. Dead center if it takes two more revolutions. But it didn't.

And, no, I've never had a hole in one.

Five holes later, on a short par 5, we all hit great drives and can potentially reach in 2.

Green has a big mound blocking the whole right half of the green, and there's a sand trap over there between the mound and green on that side too. Pin is on that side that day, so you can see the top of the pin, but that's it.

I hit a 7-wood right at the pin, and we lose sight of it over the mound.

One of my buddies (in my cart) hits a similar shot, but I felt like his was a little short and might have got caught in the trap.

We wait in our cart for our two buddies in the other cart to go next. Third guy hits his left side and we see it come up a little short of green on that side.

Last guy goes and hits another one that seems right at the pin, and we lose sight of it as it goes over the mound.

So we all start driving up toward the green, and I'm like, damn, those were four pretty good shots. A couple of those looked right at it.

As we clear the mound, we see the one ball short and left that we saw all along. Then we see another ball in the trap front right, and as I expected, that was my cart partner's ball.

Then we see a third ball about six feet short of the pin.

And there's no fourth ball.

The guy who hit last is the first to get to the green, and he walks up to the ball six feet short and announces with all sorts of exasperation that it's my ball.

So where is his, he asks.

I'd check the hole if I were you, I say. I don't see it anywhere else. It's gotta be in the hole.

After telling me to F off, he walks up to the hole and about falls over.

Albatross.
 
Interesting round this weekend.

On the par-3 fourth hole, the green is pretty small. You can get away with going a little deep (maybe 10 feet off the back at most), but if you miss left or right at all, you're in the woods. If you miss short at all, your next shot is at the bottom of a very steep ravine.

Pin is in the middle of the green, which slopes pretty good from back to front.

One of my buddies hits one into the back of the green, a little right of the pin, and it comes back down to pin high about four feet to the right.

I go last in the group and hit a wedge that looks to be right at the pin. It goes over the top and hits about 20 feet above the hole and spins back down the slope. Slowly. It just methodically keeps rolling down, and we finally start to get excited as it looks to be right on line. It just keeps coming. And then it just stops. Five inches above the hole. Dead center if it takes two more revolutions. But it didn't.

And, no, I've never had a hole in one.

Five holes later, on a short par 5, we all hit great drives and can potentially reach in 2.

Green has a big mound blocking the whole right half of the green, and there's a sand trap over there between the mound and green on that side too. Pin is on that side that day, so you can see the top of the pin, but that's it.

I hit a 7-wood right at the pin, and we lose sight of it over the mound.

One of my buddies (in my cart) hits a similar shot, but I felt like his was a little short and might have got caught in the trap.

We wait in our cart for our two buddies in the other cart to go next. Third guy hits his left side and we see it come up a little short of green on that side.

Last guy goes and hits another one that seems right at the pin, and we lose sight of it as it goes over the mound.

So we all start driving up toward the green, and I'm like, damn, those were four pretty good shots. A couple of those looked right at it.

As we clear the mound, we see the one ball short and left that we saw all along. Then we see another ball in the trap front right, and as I expected, that was my cart partner's ball.

Then we see a third ball about six feet short of the pin.

And there's no fourth ball.

The guy who hit last is the first to get to the green, and he walks up to the ball six feet short and announces with all sorts of exasperation that it's my ball.

So where is his, he asks.

I'd check the hole if I were you, I say. I don't see it anywhere else. It's gotta be in the hole.

After telling me to F off, he walks up to the hole and about falls over.

Albatross.
So... did you make eagle??
 
Interesting round this weekend.

On the par-3 fourth hole, the green is pretty small. You can get away with going a little deep (maybe 10 feet off the back at most), but if you miss left or right at all, you're in the woods. If you miss short at all, your next shot is at the bottom of a very steep ravine.

Pin is in the middle of the green, which slopes pretty good from back to front.

One of my buddies hits one into the back of the green, a little right of the pin, and it comes back down to pin high about four feet to the right.

