I think that’s the downside of trying to win these things… people will assume you cheated…
Honestly, I don’t put any effort into playing scrambles and just go when invited… they are fun but I’m never thinking I’ll win anything.
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@Craigers At my course there are 5 par 3’s. The 11th you can hit it on to bank right of the green and run down onto the green and the 16th is a wide green with a big tier front to back.and you can land in the middle and trickle down to a pin on the left. You can get streaky aces by not shooting at the pins and someone has aced the 16th by skulling it into some rocks 50m short and bouncing up and onto the green and in.
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Same. I haven’t even played in one in about 2 years. I used to play in more when my old boss wanted to dominate the silly scramble season circuit around here. I was on his shortlist of players he’d invite.
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Sounds like you need 5 friends who can keep a secret and the last two tee times of the day… $900 a person seems fair.
Very true. I have plenty of golf umbrellas on hand, already.
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I don’t enter the $7 comp and $1 ace pot as I pay $2445 for membership and have the mantra not to spend any $ that I don’t have to. I just play at times where competition entry is not compulsory( Sun after 1000 and Tuesdays after 1230) Next Sunday will be the exception as it is a shotgun start at 0730 and if I want to play I have to go in the comp. Flipside is my hcp is 21 but I play to a 14hcp as I have improved since the last time I had to play in the comp.
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Up there as one my best 9’s ever. Could probably call it -3 because the initial drive on the first hole was a semi-intentional OB bomb where I was swinging 120% to warm-up and let go of some anger. Besides that, the only iffy moment was my drive on the 17th (my 8th hole). After back-to-back birdies (and a near ace), I got too excited on the drive, caught it on the bottom of the face and into trees. Somehow got through cleanly, however, so I was able to hit two good gap wedges for a GIR and 10’ putt that stopped on the lip.
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I have almost no feeling in my swing right now… I’m just grinding… I don’t like my driver swing but can’t feel the club head… my iron play was finally decent today but 20 mph winds made things messy… Piles of dumb mistakes… Just not a good day.
Gap wedge… followed by a gap wedge?
I am not following lol
Nice round though!
Drive luckily got through some trees to clear the hazard, but still way out of position. ~240 to the green and had to hit it over a group of trees around 30 yards in front of me. Gap wedge and a gap wedge!
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Great, great round! Keep up the awesome play!
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First round of the year with my “golf buds”. Soft fairways, 10 mph out of SW on a 6,410yd par 35-36 course. Walked off with 45-48=93.
Driving and putting pretty reasonable. Issues:
- Struggle with ball position on fairway woods.
- I think I am forcing acceleration on my irons downswing. I may just need to let it happen.
- Partial wedges were sketchy. Square face pitches were “toeish” and Sw/LW were a bit too firm wristed, leaving me short of target.
I did have a handful of pars, but too many holes where getting to the green was an odyssey of one misfit after another. Since this was my second consecutive day of walking 18, I may have flagged a bit on the back nine. I don’t have the “oomph” at 70 that I had at 35, so I need to set my my to stay focused on “the next shot”. Will try to make adjustments on Monday’s round. 
To prove that scratch golfers are not infallible, I shot 41 last night…and I was only +1 through 6. Head wasn’t in it and that says a lot about the difference between an OK round and a complete blow up for me. Lapse of concentration can really spiral a round. Putter was dead the whole night. Hit the driver good once. Wedges were trash. I didn’t sniff a birdie once. Real life has been very stressful lately and it carried over to the course. It happens. I’ll be better next time out.
My handicap is thrilled, though. I did get beat by net 12 strokes. 
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Changed things up this morning, getting out on Wilson in Griffith Park. First tee time (5:25am). One of those old school gem muni’s and typically a decent challenge. Had my second vaccine shot yesterday, so my left arm felt like a wet noodle the whole round. The only time I got myself in trouble was if I tried to really go after one as I just couldn’t get the face shut at full speed. The 250ish yard fairway finders were working though. Didn’t sink a single putt though, leading to a very boring, but still enjoyable, 13 pars and 5 bogies.
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Played 18 this morning with a new group, turns out they were all single handicaps who play the back tees at our club. They were very ok with me playing whites, but I was up for a challenge so I went for it from the blues.
Ended up playing solid with a good 42/44 for an 86. I had a 4 hole stretch where I lost my focus/swing but other than that I’m really happy with how I played. Especially playing back bogeys and doubles were gonna happen so I just rolled with it better than I have all year. And the cherry on top was a birdie on a par 5 after stuffing a PW to 3 feet.
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Dumpster fire
4 penalty strokes
0/6 up and down
3 3 putts
Woof
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Snuck out for a late nine hoping to wash away the stink from Thursday night league and it worked. This game is so wild. Some days it feels like you’ve never held a club before and some days you feel like you can put the ball anywhere you want it. It wasn’t a perfect round tonight. I made a pretty ugly bogey after a perfect drive on the first hole, but made three birdies and five pars to finish for a solid 34. I’m particularly proud of my 9th hole par save from a no man’s land bunker long of the green, short sided to a pin maybe 5 paces on. I hit a perfect bunker shot that landed 6 feet short of the green and trickled to about 8 feet past the pin. It was as good as I possibly could have played it. Made a gutsy uphill, left to righter for the par save. Much cleaner than my last round, but, as always, plenty to work on.
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Great round for me this avo. Shot 86 on a 20 handicap. -5 net.
- Really happy with irons and wedges
- Hybrids absolute dog whatsits; kept slicing. Cost 3-4 shots in total
- Driver hot and cold
- Tentative with putter
One for my 2021 highlight reel; came really close to an ace on the 9th, par 3. I can’t be absolutely sure but I think I saw the ball bounce off the pin. Strutted to 10th 
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Had my first medal night in league last night, and the string of mediocre Tuesday golf continues. I just can’t keep double off the card, and got so frustrated off the tee I literally put my driver away and just hit 3 wood.
It’s super frustrating, because on the same 9 holes I played the blues and shot a 42, then shoot a 46 from the whites yesterday. I don’t feel like I’m putting any extra pressure on the round, maybe I am subconsciously I don’t know. What I do know is my driver and I need to have a long serious talk.
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Shot 42 for 9 hole league last night. Hit the ball decently, but it was sort of frustrating. Started off with nice par on 1 and a nice bogey save on 2. Somehow I nuked a drive through the fairway on 3 and it rolled up against a tree where I could only bunt it sideways. I had 4 putts lipout, but did make a birdie on 6. On 5 a young lady playing 6 played my ball. I did spray it near 6th fairway, but her ball was 60+ yards away and she insisted she had hers until I chased her down to look at it. My partner made par on 1 and then went to some dark place and shot 51. I think it may have helped distract me that I had to keep pulling him back from the ledge. At least it was sunny out and I didn’t have to wear 3 layers.
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