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#222

Boy… that was a steaming pile of dog doo… OK, that’s out of my system… let’s talk about some positives of the 90 I just shot…

  1. 90-120 yard wedges (with one exception) were excellent… I’m actually really feeling this swing now, and just need to get used to the distances and directions… I was really happy with how I hit these until the last one of the day… but 3-4 REALLY good wedge shots.
  2. Played the par 5s well… I think I’ve figured out my nemesis hole. If I ever get to 300+ carry it will change, but right now it’s hybrid, hybrid wedge… If that seems silly to you, it’s a silly hole. Back 9 par fives continue to be played well… Almost holed out for eagle on one, and should have had an up and down birdie on the second.
  3. I’m starting to convert my putting from the practice green to the real green… I got far too into my head today, but once I stopped worrying so much about technique and just ROLLING the ball, it went pretty well. I didn’t putt well today, but I’m happy with where I ended things.

Things I need to work on: Quieting my brain when I’m over the ball, and stepping off a shot if I’m not comfortable. My goal tomorrow is going to be to step back from the ball if I’m not fully committed to what I’m doing.

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#223

1st night of my Tuesday league last night. Just for reference, I finished withe a 4 handicap in this league last year.

I had a new driver delivered yesterday, so I ran home after work and took it straight to the course. My 1st 5 drives were all longer than any drive I have hit this year according to Shotscope! I pretty much played out of my mind except for one thinned shot that ended up in the creek. I ended up with 4 birdies and a double bogey for a 2 under 33. It’s going to kill my handicap for the next couple of weeks, but it sure was fun!

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#224

Also had my first official league round last night. Got my second vaccine shot in the morning, which I’d love to use as an excuse but really I just played some mediocre golf and caught some bad breaks. The rub of the green as they say.

I came out firing, made two great pars to open the round and my partner birdied our 3rd hole. Then we waited…and waited…and waited on a par 3 and completely lost our mojo. I caught some funky lies and tough breaks and kept leaving the ball about a foot short on all my putts. Speed wasn’t awful, just couldn’t get it in the hole.

Just to vent a little about the wait, I get usually leagues are slower. The past few years we’ve actually maintained a decent pace. But this year the league has 136 guys spread over 3 divisions, each division gets one nine per night. With so many guys, my group shotgunned back two holes and started on 17. It’s a very scoreable par 5. Even with that, by the time we “made the turn” and got to the second hole par 3, there was a group on the green and a group waiting on the tee. Just brutal stuff. Hopefully they can either start groups earlier in the future or do something to figure it out, because as lame excuse as it is it sucks to be grooving and then hit a brick wall.

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#225

Normally don’t post about my early morning nines, but this morning was a good one. One ball, even par round. 2 birdies, 5 pars, 2 bogies. 7/9 near-GIR, and 6/7 fairways (one miss was just in the first cut and still effective). Putting and short game was passable, but not even anything special.
The secret sauce today was that I was swinging 5/10 on everything. It’s not that I was making “half swings”, but that I made full swings at about half effort and it really worked.
I’ve been doing speed work lately and my swing speed has gone up a bit, but a usual flaw of mine is going over-effort anyways, so adding more speed on top of that wasn’t really giving results. At half effort, everything stayed in play with solid strikes. Sure, I was about 20 yards under my “max” distance with the irons, but a good 145 yard shot is still a good 145 yard shot, doesn’t matter if it’s hit with an 8i instead of a 9i.
Off the tee was probably the strong point as swinging easy and in tempo helped me keep it in the center of the face with great launch conditions. 100mph with good efficiency is going to beat 110mph with crappy efficiency, so it’s important for me to remember that.
I’m going to try to maintain this “5/10” feel. I’m not stopping my speed work though. If I raise my 10/10, then my 5/10 should go up as well.

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#226

Sounds like you made bogey on the two holes where you failed to get “near gir”

That is a huge thing for me. If I can avoid double after having to punch out after a drive or a really poor approach I consider that a win

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#227

Officially yes, although one of them was a “good bogey” on the course’s most difficult hole, so all the shots were fine. Probably also worth mentioning I was only playing with 6 clubs.