I go last in the group and hit a wedge that looks to be right at the pin. It goes over the top and hits about 20 feet above the hole and spins back down the slope. Slowly. It just methodically keeps rolling down, and we finally start to get excited as it looks to be right on line. It just keeps coming. And then it just stops. Five inches above the hole. Dead center if it takes two more revolutions. But it didn't.

And, no, I've never had a hole in one.

Five holes later, on a short par 5, we all hit great drives and can potentially reach in 2.

Green has a big mound blocking the whole right half of the green, and there's a sand trap over there between the mound and green on that side too. Pin is on that side that day, so you can see the top of the pin, but that's it.

I hit a 7-wood right at the pin, and we lose sight of it over the mound.

One of my buddies (in my cart) hits a similar shot, but I felt like his was a little short and might have got caught in the trap.

We wait in our cart for our two buddies in the other cart to go next. Third guy hits his left side and we see it come up a little short of green on that side.

Last guy goes and hits another one that seems right at the pin, and we lose sight of it as it goes over the mound.

So we all start driving up toward the green, and I'm like, damn, those were four pretty good shots. A couple of those looked right at it.

As we clear the mound, we see the one ball short and left that we saw all along. Then we see another ball in the trap front right, and as I expected, that was my cart partner's ball.

Then we see a third ball about six feet short of the pin.

And there's no fourth ball.

The guy who hit last is the first to get to the green, and he walks up to the ball six feet short and announces with all sorts of exasperation that it's my ball.

So where is his, he asks.

I'd check the hole if I were you, I say. I don't see it anywhere else. It's gotta be in the hole.

After telling me to F off, he walks up to the hole and about falls over.

Albatross.
So... did you make eagle??
With the guy being in with the Albatross, I had to make birdie or better to win the bundle for the front nine. And I got birdie or better. You #(#-_+$+#)!!
 
Interesting round this weekend.

On the par-3 fourth hole, the green is pretty small. You can get away with going a little deep (maybe 10 feet off the back at most), but if you miss left or right at all, you're in the woods. If you miss short at all, your next shot is at the bottom of a very steep ravine.

Pin is in the middle of the green, which slopes pretty good from back to front.

One of my buddies hits one into the back of the green, a little right of the pin, and it comes back down to pin high about four feet to the right.

I go last in the group and hit a wedge that looks to be right at the pin. It goes over the top and hits about 20 feet above the hole and spins back down the slope. Slowly. It just methodically keeps rolling down, and we finally start to get excited as it looks to be right on line. It just keeps coming. And then it just stops. Five inches above the hole. Dead center if it takes two more revolutions. But it didn't.

And, no, I've never had a hole in one.

Five holes later, on a short par 5, we all hit great drives and can potentially reach in 2.

Green has a big mound blocking the whole right half of the green, and there's a sand trap over there between the mound and green on that side too. Pin is on that side that day, so you can see the top of the pin, but that's it.

I hit a 7-wood right at the pin, and we lose sight of it over the mound.

One of my buddies (in my cart) hits a similar shot, but I felt like his was a little short and might have got caught in the trap.

We wait in our cart for our two buddies in the other cart to go next. Third guy hits his left side and we see it come up a little short of green on that side.

Last guy goes and hits another one that seems right at the pin, and we lose sight of it as it goes over the mound.

So we all start driving up toward the green, and I'm like, damn, those were four pretty good shots. A couple of those looked right at it.

As we clear the mound, we see the one ball short and left that we saw all along. Then we see another ball in the trap front right, and as I expected, that was my cart partner's ball.

Then we see a third ball about six feet short of the pin.

And there's no fourth ball.

The guy who hit last is the first to get to the green, and he walks up to the ball six feet short and announces with all sorts of exasperation that it's my ball.

So where is his, he asks.

I'd check the hole if I were you, I say. I don't see it anywhere else. It's gotta be in the hole.

After telling me to F off, he walks up to the hole and about falls over.

Albatross.
So... did you make eagle??
With the guy being in with the Albatross, I had to make birdie or better to win the bundle for the front nine. And I got birdie or better. You #(#-_+$+#)!!
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Do any of y'all use the adjustable weights in driver? As I've been taking lessons to get a decent swing I've wanted to leave it totally neutral, but after a few months now of being pretty consistent, I'm wondering if in warm ups it just seems like a little fade-y or a little extra draw-y vs baseline that maybe for the day it's worth adjusting it for the round to counter that days little swing path differences?
Have never fiddled with mine. Ever
 
Just got back from La Jolla. Went with our best friend to celebrate his 60th. Played Torrey South, then did an incredible Far Niente wine dinner at the Lodge, then opening day at Del Mar the next day. Fantastic. Torrey was tough. My last 6 rounds at our club from the blues were between 75-79. Shot 87 at Torrey. Tees were 6600+ but played much longer. 2 club wind on many holes. Hit a good drive and had 200-230 into the wind on several par 4’s. Rough made it challenging too. Made some good putts but also several 3 putts. Had to get used to super fast to the ocean and the opposite going away from it. Bunkering was difficult but I played really well out of them. Guess at 63 I’m not meant to play courses that long anymore. Way too many 3 and 5 woods coming in. Great conditions. Miraculous setting. Rivals Pebble IMO. Can’t wait to give it another shot
 
We followed up what was one of the more exciting scrambles I've ever been a part of Friday with arguably the most boring one on Saturday. We only had one birdie putt under 8 paces all day (we all missed) and just one outside 14 paces (but chipped in :lol: ). We danced around the hole all day long, but I burying one from 11 paces out and a partner from 9 were the only makes. 15 pars, 3 birdies despite hitting 12 of 13 fairways, being 135 or less on 11 of them, and 15 of 18 gir's. Woof.

Compare that to the adventure we had the day before. It was a trek littered with risk / rewards, perfect for a scramble. Unlike day 2, our team was in sync for the entirety of day 1. We routinely got safety shots out there early then one of us delivered on the calculated risk on all but 2 shots, salvaging one of them but not the other, and more than offsetting with back-to-back eagles early in the round.

So much I could write about, but for bandwidth purposes I'll just write up the 12th hole

While you can hit over those trees by the creek off the tee, the same is not true for those that define the left side - they're very old and very tall. Fade is not a consideration, straight or a slight draw are your only options, and you need to hug that tree line as tight as possible. If you end up in the right rough you have a > 200 yd carry to clear the ravine...good luck. You also have to hit it ~210 minimum off the tee, but not too far. Miss that tiny window and you have over-hanging trees either way forcing you into an uncomfortable shot you'll probably mess up because you still have almost 200 to clear the ravine. And that's just to get to the approach shot. But anyway, I either went 3rd or 4th off the tee in our group. We had a bomber, but if there wasn't already a good one out there nerves had a tendency to get to him, so in those cases I'd go last. That's what happened here as all 3 of them lost their balls left. There was a moment of butt hole clenching on mine, but thankfully I missed the branches in the tree I found and just clipped leaves, still enough to get inside the window and I was on the ravine side shortening the next shot. Typically, there is never a second thought through my head about what to do here - hit the iron you're hitting best today up the left side but not far enough left that I may clip one of those trees. This is a scramble though. And our first guy laid one out there 100 out and just inside the ravine up the right side, so I decided to have some fun. I much prefer a big, gentle fade with my 3w but while the outcomes are volatile, I've roped some draws before, and that shot may play here. I'm not sure I've ever hit that club as well as I did on that shot, but how would it pan out? It kicked off a hill on the left edge of the fairway, then another in the fairway on hop 2, thus not losing momentum, and started screaming towards the green. There's a decent sized false front well positioned to deflect arrant approaches, but that's when the club is a wedge. For what was left of a screaming 3w it was the momentum killer needed to slow the ball down before rolling across the green into the green side pond. High 5's all around as this ended up just 6 paces beyond the front right hole location. Gutted none of us made the putt as that'd have been one hell of a skin!