#228

Long par 4?

Bunker?

Explain yourself

#229

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Long Par 4, around 460yd, but with a major downhill. A solid drive in the fairway finish around 300 yards, but that’s just step one. Green has bunkers on both sides and if you manage to go right of the bunker, you’re hitting a condo. Left of the left bunker and the ball will feed down a cart path out of play. No real space over either. The only acceptable miss is short, so my second finished about 10 yards short, chipped to around 8’, lipped out the first putt and tapped in for the bogey.

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#230

Gotchya - i call inside 10 yards with an easy look an ngir

Ngir - check
Up and down - x
Putts - 2

My rounds are literally a function of ngir, up and down conversion and putts

This view has really helped me understand the variance in my scoring

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#231

39 / 44 with three doubles on the back… just lost all focus after an easy birdie on the 3 hole on the back, and the next 6 were a train wreck.

#232

What caused your doubles

#233

OB left on 13th hole killed focused…

Doubled 17 and 18 basically with lack of focus, errant drives, mediocre recovery leaving me long recovery shots…

#234

Yesterday was 1st round at home course, the local muni. A new management group is taking it over, so there’s some “transitioning” with course maintenance. Greens were furry, rough was wet and ankle-deep. Basically, it was an “on in 3, down in 2” round. Soft fairways, so yardage was carry = total.

All facets of the game were acceptable, except for long-mid iron play which was poor-piss poor. Determining the proper ball position was a challenge.

Putting was good re keeping face square and accelerating through impact. No 3-putts, but I did not hit any GIR. Had a 42-45=87. Scrambled for three pars on the front.

Only bad hole was a 6 on a long par-4. I didn’t hit one good shot, until the 6th one. The way I was zig-zagging across the fairway, you’d think I was evading U-boats. At least the round ID’s a couple specific areas to work on over the next week.

The muni is open and the game is afoot.

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#235

9 holes with my league at my home course on the back 9 ( VERY hilly compared to just hilly on the front 9).
Bogey
Bogey
Bogey
Par
Bogey
Double Bogey ( turned a terrific drive into an absolute short game shitshow)
Par
Bogey
Par ( holed out with a 60 yard chip or I would have been in double bogey land)

Not my best, not my worst.

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#236

Holing out is always a good thing

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#237

Indeed.

My chipping/pitching is much improved from last year, so I at least am giving myself a chance at redemption!

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#238

Almost forgot…
Using Garmin front-middle-back yardages with “hit to the back number” approach (pun intended) saved me probably 4-5 strokes. So, yeah, there is something to this. :+1:t2:

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#239

Hadn’t been out for a month, but was able to squeeze in a quick nine yesterday. Bogey golf…which is about right for me with as little as I’ve played this year. I’m trying out the Snell “Get Sum” 2-piece (trying to sneak in some extra distance)…and it’s working. Both driver and irons are longer…but at the cost of not really being able to hold any greens. It’s early in the season still, so the greens are still pretty firm here in Utah (northern)…but I’ll have to keep my eye on it and might have to change balls back to a 3 piece.

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#240

No place on the scorecard for that; all it says is ‘par’!

A good short game can put a lot of lipstick on a pig; I had a round last week that would’ve been a 0/3 (with a commensurate score) except for some pitches that kept me out of double bogey land.

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#241

Just played a quick after work 9, with the added challenge of 20 mph winds with huge gusts, forecasted as up to 60 but I dunno if it ever hit that hard. Still by far the most wind I’ve ever played in and I loved it!

Shot a 41 with some great scrambling bogeys and maybe the best par I’ve ever made. 8th hole Par 5 at my home course might be the hardest hole on a good day. Always into the wind, it goes uphill then doglegs left with about 150 to go. I hit a solid drive that ballooned a little in the wind (hit much better than the yardage below indicates). Then crushed my 5 wood with a nice tight draw, and did the same with my 8iron in leaving me about 10 feet for birdie. It came up about a ball short, but damn I’ll dream about that 5 wood for a loooooong time

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