I suppose we may have just used up all our ammo day 1 as on a more difficult trek we carded -10. We certainly would've taken a -13 weekend from the outset, it's just how it played out left us wanting more. Oh well, onto Lahinch!
 
I was on vacation for a few weeks and hadn't played in over 3 weeks. I played 9 holes on Monday and Wednesday and was just very inconsistent and shot 9 and 10 over. I just wasn't hitting my irons clean which was very frustrating.

Today I played another 9 holes and on hole #1 I hit a great drive on left side of fairway. 156 yards to pin hit a 7 iron that hit green pin high on right and rolled into bunker - some bad luck. Punched out over to fringe on other side. 3 putted from there to start out double bogey. Ugh. Bogey on par 4 2nd after good drive but pulled by 9 iron left of green. Par 5 3rd hit great drive, great 2 iron and was sitting 2 55 yards from pin. This distance is my nemesis as my utility wedge is 80-100 and pitching wedge 100-125. I had been using my pitching wedge to bump and run and then started using a 3/4 swing with my utility on these 45-60 yard shots. I recently got a 60 degree club so I found it goes around 55-65 yards when I hit it correctly. However, I seem to hit ground first and go under with this club which has caused my numerous strokes this week. I tried it again on my 3rd shot on the par 5 and went under and ball ended up short of green by 5 yards. Chipped up to 10 feet and 2 putted for a bogey. Ugh.

Birdie next hole a par 3. Wound up with another birdie on the 2nd par 5. Finished with a 41 but it could have been so much better without 3 or 4 mistakes with my irons. Oh, and 2 three putts. Although only 16 putts so I did have 4 1 putts.

Overall much better today and I have shown I can hit all the shots, just need to be consistent.
 
i’m holding my breath at a potential 30 day work trip to san diego, would be working near the airport and 1000% staying at torrey over a place near petco or anywhere else. I told my boss “I need this trip” :lmao: i have a resident card for down there so almost a lock to play twilight 3 times a week if this happens
 
Had a jeckyl and hyde round this weekend.

Started with hole 1- 280y drive on the fairway, 85y wedge to 15 feet.

Three putt.

Then three putted the next two holes. :wall:The front was an ugly 51

Finished the front with par/par thanks to a chip in on 9 that NOBODY saw. I had chunked my 4th shot and was pretty hot about it. So i just went up to the ball, took a quick chip, then turned and threw my club back to my cart. Not an angry throw, just a gtfo here toss so I can go putt. Turned around and there's no ball on the green. I ask my buddy if he saw it and he said, "no, i was watching you throw your club" :lol:

Then on #10 I bomb the par 5 fairway, hit the flag stick with my 9I and barely miss an eagle chip. Made birdie there, finished the back in 42 with 4 pars, a birdie and another chip in. After starting with 9 putts in 3 holes, I finished with a total of 31 still. Pretty happy with the comeback.
 
Thoughts on hitting a mini-driver? My buddy just got this Taylor Made and after hitting it a few times, I can say that it's pretty nice. 11.5 or 13.5 degrees loft and a shorter shaft make it feel more like a 3/5 wood, The ball explodes off the face - Hit it close to as far as my Ping driver and felt much more under control. Can also hit it off the deck pretty easily. Only downside is that it's pricey and I don't see the utility in carrying two drivers, but for anyone having trouble keeping their drives in play, this is certainly an option.
 
Thoughts on hitting a mini-driver? My buddy just got this Taylor Made and after hitting it a few times, I can say that it's pretty nice. 11.5 or 13.5 degrees loft and a shorter shaft make it feel more like a 3/5 wood, The ball explodes off the face - Hit it close to as far as my Ping driver and felt much more under control. Can also hit it off the deck pretty easily. Only downside is that it's pricey and I don't see the utility in carrying two drivers, but for anyone having trouble keeping their drives in play, this is certainly an option.
I'd rather hit on (as opposed to hit) Minnie Drivers.
 
All joking aside, I've played with a few guys who carry Mini Drivers and they seem to be the type to have non-traditional setups and/or prefer to carry ~12 clubs for no apparent reason so they have room for something like this. They also don't see the type to get a true fitting and/or worry about distance spacing throughout the bag. That said, they do seem to enjoy these things.

I only have like a 20 yard gap in carry distance between my driver and three wood so I don't see any utility in a mini driver. But, heck, if it seems easier to hit to the user and goes nearly as far than it may work for them. :shrug:
 
Given my long standing issues off the tee.....I have considered a mini-driver. But at the end of the day, I'm not sure it would help me much.

I can hit 85% of my drivers right down the middle of the driving range. Then on the course, I see absolutely off the wall embarrassing misses that I couldn't replicate on the range if I tried. Going to the 3 wood (which I have done semi-permanently on a few shorter/tighter holes this year) isn't a total fix. I can still hit bad ones.

While I can obviously fall into bad mechanical habits or get lazy with my setup, I know my issue is 95% mental. I don't think dropping 500 bucks on a club halfway in between the 2 would solve my problem (if they gave me one for free, I guess I'd try it)

Had a disaster of a round on my dad's course on Friday (not all because of the driver, but once I got frustrated about other stuff, the bad ones crept in) and then bounced back a bit at my place yesterday. Had a few bad ones (one smother hook....one hard pull and one 3 wood that faded OB right) but I would say I hit 7 REALLY good drives out of 10.(plus an absolutely smoked 3 wood off the first tee). The two I hit on 17 and 18 to close the day were hammered. (And I closed with a tough downhill birdie putt)

God I miss having that feeling consistently. I'm not a huge hitter by any means, but man do I feel a shot of adrenaline deep down on the rare occasion when I mash one like 270. Just gives ya hope that one day I can find it again.
 
We were kicking around the idea of trying to play the Black before the Ryder cup apparently its 10x worse than normal in the leadup. Dudes are getting there at 8 AM the DAY BEFORE and still not getting on for the following day.

2 years ago we got there at 6:30PM on a Thursday and we were spot #4and got on at 8:20 the next day.

Yeah......we'll wait until next year.
 
After an increasing case of the dead pulls I had a lesson last Wednesday. Played Thursday and struggled to implement some of it. But played Sunday and it was clicking nicely. If I could sum up the net changes with what I'm thinking now...it's stick your *** out more, and swing the club like you rock a baby (not too tight in the arms, and close to the body).

Immediately back to a month ago when I was striking it really well. Really heartened at how quickly it came back to that. Feels like month over month I still lose the A game...but the B/C game is better and I can course correct back to A game a lot faster vs having to do 3-4 lessons to figure it out every time. Feels like I'm building on something now instead of rebuilding and learning from bad to good. Now it's more like pretty good and how to get better. Oh, and putting stroke is totally different. Basically asked me some questions and ended up with "do not try to do this "take it back 6 inches for x feet, 7 inches for y feet, always accelerate through the putt crap" and I replied thats how I was always told. He pulled up and we watched a bunch of good tour putting strokes to show how basically all of them are longer and smoother, not really accelerating through the ball, so now I'm working on this longer, smoother putting stroke from all distances.

Shot 14 over (HI is 14.5 right now) Sunday. 2 doubles, no triples. Only 1 three-putt with new putting stroke was heartening too. And way fewer dead pulls. No putts outside the 4-6 foot range fell either, so room for that to be a little luckier. And had a few really bad bounces - one where the whole crew saw the chip, it looked perfect, and it landed on like a twig or something on the green and instead of rolling right up to the hole it randomly bounced 90 degrees right. Super weird stuff like that happened like 5 times.

Lesson tomorrow, then I'll play somewhere Thursday before I have a job interview. Can't play this weekend so will try to get out Mon/Tues or something too.
 
Playing Morro Bay on Saturday for the first time since I've purchased my D/3w/5w...we'll see how it it goes. The greens are the issue there though, hoping to break 95 with <32 putts.
 

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